Give the oligarchs a heave-ho this week. Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, ditch Target, Home Depot, & Amazon. I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & get tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/UTZ2quyN

responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-war-ve... We Americans don't want to go to war with Venezuela, my brilliant writer sister, Anne Lutz Fernandez, and I write in Responsible Statecraft this morning. That should matter in a democratic and humane society.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

apnews.com/article/ecua... voters reject proposals to host foreign military bases and rewrite the constitution

A trillion dollars is an obscene amount of money, and Elon Musk will do huge damage if he gets it. But we can stop him. Tesla is reeling. We can take it down and his whole empire with it. #teslatakedown #NoTrillionaires #MuskMustFall Get in on the action👇 actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

I am tired of seeing @HomeDepot be a place of large immigration raids. This is not keeping our communities safe. Until @HomeDepot breaks their silence I will no longer be giving them my business! Join me in demanding they end their silence! #BoycottHomeDepot homedeportation.com/s/HsrFXlNs

NEW: The military spending portion of the reconciliation bill, or H.R. 1 (“One Big Beautiful Bill Act”) will primarily benefit military contractors, according to a new joint brief with the @stimsoncenter.bsky.social. [THREAD]

welp "A near-record number of cars are being repossessed as Americans continue to fall behind on their auto loans amid mounting financial strain...over three million cars could be repossessed in 2025, a level only reached in 2009 during the Great Recession."

This is a telling chart. The automakers and auto loan makers have been pushing Americans at all income levels to overspend on vehicles.

When @cathylutz.bsky.social and I wrote Carjacked, we were hoping America had reached "peak car." 15 years after its publication, new car prices have risen to over $50K and delinquency rates have risen over 50%. 🫠

BREAKING: The post-10/7 wars have killed or injured at least 236,505 people in Gaza alone. The U.S. has spent over $31 billion and counting in the wider region since Oct. 7, 2023, where millions have been displaced, according to new Costs of War research. [THREAD] Photo Credit: Heidi Levine, 2025

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

Isn't it Congress' job to declare war on the American people?

The only question every reporter, journalist, podcaster, everyone should be asking is “has the cabinet started proceedings to invoke the 25th amendment”

US schools and the children in them are subject to rising threats of school shootings and hoaxes, cyberattacks and cyberbullying, hate crimes, ICE raids and masked police, climate change disasters, censorship, and now the encouragement of unvaxxing. Then we wonder why absenteeism is a problem.

Featuring my niece @sashawinkler.bsky.social’s research with bonobos! If you need some laughter, joy or optimism today.

Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians theintercept.com/2025/09/05/p...

BREAKING: Our new analysis reveals that the federal budget is increasingly devoted to militarized sectors. But tax dollars invested in the military are less effective for jobs than investments in education or healthcare. [THREAD] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

Working on updating this document. Pls let me know if there is new research I have missed/might miss that should be added.

Can we stop calling what Trump says or does policy? Policy: “a set of ideas or a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed to officially by a group of people, a business organization, a government, or a political party.”

If you can, please support Gilberto and his family. A hotel worker and union member, he was kidnapped by ICE.

Between 2020 and 2024, $771 billion in Pentagon contracts went to just five firms. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

If you want to see what will happen if Donald Trump is allowed to drop bombs directly on Iran and continue to arm Israel to drop bombs on Iran and Gaza, look no further than the million dead civilians and the trillions of dollars borrowed to bomb and occupy Iraq. Same witless and empty claims about

I cut off the abuser in my family after exactly zero hours of therapy but many years of maintaining excruciating contact in order to make my parents happy. I assume that anyone who tells me they have a good reason to remove themselves from toxic family relationships has exactly that.

White House Health Report Included Fake Citations www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

The Trump and Kennedy assault on our children's health in their new report comes clothed in sheep's clothing. Read this brilliant analysis to see the wolf hidden inside. nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/the-maha-rep...

There is no piece of lit commonly taught in US high schools more damning of US Christofascism. I'm surprised it's not a more frequent target. Of course, a play performed is more dangerous to these people because many don't read. It's why graphic novels and performances are especially vulnerable.

Reasons to crow about this policy repeatedly: people freer to move around cities, faster commutes, better transit, safer streets, lower air and noise pollution, lower use of fossil fuels. #GiftArticle

How kids are learning about how our justice system works:

It's Teacher Appreciation Week. Here's how to appreciate teachers: pay them better.

Little Westerly Rhode Island shows up!

In 1964, UC Berkeley students nonviolently obstructed the transport of arrested Free Speech activists by completely surrounding the police car This should happen to every ICE vehicle until the kidnappings stop. You might literally save someone from a concentration camp

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “No Kings! Stand Up, Speak Up!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Meanwhile, red states are working on bills to prevent pregnant women from crossing state lines. Rape is MAGA policy.

Once again, using more tech to solve the problems caused by more tech is a mistake.

An amazing group of young people protested firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in DC. Zeke was himself fired from the FDIC. The CFPB workers and their union put on great street theater reading from actual requests for help from those being gouged by Banks or collection agencies

USAID workers being evicted from their offices today. They were given 15 minutes to get in and out. They and their Union are there to support these amazing people who've done work all over the world to help the least among us.

Uh oh, Elon’s here shredding consumer complaints! Luckily the CFPB union is here to fight back!

A passionate call for solidarity with federal workers and with all workers against the broligarchs.

Hi that was a coup last night in case no one mentioned that to you. The executive branch seized the power of the purse the Constitution gave to Congress, which is a pretty authoritarian / illegal consolidation of powers move. Time to go yell at your reps, the media, etc.

Chris Murphy is the clearest, most courageous communicator of what is so corrupt and destructive in what Trump is doing. THANK YOU! #Democracy #dictator Trump #enatorChrisMurphy

open.substack.com/pub/annelutz... Brilliant piece on the myths about AI in education.

If you told me a few decades ago that schools would be collecting children's personal hand-held computer-phones at the door each day and that the main objection to this was the prevalence of school shootings, I would have said to put down the joint.

A reminder #itwasntalandslide

Here's a great way to connect with young people needing allies in the coming assault on immigrants: actionnetwork.org/forms/when-w...

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The Human Costs of the Gaza War Are Even Greater Than You Think www.forbes.com/sites/willia...