All because billionaires can never have enough.

One real problem that policy analysts face is that we deal in abstractions and statistics. Personal stories like this are more powerful. The problem is that by the time the personal stories emerge, the policy we warned about is already in place. Damage is done. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

"A video shared widely on Italian media shows Fakir, who reportedly had heart issues and asthma, repeatedly calling out “aiuto, aiuto, basta” (Help, help, that’s enough) as two officers sit on him and ambulance workers look on."

Computer system problems foreshadow trouble as states prepare to roll out the most significant and complicated changes to their Medicaid programs in years. https://kffhealthnews.org/health-industry/deloitte-medicaid-eligibility-system-denials-michigan-trump-policy-piles-on/

It's a comparative advantage thing. The Dems could go quite xenophobic, transphobic, and racist and guess what? There's still another party that does them better! Voters who are motivated by those things will never vote Democrat.

Aurora over Raisting Earth Station - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2pQvMHo

Meanwhile elected politicians are enjoying living high off the hog. Any serious Dem or progressive needs to run on changing that. Kids losing food benefits while they enjoy a generous expense credit for meals and travel not to mention free health insurance and prescription coverage.

Starving people over paperwork. Enough of the means testing bullshit, let’s try just feeding everybody and see what happens

In a bid to keep the two sides of my work life separate I’ve set up @infinitemonkeyshq.bsky.social A place for writers of all kinds, readers and viewers too. Things I’ve learned on the road to getting published, my work made for TV, talk about the craft, tips, news and intel, reviews. 1/2

This state supreme court opinion pulls no punches: “This court does not anchor Hawaiʻi’s due process rights to the federal floor. Especially one that keeps sinking. . . . State constitutionalism makes it easy to consider Roberts Court jurisprudence ‘white noise.’”

Story of my life these days lol

Thank you for underscoring how much food insecurity is impacting people right now. We can't talk about this enough. "the land of plenty" means nothing without equitable distribution of that plenty. I wish journalists were asking congress people abt this on the daily.

Republican-Fueled Islamophobia Cited as Cause of Spike in Attacks Against Muslims | “Violent extremist rhetoric targeting Muslims & members of other communities must never be dismissed as mere online speech when it includes credible threats of mass violence,” CAIR-Pittsburgh's Christine Mohamed said

Congress has the power to set term limits for Supreme Court justices. Here’s why: bit.ly/4wkTlDK

few things radicalize me more than this we are the richest, most powerful, most abundant nation on earth failing to feed our own hungry people is an abomination it is immoral and ought to be punished by any cosmic principle of justice

For 17 years, Washington has failed to raise the federal minimum wage while the cost of housing, groceries, childcare and healthcare has soared. Today, $7.25 an hour is officially a poverty wage. No full-time workers should be left in poverty. fortune.com/2026/07/20/m...

In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

When our son was born it was a complicated birth & my wife needed me at home for the next 2 weeks. I got chastised by a supervisor for “taking so much time off.” Anyway—I’m glad that even though McConnell voted against paid parental leave, he gets unlimited leave & health care on the taxpayer dime.

So they’re killing tourists now: newrepublic.com/post/213277/...

This is an important story confirming what many of us already suspected connecting Boeing and a US army vet/company to the RSF in Sudan. reut.rs/4vuf5eQ @specialreports

Reporting by The Intercept previously found that the Pentagon’s official tally of dead and wounded personnel is a gross undercount, stemming from what one U.S. government official called a “casualty cover-up.” interc.pt/4yvo3eD

Marco Rubio and Cuban American hardliners like him want you to believe that both the global shock of watching Derek Chauvin murder George Floyd and the ensuing outrage were manufactured by Cuba.

"All whites are not racist, and all Blacks are not angry. Somewhere in the middle, we’ve got to meet and find what is just and fair," the Rev. Al Sharpton told a multiracial group of attendees at Nolan Wells' funeral. Read more: www.mississippifreepress.org/nolan-wells-...

Timeline cleanse ☺️

Not the state department ... Not diplomats ... But the vastly unqualified and unserious FBI Director is going to Russia to meet with an enemy of our country but a friend of the president. We will not be told the real reason or what was discussed.

It's really difficult to turn up the puke factor volume of this administration, but give them credit for effort.

Life under a two-tier justice system. There is a real process for people to seek pardons. But its been set aside for cronies, crooks and donors

His name was Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old originally from Colombia. He had a wife, a young daughter, and family that loved him. He had the legal authority to be here and to work here. ICE murdered him after he left for work that morning. #ProudBlue #ICEshooting #Maine

"DEI crackdown" It was actually just nixing anything that was meant to help nonwhite, non-straight people who this administration deems unworthy of services.

have african-americans ever felt that american way of life?

Why did MAGA embrace the Tate Brothers who are accused of rape and sexual assault?

War criminals and monsters. Ghouls all of them. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Scott Wiener is a contemptible politician—inherently anti queer and anti trans bc he’s pro corporatism, pro landlords, anti speech and anti renters. He tried to crush the student protest movement & get Prof. Sang Hea Kil fired! He belongs nowhere near the United States congress!

Doom is a disservice to the struggle and it dishonors the dead like Renee Good and Alex Pretti who gave their lives to protest this Administration and its act.

Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”

NEW: The U.S bishops condemned the Trump administration again on Monday, this time over the ICE killings of two Catholics, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Durán Guerrero. Echoing Leo XIV, the bishops declared that these heinous acts “should never be normalized in our society.”

More ICE killings are the inevitable result of mass deportations rooted in incendiary claims of immigrant invasion @jtccarroll.flux.community on why Democrats mustn't shy away from letting the public know about Trump's dehumanization of immigrants

Do you know how many ICE officers were killed while attempting to detain a suspect? Since 2003, ZERO. In over 20 years. No ICE agents were killed trying to detain a suspect. None.

“We have nothing to provide beyond what is listed on the website," said Hegseth’s office late Friday night, without specifying which website, when questioned about U.S. casualties. Hours later, they acknowledged “two U.S. service members in Jordan were killed”

Pete Hegseth's proposal to test military personnel for testosterone reveals the gender ideology at the heart of White Christian nationalism: axismundinetwork.substack.com/p/axis-daily...

Stunning 😻

I applaud @nytimes.com for publishing this article -- and getting the Pentagon to respond. But there is so much more to the story. See my latest @theintercept.com article and thread 🧵below. U.S. Official: Iran Attacks Injured “Far More” Troops Than Pentagon Admits theintercept.com/2026/07/20/u...

Left- Todd Blanche and the DOJ quietly changed Bureau of Prisons policy after Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer as it violated the original rules.

A smarter way to read this is “young people who identify strongly as democrats absolutely fucking hate the Democratic Party” which I would see as a problem if I was the Democratic Party

The Rowan County, Kentucky Sheriff has removed two explicitly religious Easter posts after a concerned local reached out to FFRF. Read more ➡️ ffrf.us/4wcSSTH

EXCLUSIVE: Hegseth’s War Department Slashed Civilian Protection Staff, Brought in AI Assessments Pentagon report says its center devoted to protecting civilians cut most of its staff and scrapped a records database while developing an AI assistant to speed up work theintercept.com/2026/07/20/h...

Morning side-gig

The demographic reality is inescapable: We are going to have millions more older drivers with diminishing capabilities, in cars that are too big and too dangerous for everyone around them, with few satisfactory alternatives to driving. It will not end well.

Very excited to share this with the world. We have been working on it for a while! www.wired.com/story/the-ac...

Richard Gere: “Trump uses the same words that Hitler did. Calls them vermin. They’re not vermin. These are human beings. I’ve met them. He’s never met a refugee or a migrant. These are human beings like us who are usually running from a fire of one kind or another” @marcofoster.bsky.social