What a terrible day to know how to read

“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…” Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza. 🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...

Pritzker continues to do the ruling Regime’s work for them

Pritzker keeps saying that State police are there to protect the safety of protesters, and I will keep saying that he's full of shit and firmly implicated in enabling ICE and Trump's fascist regime of terror.

Props to this guy.

Priests being arrested

Broadview.

New Mexico is the first state in the country to implement universal free childcare, and the program will save families an estimated $12,800 a year.

the way that dems say "identity" when they just mean trans people makes me insane

Trump's name appears the most: more than 1,600 times. couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

NEW — Rashida Tlaib and 20 other members of Congress have introduced a resolution to officially recognize Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. It notes that between 10/23 and 11/25, the US sent $21,700,000,000 in military aid to Israel and authorized $30,000,000,000+ in new weapons deals.

New Jacobin Show with @davidgriscom.bsky.social & @mattlech.bsky.social is GOOD! www.youtube.com/live/yY2gN9a...

The Jacobin Show is back. Our new weekly live series kicks off with Jacobin contributor Eric Blanc and DSA national cochair Ashik Siddique on why the Democratic establishment should be on notice that economic populism, not centrism, is the winning path forward.

Time to get rid of this Pseudoscience.

"ProPublica asked the FBI to specify what it considered to be false. The agency did not reply."

All Cops Are ICE

Like the Koch brothers and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes. Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule. (Published Oct. 2024)

bluesky mods have fucking lost it

NIH scientist Dr. Jenna Norton was just placed on nondisciplinary leave. She led a team who wrote a sign-on letter critical of The Regime. A person at NIH asked to give a reason for her leave called her “radical leftist”; while the NIH Director has claimed that “dissent is productive”.

Most of these programs have time limits on them (eg ~2 years), which is not how housing, addiction or mental health issues work. You are not cured, you are stabilized and then we have to keep you stabilized. It’s really hard work. Just cycling more people onto the street makes things worse.

“All the evidence we have seen suggests that this had nothing to do with gang enforcement—no one was arrested on any charge remotely related to gang activity. It appears that DPS simply raided this house because the people throwing a party were Latinos from another country.”

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike. Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year. Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.

NEW: In text exchanges with a Bill Gates adviser from early in the first Trump presidency, Jeffrey Epstein presented himself as intimately familiar with Trump's then-current views, and even capable of passing messages from the White House to Gates through an intermediary. w/ @leahfeiger.bsky.social

SCOOP: In text messages sent in 2017, Jeffrey Epstein appears to position himself as a middleman between president Donald Trump’s administration and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. He seemingly represents himself as passing on information directly from Trump to Gates through an intermediary.

In April, state + fed police raided a bday party near Austin, arresting ~50 people including nine kids. Cops claimed w/o evidence they’d busted a Tren de Aragua gathering, + only charged two people w/ a crime. Now, the local DA has dropped both charges www.texasobserver.org/prosecutors-...

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BREAKING: Tremane Wood, who was moments away from being executed for a killing his brother admitted to committing, received a last minute clemency grant from Gov. Kevin Stitt www.huffpost.com/entry/treman...

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The median age of all U.S. homebuyers is now 59 years old. Just 15 years ago, it was 39 years old.

Featured story: Texas workers have long struggled with wage theft and the state’s willingness and ability to crack down on scofflaw employers has been relatively minimal. Now, rates of suspected wage theft are increasing, and the state labor law enforcement system is straining to keep up.

Our top story: A Texas Observer analysis found since 2021, at least 60 cryptomines have been developed or are under construction in at least 33 counties statewide. Experts worry our grid, and water supply, can't handle the load.

With the failure to pass Prop Q, Austin will have diminished capacity to deal with this.

Seems like this should be a bigger story

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Rep. Ro Khanna tells @Lawrence that he, Thomas Massie, and MTG will hold a news conference next Tuesday with survivors of Epstein's abuse.

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Who is good with databases and can make another one of these?

Making all those THC products illegal again is really disheartening because of just how effortless it was - decades of activism by people who recognized the myriad harms of drug criminalization had resulted in a real win and it’s all undone just like that.

Jeffrey Epstein: "I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body."

Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities

In light of today's renewed interest in sexual abuse, I want to remind my Texas neighbors that Olivia Messer is still interested in reporting stories of harassment and abuse at the Texas Capitol. Bc be honest, that place has got to have some unaired dirt, right?

BREAKING: Trump reportedly met with Epstein in 2019 in London, per House Oversight Committee. Trump previously said he stopped talking to Epstein in 2004. In 2019, Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges.

Physically protected bike lanes don't come from thin air. If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight-- and today is the LAST day you can pre-order the book from @islandpress.bsky.social islandpress.org/books/if-you... because starting tomorrow you can only just regularly order it since it'll be out.

UPDATE — With Rep. Pramila Jayapal (Chair Emerita of the Congressional Progressive Caucus), there are now at least 12 congressional Democrats, 15 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 8 Democratic candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:

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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

Join a Socialist organization that actually opposes Trump and the Pedophile Government *and* all of the stuff that led to it dsausa.org/join

New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.