Wonder why Modi and Putin are so close? Russia is now offering India a $3โ$4 discount per barrel on Urals crude vs Brentโup from just $1 in Julyโas U.S. pressure mounts to curb Moscow's energy exports.
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Wonder why Modi and Putin are so close? Russia is now offering India a $3โ$4 discount per barrel on Urals crude vs Brentโup from just $1 in Julyโas U.S. pressure mounts to curb Moscow's energy exports.
Taco created this! In downtown Los Angeles, protesters being shot at! #iceout #notofascism #arresttrump
The WAPO published a leaked document outlining a plan to forcibly displace all 2 million residents of Gaza and place the territory under U.S. trusteeship for "at least" 10 years. In other words, ethnic cleansing, a "final solution" done IN OUR NAMES...Y'all think real carefully about that.
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Happy Labor Day! California is proud to be ranked the #1 state for workers. Weโre leading the nation with strong wage standards, worker protections, and labor rights that make our communities, businesses, and families stronger.
Donald Trump can't win the 2026 midterms fair and square - so he's trying to cheat by calling up his cronies in red states and asking for seats. California: YOU have the power to stop him. Vote YES on Prop 50 to defend fair elections and STOP Trump's election rigging.
Belgium to recognise Palestinian state at UN and sanction Israel โ Middle East crisis live
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The provincial head of disaster management, Ehsanullah Ehsan, says they cannot โpredictโ the number of bodies trapped.
No shit.
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. The Republican "Pro-Life" . . . ๐ ๐ง ๐
Researchers have studied the different reasons why people believe in conspiracy theories, and many of the explanations include the following factors: A need for understanding and consistency. A need for control. A need to belong or feel special. www.addictioncenter.com/drugs/conspi...
If you're anti-vaccine, you're anti-science, and you're anti-life. GTF out of the way. You're taking away people's right to protect themselves from death, disease, and sequelae. Your voice has no place in public discourse.
An important update from Francesca Albanese, special UN Rapporteur on Palestine. The flotilla fully complies with International Law. Any attempt to violate the flotillaโs mission is a violation of International Law which @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu has said she will uphold. Empty words, Ursula?
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Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, itโs actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
A dock workers union from Genoa said if the flotilla gets intercepted they'll shut down all of Europe's ports. The Med having three of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, this could be huge! Especially if they get Union solidarity from North Africa
๐๏ธ NEW: 22 new TV projects are going to be filmed in California via our newly expanded tax credit. This means an estimated $1.1 billion in additional economic activity and 6,500 cast/crew jobs across the state. The Golden State remains the beating heart of film and television.
"By every measure, this has been the most hostile administration to workers in our lifetimes," AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler told me in an interview ahead of Labor Day. "Working people are really not feeling secure in this economy." www.npr.org/2025/09/01/g...
The Global Sumud Flotilla Is Making History www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-global...
Before the Day is Done.... #RIP Graham Greene, Dances with Wolves actor, dies aged 73. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
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15 seconds of pure, golden TRUTH from Dame Emma Thompson! ๐
Look on my works, ye Mighty open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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US Cash Keeps the Israeli War Machine Running www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-f...
The Not-So-Impossible Quest to Evict War Profiteer L3Harris From Northampton, Mass. www.commondreams.org/opinion/war-...
Why We Must Defend the Marine Mammal Protection Act www.commondreams.org/opinion/defe...
3 Simple Things a Republican Congress Could Do to Help Workers (But Probably Wonโt) www.commondreams.org/opinion/3-wa...
Trump's Attack on EPA Workers Is an Attack on You www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
Immigrant or US-Born, Weโre All in the Same Boat www.commondreams.org/opinion/immi...
Labor Day, Chicago, and Presidential Despotism Then and Now www.commondreams.org/opinion/labo...
A Compact for American Workers to Share This Labor Day www.commondreams.org/opinion/comp...
US Lawmakers Urged to Follow Merkley and Van Hollen's Lead After Senators Denied Access to Gaza www.commondreams.org/news/congres...
Trump Just Tried to Illegally Deport 600+ Guatemalan Kids on Holiday Weekend www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...
Israel's Actions in Gaza 'Meet the Legal Definition of Genocide,' Say Leading Scholars www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...
Trump Voter ID Threat Condemned as 'Unconstitutional' www.commondreams.org/news/trump-v...
'Brazenly Anti-Worker': Labor Day Reports Highlight Trump Attacks on Unions www.commondreams.org/news/trump-l...
'Endangering Every American's Health': 9 Former CDC Chiefs Sound Alarm on RFK Jr. www.commondreams.org/news/rfk-jr-...
Americans Take to the Streets for 1,000+ 'Workers Over Billionaires' Labor Day Rallies www.commondreams.org/news/workers...
Trump Admin Circulating Plan to Transform Depopulated Gaza Into High-Tech Cash Cow www.commondreams.org/news/great-t...
Go ahead, make my day Mr. Trump We @democracydefendersfund.org immediately sued you & got an injunction on your 1st voting EO We will do the same here if you try it again The Constitution gives this authority to the states & Congress, not you! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
@erikloomis.bsky.social I admire your scholarship But there are some serious omissions in your Times essay as I detail below I don't see how you can write that essay without addressing the evidence to the contrary I know you are not coming from a bad place but this is wrong
* Trump Family Amasses $6 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch @wsj.com
These plots make me want to cry they are so beautiful. We have such powerful tools to improve our lives if only we chose to use them
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive โ it doesnโt have instructions and search is a bear but thereโs two hundred yearsโ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu
Boston Calling Now! Bostonโs First Labor Day Parade #laborday2025 #bostoncalling #wakeupcall #workersoverbillionaires #boston #wethepwople
Okay. I just came back to this and you arenโt calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
ive got no idea what's going on with Trump's health. But the 'biden precedent' is just so glaring and hilarious. half of 2025 has been taken up with elite press shaming of how no one ever talked abt Biden's age which was actually their main topic in 2024. Ok. Set aside that his party literally ...
Listen to the history of Labor Day ! open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
More illegal gerrymandering in MO
From today: trump rendered the presidential medal of freedom even more meaningless than it already had been rendered by him during his first term. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
Fuck Greg Abbott. Love what Newsom saidโผ๏ธ
Where is this?
Labor Day protest against the President and the oligarchyโผ๏ธ now this is what John Lewis would have encouraged us to doโผ๏ธ Letโs keep doing it!
In times of such extremes, hope remains as one of the important possibilities for change, a declaration that all is not lost. www.greenpeace.org/internationa... #WellbeingEconomy #ClimateCrisis #ActOnClimate
Los Angelesโ Another gnarly arrest around the corner from the MDC. Quite a few chemical munitions deployed
LAPD has arrived
An ambulance and fire truck has arrived to the MDC, likely for one of those arrested tonight. This has become routine these last monthsโDHS violently arrests a protester, and ambulances arrive soon after
RFK Jr is Trump's convenient idiot, put in place to steal all the Congressionally Allocated Funding possible - and divert that to Tax Cuts For Billionaires. Vote against every Republican on every ballot until we flip the House and Senate 2026!
That decision alone, which stems from Kennedyโs hostility to life saving vaccines, evident in the fatal measles outbreak earlier this year, is not only a major risk with the ongoing threat of Covid and further mutations, but it crystallized why his leadership of public health programs must end.
National Nurses United Called For Firing Or Resignation Of RFK Jr "RFK Jr's tenure at HHS has been one disaster after another, dangerously eroding public trust in the institutions critical for the health and safety of all Americans. Time for him to go.โ www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
This person took a walk around Chicago to see what #ICE and the National Guard are going to . There are number of photos of peaceful scenes all around #Chicago. www.reddit.com/r/chicago/s/...
A powerhouse House Democrat's decision Monday to bow out of the 2026 midterms and end his 34-year tenure in Congress reverberated across the internet and stunned political observers.
Sumud aid flotilla sets sail for Gaza again after delay due to storm - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/sumud-aid-flotilla-sets-sail-gaza-again-after-delay-due-storm
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News that Rudy Giuliani would receive the nation's highest civilian honor from President Donald Trump earned swift mockery and outrage from observers on Labor Day.
Chicago strong! Resist! This is what democracy looks like.
Well, duh! They don't want to flush their research down the toilet on Twitter. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Indigenous people make up < 4% of our population. There have been 12 deaths in custody this year. Jewish people make up <.5% of our population. Thankfully none have died as a result of antisemitism. Where is our Special Envoy To Combat Anti-Indigenous violence and neglect, @albomp.bsky.social?
๐ข Release the Epstein files! #ONEV1 #Pinks ๐ธ #Voices4Victory
Congressman Jerry Nadler would more than likely have been reelected to an 18th full term in Congress. He's long had the support and confidence of NYC voters. Instead, he's passing the torch and doing his part to center and strengthen the next generation of Democratic leadership. (thread)
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan in D.C. convened an emergency hearing on Sunday and ordered the operation to stop.The court made it clearโ >> No child can be removed without proper legal process. >>The government must return the children to shelters, and deportations are suspended until further hearings.
Itโs still early, but pretty good turnout so far for Bernie Sanders and Graham Platnerโs (running against Susan Collins) rally here in Maine today.
Way to rise up San Diego Labor Day โ
Under Heck v. Humphrey (1994), an unlawfully prosecuted plaintiff can win damages only if โthe convictionโฆ has been reversed on direct appeal.โ Cato brief argues that the Heck bar should not apply where the plaintiff never had access to federal habeas relief or seeks purely prospective relief.
I wonder if theyโre hiding the fact that he had a stroke and now has slurred speech. ๐คจ ๐คจ Otherwise heโd be grabbing the nearest microphone.
Debbie Reese, one of the most prominent reviewers of Native childrenโs literature, just spread incorrect information about Indigenous people in Texas. She wrote, โBut, the state of Texas does not extend state recognition to anyone.โ This lieโs been used to erase Lipan people fighting for recognition
๐จSpeaking truth to power in Atlanta, Georgia! This man is spot on. We see you, Atlanta!๐จ
๐ข GOTV #ONEV1 #Pinks ๐ธ #Voices4Victory ๐๐พCANNOT
The number of people on local social media platforms who think the president can personally dictate how federal elections are held is frightening.
This week, Oversight Committee Dems are meeting with many of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. We will listen to their stories and continue our work to seek justice against anyone responsible for these horrific crimes.
Being a tomato dumper is hard work. This crew of 28 pickers harvests thousands of 24lb buckets a day. That makes for a lot of work for the two dumpers. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay
I don't want to wake up tomorrow to hear he died peacefully in his sleep overnight. Keep him breathing and Keep him conscious. - HE MUST SUFFER for as long as possible !!!
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
Curious
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwoodโs Handmaidโs Tale used to come to power.
๐จNYC never misses a beat! Today is no different.
EVs cut brake dust by 83% thanks to regenerative braking. That means cleaner air at pedestrian crossings, bus stops, and bike lanes. Exhaust pipes arenโt the only source, brakes matter too, even if they almost never wear out on an #EV Could this reshape how we measure urban pollution?
๐จLetโs hear it for Columbus, Ohio! ๐จ