A good assortment of arti found here: www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Was Mill anti-traditional? And was Hayek suffering from the burden of the past...? by Henry Oliver www.commonreader.co.uk/p/was-mill-a... Books by John Stuart Mill at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #Books #Literature

Excellent article. newrepublic.com/article/2118...

Fascism has to be fought on all fronts. bsky.app/profile/exhe...

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

Truth...

Can somebody explain to me why the rule is "if you can't make rent, cut out the streaming apps, lattes, and avocado toasts" but it's never "if you can't afford your workers a living wage, cut out the mega-yachts, rockets, and spaceships."

🚨 ICE ATTACKS PROTESTERS DURING DELANEY HALL SHIFT CHANGE 🚨 ICE agents shove the crowd and detain one person as multiple agents pile on top of him outside the Newark ICE prison. Day 24. @jtcestkowski.bsky.social & Jon Farina ⬇️

Republicans failed to kill Trump’s $1.8 billion payout fund. This judge stepped in to do the job. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Insanity: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Promising; why we need to keep doing research. erictopol.substack.com/p/a-new-path...

If Texas’ MMRC is not reauthorized, Texans will lose the most important source of data about preventable reasons for maternal deaths and severe illness.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

🧵 Fox is acquiring Roku for $22 billion. Fox News, Fox Sports, and Tubi combined with the platform through which 100 million households access Netflix, YouTube, and every other streaming service on their televisions. Fox won't just broadcast to those households. It will own the front door.

news.mongabay.com/short-articl... #Conservation

The administration is promoting a tool known as the SAVE program to maintain state voter lists. Here’s why that’s a bad idea: bit.ly/4v2OaaJ

"Forest Service inspectors have flagged problems with aircraft from Senator Sheehy's company for years..." www.propublica.org/article/tim-...

Who funded every business venture Elon Musk has launched? US taxpayers, involuntarily. What have they gotten from the investment? Nothing whatsoever.

Drew Sheneman cartoon www.gocomics.com/drewsheneman

"Seeing the huge anti-racism crowds in Glasgow and Belfast was genuinely heart-warming. Thousands of people came together to stand up for their neighbours, their communities, and basic human decency. No cars burned. No homes attacked. No businesses smashed up ..." via HandsomeCrocodile8127

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were given access to voter files in two counties in Texas and North Carolina, according to an Axios news report. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Todd Blanche cannot be Attorney General. The Senate must oppose his nomination. If you’re with me on this, please contact your senator’s office and tell them to vote NO on confirming Blanche. The Senate switchboard is (202) 224-3121.

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Gun ownership in top ten countries; Wiki. Don’t let anyone snow you that guns have proliferated in other countries the way they have in the USA. Next country in line has about half the guns per owner; most countries are 1/4 of the US private ownership.

After what I've seen on here the last few days, don't ever let anyone tell you Bluesky makes no impact in the real world. The money this place has helped raise for people here in Belfast has been astounding! The politicians and media aren't really here, but the people who give a shit are.

One year ago.

A right-wing PAC attacked Covina (CA) City Treasurer Neil Polzin for communicating with The Satanic Temple. A local church endorsed his opponent. Polzin won anyway. I asked him how he pulled it off. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/how-an-ath...

Why can’t we ever fund the right things? thenarwhal.ca/ontario-beac...

The Bou-Bou Macoutes have become the Caq-Caq Macoutes, with the same priorities of wasting tax dollars on this idiocy rather than paying salaries at hospitals. bsky.app/profile/mtlg...

A new exhibit of Indigenous circumpolar artists from around the world is set to open at Ottawa’s National Art Gallery on Friday. It’s called Qillaniq which is an Inuktitut word describing the way light from the sun or moon shines brightly on water.

A series of car explosions in Moscow Two vehicles have been blown up in the Russian capital today. In one of the explosions, a 62-year-old lieutenant general was killed. The blasts occurred in residential districts where Russian military personnel and their families live.

Lessons in Chemistry, 19th-Century Style She wrote the bestseller that made young people fall in love with science By Regan Penaluna nautil.us/lessons-in-c... Books by Jane Marcet (including Conversations on Chemistry), at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #Books #WomeninStem

I despair of humanity when this is someone’s take on rioting and breaching their capitol. Nothing but image as a concern.

Unconscionable: ICE deported one the organizers of the Union of People Kidnapped by ICE, Rogelio Bolufe Izquierdo, after he organized a hunger strike at the Tacoma, WA. detention camp. Bolufe Izquierdo is a Cuban national. They deported him to Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Let me get right to the point. The Senate should not confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general. Here's why: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-senate-should-not-confirm-this

The New York Times confirms what appears to be a US attack on two Iranian #water systems with precision bombs. Intentional attacks on civilian water systems is a war crime under the 1977 Geneva Convention Protocols and related international laws. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

Sadly this morning, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved Sen. Mike Lee’s amendment to eliminate the 2001 Roadless Rule, which protects roughly 45 million acres of national forest land.

This is the second video I’ve seen of military “training exercises” happening in civilian neighborhoods in CA. This was Long Beach. The other was in Pasadena. No notice to residents. It happened until the middle of the night. I don’t see news covering this. @gregfromvideo1 of IG

Nailed it

Good and thoughtful article about social media bans: paulbernal.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/b...

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Health officials link raw milk from two dairies to bacterial illness outbreak in 60 people www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti... No evidence healthier. Lots of evidence harmful. Sum: Don't believe regressive wellness influencers, MAHA, or RFK Jr! 📣 Soon: on CTV Edmonton to talk about raw milk noise.

NEW: The Trump administration put the Ambani family’s Reliance Industries at the center of an escalating tariff fight with India. Then Reliance invested millions in America First Refining, in which Donald Trump Jr. secretly held a stake.

Important help for women affected by repressive abortion laws: www.huffpost.com/entry/aborti...