"Every one of these people is taking with them skills and knowledge that will be difficult to replace. But there may be no single individual whose departure better captures what is being lost and destroyed than Demetre Daskalakis."
"Every one of these people is taking with them skills and knowledge that will be difficult to replace. But there may be no single individual whose departure better captures what is being lost and destroyed than Demetre Daskalakis."
The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a bossđ" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.
Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. Youâre going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health â pushing false narratives like, âwe need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.â That is a lie.
If you enjoy⌠Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays ⌠then youâre part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
What are we even doing?
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpracticeâwhen you pray for something you have the power to change.
ââŚI am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.â My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
"It never does any good to suck up to an autocrat. He will screw you over anyway. You should preserve your integrity and your dignity if he's going to try to steal everything else." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaI...
Phillip: The final point from my conservative friends at the table. Since when are conservatives cheerleading for tax increases? Since when is it okay for one man to decide that every person in the United States has to pay a higher tax, and he never has to go through congress to do it?
Blue states banding together to make up for a Federal vacuum in health policy feels like the first step into⌠something.
The sheep made my day
Whoever has been writing headlines at @the-independent.com recently is doing a great job
When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
Tysm!
We all understand that itâs not the words these awful idiots have a problem with, it is the concepts themselves? Itâs not like theyâre suggesting better terms they like. When they tell you they want to remove the words, they mean âhere is a list of things we do not care about and will not addressâ.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is leading a brutal crackdown against Iranians in the aftermath of the 12-day war, initiated by Israel, and the U.S. attacks on nuclear facilities. Scores of political prisoners will be executed unless there is an international outcry.
âSomeday, I hope, weâre going to have a reckoning over the horrors of this moment, but I donât think we can do it without a clearer understanding of how this fits into U.S. history. Thereâs a tendency to say, âThis isnât who we are,â and I get the impulse, but history is never that simple.â
America now
"There's nothing that a billion dollars can buy you that 100 million can't, except the ability to dominate people." bsky.app/profile/abdu...
No difference in your day to day if you're worth $30B vs $60B. But there's a big noticeable difference if there's 3% unemployment and anyone you treat like shit can tell you to fuck off and 10% unemployment and people desperately cling to their jobs even if it means being abused.
Last week someone made this point, a lot of money people (including tech) made a very clear, very calculated decision that authoritarianism, even a corrupt kleptocracy, was better for them financially than risking Dems doing a wealth tax/tax fairness etc. It was an eyes-wide-open choice.
The coverage of the 2024 election, only nine months on, looks even more obscene & deeply unserious in retrospect than it did to so many of us at the time.
Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes. One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.
[The three richest people in the U.S. own more wealth than the bottom 50 percent of Americans combined] Democrats: We figured out our problemâwe were being too nice to trans people đ
A much more substantive advance would be for prominent Republicans to stop calling their political opponents âcockroachesâ and for them to be investigated or imprisoned â that happens with much more frequency than any prominent Democrats saying âheteronormativeâ or talking about critical theory.
Another way you know this total nonsense about How Democrats Talk is total nonsense is that Republicans call people âcockroachesâ & âverminâ & talk about urban Americans as if theyâre not real citizens & ever says that they are alienating Real Folkz by talking like real Nazis
Ah yes, Zohran Mamdani: a candidate famously not focused on affordability issues
This condescending, dismissive garbage is an essential part of how Republicans led us to the present moment. I enjoy your writing and learn from it. But I am so tired of this kind of nonsense
What about the issues they address? If the words go, communication and organization around the issues goes too
This all day!
Yeah, it feels so gross to tell people to stop using language that is meant to be kinder and more respectful just because the right is offended by the fact that this kindness reflect badly on them.
Maybe they donât aid you in communication. You really feel like you can speak for everyone else? I personally feel like these terms have helped me understand the related issues better, even if Iâve only ever read or heard them and not used them myself
It can mean you have enough today, but you might not next week or next month. Itâs important to have help in place before people are going hungry and thatâs the whole point of addressing âfood insecurityâ specifically. Free and reduced school lunch addresses food insecurity, for example
Thatâs the thing though, food insecurity doesnât mean starving. It can mean you have enough today, but you might not next week or next month. Itâs important to have help in place before people are starving and thatâs the whole point of addressing âfood insecurityâ specifically
Eliminating words doesn't eliminate the concepts.
What words would you use when discussing it? âFood insecurityâ doesnât necessarily mean not having enough to eat, so that doesnât work. The point is that you canât discuss it if you donât have words for it
Language is necessary for communication and organization. If you give food to all the âpeopleâ at a church you end up feeding the âpeopleâ at choir practice, not just the âpeopleâ who are food insecure. Specific language has a purpose- and should be as respectful as possible
In case this matters, I would like anyone who did this or anyone considering doing similar to know that this repainting meant a lot to my gay teenager.
Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!
I must have missed all the Law and Order SVU episodes where they didn't interview the victims and just asked the criminals what happened.
I power walk a mile in 17 mins on the treadmill. With elevation. If they canât run fast enough to catch a fleeing person arenât they more likely to shoot them?
All Folks Had To Do Was Vote For The Super Qualified Black Lady⌠With A Degree In Economics
The white cat is blind and has a best friend, a black cat, who is always by its side to guide it.
yup.
This is a popular message across the political spectrum, and will likely be for the rest of our lives and to our great shame. Itâs a collective moral and political failure, top to bottom, that it is
I doubt a Black reporter could have done this story and been "invited in." But, apparently, the Times does not consider that this fact may bias their story? How is segregated access "objective?" Whiteness is a credential often presented as neutrality.
"Who is your ideal audience," people sometimes ask me, and it's this kid and the people they grow up to become.
Lots of libraries are doing a bit of âthingâ lending but this shows the way libraries should be moving forward: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/c...
Tremendous crossover move right here:
i remember when jd vance blamed the haitian immigrants to springfield for rising home prices. well, the prices will come down, because a mass departure of haitian workers will crash the local economy.
the "cat eating" fake story was the worst thing i've seen in politics in my lifetime
"The only way they can win is if they cheat." While state lawmakers bent the knee and pushed through Trump's gerrymandered maps in the Texas House, we spoke with Texans about what it means to them. Here's what they said.
This is genocidal rhetoric calling people cockroaches. This is exactly the language used in the Rwandan genocide.
Texas State Rep Ann Johnson has had enough!
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
This is your reminder that no one in Congress should be trading stocks. Whoâs with me?
The CEOs of the country's lowest-paying large companies made $17.2 million on average last year. Their workers made $35,570.
When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.
The maddest someone has ever gotten at me was when I talked about the child sized manacles Jefferson had at Monticello for 9 year old children. They could not cope with the idea that a child the same age as their child had been enslaved. And it made them angry that I made them know facts
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
I get why itâs not a major part of history education in school, but I do feel like the fact that every single slave owner was a rapist and pedophile, and they all had children that they owned and sold might help drive home the depravity of it all.
Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
To everyone looking ahead for the redlines, theyâre in the rearview. We have military in the streets, concentration camps, erasure of history, election fuckery, abandonment of due process, a Gestapo, an authoritarian leader, an impotent Congress, an obeisant SCOTUS, and an asleep populace.
Work-life balance is bad, says 22-year-old with terrible life www.wsj.com/opinion/work...
âHeâs soft spoken in a certain wayâ đ¤đ§đ¤ˇââď¸đ¤Śââď¸
This is nazi logic. The Nazis would redistribute the confiscated property of Jews to the German populace as an incentive to support their mass deportation to concentration camps.
empire always comes home and this is what it looks like. The Pentagon is literally calling the "Safe and Beautiful Task Force" a "presence patrol," the same language it used in Iraq and Afghanistan
NEW: For years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pushed discredited theories linking vaccines to autism. Now, scientists studying the condition fear he has preconceived notions that will harm the field and taint new funding for research. propub.li/41JYl7o
The people who are *still* making a massive deal about having to go to the doctor and get a shot think historians made too big a deal out of **slavery**
A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.
BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Mississippiâs Supreme Court district lines must be redrawn to ensure Black people in the state don't have their voting power diluted.
Trump: "Russia is a powerful military nation whether people like it or not. It's a much bigger nation. It's not a war that should have been started, you don't do that. You don't take on a nation that's 10x your size."
one guy even tried to give us a sandwich
Supreme Court caselaw suggests that this is almost certainly illegal.
my children very politely asked if they could just please read their own books tonight rather than listen to me read. which is fine btw. it's only been every night for 9 years. with voices. some people might mind but not me. GOOD voices too, with real drama. but it's fine of course,
âPeople like Stephen Colbert are too talented, and too essential, to go away,â Conan OâBrien said. âItâs not going to happen. Heâs not going anywhere. Stephen is going to evolve and shine brighter than ever in a new format that he controls completely.â
Cutting off USAID is a terrible evil. The future will judge us harshly.
USAID funded roughly half the worldâs supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.
Oh my God
I am a bit of a broken record on this, but are local DAs going to let this continue indefinitely? The ICE agents didn't have any kind of warrant, didn't identify themselves, and then recklessly started firing. Let them argue federal immunity.
Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK
"We are going to have some people who finally stand up. And there may be a bunch of them run over by tanks before suddenly it resonates with the American people and people go, that's not acceptable." Stanley McChrystal discusses that and more with @johnavlon.bsky.social:
Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC â where those statesâ governors are sending National Guard troops to âcombat crime.â www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
Terrific work as always from @pbump.com
I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
He's a snake. The point of snakes is that they're *never* YOUR snakes. That's what makes them snakes.
Miraculously, he didnât hit a single CDC employee! But he did kill David Rose, the police officer who responded, who leaves behind two children and a pregnant wife. I can't help but imagine the vast attention this case would have received if the race of the shooter and the victim were reversed.
Very bad sign when masked, unidentified agents of the security state are not just grabbing people off the street but openly identifying with the regime's politics
one reason it is especially frustrating that centrist writers keep doing this "well crime is a problem" two-step is that the administration's approach to "fighting violent crime" is basically guaranteed to make actually reducing violent crime even more difficult
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; itâs the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.
The Constitution protects your right to record law enforcement in public.
The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize. âWhat you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,â says Jason Stanley, an author whoâs leaving the US because of âconcerns over fascism.â
âPutin would eat you for lunch.â Today, exactly that happened.
Imagine if theyâd had sandwiches. đĽŞ