Reminder that some of the Epstein money transfers disclosed involved accounts at two Russian banks. A few transactions red-flagged were for as much as $100 million. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...

note that Trump did not task the Russians with finding this batch of emails, so it took a few years instead of a few days.

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

DC SAYS #NOKINGS, #FREEDC

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

This is an evergreen headline.

Arc de Trump? While countless DC residents who’ve dedicated their lives to public service go without pay and watch their institutions be dismantled from the top… Trump is focused on his monument, his ballroom — and how to help Putin. #freedc www.bbc.com/news/article...

To all you patriots (and UK authorities) Is this not political interference of the most egregious and socially divisive kind?

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

Or Russia. Not a coincidence that dissidents from authoritarian nations and reporters that covered those places have been waving their arms over what the Trump White House has been doing since 2017 while most US opposition and media have been sedately concerned. It’s not confusing to us at all.

So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics. They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.

The war in Europe (outside of Ukraine) may be virtual, subtle, hybrid warfare designed to use oligarchs, covert influence techniques and economic leverage to swing elections in Putin’s favour. But he’s losing on that front as he has on the battlefields of Ukraine

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

Suggestion: A strike of musicians, writers, hosts, actors, lighting, electricians--everyone, shutting down all TV studios, until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. This is the kind of action we need, instead of sitting around just waiting to be gutted.

Just to confirm my suspicions that people’s perception of the national position (via social/media) is very different from their local perceptions, these graphs from @moreincommonuk.bsky.social via @samfr.bsky.social’s sane and vital Substack, illustrate the difference

Starting November 1st, New Mexico will become the first state to offer free universal childcare to all its residents. It's expected to save families over $12,000 per child annually. This is a huge step forward — and a reminder that we have the power to fix the system.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

“We got him!” Really? That’s the line? His father turned him in. You received him.

It wasn’t long ago that MAGA influencers were caught on the Kremlin payroll. They were paid specifically to spread Russian propaganda and disinformation to turn American citizens against Ukraine and the free world.

This rollover for the criminals and kleptocrats who hide in U.S. shell corporations is a real national security problem.

I’ve witnessed 50 years of politics. I lived through the unrest of the 1960s. We must not fan the flames of violence. That will only drive more hatred, division, and fear. What unites us is bigger than what divides us.

We must end the scourge of gun violence in America. We also need to have honest conversations about the ways internet platforms profit from fear, hatred, and division. Both are vital to the future of this country.

Bloomberg and @jasonleopold have by far the best reporting on the Mandelson/Epstein revelations. Some salient Prince Andrew and Russian angles (remember the Deripaska story) screen shot below www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

How do you even measure the Washington Post cringe factor at being embarrassed like this in coverage of your own city... Same event: Left side - New York Times headline Right side - Washington Post white house press release I mean headline

There is opportunity in chaos but only if citizens take action and do the hard work required to restore, renew and rebuild a better and more just world for all. Keep a vision for that better world and work towards it.

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts /AP

Great news. Let's do this everywhere. www.krqe.com/news/politic...

Some of y’all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal. Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.

Pushing back works. Stand strong, Chicago.

From a piece I wrote in the Washington Post in 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/whe...

This is horrific. War criminal Erik Prince is shopping his services in Ukraine and wants access to classified info (to give to Russia). Please get him the hell out of Ukraine and ban him from ever getting in www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.

Reporter was clearly female. Trump condescendingly calls her “Darling” and attempts to belittle her when she asks a question he doesn’t like. Authoritarian regimes, oligarchs and their allies fear women who hold them accountable. Stand with these women.

This is exactly what the European far-right does: pretend that advocates for Ukraine want us to be "dying in Russia." The point is to scare people into doing nothing at all (as if letting Russia win would make us safer)

America, This is what we have to look forward to if we stay on this trajectory.

Elon Musk’s $1T pay package, if he eventually gets it, would exceed the GOP’s Medicaid cuts. It’s about $3,000 per American. It’s enough to buy all of the real estate in a number of states. It’s about the size of the annual Defense budget.

Tech-bros should use their positions and resources to ensure Putin’s model of state-sanctioned corruption and kleptocracy doesn’t take further root in the U.S. Autocracies are bad for everyone—even for the oligarchs who support them.

The tech-bro love fest at the White House was troubling enough. Add in the FSB’s claim that it can access all Russians’ messaging apps, and you see again how the fusion of tech, business, and state power can threaten the free world.

WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT‼️ WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT‼️ WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT‼️ CHICAGO SAYS HANDS OFF‼️ NO MILITARY‼️ NO ICE‼️ THIS IS MY HOMETOWN‼️ THIS IS MY CITY‼️ STAY OUT OF CHICAGO, DC & LA, CHEETO ASS‼️

Our resistance is powerful! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

Drone just spotted near pentagon. Never seen that before. Isn’t it a no fly zone?

Where do you stand? You can want solutions for the unhoused, you can want safer cities, but you can also be dead set against federalizing them and against military occupation. I stand with DC!

Yes DC!