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Teacher, union leader, MA Political Science, cocktails and spirits lover, jazz (hard bop is my favorite), movies (the longer and slower the better), succulents, walks in the woods, menswear, Mets and Knicks. I used to love talking politics.
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we're cooked

submitted 143 days ago • 6959 comments

This is to me is a significant add here. The Associated Press is now posting on Bluesky: @apnews.com

submitted 147 days ago • 2 comments

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

submitted 406 days ago • 987 comments

this is excellent, informed & informative on Trump-1’s grotesquely barbaric “child separation” policy & the prospect of Trump-2 exceeding its grotesquery & barbarism by many orders of magnitude — and also on the difficulty of saying any of these things effectively: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

submitted 149 days ago • 14 comments

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

submitted 150 days ago • 1063 comments

The Medicare Advantage program is a stealth attempt to privatize Medicare and enrich the private insurance industry at the expense of seniors. Multimillionaire CMS nominee Mehmet Oz, who owns stock in private insurers, is one of the biggest proponents of this scheme.

submitted 150 days ago • 27 comments

The incoming administration has nominated a gang of sexual predators, vindictive psychopaths and utter incompetents to be the presidential cabinet and the Washington Post has gone full-court-press on the Hunter Biden pardon. Our political media is deeply, deeply broken.

submitted 150 days ago • 123 comments

So a reminder: It’s not ‘liberals’ saying Hegseth abuses women. It’s his mom. It’s not ‘liberals’ comparing Trump to Hitler. It’s his vice-president. It’s not ‘liberals’ calling Musk a liar and a racist. It’s his own child. For the record.

submitted 153 days ago • 531 comments

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential.

submitted 153 days ago • 134 comments

Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family. Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou

submitted 155 days ago • 382 comments

When I wrote this in July, some said I was being alarmist. Unfortunately, now I look prescient. "Project 2025 is premised on contempt for constitutional norms and the rule of law. It seeks to reshape American government, law and society for a generation." www.democracydocket.com/opinion/how-...

submitted 158 days ago • 542 comments

Below is an excellent @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast on the incoming administration’s strategy and tactics for targeting those who research disinformation and hate speech.

submitted 158 days ago • 11 comments

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

submitted 160 days ago • 1302 comments

NEW: School vouchers were passed in Mississippi in the 1960s with the support of the White Citizens’ Council and a goal of continuing segregation. Money still goes to segregation academies today. Shocking story.

submitted 161 days ago • 45 comments

Cities are dispossessing homeless people without any fucks whatsoever www.propublica.org/article/home...

submitted 161 days ago • 13 comments

One thing I hope we can do as Bluesky gets larger is be less tolerant of the resistance grifters who will try to hack the platform for engagement and growth without any interest in adding anything substantive or meaningful It’s a different kind of troll.

submitted 164 days ago • 1253 comments

resolved: people who insist that all social media sites must be places where users are constantly encountering and arguing with people over fundamental disagreement do so because their actual, real lives are echo chambers where they do not encounter any meaningful difference from day-to-day.

submitted 166 days ago • 536 comments

Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.

submitted 166 days ago • 1817 comments