The Ellisons’ plan to install Bari Weiss and turn CBS News into a Trump mouthpiece is underway. We don’t need another Fox. Boycott CBS.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Abject racism unhappily hard at work

Over two days of Standing Together’s national convention we saw so many people who believe in this fight and in the urgent need for a just peace. People who know the only way we can move forward — and actually win — is through Jewish-Palestinian partnership.

www.instagram.com/reel/DRupPzn... Beautiful, wise, and compassionate words! When we show hope and kindness toward the stranger, we do so for all humanity.

open.substack.com/pub/robertre... Though not all of us were born here, we are all Americans. That’s both a fact and an ideal.

Please stop exploiting autistics in crisis: "I’m the mother of 2 autistic boys with different support levels. I have experienced meltdowns in all their forms. But you know where I’ve never seen them? On my camera roll. And absolutely not posted on my social media." www.huffpost.com/entry/autist...

Professor Reich infuses a common sentiment with his wisdom and compassion.

My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow follows Russian journalists who report on the country's abuses. Reviewer Justin Chang calls it one of the most engrossing films he's seen all year. n.pr/4p96lsq

(Meidas) Multiple outlets, e.g. The Telegraph, reported that Trump sent his envoys to Moscow with proposal to recognize Russian control over Eastern Ukrainian territory. Steve Witkoff was dispatched alongside Jared Kushner to signal to Putin that “Putin’s war gains belong to Russia.” TRUMP=CRIMINAL.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We ask a lot of those who put their lives on the line defending our nation. The least we can do is respect their free speech rights once they’ve retired,” David Cole writes.

After 42 years wrongfully incarcerated in the Angola State Penitentiary, Gary Tyler has been living and working as an artist and advocate in Los Angeles for the past decade. via @laist.com

While the ADA is designed to help protect job applicants and employees with disabilities, individuals are still required to be qualified for their position. Learn more here: https://adata.org/faq/does-ada-require-applicant-or-employee-disability-be-qualified-position #ADA #Employment #Disability

“If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.” - N. Scott Momaday #WednesdayWisdom #PwD #Quotes

Donald Trump’s cruelty is endless. He just cut a program that helps people who are blind run businesses.

In this article, Anita Say Chan discusses how new surveillance technology used by DHS and ICE to track immigrants is rooted in a long history of eugenics. Learn more about the connections between immigration, eugenics and an authoritarian surveillance state here: ow.ly/Tm5t50XcKHs.

In a recent roundtable discussion, authors @chelseaebin.bsky.social, @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social, and @julieingersoll.bsky.social discussed the connection between the NAR and the New Christian Right of the 70s and 80s. Learn more here: politicalresearch.org/2025/10/15/i....

With its higher-education compact, the Trump administration is pushing schools to embrace an admissions policy that “might ensure that the next generation of diverse leadership is stopped before it begins,” Kevin Carey argues:

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In 2024, a million hectares of Ukraine’s forests and land burned. High temperatures, landmines, and shelling all contributed to the fires, but footage of Russian drones targeting firefighters has raised the question of war crimes.

Hundreds of volunteer advocates put partisan differences aside and pressed Congress to help people with cancer. The advocacy came just before the stalemate that has shut down the federal government. n.pr/47qPvh8

open.substack.com/pub/contrari... Very well said! The language we - and others use - matters a great deal. I recommend Jen Rubin and The Contrarian highly.

The 14th Amendment was adopted after the Civil War to protect the rights of Black Americans. An argument being made at the Supreme Court invites a return to the era when race was a barrier to entry for political representation. bit.ly/4qeZmz4

If the government carries out Trump’s orders targeting antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization,” it would violate free speech rights. Here’s why: bit.ly/4330Su2

⚡️Belarus launches military readiness check as security concerns grow. The Belarusian military is implementing a "set of measures" to bring select units to their "highest level of combat readiness" under Alexander Lukashenko's direct orders.

Alexandra is one of many people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship." n.pr/4ocHQcG

Keshet President & CEO Jaimie Krass shares a message as we head into Shabbat: "With the news of the ceasefire and the hostage deal, I wanted to be in touch with an important reminder: however you are feeling today, however you will be feeling tomorrow and the next day, you are not alone."

One of the best bargains out there!

Brilliant!

Amazing statement from AG James. Please watch and share.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

Korczak Scholarship awarded to students at the University of the Arts Bremen for the first time www.idw-online.de/-DRvXBA

did a read-aloud of my latest column, set to the backdrop of a drive through central virginia youtu.be/pq8TUlk4BxQ

PLEASE read this one. Kinda required reading. If you agree, which I hope you do, print in color and magnetically attach to your refrigerator. It is marvelous and very clear to all who visit: this is what we stand for. PERIOD.

I wish I had hope for gun control and that I could believe “political violence has no place in this country”. But we live in a country that accepts white children being massacred by gun violence. Not just accepts, but worships violence.

The conservative majority has severely curtailed Humphrey's Executor in recent months, ceding to Trump’s repeated requests to dismiss ideological foes. Will they effectively overturn the ruling on the shadow docket? For now, yes? @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/roberts-lets...

Lot of in the Epstein/JP Morgan piece to cause revulsion. I’m stuck here: “even during his jail sentence, JPMorgan continued wiring money from his accounts to banks in Russia and Eastern Europe, where young women were being drawn into his sex-trafficking network, according to sealed court records”

I just read all volumes of the Epstein birthday book. If you're blocking the Epstein files from coming out in any way, you are an absolute monster. Covering for monsters.

Extraordinarily important piece by @hcrichardson.bsky.social! We all need to be very familiar with - and afraid of - the disgraced theorist Carl Schmitt.

"The death toll from the next pandemic could be even higher than it was in COVID-19—for reasons that have far more to do with Kennedy than with the CDC."

In a new filing, DOJ appears to back off that claim. It says that the request for the children’s return came from the Guatemalan government. Conveniently, the filing doesn’t address whether the parents (or the children) requested repatriation. 2/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"The Supreme Court's ruling doesn't only apply to Latinos," Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman writes. "If you are in the US and you're reading this, you, too, could be arrested and required to prove your citizenship at any moment if you look or sound like you fit some hypothetical profile."

Yes!

This is fantastic!

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

When both the right to shelter become mere commodities …. open.substack.com/pub/videogam...

In the aftermath of the tragedy in Minneapolis, right-wing commentators have made bigoted statements about the shooter. Mass shooters are not disproportionately transgender, contrary to claims www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...