That’s my dog’s eye. MLIS ‘90 SUNY Buffalo BA UNC CH ‘83 Question. Take time.
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I first fought alongside Jerry Nadler when we took on a corrupt bankruptcy system that was rigged against working families. When New Yorkers needed a champion, Nadler always had their backs. He’s a man of principle, and I’m deeply grateful for his years of public service.
America’s vicious cycle: Corporations crush workers to protect their bottom lines, then use their profits to lobby for policies that allow them to keep crushing workers. Labor Day is the perfect time to remind ourselves it doesn’t have to be this way. https://youtu.be/JSralhrpK44?feature=shared
22 year old man whose previous experience is a grocer. The header of counter terrorism. MAGA is Affirmative Action for Mediocre White Men
Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.
Strong statement. Thanks, Jerry.
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...
Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
See? Bestie.
Well if we’re asking him to do that, can we make him try Rachmaninoff too?
Then why do I like you so much!?
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.
Nice article about the DOE report and how the scientific community is responding www.newsweek.com/why-trumps-m...
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
The Nate Silver bit verifies, anyway: www.huffpost.com/entry/nate-s...
I was familiar with the first; not so with the second. But I adore Auden, and was not disappointed. Every word is chosen and meaningful. There will be fear—will we leap?
Today I’d like to share two poems with you. To me, both feel appropriate to the dark time we’re now living in. Read them and let me know what you think. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/two-poems-that-feel-apt
“Best as we can tell, the US has lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs since ‘Liberation Day’.” Fascinating discussion on so much more than that podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
These are the people everyone should be citing, interviewing, & listening to. Stop platforming the charlatans and parroting their snake oil arguments about things that didn’t happen.
It’s what RFK jr pattern with the carrion that is fascinating here.
Trump is clearly not in good health, so he should get treatment from his medical professional, RFK Jr. After all, if he's good enough for America, he should be good enough for Trump, right? Enjoy your treatment with leeches and bloodletting. Should work out well for you.
Since Trump knew Putin was setting this sting up in NH, this is the least he can do, nyet?
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
A nation built for 246 years on enslaved labor will never value the wellbeing of its workers.
What if they not letting Trump speak because he had a Reverse Fetterman Stroke and hes woke now
Meanwhile US EV tax credits expire this month.
The backlash used to be they got voted out-now they own the election systems with impunity, including overturning the Voting Rights Act and legalizing gerrymandering. And then there is Gore’s Florida. Why are a majority of the GOP supremes related to that election overturn?
Yep a good-faith critique of learning loss would lead to proposals for a massive, New Deal-scale investment in public education. The people pushing the narrative are doing precisely the opposite.
Shout it. 📣📣📣📣📣📣📣 🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️
oh right, forgot I already wrote this. trump's unfit because he's a fascist, not because he's in mental decline. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trump-isnt...
No WAY!!!
@gregolear.bsky.social Can you go down this Koestler rabbit hole with Zach??? Please oh please
We should just have a little party for his death every Friday anyway, frankly
A mere one year ago, this was The Central Issue Of Our Political Age. It's not even news in today's papers.
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Jake Tapper you up?
Trump did this
Oligarchy is a big word but I think more people are coming to realize that nearly all of the people who have amassed the most power, the most wealth, and the most influence do not give a shit about the health of humanity, democracy, the environment, or public health.
Hilarious and brilliant.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
"Some of the impacts of the staff cuts are visible to the public, but many are not yet. And all of this is only going to get worse."
Because they want to privatize and corporatize them. Slap a brand logo up and charge exploitative prices. www.alternet.org/national-par...
They may not be playin, but I bet they’re having loads of fun.
Most of the labor rights that define America today- rights that under constant attack - are owed to Fanny Perkins, the first female cabinet member in US history and the architect behind the New Deal. open.substack.com/pub/rebekahj...
Trump wants us to stop focusing on the bad parts of slavery. Wrote about how we tend not to focus on one of the worst parts—sweeping, horrific sexual violence. Christofascist patriarchs don’t want to talk about that, for obvious reasons. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/slavery-wa...
In terms of social media engagement, Bluesky continues to kick every other platform's ass: So far for the year, compared to other platforms: Clickthrus per follower: --5.1x as many as Twitter --2.5x as many as Mastodon --1.7x as many as Threads --1.5x as many as Spoutible
Yes. September 1, 1939 is the name of the poem.
Rich countries: You're on your own Zimbabwe: Plans to set up fund to deal with climate impacts. Funding sources: 5% levies, 85% of carbon-trading proceeds, and 25% contributions from the nation’s carbon tax and tobacco levy Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
In what I'm sure is a source of pain to Republican-lite pundits like Matt Y & David Shor, the Dems have decided to campaign-message the way that the GOP's overturning of Biden's climate policies, and the crushing of renewable energy, are raising consumers' electricity prices. This is good.
The Streisand Effect.
We Ran the C.D.C. Secretary Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health By William Foege, William Roper, David Satcher, Jeffrey Koplan, Richard Besser, Tom Frieden, Anne Schuchat, Rochelle P. Walensky & Mandy K. Cohen The authors previously led in the C.D.C. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Union workers earn 17.5% more than non-union workers. Unions cut the wealth gap for Black families and the gender pay gap for women by about half compared to non-union households. There’s a reason why Trump gutted the NLRB, and why corporations spend $400M a year union busting.
The 21st century. We had to wait until 2025. Sigh.
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By dropping dozens of cases and settlements, Trump's CFPB has let corporate lawbreakers off the hook for some $3 billion in harm to consumers that may never be redressed.
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
Ah, our modern-day Napoleons, with the pose.
September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth...
Well done MAGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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
If you have tomorrow off, if your kids attend middle school instead of working in a factory, if you have workplace protections, and if you have sick leave and vacation time, thank unions. Even if you don't belong to one, they're responsible for things we all take for granted. And happy #LaborDay.
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
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100% this. Unfortunately, that circle also fits fully inside another circle of people immune to feeling shame about their hypocrisy.
Still, you gotta admit the one thing that always works is scolding the electorate to suck it up instead of demanding better candidates, it never ever fails and has worked literally every time and *holds finger to ear* hold on I’m receiving new information
NEW: Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will hand out $67 BILLION to companies next year to "incentivize" research these companies did YEARS ago. That means next year, the federal government will spend five times more on these handouts than what it spends annually on child care.
This is the way
As union membership goes down, more wealth gets transferred up to the top 10% from the working class. There’s a reason why corporations and billionaires spend $400 million per year busting unions.
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
The Detroit Tigers (80-58) became the second MLB team to 80 wins, trailing only the National League-leading Milwaukee Brewers (85-53).
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.
2%?? What does that mean?
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
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 is absolutely the most important federal government resignation in history, done in opposition to the Trump-Kennedy health care policy that will result in the death and disability of vulnerable children and adults ... www.axios.com/2025/08/28/k...
Who is telling these planes to take off?
The LGML case came very close to being JGG redux. But just before the hearing began, the judge decided not to wait. She entered a TRO barring removal of all the children. That made all the difference: DHS already had the kids loaded on planes. One plane even took off (then turned around).
Buried lede: judges can in fact turn planes around
Dr Demetre Daskalakis is one of the big CDC officials who just resigned. He said RFK Jr never met with experts from his division, not even for briefings on measles, COVID, or RSV, in the seven months he has served. “He has never been briefed by any human from my center about anything.”
Symptoms develop just after meeting with Putin. Huh.
“Jobs disappear and the markets cheer.” On Labor Day 30 years ago, I issued a warning the growing divide between workers and the super-rich. Watch. youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw
And the GOP, who own all the branches of govt
"It isn't that there is no crime or drug trafficking in authoritarian regimes, just that the authorities are more likely to be involved. The Faustian bargain of surrendering democracy in exchange for security is a false pretense, an excuse to concentrate power" theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/faust...
Evil has a name Russia is committing the genocide of #Ukrainians. Russia strikes our cities, kills peaceful people, kills children. It steals hundreds and thousands of Ukrainian children, tortures captured Ukrainian soldiers and civilians, consistently breaks the laws of war, murders,rapes,steals⤵️
The DeSantis regime will do more to protect sidewalks from chalk than children from bullets.
When Trump was told Giuliani was going to get goombahed in New Hampshire.
And then what? Is there really anyone trustable at the agencies? And if not?
Where did that already budgeted money GO?
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
So cruel and awful, this administration
Everything cited or claimed in this is an outright lie or misleading False claim about manufacturing jobs and tariffs cepr.org/voxeu/column... Lie about Trump's tax cuts and their primary benefits to the wealthy www.nbcnews.com/politics/con... www.whitehouse.gov/videos/press...
The blatant illegality of the tariffs, again, is the story. It needs to lead and precede any & all coverage of the day-to-day "news" about the nonsense. It is the signal amidst the noise.
There is no "national security" rationale - not least one that arbitrarily toggles on & off - for the tariffs. Section 301 tariffs are supposed to follow a legal process based on identified violations of existing trade agreements. All of this violates our WTO treaty obligations. It's all nonsense.
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."
Best wishes for his comfort. I hope the memories and conversation filled his day and yours.
