Paul Blest
play music in Long Relief, work at More Perfect Union. The real truth about it is, we’re all supposed to try
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- Reposted by Paul BlestSixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.
- I wrote for @discourseblog.com about abolishing ICE and the Democrats standing athwart history yelling "reform and retrain" www.discourseblog.com/p/the-anti-a...
- Reposted by Paul Blest"Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices." Nice investigation by @barryyeoman.com & @jocelynzuck.bsky.social! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Reposted by Paul BlestMY LATEST: Dollar General will pay at least $15 million to settle claims that it overcharged shoppers at many of its 20,000 stores. Earlier, @jocelynzuck.bsky.social and I reported that the chain failed 4,300+ price-accuracy inspections over four years. @theguardian.com @michaelwhudson.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Paul BlestWrote this fun piece about women who quit their corporate city gigs for Hallmark jobs! It was a real blast to report out (and lowkey inspiring) www.bustle.com/life/hallmar...
- Last week, we published an investigation into Poland Spring, the corporate-owned bottled water brand famous in the Northeast. During a drought this summer, the company said it was cutting back on withdrawals from Maine aquifers, but we found data showing they were pumping even more. Link below:
- Reposted by Paul BlestI spoke with @hellgatenyc.com about our negligent landlord and the dangerous conditions they’ve created in their rent-stabilized buildings (including in my own apartment).
- Reposted by Paul BlestIf any news outlets would like to chat about Pinnacle, I’m happy to connect you to our tenants union @thecity.nyc @hellgatenyc.com @wnyc.org
- Reposted by Paul BlestOur negligent management company (Pinnacle) has allowed our apartment building to degrade so considerably that a pipe burst in our bathroom and destroyed our kitchen.
- Reposted by Paul Blestlooking for someone in the greater charlotte area who has spectrum internet to test something for me. if you do pls DM or signal me: @jason.404
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If you're reporting ICE sightings outside of the Ojo Obrero app, PLEASE make sure you at least try to follow the SALUTE reporting format so that your info can be as helpful as possible. - Reposted by Paul BlestSandwich man leaving court
- Talked with the @discourseblog.com buds on Friday about elections tomorrow and beyond www.discourseblog.com/p/discourse-...
- Reposted by Paul BlestI was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
- Surprise Crutchfield sisters record means we’re getting six more weeks of fall
- Reposted by Paul BlestThe Trump administration has denied it canceled what would’ve been one of the largest solar projects in the U.S. I stand by my reporting, as I was first to break the cancelation. A quick thread about why…
- Reposted by Paul BlestMichigan Avenue right now.
- Reposted by Paul BlestOver 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
- Reposted by Paul BlestICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.
- Reposted by Paul BlestBREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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- Reposted by Paul BlestJUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Paul BlestI'll take the bullheaded, deeply flawed, 1990s quest for authenticity and cultivating a core which you shouldn't sell out over this any day. Any day.
- Man why is this guy a billionaire and not a heel wrestling manager. This is humiliating for the rest of us
- Crypto billionaire Brock Pierce, speaking at Fraunces Tavern in downtown Manhattan alongside Rev. Al Cockfield, says he's launching the "draft Eric back campaign" to try to get Eric Adams back in the mayoral race. More about it here: www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/30/b...
- Reposted by Paul BlestEzra Klein keeps saying that "politics is about winning power" and Democrats have "gotten way out of step with the public" on immigration and trans kids in sports but he is blind to the fact that to win power you have to convince people you have the right position, not cede to the other side
- Finally listened to the Coates/Klein thing and thought this was pretty funny
- Reposted by Paul Blestthe president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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- Reposted by Paul Blestgod dammit www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...
- Reposted by Paul BlestNational Lawyers Guild of Chicago is a very reliable source with numerous legal observers at protests and meticulous note taking and info gathering. This is how they say things seemed different Saturday at Broadview ICE detention center.
- Fire Hakeem Jeffries power-and-light.ghost.io/hakeem-jeffr...
- Reposted by Paul Blesta lot of good writers out there, but Kaleb Horton was truly gifted. what a terrible loss
- I started blogging again. I’m going to be doing some writing about politics, corporate power, and labor and probably some personal essays and music criticism too. First post is up, about Tom Homan and the golden age of graft. power-and-light.ghost.io/its-a-great-...
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- Reposted by Paul BlestAre we going to war with Venezuela? Maybe! Maybe not! No one really seems to know. Maybe not even Trump himself.
- Reposted by Paul BlestThe UN has broken through Israel’s ban on data collection & declared famine (for 1st time in the ME) Palestinians in Gaza-including Lujayn in @thenation.com -have been documenting this reality for months www.thenation.com/article/worl... Thanks to @jackmirkinson.bsky.social for publishing this
- Reposted by Paul Blestthey desperately want footage of soldiers shooting americans
- That's crazy I was just circulating my own memo about a blacklist of words Democrats shouldn't use
- Scoop: Third Way is circulating a memo, shared first with @playbookdc, featuring a new blacklist of words Dems shouldn’t use. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
- 10 Blue Dogs in the House and Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in the country, meanwhile the safety net is aggressively dying so we can afford to subsidize data centers and coal plants. What exactly does Third Way do except circulate memos
- The only thing the government spends money on now is this shit, AI and powering AI, and contracts for Deloitte to create blood oaths for Medicaid recipients
- Reposted by Paul BlestICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media. I am not making this up.
- Reposted by Paul Blest“A possible immigration raid at a farm in Ventura County escalated on Thursday afternoon when agents began firing tear gas on a crowd that had started to gather by the operation.”
- Reposted by Paul Blestoh man wait until they hear about what William F. Buckley Jr. considered a prank
- Reposted by Paul Blest"The Justice Department is aggressively prioritizing efforts to strip some Americans of their U.S. citizenship...At least one person has already been denaturalized...June 13, a judge ordered the revocation of the citizenship of Elliott Duke, who uses they/them pronouns." www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...
- Reposted by Paul BlestNEW: Palantir threatened to call police on @wired.com reporter @carolinehaskins.bsky.social and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm's work with the Trump administration. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/palant...
- Normandy, the western border of Germany
- On the other hand I guess it's tradition for German chancellors to consider France part of Germany
- Reposted by Paul BlestHello world! We are Autonomy News, a new worker-owned reproductive justice news outlet cofounded by @garnethenderson.com and @susanrinkunas.com. Our reporting will never be paywalled, and you can support our work with a subscription to keep it free for everyone.
- Reposted by Paul BlestRon DeSantis stranded drivers at a bridge with no warning just to stop rainbow colors from appearing on it.
- Reposted by Paul Blest🚨 The Bukele regime has arrested Ruth Eleonora López, a prominent human rights defender and the head of the anti-corruption and justice unit at Cristosal, a leading Salvadoran human rights organization. Cristosal has denounced her detention as an enforced disappearance.
- Reposted by Paul BlestAmid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks
- Reposted by Paul Blestone of the tasks of the American left is to explain to retail and service workers that this is the future that America has planned for them
- Reposted by Paul Blestthis is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
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- Reposted by Paul BlestPikachu was spotted amongst anti-Erdoğan protesters fleeing from police in Antalya, Turkey last night.
- Wrote for @discourseblog.com about Paul Weiss and the benefits of complicity. www.discourseblog.com/p/dont-cry-f...
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- Amid threats from Meta and Elon, DE lawmakers are set to pass a law restricting shareholder claims at the country's most powerful business courts: the sorts of cases that have "resulted in saving billions of dollars for pension funds and ordinary investors." substack.perfectunion.us/p/elon-musk-...
- Reposted by Paul BlestCSI Aviation makes hundreds of millions of dollars chartering flights for ICE for 'removal' of undocumented people. The CEO of CSI Aviation donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Trump campaign and RNC. Meh, must be a coincidence.
- Reposted by Paul BlestRanjani Srinivasan was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship. She taught at NYU and had a Master’s in Design from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Per Axios her crime was not disclosing two court summons for obstructing traffic and failing to disperse during a protest.
- I was wrong about Pelosi because they would’ve elected Jeffries leader even sooner. Still right about Schumer though
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