Retired English teacher. Writer. Socialist. Believer in justice--Tax the rich, feed the poor. Lover of reading, literary and genre; and music, mostly jazz. Books! Rationalist and Romantic. Atheist.
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Back when Donald was a failure in real estate, he was famous for not paying his contractors. He would come up with fictional fault in their work as an excuse not to pay them. Now, this unscrupulous cretin is short-changing the National Guard. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Water should be free for everyone!
Read every banned book you can get your hands on. Give them as gifts. Quote from them every day.
I'm just gonna flip on some corporate media really quick... ABC: ads CNN: ads Back to CNN: Trump's Chicago "immigration enforcement" MSNBC: Protests in Chicago Back to ABC: A "federal judge getting in the way of Trump's immigration crackdown" Back to CNN: Weekend travel Nothing about Trump MIA
Hey Congress – make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Happy Labor Day! Today, we celebrate workers and the power of the labor movement in securing fair wages, safe workplaces, and better lives for people across the country. 🛠️💪 #UnionStrong
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Science is real
If we have to become an authoritarian state, can we at least get eco-cities, bullet trains, and renewable energy?
Absolutely right!
Media should hound him at least half as much as they hounded Biden. But they won’t.
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
What a ridiculous person.
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
Americans are begging for Democratic leadership to get off the mat and back into the fight. If you’re a political leader in this country and are not prepared to fight with both hands, not prepared to make “good trouble”, then perhaps you should step aside and make space for those who will. #Velshi.
Rather than folding to anti-science pressure, CDC employees are exposing the dangers of MAHA to the public health system. Already, some major drugstores are limiting COVID vaccines to follow new restrictive guidelines. Dr. Jen Layden, who resigned from her director position on Tuesday, joins @ 10aET
ATLANTA: “The city is opening a grocery store to clear up a downtown food desert… City leaders say the market will help those in the area who have not previously had easy access to healthy food.” (cc: everyone acting like @ZohranKMamdani is crazy🤔) www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
“…I 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.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
We've been obsessed with watching the U.S. plunge into fascism. It is time to start focusing on what is happening right here in Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
The man responsible for the loss of democracy and, ironically, the rule of law in America.
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
Gaza starvation is real and it is happening now, UN World Food Programme says – Middle East crisis live
Remember when COVID vaccines were first available? Remember how they saved lives and helped us move toward normalcy? Remember how relieved and grateful we were? Remember how amazing our healthcare workers were? Remember how science rescued us?
NEW QUINNIPIAC POLL: Trump approval rating: 37% Trump's handling of: Crime: - 12 Russia/Ukraine: -12 Foreign Policy: -16 Economy: -18 Trade: -18 Israel/Hamas/Gaza: -19 Sending weapons to Israel: -28 National Guard to DC: -15 Epstein files: -48 Smithsonian: -27 poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
Kristi Noem waives environmental laws to build Trump's wall through a wildlife refuge
The UK electricity is already the most expensive in the world. Price set to rise again in October as Ofgem's pricing formula lets companies rip people off. Who protects the people?
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Watching Loomer harass & demonize individual Muslim government employees simply for being Muslims while the Democrats & 'liberal media' say nothing is a reminder of how mainstreamed & normalized anti-Muslim bigotry is in the US, across the spectrum. Imagine if these were Jewish or Black employees.
NEW: Trump describes Leo Terrell, head of the antisemitism task force, as a “highly respected” and “incredibly successful” attorney. Documents reveal a distinctly mixed legal track record, marred by malpractice suits and client disputes. By @peterelkind.bsky.social & Katherine Mangan
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
It’s continues to be despicable how the media has spent a decade normalizing the orange felon so much so that they are reporting on his authoritarian militarization of Washington DC as if it were a routine military exercise. They deliberately failed democracy for clickbait.
Japan has just opened its first osmotic power plant 🌊⚡ This works by mixing fresh & salt water across a membrane, creating pressure that drives a turbine to make electricity. This site will generate 880,000 kWh a year...while helping run a desalination plant providing fresh water to the city 👏
The russians are truly a barbarian horde
Graham Platner: "If we are going to build a political system that represents working people, we need to send up working people... When working people organize and fight together, they can build power, and they can use that to get the things that they deserve."
Beginning to get emails like this from small overseas businesses I've ordered products from in the past. I guess this is freedom.
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)
“In a rare move for a U.S. public official, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., called for a paper that found no link between aluminum in vaccines and disease to be retracted. The journal rejected the request.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...
Fungi and plants have something to teach humans about global trade and cooperation.
Andrew Cuomo’s successful quest to shut down the Indian Point nuclear plant spiked electricity costs and dirtied the energy grid of the city he’s now running to lead.
How does anyone still support this?
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
Not enough folks are connecting the attacks on labor organizing over the last 50 years to the moment we find ourselves in. Labor is now our ONLY organizing asset that still has power & possibility of turning this ship in a different direction
UKRAINIAN COUNTER ATTACKS HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE Ukraine has launched a number of counter attacks around the Pokrovsk salient and made dents in Russian positions. It’s meant an increased material loss but it has upset the Russians who don’t like defending and feel overwhelmed when pushed back.
How @atrupar.com doesn't run screaming into a Minnesota lake is beyond my comprehension.
Jamelle Bouie Receives the 2025 Carey McWilliams Award The Carey McWilliams Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor major journalistic contributions to society’s understanding of politics. Citation from the Award Committee: The American Political…
YouTube is secretly using AI to edit people's videos • Skin is being smoothed or sharpened • Features like ears are being altered • YouTube confirmed there's an 'experiment' on Shorts to 'unblur' and 'improve' clarity • There's currently no way to opt out (via BBC)
He doesn't have the authority to do this.
Notice to Nat'l Guard, or active duty military currently questioning...... If it's wrong, and you know it's wrong.....
“They’re going to kill me here,” Neri Alvarado thought. Alvarado was allegedly targeted by the Trump administration because of his tattoo of an autism awareness ribbon. Now, free from El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison, Alvarado wants the world to know what they lived through.
🤣🔊🆙 Repost please or quote. Just spread the truth 👍
A thing Zohran & his campaign have powerfully tapped into -- and that his scavenger hunt captures so perfectly -- is that a vast majority of the people who live here genuinely *love* New York City. We wouldn't stay here otherwise!
PragerU's "conservative" alternative to PBS has hit classrooms in 10 states, but ‘they have a 50 state strategy,' warns @msnbc.com’s @ahylton26.bsky.social. What these videos present is "not just a little wrong -- it's really insidious." #Velshi
Charles Kushner—father of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, and convicted felon—went a step too far in his role as U.S. ambassador to France. Why is the U.S. ambassador to France more focused on lobbying on Israel’s behalf than the United States? trib.al/Ur9Jr76
So Woody Allen headlining Moscow Film festival this week, saying things like how he always loved Russian cinema. Wow I didn’t know his movie career was that bad he needed to turn to Russia of all places for scraps while they bomb my home country every day.
The state's tourism campaign offers a fragrance for the summer with notes of the beach, wineries and lavender. They struck a chord with some people relaxing by the water.
Having Hakeem Jeffries in a position of leadership in this moment is like intentionally having an alarm clock that doesn’t actually wake you up.
"We need serious leadership," @hartmannreport.com responds to the naval-gazing from Dems as the GOP gets a head start on 2026. "Most of what we're doing is just defense," adds @davidpepperoh.bsky.social, urging more Dems to run for office. "26% of [TX races] weren't opposed last November." #Velshi
I spoke to Ali Velshi on his MSNBC show today about how the Democratic base does NOT have an identity crisis. We have a leadership crisis. Yes we do have some great Democratic fighters but they are the exception. We need more fighters given the stakes!
Dems should swap out Hakeem Jeffries with Jasmine Crockett. They need that kind of fire.
And some of the employees they’re planning to lay off are the patient navigators. I do practical support work for abortion seekers so I KNOW how critical the nav team is. PPGOH is shooting themselves in the foot—without the abortion funding the navs organize, many patients will go elsewhere.
And if you do?
“I don’t think people really understand that they are footing the bill for these data centers,” www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...
Please join me @velshimsnbc.bsky.social 10a-1p w/ @bradmossesq.bsky.social @repsummerlee.bsky.social @esglaude.bsky.social @imaniperry.bsky.social @aguilar.house.gov @doggett.house.gov @anamariecox.bsky.social @aidenschmaiden.bsky.social #Velshi
Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance 1/2
Do you work at the Office of Management and Budget? Do you know someone who does? Are you a current or former federal worker with information that you can share about Russell Vought? If the answer to any of these is "yes," please contact @andykroll.bsky.social www.propublica.org/tips/
Hey if people who love cracker barrel like it because of the mom and pop feel how about checking out real mom and pop places in their state that serve actual home cooked meals. help small businesses not a giant corporation
Every week, we at Zeteo compile a day by day list of Trump’s authoritarian excesses, abuses, law-breaking, fascism. He wants to flood the zone and numb us; we won’t let him. Read/share/subscribe:
We don’t have to say a word and the world knows Trump’s a pedophile and obstructing justice for Epstein’s victims!
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) canceled a speech in South Carolina on Thursday after just eight people showed up to an event that was billed to have 100-plus people in attendance, local news site has reported.
Learn about the child prodigy who stunned the world with his mind. www.historydefined.net/kim-ung-yong/
Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury revisit their classic story of a family going on a bear hunt (encountering many obstacles along the way) — and preview their new one, Oh Dear, Look What I Got!
I am literally begging anyone who does any kind of journalism to spend an hour in an eviction courtroom every week for a month. Please. The eviction crisis in this country is downplayed at best and ignored at worst. It's racialized state violence that hearkens back to the worst of Jim Crow,
I’ve seen so many people spreading the misinformation that PBS is shut down or is shutting down. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been shut down and PBS has been defunded. HOWEVER!!! PBS still exists. It is more important now than ever that you donate to PBS if you can.
For years we’ve been told that if the rich get richer, the benefits would trickle down to the rest of the population. How’s that going for everyone? Ali explains how U.S. economic policy rewards the elite at the expense of the working class. #Velshi
REP. @rokhanna.bsky.social : “Only 3% of the documents that were given to us were new. 97% were already in the public domain. Less than 1% of the Epstein Files have actually been released. They’re stonewalling and not releasing things.”
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
Since its founding, the UN’s world hunger monitoring group has confirmed only 4 official famines: Somalia 2011, South Sudan 2017, Sudan 2024, and Gaza City now. Entirely caused by Israel’s use of famine as a weapon of war. As a Jewish survivor of war myself, I’m ashamed of a country I once loved.
Absolutely not!
Night Sky on Mars #nasadailyupdates
KARE 11 doing consent manufacturing. Disappointing because they’re probably the best local TV news
FASCISM ALERT: FBI agents on Thursday morning raided the home of John Bolton "a staunch critic of the president, NBC News confirmed." Trump now sends FBI after his critics. Trump will 100% come for critics in media--including independent media. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/f...
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
The lunatic in the White House is consolidating power. Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are busy writing strongly worded letters.
AMAZING NEWS! A judge has ruled that the Everglades Interment Camp must halt operations. They cannot receive new immigrants (thank GOD), and must tear down fencing and other aspects within 60 days. Essentially making it inoperable. www.everglades.org/judge-halts-...
The shape is a question mark.
They’re lighting democracy on fire.
"Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action" I'm 77, disabled, and terrified of the very thought of a dawn police raid and/or prison but I'm damned if I'll stop posting that #ISupportPalestineAction www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...