We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞 @sbmitche.bsky.social www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?” @aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

I guess we’ve replaced DEI, aka ensuring the playing field is even for everyone, with DEI for racist young white dudes in their 20s & 30s, courtesy of VPOTUS: “The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys … They tell edgy, offensive jokes.”

“If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” -Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/orig...

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility. He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

Un-presidented brass band at city hall in Portland tonight celebrating the release of their clarinet player from federal custody

“Preserving public health data is vital to our democracy. Data tells the story of who we are as a nation. It can inform policies that meet community needs, determine how government spends money, and [help] hold elected leaders accountable for protecting our wellbeing." www.rwjf.org/en/insights/...

This is not about saving democracy. It is about protecting our people. On October 18, we rise. Not to defend broken systems, but to defend each other. Because our communities deserve more than fear, silence, and billion-dollar bailouts for the powerful. No Thrones. #NoKings

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We’re unironically down to D.C. Last Call: DemocracyICED on the National Mall in D.C. 10/15/2025 MeltedAway.com

Thank you! So poignant and meaningful.

Good piece from NPR’s Tom Bowman about turning in his Pentagon press pass www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

"We always think about America’s postwar role in Europe as an act of great generosity, the defense of allies from Soviet aggression. But by putting democracy at the center of our international identity, we also helped strengthen our own political system" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Hanging onto every bit of good news The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing. This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better. lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

When a bad man does a good thing, he does not cease to be a bad man. This is a complicated moment in the Middle East. Each of us must work to make sense of it. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

People planning to join No Kings rallies do it out of love of our country and a desire to leave it to the next generation with the same rights & freedoms we have enjoyed. Not ruled by 👑 & oligarchs enriching themselves, but by elected officials who serve the people & the common good #FreeDC

The idea of paid No Kings protesters = 😂 In DC these are folks who go out every night since 8/11 & bang pots for 5 min. in parks & on street corners until the occupation ends. Dinner is late or rushed, some nights, like tonight, it rains. We do it because troops in our cities isn’t normal #FreeDC

Incredibly powerful thread on how diverse working class Brits pushed back with absolute resolve against fascists marching in their streets on 1936

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Tomorrow would be a great day for these troops to go home because troops on our streets should never ever be normalized. Kids sports events on the Fields @ RFK (stadium) are no place for Natl Guard, nor are our Metro stations or our parks, or anywhere … #FreeDC www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...

Appears the Trump admin’s reduction in force has hit housing hard this evening. Reports that all CDFI fund staff have been let go. HUD appears to have lost 442 staff. Yet another federal cut that will make providing affordable housing in the US all the more challenging.

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education. America’s children deserve better than this.

A look at what has been and continues to get dismantled across the federal government shows that (1) civil rights enforcing offices and (2) data offices have been prioritized for elimination. No data = no problem, and no civil rights enforcement = no civil rights violations/also no civil rights

DC folks please help save DC Health Care Alliance! 25,000 of our neighbors are at risk of losing access to health care services— sign this quick note to members of the DC Council cc @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/inve...

Every sign in DC marks the loss of someone’s neighbor, someone’s loved one, someone’s friend. Every sign marks yet another step in the march toward authoritarianism.

"CDC’s function is too urgent to wait...As Americans, we must demand that our government not enact illegal policies that will kill us. Congress must act and restore functioning public health capacity to the nation now, before we all regret it. At least, before those of us who survive do."

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

RIF notices also sent to the CDC’s 2023 and 2024 class of civilian EIS officers known as its main disease detectives, per sources. These are the people who are typically the first responders in an outbreak. 4/4

Among other RIF notices at CDC: —Center for Forecasting and Analytics; —all of CDC Washington —Office of Human Resources —National Center for Injury Prevention and Control 3/4

The CDC official who was leading the measles response and was RIFd has more than 28 yrs experience as the senior USG official leading outbreaks on Ebola, Marburg virus, and mpox. 2/4

Before the 1985 approval of Haemophilus influenzae vaccine, “Hib caused 10,000 cases of meningitis per year in children predominantly under 5 years of age, leading to lifelong neurological effects, including 3,000 cases of hearing loss, decrease in IQ, and sepsis” www.statnews.com/2025/10/10/m...

So Trump accepts the gift of a $400 million jumbo private jet and now the Qataris are ... building an air-force base for themselves in Idaho?? This cannot be real.

similarly as @ggwash.org chronicles, DC has had a wildly successful bike share rollout, with 44 consecutive months of strong ridership growth - that is until a slowed rate of growth when the Trump's National Guard invasion came through ggwash.org/view/100873/...

Thinking about how clearly we can see authoritarianism infecting the organizations, including civil society, that don’t stand up to it— universities, law firms, business, non-profits… There are only two paths forward. Allow the infection or build resistance to it.

Powerful photo of a despicable act: ICE agents armed to the teeth (in Chicago, not Fallujah) attacking a member of the clergy WHO IS PRAYING with pepper ball to the head open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them

Our center ( @penncssm.bsky.social) will be hosting a number of events at @upenn.edu #ClimateWeek next week. The week of climate-related events will be capped off with our keynote event, my conversation with Bill Nye Friday afternoon!

"There is so much potential in this," says Antaki, who keeps a prototype of the device in his pocket, like a security blanket. "It's so close to being used to save lives in children."

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled via @npr.org

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur. from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

Rep. Taylor Greene’s candor is refreshing on many levels “Not a single Republican in leadership talked to us about this or has given us a plan to help Americans deal with their health insurance premiums DOUBLING!!!” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

Just watched a smart, persuasive interview with @michaelemann.bsky.social & @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social on US media. They were asked if “naming names” about liars & their motivations risks coming across as “partisan.” I think about that a lot as I do similar things in the city-building arena. 1/2

71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data. Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.” As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.

Quick signature: Tell Congress to fix the health care crisis, prevent rural hospital closures, and reopen the federal government! action.momsrising.org/sign/rural_s... #momsky