A Detroit Lakes food co-op and independent grocers like it show a resilient rural Minnesota minnesotareformer.com/2026/06/04/r...

“Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the ones you cannot live within.” ― Ruha Benjamin

For many years, there were allegations that ICE would “release” critically ill people in hospitals so that their deaths wouldn’t be recorded as in ICE custody. To fix this, in 2021 the Biden admin required ICE to report deaths occurring up to 30 days after release. Now that rule has been dropped.

Science!!! Americans do science!!!

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We illustrated their findings.

This is good news. The deadline for reauthorizing FISA is next week, and every Democrat should vote against renewing this little-known law that lets Trump spy on American citizens. Email your representative and demand they defend our civil liberties by voting NO: act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-co...

Ben Meiselas reacts to a clip of Jared and Ivanka Kushner: Yes, they are speaking seemingly in English, but that's some Epstein-class language. (Jared Kushner actually makes Mark Zuckerberg look normal)

oh my goodness - Lieu played Rubio a video of Trump sleeping while Rubio tried to talk to him during a cabinet meeting. Then this exchange: RUBIO: I've never seen him fall asleep LIEU: I'm gonna show you a video that shows you just lied to Congress *plays another clip of Trump sleeping by Rubio*

Fannie Lou Hamer is one of my main inspirations. If you don't know her story, listen:

When I was a kid, there was a book in the old farmhouse called "Man o'War." I was glued to that book... I still have it. I know exactly nothing about horses as horses, but as symbols of the nation at crucial moments... that I'm all over. So glad @govandybeshear.bsky.social told this story!

Boycott CBS and its fascist management.

"Wealth mistakes its height for permanence, and the fall always begins with a crowd." wendy664.substack.com/p/the-oligar...

New from @hcrichardson.bsky.social team. Celebrating history #250to250 #SocialSecurity youtu.be/6xyYRK2FOB8?...

Prologue: A Crime in Plain Sight open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a study identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability. (Published July 2025)

NEWS: Russia launched a massive overnight attack on Kyiv, striking a 24-story apartment building and causing a partial collapse with people potentially trapped under rubble. At least four people were injured as fires broke out across multiple districts, including near a kindergarten. 1/

Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government. Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president. (Published Oct. 2025)

NEWS: Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a law requiring Virginia education officials to review how January 6 is taught in schools—pushing back against efforts to rewrite history and whitewash the attack on our democracy. Read more:

Time to be bold. No more corporate representatives.

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Exclusive: Read the Newest Health Care Proposal Being Circulated Among Dems open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

"'Do cool shit, and people will want to do it with you.' Simply trying to verbally disassemble other people’s efforts is not a worthwhile pursuit for most people" organizingmythoughts.org/declining-in...

$$ on the table to sell out ordinary working folks & generations to come www.startribune.com/twin-metals-...

He came to drain the Treasury, and he is getting away with it.

The point is it ISN'T JUST about politics any longer. It's about morality and I agree there's a line there that's now been crossed that hadn't been before by people I used to respect...

We don’t control Congress or the White House, but we’ve got the most powerful chamber ever: We the People.

Mount Rushmore Renovation....😜