She's got $80/$250 and about 24 hours to go. If you do not have Cash app and still want to help, my Venmo is AmandaKFinley, last four digits of cell are 7604. PayPal is [email protected]. Thank you!

The kids are gonna be all right.

A *response* of Eminem and Jelly Roll to the fake news of a tribute song they didn't make ... listen, if you make a rap god sized hole in the world and the rap god *steps into it*, duetting with one of the most soulful voices of this era ... maybe they could pull some/enough men out of the brainwash

It is possible to slow the F down on the inside no matter how fast you and/or the world are going on the outside. I knew this but I needed the reminder. I think doing that is the only way to stay sane and free tbh.

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

@elienyc.bsky.social Please tell us that some panel is drafting a new Constitution and that you're on that panel, bc that's the banner we need to be flying. We need to know that something can replace this mess that can't be undone in 6 months

I can't watch TV but spreading the news: specific boycott actions here

If being rich and powerful doesn't buy you the ability to say No, wtf is your actual net worth? You're weak. You're a pool of sludge sitting around telling other pools of sludge that they're titans. You're a fluffer.

ah, well

Latest on Trey Reed: bsky.app/profile/nick...

This episode is critical for your mental health :)

In this week’s newsletter I have thoughts on Ezra’s Klein value judgements about the “right way” to do politics.

Public. Health.

Fuck them all.

"FBI informant" is a euphemistic way to say "collaborator with corrupt US government institutions to streamline organized crime"

In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Here's a list of those exempted drugs.

We should be switching all our systems to renewables. Instead, warlords are arranging a Mad Max future so they can stay warlords. Tech bros are helping so they can be war boys, and mainstream politicians are bloodbags.

Maybe Colbert could call his next show "Late Stage"

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For too long, the story of Quaker abolition has been told as one of conscience, but it was Black resistance that forced the Religious Society of Friends to confront its deepest contradictions.

We need a Declaration of Interdependence.

Read to the last sentence. ?1 Where's an article about who defines "nonviolent civil disobedience when the law is dead," and whether we agree with that someone? ?2 Hope, that revolutionary action, has to include people working on a new, vastly improved Constitution... who's on top of that?

Whew! Say all of that.

I love this

Read to the end

Fiiiine, apparently half my readers enjoy an info dump, so here we go! Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.” Ahem. *takes a sip of water*

Action, pls! CALL HOCHUL 518-474-8390, ask her to sign bill S550 to ban anonymous calls to Child Services (replacing them with confidentiality). Nearly HALF of Black and Latine kids are investigated! Only 7% of anon calls are substantiated (under 25% of calls overall) gothamist.com/news/deeply-...

This is a really helpful read

To live a life of power in order to avoid vulnerability leaves you totally unprepared for death. No track record of facing fears. No way to summon up courage. No loved ones with you, because you never loved. Absolutely no inner resources to lean on, just... horror and dread. Top dogs, going down.

Shock: The amount of money pouring into the govt agency kidnapping people off the streets. Doctrine: The New York Times attacking the fairly elected Democrat nominee for promising a rent freeze and free buses via a tiny increase in taxes on people who can easily afford it.

Is there a way to make working for ICE so shameful that they have difficulty hiring, even with all that money

Mother Jones explainer of what $100 billion looks like, bc that's what this bill gives to ICE and their hired kidnappers. The standout for me was running Guantanamo Bay for 185 years. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It feels really weird to be awake during... do we call this one the death rattle? While so few people are up. All those "moderate" Republicans and only one had a spine. I know black swan events occur, sometimes for good not evil, but I'm finding it hard to imagine how elections survive this bill.

Sound up for a necessary break between calling House Representatives

Very helpful guide to making essential calls this morning

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

Big Money is Big Mad :)

I have three hearings at three different courthouses today. At the second, someone was sobbing outside the courtroom. They'd asked ChatGPT what to say in Court. They believed what it told them. They lost because it hallucinated, and they didn't know there were no do-overs.

Love love love

Wow, this quote!!

Call your Republican rep right now

Make the call, please

I did a lot of big reacting yesterday. Back to my policy of No News Till Noon. Proving it by posting without reading my TL. Score one for mental health!

If the Maryland court certifies this class and grants the relief, it would lead to the same impact as a nationwide injunction; the birthright citizenship EO would be blocked entirely.

Everyone: No kings SCOTUS: King, and you can't stop him Everyone: We'll vote in a check and balance next year King: no you wont Everyone: ... How are we going to end this plot line, Everyone?

An aversion therapy depot for the depressed called Smoke and Mirrors

@nywfp.bsky.social @workingfamilies.org We've gotta unseat Gillibrand. Can we raise the NYC profile of upstate progressive heroes over the next few years, so that they have a base here as well when the time comes?

Call now. I was so angry my voice shook on the voicemail.

New Yorkers understand that we've had socialism for the wealthy *forever*... and socialism for everybody else just looks like things we already have, like the MTA. It's not some frightening thing. It's Europe. We Europed.

The Turkey Mayor is incapable of stealing Mamdani's voters or finding new ones. He is the poster boy of cowardice and corruption and the whole city knows it.