All respect to the WGA, and also the last sentence here is an example of how using the passive voice is a dangerous copout right now. People need to know who can block these mergers when the fed govt won’t (state AGs, per @ddayen.bsky.social). If powerful unions don’t make this clear, who will?

This is the energy!

The food system touches the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the safety of our community members. Watch to see how FarmSTAND is standing up against Big Ag ▶️ youtube.com/shorts/FC9h2...

A little tidbit: @janeese4dc.bsky.social just told me that her campaign qualified for public financing in just four hours since launching. That required getting $40,000 in small donations from at least 1,000 D.C. residents. That's pretty fast.

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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

NEWS: Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George is running for mayor, stepping into an open race in the wake of Mayor Muriel Bowser's decision not to seek a fourth term. At-Large Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie is also meeting with campaign consultants this week for his own run.

Bluesky needs to know about this seasonal cocktail available throughout Midway Airport

the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine

The Macy’s parade performers are like JOHNNY MCHARMON! ELLIE GROPPER! DWEK CRUMBO! BINGO X! FROMP SHREK! and BUSTA RHYMES!

It doesn’t have the Swiss-watch tightness of Knives Out, but little does, and I agree with Emily here. I think about Norton’s character and performance weekly

Capri Theater New Sharon, IA

🚨 Starting a new thread here because I think there may still be more attempts to delay ranked-choice voting in D.C. It is currently set to be implemented for next June's primary, but some back and forth today makes me think two councilmembers could try to derail that.

🧵Several new bills propose expanding the H-2A program — no surprise when farms are losing workers to ICE's racist deportation agenda. But H-2A is an exploitative program, and expanding it is not good for ANY workers. #InternationalFoodWorkersWeek

In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person. All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...

Nobody wants this shit. Nobody. The hostile reaction has been so pronounced, in fact, that it feels like a company announcing it would never force AI into its products would carve out a pretty good chunk of the market.

Only two nations in the world use cash bail: the Philippines and the United States. DC eliminated cash bail more than 30 years ago because it's wrong to have one system of justice if you're rich and another if you're poor. House Dems, DC is watching your votes on H.R. 5214.

This bit from my money managing app gets me every time

New: the airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting www.404media.co/airlines-wil...

Don't be chickenshit. bsky.app/profile/npr....

Psssssst: Here’s the theater finder page for Wake Up Dead Man! Showtimes begin 11/26, and more theaters will be popping up throughout the week. www.wakeupdeadmanfilm.com

This is exactly the type of stuff we should want representatives in purple districts to break from party orthodoxy on www.politico.com/live-updates...

We and our allies reached a settlement on behalf of @ewgofficial.bsky.social for Tyson to stop making climate claims. Big Ag needs to know that we're protecting consumers from their greenwashing. More ➡️ farmstand.org/tyson-foods-... @animallegaldefense.bsky.social @earthjustice.org

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill. @melbuer.bsky.social reports:

I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.

This week's newsletter looks at a new book on mapping — and includes some maps I made that put economic disparities into an interesting perspective. www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...

Gaston’s tavern number from Beauty and the Beast but everybody’s belting out “Suspended in Gaffa”

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Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Issue polling does not work. Know your values, frame the debate.

We live in sad times. While the Mayor was cutting a ribbon on the Takoma section of the Metropolitan Branch Trail, federal law enforcement was abducting someone just down the way on the Trail and by a school.

9:30 Club owner voluntarily recognized its workers’ union: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

every woman acutely understands this face.

My take is that there’s this distinct email syntax along many Boomers that is born of the idea that email is not a real conversation, and thus complete sentences are never necessary

the decision to really just abandon moderation and let it rip suggests that this is what meta wants for its platform. this is the final, idealized form of the product

Never thought I would live to see the day the Metropolitan Branch Trail stretch from Fort Totten to Takoma along Blair Road NW opened, but here we are!

Unlike some AI slop problems, I remember this already being an issue 7-8 years ago. Something fraudulent would sometimes show up first in my custom New Music playlist weekly. It’s like they were training us to not accept better from streamers

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs. So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract. Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

🚨ALERT: Large ICE/ federal agent and MPD presence on the 1800 block of Columbia Rd in Adams Morgan. Agents reported to be detaining people, entering buildings, and confiscating scooters. We recommend you avoid this area. 1/

Oh this is going to be spectacular

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

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I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis. I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO. Full statement:

If the non-caving Democratic Senators are really as irate as they anonymously claim to the press, they should call a leadership vote & oust Schumer. Anything less is acquiescence.

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you

One thing the NYC mayoral race underscored for me is how easily the phrase "I don't feel safe" can be weaponized. It's an argument I would hesitate ever to use again, even for a good cause. I hope we can all agree that we have the right to BE safe. Maybe we should leave it at that.

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

Larry Lefferts seen having dinner with Julius Beaufort in San Antonio, is a new superteam in the works