ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

Class action

This is major news and everyone needs to be alarmed! The DOJ is starting to execute on NSPM-7. This is a broad reach which any one of us (Democrats) can be questioned by the FBI. Start the lawsuits now. theconversation.com/labeling-dis...

Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. Read our full investigation here 👇

Under a 2010 ruling from the Supreme Court, domestic groups can face “material support” charges for providing nonviolent support to designated foreign terrorist organizations. interc.pt/4i1EqYJ

📽️ICYMI: Janai Nelson, President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, joined Marc Elias to reveal how democracy is still shaped by race and power, and how the Supreme Court and partisan lawmakers are rolling back hard-won rights for minority voters. https://youtu.be/eWvZ2R2dCAg

My anaconda don't want...

An Ohio Senate measure updating the state’s orphan well program is getting pushback from environmentalists, counties, and farmers. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/14/o...

ICYMI, our latest post is about #FreeTheNipple, with @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social  asking whether topless equality still matters in 2025:

Signs of resistance

Gov. Cox's office says it hasn't been notified of any plans for a 10,000-bed ICE detention facility in Utah, contrary to national media reports. An open-records request to his office came up empty, prompting some to call for more transparency in the process.

This is Israel..not a democracy, no functioning legal system but supported by the US/UK with huge amounts of tax payer money, lies and diplomatic cover youtube.com/post/UgkxirB...

ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed

That little wooden VOTE sign in front of Dominick Cross is one of mine. The others are much larger, but hey this got published. Yay me, and yay us of Good Trouble 337!!! We miss Matt Isaak.

You can use the word "authoritarian" anytime now, NYT.

Well, you know me...if it makes a racist angry I have to go and vote with my dollars.

We’re looking for anonymized photos of prescription bottles to help us determine where those drugs were made. Here’s a quick guide to sending in your label securely ⤵️

Fun hobby

The government is shut down in a fight over insurance subsidies for lower-income people. Huge majorites of Americans want to extend them, a new poll says ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/10/p...

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program. ➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

In fire-scorched Palisades, a library and rec center become linchpins of fury with City Hall

Critics say the move to axe Bill Clinton’s "roadless rule" that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to the environment.

EXCLUSIVE: Key Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia was accused of sexually harassing a lower-ranking colleague, according to administration officials. Fearing retaliation, the woman later withdrew a complaint, and Ingrassia denied wrongdoing.

Before the U.S. declared independence, Thomas Paine declared war on kings, and on blind faith in authority. His 1776 pamphlet ‘Common Sense’ still speaks to preserving skepticism as a core American value. buff.ly/choF1vN #polisky

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

If the DNC can deploy 30k volunteers to pick up a random state senate seat in Iowa, can y’all please get like maybe 100 people involved in defeating Clay Higgins in Louisiana?

Of course preaching to the choir is pointless, but Bluesky provides a great service to the ppl many came here to avoid by allowing some misanthropes to copy and paste what we post here on to sites like truth social.

The world is witnessing the Lafayettification of the US and the place to affect that is there. It's also interesting to see that Bluesky is not filtering ppl the way Twitter did before its buyout. Or if it is, I'm missing that news.

I live in MS, so Bluesky is only accessible to me when I leave home. It doesn't seem very useful bc it doesn't atm provide a way to dialog with people who respond to local news pages in Lafayette, LA which if you don't know is Hate Central. .

A secretive Inland Empire religious group, described by police and in a coroner’s report as “cult-like,” is under investigation following the disappearance of at least one man and 15 years after a 4-year-old boy died while in the custody of the group’s leaders. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Jackson MS apres-midi

#Pontchartrain #ReleasetheEpsteinfiles

So glad Kimmel didn't apologize

Hi blue sky glad to be back I've been on vacation in Mississippi for a long time

I never hear that someone from the party of death threats was apprehended or punished for that, and bc the other party is famously not doing that it seems curious that the right gets away with causing so many job resignations. Are the phone calls or written messages never traced to their sources?

Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin pressed DOJ leadership about their handling of the Epstein files, including reports that FBI personnel were instructed to "flag" any records that mentioned Trump. nbcnews.to/46dPiic

Industry insiders say other states in the northeast, led by New York, are investigating tapping clean energy projects off the province of Nova Scotia. from @nationalobserver.com via @climatedesk.org

On July 11, 1925, Mother Nature almost robbed WGN of its place of honor at the intersection of radio and legal history.

My oldest boy #catphotography

#artphotography #clouds

Federal judge orders LAPD to stop shooting journalists with rubber bullets at protests

The U.S. Department of State is eliminating its Office of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) as part of a sweeping round of layoffs affecting more than 1,350 employees that began on Friday, Raw Story has learned.

SNAP-Ed helps people on a limited budget eat healthier and shop smarter, teaches children and families how to cook meals from scratch, and promotes physically active lifestyles. The program reached more than 2 million New Yorkers last year. But it’s slated to expire on Sept. 30.