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“When something happened to the Negroes in the South, I said, ‘That’s their business, not mine.’ Now, I know how wrong I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us anywhere in the world had better be the business of us all,” Mamie Till-Mobley said in September 1955.
The Chicago Labor Day march is getting started. #WorkersDeserve
We dumped a president for being too old only to elect one who immediately died. You can't say that's not funny
An extraordinary joint op-ed and plea by NINE former directors or acting directors of the CDC under both Democratic and Republican administrations, succinctly describing undermining of public health, and what’s needed now. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
“Astonishing new archaeological finds and ancient DNA analysis leave no doubt that throughout prehistory women were rulers, warriors, hunters and shamans.” www.newscientist.com/article/2488...
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
Yes, I am worried about the transformation of America’s government. But I’m more worried about what three more years of this will do to the American people. Fascism conditions us to serve our worst, most animal impulses. What sort of country will we be by 2028?
Today's press pool photo shows Trump leaving the White House this morning. I enhanced the image. And seriously, can an expert explain what the hell is happening to his face?
Firefighters in Washington state were waiting for their superior to arrive when Customs and Border Patrol showed up in “Police” vests. The agents made the entire crew line up and show ID—detaining 2 firefighters, with no chance to say goodbye to fellow crew members and loved ones. trib.al/rzNZWlG
Energy has not historically been a constraint on computing. AI has turned this on its head
"To pretend that her death deserves the same recognition as that young soldier at the gate is obscene. It is a betrayal of the oath she once swore and a desecration of the sacrifice made by so many who kept faith with theirs."
Trump and his Department of Veterans Affairs celebrate Labor Day after stripping VA employees of their ability to unionize — another step toward privatizing care for those who have served rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
Forget Orwell’s ‘Two Minute Hate’ – the immigration debate shows real loathing | John Crace
From the nuances of what book censorship language means to how you can build your own local anti-censorship group, catch up with these 12 previous book censorship posts. That, plus this week's book ban and censorship news: bookriot.com/book-censors...
OPINION by Alissa Magrum, executive director of the National Drowning Prevention Alliance: “We find it appalling that the CDC drowning prevention team was fired and its work halted.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
AI-generated climate “slop” isn’t harmless. It’s cheap, fast, and designed to muddy the truth.
How can you deter the Trump administration's immigrant deportation machine when it pops up in your community? Follow these steps.
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
Now they care about data privacy
Benny Johnson, a right-wing podcaster, is among the new media figures who enjoy rare access to the Trump administration in exchange for their promotion of the White House’s agenda to millions of online followers. He stands out for his record of plagiarism and promoting false claims. nyti.ms/4gb5yn1
I appreciated this take and the moral stance it makes for immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
Donald Trump did not write this post.
UK confirms H5N1 bird flu outbreak in southwestern England reut.rs/4n8adZ6
Inequality continues rising, the middle class continues to hollow out, and Disney, like every US institution, continues to shift its services to cater to the rich.
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
More name changes afoot… Department of Defense = Department of War Department of Education = Department of Keeping You Stupid Center for Disease Control = Center for Crackpot Conspiracies Department of Agriculture = Department of Subsidies for Farmers going broke from tariffs
NPR: “A whistleblower says a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names & birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud lacking adequate security...” www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
northernexposuremagazine.co.uk/gulps-ethere...
In an age of AI and conformity, New Orleans’ joyful nonconformity might be the world’s most important refuge.
Yesterday, masked Israeli settlers armed with clubs brutally attacked Palestinian residents and international solidarity activists in the village of Qawawis, Masafer Yatta, south of the West Bank, leaving several injured.
Pro-Palestinian activists preparing to set sail from Spain on Sunday for Gaza in dozens of boats carrying aid have called on governments to pressure Israel to allow their flotilla to end the aid blockade 👇
During a town hall Wednesday in Worth County, Iowans urged Hinson to “stop lying” after she claimed that the president’s key legislation had ushered in “higher wages” and an improved cost of living. “Higher wages?” shouted one woman incredulously. “For who? For you?” trib.al/KPLYXyQ
An Oregon shop owner says new tariffs could raise the price of her imported sports goggles -- which does not appear to have a strong U.S.-made alternative -- by 50%, leaving customers paying the price.
Senator Sanders says U.S. Health Secretary Kennedy must resign reut.rs/45Ro3JT
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: “We do not want to see tanks in our streets. We do not want to see families ripped apart. We do not want grandmothers thrown into the back of unmarked vans. We don’t want to see homeless Chicagoans harassed or disappeared by federal agents.
Morning Bluesky. Tesla had its seventh straight monthly decline in European sales in July, dropping 40% to 8,837. Chinese rival BYD surged past Tesla with 225% sales increase, to 13,503.
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Trump’s tariffs are a regressive tax on Americans — and yesterday, yet another court ruled that these tariffs are unconstitutional. We joined MSNBC’s The Weekend this morning to talk about why these tariffs are an abuse of emergency power. #tariffs #orpol #ieepa
Fundraising for Palestine is one of the biggest actions a Pitt student group undertakes. Over the last academic year, around $50,000 was raised. But Pitt suspended their activities. An injunction in their case against Pitt clears them for action.
Gavin Newsom is not imitating Trump. He is mocking him. He is holding up a mirror to what Trump does and how blind his supporters are to reality. From the 3 hour North Korean style cabinet meetings to all caps nonsense tweets. It’s all worthy of mockery.
And I am the world's foremost astrophysicist ballerina who invented the piano, aspirin, and appetizers.
To our enduring shame, the US wrongfully incarcerated 120,000 people of Japanese descent - more than two-thirds US citizens - between February, 1942 and December, 1945. ICE is already wrongfully incarcerating people 2x faster than that, and the Republican spending bill just tripled ICE's budget.
The party selected Sharon Carby as its candidate for mayor of Croydon, despite her being dead ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
We obtained emails that appear to show the White House ordered government officials to put Grok back on the list of approved vendors “ASAP” www.wired.com/story/white-...
Remember that $30 million military parade the president forced on everyone in June? Now our dear leader wants a redo—by sea. Under the guise of "restoring patriotism," the U.S. Navy is planning a larger parade for this fall after the president told aides he was “disappointed.” trib.al/CM5pOmf
A federal grand jury has declined to indict another person arrested as part of President Trump's D.C. crime surge. This was the only case we know of in which the National Guard participated in an arrest. After the grand jury declined to return an indictment, DOJ moved to dismiss the case.
From Gold Star families to denigrating soldiers who have been injured or killed in combat ("suckers") to gutting the VA to his vanity military parade to this. Has any one person shown more contempt towards our armed forces than Donald Trump?
NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty. The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...
The insurrectionists succeeded. It just took awhile.
The Kyiv Independent’s investigative journalist Alisa Yurchenko exposes how Russia has quietly expanded its Votkinsk missile plant with the help of Chinese and Taiwanese machinery imported through intermediaries to evade Western sanctions.
I feel this is similar to deconstructing from religion bc what was it all for? Why did all the people that instilled into me the ideas of truth, justice, and the American way, of sacrifice for the community, not actually mean any of it? I’ve never thought we we perfect but we were moving there…
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
The thing about AI is that it is designed to be agreeable. It feels nice when someone listens to you, especially when people don’t. I can understand why that is attractive, but the reason we interact as different kinds of people is to pull each other back from the abyss instead of pushing someone in
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
We have literally convicted people of manslaughter for manipulating victims into suicide. Why can't we do so to the folks who build and sell chatbots who do the exact same thing?
HAPPENING NOW: Hello from the media room in DC district court, where Judge Jia Cobb is set to hear argument on Lisa Cook's motion for a temporary restraining order to block her removal from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. I'm here for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along ⬇️🧵
Important read We Are Not ‘Property of Donald Trump’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
This is actually less an "end-run" and more "example #145,436,884 of how Congress repeatedly gave away its powers and hoped norms would just hold everything together and now they aren't." Congress lets POTUS petition for a clawback and withhold funding for 45 days during the process. But here?
"The Meta AI chatbot built into Instagram and Facebook can coach teen accounts on suicide, self-harm and eating disorders, a new safety study finds. In one test chat, the bot planned joint suicide — and then kept bringing it back up in later conversations." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
The common link behind all of those recalls, outbreaks and illnesses is clear, according to government reports, shellfish farmers and experts: human waste flowing into the waters of Baynes Sound from nearby homes and passing boats.
It's something that student newspapers have taken up the mantle of defenders of the First Amendment at a time when their professional, establishment counterparts are caving like a house of cards... theintercept.com/2025/08/26/s...
Kristi Noem waives environmental laws to build Trump's wall through a wildlife refuge
⚡️ 16 killed, 30 injured as Kyiv slammed with drones, ballistic, cruise and ALBM missiles in Russian mass attack against Kyiv on August 28, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration Tymur Tkachenko reported. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said that about 10 people are considered missing.
Concerned! They need to respond to it militarily.
⚡️ Russia reportedly flying drones over US arms routes in Germany.
"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
NEW: A federal grand jury has REFUSED to indict sandwich guy! I imagine the DoJ will keep trying. They have two weeks, at which point they’ll have to drop the charges or reduce it to a misdemeanor. 🥪 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
The only thing more disgraceful than having groveling cabinet members so willing to debase themselves in this shameless way is having such a damaged, insecure, and needy president that they know desperately needs to hear this BS.
I know Democrats are overwhelmed (or rudderless, if you are less charitable) by the sheer volume of Trump authoritarian moves, but I’d like to see them unified behind specific goals like “RFK Jr is a threat to public health and needs to go.”
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
‘Wake Up Everybody!’ Gavin Newsom Warns Trump’s ‘Setting Up’ To Stay In Power
If you care about the freedom to read, then the number one place you should be focused is on your local politics. When fascism goes federal, we go local. Banned Books Week this year is October 5-11. Here are some events/actions you can start planning now to make the week truly impactful
Breaking news: Donald Trump’s attack on the independence of the US nuclear safety watchdog has accelerated severe 'brain drain' at the agency, raising the risks of future accidents. Almost 200 people have left the agency since the president's inauguration on.ft.com/45P0SOY
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
As if this administration could be any more disrespectful to our military.
Brazil offers a lesson in democracy to an America that is becoming more corrupt, protectionist and authoritarian econ.st/4peBqLR
Gloria Gaynor has been revealed as a Republican donor and LGBTQ+ people are furious: ‘F**k her’
Top Florida official says ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ will likely be empty within days, email shows 1 of the related lawsuits estimates at least 100 people at the facility had been deported apnews.com/article/flor...
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
The chaos at the CDC wouldn't have been possible without Sen. Bill Cassidy, a medical doctor, providing the crucial vote to confirm RFK Jr as HHS Secretary. We should make sure he never forgets that.
#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
Modi is ghosting Trump
My mom, who is my bellwether for normie Dems, bought a t-shirt with the sandwich guy graffiti on it.
“Everything else from here on out is just a matter of degree and wondering how bad it will get and how far it will go? Do we end up “merely” like Hungary or do we go all the way toward an “American Reich”?”
Historian here the notion that Trump is a “socialist” for trying to get a stake in private companies and somehow anti capitalist is simply wrong. He is going back to the Royal African Company and mercantilism when corrupt royal monopolies and crony capitalism ruled. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
My thoughts on the law and politics of sandwich throwing. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Elon Musk has sought to promote his AI chatbot Grok by emphasizing how it can generate animated images of scantily clad women.
1/ A high-profile rightwing activist, who pushed to overturn Trump’s loss in 2020, has been appointed to a top position in the Department of Homeland Security helping oversee U.S. election security, I reported for @propublica.org. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/heat...
If Donald Trump is this casual about calling himself a dictator we can and should acknowledge how you have to force dictators out of power.
The Supreme Court made possible the administration's threats to send Mr Abrego Garcia to Uganda -- because the Court blocked the lower court decisions that had restricted the gov'ts ability to send noncitizens to far-flung places they've never been & where they could face violence, torture, & death.
Note: Ukraine did not go "into" a war with Russia. It was invaded. By Russia.
The double tap strike on Gaza hospital that killed multiple journalists was targeting… a Hamas camera, says the IDF. Not a terrorist. Not a fighter. A fucking camera. The world has lost its way if those responsible aren’t punished for this absurd atrocity. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Whey Standard 