NEW: Plans for secret U.S. raid to capture Maduro leaked to the Washington Post and New York Times before it happened, but both decided not to publish to protect U.S. troops - Semafor
[poor people are tasked with saving america's republic]
[poor people make it happen as rich leftists sit on their gd hands]
rich people "poor people are inhumanly lazy"
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: propub.li/3MTlm33
The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight
Regular reminder to please not use Findaway/Spotify to distribute Audiobooks!
Their contract is a heinous rights grab that allows them to do anything they want with the audio. They can train AI or even sell transcripts without paying you. A transcript of the audiobook is the book!
Bhattacharya:
It will have claims data from Medicare and Medicaid, electronic medical records, private sector insurance claims data…
This is a privacy NIGHTMARE.
@eileenguo.bsky.social@carlbergstrom.com
In a competitive global economy, we need the best educated workforce in the world - doctors, nurses, dentists, plumbers, welders, electricians, etc.
Young people should not have to go deeply into debt to get the education they and our nation need.
We must make public colleges tuition free.
Bernie Sanders, an Independent, joined by New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, criticized the influence of billionaires in U.S. politics and cuts to federal agencies and programs made by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. #mtnews
AOC: Some of the Republicans whose districts we visited just warned their leadership that they’re not sure they can vote for Medicaid cuts now.
We’ve got them on their back foot. But our job is not done.
We will rally every corner of the U.S.
We will not stop until they actually vote no.
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
WATCH | RFK Jr claims autistic children will never go on dates or pay taxes
Read the recent CDC autism report here: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
-protests in the next two weeks
-GOP passes budget, fight to save Medicaid ahead
-GOP ❤ Wall Street, hates regular people
-how to start a tenants union
-public comment on forced registration for immigrants, health care for trans folks
-some reading on general strikes
It's a great weekend to fight.
This is right. The fact that they’re doing this to “innocent people” is not irrelevant, but it’s ultimately not the point. People convicted of crimes have rights too. And you can be damn sure that if they want to convict them - or me, or you - of something, they will.
I know this sounds like pedantic scolding but I really do believe that doubling down on the idea that criminal records are a meaningful distinction is like carefully digging a pit that we can be shoved into.
House Republicans and Democrats in the Montana Legislature voted to reject a bill that would have criminalized parents and other adults who help minors under the age of 16 obtain medical treatments related to gender transition.
We wanted to understand the broader economic implications of the ongoing trade war. So we talked to two Trump supporters who have the words of the second amendment written on the sides of their pick-up trucks.
More than 50,000 people in Gaza are dead. 114,000 have been wounded — two-thirds of whom are women & children. The entire infrastructure has been destroyed.
Much of that devastation has been done with bombs that the U.S. supplied to the Netanyahu war machine. We are complicit.
In more uplifting news, 1,000 people protested ICE’s abduction of a mother and children at the home of the agency’s acting head Tom Homan.
Notably, the entire population of the town is just 1,450.
www.syracuse.com/state/2025/0...
Read this book with my 10yo and then reread it on my own. Can’t recommend highly enough. A beautiful parable about the power of young people, libraries, baked goods, art, and community in times like these. @kellybarnhill.bsky.social
For folks who want to join an existing group, there's a new directory of progressive organizations that have both the desire and ability to welcome and incorporate new volunteers.
You can search by location, focus area, and type of participation: allofusdirectory.org/about
“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a Japanese American National Museum leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” 🔥
Sir, we've fired the entire Department of Keeping the Fabric of Reality Intact, and it seems- [phasing into a half-horse half-black hole]- it seems this could be bad
Alt text: a still from a Fox news report. The text banner says “Kids hit piñata shaped like ICE officer in Chicago” and the image shows a little girl hitting the piñata
NEW: The Department of Labor report found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how health plans and insurers cover mental health care, echoing the findings of a recent ProPublica investigation.
propub.li/4aue7qi
Rewatching Party Down to avoid thinking about what is happening Monday. Who strolls on screen but @thestormydaniels.bsky.social For sure did not know who she was the first time I watched this.
WATCH: Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Montana, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of patient harm and suspicious deaths.
📽️: @carissaqmb.bsky.social
Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge).
You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
You do not have to consume every single tiny piece of bad news in order to be a good person. It’s ok to miss things. Traumatizing yourself isn’t the same as activism. Bearing witness to the point that you’re paralyzed with fear and horror and fury isn’t going to help us get through this.
