Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
hell i wish brands would post garment dimensions rather than vague sizing charts
In NYC, employers now must list the salary ranges for open jobs. But a proposed City Council bill would go even further, allowing *current employees* to request the salary range for their position, to see if they're underpaid relative to their coworkers. www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
So Trump’s been taping his face up under that combover, eh?
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Russia jammed the GPS on the top EU leader’s plane. The pilots navigated using paper maps to land the plane. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/w...
The Roadless Rule does a huge amount to protect wild areas against wildfires, the vast majority of which begin near roads. It's super easy to leave a comment urging them to keep the Roadless Rule and protect against fires. Comments like this make a big impact! www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS...
Former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is finding lucrative opportunities in Republican-controlled Washington An Arizona business advocacy organization led by Sinema is taking credit for portions of Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill.’
Wait! I thought Trump was supposed to be “ending homelessness.” HUD just announced a nationwide audit of Section 8 “citizen status.” Mixed-status families could lose rental assistance, even when kids are U.S. citizens. Families including children could be thrown into eviction & face homelessness.
I always get a laugh seeing this photo of Peter Thiel because it’s a crypto conference in April 2022. He said crypto was replacing fiat currency. He was then in the process of selling $1.8 billion of crypto before the crash of late 2022. We only learned about the timing of his sales much later.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Let’s not lose the momentum we’re building to demand more. We deserve to afford decent lives. Own homes. Adopt more & more green practices & policies. Free healthcare. 6 hour 4 day workweeks. Affordable education. Gun reform.
Normally they've booked 40% of their fall soybean sales to China at this point. This year, they are at 0% booked, and no, that's not a typo. www.farmprogress.com/soybean/us-s...
These are my patients. Kids dying of brain cancer. Kids and families desperate for treatment and hoping to find a cure through experimental therapies. Trump is dismantling science and children with brain tumor are the victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
One of the best signs I've ever seen Enjoy your Labor Day Weekend
Here's an old, unmasked photo of 7880. He's worked for the Chicago ICE field office since at least 2018 (when these photos were posted). If you believe you know his name, please reach out.
CNN: “At least 47 killed in Gaza City on Saturday, 6 children… footage showed a row of dead children shrouded in floral blankets… Video from after the attack showed numerous children wandering dazed, covered in blood and dust…” www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/m...
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
So the rich are feeling scared, huh? Must be difficult for them. They won’t get away will all the wage theft forever. Things are breaking
Joe Biden is out buying ice cream while everyone is asking whether Trump is dead.
Masked ICE aren’t about safety; they’re about fear and evading responsibility. Demand transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition:
if we lie enough times that he's dead the new york times has to do a 3 month long barrage of stories over whether or not he's dead
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It's absurd seeing people lecturing trans people and telling them they HAVE to support someone who opposes trans rights for president three years from now—or else fascism wins!—when there are other leaders who are still standing up for trans rights, from Illinois to Kentucky.
Imagine how much those troopers must enjoy guarding a crosswalk. Productive AND thrilling
Zohran Mamdani is the happiest politician in America, his whole campaign is about how New York is awesome and can be even awesomer. Meanwhile, there has never been a politician in history who talked as much about what a shithole he thinks America is as Donald Trump does.
The Gilded Rage
This honey-voiced woman who spends her life making babies smile has more courage than most of our elected leaders combined.
can’t believe we’re gonna have a First Couch
Lure him into the tomb with the couch of Amontillado
This guy could have denied unanimous consent every single time Republicans wanted to do anything or fricken cut off the lights in the Senate or pulled a fire alarm or done ANYTHING to slow down RFK, Jr.'s nomination. But as I recall, he didn't.
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.
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Well this is sobering : “produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in” < fortune.com/2025/08/28/t... >
You know how to google, right? www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Funny but you’ll care when you no longer have water to drink or shower with
At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains
If you want to know what the 80’s were like, watch E.T. The home’s decorated in every shade of brown & full of clutter. That was real life. Bonus of doing the work to teach children not to trust the government
have been also learning lately that data centers primarily draw water from public drinking water systems with huge implications for access, infrastructure quality, cost of buildout, and water rates for residential customers who already usually subsidize industrial use, in addition to capex
Rent is about to go up for thousands of families who get help paying for their housing through city vouchers. The Adams administration has moved ahead with a controversial rule that will, after five years of receiving rental help, require voucher-holders to pay 10% more in rent.
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.”
A study reveals that extreme heat accelerates biological aging even more than smoking or drinking. www.wired.com/story/your-b...
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.
Republicans are trying desperately to consolidate power into a full-fledged dictatorship.
Over the next 15 months, we can expect a coordinated campaign — backed by the full power of the executive branch — to undermine confidence in our election system. Here’s what to expect, and how key actors can be ready to respond: bit.ly/4fRIqtA
I’ll enjoy the fun posts but not getting my hopes up
Goldman Sachs COO Waldron sells about $13.6 million in stock reut.rs/45Zp2GH
In response to a suit by @maketheroadny.bsky.social a federal judge has blocked Trump’s expanded use of “expedited removal.” The courthouse abductions w/o due process that we’ve been protesting are illegal—and must stop. We’ll be back next week to make sure they do. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
So proud of all my fellow Americans standing up and using their voices
We were also in the height of the pandemic during the BLM protests, so people were being safe. Not hiding due to shame
Found the only good use of ai
Early voting starts today, Boston! Find where and when at michelleforboston.com/vote.
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
The Workers Over Billionaires protests on Monday could end up being the biggest party in American history. Find an event near you: www.mobilize.us/mayday/map/?...
We’re launching the book tour for THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT on 9/8 in DC with none other than @arishapiro.bsky.social!!! Get your tickets here: www.ticketmaster.com/event/150063...
CDC employees walked out in show of support for their pushed out leaders, chanting "USA not RFK." Livestream here: www.instagram.com/firedbutfigh...
AP livestream www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
This is really interesting—a House Dems "Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group" set up three weeks after Trump took office, which I've never heard of until today.
Listening to a podcast where a well known tech world wannabe fascist calls journalism "nonconsensual invasion of privacy for profit" and thinks that's clever and my goodness does that reveal a lot of how completely brain wormed a bunch of these guys are once they faced a tiny bit of criticism.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize trans people has completely lost touch with the common humanity."
Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:
People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people. These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
Let's put this in perspective: MAGAs visited Alligator Alcatraz in 2025 with the same fervor Southern Whites gathered at lynchings in the 1930s. MAGA would have no problem celebrating and attending a lynching in 2025. America has learned nothing. *sip* 🔥☕️ news.meaww.com/outrage-as-m...
Ah, yes, for all you young people: there was a relentless effort to manufacture a consensus that Columbine was caused by Goth culture, industrial music, and videogames. The neo-Nazism was buried, and anyone who pointed to easy access to guns was denounced as a liberty-hating tyrant.
Are you see my last update? ❤️
Brazil offers a lesson in democracy to an America that is becoming more corrupt, protectionist and authoritarian econ.st/4peBqLR
Gang this is creeping me out because this was announced after the Vets started their protest at Union Station D.C. Dufus Duffy has stated that it’s to control the homeless in Union Station coupled with the National Guard carrying sidearms. 1/
I think about this James Baldwin quote a lot, especially now. “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
The “fuck your feelings” crowd sure has a lot of feelings
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
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/...
At least four major scientists out at the CDC today. Kennedy's assault on our public health just keeps escalating..... insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Awww I love Porter Sq Books! Used to work at Christopher’s across Mass Ave! Hey ex-neighbor!
We don't have to live like this.
The Minneapolis shooter was apparently a fan of several mass murderers who were motivated by the same "Great Replacement Theory" that has pretty much taken over the Republican Party.
“A double-tap strike… Israel has killed more journalists in Gaza than all journalists killed in wars since World War 2 combined…” @chrislhayes @krystalmball @esaagar @aymanm cover the horrific Nasser hospital strikes, where rescue workers were targeted. Not a “mishap”.
BREAKING: In Atlanta, GOP operatives are trying to strong-arm Fulton County into installing two far-right activists on Georgia’s LARGEST elections board Both have ties to the national voter suppression machine & a record of undermining confidence in our elections This can't fly under the radar
My new sign offs for calling my (bad) reps is, "I can't wait for you to lose your job"
I admit I don't follow this world too much -- I pay attention to the main fascists not the pseudo intellectual fascists. But here's Curtis Yarvin, who JD Vance is reportedly a "disciple" of, arguing for the institution of slavery. He tries to dress it up in bullshit, but its slavery.
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
“Jair Bolsonaro must be under constant police surveillance, a supreme court justice has ruled, to prevent Brazil’s former president from fleeing days before the start of the trial that could see him jailed for more than 40 years.“
Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social
yeah. the fact that conservatives are bleating about women's sports at all is a huge tell, 5 minutes ago these people were mocking the WNBA and trying to dismantle Title IX
Just a head’s up: trumps tariffs on India are greatly impacting the fashion industry. Linen clothing is often produced in India, tho flax is (usually) grown in Europe. Currently with tariffs the major retailer I work for can no longer afford linen. Are we great yet?
I hate to say I told you so but...centralizing government data infrastructures and turning them over to inexperiences actors generates big risks to society. We are starting to see the first consequences for social security. Others will follow. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
"The fascists want us depleted, numb, and cynical." - I keep this top of mind daily and I actively refuse.
AI “investors have been expecting record returns for their expenditures…” But NINETY-FIVE PERCENT (95%) of companies are getting ZERO return on artificial intelligence — “despite investing billions” www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin... @johncassidysays.bsky.social @newyorker.com
There can’t be common-sense reform in Washington if our lawmakers are in the back pockets of PACs and paid lobbyists. Progress means breaking the grip special interests have in our politics. That’s how we clean up Washington.
They exist to violate and erode consent. Any other use is incidental.
![Opal Nelson, a 22-year-old in New York, said the more she learns about smart glasses, the angrier she becomes. Meta Ray-Bans have a light that turns on when the gadget is recording video, but she said it doesn’t seem to protect people from being recorded without consent. She worries about her retail job at a Manhattan tourist destination — if a customer is taking pictures with a phone, she can step out of the frame, she said, but glasses make it impossible to avoid the shot. She also frequently sees videos on social media of men approaching women on the street and recording them without permission using smart glasses. “All these girls are coming on [TikTok] saying, ‘I didn’t know that I was being posted. I didn’t know I was being recorded.’ And now there’s more and more tutorials showing people how to cover up the [warning light] and still allow you to record,” Nelson said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hakzua5btcgcfjye2yujlhos/bafkreicfvfecsx4op5vtnh4qvffilrsfzk2jxfz4xie3pvbsrvexxq7bcq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
The coup guy is president now because there were no repercussions for attempting a coup. Which sort of means we didn’t actually survive the coup.
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Never Newsom. Never.
Awww were the Nazi fee fees hurt?
What a great day to make sure YOU AND EVERYONE YOU KNOW KNOWS ALL ABOUT JURY NULLIFICATION
There's a large protest planned here in NYC on 9/20 to coincide with the UN General Assembly.
Subway should get this man on the payroll for advertising, stat. Subway: throw fresh