Great interview about "free speech" rights in the US vs Britain -- as well as many people's conflicted support of "free speech". If you only support "free speech" for people you agree with, you're not really supporting "free speech".

Jimmy Kimmel is off air, people are getting fired for opinions about Charlie Kirk, so why is the White House worked up about free speech … in Britain? I tried to break it down with Asma Khalid @asmamk and Tristan Redman on the BBC’s Global Story podcast. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

So many people are canceling Disney+ over the Kimmel suspension that the cancellation page crashed. Did you cancel too?

Billionaires claim their wealth is just “on paper.” Funny, since they borrow against it to buy yachts, mansions, even companies. This week’s Closer Look shows how the #EqualTaxAct & Billionaires Income Tax would ensure ultra-wealthy pay their fair share. patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives...

"A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear. Progress depends on the choices we make about technology. New ways of organizing production and communication can either serve the narrow interests of an elite or become the foundation for widespread prosperity."

Good journalism is happening. It's important. And it could use more funding and readers.

The US government and especially the State Dept are now fine with this kind of thing apnews.com/article/char...

📖💬💥 Read Power and Progress: The Mini-Comic! Developed with @joelchristiangill.bsky.social and the BU Visual Narrative MFA program, based on Power & Progress by @dacemoglumit.bsky.social & @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social shapingwork.mit.edu/power-and-pr...

Excellent conversation on political violence in the US. Why it's increasing and what elected officials could do to lower its risk.

Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous

"On August 29, the State Department leadership notified staff that it was terminating more than two dozen agreements...designed to create common language and tactics to push back against Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and terrorist influence campaigns overseas..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

11/11 At the moment when climate action is most urgent and clean energy is becoming the cheapest power source globally, the US is walking away from the ambition to lead (or participate) in that transition. China is ready to fill that vacuum.

10/ The transition will happen with or without US participation. By withdrawing from these industries and blocking allies from Chinese partnerships, America risks becoming a bystander to the biggest economic transformation of our time.

John Stewart talks to @jbpritzker.bsky.social about Chicago, Trump, ICE... and how to mitigate crime. Pritzker has an impressive command of the facts and what Trump is doing to make suppressing crime harder. youtu.be/JVAaPNI4kak?...

Trump admin pulls the plug on Texas’ Solar for All program - "White’s Port Arthur-based co" among "participants in Texas’ Solar for All program, ...initiative to deploy solar energy in homes across Texas and build out a workforce to install the technology in low- and moderate-income communities."

Texas solar program left in limbo after Trump administration pulls the plug on $250 million grant

I call on Donald Trump to join me in consistently denouncing political violence and to renounce his past calls for violence against the media, protesters, criminal suspects and immigrants.

More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July. Now some farmers are saying that as a results of ICE raids, and of workers be afraid to show up to job sites, crops are going to waste.

Working families in Pennsylvania pay higher tax rates than millionaires and billionaires. That’s why we spoke with @deluzio.house.gov today about passing the #EqualTaxAct to close loopholes and fix the broken tax code in this country.

"We're going up against a lot of money. But I'm a former middle school teacher --I don't scare easily. And Texans don't scare easily." "There is far more that unites us than divides us."

I’m running for the U.S. Senate. Billionaires have taken over Texas and taken over America — but together, we can take power back for working people. youtube.com/shorts/IpO0S...

"American Manufacturing Employment Has Declined by 22,000 Jobs During the Past Six Months"

From @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

I mean, they’re asking for more public comment. But we already heard from 26,000 people. How can we not agree that workers — all workers, everywhere, without waiting for a lawsuit that’s likely never to happen — should be free?

The New Right

Reminder of the Seasons of Texas… 😂

1985 was a great year in Chicago. The Super Bowl Shuffle was a lot of fun. Go Bears!

It’s amazing my Bears are managing to host a football game tonight given that Chicago is a war-torn hell hole.

Medicare for All. Now.

On September 8, 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned President Richard Nixon:

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This. 👇👇👇 JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

As the Trump admin continues to unleash a flurry of high-profile investigations and indictments, here's a three-part test to quickly spot a legitimate law enforcement activity, v.s. a politically-motivated retaliation. https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/is-it-law-enforcement-or-is-it-retribution

While many institutions and political figures have rolled over and shamefully capitulated to Trump, J.B. Pritzker just fought off a looming federal invasion of Chicago and won. From @ryanlcooper.com:

The richest 100 billionaires in the U.S. have a net worth totaling $3.86 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is collectively worth $4 trillion. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

Rally to Free DC

What happened to the American dream ? There once was “an era when the income of a single factory worker or schoolteacher or baker or salesman or mechanic was enough to buy a home, have two cars, and raise a family.”

The labor market continues to soften, according to the latest #JobsReport out this morning from the BLS. Payroll employment grew only 22,000 in August and revisions now show employment losses for June (-13,000). Over the last three months, job growth has slowed to just 29,000 on average. #EconSky

What happened to the American dream?

The real Lisa Cook scandal is, what the hell is Bill Pulte doing going through the mortgages of Trump's political opponents? Is that part of his job description? He needs to come clean cepr.net/publications...

BLS revisions are standard. Trump’s firing of its commissioner is not. Undermining the BLS isn’t about accuracy—it’s about power. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ha! The poorest 25% of workers LOSE money under this bill while the richest Americans get a $270,000 tax cut. They can rebrand all they want. The facts are the facts. They screwed working people to help their billionaire and corporate donors.

With the course we're on -- killing transparent data & analysis of US economy and many other important areas, like vaccines -- we're doomed. US policy will be less effective at helping the American people -- until we return government control to fact based leaders.

RFK Jr hearing debates conflicts of interest. IMO, a issue worth public discussion. Seem to be a lot of disagreements and shallow understanding of this. Many probably think: "the experts that agree with me aren't conflicted, & those that disagree are conflicted."

In reality, it was master of projection Robert F Kennedy Jr and Children's Health Defense that alternately pretended COVID wasn't a big deal, or that it was engineered to target/exempt particular genomes; promoted bullshit cures; spouted nonsense about 5G; and undermined confidence in vaccines.

Excellent 🧵 about RFK Jr Senate hearing -- by pro-fact & science advocate and scholar Renee DiResta