Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️ www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

If one of your resolutions for 2026 is becoming more engaged in your community and doing more to save democracy, now is the time to connect with your local organizers. 👇

“Federal prosecutors said Sunday the man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021, told investigators he felt compelled to "speak up" for people who believed the 2020 election was stolen…” Lies have consequences. www.foxnews.com/us/dc-pipe-b...

youngkin ending his term as virginia’s worst governor of the 21st century thus far, with a political career that has gone down the toilet

“YES: Residents of Takoma Park, Maryland, noticed ICE cars lurking every day in a parking lot. So they showed up early to occupy the space, with coffee, music, conversation, knitting... not leaving ICE a single parking space. ICE stopped coming.” I. S. Democratic Socialists

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

“People held there have described a litany of inhumane conditions: overcrowded and unsanitary holding cells; not enough food and water; and freezing conditions at night. Legal experts said, in many cases, detainees at Broadview were coerced into signing paperwork before even speaking to a lawyer.”

AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt. Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt."

The economic disruption/sabotage of deporting millions of workers at time of near full employment is only just beginning to be felt. “Construction can’t continue”: South Texas builders say ICE arrests have upended industry www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/s...

Enormous thanks to the Baltimore Banner for running the story

Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"

Oh so real conspiracies do happen.

Agree 💯 With Bernie.......

Trump voters will be shocked but others won't be suprised #leopardsatemyface #Politics #News

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

NZ solar power generation up 31% in 2023, 52% in 2024, 61% in 2025. Long may it continue. Still only 1.9% of total power generation to there is plenty of remaining scope. The 4th quarter of 2025 is likely to come in at the lowest emissions and highest renewable proportion on record.

WASH POST: “Corporate bankruptcies surged in 2025, rivaling levels not seen since the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession, as import-dependent businesses absorbed the highest tariffs in decades.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Rest up then get ready for 2026, Indivisibles! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It has been 395 days of continuous demonstrations in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Our citizens demand the resignation of Georgia's mostly illegitimate and pro-Russian government, the release of political prisoners, and the return to a pro-European course.

"Well, what shall we hang? The holly, or each other?" Now that's a Christmas movie. From 'The Lion in Winter' (1968). With the brilliant Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole

The Supreme Court has announced that it’s going to hear arguments on President Trump’s order rescinding birthright citizenship. The text and history ought to make this an open-and-shut case. bit.ly/40oplbc

A federal judge this week canceled the trial of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and scheduled a hearing on whether the prosecution is being vindictive in pursuing a human smuggling case against him. n.pr/3L3sZng

Via NPR ~ Hundreds of celebrities have relaunched a committee to defend free speech that was first formed during the post-World War II Red Scare. It’s spearheaded Jane Fonda, whose father, Henry Fonda, stood against the Hollywood blacklists of the McCarthy era.⁠ ⁠

The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech. If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.

Santa is the most insidious form of Classism because it spreads the bizarre message that some kids didn't get nice things because they are bad people and not because their parents were a little too poor for a new bike this year

The DOJ is lying when it says they *just now* received Epstein files from the Southern District of New York.

Happy Resistance! ✊

The overwhelming majority of jobs at the two biggest companies in America pay less than $20/hr. Meanwhile, the heads of those companies are some of the richest people on the planet. See the problem?

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

Nothing like asking career AUSAs who have been under assault for the last year, watched their colleagues get fired for no reason, and their offices taken over by incompetent boobs to volunteer their time to perpetuate a cover up of their boss's involvement w/a sex predator 🙃

The Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center has been canceled. The show’s host, musician Chuck Redd, said, “When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert.”

ONLY YULE

May the blessings of Mithras, El Shaddai, Gaia, The Ancients, and the Heads of the Five Families be with you on this/these joyous/somber/sacred day(s).

@psychopete.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Dr Sue Brunning; curator of the European Early Medieval Collections in the Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory at The British Museum will be visiting Lichfield Cathedral on Wed 29th Jan to present 'Silk Roads'. To book please visit www.lichfield-cathedral.org/what-s-on/wh...

Immigration arrests and deportations have shot up in New England, with the participation of federal, regional and local institutions.

SCOTUS rules 6-3: Get out of Chicago now, ConOld! This Trump-picked Gorsuch guy is as bad as Alito and Thomas, if not worse. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thanks El Cerrito/Richmond Annex Walk & Roll for holding a powerful vigil yesterday for Donna Revecho, who was killed while crossing San Pablo Ave. It was inspiring to join dozens to stand up for safe streets. We need to hold Caltrans accountable to make San Pablo safer & prevent more tragedies!

Only 1 of the 153 was fully vaccinated.