Preach!

Trump says he now wants to use revenue from his tariffs to bail out American farmers — who are struggling because of the trade war sparked by his tariffs. If this sounds familiar, it's because the same thing happened in Trump's first term. https://youtu.be/AfVGUiet39E?feature=shared

Feds arrested reporter at ICE facility near Chicago

GOPer calls for Dem to be hanged. Republican Arizona lawmaker makes post calling for execution of Democratic congresswoman www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move. 1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year. Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

“Charlie Chaplin was willing to mock Hitler. Colbert and Kimmel were willing to mock an American president with his own authoritarian designs. What will the rest of us be willing to do in order to stand up to fascism?” Al Franken writes. Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"Something is dying: the sense that we know our country. [Philosopher Judith Butler is] currently writing a book on Franz Kafka and the law. The letter Butler received from [U of Berkeley] did not specify [why] they might be investigated." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

No acrobatics necessary to distance “the left” from the murderer. It now appears to me that he held a vague & simplistic version of leftism to which he applied *his own* murder logic. That murder logic is his, not yours or mine. He isn’t “mine” to apologize for. I condemn as I would any murderer.

"They went to stand in front of the embassy to open the Egyptian border, so babies and kids can have a sip of water or a piece of bread before they get killed. That shows what kind of kids I have.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/n...

Improvement on the original

Folks, go give @texasobserver.org some $$, ferrchrissakes!!

This!

Nor will I.

This

Broadacres Marketplace, a vibrant hub at the heart of Las Vegas’ Latino community, has temporarily closed, deepening fears and financial uncertainty for thousands of vendors and small business owners left without income. nbcnews.to/4l9ni3H

More of this, please, to distract from the national doomdom

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

On balance, I was more comfortable with Fox employees lying about wars than running them.

Thank you for these 5 things, Timothy Snyder.

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 143 On leaving the nest for the first time female #bumblebee workers thoroughly survey the surrounding landscape on long looping exploratory flights; stopping often to ‘sample’ #flowers until they discover a favourite patch. #bees #nature 🐝🌍

Just posted by JP @atpgeo.bsky.social Le Monde - US & Russia Conspired at the UN for Resolutions Favourable to Russia www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Ah...

Yay Chehalis tribe!!! medium.com/@lewiscounty...

This statement from Jonathan Joss's husband is heart breaking. No, headline writers, he wasn't "killed in an argument with a neighbor." He was *deliberately murdered* for being gay right after his dog was decapitated. Bet the murderer calls himself a "Christian." THIS is why Pride is important.

Happy pride month ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

Shoutout to @sherylcrowofficial.bsky.social for using her voice to stand up for our democracy — every single day. She gets it: our leaders should hear from all of us, not just the wealthy and well-connected. In a healthy democracy, everyone’s voice matters. 👏🎤🗳️ variety.com/2025/music/n...

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

Who wants to travel to the US these days? Not many at all! More business for Canada, I guess! Welcome to Friendly Canada!

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

So shameful. This country. No words.

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

Be still, my heart!

To figure out the tributaries and other spots where Yangtze finless porpoises formerly lived, researchers turned to ancient poetry (by @gennarotomma.bsky.social) 🧪 (Look at that cute faaaaace.)

Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea? 139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea. A 🧵

4/4. My book "Black Earth" was all about this. I will try to write a summary tomorrow.

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.