This is a truly Orwellian distortion of reality.
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This is a truly Orwellian distortion of reality.
"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."
Thank you on this labor day!!
Awesome. Sanctions work.
Over Labor Day weekend, the Trump administration attempted to remove Guatemalan children who had come to the U.S. alone and were living in shelters or with foster care families in the U.S. https://to.pbs.org/4gcaHeI
From my latest: Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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.
I don’t know what did or didn’t happen to Trump, but what I do know is the country has the right to know the truth.
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
Four decades ago, a multistate salmonella epidemic traced to milk from a Melrose Park farm sickened an estimated 168,000 to 197,000 people across the Midwest, according to Tribune articles at the time.
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Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
Happy Labor Day! California is proud to be ranked the #1 state for workers. We’re leading the nation with strong wage standards, worker protections, and labor rights that make our communities, businesses, and families stronger.
It seems obvious to believe that welfare should be targeted to the poor, but the reality of targeting is paid targeters and how that means corruption and bribery. Universal basic income gets around this problem by reaching everyone directly. Then taxes can be used to subtract from high income folks.
We need to set a higher standard for what constitutes a study. Any discussion of a study with “implications” should include a detailed account of how the study was conducted. Who participated and how much were they paid deliver the right answers to survey questions?
You guys see where this is going? Right?
This the power of charisma over stupid people.
I didn’t really need more evidence that RFK Jr is nuts and delusional.
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
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...
The Trump administration has moved to end temporary protected status for immigrants from Honduras and other countries. Among them are health care workers tending to older and disabled people.
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.
Brilliant
A must for reposting.
“‘Nakba All Over Again': West Bank Palestinians Still Displaced More Than 6 Months After Israel Forced Them to Flee” The Israeli operation in Jenin, Tulkarm, and other cities, has displaced more than 40,000 people – the largest mass displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank in decades.
U.S. politicians' responses to mass shootings are "always performative," says @cameronkasky.bsky.social. "This administration... is so defined by tragedy, cruelty, and violence that something like children being shot dead while they are praying is not going to be a topic next week."
I like the rebrand.
Agreed 💯 Wonder why Snoop's opinion on a film was ever asked for or printed He's not a film critic His acting is sub par & consists of him being his rap persona in movies He's completely lacking in morals other than money Other than his religious grift attempt as Snoop Lion
California stepping up.
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."
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
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Trump isn’t just axing the Constitution. He’s axing something we all love. Watch. https://youtu.be/HS7IJaB5NDc?feature=shared
Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages should’ve made that very clear.
We can get trapped in cycles of thinking we can make people see how wrong they are to act certain ways. We get lost in trying to punish the world for being ignorant. The only thing we can do is walk the path, embody the light & show what can be achieved then teach the enthusiastically willing souls.
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.
Gee, I wonder why. It was only a violent, shameful and illegitimate insurrection, carried out by deluded fools who allowed themselves to be seduced by the most corrupt politician in American history.
"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."
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
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Science is real
All anybody had to do was hear him deliver his waffling palaver at his hearing to know he is unfit. In subsequent Congressional hearings he was unaware of what his department was doing.
What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
Jones: I would say to my colleagues who serve in government—keep your thoughts and prayers, keep your tweets. If you want to address gun violence, you don't need to tweet. What you need is a mirror. You have the power to change things.
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.
For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers. Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us. Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work. It was a hoax.
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
U.S. climate science may be down, but it’s not out. Scores of American researchers have been picked to collaborate with scientists from every continent on the upcoming reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Most celebrities don’t deserve the authority we give them.
Patriarchy sucks Snoop is fine w/bi women who'll indulge his sexual fantasies Lesbians who aren't interested in sexually serving him & his homies he finds abhorrent I'm bi I find that VERY offensive
“If the model employer, the federal government, is unilaterally terminating high-performing Black employees, what hope is there?” President Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal work force have disproportionately affected Black women. Those losses are also rippling through the private sector.
You won't see this on the news. In fact, you may not see this anywhere. Residents of Washington D.C. march up 14th Street on Saturday August 30, 2025 chanting "Troops Go Home".
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…
Mallory McMorrow: "When we take back power, we need a party who is not afraid to use it."
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
"Here’s the truth we cannot escape: If Ashli Babbitt is honored, then few things are sacred. If loyalty to the Constitution and an attempt to overthrow it are treated as equal, we lose the very meaning of service." www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
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.
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
“Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” — Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
"But Mr. Kennedy is a lawyer who’s trying to win an argument, and he picks facts to support it, she said: “There is a role for that in law, but that is not the role of science.” - Dr. Anne Zink, a public health expert at Yale University www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...
Autistic me is confused how people have energy throughout the day when I barely seem to have any. Story of my life.
You would think that documenting these effects - on farms, in meat-packing plants, in the garment industry, and restaurants would be a popular beat for reporters in MSM.
"We are the leaders we've been waiting for." I strongly believe we should have a special session to ban assault weapons, binary triggers, and high capacity magazines. And we should institute a buy back program for people who have those weapons.
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Today, as the Israeli government “calls on tens of thousands of reservists to participate in the cruel re-occupation of Gaza City, I implore my fellow soldiers: Refuse to report,” Yotam Vilk writes in a guest essay.
Medicare will begin denying claims utilizing A.I. companies that get paid depending on how many claims they reject * Medicare For All
🚨BREAKING: Justice Dept Drops First Bombshell Epstein Files to Congress
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I hope you find my new book helpful for understanding the time we’re in, how we combat the bullies, and why I believe so passionately that we will succeed. Here's a bit more on why I wrote it.
It’s fraud and denialism masquerading as an ideology.
I’m pretty sure ultra-conservatism is pretty obviously a mental health issue. Heck, even moderate conservatism is a mind-fuck at this point. You’ll need help.
Decades of mass shootings and not a single step taken to prevent them. They’re not even trying.
Wow, nice preliminary model run of the M2.7 CME… healthy impact at Earth! Estimated impact time is for Sep 1 at 19 UT +/- 7 hr. Potential for G2-G3 geomagnetic storming just from an eye test. Will have more updates tonight as I am on a plane right now with bad WiFi.
He keeps alive theories of medicine that were already being discredited in the early 1900s. The 1918 flu epidemic taught lessons he ignores. And since then, what we’ve learned about the immune system and immunology have revolutionized medicine. How long will it be before he bans chemotherapy?
An(other) actual psychopath.
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The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
I’m absolutely begging reporters to stop suggesting that Lisa Cook stated that she would use both properties as a principal residence on her mortgage APPLICATIONS Mortgage APPLICATIONS and mortgage AGREEMENTS are not the same thing We have no idea what she represented on the APPLICATIONS
Ouch…
The past 12 hours gave all of us a sense of just how huge the nationwide celebration will be when he finally does kick the bucket. 🎉🥳🎊
Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use these laws to further exploit workers 5) Repeat Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
Nearly 1,400 people died after Hurricane Katrina crashed into Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the deaths were in New Orleans, which has had an uneven recovery in the past 20 years.
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We are in the constitutional upside down, where throwing a sandwich is a federal offense but storming Congress and beating law enforcement is patriotic.
