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.
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
I didn’t know it but now I need a baby donkey 😂💗
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control they’ve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But we’re denying Venezuelan’s asylum claims who fled for their lives. 🤔
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just drew a line in the sand...refusing to let Trump’s troops or ICE turn his city into a staging ground. That’s not politics...that’s spine. Fire...fight...and the kind of defiance America needs right now.🔥
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."
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Everyone parrots the line, “They’ll just replace Trump with another figurehead.” Bullsh*t. Later today in my latest JHN Newsletter I’ll break down why Trump is the one irreplaceable piece of this machine. When he’s gone...the whole thing starts to crack.
The main tell is that this man who literally cannot shut the fuck up has not said word one to reporters for days now.
Absolutely. The immigrants we need to forcibly deport are Thiel, Musk and Murdoch. All architects of the destruction of our country.
California stepping up.
'Stop lying, you ghoul': Internet erupts over Stephen Miller's claim on child deportations www.rawstory.com/stephen-mill...
i think some of what’s happening here is many cishet white leftists inadvertently revealing their belief that LGBTQ people only care about ourselves and that progressive policy is a zero-sum game. marginalized people who are accustomed to banding together for survival often don’t see it that way
Upcoming 'upgrade' to Holocaust Museum exhibit on US response to Nazi Germany sparks some staff concerns: Sources
Hope This Works Out. Republicans Definitely Aren’t Pro Life! BREAKING: Hundreds of children from Guatemala Trump was going to illegally deport are SUING Trump, Bondi, Rubio, and the ENTIRE administration for their right to STAY. 👏 Experts say their case is rock solid.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says the war in Ukraine could continue for a long time.
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…
The nutso J6 insurrectionist defender pretends that bringing in the National Guard and prosecuting misdemeanors solves DC's violent crime problem. Bullshit. (And what about failing to get a grand jury to indict Sandwich Guy?) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
What Bernie Said: The brain-worm conspiracy monger needs to resign. He won't, but he ought to. We must work to get him out. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
By the time DOJ files this status report, Judge Sooknanan will have been awake for nearly 20 hours.
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber emphasized the importance of critical thinking and developing a generalist skillset for the AI era.
This is a particularly heartbreaking consequence of the federal workforce cuts — Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Great to stop by Hyde Park and see Chef Erick Williams. This Black Business Month and every month, we’re proud to show the world what Illinois is really all about.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
Good.
Chicago keeping art alive:
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
"The Cat Read the Emails First" (2025) acrylic painting By Ukrainian artist Nataliya Bagatskaya - n.bagatska [IG] #art #painting #illustration #caturday
Turns out when you treat teachers well, invest in students, and focus on improving schools, you get real results. Illinois now ranks third in the nation for our education system for a reason.
Bluesky right now ...
"January 6 survivor and former MPD Officer Michael Fanone launches a campaign demanding that federal officers remove their masks, advocating for transparency." Check out our new D.C. campaign demanding federal agents take off their mask! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social www.wusa9.com/article/news...
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.
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
ANGRY @jvl.bsky.social took to @thebulwark.com today: "Trump is waging war against the American government. When he’s done, he’ll use his government to wage war against Americans." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cdc-th...
CINDY MCCAIN: “The desperation is overwhelming.”
Interesting read addressing these very issues. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/i-research...
Blue states banding together to make up for a Federal vacuum in health policy feels like the first step into… something.
Like a deadly virus, created in the lab of bad public policy at the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has been let loose on our nation with impacts we are all just beginning to comprehend. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
Wow: French President Emmanuel Macron just called out Trump at a major press conference with the German Chancellor 😳
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
“You cannot argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” -Mark Twain This is why the medical experts are leaving the CDC.
THIS 👉🏾 What price are you willing to pay? “You’re letting masked men snatch girls’ parents off the streets.”
Military leaders privately questioned troops' training and warned of ‘far-reaching social, political and operational’ risks as President Trump pushed to send the National Guard and Marines to US cities, a Reuters review of court documents showed reut.rs/4fYKUXb
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
"Hey look at what I can do!" 😉 #bluesky #nature #animals
Excellent question.
I don’t write to soothe. I write to force a choice. To push people to stay and fight...or run away. To spark anger...courage...and conviction. Neutrality is surrender...and in this fight...you either stand up for democracy or you enable its destruction. There. Is. No. Middle. Ground.
A man posed as an ICE agent, zip-tied an immigrant worker, and robbed a shop. This is what happens when ICE floods the country with no oversight and no identification. Citizens don’t know who to trust.
My Democratic primary opponent who I defeated just switched to the Republican ticket. His campaign swore he’d never do it and surprise: they lied. This is part of Trump’s plan to take over major cities. Philly’s next on their list, and I’m sure as hell not going to let it happen.
PHILLY DA @dalarrykrasner.bsky.social : “Let's not get lost in his silly distraction from the fact that he doesn't want to give up information on his own involvement in a pedophile ring. Did we all forget about that? Trump is the public safety emergency.”
Last time I checked the Bible, it said “Take everything you have and give it to the poor.” It didn’t say “Steal everything you can from the poor and lock them up.
If Donald Trump comes for Philly, I ain’t backing down. None of us should. If that means a short trip to jail, so be it.
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.
Just in case you forgot…
Refusing to act, then falsely accusing those who want to see something tangible done to protect kids of attacking prayer on top of it, is doubly shameless.
🚨🚨🚨Shelton, WA, firefighters stopped by ICE. Representatives from 3 indigenous tribes were included in this shake down. Additional information on the following post. 1/2
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
I do not understand why government officials resign when asked to do something bad. The resignations will no longer be treated by the public like a scandal. It’ll be out of the news within 24 hours. People should stay and force the White House to fire them. Do not make it easy.
Angus: I’m saying we need to start building progressive media that people actually listen to. I’ll give you an example: MeidasTouch. Wherever I go in Canada, working-class people listen to MeidasTouch because they talk about what’s happening in a practical way. They give facts.
bsky.app/profile/ajsa...
This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)
the harsh realization that every single administration hire is one of the shittiest unqualified mediocre people in the world
After a grand jury failed to return a felony indictment against the Washington, DC, man accused of throwing a sub-style sandwich at a law enforcement officer in the first days of Trump’s federal takeover of the city, federal prosecutors filed a lesser misdemeanor charge.
This is infuriating...
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is has just asked a judge for a GAG ORDER against Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and their subordinates.
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act. www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...
🚨Now in D.C. 🚨 “Hey hey, ho ho, millionaires have got to go!”
It's fucking terrifying...
Like I said. They aren’t embarrassed by history, it’s their playbook.
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
Gauff embraces moment of vulnerability en route to US Open third round reut.rs/45XcCPC
📌 Scientists are not in the business of advancing missions antithetical to public health. ✊🏼
Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets
Welch: This is a guy who has redecorated the oval Marie Antoinette style and is building himself a ballroom because he has no intention of leaving.
I want to take a moment to thank Drew for taking an interest in my work and putting together such an excellent profile. Most of what I do focuses on highlighting prominent figures and their statements, so being the subject of a profile is a new experience—and a meaningful one.
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Facts are stubborn things… Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas…. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? — He isn’t focused on crime & violence. It’s about an expression of authoritarianism.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
Daskalakis: I very specifically use the term pregnant people, and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy of trying to erase people
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
Ashli Babbitt was a domestic terrorist who was shot while committing a violent crime that demonstrated a clear intention to do bodily harm to the people on the other side of those doors. The officer ended the threat she represented...as they were required to do by lethal force if necessary. It was
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Don’t look away
Brutal. A humiliation ritual.
Before today ends' Join me in CONGRATULATING Rachel Vindman You will be an EXCELLENT CO-CHAIR for the DNC Veterans and Military Families Council... Our Military and Veterans will be served well.!! @natsechobbyist.bsky.social @gene4va.bsky.social
TELL CONGRESS: Trump’s armed National Guard troops in D.C. and threats to deploy the military to Chicago: this is what America is facing right now. Communities are filled with fear. Sign the petition: Stop Trump’s military occupation of America! act.demandprogress.org/sign/stop_au...
More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”
NEW: Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a way that could result in cartel-like behavior. By @heathervogell.bsky.social
The biggest landlord in the US will stop using rent-setting algorithms that critics say can result in price-fixing. Greystar settled after federal prosecutors sued it, other landlords and the software’s maker. We first wrote about the practice in 2022. www.propublica.org/article/grey...
We reported in July that Trump was poised to slash regs protecting the public and the environment during rocket launches by companies like SpaceX. Yesterday, Trump signed an executive order making it happen. Here’s our story. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
NEW: More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.
Every Democratic member of Congress should be in the streets of DC saying this dangerous authoritarian escalation must stop. Do they not grasp what’s going on here?
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
D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.
Thanks for that unexpected lol 😆! I needed that today!