CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

It's literally always something like this.... Someone speaks up, nothing is done, and hundreds more human beings are victimized. In churches, civic organizations, and among the rich and powerful elites. No protection for victims, only for connected (mostly) men.

This. This this this.

Horrifying and ridiculous. "Through a widely shared PowerPoint presentation, I learned that some priorities, such as “enhancing scientific rigor,” are not led by scientists but by two political appointees: an aviation attorney and a realtor with a self-published book on heaven."

This really was one of the most heartbreaking articles I’ve read in a while. I don’t think people comprehend the scale of destruction wrought by this administration already, not even close nymag.com/intelligence...

It’s on 🔥 The boycott rolled right up to their front door. ‘We Ain’t Buying It”

Great work! Please read this and do what you can to avoid these entities and spread the word. For books, please support: Bookshop.org and local bookstores; direct-from-brand purchasing; cooperatives; independent retailers.

This is just excellent. Worth a read.

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

ICYMI: Understanding the Massachusetts health care crisis, with help from Muhammad Ali #OPINION

Terrific

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

What this Haiti team is doing is incredible 💙 Despite not being able to play at home, they're one game away from a first World Cup in 52 years. These players want to give their nation hope and a welcome distraction in a time of crisis; they're on the cusp of an extraordinary achievement 🇭🇹

This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.

Private equity firm Sycamore Partners bought Walgreens. Now Walgreens has stopped giving most workers paid vacation on Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays. Private equity takeovers are a disaster for workers, and customers.

look as someone who can be incapacitated for weeks by the fear that I put the wrong number of exclamation points into an email this has been a fascinating glimpse into a some brains that work extremely! differently! from! mine!

When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived. All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.

This.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

@nytimes.com—women didn't ruin the workplace, but sexual harassment, lack of equal pay, pregnancy discrimination, gender bias, lack of advancement and leadership opportunities, double standards, microaggressions, unaffordable child care, & the glass ceiling certainly did

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Sheesh zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...

Excellent thread. I fear many well meaning people are missing this perspective.

As we remember the discover of the double helix, it is worthwhile to read nature‘s article on Rosalind Franklin www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Rosalind Franklin, 1920-1958 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalin...

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible

Alright Dave Portnoy and Bill Ackman time to leave New York City and never return like you promised

Condé Nast’s folding of Teen Vogue into Vogue is “clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most," Condé United, @nyguild.bsky.social say. Change throttles "staff diversity and [mutes] the magazine’s progressive political bent."

In the 2 weeks after Mamdani won in June, 10k ppl signed up with @runforsomething.net to consider a run for local office - our biggest surge *ever*. Like it or not (& I do!!) he's shaping the future of the Democratic Party. If you want something different, get other people to run.

FYI

On Teen Vogue: It's an amazing publication full of talented journalists. It offers so much value. It's clear the monied interests in media aren't interested in preserving that value, especially if it threatens the status quo that undergirds their wealth. Capitalism and journalism are enemies.

Great thread. The news this afternoon that the politics section was axed upset me, then the weak tea that they'd now focus on career content (what? homemaking and childrearing?), but the very worst: no more Black women at Teen Vogue. What teen these days wants a mag with no Black women voices???

What!?!?! There are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue!?!?! Condé Nast is dead to me.

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

Just a reminder: millions of people who live in “red” states didn’t vote for any of this shit.

It is very clear the gutting of Teen Vogue is about silencing their excellent political coverage. Corporations want you uninformed and shut off from meaningful journalism. And they’re staggeringly successful at it so far.

Let's fuckin hope so 🕊️🌈💚

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

That the verb here is "took" is tragic.

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

Are we in an episode of Bojack Horseman?

WTF @teenvogue.com ??? I have been telling people of all ages (I'm 48) for years how robust your news reporting is, especially politics. And that you're one of the few legacy media entities left that tells truth to power. Why? Who owns you?

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

This is the work that our taxes should fund—not terrorizing communities with militarized equipment and tactics. So few crimes are actually solved; I believe it's partly to do with resource allocation.

can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.

"...racism is not a natural condition of poverty but a political weapon that rich men use to constrain poor people’s political power."

Excellent.