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If you read one thing today… www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 5 days ago • 864 comments

"In the first month since he returned to power, he has demonstrated once again a brazen willingness to advance distortions, conspiracy theories and outright lies..." Thing I Will Keep Saying: a society that wants to survive should probably discourage baldfaced lying www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

An absolute travesty, but not a surprising one given MSNBC's history of atrociously treating Black anchors (Melissa Harris Perry, Tiffany Cross, etc.). Ever grateful that @joyannreid.bsky.social always spoke TRUTH to POWER & excited to support her next endeavor (while I gleefully boycott MSNBC).

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

🎯🎯🎯 What the Biden Administration & Dem Party condoned, aided & abetted with Gaza told me everything I needed to know about the sincerity of their dedication to equity, justice & democracy here in the U.S.A. That many failed or refused to call this out is what concerns & saddens me the most.👇🏾

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Correct. This is a President of the United States declaring himself a dictator. And instead of Americans understanding that we’re now under imminent threat of martial law and tyranny, we’ll get a month of think pieces about what the President of the United States meant by his UNAMBIGUOUS statement.

submitted 11 days ago • 886 comments

Fascinating profile of a park ranger in San Francisco who works with unhoused residents and has adopted the novel tactic of treating them like human beings, building relationships, and helping them access resources on their own timeline.

submitted 11 days ago • 147 comments

If I have to see that annoying Jared's commercial one more time...Valentine's Day can't pass soon enough. 😡😡😡

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I remain fascinated by the expanded child tax credit case study & the implications for leftist policymaking. People received REAL financial benefit from it. It drastically cut child poverty rates and it was rescinded without a real fight. I think about this at least once a week.

submitted 22 days ago • 202 comments

Gosh, I wish there was some history about Black people and transportation so that “these distractions” could be exposed as being figments of our historical imaginations…

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

All day, every day! ✊🏿❤️🙌🏿

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 25 days ago • 1309 comments

NEW: The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover from @telliotter.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 25 days ago • 59 comments

The cesspool that is X now reacting to Beyonce winning Album of the Year AND Best Country Album at the #GRAMMYs 🤣😂 #Grammys2025 was a strong repudiation of Trump's AmeriKKKa and great show of love for Southern California. Love to see it & glad I tuned in. Keep this energy! ❤️✊🏿🌈

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Warnock. On MLK day. Hope he knows that MLK would have thought he was nasty as hell

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments

I’ve said time & again it’s much easier to undo social change than to create it & that’s exactly what Trump is proving DAY ONE. For the record, 78 of Biden’s executive actions are now revoked - a good deal of them protections for underrepresented groups. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

“When women are free to make their own decisions about their lives and to follow our dreams, we are unstoppable.” Cecile was a force of nature. May her memory be a blessing. 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...

submitted 38 days ago • 1155 comments

So Trump is to be their muscle with Europe. Using American influence global wealth, military & power (which belongs to all of us - not Trump and not Musk & Zuck) to pressure Europe to make their countries’ public discourse as much a cesspool of disinformation and racism as ours?

submitted 47 days ago • 22 comments

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

submitted 50 days ago • 194 comments

While Trump threatens to invade Canada and his MAGA movement bullies and harasses Canadians and other US allies, Canadians are busy saving USians from burning alive. Canadian air crews in Los Angeles risked their lives to save US civilians. #palisadesfire

submitted 49 days ago • 326 comments

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

submitted 49 days ago • 458 comments

THIS. A #MustRead thread -🎯💯👇🏿

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Another reminder that police unions are not the same as labor unions.

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

“A new study of children living through the war in Gaza has found that 96% of them feel that their death is imminent and almost half want to die as a result of the trauma they have been through.” Unforgivable.

submitted 74 days ago • 12 comments

Deplorable. 👇🏿

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

This is Huntingdon, PA. I partly grew up there. Luigi is being held in one of the TWO maximum security prisons that serves as a primary economic engine/employer for this very rural, politically RED town. As one of the few Black families living in the area, we daily navigated racialized fault lines

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Via @rbreich.bsky.social: "Big American corporations are doing better than ever. The stock market has hit record highs. CEO pay is hitting new highs. But American workers and consumers are being shafted with lousy service at ever more expensive prices." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/o...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Manchin and Sinema consistently acted on behalf of their corporate donors during their time in the Senate. They stood in the way of protecting labor rights, voting rights, child welfare, Medicare expansion, and more. They represent everything Democrats ought not to represent.

submitted 76 days ago • 190 comments

2024 has been something else...WHEW. 💔

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

The interesting question, to me, RE presidential pardons is that it kinda calls into question the legitimacy of incarceration … how could incarceration be just & it be ok for the president to pardon? And if you are ok with some pardons, why not others? Can the president pardon all federal inmates?

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

I've been working on a project focused in part on John Brown for the past few months. And the thing that is evident is that John Brown was rooted and embedded in a COMMUNITY and that's what enabled him to do what he did. He was remarkable but not singular. This offers contemporary lessons.

submitted 87 days ago • 35 comments

Required reading and re-reading. Incredible 2012 piece by George Packer that is a scathing indictment of the Democratic Party and evergreen as we reflect on all that went wrong, leading to the (re)election of Trump -and who all helped pave the way. Infuriating: www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

How obtuse and regressive do you have to be to take this position? Georgetown won’t let this woman take a final exam before she gives birth, instead demanding she take it immediately after giving birth, saying, “motherhood is not for the faint of heart.”

submitted 96 days ago • 11 comments

The fucking working class in the U.S. of A in 2024 is women of color working service jobs, if we want to keep it real.

submitted 99 days ago • 19 comments

Utterly shameful and unsurprising.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Hey all, I created a starter pack with a list of Black economists and academics for an easily accessible list of folks doing research that we can all follow and cite #Blacksky #AddtoBlacksky #Econsky: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb

submitted 105 days ago • 117 comments

🎯💯👇🏿

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Apt. 😂😍👇🏿

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Good news: Twitter is collapsing. And this chart doesn't even show the last two weeks—which have seen the largest exodus in site history. There are reports from Newsweek and others that Twitter may merge with Truth Social. If that happens, the last collapse of Twitter may happen almost overnight.

submitted 107 days ago • 2044 comments