Thank you to both you and your sister, Susan! The film's director, @elliotkirschner.bsky.social, will love to hear this. "The Last Class" is still in session, playing at 100+ theaters across the country, if others are interested in seeing it: www.thelastclassfilm.com/where-to-watch

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

🗓️ WEDNESDAY, OCT 8: Join us for a screening of The Last Class, the hit documentary capturing UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Robert Reich's last semester. Writer & comedian W. Kamau Bell will join Prof Reich for a conversation after the film. 🎟️ TICKETS ARE ONLINE >> https://bit.ly/4gxZ0PA

Dutch late night TV has its take

This sentence literally appeared in the @nytimes.com. Who edits this propaganda? "Mr. Trump and administration officials have long championed free speech, but their actions — as well as their promises since Charlie Kirk’s killing — to guarantee it have been replaced by efforts to quash criticism."

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

Why won't any of the sports teams honoring Charlie Kirk play some clips of him? Please show us what you are celebrating. Don't be shy about it. Show us what made him so great. Play his greatest hits.

Ezra Klein, watch this.

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

It should be way bigger news that Trump effectively killed any attempt by foreign countries to build new factories in the United States with this idiotic ICE move. Just incalculable long term damage. Trump just killed his "build America" push www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

Good. Fuck them. fortune.com/2025/09/09/t...

Paging DOGE: Waste, fraud, and abuse: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

The night after the murder of Melissa Hortman, the Democratic legislator in Minnesota, the Yankees were at the Red Sox and neither team requested a moment of silence. For an actual public servant. Who we choose to hold a moment of silence for and who we do not are silences that speak volumes.

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

It’s so surreal seeing prominent right-wing figures—an influential presidential advisor, the last campaign’s biggest donor, etc.—call for violence, the GOP president lie and stoke violence, every Dem officeholder condemn it, and mainstream media treat those as the same, or the Dem reaction as worse.

Everyone in this regime is a liar. Nothing they say should be given any credibilitity or repeated without the context that they are liars. Any headline writer or reporter that simply prints their lies without saying they are liars should be fired.

Just was on a United flight from SFO to Boston at the gate when another United plane taxiing hit us. I mean. How the hell do you hit a parked plane???? It felt like an earthquake but everyone seems ok.

Just was on a United flight from SFO to Boston at the gate when another United plane taxiing hit us. I mean. How the hell do you hit a parked plane???? It felt like an earthquake but everyone seems ok.

Jonathan Howard received an email from YouTube, which stated that Vinay Prasad, who is the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, had demanded the removal of six videos of himself from Howard’s YouTube channel. Howard’s entire channel has now been deleted by YouTube, which cited copyright infringement.

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023. The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion. That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?

There is a death cult in Washington who want to "MAKE CANCER GREAT AGAIN.: What a slogan!

she said that “black” with a hard r

Amidst our packed scheduled, we've managed to carve out a brief run of THE LAST CLASS WITH ROBERT REICH (very much-requested) — Fri-Tue, Sep 12-16 at 5:40pm each day (and if we're able to add any showtimes, they'll be posted Sep 9) > bit.ly/THE-LAST-CLASS

Fucking losing it how little of the reporting I’m reading about the CDC not mentioning how an anti-vaxxer gunman killed a police officer and fired hundreds of rounds at the building 2 weeks ago. An end to end ouroborous of delusional mania. The GOP will probably give the shooter a posthumous medal.

Dear @nytimes.com Is “critics” now a synonym for people who aren’t fucking crazy?

Everyone happy about the sandwich guy not getting indicted has to agree to not try to duck jury duty the next time their name comes up. It's one of the few ways you as a random citizen can say "no, this is not justice" in our system. (Do not tell the court you know about jury nullification)

The messaging from this administration has the same vibe as a cross set ablaze in someone’s front yard. It’s about communicating menace and instilling terror, the opposite of what the government of a free and democratic society should be doing.

They’re making fun of the media referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Maryland man as they threaten to send him to Uganda, a country where he’s never lived. They’re simply fucking vile.

So infuriating.

One Show Only Wednesday! THE LAST CLASS follows Robert Reich as he teaches for the final time and reflects on a world out of balance. Tickets: www.theavalon.org/films/the-la...

So coolio to interview @elliotkirschner.bsky.social for The Tyee on his new Robert Reich documentary "The Last Class." Full video in Best of Substack: bestofsub.substack.com/p/best-of-su... Edited Q&A in the Tyee: thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

THANK YOU #POTUS for acknowledging Ukraine's Independence Day is what I would've written yesterday if he hadn't completely ignored it. #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

It may seem corny, but the laughter and commotion of students walking on campus and in the hallways is the best medicine right now. The world is bonkers, but I never take for granted hearing that energy on the first day of classes.

As THE LAST CLASS's director (and the person who gave this quote), I can confirm. We set out to make a short film. But in large part because @rbreich.bsky.social is such a damn good interview, we had enough for a feature. So grateful our film's finding an audience. Thrilled it's now come to Canda.

The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country

The sheer amount of time, money, and resources this government has spent to torture one random guy is astounding.

If you think about it, I mean really think about it, books are long duration energy storage batteries, but for words

Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...

I didn’t have an inappropriate relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and I knew nothing of his crimes. It’s all right here in this redacted transcript of an interview my lawyer conducted with an alleged perjurer right before she was moved to a nicer prison.

Very old story. Glad you've finally gotten reason to "believe' that justice is "now" applied selectively.

Bolton’s home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towards…despotism. Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?

Here is UW - Madison's budget. Our <largest> funder is the federal government. 25%. It used to be the state. Either way, the university in its current form ceases to exist if these federal cuts really happen. But The. Public. Doesn't. Know. This. And our leaders are absent from the public debate.

The Gold Town Theater in Juneau, Alaska's only art-house cinema, is showing "The Last Class" for 2 more days: 8/18-19. Congrats to @elliotkirschner.bsky.social, @heatherlofthouse.bsky.social, @imcivicaction.bsky.social @abramorama.com on the film being in over 100 theaters in 34 states, DC & Canada.

The Last Class – Ottawa Premiere the week of August 22! “a heartfelt, thought-provoking and honest documentary biopic” (NYC Movie Guru) “A nuanced and deeply personal portrait of master educator Robert Reich…The Last Class is a love letter to education.” (DC Dox) mayfairtheatre.ca/movie/the-la...

Neville Chamberlain had a long run. But apparently his streak ended in Alaska today.

Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.

My spouse and I saw #thelastclassfilm with @rbreich.bsky.social on Aug 9 at @icfilmscene.bsky.social. It's an inspiring and touching documentary! I appreciated Robert’s reminder that leaders are made, not born. I also purchased Robert’s new memoir (“Coming Up Short”) from @prairielights.com.