www.sacurrent.com/news/bad-tak... Sources: @texaspublicradio.bsky.social @kieraevebutler.bsky.social @motherjones.com @membrich.bsky.social @rollingstone.com @austinchronicle.bsky.social @ab-ibarra.bsky.social @nigelduara.bsky.social @calmatters.org @ccrjustice.org @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social.

"The Pinnacle bankruptcy offers tenants opportunity to wrest more control over living conditions [and] the Mamdani administration a chance to demonstrate support for the tenant movement that ushered him into office." newrepublic.com/article/2042... via @samrussek.bsky.social & @newrepublic.com

"So why does Stephen Miller claim that immigration is some big scheme to freeze out Republican voters? Because he recognizes that partisanship is a potent, acceptable lens through which to fearmonger." www.howtoreadthisch.art/data-is-anti... via @pbump.com #GreatReplacementTheory

"The solution is to jailbreak everything and replace it with open source software that's under your control and talks to cloud servers of your choosing." youtu.be/7wE8G-d7SnY via @aaronjbastani.bsky.social & @novaramedia.com #Enshittification

If you're not some kind of Scrooge McToilet, the holiday season is a great time to consider joining the Democratic Socialists of America. We're trying to advocate for common decency and an end to economic abuses; please visit here: act.dsausa.org/s/4734.nPoztb via @demsocialists.bsky.social.

Wouldn't you know, ascending to leadership positions improves Congress members' stock trading returns. www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @nber.org #BanCongressionalStockTrading

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... via @nejm.org #AmericanRevolution

If you voted for a president who pardons corrupt Democrats, then you have no right to complain. #Corruption

Exceeding a 5.4°F increase in global temperatures by 2050 may result in over 4 billion deaths by century's end, with "frequent large-scale mortality events", according to the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries and the University of Exeter. Full paper: actuaries.org.uk/media/wqeftm.... #ActOnClimate

"The myth is that Lincoln freed the slaves. ... Enslaved people forced emancipation on the Union, on President Lincoln, through their own militancy, their resistance, and their mass flight from the South. ... And this is a reminder of where social power lies in our society." #RealMcCoys

"People around Trump sometimes believe more in Marxism than today's Marxists themselves." www.youtube.com/live/fstyH98... References: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europea... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KK_Park en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sde_Tei... (via @wikipedia.org). #GO2025 #Žižek #RealMcCoys

calmatters.org/economy/2025... via @nigelduara.bsky.social & @calmatters.org

NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...

theintercept.com/2025/11/26/g... via @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social & @theintercept.com

www.sacurrent.com/news/bad-tak... Sources: @snopes.com @thehill.com @thelever.bsky.social @codyjohnston.bsky.social @somemorenews.bsky.social @davidsirota.com @nathanjrobinson.bsky.social @currentaffairs.bsky.social @oilchange.bsky.social @karinkirk.bsky.social @climateconnections.bsky.social.

"Border Patrol agents and local law enforcement shared information about U.S. citizens’ social media profiles and home addresses with each other after stopping them on the road." apnews.com/article/immi... via @byrontau.bsky.social & @apnews.com

"Most of the sites - nearly 80% - are in Louisiana, Florida, New Jersey, Texas, California, New York and Massachusetts." apnews.com/article/clim... via @apnews.com #ActOnClimate

Our season finale is about the vital role public media plays in the lives of many Americans, how the Trump Administration’s budget cuts could impact those Americans directly, and one small way we’re trying to make a difference. And yes, of course, there is a bidet involved.

popular.info/p/how-trumps... via @stephensemler.bsky.social & @popular.info #MilitaryIndustrialComplex

Breathing leftist life into Schumpeter and Adam Smith. youtu.be/-qAvOxGESvs via @brankomilan.bsky.social, @aaronjbastani.bsky.social & @novaramedia.com #RealMcCoys

www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-n... via @sacurrent.bsky.social Sources: @dogsbody1524.bsky.social @mysanantonio.com @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social @davidgriscom.bsky.social @vox.com @politico.com @lilianasegura.bsky.social @theintercept.com @popular.info @motherjones.com @mark-bray.bsky.social.

Don't forget to NOT BUY STARBUCKS while we're on ULP strike, tomorrow and beyond! Pledge to not cross a picket line - nocontractnocoffee.org

www.bbc.com/news/article... www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... via @reuters.com #UnionStrong

www.currentaffairs.org/news/on-vete... via @currentaffairs.bsky.social #VeteransDay

"Why are all of the largest corporations in the world funding Trump's vanity projects?... they recognize that Trump has set up a system of corporate corruption that allows them to buy the policies they want." perfectunion.us/trumps-corpo... via @moreperfectunion.bsky.social #Corruption

www.sacurrent.com/news/bad-tak... Sources: @jamestalarico.bsky.social @ericboehm87.bsky.social @reason.com @danalexander21.bsky.social @forbes.com @financialtimes.com @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social @propublica.org @nateraymond.bsky.social @reuters.com.

apnews.com/article/refu... via @apnews.com

"Sometime in the 2030s, the program’s trust fund is due to run dry. Closing the loophole, along with eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners, could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for Medicare". www.propublica.org/article/medi... via @propublica.org

youtu.be/uGBQwCsIhn0 via @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #FreedomOfReligion

theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c... via @theintercept.com #FreedomOfSpeech

"In a Gallup poll conducted this year, 68% of Americans said they approve of labor unions, on par with pro-union sentiment from the late 1950s." www.expressnews.com/business/art... via @maliyaellis.bsky.social & @expressnews.com

theintercept.com/2025/10/11/i... via @theintercept.com #HumanRights

"We have the best political system right now that private money can buy." youtu.be/xnbOGO26etA via @davidsirota.com, @levernews.com & @currentaffairs.bsky.social #Corruption

“There has been no independent review, no public oversight and no guarantee that taxpayers will ever see a return on their investment. ... Let’s be honest, this is corporate welfare.” www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm... via @expressnews.com #ProjectMarvel

Interested in a Burgis & McManus (@benburgis.bsky.social, @mattpolprof.bsky.social) response to this: youtu.be/YMfd3EoHfPI. Kotkin dismissed the argument that Stalin was "a deformity whereas Marx was about freedom." He also called Zohran Mamdani "a complete idiot" for proposing a rent freeze.

NJ Robinson: National Security Presidential Memo 7 "has essentially defined all political dissent against MAGA ideology as potentially fomenting violence and directed state agencies to investigate and disrupt it." youtu.be/cFTCOswwvlU via @kenklippenstein.bsky.social & @currentaffairs.bsky.social

NEW: A professor at Rutgers University who wrote a book about “antifa” almost a decade ago is trying—and struggling—to flee the US for Europe after a weeks-long online campaign against him by far-right influencers was followed by death threats. www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

#BadTakesSATX #BannedBooksWeek

www.sacurrent.com/news/bad-tak... Sources: @somemorenews.bsky.social @codyjohnston.bsky.social @lisatolin.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social @lastweektonight.com @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @npr.org @theintercept.com @cp-iscience.bsky.social @latimes.com @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social.

"Unions are a prime example of the kind of civic institutions that can save us from this pointless catharsis-seeking. They elevate workers from being powerless subjects of a boss to being participants in a democracy". www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o... via @hecubiandevil.bsky.social #EffigyPolitics

“America is a very cynical place for a reason.” americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/tyra... via @matthewstoller.bsky.social

The punitive approach favored by the law-and-order crowd can only take us so far in solving deep-rooted problems like this.

www.sacurrent.com/news/bad-tak... via @sacurrent.bsky.social Sources: @expressnews.com @sareport.bsky.social @jamanetworkopen.com @bmj.com @ucpress.bsky.social @texaspublicradio.bsky.social. #BadTakesSATX

Over the past 5 years, Ezra Klein has generated about half the web search interest as Tim Pool, according to Google Trends. Ta-Nehisi Coates has about a third less than that. Hasan Piker has several times more. youtu.be/UaeoDlLNnok via @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social