Lifelong Dem, environmental scientist, poet, writer, educator, mom - wish we lived in a world where I could post about books and art and science all day instead of the, well you know.
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🚨9 agencies have terminated union contracts covered more than 445K federal workers 🚨Employees working long shifts are no longer guaranteed a rest period that was negotiated for safety reasons 🚨”What this does is signal to private sector employers that they can go to war with the unions” #EconSky
Demographics decide; immigration crowns winners. #econsky
#NAFO #Fellas This was probably the most important thing published today! FUCK RFK!
You've raised $376,938 towards 2 Dark Night air defense units for protecting Ukrainians from russian drones❤️ As of last week, we're halfway towards a third one! Given how tough it's been recently, it is some really good, hopeful news. Thank you! u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
After each mass shooting, the public asks, “How did we get here?” The real answer goes beyond NRA lobbyists and Second Amendment zealots. It lies in large measure with the strategies of firearms executives like Richard Dyke. (Published Nov. 2023)
A man who was being held in a Manhattan police precinct station house on Friday was found unconscious and was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, according to a city official. He is at least the fourth detainee in city custody to die in a little over a week.
PHOTOS: Over 1,000 Labor Day "Workers Over Billionaires" protests were held across U.S. today, taking aim at President Trump and other wealthy Americans, and his administration's policies.
In 1885, royal Hawaiian brothers were studying at a military school in California. There, they introduced a sport known as "surfboard swimming." The Princes of Surf exhibit tells what happened next.
“I heard the same message from Pope Leo that I heard from Pope Francis, which is the desire to welcome all people, including LGBTQ people,” the Rev. James Martin, S.J., told the AP. “It was wonderful. It was very consoling and very encouraging and, frankly, a lot of fun.” https://to.pbs.org/46hrN7l
Even in this age of police bodycams and bystander videos, there are certain categories of footage that most media organizations won’t share with the public. But it’s hard to imagine today’s media suppressing, as they did in 1937, footage from the anti-labor crackdown that resulted in 10 deaths.
Yet another GOP lawmaker was blasted by his own constituents for supporting President Trump’s agenda. This time, it was Barry Moore of Alabama, a U.S. representative and Senate candidate. He slipped out the back door as the audience chanted, “Shame!” trib.al/lVT3W8n
Critics of Andrew Bailey, Trump's pick to help run the FBI, say the Missouri AG got the attention of the White House by following Trump’s tactic of targeting political opponents. “What better way to show loyalty than to do exactly what Trump wants,” one said. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
Drug deaths in the U.S. are at their lowest level since March 2025, according to federal data. Trump continues to cite fentanyl as justification for policies ranging from tariffs to immigration.
The ethos behind Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement blames individual people for their chronic diseases and links Medicaid users’ value to their economic productivity.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com In America’s vaunted system of checks and balances, “We, the people, have always been the real check, the most important balance,” Frank Bruni writes. “But we must recognize what’s happening, sit with the alarm of it and rouse ourselves to push back.”
President Trump has ended collective bargaining rights for more than one million federal workers. Unions have sued to block the move, but agencies are terminating contracts as litigation continues.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Donald Trump is the most ruthlessly antilabor president since before the Great Depression. If the labor movement does not fight harder than it has since he regained the presidency, its future will be dire, Erik Loomis writes.
Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people. But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no. By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, w/ @adn.com
Remember, the epidemic of mass shootings is neither inevitable nor unsolvable.
Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
BREAKING: Belgium will recognise the State of Palestine at the UNGA later this month, FM Maxime Prevot announced, adding the country will also impose 12 “firm sanctions” on Israel aje.io/jw30im
Some insiders have theorized that the White House installed Fugate to oversee a pivot away from traditional counterterrorism and to steer resources toward MAGA-friendly sheriffs and border security projects before eventually shuttering operations. (Published June)
Graham Greene, Dances with Wolves actor, dies aged 73
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)
@raygunsite.com has #skystorians covered
#Ukraine #UkrainianView
#Ukraine #UkrainianView
This crime at Social Security might amount to the biggest data theft in human history. Committed by a government against its own citizens. I don’t think anyone has begun to grasp the sheer scale of corruption and institutional destruction that has occurred in the last few months. Era-defining.
Laguna Beach CA protest, Sept. 1st, 2025. Cohosted by @indivisible47.bsky.social & #50501LagunaBeach
Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.
Putin is escalating
DC MUSIC FESTIVAL HAPPENING NOW 9/1
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Man, I feel this. 🙏🏽😭
If the CDC was going to publish these guidelines its scientists had an obligation to review the evidence behind them. But HHS officials rebuffed repeated requests. “The answer was no—they declined to share any of the materials that they were using to support that decision…CDC has never seen it.”
To fellow Scots, let's be crystal clear about this. We have absolutely no say in how we govern our country. We cannot borrow to create employment & invest in infrastructure, we cannot say who we want to be in our country, we cannot even vote on our own future! We are a colony!
Warfighters demonstrating leafality.
Here's the response from Paul Bryant, the Black veteran and lawyer whom the govt arrested in part bc he had a legal weapon in DC, to USG attempt to get him detained. It leans heavily into the lack of Body Cam proving he shoulder checked some Guardsmen. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A comfortable life used to be the American Dream. Not being a financial mogul. Not fighting for the top spot on the food chain. Working to get your share of the pie with the whip cream on top. Grabbing enough food to fill your plate, but leaving plenty on the table for others. Let’s do that again.
NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Thank you on this labor day!!
During Jim Crow, many states mandated that anyone seeking to register to vote or apply to a state university had to have multiple voters/alumni “vouch” for their character. It was an easy if unsubtle way to maintain all-white (or mostly-white) institutions
Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, what’s the timeline for the book on how the President went missing like a week after he had weird bruising on his hands?
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
www.myprivacy.blog/denmark-make...
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
I didn’t really need more evidence that RFK Jr is nuts and delusional.
It’s time to tell the truth. It’s time to call a thing a thing. We have a rogue President who has violated 249 years of Democratic guardrails set by the Founders. I broke it all the way down on @weeknightmsnbc Authoritarianism is here. And we must stop it now. #LaborDay
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
In China, EVs are now cheaper than gas cars, per FORTUNE
Several hundred or so celebrated Labor Day at the rally for “Workers Over Billionaires” in Columbia, MD. Signs showed lots on the menu to talk about—and honk about!🍃
This shit doesn’t happen in France and I’ll tell you why: the rich went too far and they cut all their heads off , when the rich get above themselves, the French just stop working and everyone remembers who actually holds the real power. Use your power. They don’t let you have unions for a reason.
. Labor Day in Trump's America . . . 💠 😔 💠 .
Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”
POPE LEO: “Let us plead God to stop the pandemic of arms, large and small, which infects our world.” He prays for the victims in Minneapolis, and “the countless children killed and injured every day around the world”
You guys see where this is going? Right?
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If all the documents were released, all the records, all the interviews, if every shred of paper written on the Epstein sex trafficking operation were released tomorrow, there would still be horrific things we’ll never know. Think about that.
We do not fully grasp how damaging the SCOTUS’ presidential immunity decision was. What we know is it was a disaster and the huge damage it has caused is being compounded daily. That is because the result is a collaboration between corrupt justices, a supine Congress and a demented President.
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Good Morning Happy Labor Day President Biden Honoring and Acknowledging American Workers "The Heart and Soul of our Nation" Just a few minutes ago Trump...nada..nothing... Enjoy your day Celebrate Workers #UnionStrong #LaborDay
VIP closed captioning, chef’s kiss
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
Mueller, the former FBI director and special counsel, had been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee as part of an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
In stark contrast, Winsome Earle-Sears would be focused on screwing Virginia workers bluevirginia.us/2025/09/mond...
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
There’s a special place in hell for morons who get millions of people killed.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
Of true, this is truly amazing. Great job, guys!! #USDemocracy
Be safe today folks✊🏾 @50501movement.bsky.social #Resist
Trump’s embrace of the revolving door may allow some corporations to acquire more influence and greater profits, but it will leave everyday Americans and the federal government far worse off. From @jeffhauser.bsky.social and @timi-iwayemi.bsky.social with @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social:
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond: “Today, we’re going to march, celebrate the labor movement and celebrate workers. And tomorrow, we are going to fight to make sure that every worker in this country has the right to have dignity and respect every day.”
• Merch Store: 100% of proceeds go directly to the pantry → the-immigrant-pantry.printify.me 🌸 Special thanks to Midtown Bramble & Bloom for sponsoring us throughout September! A portion of their proceeds will support our mission. Their flowers are beautiful and now feeding families.
I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
Gracie and I ran into Jane Fonda, literally wks after our 2019 move to Los Angeles—grocery parking lot at like 7am. She was arrested at a Black Lives Matter protest a few months later, immediately post-George Floyd, if memory serves. Gosh, what a time. I was so naive to think America was changing. 🇺🇸
They're moving in an ideological direction & want to see the undoing of vaccination. Daskalakis disagreed w/ changes to recommendations on who should get a new COVID-19 vaccine this fall, w/ new dosage creating confusion & uncertainty for those who want the latest shot. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Trump has essentially deployed the National Guard in an effort to prevent the release of the Epstein files.
New Jersey, Illinois, Maryland and other targeted states have similar criminal statutes on their books. The governors of all of them should put ICE agents, Kristi Noem, and Tom Homan on notice that they could face up to 5 years in prison, up to 30 in Maryland, if they're convicted of violating them.
Remember Emmitt Till. Stop erasing Black history.
EPA Fires 5 Employees Who Signed ‘Dissent’ Letter www.scientificamerican.com/article/epa-...
Hire a Black woman. We tend to be very good at what we do because we simply are not allowed to be bad at it.
From your lips to God's ears.
We're ready to accept you're surrender, and your refusal to surrender is an absolute betrayal of our generosity.
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
The very rich Peter Thiel is behind a lot of the destruction of pur democracy going on right now, and he thinks the rest of us little people are just in his way.