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"Utilities routinely fund their political activities, as well as those of their trade associations, from ratepayers through government-set rates," writes Eliza Martin, legal fellow at the Harvard Environmental and Energy Law Program. "This practice raises constitutional concerns."
In the latest issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social, we interviewed some of the figures behind this campaign and asked them about the media strategy they're using here: clearly one to watch for people trying to make sense of politics in 21st century information environments
I fear liberals don't have their eyes on the right prize
To actually achieve the rebuilding of a multiracial pluralist democracy corporate powers like Newsome must be cast into the fire and actual leadership for the people and by the people must be allowed to take their place. This isn’t just a generational issue it’s a capitalism issue
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
Plea for help after landslide wipes out Sudan village, kills 1,000 - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
What we did was fund the police even more - like record levels more! - and then blame everything that goes wrong on defunding the police. At least we can confirm that funding the police doesn’t work.
I’m old enough to remember the national media coverage leading up to the Iraq war. These news organizations NEVER learn and they continue to fall down on their EXPLICIT job to QUESTION AUTHORITY and HOLD TRUTH TO POWER!
The country turned on Vietnam when the networks started showing the war on television every night. We don't have one responsible network willing to show the daily activities of this administration. Not everyone is online, especially older Americans.
Lived in a small TN town years ago. Every damned weekend someone got shot or stabbed, and we had only about 12,000 people. Bet our violence level per capita was higher than most cities even now.
From your skeets to god's ears.
Soooo there’s literal military in the streets of US cities and we got centrists still lecturing about ‘you shouldn’t have tried to defund the police.’ Mmkay.
"The coup trial of Brazil's right-wing former President Jair Bolsonaro will enter its final stage on Tuesday. He is accused of masterminding an attempt to stay in power...which culminated in his supporters breaking into and vandalising government buildings" www.bbc.com/news/article...
I'm back baby. I got suspended for 24 hours for telling the New York Times, an account that is not a person, to "jump up their own ass and die"
"Opinions"
Always has been
Seems bad
Fuck
They have to invent shit about "electability" and "polling well" because if they just said they were opposed to the policies we support, they couldn't pretend to be allied with us or pretend we should listen to them for how to best achieve our goals.
One of my Supreme Court reform takes is they should be completely barred from taking any outside income (incl. publishing deals) and it should be particularly frowned upon, normatively, to be writing books. Memoirs are for writing after you retire, not five years into a lifetime appointment.
@alt-text.bsky.social
UPDATE: House Oversight is convening a private roundtable with survivors of Epstein’s abuse. This is a testament to our pressure. I look forward to hearing from survivors & won't stop pushing for a full, public hearing so their stories are documented in the Congressional Record.
The infallible free market has allocated all its eggs into one basket, historically the safest and most profitable way to store eggs
This is one those things you see and you think "how much longer can @schumer.senate.gov let this guy go on?" but I actually think it's too late to stop him.
Hi did you move your newsletter away from substack? drop it in the replies so people can find you and subscribe! I am big on rewarding good choices
If workers stand together WE will win. WE. Too many people think they’re not workers too.
Happy Labor Day. There is power in a union.
My mom and I watched it all the time, along with One Day at a Time, and MASH natch.
At this point I think life is a parody of art
Absolutely sick. Capitalism is a death cult.
Oh man, Maximus was one of the best characters on Reservation Dogs, a show that was already loaded with great characters. What an actor, with credits are as long as both your arms.
He was great in Reservation Dogs among so many other things. 💔🪶
And I have over 30 years of getting yelled at online to prove it
begging the internet not to post weird RFK Jr memes without alt-text, because that is some absolute RFK Jr energy
You won't see the corporate media talking about labor organizing on Labor Day (nor any other day tbh)
So, when a Democrat makes their only statement on trans issues about trans women in sports, they are saying that this is their priority on trans issues - not restoring our equality under the law but joining Republicans in eroding it.
Trans people are rapidly losing access to healthcare. It is unobtainable for trans youth in most of the country, and adult care is also under assault by congress and the Trump administration. The only Dems for whom this is a priority are in state office. No national Dem is talking about it.
I mean that literally - no one is discussing the massive loss of rights trans people have experienced throughout the country. When Dems talk about trans women in sports, they're not just giving ground on sports. They're giving ground on everything, bc sports bans were the big issue 3 years ago.
At this point, why would any liberal, progressive or Democrat listen to advice from Nate Silver He told us who he is We believe him
Hey, medical professionals: gonna need you to back way the hell off on judging disabled folks’ distrust of you. Many if not most of us have been subjected to humiliation, invalidation, or literal pain by members of your profession. Maybe practice some active listening or a self craniorectomy.
One thing they’ve been very successful at is making it so when sober experts put their careers and reputations on the line to issue grave warnings, it gets mostly a shrug.
One of my favorite chants from Chicago’s Labor Day Rally.”Say it once, say it twice—we will not put up with ice” #laborday #Chicago #NoTrumpTroops
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
Thanks to Republicans' constant attacks on public education we have less and less bus drivers for a growing number of students. My son's high school bus almost never gets to school before classes start. So I have to drive him and add to the ridiculous traffic around the school.
That was my first thought. Was this a cut scene from The Residence?
I have never seen a single news article about whether or not Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer or Kristen Gillibrand need to assure Muslim New Yorkers that they're against Islamophobia and anti-Arab / anti-Asian bigotry
Is this an outtake from The Residence?
Thinking about how the great Barbara Ehrenreich nailed one of the primary problems with modern journalism a full decade ago. “The real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals…“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It's also pretty notable that you still don't see people who called it like it is among the talking heads on the "news." They are not trying to inform us.
This Labor Day, I am thinking about the generations of working people who organized, stood together, & fought for better conditions, not just for themselves, but for all of us. They demanded respect for their essential human dignity & recognition of their contribution to our economy.
Always have been.
I mean, it needs work but Mastodon is right there. It mostly lacks the critical mass of people I want to follow, but that's a very solvable problem.
if you’re willing to throw another population under the bus to save yourself, you’re not actually willing to fight fascism. fascism isn’t a bear, it can’t be escaped by simply outrunning someone slower than you. the only way it can be defeated is through solidarity.
I went to DC to protest W's inauguration too! The cops kettled us and I thought I was about to get tear gassed. What I most remember was the idiot W fans in their Texas drag, like fur coats, big hats, and cowboy boots.
It does not escape me that those of us who have been saying it was a genocide, since early days, are also the ones who correctly called what is happening here fascism, since early days. Things are pretty obvious if you are willing to look.
Seeing positive covid tests allllll over my social media. Mask up folks
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
Too small a community to protect, but not too small to attempt to bully into voting for their own segregation.
We celebrate Labor Day in September rather than May 1st in the United States because the Grover Cleveland administration worried that celebrating it in May like other countries would strengthen left-wing movements around the world. Enjoy your day!
+972 Magazine is joining hundreds of media outlets in calling for the protection of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, an end to impunity for Israeli crimes against Gaza’s reporters and that foreign press be granted independent access to the territory. rsf.org/en/rsf-and-a...
I would be more than fine to be rid of all three expired gas bags.
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
There is not enough gold in the universe to fill the hole in his heart
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
There's a good chance there's people near you doing the political project you wanna do. They might not have your particular line or be making the particular thing you want to make, but they could if you help! And I guarantee that project will be faster and stronger than if you started a new one.
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
@ncgovernor.bsky.social #ncgov #ncpol
When police are *collaborating* with Project Veritas be very afraid
Tough to articulate in words how much I despise these people, and wish every possible negative consequence upon them 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Just because we’re the only advanced country with more guns than people AND the only one with more mass shootings than days in the year couldn’t make guns the cause. It’s probably mental health, I mean, we’re the only country with mental health problems, right???
Genocide. We all need to keep collectively calling it exactly what it is. Especially us cis folks. When they’re done gunning for the most vulnerable groups they’ll just go after the next most vulnerable and won’t stop because they never stop. Thats what hatred is. It’s Genocide, plain and simple.
Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas. Karma does not miss. www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAt...
Van Hollen is taking huge professional and personal risks trying to break the institutional omertà in the American political establishment with on bearing witness to Gaza and relaying its reality to the American people, and actions like this should be praised.
Again, to reiterate, earlier today the Israeli government denied two members of the United States Senate the right to see Gaza and its destroyed cities with their own eyes. More than that, they specifically denied them the right to do so on another country's airplane.
Witches have to do our part too
Learning about cognitive linguistics from George Lakoff dramatically helped me understand Republicans, but it doesn't reflect the newest levels of doublespeak. There's something about their brains loving authority.
This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
counterpoint: when Thatcher died Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead charted and we got those lovely Scottish ladies outside her funeral who may not have made military history but certainly provided lasting words to serve as a lesson on what we do when a great evil leaves the body.
Notice how Republicans forget all about "states' rights" when it's not about defending racism
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
ICE raided a DC high school football game. ICE RAIDED A HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GAME.
Happy #caturday from our home to yours
I am a rosy-cheeked, bubbly sixty-year-old lady with terrible arthritis and a deep commitment to pacifism, and this makes me want to spend a half hour alone with this guy and a sock full of nickels
Dems are too stupid or too racist to understand, or maybe they don't care. Either way they're hemorrhaging voters by not standing up against fascism.
Reminder: the NYT (and many others) decide in advance what you should think rather than using factual language about Palestine. They are manufacturing consent for genocide. Don't buy it. theintercept.com/2024/04/15/n... (April 2024)
It seemed like he was so close to making America great again and then we find out he’s alive. ☹️
This is, in fact, the whole point.
Boston BDS shutting down the Capital One café in the Seaport right now. The demand: divest from Elbit Systems, who manufacture drones and weapons used by Israel to commit genocide.
You don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way Trump says the wind blows.
I'm thinking about how Trump insisted on going on that bizarre car ride when he was hospitalized with COVID.
Reminder: the NYT (and many others) decide in advance what you should think rather than using factual language about Palestine. They are manufacturing consent for genocide. Don't buy it. theintercept.com/2024/04/15/n... (April 2024)
“When it impacts ME it’s a problem!” - every conservative ever
I overhear people who are truly, genuinely upset by the idea of a socialist mayor, including one woman who was spiraling about govt-operated grocery stores meaning rations and breadlines, and meanwhile the feds are shutting down public services and sending goon squads to snatch people off the street
The vast majority of Ross & Foushee's constituents are against having our tax dollars fund genocide in Gaza. We deserve anti-fascist representation in Congress. No more blank checks and excuses for Netanyahu. #ncpol
Right now, your ability to get access to a COVID vaccine this fall is in jeopardy, whether or not you fit the new, restricted eligiblity criteria. Please send a letter to your member of Congress here. And spread the word. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...