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RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
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Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
The MAGA movement is focused on touting only the exceptional parts of our past “because having to look too closely at the disturbing parts of American history would mean having to look closely at the disturbing parts of themselves,” Clint Smith argues:
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
The disappearance of U.S. aid in Nigeria's northeast has threatened a school that supports children who are victims of Boko Haram extremists.
In March, as measles spread in TX, Kennedy went on Fox News and promoted vitamin A & cod liver oil containing it as “dramatically” effective remedies. Some unvaccinated children took so much vitamin A, they showed signs of liver damage. #VaxQuackLacksFacts www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Florida is pro47. They won't realize the risk & waste until the day after the next major hurricane lands there. And it will really sink in weeks after when FEMA and the state gov't have not responded. Or perhaps they will be perfectly fine since this is what the citizenry overwhelmingly voted for.
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid: “No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
Papa must be so proud. Unsubstantiated claims, blatant stupidity, and bullsh;t do not fall far from the tree.
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
'Human Nature' yet partial to the Miles Davis version.
Meanwhile in the USA... Alabama town's first Black mayor, who had been locked out of office, wins election apnews.com/article/alab...
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY A MASTERMIND OF TRADE. WE ARE NOW PAYING THROUGH THE NOSE FOR OUR BASIC NEEDS. YOU BROKE YOUR PROMISE TO LOWER PRICES ON DAY ONE BUT YOU CAN KEEP YOUR PROMISE TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILE, SIR!!
This summer I traveled to various locations and deliberately did not post one photo of the experience. FD: I took only three--total. #BESTTIMEEVER
The accused had raised over $800,000 on the Christian fundraising platform GiveSendGo — including many donations that came in after the charges were announced. Hateful Christian is not just another oxymoron. apnews.com/article/woma...
apnews.com/article/soci... Trump's DOGE action, 300 million people's Social Security data is at risk, whistleblower says
“Trump’s pretense to ownership of public goods and public spaces isn’t some quirk to be ignored or waited out — “there goes our Donald!” — but a direct expression of his autocratic ambitions and despotic cast of mind.”
How do you heal the wounds of war? That is the mission of Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a reconstructive and plastic surgeon at the American University of Beirut Medical Center.
On the left, my warning from September 2024 about what Trump 2.0 would look like. On the right, recent headlines. I wish I'd been wrong. But because Trump is following a classic authoritarian playbook, it’s up to state and local governments to push back on this tyranny while it’s still possible.
I can name the tune in 1 note.
"It is without a doubt the most illegal search I've ever seen in my life," U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said from the bench. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what has happened. A high school student would know this was an illegal search."
This administration eats its own supporters. Wake up, people. Stop accepting the "grand pooba" knows all and will take care of you. He uses any and all tactics to supplement the government's income to support giving his breaks to himself, friends and sycophants. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
apnews.com/article/fact... FOCUS: Posts overestimate number of noncitizens living in US by tens of millions
A pardon. @wutangforchildren.bsky.social
If Trump wants to throw the book at people who commit “violent crime” while desecrating the American flag, why did he pardon people who on Jan. 6, 2021 violently assaulted our cops with American flags-on-poles, calling them heroes and rewarding their bloody flag desecration?
I walk outside and go to dinner all the time in Chicago. Tyranny is when fascist hacks send the military to occupy an American city because its residents voted for Democrats.
This project which is 80% complete is being put on hold to validate the nonsensical belief that wind power is bad. How is this supporting America's energy needs and economic progression. It doesn’t. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/o...
Thousands of people gathered over the weekend in Lithuania's capital Vilnius to watch teams of corgis compete in an international race.
Hey 47. Why not send the National Guard to solve this problem. Better yet, send the HHS team to work on real issues instead of Don Quixote and the vaccine windmills. But that would require caring as these don't issues don't get TV ratings. www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/h...
This is what Courage looks like. Never back down to a bully. Don't let him distract America from the economic harm he is doing. Wants to dump interest rates to give economy a sugar high. The GDP is declining from tariff madness. The plan to support economy until 2026. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/t...
Trump's desperation for a Noble Prize reeks worldwide FACT FOCUS: Trump says he has ended seven wars. The reality isn't so clear cut apnews.com/article/trum...
Capitalism is under assault by this administration. This use of government support for a piece of the action combined with structural permission and oversight is how the Chinese Communist party operates. Like a mob boss, #47 admires this trait in Putin and Xi Jinping. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/19/l...
It was criminal putting Musk in charge of government efficiency. The efforts were designed to help his own businesses. "Fortunately" he got screwed by this elected official. He joins the many stupid others who thought they were different. Getting rid of rebates on electric vehicles should sink him.
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Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office.
Stablecoins eschew the century-old practice of automatic federal deposit insurance. If they fail, there is no guarantee of a government backstop. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/b...
Donald Trump is using an imaginary crime spike in D.C. to deliver the authoritarian government his party once warned about, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.
Dogs (animals|nature) are a blessing! Bees and other pollinators have been declining for years because of disease, insecticides, climate change, and lack of a diverse food supply. A considerable portion of the human diet comes from plants pollinated by bees. apnews.com/article/hone...
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US and China extend trade truce another 90 days and appropriately on TACO Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
President Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief earlier this month after a downbeat jobs report. The move has raised concerns about the credibility of economic data going forward. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/b...
Well paint me surprised apnews.com/article/trum...
Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
Daylight Exhortion: A health company scored a major Medicare policy win. All it took was a $5 million donation to Trump and a little face time at Mar-a-Lago. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...
The U.S. government intends to incinerate $9.7 million in already-purchased birth control in Belgium after U.S.A.I.D shut down. Destruction may have already started. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...
Afghanistan's Taliban suspended the 2004 constitution and laws protecting the rights of women and girls. These include a landmark law that criminalized 22 forms of violence against women, including rape and child forced marriage apnews.com/article/un-a...
US pauses most visa applications from Zimbabwe in another restriction on travelers from Africa apnews.com/article/us-v... US pauses most visa applications from Zimbabwe in another restriction on travelers from Africa
Trump's push for drilling, mining sharpens debate for Alaska Natives about land they view as sacred apnews.com/article/nati...
“President Trump yesterday was seen walking on the White House roof for nearly 20 minutes. Man, he is so desperate to distract people from the Epstein files, he’s literally doing ‘Hey, look over here.’” — SETH MEYERS 🤣
WASH POST shows Republicans saying you can’t trust the CBO… after previously using the CBO to support their arguments 🤷🏼♂️
RFK wants to lean into “whole cell” vaccine technology, which has existed for decades, comes with increased risk of side effects and can take years to develop. mRNA vaccine technology comes with far decreased risk of side effects and can take mere months to develop. Make it make sense!
I’d say if you need food to survive, this is a must-watch.
The next part of the plan to steal the midterms and/or the 2028 election - an attempt to do a mid-decade census to take seats and electoral votes away from blue states. I knew this was coming.
Women in Pakistan die every day for supposedly dishonoring their families, and arrests are rare. But Bano Bibi’s defiant last words were caught on video. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/w...
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." ~Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. President
The Gates Foundation has committed $2.5 billion over five years to advance women's health research.
Re-upping this from November. Some of us have consistently tried to warn about what was to come. Many of us were treated as hysterical.
A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...
Trump Fired America’s Economic Data Collector. History Shows the Perils. Economists say unbiased data is essential for policymaking, and for democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...
The head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics during Trump’s first admin.
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court escalated the high-stakes redistricting battle in Louisiana by ordering new legal briefings on whether intentionally creating a second majority-Black congressional district — to comply with the Voting Rights Act — might violate the U.S. Constitution.
Raped by Government-sanctioned patrols www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
History always finds its way back to the surface. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
Under one of the Labor Department’s proposals, an estimated 3.7 million workers employed by home care agencies could be paid below the federal minimum wage — currently $7.25 per hour — and made ineligible for overtime pay if they aren’t covered by corresponding state laws.
tRump's Dept of Labor is determined to repeal regulations that directly eliminate WORKER PROTECTIONS that will surely disproportionately penalize women, the disabled, and the impoverished. apnews.com/article/labo...
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At President Trump’s direction, DOGE is helping federal agencies create one centralized database with everything the government knows about every single one of us in this country. Congress must step in to protect our privacy.
"We're all in a bit of a state of a shock and, also, sort of reeling at the shortsightedness of it all," filmmaker Ken Burns says of the public media funding cuts. "This is such an American institution trusted by people across political divides, geographic divides, age groups."
“The three liberal justices are writing about a majority unbound by law,” Aziz Huq argues—a dramatic change in the way that Supreme Court dissents work.
A tyrant only has one tool in the toolbox. There is no honey to attract beneficial actions only a hammer to crush those who disagree. Suddenly America and El Salvador have this in common. www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/a...
They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be. There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/h... For-profit hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn’t tell consumers about troubling inspections.
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Pretty encouraging that the guy who is about to direct the largest law enforcement organization in America by far with the new expansion doesn’t know anything about the 4th Amendment. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Sadly, there will be more coast-to-coast reports of destruction to infrastructure which will disrupt/end lives, livelihoods, and nature. Humans may dispute why yet they can't unsee the damage.
So now our AOC (Authoritarian in Charge) is using tariffs to tell a sovereign country if they can hold their previous crooked leader accountable. Is this an emergency or economic threat to us? Of course not. Bolsinaro is a fellow AOC. Crickets from Congress.🤬🤬 www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/t...
When you pardon criminals without a vetting process, you get this level of incompetence. Releasing a criminal who had been under FBI investigation since 2022 for plotting to kill Federal officers. This incompetent Administration should be held accountable www.justice.gov/opa/pr/tenne...
Trump says an economic boom is suddenly going to happen which will cause massive deficits in his bill to magically evaporate. Meanwhile, the economy heads in the opposite direction from even the current realistic projections. The debt may well be EVEN WORSE than CBO projects now.
What is the cost of pay-to-play? In a democracy, it is a right that costs nothing. In an autocratic regime, it is $16 million for the right of a media entity to stay in business. Shame Paramount. www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/m...
Federal funding cut from Historical Museums because this administration wants to sanitize history. History of any people that doesn't represent their vision they wish to sell. www.wwltv.com/article/news...
Tulsi Gabbard is trying to align her statements about U.S. intelligence with Trump’s political preferences. Shane Harris, David Ignatius, Andrea Mitchell, and Ashley Parker joined Jeffrey Goldberg to discuss the politicalization of U.S. intelligence:
The loss of access to the data could hamstring forecasters’ ability to track hurricanes and warn residents of their risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/c...
An assault on federal protections may bring about a new era of unchecked discrimination. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
There is a reason Louisiana, one of several Southern states with the bulk of remaining orders... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
Don't count on it.
What may be America’s first Juneteenth took place in New Orleans in the summer of 1864. Ten formerly enslaved men published a history of the events as a gift meant to inspire Abraham Lincoln. Last year, Susannah J. Ural and Ann Marsh Daly examined what the document reveals.
N.A.A.C.P. Won’t Invite Trump to Its National Convention, Breaking 116-Year Tradition www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...
Ready to dive into the first selection of my summer booklist. I learned about this gem when I was lucky enough to score a seat to see and listen to the author, Sarah Lewis, @Sarahlewis1.bsky.social at Tulane University BookFest 2025. #READ
Know your rights when protesting, including immigration rights, and review some protest tips from our organizing team.
Today’s United States — its possibility, its strength, its divisiveness, its polarization and fragmentation — is encapsulated in a single week in June 2025, its triumphs and frictions on vivid display.
Celebrating Pride Month with friends & family🙂
Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind Stayed On Freedom)🎶 ~Sweet Honey on the Rock Searching and finding inspiration from those before us. History matters. Dear Ancestors, I understand "the never-ending" assignment.