looking into the article, important part to it is this was initiated by italian unions, making it possible to organize such action at all. which reinforces for what and why such union restrictions exist in america. keeping labor down doesn't just generate wealth, it also suppresses other movements.

This is what happens when you don’t vaccinate kids against measles. Whether it’s religious anti-vaxxerism in Israel or the secular kind in the U.S., the awful results are the same.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

"Congress recently provided funding in its budget bill to extend CIGIE’s Pandemic Response Accountability Committee... through 2034." This was funding the GOP wanted. How are Democrats supposed to negotiate over ending the shutdown when this stuff is happening? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Why are those of us with even passing familiarity with authoritarian consolidation freaking out? Because the answers to a) will Trump's paramilitary forces fire on civilians and b) will elements in the military follow orders to carry out unambiguously illegal extra-judicial murders are both "yes."

Past is prologue

Mom's COVID Shot Aided Baby, Too, Large Review Confirmed - Vaccination during pregnancy was safe for both mom and baby www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

"WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters)—An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said." www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

What a dark day for press freedom in the United States

Videos like this remind me, re: the evisceration of Bivens, that one of the key points of civil remedies is to discourage self-help to keep the peace. Deescalate and sue, instead of fighting. If federal agents enjoy legal impunity, that changes the incentives and encourages meeting force with force

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

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This GOP move does several things: + No votes in the House until at least October 14 + No swearing-in for Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva D-AZ + No 218th signature from Grijalva on the Epstein Files discharge petition + Continues the House 'jam' of the Senate on the CR

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

These are the lowest cost insurance options for a 62 year old Georgian making $65k. 2025: $228 2026: $1142 She will lose $704/month in credits because of GOP cuts to health care. This is a crisis. We cannot wait to fix this.

At the newsletter right now: One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since the murder of Charlie Kirk will be a panel with leaders of the abortion ‘abolition’ movement - extremists who lobby for abortion patients to get the death penalty jessica.substack.com/p/turning-po...

Or, because you can simply read the law, you, too, can easily & immediately confirm that it quite clearly violates the law. Journalism, what is it, anyway?

Next year, a lot of folks are going to see their premiums go up $1,000 or more per month because of a Republican policy. If you start having to pay $1,000 extra every month, what will you stop being able to afford? This is what Democrats are fighting to stop.

This is *exactly* right. The purpose of the shadow docket would be basically the opposite of this—e.g. to step in if a circuit court were going to allow summary deportations that placed individuals in danger. The conservative justices’ actions here are perverse.

It’s all fun and games til SCOTUS overturns the constitution

Very possibly no political official in history has made so much corrupt money at a pace like this. Mobutu and Marcos looted a greater share of their countries’ wealth over decades but in absolute terms and in speed, Trump shamelessly puts them to shame.

Good meeting of the minds here: one expert on the far right and one on public administration:

Why wait for the judicial process to work its way out, when you can just go straight to the final authority and have better than even odds of getting what you want (not only bc the GOP packed SCOTUS, but also bc the Court is afraid he will just ignore an opposing opinion)

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

We are the enemy because we do not feel threatened by diversity or inclusion. Decency will survive, but it will cost us.

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated: If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

NIH RECOVER sites studied 2,423 women ages 18-45 with COVID. At 6 months, about 10% developed long COVID. Those infected during pregnancy had the same risk as those infected outside pregnancy. journals.lww.com/greenjournal...

This is evil.

Very Trump-era story. 1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum. 2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property! 3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property. 4. The person who did the right thing was fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

Answer: Yes, he did. There are two qualifying cutoffs for males (2:55 for "male" males and 3:25 for "non-binary" males and only one for females, whether "female" females or "non-binary" females: 3:25) www.marathoninvestigation.com/2025/10/did-...

I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.

It does annoy me that 40% seems to be the standard U.S. "crazification factor", but on the plus side if even Hoover got 40% of the vote in the depths of the Great Depression, it makes Trump's support more understandable. You -can- fool 40% of the people -all- the time.

of course open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

How out of touch can Donald Trump’s top economic adviser be? A 60-year-old couple making $85k/year will have to pay over $22,000 more EVERY YEAR. TWENTY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS.

tyler i think maybe the virgins do not want u to find them bsky.app/profile/jswe...

No they fucking didn’t—they said another manufacturer can make generic mifepristone, the same drug that’s been on the market for 25 years

Tragic news in Alberta The province is reporting its first measles death since its outbreaks began in March A baby, born prematurely, after the mother contracted measles www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

how would DCPS possibly replace these 200 teachers? especially since the school system competes for employees with the DC charter schools, MoCo, PG, Arlington, Alexandria county and city, and Fairfax

“only 19-32% share your position on an issue“, basically only your most base partisans, is a fucking disaster

Honestly think anyone considering coming to the US for future international sports events should really consider it carefully. These people do not give due process. They don't care about your ID. They grab you if they don't like the look of you and then there's no telling where you'll end up.

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They're bulldozing through the Hatch Act. But they're doing that with a lot of laws. Because they know that no one will hold them accountable.

We used the results of this article to estimate the risk of airborne contamination during the live concert studied, based on the Air-Score which characterizes the quality of indoor air renewal. Source: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39156354/

In all indoor environmental scenarios, a positive linear relationship was found between the risk of airborne transmission and indoor CO2 levels. The model suggests that the risk of airborne transmission of measles can be easily predicted using a CO2 meter. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39156354/

Sign of the times: @mjgault.bsky.social interviewed ABC's John Quiñones re: his podcast about Vanessa Guillén, a soldier who was murdered at Ft Hood in 2020. When Gault asked how Sec. Def. Pete Hegseth could roll back reforms made in response to Guillén's death, a PR person cut in to shut it down.

SpaceX has well over controls the majority of global space launch capacity, controls more than half the satellites in orbit, and is *critical* to America’s plans to win the 21st century space race. And…it’s quietly been taking Chinese investment? That feels significant!

The cost to real people’s lives is going to be high, but at this point the electorate needs to actually appreciate how destructive this regime is. If Thune wants to let Vought go wild, so be it. Then the GOP will have to own responsibility for the harm they cause.

This is the thing elected dems seem unable to swallow. There is no realistic modus vivendi where somehow remain a functioning liberal democracy after 3 years of Trump. He is removed or we become Azerbaijan. Removal is ultimately the only goal that matters.

I’ve been looking around for the most credulous mid-campaign piece about Trump’s obviously fatuous Project 2025 disavowal, and I think it might be this one from Politico. www.politico.com/news/magazin...