Full interview and transcript with @katmabu.bsky.social — the 26 year old congressional candidate for Illinois’ 9th district.

Would be a disservice if I didn't share my interview with Saikat Chakrabarti, who is running against Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco. Chakrabarti was a co-founder of Justice Democrats, who helped @aoc.bsky.social rise to prominence and, ultimately, to Congress. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_ZR...

My conversation with Kat Abughazaleh, the 26-year-old journalist-turned-politician who is running for Congress in Illinois' 9th district. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M40C...

I spoke with Xp Lee, who is filling assassinated House Speaker Melissa Hortman's seat in Minn. He told me that he hopes to bring a calming presence to his work as he assumes the roles of State rep and — given rising political tensions — de-escalator.

"And he can sod off!" @alixbreeden.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Today I wrote about grief, about how no amount of meditation and mindfulness can keep you from having to look at the pain, and I shared a simple, but beloved biscuits and gravy recipe. open.substack.com/pub/alixbree...

“I wasn’t crazy. Oh, man, how I can say that again and again. I wasn’t crazy for going to the emergency room. My pain, my tears, were real. But this man — this proud, well-postured, gleaming man had laughed in my face and, literally, told me I was full of shit.”

The Venezuelan men have touched down in Caracas. They are no longer in CECOT. They are home.

The 250+ Venezuelan men in CECOT are being released.

Francisco Casique worked as a barber in the US as he attended immigration hearings. On Feb 6, ICE violently abducted him from his home. He thought he was being deported back to Venezuela. But he would never arrive. Read my full interview with his mother here: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

I spoke with the parents of Venezuelan immigrants who Trump, in some cases, had violently abducted and later imprisoned in El Salvador’s CECOT. They traveled to the UN to plead on behalf of their boys, with a challenge of their own coming from a dictator-led country. Read @dailykos.com

In March, Trump rounded up over 250 men and flew them to a terrorism confinement center in El Salvador. One of those men is 24YO Widmer Sanguino, who was previously granted refugee status in the US. I spoke with his Aunt Jhoanna, who traveled to the prison to request visitation.

Trump’s ‘anti-Christian bias’ task force meets—and things get weird https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/6/18/2328641/-Trump-s-anti-Christian-bias-task-force-meets-and-things-get-weird?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=

Lee Zeldin announced the EPA would be pulling out of the continued efforts to help Flint, MI achieve safe drinking water. I spoke with one resident on the Water Advisory Board who said this support was a “critical lifeline” to them.

As Doug Burgum, Lee Zeldin, Lori Chavez-DeRemer & the rest of Trump's team work overtime to make sure AI's billionaires have what they need in the US to become #1, the rest of the US is feeling its impact. And experts are warning of an even darker future

Men can’t even buy women a drink without strings attached but a $400 million aircraft is out of the kindness of his heart? 😩

Lee Zeldin’s environmental vision for America might not include holding businesses accountable for poisoning its citizens, but he is declaring war on one evil culprit—gas-saving vehicle features.

Lori Chavez De-Remer & the Dept of Labor ended programs fighting child labor & slavery — now those nonprofits are fighting back.

I spoke with former South Park writer and present day sarcastic genius @tobymorton.bsky.social about trolling and laughing through the pain of *broadly gestures*

Marco Rubio revoked all Visas for South Sudanese citizens because their government wouldnt accept a man the US was trying to deport. HOWEVER, South Sudan’s governent straight up was like — this man isn’t from here. Even the guy himself was like, I’m from the Democratic Republic of The Congo.

My latest Substack article looks at Logotherapy, a concept created by Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl. In such a dark time, suffering seems to come about in abundance from the nonstop beating of headlines. So where do we find peace? Where do we find meaning? My lessons, thoughts, from Frankl.

Such a pleasure to do this interview!

Delaware Governor Matt Meyer gave his thoughts on what he thinks the government needs to do— which isn’t more cuts or DOGE. Take a listen and read the written story at @dailykos.com

I spoke with Governor Matt Meyer of Delaware about a couple of things, one of which being SB-21. The bill got a lot of media attention, some of which Meyer says was due to its own smear campaign behind the scenes. Check out the full story on @dailykos.com

Guys don’t worry! Trump seems to think everything is going to be fine 😌😛😝 #satire

Can’t believe im saying this but maybe tariffs on SHEIN will be good — re: less people buying fast fashion, less sweat shop production, less clothing waste into 3rd world countries

It started with the name change of offices that might be considered to promote DEI. Then, programs intended to hire and retain faculty of color were shuttered. Grad students were advised to use code words in titles of their research papers out of fear that the Trump admin would flag their studies.

I grew up in a trailer park in East TN. We got our food from churches and food banks some weeks. Our clothes from churches. My route out of poverty was by luck, by tragedy, and by financial aid provided by the Dept of Education. I don’t know if I would have made it to where I am without that help.

Soooo we’re all on the same page that it’s wrong for a business to offer loans for food delivery, right? We all agree that DoorDash and Klarna are preying on the poor by dangling food they can’t afford and sending them into more debt, right? Ok cool

DOGE and the Dept of Labor bragged about cutting funding to a nonprofit helping to end child and forced labor in Uzbekistan. But they didn’t mention that in their press release. Read the full story on Daily Kos.

DOGE bragged about more cuts, but after some digging, I was able to discover that one of the cuts was to a nonprofit that combated child and forced labor in Uzbekistan. I guess saving money for Americans means not caring about children or pregnant women working in cotton fields.

Where politics and celebrities intersect: Kim K pulled the plug on a daddy daughter visit with North & Kanye West recently when she found out Andrew & Tristan Tate would be there. Still think the US gov has nothing to do with the Tates? Let’s talk about how close of a proximity they are to Trump

Mahmoud Khalil was taken to LaSalle Correctional Facility, a for-profit ICE facility that once operated as a juvenile correctional center until it was shut down for tear-gassing and pepper-spraying children. Human rights attorney Yasmine Taeb said this move was “absolutely” intentional.

Seeing Kate Hudson on Running Point is such a breathe of fresh air because is an actress who has allowed herself to age in Hollywood

I just want to be clear that the I missed the part where the Tate brother’s were given a hero’s welcome at UFC last night. That’s disgusting but not surprising given Dana White has allowed Hitler apologists to fight. Dana said to the Tates “Welcome to the states, boys.” Full stop.

I just want to enjoy UFC without seeing Mark Zuckerberg’s perm in the background of the octagon is that too much to ask

The Trevor Project released their annual report surveying LGBTQ+ youth across the US, & the results painted one of many narratives: politics are directly impacting LGBTQ+ kids, & they don’t have the access to the mental healthcare they need to help themselves. I spoke with TP’s about their findings

Hello socials, a dear friend of mine passed on. Coming from a life of struggle as a Native American, his family is asking for help in getting everything in order because, like in life, death is also expensive. Please consider donating.

My latest substack article takes aim at headlines blaming kids for “killing the nightclub industry” or WaPo’s latest choice to give people tips on how to consume less microplastics instead of focusing on companies continuing to produce harmful plastic waste. 💕

“The habitat will be altered, modified, and lost through this executive order. Species will be compromised, put further at risk, and likely lost," retired Agency Chief of Biological Resources for the National Park Service Elaine F. Leslie told Daily Kos.

Spoke with @alixbreeden.bsky.social @dailykos.com about the right (reich) wing shift in US comedy. If we look historically it was aligned with white nationalism early on. It was the civil rights movement that pushed comedy leftward. Now, the cultural turn in comedy is back towards white nationalism

I spoke with comedian Trae Crowder ( @thetraecrowder.bsky.social ) or the Liberal Redneck, about the southern twangs, MAGA comedy, and “Marsha Blackburn-style Church of Christ judgy bitches.” I also got analysis on the shift of comedy culture from multiple experts. Read below!

I never thought I’d see the day where I would agree with a Ben Shapiro tweet.

“A lot of the radicalization of young men in America is because big tech companies want to make a lot of money, and they don’t care who they hurt to do it,” - @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Another (final) story from my chat with Chris. Thanks again! Here's to hoping the internet has a few less Nazis

Trump hasn't given a job to his clingy second ex-wife/least favorite kid's mom... yet.

“We should be able to come together as American citizens and say, no kings, no tyrants, not now, not ever.” Thanks again for an inspiring chat, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social