Russia is pure evil. Georgia, Ukraine, always destroying places and people. Europe needs to take the money instead of obsessing about it. Take it out of Trumps hands

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

No health care, no deal.

My statement on the proposed Senate deal

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

Announcing the Recoding America Fund! It's time to update the operating model of government. eatingpolicy.substack.com/p/announcing...

Funny how Bill Clinton’s Telecommunications Act of 1996 institutionalized the process of media ownership consolidation. Thirty years later the job’s nearly done. ✅

Back at it again. Small batch from leftover pickings stashed in the freezer from July. That’s a wrap for the 2025 fig crop.

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"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations" cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

These top critical access hospitals are at risk of closure lowninstitute.org/these-top-cr...

TV antenna still working at your place? It won’t if the ATSC Sunset happens. Weigel Broadcasting Pushes Back on Proposals for ATSC Sunset www.tvtechnology.com/news/weigel-...

the Republican argument is that Elon Musk can deploy Starlink at a fraction of the cost of future-proof fiber, but Starlink is congested, expensive, can't scale, is harming astronomical research, is depleting the ozone layer, run by a white supremacist, and has largely nonexistent customer service

mindless engagement chasing at impossible scale by opportunistic sociopaths + the complete obliteration of all federal consumer protection = bad outcomes

oligarchs are destroying what's left of U.S. journalism, replacing it with corporate-friendly infotainment and right wing propaganda, and blowing smoke up your ass about how they're restoring trust in journalism and protecting "diversity of viewpoints from across the ideological spectrum."

You could seriously pluck any of a million articles on this CBS deal and almost none of them will make it clear to the reader that Republicans bought CBS to expand their information war on an informed electorate

Modern American culture expects/demands immediate results. Good governance, good construction, good science, those things take time, thinking, planning. Wrecking stuff is fast. You can show the results this week. This gives the Break Shit/Burn It All Down Party an advantage. It’s that simple.

This country had one of the most advanced emergency management systems in the entire world specifically so that we are not helpless in the face of disaster but this fucker and his little buddies decided to dismantle it.

New: Trump's federal workforce chaos is upending govt partnerships with U.S. critical infrastructure operators, jeopardizing work to protect vital services like healthcare and water from hackers & natural disasters. My @cybersecuritydive.bsky.social‬ story: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/critica...

The International Criminal Court says it recently "detected a new, sophisticated and targeted cyber security incident, which has now been contained." www.icc-cpi.int/news/icc-det...

Interviewer: Trump tweeted today that he wants to turn Rosie O'Donnell into jam. Your response. GOP Leader: Didn't see it. Can't comment. Interviewer: If Mamdani said he wanted to cancel Santa Claus how would that make you feel? Dem Leader: Angry. Children love Santa. I can't endorse that action.

Through all the ages poets and artists have often been prophets, because their work, or the material for it, comes to them from the same depths of the collective unconscious in which the major transformations of a particular era are in process of creation.~Marie-Louise von Franz

The Showstoppers Ain't Nothin' but a Houseparty playing now on wpkn.org Earlier today the original JGeils release played on wruv-fm in Burlington vt

This is MAGA This is the GOP

Bill was also a huge proponent and generous supporter of media reform. He would give rousing speeches at @freepress.bsky.social's conferences on why we must break up media conglomerates and create an alternative public media system: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0r7...

Everyone is focusing on Bove’s “f*** you” comment but not enough attention being given to the other bombshell in the WB, which is the premeditated violation of the Mass. district court injunction and subsequent cover up, the same injunction which SCOTUS stayed on Monday 1/

This piece by a friend’s rabbi is excellent for anyone who desires to try to understand all sides of very complex issues www.facebook.com/share/1C2Fm8...

Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.

Brad Marchand has 6 goals for the #Panthers so far in the 2025 Stanley Cup Final. Johnny Bucyk (1970) is the only #Bruins player with 6 goals in a Stanley Cup Final. 3 other Bruins scored 5 in a Final series: Roy Conacher (1939), Ken Hodge (1972), and Brad Marchand (2011).

There is a lot to unpack here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

who could have predicted that dumping your every intimate thought into badly run cloud automation systems managed by amoral monoliths in a country without functional corporate oversight would go badly

If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth. From Saturn. We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

meta is spying on android users' browsing data in an even sleazier and sneakier way than previously known this is the stuff you get when you live in a country that's too corrupt to pass a modern privacy law

yet another think tank that takes money from telecoms, then pretends they're an objective observer In this case they want to redirect taxpayer money away from local, higher capacity fiber networks and give it to Elon Musk's congested, expensive, capacity-constrained satellite broadband network

Sukhjot Singh "This fierce peregrine mom was patrolling her territory to provide a safe airspace for her newly fledged babies. I thought she was going to attack a few gulls that flew close, but she decided to take a hard right and turn around, offering a rare face-to-face moment with the camera."

Wendell Berry's quotes and poems often explore the profound nature of silence and its connection to the world. He emphasizes the importance of listening to the silence within oneself and in nature, fostering a deeper sense of humility & belonging.

This South Florida weatherman explains what Trump and DOGE cuts have done to our ability to predict the weather as hurricane season begins. 😢

Ok folks we really must get @ezraklein.bsky.social ‪and @karlbode.com to hang out in the woods and fork this thing over for as long as it takes to get it right. Karl's here to rock us into the next level, and Ezra showed those signs when he raised up the story of @pahlkadot.bsky.social. Let it be!

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oh look a think tanker whose organization gets paid by the telecom industry to normalize corruption and regulatory capture thinks we should shut down the nation's top telecom and media regulator instead of just lobotomizing it what a visionary

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

I don't know if there is a more appropriate goodbye to Loretta Swit, than her last scene in MASH in the series finale. Loretta won two Emmy's for her role as Major Houlihan.

some of the doge bros, drunk on decades of libertarian, republican, and corporatist kool-aid, are discovering the federal government does, in fact, do many important things, sometimes even competently!

Concise review of the current time. Fraught with opportunity, human awareness at the crossroads. Choose wisely in setting your intentions. Keep smiling! Know that the One wants to find itself.

Capitol Police chief blasts Jan 6 conspiracy theories: “My folks were here on Jan. 6.. They were assaulted.. Many of them were injured. They know exactly what happened on Jan. 6. For somebody to make up some story that, 'Oh, it wasn't that bad’..it is just not true” www.cbsnews.com/news/capitol...