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Reuters reporting that the U.S. has threatened Ukraine with the “imminent” shutoff of Starlink access unless the country agrees to handover control of rare earth minerals to the United States. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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Please read and share. But especially share with folks that might not realize how critical Section 504 is to so many people. I tried to write a simple clear explanation at the break. I hope it reaches some people who aren't already on our side. Gift link: www.startribune.com/why-are-repu...

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

I see no actual evidence that the American and Russian negotiators are putting together a peace deal. It looks increasingly like America is negotiating its neutrality in the conflict in exchange for oil. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

A good moment to remember the Russia thing was always real. Trump's goal is to help Russia and Putin, always has been. He's trying to throw our democratic allies under the bus and America as well. Again, the Russia thing was always real.

submitted 5 days ago • 233 comments

1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"

submitted 6 days ago • 483 comments

The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...

submitted 6 days ago • 135 comments

my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator

submitted 8 days ago • 1168 comments

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

submitted 9 days ago • 316 comments

For @teenvogue.com today, I wrote about the impact of closing the Dept of Education. Long story short: students of all ages will face a more divided, unequal system that restricts opportunities instead of creating them, and that is the point. www.teenvogue.com/story/what-w...

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks. This is leadership. It’s also unprecedented. A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.

submitted 10 days ago • 702 comments

I want to highlight what I believe is a significant document that I reviewed for this story. It's a memorandum of understanding between DOGE & CFPB. In all the coverage of DOGE's takeover of agencies I haven't read or heard about a document like this. I think this stands out 1/

submitted 12 days ago • 76 comments

Now we know what the price of the prisoner release was yesterday. Didn't even take 24 hours for Trump to pay up.

submitted 11 days ago • 95 comments

They're saying it's too hot for Bluesky: I wrote about art, culture, and capitalism at @publicbooks.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

“There are many good reasons to accommodate budding dictators, and only one reason not to: Anticipatory obedience is a key building block of their power. The autocracies of the 20th century relied on mass terror. Those of the 21st often don’t need to; their subjects comply willingly.”

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

From the Chronice of Higher Ed's daily newsletter email. The first ICE arrest on a college campus happened at Spokane Community College yesterday. The Chronicle, however, is here to tell us that in "the bigger picture," it's no big deal, even if "the loudest voices" say it is.

submitted 16 days ago • 40 comments

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

submitted 16 days ago • 777 comments

Bird flu info

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LA STUDENTS WALK OUT AGAIN- High school AND middle school students have taken over the streets in front of LA city hall for the 5th straight day of anti-ICE, immigration rights protests. This won’t be slowing down anytime soon When is the rest of LA going to start joining them?

submitted 16 days ago • 24 comments

Friends: I do not want to see any kvetching about people on the left who didn't vote for Harris. Those mistakes didn't decide this. White supremacists & whoever else wouldn't vote for a Black woman did this. Misogynoir. The enemy is WHITE SUPREMACY and FASCISM. Solidarity time. Now. Shore up.

submitted 18 days ago • 117 comments

"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...

submitted 18 days ago • 221 comments

I said I would do this last night but I was too tired so lets do it today. A few caveats - not saying this list is exhaustive, it's just a good place to start. It's also not in chronological order because I'm a chaos gremlin

submitted 21 days ago • 19 comments

Yeah so this is what I meant by global far right power grab

submitted 21 days ago • 16 comments

All these people in Congress and media were like “Trump could never enact his most extreme plans, he’d be checked by Congress and media. So it won’t be that bad.” And then he got in office and immediately enacted his most extreme plans, and the people in Congress and media just didn’t react at all.

submitted 22 days ago • 24 comments

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

submitted 22 days ago • 797 comments

It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....

submitted 22 days ago • 37 comments

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

submitted 24 days ago • 55 comments

The campaign against trans rights is also about stripping away everyone’s protections against discrimination, reviving, as Douglass put it “the moral blindness” of those who “persuade themselves that they are safe, though the rights of others may be struck down.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 24 days ago • 88 comments

If you can go, go. 5pm today. Last night's cutoff of federal funding by 47 doesn't just mess with the recipients, it violates the Constitution and seizes powers that belong to Congress. It's a dictatorial attempt at consolidation of power in the presidency. www.mobilize.us/climateactio...

submitted 25 days ago • 35 comments

We’ve been on the phone with multiple agencies/orgs. They’ve been completely cut off from federal money. We’re talking housing, homeless services, public safety, etc. I’m calling a press conference today to explain how this could have drastic local impacts to our constituents.

submitted 25 days ago • 1075 comments

NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.

submitted 25 days ago • 2075 comments

It should prob be remembered that “birthright citizenship” was the product of the abolitionist mvt, which understood that no person of color would be safe from deportation or bondage if their citizenship could be questioned or taken away

submitted 32 days ago • 29 comments

Mark my words: There will be less outraged coverage, over a shorter period of time, of Trump pardoning violent militia members who committed sedition and RW thugs who beat up cops than there was of Biden pardoning a son who was a top target of the right and whose conviction was highly irregular.

submitted 33 days ago • 28 comments

Handmade books: artmakespeople.com/handmade-art...

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

This piece is incredibly good. "[W]hat the right understands is something that the left is going to have to relearn in coming weeks and months and years: It is only if we don’t fight that they truly win."

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

Incarcerated folks make up about 30% of the firefighters putting out LA's fires. But unlike with most firefighters who are able to call home and reassure their loved ones of their safety, families of incarcerated firefighters said they are not given the opportunity to communicate with them.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

So it's dangerous for China to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps. But it's okay for America's billionaires to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps. Do I have this right?

submitted 36 days ago • 272 comments

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

submitted 38 days ago • 267 comments