100 VICTIMS is astounding. Even more astounding, that's less than 10% of Epstein and Maxwell's victims.
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100 VICTIMS is astounding. Even more astounding, that's less than 10% of Epstein and Maxwell's victims.
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Another good week at #Teslatakedown Baltimore. Our city is great, crime is way down, and red state troops can stay the fuck out! Join us this week to push back on the occupation of blue cities: 9428 Reisterstown Road, Owings Mills, MD Saturday 11:00 - 12:30
Getting yelled at on the internet is not what turns people into fascists.
So long, A23a. 🥹
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
I wrote about journalists who look away. From Maxim Gorky's shameful behavior in 1929 at Solovki and the death of George Polk in Greece in 1948, I move on to our current national crisis, which grows a little more urgent every day, despite those who continue to act as if nothing is happening.
Who voted for war with Venezuela?
To Chicago comrades & anyone else facing possible federal occupation: The National Guard is standing around for photo ops. DHS, ICE, FBI, DEA, ATF, are working with local police to terrorize & kidnap our neighbors. Organize accordingly.
How can you deter the Trump administration's immigrant deportation machine when it pops up in your community? Follow these steps.
"Why did you cancel your @theatlantic.com subscription?" Exhibit A
I am very nervous about further removing corporatist politicians from accountability.
Succinctly put: keep our money to ourselves. youtu.be/jdtCswM7y-E
The difference between christianity and Christian Nationalism, if your belief dictates others' lives, it's not just a belief. Crefit: IG: @annaconnelleyiscool
Epstein Survivors News Conference: 10:30 a.m. in the House Triangle - 2025 September 03 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/epstein-survivors-conference/ #Epstein #Trump #Politics #USPolitics #DC #DMV #WashingtonDC #Maryland #Virginia
"Baltimore ICE facility is acting as a frontline test for federal accountability." "Baltimore often finds itself at the sharp end of federal and state power, while at the same time being denied democratic accountability and local control." #Maryland #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
#Maryland #bluecrab "But the blue crab population in the Chesapeake Bay is spiraling. Without widespread environmental action, Winegrad fears, the decline of the iconic crustacean will be detrimental to the region’s culture and environment." share.google/OTM3u95j8sBe...
#Maryland Olney Maryland Rally for Workers Over Billionaires #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day Monday, September 1 11am – 2pm EDT Georgia Avenue & Olney Laytonsville Road Olney, MD 20832 www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Guess I’ll just lie and pretend to be a smoker so I can access this lifesaving vaccine, very cool www.axios.com/2025/08/27/c...
"The oft-mentioned tyranny being opposed by gun owners is really just the sense that the wrong people are encroaching on the privileges and prerogatives of whiteness." From 2020:
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
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Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
The Department of Labor headquarters has turned itself into a shrine—hanging a massive portrait of Trump across its facade.
Love your work 🔥
Demoralise #ICE, make them quit: youtu.be/Z1Mo3zDqHSA
@schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social : Quit your jobs. Resign. Now. You are not equipped for this moment. You have failed us every day since Jan 20. Step aside and let progressives with courage take your place and fight for democracy.
🚨 It’s the 20th anniversary of Katrina + FEMA workers are warning us: cuts + censorship are gutting the agency meant to keep us safe. Delayed disaster response = lives at risk. Sign the Katrina Declaration + demand Congress protect FEMA. 👉 www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina-declaration
@parkroseperma.bsky.social dropped a video recently highlighting the success of the #TargetBoycott. What else can we do as workers and consumers to force powerful people to listen? youtu.be/odD5Q8s2Z94
In keeping with my post last year about David Van Reybrouck’s excellent 2024 book "Revolusi", it’s great to see the world historical significance of the Indonesian National Revolution beginning to be recognised within the Anglosphere. lnkd.in/gCayQSnB
Check out this new documentary on the Indonesian National Revolution (1945-49). Al Jazeera released it last weekend to coincide with the 80th anniversary of Indonesia’s declaration of independence on 17 August 1945. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRVk...
More than a dozen people killed in Israeli strikes on hospital in southern Gaza, including journalists amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/08/...
Elon Musk might have disappeared from the spotlight but he’s still tagging along and cashing in big. Like an unwanted roach, he’s still scuttling around.
More people are on the move due to climate change. In Malawi, it is both the devastation of cyclones and the slow-burn of droughts. I met Julius Chibonda, who has moved twice in the last 16 months in search of enough water and land to support his dreams. He said: "Without water nothing can exist."
👀 incredible — and he didn’t even have to slip them cash in potato chip bags to show up #ZohranForMayor
National Guard troops on duty in President Trump’s D.C. crackdown began carrying weapons Sunday evening, according to a spokesman for the National Guard task force.
A signature Israeli strike on Gaza this morning: on a hospital, killing the sick and wounded, journalists and an emergency worker. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
Gaza's hospitals and health workers have been overwhelmed and unable to meet even the most basic medical needs in the past year. As malnutrition cases rise, one hospital volunteer says: "This is not medicine. This is survival" www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
LIVE: Kilmar Abrego Garcia reports to ICE office as he faces deportation to Uganda
Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study Story by @dharna.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
One of the best podcats on the topic. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Net Zero! Everyone hates it even though it isn't real. What is going on? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital, including freelance journalist who worked for AP.
Today is a great day to stop using Bezos-owned services. youtube.com/shorts/IgjZE... #Amazon
More great birds from Tatacoa and Mocoa. 🪶🦉 #Birdsky #Bird #Birds #Birdwatching #Birders #Birding #Pajarro #ColombiaBirds #LatAmBirds #Pajariar #LatinAmerica #Colombia #Naturaleza #Nature #Travel #Photography
Excellent thread on the current state of science in America This will not end well if we all don’t get involved now! #ScienceMatters #VaccinesSaveLives
They believe they can seize control of our city. Washington, D.C., is currently experiencing a beautiful vibe and energy tonight. Free DC ✊
If the US government had to pay for medical care of its citizens, it might care more about climate change impacts, air and water pollution, gun violence, traffic crashes, the food we eat, etc. It’s past time for single payer healthcare.
Ace 👏
Footage of yesterday’s rally in DC against Trump’s extremist regime and the deployment of the national guard. “Trump must go now” ✊🏻
We're still here #teslatakedown 9428 Reisterstown Road, Owings Mills, MD Saturday 11:00 - 12:30
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Tesla Board: we would also gladly light your reputation and money on fire for $29 billion
Ran into @warriorgoddess1.bsky.social at Union Station. 💖
Doing some limited ICEWatch today. Union Station was crawling with National Guard. At Dupont Circle right now and have only seen one MPD patrol car.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern... #Pinks #ProudBlue
This is a genocide, and there are responsible parties. #Gaza #FreePalestine youtube.com/shorts/jtJY5...
Camped in the Tatacoa desert. Saw lots of good #birds. 🪶🦉 #Colombia #Bird #LatAmBirds #Birdwatching #Birding #Pajaro #Pajariar #Birdsky
If you've never listened to @jamieloftus.bsky.social's Lolita Podcast, I highly recommend. It's funny and thoughtful and kind and I learned a ton. And yeah, I'm on board with the theory that Lolita explains the culture wars.
Washington D.C. from Bluesky
Protesters fill Chicago streets to fight rigged GOP maps and show support for Texas Dems
There needs to be a congressional investigation into ICE and its practices. The agency needs to be completely dissolved and its agents and officers need to be prosecuted for any and all crimes committed.
I recommend you Rachel Maddow's podcast Ultra and/or her book Prequel, which will disabuse you of the notion that the govt was not in an existential struggle against fascism from within before and during WW2.
This is only going to get worse as they continue to deport the workforce…
#OtD 16 Aug 1972 women cleaners at the Ministry of Defence in London won a five-month struggle for a payrise and union recognition. The "Night Cleaners Campaign" was supported by the women's movement as well as other workers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8764...
The Office of Personnel Management has officially canceled this year’s version of the signature survey that assesses governmentwide satisfaction and engagement levels of federal employees.
Thennnnnn it's not other people engaging with the argument, it's you 🤷♀️
Dude just did address your points in his article. Many people on the left and the right support UBI in various forms. See also: mmt-france.org/2025/04/30/m...
I'm honestly surprised that, with all the corporate propaganda and legal strongarming we know these companies are capable of, they aren't doing more to stand up against the barrage of lies by right wing influencers.
Organizers back in the day of a powerful Klan and packed-house Nazi rallies in Madison Sq Garden didn't have the benefit of all the resources and knowledge we have access to now. I believe it is well within our power to reclaim the democracy we deserve without waiting for the Dem party to do it.
The US has overcome really strong fascist currents before by organizing at the grassroots level and taking direct action. There are many people talking about how this could be accomplished and supporting the public with resources. This video popped up in my feed and reminded me: youtu.be/NPmzs9QHNTU
WAPO: "The Pentagon is considering assembling a "Military Reaction Force" to be deployed anywhere in America to combat unrest." This is authoritarianism, full stop.
Get it, DC!
Donald Trump proudly declared he had ended taxes on Social Security while speaking Thursday from the Oval Office, only to be contradicted by his own aide moments later. He has repeatedly claimed that he ended taxes on the benefits program for seniors,but that www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
tonight I’m thinking about: “Under this administration, this is particularly clear — that direct action and mutual aid are what is needed, not more efforts to convince elites to stop wars, policing, ecocide. It's not about convincing them, it's about stopping them.”
But why would we want Dems to stop a cheat by also cheating? What if voters don't actually like Newsom surrendering LGBTQ rights and platforming fascists, how will they stop him? In my mind, the current system is untenable because the incentives are so skewed. I don't think there are any shortcuts.
Our efforts “to tackle #inequality will be incomplete unless we’re willing to address” how “our basic economic institutions” — including company ownership — “produce inequality to begin with.” @rooseveltinstitute.org www.thenation.com/article/arch...
We just need to look to Swedish and German race science and hygiene to know that science and medicine are vulnerable to prejudice and cannot be divorced from humanities oversight.
Department of Homeland Security agents stopped cars on 14th St NW in DC last night “for seat belt violations and broken taillights” (via @washingtonpost.com)
Millions of people across seven states rely on low-cost energy from the Tennessee Valley Authority to make ends meet. Privatizing the public utility would enrich a handful of billionaires—at everyone else’s expense. Tell your senators: HANDS OFF THE TVA! ➡️ form.jotform.com/252243876137...
I mean that politicians choosing their own voters is a recipe for more unaccountability and authoritarianism, not less. When both parties decide to defy the will of the voters, why even have elections?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o... Gift article no paywall
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The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement. The President does not run the Smithsonian. The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law. Release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped. Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
So, here are highlights from @marcishore.bsky.social broadcast on Canadian radio CBC. We'll probably make this into a zine. "and for me, what's really important conceptually really is this turn from the modern to the postmodern version [of authoritarian assault on truth and fact]" 🔗 at end of 🧵
The future of vaccines is incredibly exciting. From cancer prevention to needle-free delivery, researchers are working on innovations that will change how we protect our health. One of our best tools to fight disease is still getting better. immunizeforgood.com/... #NIAM2025
Israeli impunity in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon all together at once creates a virtual guarantee that the Egyptians and Jordanians are next, the pertinent question is whether or not these two countries will take preemptive measures or simply be sitting ducks for the next decade until it happens.
🚨 🧵1/2 50 Rallies across 20 states to protest TX Gerrymandering scheduled for Saturday 8/16 "Fight the Trump Takeover" organized by 3dzn+ groups, including the DNC, TX AFL-CIO, MoveOn, Indivisible, Human Rights Campaign PAC & Planned Parenthood The main rally will be at the Capitol in Austin, TX
To which I respond: what monstrosities will scientists unleash without the humanities to understand the social context, consider the impacts, and communicate the stakes?
I don't think it's about talking at a 3rd grade level, I think it's about telling people why they should care about issues in concrete terms and speaking directly to their values. @gilduran.com @anatosaurus.bsky.social and @georgelakoff.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy have been telling us this for decades.
Dismayed that the "opposition" party's reaction to the authoritarian party's authoritarian assault is to move further away from political accountability rather than doing what a democracy is supposed to do.
Also: AI slop is bad. I would like it if we as a society could agree not to support these things by spreading them.