A reminder on this Labor Day: Slavery still exists in the form of incarcerated labor. It’s long overdue to end forced labor in prisons.
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A reminder on this Labor Day: Slavery still exists in the form of incarcerated labor. It’s long overdue to end forced labor in prisons.
#ProudBlue #Resist Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is making headlines & its supporters are telling us it will be “world changing.” If you read the intro to this paper & need a translation, it’s available below Jeff’s post. Basically, watch out for snake oil salesmen. Read it!
Thank you for that. I was thinking, hah, the AI guys could have run this muck through one of a zillion now online and asked for it in plain language!
Our Supreme Court is a CORRUPT body, w/ 6 members having LIED repeatedly during confirmations. At least 3 members engaged in bribery for decades. Judge Roberts is protecting crimes and failing Justice. No one is above the law, inc. SCOTUS members bsky.app/profile/chri...
From @timothysnyder.bsky.social today: open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
ICE arrested Elsy Noemi Berrios without cause or due process, damaging her car and traumatizing her family in the process. America cannot be a country where this is considered acceptable. Call Congress to demand due process: 202-224-3121 #DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump
Wondering if he has his name sewn onto his shirt in case he gets lost...
Marlon Wayans >>> Snoop Dogg.
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.
I'm tired of this theater where Donald Trump asks Republicans to do something, they seem to push bank and then cave. The only two factions of the current GOP are proud MAGA and scared MAGA. Anyone who thinks Republicans are acting in good faith is delusional.
There’s a guy following members of the National Guard in DC and is playing the Imperial March on a speaker while walking behind them. It’s glorious.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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…
The Trump administration is undertaking an unprecedented strategy to try to undermine our elections. They are doing so by rewriting election rules, targeting election officials, supporting election deniers, and retreating from protecting voting rights. bit.ly/4l1lUPP
I repeat once again, bribe for hire Pam Bondi is a criminal who was hired to cover up the Epstein files. She was never going to release anything to the public because her job was to hide serious crimes committed by the piece of shit who she takes illegal bribes from.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Chicago Mayor Defies Trump, Orders Police Not To Aid Crackdown: ‘Our People Have Not Asked For This’
Superintendent says DPS’s all-gender bathrooms don’t violate Title IX, vows to protect students from ‘hostile administration’ trib.al/UB3eJv0
President Trump’s forays into private business appear driven by money rather than an overarching plan to bolster American competitiveness, writes WSJ's Greg Ip
Reminder to donate to Wikipedia every time the Trump regime tries to censor them donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ways_to...
Go figure, yet another illegal action. In a major blow to Trump’s global trade war, a federal appeals court ruled that many of his tariffs were issued illegally, upholding an earlier decision from the federal trade court.
Nah, it's not just Erin. Not by a longshot.
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
What about illnesses from bears?
The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this “Make America Healthy Again”?
Dem Govs and Health Secretaries need to organize a ferocious campaign of resistance to what Kennedy is doing to their constituents.
Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith trashed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for investigating a potential link between antidepressants and mass shootings. #ProudBlue #DemVoirce1 👇
Thank you, Trump voters.
🚨🚨🚨Police draw a firearm IN A CLASSROOM. Details at the end of the video. There is something terribly wrong when a law enforcement officer is unable to use critical thinking skills in order to take different actions to protect all involved.
Why do I suspect they'll pull a Susan Collins and be very disturbed, but not do a thing?
JUST IN: President Donald Trump revoked Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection on Thursday, according to a copy of a letter reviewed by CNN.
Seems like, if we had a Congress not beholden to him, there'd be a law about this. Has there ever been a person so petty?
BREAKING: Trump has canceled former Vice President Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection, effective September 1, 2025. Imagine being so petty and hateful that you put someone’s life in danger to “own the libs”. Piece of crap.
Reminder that the US Trump regime conspired to over throw Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, a direct attack on democracy in Ukraine and worldwide.
You're not going to believe this but Susan Collins is "extremely alarmed"
Mississippi, Bluesky, Blacksky, the ATmosphere, Mastodon, and the Fediverse privacy.thenexus.today/mississippi-... A summary of the situation (both in the ATmosphere and the Fediverse) links to a bunch of interesting discussions, and an appendix on just why age verification laws are so bad. 🧵
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
Important to understand that Republicans do not want a functional, orderly, law-abiding immigration system. They want an excuse for the arbitrary exercise of government powers. The more chaotic and inconsistent our immigration structures are, the better for their purposes.
This is the sort of shit the fbi is supposed to be investigating and breaking up and instead they are standing around with their thumbs up their asses on the streets of DC.
they’re calling the most recent shooter in minnesota trans to ignore the fact that there has been an organized group of far-right suicidal school shooters and this person is very likely going to be linked to them as well
The one outcome of Covid I never expected was that we would actually be less prepared and more anti-science than we were before it. The country has always had cranks and kooks when it came to embracing science. But we've never had a major political party effectively adopt it for its platform.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC: “We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired."
Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… if this happens, i’m gone, and so is half my team.” www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...
I mean, Wallace was right - a generation or so ago, what she said was what most Republicans meant. Most. Also, yes, there is no nuance. Troops on the ground domestically would have, until recently, been a HUGE controversy and almost assuredly a non-starter if brought up. There is no nuance here.
The murder of little angels at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis - and so many other places - by people with assault weapons (or any other firearm) is a "national sin.” This is not a mere political issue. It is a defining moral one.
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES DAY 27 AUGUST 2025 THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES Today INNOCENT CHILDREN DIED & are injured Keep them in your thoughts & heart 🙏😥 Tonight I share the great Amanda Gorman "We carry tragedy, terrifying & true " "Even our children cannot be children" "HYMN FOR THE HURTING"
It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
It’s almost as if appointing an anti-vax lunatic with zero qualifications to oversee America’s health was a numbskull idea and everybody with a functioning brain knew it.
all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals
Only weak men need to "be in charge".
Explaining this: As a presidential nominee who was confirmed by the Senate, Trump has to fire her, and her lawyers say that has not happened yet, so she is still in office.
It's just awful.
There are no words that will heal the pain of this community.
three guesses which party this guy is in
BREAKING: Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appear to be conspiring to kill as many Americans as possible. The CDC Director has been ousted.
And i think they have built in tolerance for run of the mill assholery. He was undoubtedly beyond even their tolerance.
the irony is the people of new york city did not even recognize him they just know an asshole when they see one
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
A dear old friend had just retired from there after a career saving lives when he took office. Wasting great people is so stupid.
Susan Monarez, the CDC director, was fired just shy of a month into her role. At least four other top CDC officials have also submitted their resignations, with one of them writing, “I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponizing of public health.”
I glued my seat to my seat today to get work on 2 projects done. Got up for a walk. It wasn't until after I'd shut down that I saw the news. When will we give up our obsession with guns?
After showing his guns emblazoned with racial slurs, far-right slogans, Minneapolis shooting suspect displayed a message "Hail Breivik. Hail Brenton." Neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 77 in Norway in 2011. Brenton Tarrant killed 51 in shootings at 2 mosques in New Zealand in 2019.
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The worst human maybe.
Again, I had a story published last year about an AI school (“Bright Horizons”). This is a terrible idea. People like this definitely aren’t thinking about what’s best for the kids.
Yeah, no... not going to happen. But illustrative of right-wingers' take on women.
“I have the right to do anything I want to do—I’m the president of the United States,” says the lawless and unfettered Trump musing about being a dictator. This is what John Roberts, the Supreme Court’s supermajority and over 77 million Americans have done to our beloved country.
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The head of the Defense Innovation Unit — the Pentagon’s in-house tech incubator — has abruptly stepped down, severing a key link with Silicon Valley.
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The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.
An investigation into the death of Xavier Guadalupe Hernandez during an arrest on the side of a freeway is now in the hands of the El Paso District Attorney's Office. It will likely go to a grand jury to determine if criminal charges will be filed against the police officers. Rest in peace. 🕊️
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Trump Attacks Democratic Leaders But When Meeting With South Korean's President, Repeatedly Praises North Korea’s Murderous Dictator www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
All true www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
With a straight face.
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
Serious boost request (with a serious TW for the video) @caseyexplosion.bsky.social I know it isn't your lane but can you help get it to anyone for visibility?
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
Laws? What day had Trump ever followed laws 🤔
Trump Administration Again Detains AND Threatens Abrego Garcia! youtu.be/nJtMmc-yKxE?...
Right? Often finished work in SW in the wee hours of the morning. Zero problems. (Except the time I locked the keys in the car. Sometimes, working at a theater with handy tech people around is a very, very good thing!)
I was freely and safely wandering the streets of DC with a post-closing time buzz when you were just a baby Nazi, man.
Keep resisting, keep making news. #texas #democrat #nicolecollier @texasdemocrats.bsky.social
NEW: In a breathtakingly disingenuous filing, the Trump admin claims to be shocked at the suggestion that its threat to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda is coercive, accusing him of "twisting the Government’s good-faith efforts into something sinister." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
2016: “Like Trump, Berlusconi consistently seemed too absurd to be true. And yet he was. He won elections again, and again, and again, thriving off any and all attention. People didn’t take him or what he said seriously. Then one day we…
And then the next step will be claiming ownership of all oceans and selling it back to people.
Q: "You called Kamala Harris a communist. But the Biden-Harris administration never called for nationalizing a private company like you're doing to Intel...Is this the new way of industrial policy?" Trump: "Ya. Sure it is. I wanna try to get as much as I can."
JD Vance can't even *pretend* to be angry that Russia targeted an American company operating in Ukraine (which, recall, was supposedly a kind of security guarantee for Ukraine!). @timmiller.bsky.social on Vance's weakness:
When the NYT engages in agenda journalism, they show what makes them mad (black lady is president of Harvard) and what doesn't (people getting black bagged to Uganda)
100%
some unlawful assembly required 