Rabidly passionate about equality & civic duties- in that order. ❤️ science, philosophy, history & anthropology.
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Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Judge Blocks Flights Sending Hundreds of Children Back To Guatemala “It is a dark & dangerous moment for this country when (Trump) chooses to target orphaned 10-year-olds and deny them their basic legal right to present their case before a judge” www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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This US military cannot be trusted to uphold the US constitution it was meant to protect… They have become goons of a henchman.
Thanks to 6 Supreme Court Justices who just HAD to allow DOGE unfettered access to our most private information over very real and sane objections. Can’t unring that bell. americanoversight.org/supreme-cour...
Ten-year-old survivor Weston Halsne shared that during the shooting, his friend Victor bravely protected him by covering him and was shot in the back, they stayed concealed beneath the pews for several minutes before moving to a secured gym. #ProudBlue #DemVoirce1
"ICE Gives No-Bid SUV Contract to Republican Donor with a History of Fraud" The $2.25M award for ICE recruitment vehicles seemed to go around normal contracting procedures. Read Jason Paladino's latest scoop for Zeteo:
Peer reviewers are more likely to recommend accepting papers that cite their work — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... @aidybarnett.bsky.social
Trump allows Russia to kill Ukrainian civilians without consequence; meanwhile, he might sanction EU officials implementing the bloc’s social media regs based on the false premise they’re censoring Americans. Tilting at windmills, with a heaping side of empty morals. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
Definitely don't repost the research that anti-wind groups are trying to bury using lawsuits www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/services-1 drive.google.com/file/d/1TAZw...
Morning Spew for Night Owls—At an objectively insane press conference last Friday, the mayor and deputy mayor simultaneously praised those accused of City corruption, while distancing themselves from bribery claims through twisting the definition of time itself.
the us rn:
Watching the #Permafrost thawing is like watching all hope for a #SustainableLife go down the drain #1Planet1Chance #BlueEarth #OV1 #ResistanceUnited #VoteClimate
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Gaza killed four journalists on Monday, including a freelancer who worked for The Associated Press, according to health officials.
Journalism is not a crime
ICE arrested the husband of a Dem candidate, a disabled U.S. Army vet in a wheelchair, at his own naturalization hearing. Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry has lived here 25+ yrs, earned multiple medals, & served with Veterans for Peace. He has a green card. This is racist political persecution.
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
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
A North Texas lawyer notorious for his involvement with far-right extremist groups — and his legal representation of members of white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups — is working as a court appointed attorney in Denton County. My latest for @thebarbedwire.com. thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/22/c...
Tech boosters like to use a set of terms to thwart any kind of pushback against their proposals to insert "AI" into any and every organization. Here's a dictionary of their language and what these terms mean. sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...
Texas in 2025.
If you're in Finland for five minutes, you'll hear how they beat back the Soviets in 1944. But it hasn't been done more subtly or effectively than Stubb did here.
The point is to shame people who need help... ..and then to create a labor force enslaved by corporate health & other benefits no matter the ill-treatment meted out by the owners.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...
Western journalists are failing to stand up for their colleagues in Gaza | Mohamad Bazzi
Sally Rooney: “I would happily publish this statement in a UK newspaper–but that would now be illegal. The present UK Gov has willingly stripped its own citizens of basic rights & freedoms, including the right to express & read dissenting opinions, in order to protect its relationship with Israel.”
This is devastating, and part of a larger move to entirely push science out of NASA's mission. It is horrific betrayal of so much work, not to mention the fact that it violates NASA's charter.
This guy's a vet and a lawyer who threw a sandwich and offered to turn himself in, so they sent a paramilitary platoon with a camera crew. They have FBI and U.S. Marshal badges; apparently those agencies do no real work beyond camera stunts, harassing minorities, and filling concentration camps.
Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Even. On. The. Op-ed. Page. The total collapse of a once-proud publication that no longer has any baseline standards of "journalism"
people: police need to be held accountable police: that’s why we have body cams people: ok show us the body cam footage police: no
So of course it's not just D.C. "The administration is evaluating plans [for] a 'Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force' of hundreds of National Guard troops tasked with rapidly deploying into American cities facing protests or other unrest." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Fiancée of someone currently detained in Alligator Alcatraz details how her loved one has been in there for nearly a month. Conditions are so bad that he tried to commit suicide, and he has fungus due to constant water intrusion into the tent where he is caged.
My latest premium newsletter is about Trump's firing of the BLS head, his war against data, and how fascists view truth.
#LongCovid
Dems should fight on every front. If Texas steals 5 seats, Dem states should redistrict 30 GOP members out of their districts. We should insist DOJ release the entire Epstein File. Not only shouldn't we bring knives to a gun fight, if they bring pistols, we should bring machine guns.
This warrior and many other Texans speaking out against Trumps orders to Gov Abbott
This requires far too much of a ability to reason and to have empathy for people like Vought to see the irony in... yea..it is fucked up.
🦋 HCR: "It’s clear we are indeed in a revolution designed to destroy the government we have known in favor of the radical right-wing government envisioned by those who wrote Project 2025." An outcome that Kamala Harris repeatedly warned of and which Trump repeatedly, and falsely, denied. 🦋
I highly encourage you to watch this interview with the ex- Green Beret hired to do security at the US/Israeli-funded food distribution centers who says he witnessed fellow contractors and IDF soldiers injure and fire into Gazans trying to get food. He's also the guy who ordered them pizzas.
Bove is going to be the new Clarence Thomas, but worse (until he gets elevated): A petulant, vindictive asshole who is going to use the bench to make up for his moral emptiness and deep sense of inadequacy
Anthropology- rather, Grok's version of it.
It would be extremely dangerous to disband this unit that failed to stop the mass shooting, the incumbent mayor says. If his opponent is elected, the incumbent mayor says, then we might have shootings like the one that just occurred on the incumbent mayor's watch.
I'm attending No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Any bets that the next bill will rename "White House" to "Trump Plaza"?
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Bingo. This has always been the fire @repjeffries @senschumer etc. are playing with. If you don’t show up for Zohran good luck asking young/progressive voters who aren’t die hard to show up for your/your preferred candidates down the line.
“Without immediate intervention, the last remaining reporters in Gaza are going to die.”
The Democratic Party ignores the will of democratically elected nominee to placate $$$ Classic.
UPDATE: @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social still does not endorse @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social even after their meeting on Friday (Jeffries has received $1.7 Million from AIPAC, per @trackaipac )
Writers Union Calls for Bribery Probe of Paramount After Colbert Cancellation www.commondreams.org/news/paramou...
My parents saved toward travel to visit family by making sacrifices on every other spending. Cuomo doesn't understand the draw of family roots. He thinks it is only for the rich.
At Circles cafe in Hudson, NY.
Dem Party: We are spending $20M to figure out how to talk to male voters. Mamdani: Save your money. I have +45 favorability with male voters & +73 with men under 45. Endorse me. Dem Party: No way dude. Now—why is our favorability is -54? Let's spend $20M on wealthy consultants to figure it out!
Outrageous. This is why we say Black Lives Matter. Because clearly to Trump and Republicans all lives do not matter. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
Wow. @404media.co uncovered the names of additional dozens of people who were disappeared by the Trump administration on the March flights to El Salvador. www.404media.co/flight-manif...
Free the Spokane 9 Largely ignored in a small market, this week's federal indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in Washington state, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent This was always the plan. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
🚨 Very, very big news. Today, a global coalition - including members of the IPCC, IPBES, and WHO expert advisors, as well as independent virologists, epidemiologists, and lawyers - started the process of creating an "IPCC for Pandemics." 🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧵 Five things to know 👉
Any Democrat who can answer a question without 50 words of focus group-speak stands out rn
Watch the seismic waves from today's magnitude 7.3 Alaska earthquake ripple across seismic stations in North America. More ➡️ loom.ly/kaJp5I0
Pain is real, trauma is real. Internalized and buried in the deepest of our souls. Though we can't always understand it, process it...it's there. We self medicate, deprecate ourselves until the only thing left is a fractured shell of the person we used to know.
NEW: The judge overseeing Texas AG Ken Paxton's divorce case has put it under seal, meaning the public won't be able to access the record. We got all the documents filed before the case was sealed and have published them here: www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege
Trump 2017: "It is my pleasure and my honor to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell." Trump today: "He's a terrible Fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed. I was surprised frankly that Biden put him in and extended him." Every news story will include both clips, right?
Men are impersonating ICE to attack immigrant women. MAGA emboldened them.
A deaf Mongolian man has spent more than four months in a Southern California immigrant detention center without the opportunity to communicate with anyone who understands Mongolian Sign Language, according to his civil rights attorney. calmatters.org/justice/2025...
Not sure about this new Andrew Cuomo ad
There's a reason I keep posting about the ACA subsidies expiring. It's a sleeper issue (Medicaid gets most of the attention) that is slated to hit tens of millions of Americans in just a few short months. And I wouldn't have known about it if not for @charlesgaba.com. bsky.app/profile/trum...
Get people with old ideas out of the Democratic Party. We don't need @schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social sucking up oxygen in this fight against fascism.
I want @bradlander.bsky.social to primary @schumer.senate.gov or @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
This seems remarkably basic, but actually loving the city is an important precondition to being a good mayor I think! And it’s certainly a key asset in a campaign.
Andrew Cuomo, in the hallmark of an abuser, refuses to believe that no means no.
This is making America great?
Autocrats and fascist movements attack journalists and news orgs for being truth-tellers and maintainers of reality. We stand fully in support of @adamzyglis.bsky.social for his body of work of powerful editorial cartoons including this one that has triggered the right wing outrage machine. 1/n
we'll see if he wins (i hope he does), and i think running for mayor of new york is different than literally any other race *but* one thing i think up and coming dems can learn from his campaign is how effective a really good social and media team can be, all of these video hits have been quite good
Homan is attempting to summarize United States v. Arvizu (534 U.S. 266, 2002) and he is doing it badly. This is actually a case I have taught at the university level.
This must not be who we are.👇
In a just world, every one of these Democratic senators would be primaried - especially the hypocritical Cory Booker who is wisely trying to hide his face in this picture. (Netanyahu is wanted by the ICC, a far right authoritarian, and kills innocent Palestinians on a daily basis, including today!)
Who will draft Project 20xx?
A global minimum tax on the ultrarich could change planetary politics. Right now South Africa, Chile, France, and Spain are pushing for it
If we are sharing SAT scores, when are we going to see how our president did?
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale announced today that, “The Abundance Institute, in partnership with Stand Together, is raising $4M to place a strike team of 15-20 AI-native software engineers, data scientists, & product leaders inside the FDA…” 7/7/25 1/ blog.joelonsdale.com/p/engineerin...
A Minnesota couple staying in a Texas campground not only escaped death from the devastating river flooding over the July Fourth weekend but likely saved others as well, according to their family.
Finding a loved one after an ICE arrest can be difficult, but there are steps you can take to help locate them. Learn how you can find a friend or family member who's been arrested for immigration reasons, then share this guide: www.nilc.org/resources/ho...
This is footage from today in MacArthur Park. Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through. The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW. Absolutely outrageous.
A reminder that this kind of intimidation is common along the southern border and there’s an entire federal and state apparatus to justify it and defend it You just haven’t seen it before because it’s been happening to people you’ve been told are drug dealers and “illegals”
We have Trump, a convicted felon who is becoming increasing fascist, because Legacy Media continues to fail in its job. This article fails to analyze how BBB bill failed poorer American. It instead focuses on what is being said about the bill by Democrats and Republicans. Shame on you @cnn.com
Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha says he’s been suspended from Substack, a platform where white supremacists publish without issue. I can’t recall this happening to any prominent writers in the past.
Trump’s megabill will strip 14 million Americans of access to healthcare care. Here’s why our top story today is something a neo-Nazi sent us about a college application from 15 years ago.
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July 4th apartment fire somewhere in West New York (in New Jersey) ...looking west from the west side of Manhattan.
If you had ever registered to access SSA.gov, and your email is with them, you would have received it...Irrespective of whether you are retrieved or not and whether you are in the US or not.
The Australian Government is currently lobbying to host the UN international climate conference in South Australia - and tbh where better to showcase our extinction crisis, punitive protest laws and industry capture? #auspol #climate www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
Happy birthday, America. Your gift? A new police state.
Two dozen Hmong men who have lived in Minnesota for decades are being held in Minnesota and Iowa jails awaiting deportation.
