Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

"In the past, Republicans have just waited us out because they thought we would break. This would be a very dangerous moment for us to do that because of the specific moral question being put to the nation: Does the president of the United States get to murder American citizens?"

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

can you understand now, about *funding* your local media outlets, NOT letting them die?

Found the CBS feedback form. Left a message about Bari www.cbs.com/showfeedback...

One thing Americans have to break themselves out of is assuming certain policies are impossible, because all this is a policy choice and a sizable chunk of the world isn’t worried about their schools be shot up.

so @cbseveningnews.bsky.social framing the election ‘affordability’ message as part of Trump’s GLP-1 pricing distraction thing…shows how quickly they’re pivoting to the new Bari Weiss right-wing regime. Sad to see from a formerly revered news desk. Goodbye old friends.

weird I’m not being served any content on the ‘live’ #VAGovDebate #VAGubernatorialDebate but there’s some wild interrupting and other s**t happenin you may want to tune in @whropublicmedia.bsky.social @abigailspanberger.com #WinsomeEarleSears

do all these R Senators realize they’re praising *Anthony Fauci* re: development of the COVID vaccine?!? lol

we are ALL holding incredibly good cards. if we collectively decide not to accept it anymore — things would change relatively quickly

Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out. Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation. Say equity, which a just society should pursue. Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

they’re not perfect, but seeing Senators @markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov giving some people hell and doing ‘sh*t that ain’t true’ takes is giving us LIFE in Virginia!

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Page One in Boston: @bostonglobe.com

headlines from a week ago as an incident near DCA appears to be the deadliest aviation disaster in the US since 9/11 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

yyyyyeah maybe we shouldn’t just “relax”

since when do parents “accompany” kids while they’re sledding???

these Carter funeral messages written years ago by Ford and Mondale, now read by their sons, talking about human rights, climate change & womens rights — delivered clear-eyed into the face of Trump — are connecting in a such a particularly ahMAZing way

I’m an old and the olds pissing me off for not knowing when to step aside. AOC yes yes yes

she truly vibrated with wisdom and lyricism and light. so lucky to have been in the room a few times to witness her impact

the lines shifted here and there. then lines kept moving. now no lines. none.

apropos of everything, just finished the apocalypse novel Severance by Ling Ma and binge watched Silo @appletv.bsky.social and the throughline in end times is getting ourselves amazing tattoos

“His message..[assembled] a constituency of overlapping online communities listening for archetypes & aesthetics, not policy. Trump gives plenty..sexist, racist notions about who belongs in the home, who should have a voice in public and who should be excluded from the state” Tressie McMillan Cottom

Figure out what matters most to you. And prepared to fight like hell for it.

excellent point for media to make in covering

🔥 @reckless.bsky.social on Musk: "America now has an unelected defense contractor sitting in the White House doing ketamine & twiddling the algorithmic knobs of an influential right-wing echo chamber while fulminating against traditional standards-based journalism." www.status.news/p/nilay-pate...

this describes the leadership structure of every organization in America

I knew I was spending too much time online when I saw an email with the subject line “It’s Giving Tuesday” and my first thought was “what kind of vibe does Tuesday give?”

actually fist bumped Major on the screen for this one

add to list of things to fight: Virginia had the fifth-highest number of school book ban instances in the nation in the last academic year, per PEN America, a literacy nonprofit [via @axios.com Richmond]

For the @nytimes.com I wrote about how Enough is Enough with the incumbent president and his cabinet of folly and let’s stop coddling Trump voters and be real clear-eyed about what lies ahead. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

as an obsessive downsizer, i don’t get the hand wringing over downloading & archiving tweets. they won’t be needed or used in a way that haven’t already served the purpose, yah?