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A vital record of Black life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is now online. Hancock County Library System, with help from Community Webs & @InternetArchive, has digitized the Mississippi Star. Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/09/03/l... 🧵
"It's a new day, it's a new administration, and everything's going to come out to the public" Attorney General Pam Bondi, who oversees the Justice Department, to Sean Hannity, March 2025
I really resent my tax dollars being spent on this
The president of the United States, a Vietnam draft dodger, declaring war on an American city (with AI slop implying that he will burn it with napalm)
It’s not just Harvard and private schools under the gun. George Mason University is the largest public university in Virginia, started in 1957, not a large endowment, and is also under multiple investigations by the DOJ.
Trump’s Putin first policy continues.
There was a slew of false statements made about COVID19 mRNA vaccines yesterday. I can’t recommend highly enough this article from May by Dr. Deborah Fuller to clear up a lot of the chaff.
Early voting in the #Virginia general election begins 2️⃣ weeks from today: Friday, September 19. Election Day is now less than two months away: Tuesday, November 4. Fairfax: This is also the last weekend to vote early in the #VA11 special election to send @jameswalkinshaw.bsky.social to Congress!
🚨REMINDER: Open Enrollment for Medicare is October 15 - December 7 for 2026. I would encourage those on Medicare (non MA), to research their supplemental/Medigap premiums. Also, please review your Part D RX plan as well. For 2026 you will enter catastrophic care for OOP RX at $2100. PLEASE REPOST 🙏🙏
Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.
A decade ago, the Heritage Foundation went full meltdown about how Obama was an imperial president when he had issued about the same number of executive orders -- though he had reached it after six years, not six months.
This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error. President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
You and I are richer than Gates, Zuckerberg, etc. because we can afford not to polish the boots of the authoritarian clown.
CBS News is giving up the power it has to hold “Face the Nation” interviewees to account. Following pressure from Trump, it has agreed not to edit interviews, even to remove false statements or propaganda uttered by political operatives and officials, or add explanatory context.
Happy birthday!! Hope you have a wonderful hike!
Why are so many university cuts targeting Religious Studies…? New article in CHE quoting @vox-magica.bsky.social & others = www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
Republicans know they will lose control of Congress if they don't rig the maps and make it harder for people to vote. Donald Trump fears a Democratic Congress and will do anything he can to prevent it. That is why those of us in the pro-democracy movement need to be ready to stand up and fight back.
RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
The House and Senate are back in session this week. Who else thinks it's time to ban members of Congress from trading stocks?
If you are a US academic concerned about the effect the proposed rule to fix visa limits at four years will have on PhD students, please consider leaving a comment on the Federal Register #EconSky
If I could, I would make every lawmaker walk through a cemetery from the 1800s and make them note the ages on the headstones.
RFK Jr. is going to release a report on what he thinks are the causes of Autism Spectrum Disorder. There is reason to believe it won’t be trustworthy, so @defendpublichealth.bsky.social has released our own evidence-based report of ASD risk factors to the public. Vaccines aren’t one of them.
Love these lines in ruling by federal Judge Burroughs, waving away pretext of fighting antisemitism as reason to cut funding to Harvard. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... H/t @klasfeldreports.com Reminder: Nonstop NYT unsourced stories that Harvard was about to cave.
"Has a major world power ever intentionally inflicted so much damage on itself in such a constricted period of time?" www.persuasion.community/p/america-is...
An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of naturalization ceremonies. /1
Doctor: Who am I to tell you what to put in your body? Patient: A physician, educated for that purpose, licensed to practice medicine, familiar with the empirical research and established best practices. Doctor: Oh, right. OK. Get your shots.
Sen. Mark Warner, a top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, arranged a routine visit to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office canceled it after posts by far-right activist Laura Loomer.
85,000 acres of Tennessee forests could be opened for development if a Trump administration rule change is enacted. via @tennesseelookout.com
Trump threatening members of Congress not to sign the Epstein files discharge petition saying it would be a “hostile act” against him is definitely something an innocent person would do. And scheduling a military flyover in the middle of the survivor press conference is also totally normal behavior.
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
If Trump had any real interest in addressing crime, his regime would work with law enforcement & Chicago leadership. Instead, he talks about “going in,” like he’s prepping a military invasion. This is nuts. This is dangerous. And it’s pitting states against states, echoing America’s deadliest war.
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
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If you're located in Yuma, Globe/Miami, or Prescott, and you're interested in joining our state-wide zine distro network, please reach out! :)
Bill Belichick gets the Presidential Medal of Freedom, too. #winning
Carolina grad here, but so disappointed in the Belichick hire that I’ll be rooting for all the other teams they play this year.
Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu
Seems like as good a time as any to reshare my story on the Coffee County voting system breach, which details the key role Giuliani played in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
“There are those who would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security. It is those shortsighted ones who threaten this country with class dissension…” — Franklin Roosevelt, Sep. 6, 1936 www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
“But our march had done its work. We had drawn the attention of the nation to the crime of child labor…The Pennsylvania legislature passed a child labor law that sent children home from the mills, and kept others from entering the factory until they were fourteen.” www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
This thread 🧵
Allison, 20, has been detained for six months at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. She had nearly given up her legal fight due to health issues and unsanitary conditions at the facility.
Brennan Center experts Sean Morales-Doyle and Lawrence Norden forecast how the Trump administration will undermine confidence in our elections in the months leading up to the 2026 midterms: bit.ly/4fRIqtA
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
This whole thread is just appalling. The hearing arises from the Trump admin conspiring with a foreign country to violate a federal court order in the middle of the night so it can deny due process to children who escaped dangerous circumstances.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
RIP to the Carolina Mudcats, who are playing their final game tonight in Zebulon, NC. One of the greatest logos in minor league baseball history.
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
While Trump isolates the United States, Xi consolidates alliances for China. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/c...
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
I’m absolutely begging reporters to stop suggesting that Lisa Cook stated that she would use both properties as a principal residence on her mortgage APPLICATIONS Mortgage APPLICATIONS and mortgage AGREEMENTS are not the same thing We have no idea what she represented on the APPLICATIONS
Clean energy isn’t “woke.” It’s an essential part of our energy future and saves us all on power bills. This administration’s war on offshore wind and solar is just going to raise Americans’ utilities.
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
A Social Security Administration official responsible for overseeing the agency’s data access resigned from his role on Friday, days after submitting a whistleblower complaint.
What a shame. "WGBH … has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series 'American Experience' and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...
Trump admin cancels $679 million for offshore wind projects as attacks on reeling industry continue trib.al/own8U4y
"Surveillance will continue for salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, but has ended for six others: campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio, and Yersinia. " Oh Anyway, unrelated (vibrio is the flesh eating bacteria)
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The European Commission said it will summon Russia’s envoy to the European Union over the air attack that damaged the bloc’s diplomatic compound in Kyiv.
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
(Full-size image: storage.mollywhite.net/trump-family... Zoomable graphic: www.mollywhite.net/etc/trump-fa...)
What do Peter Wolf, Pat Benatar, Craig Havighurst, Barry Mazor, and I have in common? We'll all be at the Southern Festival of Books in October! I'll talk about my Doc Watson bio from @uncpress.bsky.social alongside authors of bios of the Everly Brothers & Doc's friend Chet Atkins.
☎️ 📱🇺🇸 Reminder - call your reps and let them know you support your state’s parks and historic sites! The pushback is needed if we want them saved and usable for now and the future.
After all the fancy constitutional arguments & faux historical glosses, this is the practical endpoint of the unitary executive theory. Because when presidential power is effectively unchecked, the only thing preventing it from devolving into authoritarianism is the decency of the officeholder.
Calling all part-time and full-time faculty in the South: Speak out on academic freedom, shared governance, and your working conditions! Survey closes 8/29 at 5pm ET. States: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, TX, VA. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Trump administration officials are looking into whether the federal government could take a stake in private defense companies like Lockheed Martin, days after President Donald Trump announced such a deal with chipmaker Intel.
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.
A federal-state partnership that monitors for foodborne illnesses quietly scaled back its operations nearly two months ago. As of July 1, the critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight, a spokesperson for the CDC says.
As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout. Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
#WartimeConsigliare www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q04p...
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.
I remind people again that Erdoğan’s march towards autocracy began somewhere between 2008-11. Ending the independence of the central bank in Turkey happened in 2019, 16 years after he became PM. Trump has been President for 8 months.
Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
On February 3, 2010, argentine president Cristina Kirchner fired the head of the central bank, setting off a 15 year spiral of inflation that would eventually peak last year at 220%. Let's say, on that day, you bought lunch for $20 argentine pesos. Today, that same lunch would cost you $4,156 pesos
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
If Trump were operating in the best interests of America's businesses, his move to fire Lisa Cook would cause stocks to shrug, or maybe rise. But they're saying: This is dangerous. This move serves Trump, but not America. Our economy is at risk when the President undermines the Fed.
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Gregory Washington, George Mason University’s first Black president, will not be apologizing over diversity initiatives he's pursued since his hiring in 2020. Washington's lawyer says the Trump administration conducted an incomplete and haphazard investigation full of "gross mischaracterizations."
Over a quarter of all homes sold in the first three months of 2025 were bought by real estate investors. If we want to make housing affordable again, we must get Wall Street out of our homes. https://youtu.be/q9TOGxDJ0TE?feature=shared
Thousands of ICE agents are doing a lot more damage to our social fabric than millions of undocumented immigrants.
Trump should demand a Russian ceasefire on civilian targets. Otherwise heavy sanctions and promise of more support for Ukraine.
Trump Bows to Putin’s Approach on Ukraine: No Cease-Fire, Deadlines or Sanctions The net effect of the Alaska summit was to give President Vladimir Putin of Russia a free pass to continue his war against his neighbor indefinitely without further penalty, pending www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...
I always appreciate reading @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. This piece is clarifying. Gift link:
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
Important. Clear, concise, imperative. Please watch.
Donald Trump’s biggest campaign promise was to lower costs on Day One. Well, it's Day 215 of the Trump administration. The price of groceries is up. The price of utilities is up. The price of health care is up.
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.
Extraordinary new detail about the FBI purge. *Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump. *When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
The One Ugly Distraction let ACA premium tax credits expire—jacking up health care costs for 22M Americans. In VA, a 55-year-old making $63K will pay $2,410 more just to keep their plan. Working families pay the price for GOP cruelty.
To explain this photo a bit more: back then, most programming was done on paper (sometimes on special coding sheets), then punched onto cards/tape, then fed into a mainframe to be tested (& if necessary debugged). Counterintuitively, needing LESS computer time was the mark of a better programmer!
One ... Two ... Three ... BUT HER EMAILS
