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Either/or: Take your pick.

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An Australian scholar explains the idea that drove Australia to adopt compulsory voting: "You would know that the government that was elected had the support of the majority of voters in the electorate—not just the majority of the people who turned up." boltsmag.org/compuls...

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If America makes it through, this great woman will someday be its president

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“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told. “It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,” said another. (Published April 2025)

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Here's the full Newsom address. It's great. (99% anyway, it's a tiny quibble but can we please stop reflexively adding "hard working" as the sole acceptable preceding adjective for immigrants) www.youtube.com/live/0n77NFj...

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If you're a NYC voter, I'd like to ask you to picture Mayor Andrew Cuomo's response to this. ... Right? Do not rank him.

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Just a reminder that these were scenes after the Dodgers won the World Series last fall, including buses burning, stores looted, fires, Mexican flags waving - all on scale dwarfing anything that has happened in LA now. And no one called for the Marines being sent in www.marca.com/en/mlb/los-a...

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When it comes to grabbing all the threads of a story and pulling them together, nobody is better than @willbunch.bsky.social. This column is a prime example of that:

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A milestone: the first electric aircraft has landed at JFK. "...the flight from the airport in East Hampton to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport took 45 minutes with a pilot and four people" and cost ... $8 worth of electricity.

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More Democrats in Congress not speaking up, I hear on Bluesky non-stop. Jimmy Gomez organized this -- he has been organizing all weekend. www.c-span.org/event/news-c...

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

On a cold spring morning, we hiked, we shared stories, and we showed up for each other. That’s what democracy looks like. Let’s keep showing up. Let’s meet the moment. I’ll see you on June 14 for #NoKingsDay.

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

submitted 6 days ago • 318 comments

The ICE facility in a Burlington office park was never supposed to be a detention center. But it's where many people have been kept for days or weeks in "abysmal" conditions after being arrested by ICE. Great reporting by @miriamwasser.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Raising the $7.25 an hour minimum wage to a living wage is not a radical idea. Since 2020, voters in Florida, Nebraska, Missouri & Alaska approved a major increase in their minimum wage. What’s radical is that the federal minimum wage has not gone up since 2009.

submitted 6 days ago • 94 comments

The bird dance for the ages

submitted 7 days ago • 469 comments

Good morning. If the Republican budget bill passes: - 40% of the country will lose money - 15 million people will lose their health care - the richest families will get a $270,000 tax cut - the debt will go up 2.4 TRILLION dollars Who is asking for that??

submitted 6 days ago • 70 comments

@willbunch.bsky.social is a national treasure www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Kong for dogs inventor’s story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPr3...

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"By rejecting passivity, Sanders is also doing more to actually put Republicans—who’ve recently been ordered to abandon town halls in the wake of mounting anger from their own voters—under pressure." Published March 11, 2025: https://trib.al/Eo7jNUO

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

It was the 3rd of June -- the greatest day in the history of American pop music www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJZ_...

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Did you hear the news 'bout Billie Joe?! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/searching-...

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

Gut-wrenching and liberating honesty.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

On this first official day of the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season, attribution science of the Climate Shift Index shows unseasonably hot sea surface temperatures are made as much as 50 to 100 times MORE likely due to human-caused climate change. The data▶️ csi.climatecentral.org/ocean

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Eagle screech 🦅🏳️‍🌈

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"If the proposal is enacted, Americans today and tomorrow will be sicker, poorer, and die younger” an $18 Billion cut Only 3 NIH Institutes will remain in place, and even they will have their funds markedly reduced www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/n...

submitted 12 days ago • 27 comments

I bonded with a nēnē* today. *world’s rarest goose, endemic to the Hawaiian Islands

submitted 11 days ago • 51 comments

Unbelievable! Today, San Diego witnessed a government-sanctioned kidnapping. ICE stormed Buona Forchetta in military gear ripping workers away, then unleashing tear gas and smoke on the terrified community. Full on police state, fascism now used on American citizens. Stay aware. #OnYourSide

submitted 12 days ago • 480 comments

From rural towns to big cities, every student deserves a shot. Title I and other federal programs aren’t extras—they’re lifelines. They fund the teachers, resources, and support kids need to thrive. Gutting that funding? That’s gutting their future. #HandsOffPublicSchools

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Folks, Please don’t lose sight of the fact that the President is supposed to serve the American people. Not his pockets and his ego. We’re so deep in the mire that we’re losing even the memory of normal. Peanut farm, people. Peanut farm.

submitted 15 days ago • 41 comments

America First = America Alone Unprecedented: the U.S. is the only country out of 184 to see a drop in international tourism this year. Everyone else is rebounding. We’re projected to lose $12.5 billion in spending—jobs, small businesses, entire communities will feel this.

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@vermontgmg.bsky.social: “This is textbook authoritarianism, a classic example of what one-time Peru president General Óscar Benavides captured in his adage: ‘For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.’”

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📌 This thread is so important that @hcrichardson.bsky.social dedicated much of her ‘Letters To An American’ substack post to it today. Please read and share! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants). scienceimpacts.org

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Reminder that there is no process that would make it legal to disappear someone from the United States to a foreign gulag to face abuse and torture

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

The US desperately needs more doctors, engineers & highly educated workers. But we’re telling students that if they want a higher education, they have to go into debt. Other countries understand how important it is to invest in their young people. We should be doing the same.

submitted 23 days ago • 104 comments

WHEN is his mental acuity going to become a topic for mainstream media?

submitted 23 days ago • 420 comments

Bill Owens, the producer of CBS’s 60 Minutes, resigned in protest. Wendy McMahon, the head of CBS News, has now resigned. I say to Shari Redstone: Enough is enough. Do not capitulate to Trump’s attack on a free press. Do not settle Trump’s bogus lawsuit against 60 Minutes.

submitted 23 days ago • 100 comments

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

submitted 23 days ago • 263 comments

In these difficult times building community, and support for each other, is extremely important. That’s why I’m holding community dances around Vermont. We just had a great event in Hardwick. People of all ages danced the night away.

submitted 24 days ago • 147 comments

This should be bigger news, no? www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

submitted 24 days ago • 65 comments

A) GOP budget reveals them as debt hypocrites B) It’s not bad BECAUSE it grows the deficit, but because of HOW it does (tax cuts for the rich and slashing programs for the rest of us VS. taxing the rich and investing in ourselves) @stephaniekelton.bsky.social : www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/o...

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According to a study by Penn Wharton, Trump's "big, beautiful bill" that pays for tax breaks for the rich by cutting Medicaid leads to a $700 LOSS in income for the working class, a $1,000 LOSS in income for the poor & a $389,000 INCREASE for the top 0.1%. We must defeat it.

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