Have you read the 15th amendment to the US Constitution ?

The Trump USDA against people getting food.

A right wing guy filed a complaint against me for conduct unbecoming an elected official relating to my comments about ICE. The Monroe County Board of Ethics actually investigated. Needless to say, I'm pretty disturbed. rachbarnhart.substack.com/p/bellos-eth...

AOC: I have to tell you, in my traveling across the country, I am hearing and have been seeing consistent things from everyday people. And it is that they are terrified, they are frustrated, they are angry, and they are shocked by a president violating the values that we hold dear

Read Fintan O’Toole: “If the Democrats do not seem brave enough to take the risks involved in speaking against the oligarchy, they will not prevent Trumpism from establishing itself as the American political order for the foreseeable future.” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Another bad thing about AI. #libraries #censorship @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

It’s past time for Schumer to go! @schumer.senate.gov www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/n...

Voting in NYC mayoral election. @nytimes.com

Big Tech’s evil ways. Meta “sells glasses that allow people to surreptitiously film others in public and operates a social network where inflammatory, outrageous content is rewarded and monetized,” www.404media.co/metas-ray-ba...

NY’s shame.

Too true!

New reporting from the Wall Street Journal reveals Trump’s Pentagon is ordering the National Guard to form “quick reaction forces” in every state—a major shift toward using U.S. troops on domestic ground. WSJ’s Vera Bergengruen joins to discuss her reporting.

Laborers and labor law have been moving in favor of wealth for a long time now. Welcome back to the 1930s. Here is one possible response. youtu.be/b3vFdpPLgVM?... youtu.be/b3vFdpPLgVM?...

Speak Up for Palestine

Surprise, surprise! #chatGPT is not human. www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

PRESS RELEASE: Over 700 Nonprofits Call on Governor Hochul to Sign Contracting Reform Legislation empirejustice.org/news/press-r...

Watching the effects of the climate crisis in real time.

I don’t have to imagine it.

Every day bad news from MAGA. “But now, a little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy,” created to keep census data from being used to identify individual respondents, has become the right’s latest focus” #uscensus #privacy www.wired.com/story/republ...

I recommend this book highly for anyone interested in understanding the social consequences of the AI industry. Six copies available from Monroe County NY Library. I’ll be returning one soon. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Big Tech is all in on MAGA in politics and business. www.levernews.com/ice-just-bou...

Democrats in Monroe County NY should read this substack from Rachel Barnhart.

Hear, hear!

When he's not standing up there saying he doesn't know, do they keep him in a nice box with padding, or just a regular old plain box?

Amazon is always up to no good! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

There is no peace in Palestine! @jvp.bsky.social @jewishcurrents.bsky.social www.972mag.com/olive-harves...

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

In case you missed this from a couple weeks ago, the MAGA right is trying to convince people that left-wing=terrorists! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But the threat is real. We have to get ready to fight back. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

The Trump administration is investigating Open Society Foundations as part of a broader crackdown on progressive organizing. The DOJ directive to scrutinize OSF cited a conservative think tank's report attacking the fund for donating to Palestinian rights groups. jewishcurrents.org/the-anti-sor...

Follow the thread. I wish this was unbelievable?

Don’t you understand that idiot right wing leaders are far more important than people living the in the US?

what humans look like when they have no shame

There is no time limit on racism. There will always be a need for the voting rights act. If the Supreme Court voids the act. The “we the people” must organize to restore it. No Justice No Peace! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

“No matter how much Hegseth and Trump might wish it, journalism is not stenography, and the officially approved story is often only a starting point for deeper reporting that gets at the truth” Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social #Hegseth www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How Medicare Advantage Fails Seniors of Color Report from Physicians for a National Health Program, October 15, 2025 pnhp.org/no-real-choi...

The Dept. of Homeland INSECURITY in action. Abuse and arrest of peaceful protest. Then LYING about it.

I've been pretty fixated on what this Hitler scholar said the most significant similarity between Trump and Hitler is. And it really is infectious. Months ago, they were celebrating Millei's chainshaw as the path forward. Now his country needs a payday loan to stay open and they're like, "AWWESOME!"

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Israeli parliamentary member Ofer Cassif was expelled from the Knesset yesterday after protesting Trump's speech. "Yesterday, there was a disgusting display of flattery and personality cult by two megalomaniacs who are hungry for power and blood."

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Vaccines are safe and effective. Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support. When you want information, ask your doctor. It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

The Osage nation just regained control of the last intact mound in St Louis (west Cahokia) was there yesterday for the dawn. Land Back

Randomly spotting an artist I know in national news. Good trouble.

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

Yep!

Hey Rochester while your making your way to @indivisibleroc.bsky.social stop by with some shelf stable food for our south wedge community in need and beyond. Alexander and Mt Hope 10/18 11am-4PM

Finally, a good explainer of Dems' other shutdown demand, via @citizencohn.bsky.social. It's about trying to make it harder for the Trump admin to continue unilaterally (and illegally) cutting funding for government programs substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Beat of the People! #ICE #NationalGuard #MAGA

What’s the Insurrection Act? www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...