The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

There has been strong night-time bird migration in recent nights, for example last night. The new radar-based tool has revealed that birds can reach heights of almost 4 km (!) over southern Finland. ilmu.fmi.fi/realtime

🚨NEW: VoteVets Responds to Trump’s Use of the National Guard in DC: “Trump himself refused to activate the Guard when our Capitol was under attack; he should be embarrassed he is activating them now.”

RFK twitter: “medical decisions should be made based on one thing: the wellbeing of the person-never on a financial bonus or a government mandate. Doctors deserve the freedom to use their training, follow the science & speak the truth without fear of punishment” Tl;dr: THOSE HOLES ARE SPEEDHOLES

The enemy of my enemy is also an asshole.

It isn't the comments that undermine the integrity of the judiciary, it's Trump's and Bondi's actions that do that. What Boasberg has done is what's known as telling the truth.

I once would have considered this a wildly oversimplified and problematic meme. Now it’s just a distillation of reality.

Yesterday, Wilmer Chavarria, a Vermonter & US Citizen, was held and interrogated for hours in the Houston airport by CBP agents. He's a school superintendent. So don’t try to tell us this is about removing violent criminals. This is how they use psychological terror to intimidate us into silence.

Her name is Dr. Elizabeth Potter, a microsurgeon who specializes in complex breast cancer surgery. And this insurance company is now trying to destroy her reputation & bankrupt her surgery center since she spoke out about their practices. I’m sure you’ll never guess which health insurance company.

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A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it. (1/2)

Story from the Times of London. You can almost hear the disbelief from the UK that our healthcare system is like this. Dr Elisabeth Potter: I criticised UnitedHealth — now I’m facing ruin share.google/XzyRb4K6zC3L...

It doesn't matter why he's worried about the Epstein files. You don't need to know why. It only matters that he's shown us it is an open wound, and it is our job only to shove a rotten 2x4 into it.

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area. Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

Noem has bony old people arms. That is all.

Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."

A lesson on how to write a headline.

Speaking as a high school teacher with 20+ years of experience, we continue to be unprepared to deal with the deluge of white supremacist hate our students are being exposed. And now we want to partner with the latest bigotry firehose? Not in my classroom.

An I the only person alarmed that the U.S. military thinks a “show of presence” of heavily armed soldiers in a park in Los Angeles where kids play soccer is just fine and dandy?

Spent most of my life in WV (moved recently), witnessing it turn from reliably blue (voted for Dukakis!) to darkest of reds. But what sticks out to me is transformation of state govt, once a familiar story of nepotism & neglect to now a depraved story of exploitation & subversion of the common good.

What Prof. Weishart said.

Frankly this feels like a show of force in many ways. CBP has their own press guys here, lots of their own folks taking photos of bystanders

Border patrol now sweeping the park

I’m sorry, “yes we sourced a story using stolen personal data about a nonwhite politician brokered by a neonazi BUT the story illuminates the complex nature of racial identity” does not pass the laugh test

Here’s the true reported scandal of NYT’s scandalously bogus hit job on Mamdani spoon fed to the paper by a white supremacist shill. As thread says NYT should now cover *this* story with far greater fervor & outrage than it covered Claudine Gray - but don’t hold yr breath waiting for it to do that.

the whole story is worth reading, and the implication is that as Bezos got a personal trainer, divorced, sought a celebrity lifestyle *and* felt like he was mistreated by the Biden administration, his views about the purpose of the Post evolved accordingly www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Elite journalists wriggle & wriggle & try & try but they can not escape the fundamental dilemma: journalism is, by its nature, supposed to be on the side of accuracy, against lies & liars, but the GOP is lies & liars top to bottom. And for reasons of power & access, journalism can not say so.

We really need to make this point over & over again. When they say, "we're going to try to be more fair & represent the right's perspective," it *sounds* (especially to them) like trying to do better journalism, but in practice, it is the opposite, because the right is built on lies.

The point I want to make is: this is not coincidence. You could not do what the NYT is trying to do while maintaining high journalistic standards. Why? Because in reality, the parties are asymmetrical. The right has become deranged, violent, & illiberal. Dems are bog standard center-left party.

...I want everyone to notice something about it in particular: when they try to write these articles, they end up doing *shitty journalism*. The Claudia Grey stuff, the Mamdani stuff, the trans stuff, sanewashing Trump ... it's not *just* irritating to lefties, it's also demonstrably bad journalism.

Important thread.

The best possible interpretation of this is that you assigned three reporters to a story about how Mamdani accurately filled out an application to a college he didn't get into, and the only reason you followed this story in the first place is because a Nazi hacked the college

is this transparent communication to you? would the average person understand the reason readers were concerned, given patrick's thread?

i know i'm preaching to the choir on Blue Sky, but if you think wearing a mask to prevent disease is tyranny, but kidnapping Latinos off the street is safety, then you are stupid

The New York Times might want to read up on when it's appropriate to use anonymous sources, according to (checks notes) The New York Times, from an article dated 6/11/25.

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

nyt doing its usual thing of punishing its employees rather than reflecting on why they’re mad enough to speak out publicly

man it’s gonna be a police state but of people who were too stupid to be police

A moment of silence please for #USAID, which is officially shuttered after months of dismantling. Why a moment of silence? Not only for the employees. But also for the estimated 14 MILLION deaths by 2030 predicted without the agency. @altusaid.altgov.info www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Mr. President, you love playing the schoolyard bully but, at age 79, it’s time to cut it out. It’s one thing to steal one kid’s lunch money, but your bill STEALS LUNCH MONEY FROM MILLIONS OF KIDS. Now, that’s real ugly.

My 2yo threw a 30 min tantrum before bedtime, exhausted herself, and said “ok I talk to ghosts now” and started talking to nobody. Ok sure. I don’t even care anymore. Talk to the ghosts.

Sickening, revealing stuff from someone with the president’s ear

next dem AG

dems: we need a joe rogan of the left [zohran sets records for young voter turnout with a campaign around working class issues and affordability] dems: destroy this man

people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research