Interesting bit from a speech Cory Booker gave yesterday at the Michigan Democratic Women's Caucus in Detroit: (Full speech here: www.c-span.org/program/camp...)

Tired of the stock market being regarded as a proxy for the wisdom of crowds. Crowds are dumb. Profit-seeking crowds are dumber. Gambling profit-seekers are the dumbest. They market shoves money wherever it thinks profit will arise tomorrow. That’s decidedly NOT wisdom for long-term prosperity.

Trump’s threats of massive war crimes in a 4 hour period tomorrow night feel like the closing scenes of “Don’t Look Up.” The threat isn’t the extinction of humanity (for now), it’s the destruction of the world order that has framed my whole life.

If this is real. If his thumbs actually typed what is below... Citizens. Senators. Cabinet. The President of the United States is out of control. He is beyond reason or amelioration. We might really, really, really, I'm trying not to shout or capitalize here, really want to address this.

Spotted at a No Kings protest in Durham, North Carolina! Epic creativity!

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"In the first seven months of his second term, authorities arrested and detained parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children — a number that, if the pace held up, will have roughly doubled by now. That’s an average of more than 50 U.S. citizen kids a day with a parent pulled into detention."

The @transit.app people do a *tremendous* job of incentivizing you to tell them about what's up with the bus by constantly being like "look at all the avatars of other people you've helped". From an app design perspective it's fascinating.

The next six months could be the ultimate in teachable moments, with rapidly rising prices for oil, and rapidly rising temperatures. And what do you know, we have a midterm exam coming up on November 3. billmckibben.substack.com/p/now-comes-...

The United States is contemplating threatening to kill people with HIV in another country as leverage to get that country's minerals. We have become a sick nation, just as depraved and disgusting as its leader.

“I think what ICE is doing is the worst thing America has probably done since the internment camps during World War II.” One of the nation's top "justice facility" architecture firms will no longer work on ICE detention centers or deportation facilities after its employees staged a revolt.

Staff Reads from our Executive Director: " @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social has deep wisdom to share. 'Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war.'"

The US Senate has not taken up the “SAVE America” act, which would identify “presumptive noncitizens” who must prove citizenship to vote. Meanwhile, the NC State Board of Elections is seeking to impose similar requirements through a formal rule.

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

I’m pleased to see that San Francisco has cut its air pollution by 20% in recent years. It’s time for the whole world to start phasing out fossil fuels. The end of fossil fuels will be a new beginning for health. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social

Dems need to organize their offense! @graigmeyer.bsky.social tells how: open.substack.com/pub/graigmey...

Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

Why wealth and power are NOT the core issue in the Epstein files: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Superb reflection on an ongoing crisis. Donate, vote, organize!

This one hits hard.

I keep watching ”Resist Dance.” So beautifully poignant! www.instagram.com/reel/DU2S2xE...

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal. Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

🚨 Breaking news in Epstein Case 🚨 The New Mexico Legislature has passed HR1 to convene a Truth Commission and investigate Epstein’s crimes in NM, including at Zorro Ranch—led by State Reps Andrea Romero and Marianna Anaya. Full explainer here: youtu.be/DnOTfR_msPw?...

Spectacular.

A judge ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit seeking a pause on toxic industrial plants in two majority‑Black districts

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

"Donald Trump is not the disease of our politics, he’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows big corporations to buy and sell politicians in ways that leave them rigging the system against us."

What’s happening with Project 2029? Is it under way?

Stop disenfranchisement of millions of Amercans by stopping the SAVE act! substack.com/home/post/p-...

OMG.

Such courage! If you haven’t seen it, watch the full 20 min testimony given by Marimar Martinez at a Congressional hearing youtu.be/bkRJUwaofss?...

Your yacht will never find out anything damning about your business.

NC friends, we need an overwhelming response here: www.ncsbe.gov/about-electi... What other states are trying to require proof of citizenship under the guise of “voter list maintenance”?

When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)

Okay, Congress. GO!

Maybe better late than never? Now that there are great models of courage and resistance out there, university leaders can follow this playbook and still get lots of credit for helping turn the tide!

Wow -- incredible!!!

When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?

Pro tip for any Hill journos, the Speaker can approve 24hr protection for Members who are under heightened threat. Omar used to have this, but Mike Johnson took it away. You should ask him about that

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

Beautiful interview of St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her.

NEW: In a court hearing for a TRO against the feds in Minneapolis, the plaintiffs just said one of their exhibits contains a recording of a federal agent saying "Well, this person is gonna have a hard time traveling from now on" after taking a photo of an ICE observer's license plate. 1/

Today marks a major moment for child health: the AAP has released its updated 2026 childhood and adolescent immunization schedule. Updated annually to reflect the latest scientific evidence, this year’s schedule is formally endorsed by 12 leading medical and healthcare organizations. bit.ly/4r5KbaQ

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

Precisely.

The president who pardons a meth dealer wants us to believe he is stealing Venezuela from Venezuelans because he is so against dealing drugs, not because he's greedy to put oil money in a private Qatar bank.

How is Trump pardoning a republican rep's meth dealer son not a major story at every media outlet right now? Given the pearl clutching over the pardon of Hunter Biden, has the GOP and corporate media suddenly started caring about addiction? Or is there just a double standard? (Rhetorical)

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.