The Chemical Safety Board has an annual budget <$15 million and with that produces gold-standard failure analyses that can be extended across industries. Only reason to get rid of it is if you genuinely want more billion-dollar disasters that kill and maim blue collar workers.

It’s honestly so disrespectful and irresponsible that the national media has mostly ignored the DC33 city worker strike in Philly so far. It’s a huge story with massive implications for the 6th biggest city in the country. Hell, I’ll write about it for ya! Email me! www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

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Great, easily accessible example here

On that note, you all should read this great piece written by NYC Rabbis in support of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Written by Rabbi Rachel Goldenberg, co-authored by Rabbis Andy Kahn, Barat Ellman, Ellen Lippmann, Nancy Wiener, Miriam Grossman, and myself 🥰 blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-are-nyc-r...

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Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Apropos of nothing I feel like one of the most important things to help your kids develop is an ability to self-regulate.

A Welsh Wonder Was brilliant seeing this young kingfisher in Wales. Now back to London to see how things are getting on there. #nature #wildlife #kingfisher #kingfishers #birds #birdphotography #wales #ukbirds

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this: Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

Forgot to post this yesterday, but: Happy Effete, Liberal College Professor Saves The Union Day to all who celebrate

So it's frustrating to hear things like "This is the darkest timeline" and "late-stage capitalism." Yes things suck & you gotta vent. But... do people think the US started in 1960? We really forget our country, and capitalism, *started* with people on the auction block.

For Independence Day: “The Avenue in The Rain”. Childe Hassam. 1917. A beautiful Duille fine art print of Childe Hassam’s famous work beloved of numerous US Presidents. Order yours: duille.com/avenueintherain

NEW: In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson listed 27 grievances to prove that King George III was a tyrant. We looked at how many of those now apply to Donald Trump. Have a good Fourth of July and pass this on. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world." Does that sound like an indictment? It does? Oh.

I've got a lot of data on the new Trump budget bill coming out tomorrow at 8:00 AM Eastern at gelliottmorris.com/subscribe/. This will be the most unpopular law in at least the last 30 years. And what a disgrace.

I'm already seeing centrists and leftists sniping at each other but the blame for this is 100% on the Republicans. This is what they do with power and it is imperative that we work together to keep them as far from it as possible, forever.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

CBS News’ John Dickerson Delivers Searing Monologue on Parent Company’s Settlement With Trump: ‘Can an Audience Trust You?’

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

They aren’t holding this vote open (for 7hrs and counting) to make life better for us. they are literally pulling out all the stops to make sure: 🔴kids go to school hungry 🔴millions lose access to healthcare 🔴billionaires get a tax break they don’t need KEEP CALLING 📞

When Donald Trump sued me and others for RICO, we didn't settle. We fought and won. Perhaps the legacy media should give that a try and stop debasing itself.

The UK ranks dead last in global trust in the media, and it's only getting worse. This neat little guide from Byline Books illuminates exactly how we got here, who is profiting, and how we build a truly public interest press. 👉 subscribe.bylinetimes.com/product/the-...

This = why I feel stricken w/ sadness. My parents: 73 & 74. My dad enlisted in the USMC during Vietnam b/c he's always been ardently pro-democracy. Thinking about how heavy he feels--esp as his body is physically broken, limiting him in many ways--it's unbearable, really b/c I can't fix any of it.

Yesterday, Trump illegally cut off funding for public schools, precipitating a huge crisis for thousands of schools. This is a result of the recent Supreme Court ruling neutering federal courts. 1/ A dystopian new reign of lawlessness is likely coming. Let me explain.

Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's. And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today. Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill

Keep reminding folks of this.

A thread about ongoing erasing and ignoring science... 🧵

From Jan 1, 2026, the Smithsonian will no longer host the Biodiversity Heritage Library. If you know institutions that might host (part of) the BHL's activities, do let them know! Expressions of interest requested by 31 Aug, w/ with rolling consideration thereafter." #histsci #histmed #libraries

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told Steve Bannon they don't have the votes right now. Allegedly, these are the movable Republicans. Pssst: Rep. Maxwell Frost confirmed you can call anyone, but start with one in your own state.

These are the weak points. You know what to do. First thing tomorrow, use 5calls.org and raise hell.

They should all be ashamed, but they are shameless.

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

A self-aggrandizing, anti vaccine, raw milk drinking, AIDS denialist who believes he is smart, but is the personification of Dunning-Kruger, and who was called a predator by his cousin is in charge of HHS. It is going to get worse.

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“A former FBI agent who was charged with encouraging the [Jan. 6] mob to kill police officers has been named as an adviser to the [DOJ] task force that President Trump established to seek retribution against his political enemies.” {Gift Article} www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

Not every R who voted for the cruelest bill in modern times will be on the ballot in 2026 but you can vote against everyone who is. Every damn one.

Oof. Ben Franklin rolls over in his grave at Christ Church. Penn's mascot should no longer be the Quakers, which IRL have a history of engaging in resistance movements through nonviolent means, advocating for social justice and peace.

Almost twice as many people ride the New York City bus every day as live in Wyoming. The bus should have two senators

Recommended: Red Wine and Blue video with Erica Chenoweth on "How Women Will Defeat Authoritarianism" youtu.be/BS0Dd-0Smf4?... We can do this!

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You’ve seen this movie before: Maybe Reagan guessed, Bush hoped, and Trump tried—but tax cuts never paid for themselves. Given the mountain of evidence, claiming once again that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is no longer ideologically motivated optimism. It's a lie.

"...if migrant escapes, they'll just get eaten by wildlife" Americans: we are not serious people (broad strokes).

Three Things You Can Do Today 1. Get brutally honest about your own purpose. Ask yourself: What are you actually trying to do? Are you trying to feel good? Be right? Or win power for democracy again? Reframe your work around that. open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...

oh my golly gee whiz gosh I can’t imagine why this would be it’s as though something happened this year but for the life of me I can’t figure out what it could be this is so confounding and puzzling and mystifying especially since we just made America great ag— … oh