Nobody can define "Blueskyism." In that way, it's a synonym of "woke." "Blueskygasm," on the other hand... That has something to do with Alf.
Immigrant. “Volverse a sembrar. somos raíz, brote, esqueje.” @brujazapoteca_ There is no planet B www.VoteFromAbroad.org porque todavía podemos
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Nobody can define "Blueskyism." In that way, it's a synonym of "woke." "Blueskygasm," on the other hand... That has something to do with Alf.
Right-wing billionaires who own the media are enabling the Trump regime’s authoritarian takeover. This is why it is so critical to support independent journalism right now. Traditional media is no longer a trustworthy source of information for the public to stay informed and fight against fascism.
KOH: “Trump Stripped 1 million workers’ bargaining rights while plastering his face on the Labor Dept… Closed miner health clinics… Cut $2.4 Billion from youth & senior job programs… This is the real story of Trump & Labor.” #LaborDay
“While tens of thousands of employees have lost their jobs in Mr. Trump’s slash-and-burn approach to shrinking the federal work force, experts say the cuts disproportionately affect Black employees — and Black women in particular.” Gift article.
“Pro-life” (gift article) wapo.st/3HNlxLp
#StopAvelo Coalition 📆 SEP #Deportation Flights w/o #DueProcess Time ✈️ #Avelo Faces Backlash Over #ICE Flights www.stopavelo.org/events GroundICE @groundice.bsky.social #BoycottAvelo #SlaveShips #AbolishICE
We asked 94 economists to describe the future path of US monetary policy in one sentence. Many only needed one word: “horrible”, “chaos”, a “disaster” an “Turkey“ on.ft.com/4n6eDj4
At March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, legendary labor leader A. Philip Randolph asked participants to pledge to carry the spirit of the day back into their daily lives by fighting for racial and economic justice. youtu.be/M81jv8abnhM?... via @YouTube
Where are the DOGE Boys on this one? zeteo.com/p/ice-no-bid...
Give him a shutdown, & make it his. Negotiating with Rs gains nothing for the public—if he doesn’t want to spend $ on what we negotiate, he won’t. This shutdown cannot look like a fight over foreign aid either—that will serve T’s narrative. Fight for: #GunSafety #CDC #MilitaryOffStreets #Right2vote
A message for JD Vance and anyone else in this Administration that is pretending they care about the safety of our kids. They don’t. All they care about is the political approval and profits of the gun industry. And they show it every day.
Glad TIME made room for an AI industry critic on their Top 100 Leaders in AI list. “AI companies of perpetuating a ‘fraud’ on the American people, Murphy says. ‘Any talk about ethical or moral AI is just whitewash.’”
www.commondreams.org/news/private... "Private equity comes in, squeezes the life out of hospitals and doctor's offices, and then leaves patients and communities in the lurch," says a report from Sen. Chris Murphy.
“100% of the responsibility for the killing and starving of Gazan civilians is on Israel.” @mehdihasan.bsky.social went on @podsaveamerica.crooked.com to debate J-Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami on whether the US should continue giving military aid to Israel.
Jayne Converse @jayneconverse3.bsky.social
Peggy is a healthcare worker and @1199seiu.org member at a dialysis center in Brooklyn. She knows what Trump’s cuts to Medicaid will mean for her patients — and why we need a Mayor who will fight for New Yorkers, not conspire with a President who kicks them off their insurance.
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High ranking Russian & Israeli leaders regularly say they have no interest in working towards fair & just political agreements with the Ukrainians & Palestinians, but you’d never know that from reading the vast majority of North American news reporting.
Diabolical. wapo.st/4g2eATo
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
More of this please. Generally speaking public officials should eschew funds from pro war crimes organizations.
You have to organize. I don't know what else to tell people. And organizing is not sexy and it is difficult and it matters that you be persistent. We need long-distance runners right now.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Appeals court finds President Trump’s sweeping tariffs unconstitutional but leaves them in place for now.
Classic fascism. wapo.st/3UTA5Mu
In response to a suit by @maketheroadny.bsky.social a federal judge has blocked Trump’s expanded use of “expedited removal.” The courthouse abductions w/o due process that we’ve been protesting are illegal—and must stop. We’ll be back next week to make sure they do. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
the city I live in is occupied by armed federal agents checking people's papers at random public transportation stops and people are still doing this
If the Trump administration cared about addressing crime, it would tell ICE agents to stop kidnapping and torturing people. But it's encouraging and rewarding them for doing so because it is a criminal enterprise. www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...
U.S. voter? Write your reps! #Blockthebombs actionnetwork.org/letters/bloc...
A 26-year-old DNC member, Allison Minnerly, is leading efforts for the Democrats to support an arms embargo on Israel.
A 26-year-old DNC member, Allison Minnerly, is leading efforts for the Democrats to support an arms embargo on Israel. Minnerly encourages other young Americans to become politically involved.
This is high art
The researchers weren't surprised: that’s what fire-adapted ecosystems evolved to do. Fire is a source of disruption as well as of growth and renewal. The question: As climate change makes fires hotter, bigger, more frequent, can that continue to be true? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/m... (gift). 🌎
🎁 article Federal employees at FEMA & EPA, at the risk of their own jobs, are warning us that mismanagement by Trump's Admin threatens the country's disaster & response preparedness. 12 brave FEMA & 140 EP staff were fired in retaliation. wapo.st/45C4h4U
Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Cook, said Trump’s move “is flawed and his demands lack any proper process, basis or legal authority. We will take whatever actions are needed to prevent his attempted illegal action.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
“Trump’s attempt to fire Cook represents the most dramatic escalation of the campaign he has waged against the Fed since returning to office.”
🇺🇸 Donald Trump ordenó el despido de Lisa Cook, gobernadora de la Reserva Federal de EU, por un presunto fraude hipotecario. De acuerdo con Trump, se determinó que "hay suficientes causas para retirarla de su puesto”.
NEW: Voting rights groups filed a lawsuit against Ohio, warning that a new law requiring proof of citizenship for voters registering at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles threatens to disenfranchise thousands of eligible citizens, especially women, older voters and students.
Andrew Cuomo is the biggest boomer to ever boomer.
was looking for something else and came across this banger thread. 5 months ago, wow does this ever hold up.
Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst. Every dictator in history has lied. Donald Trump is no different.
wake up babe the park rangers are unionizing
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This time - 5 moreJournalists plus medical workers, rescue workers and patients. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/w...
Our other great ally in the Middle East.
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A truly horrific look at the impact of Israel's starvation strategy in Gaza. No one can say they weren't warned what was going on: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Philly Inky: RFK Jr. demanded that a scientific journal retract a vaccine study. Its Philly-based editor refused. Annals of Internal Medicine editor and Jefferson Health physician Christine Laine says she won’t retract the study, as demanded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. share.inquirer.com/isfLJP
Trump quiere bombardear los cárteles en México. No es la solución - Por Ioan Grillo (The New York Times).- Un ataque militar de Estados Unidos contra los grupos del narcotráfico en su vecino del sur no solucionará los profundos problemas que permiten que florezca el crimen organizado.
#HoyEnAnimal | En México, las responsabilidades de cuidado recaen principalmente sobre las mujeres y personas con capacidad de gestar. La penalización del aborto y falta de acceso a ese servicio esencial de salud impone maternidades forzadas y cargas de cuidado no elegidas, señala el GIRE.
“Hay gente vendiendo camisetas que dicen Alligator Alcatraz. Y otros entran a la tienda pensando que no hay nada de malo. Tienen una desconexión de lo que todo esto significa para nosotros". En el corazón de la tribu que logró el cierre del centro de detención dozz.es/zdac923
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Abrego Garcia’s Lawyers Accuse Administration of Seeking to ‘Coerce’ Plea www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/u...
#mustread
ICYMI: Trump Calls Netanyahu a ‘War Hero’ and Adds: ‘I Guess I Am, Too’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...
The Trump deportation nightmare is even worse than we feared. A new report reveals that ICE has detained *50* children under 18 in the NYC area since January. At least 4 as young as 6 years old. 38 children have already been deported. #ice www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/n...
“To take just one example,” lawyers for the states told the justices, “defendants’ terminations forced the University of Massachusetts’ medical school to lay off or furlough 209 employees and to cut the incoming fall 2025 graduate class by 86%, from 70 students to 10” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
This, for so much of the US: 🚫🐊🔐 ‘Lawyers for the Miccosukee Tribe argued that the government had trampled on tribal rights by failing to coordinate with tribal leaders who live near and hunt around the detention center or to consider potential harm to their lands’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
Trump and his cronies have been working to undermine the electoral system. They believe that there is fraud when there is no evidence of any. Republicans don’t want you to vote. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Inexcusable.
Somebody is well-aware of the fact that if there's a fair and free election in 2026, he's losing the House. Imagine citing Putin as a source on fair elections. What a sad, sorry mook he is. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
The Secret Weapon of Dance? Hands! It can feel overwhelming to watch a dance. But if you follow the hands, they can unlock the mysteries of a moving body. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/a...
"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
FYI #Memphis, already 13 states and DC experiencing effects — including OH and VA featured in this report. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...
<> World court says failure to meet climate goals could lead to damages on.ft.com/4mbKvme
The book East West Street is a great read, deeply moving and highly informative, and the audiobook is partially narrated by Philippe Sands himself.
"I'm not focused on whether it's a war crime or a crime against humanity or a genocide, which is a distraction from the real issue. It is utterly appalling and unjustifiable, and it should not be happening." —Philippe Sands Deep and powerful interview, however you may feel about Ezra Klein.
Que vengan a bsky, GDL en bici
An issue you are not addressing in your response: The person who is able and fit to rent a 6th floor apt can become disabled—temporarily or permanently—suddenly.
Comunicado de la Red Ciudad Posible en relación a las propuestas de 2do piso en la avenida López Mateos en Guadalajara:
El último trimestre de 2024, el precio de la vivienda en el Área Metropolitana de Guadalajara rompió un record: llegó a costar el doble de lo que costaba en 2017. Es decir, duplicó su precio nominal en 7 años. "Es la inflación" pues no: el aumento es de 66.34% sin inflación.
🚨 The Palestinian Who Led a Militia, a Theater and a Jailbreak Gift 🎁 article 🧵👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/w...
This program no longer exists www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
“If we want to look at marauding mobs, look at Jan. 6,” said Mary McCord, the director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law and a former federal prosecutor. “If you want to look at criminal mobs, we had a criminal mob and he called them peaceful protesters.”
I'm so grateful for the support of Manhattan Councilmember @keithpowersnyc.bsky.social, a leader on affordable housing, public transit and improving quality of life in our city.
Cuomo spent the past month campaigning inexplicably to Long Island Republicans, and the result is that they now hate him even more than we do
BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes? American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
We're going to need more bus lanes.
The MAGA chumps who voted for Trump are screwed: “In the near term, everything rests on what that top 10 percent decides to do or not to do. The rest of the income distribution is really not consequential from a macroeconomic perspective” wapo.st/4lgD7Fi
A pesar de lo que dijo Adán Augusto López sobre Hernán Bermúdez y Guacamaya leaks, sí era gobernador cuando salió esto… quintoelab.org/project/amlo... #México #Tamaulipas
An intentional starvation campaign. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/w...
Miller's choice: ICE officers told the couple they could leave US with their child & return to their native Russia, which they had fled seeking political asylum. Or they could remain in immigration detention in US — but their 8 y.o. son, Maksim, would be taken away www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...
Ox Tongues -or- Tongue Twisters
How did America get to the level of immorality where the forced starvation of CHILDREN is literally shrugged at by our president? The president is supposed to represent the best of America -- not the worst. #republicanfascistparty #christiannationalism #FASCISM www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/o...
As usual, Trump's priorities do nothing to make this country better. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
Read this and please share robertreich.substack.com/p/a-betrayal...
Read and share theintercept.com/2024/10/24/a...
“Mr. Trump has called the case [against Bolsonaro] a “witch hunt” and wants it dropped. Mr. Lula said that was not up for negotiation. “Maybe he doesn’t know that here in Brazil, the judiciary is independent,” he said.”
House Democrats Sue ICE for Barring Them From Detention Facilities www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...
"Canada said on Wednesday that it would recognize Palestine as a state, if the Palestinian Authority makes certain changes including holding elections." nyti.ms/40EzEsI
What a great idea -- and how timely. Gift article. wapo.st/3U6Lxnt
Bill Barring Stock Trading for Congress Advances With Trump Carve-Out www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o...
Not even a year and we have the end of academic freedom, across a system with the highest rated universities in the world. Maybe, just maybe the system was more weak and broken than we’ve been able to admit. #highered
#giftArticle #AIEthics #AIGeopolitics wapo.st/45tKiUP Cc @maurogilli.bsky.social
Bogus. Kamala didn’t run to the left of the party. Kamala didn’t campaign on trans rights. Dems need to run on better jobs, better health care, & affordable childcare. Make a some space for trans people & stop trying to polarize us on this. Trans right are human rights. @theatlantic.com: do better.
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