And this is why you simply can’t decide to ignore all the talk about ditching “the groups”.

#OtD 8 Oct 1916 mostly migrant workers at Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company in NJ walked out on strike against low wages and dangerous conditions. Police killed 4 strikers and injured dozens, crushing the strike after 10 days stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1085...

Really alarming -- a move designed to subvert democracy and local sovereignty. I think these threats to jail politicians are not evoking the concern they should (esp among politicians!). www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

hey is it still time for comfy types to lecture us on how irresponsible it was to call Trump, Republicans, and associated goons as lawless menaces for the last 10 years?

Gov. JB Pritzker on Trump: "He likes to pretend to be a tough guy. Come and get me." "What kind of a country are we living in where the President of the United States is targeting his political opponents?"

I am not a DSA member and I have various grievances with different local DSA chapters and committees, but I will 100% join and start paying them dues at the first sign that Trump is going to weaponize DOJ and DHS against them.

If the regime does go after DSA, the appropriate response will be for as many people as possible to become dues-paying members.

There's a fun little tidbit in here about Club for Growth running digital ads to pressure some of the Indiana GOP lawmakers who are getting cold feet about this, and the ads are all about how Democrats want to win the House and stop Trump's agenda. Trump's agenda isn't popular!

“If we’re not there we can’t inform the people about what the President is up to in real time,” okay how is this working for you so far?

"A senior Palestinian source tells Al Jazeera mediators in Egypt have assured the Palestinian delegation that if an agreement is reached, US President Donald Trump will announce the end of the war in Gaza." Announcement fanfare vs reality on the ground challenge starts now aje.io/rkts8q?updat...

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law. A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections. We need to stand up together and speak up.

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

The south launched the Civil War to defend slavery and Trump is launching the reboot based on some dumb antifa b-roll he saw on Fox News.

Jamal Khashoggi was my friend and colleague who was killed and dismembered in 2018. Do you know how many times I’ve written against Saudi Arabia’ coverup over the last seven years? The sportswashing? The paying of influencers to visit Saudi Arabia? Saudi’s censorship of Hasan Minaj?

….

Gather 'round children, and listen to an in-depth explanation about how We Ancients used to watch TV on weird CRT-based TVs and projectors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms8u...

I wish one Dem would say that Republicans can reopen the government whenever they want. GOP just lacks the will.

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners. Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

The bar is on the floor, but it is striking to see the New York Times candidly and forwardly acknowledge that Mamdani's views on Palestine were formed out of an explicitly anticolonial framework, by way of his father's explicitly anticolonial intellectual work, by way of being from the Third World.

"Energy dominance," you say? As of this year, *China is exporting more clean-energy technology than the US is exporting the dirty stuff*. The future is green energy & China, not the US, is set to dominate it.

cattle lobbies now get to own words

On the White House’s WIC plan, we’re not supposed to have a system in which a president can: - impose his own tax without Congress - create his own pile of money that Congress never approved - allocate funds, at his discretion, to whichever cause he deems fit, without Congress

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

The verdict? "... the stability of these four tipping elements has declined in recent decades, suggesting that they have moved towards their critical thresholds, which may be crossed within the range of unmitigated anthropogenic warming." Cool. Cool cool cool.

Just your latest reminder that, although everyone has decided to stop talking about climate change, it is still very much happening -- worse and faster than predicted.

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown. Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

I don't have words to express how sickened, weary, and *extremely* pissed off I and my fellow Chicagoans are with Trump's fascist bullshit. ​Case in point: this delightful pamphlet, which appeared this week in the lobby of my apartment building.

Enjoyed my conversation about natural disaster myths around the world and my new book Mythopedia on KPFA Radio! kpfa.org/episode/lett...

Trump has put a retired Marine who was relieved of his command for shooting his office floor in charge of the U.S. immigration court system.

#OtD 8 October 1968 Mexican-Catalan revolutionary and Spanish civil war surrealist artist Remedios Varo died in Mexico City. She moved to Mexico after being interned in a concentration camp in France by the Nazis following her escape from Spain stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1085...

Prisons never beating the slavery torture death camp allegations

If your local municipality or whatever is worried there aren't enough unaccountable police around, why not just invent your own new police force and let them innovate abuses? @jesspish.bsky.social thenevadaindependent.com/article/why-...

Call Newsom and tell him to sign SB79! cayimby.org/sb-79-talkin...

Organizers in New Mexico spent a decade electing lawmakers who would put the question of universal child care funded by oil and gas royalties on the ballot and in late 2022, voters were allowed to decide on the matter directly. They voted overwhelmingly to approve it.

Newsom just signed an excellent law that will help fund the widespread transition from natural gas boilers to industrial heat pumps. Now sign SB79, Gavin.

You cannot buy this kind of publicity, the ruling party thinks your upcoming televised mini concert is sexually demonic liberalism and keeps telling the media about why

Suzy Eddie Izzard flies in for a set at the Hollywood Improv? Fine! Have fun! Suzy Eddie Izzard flies in to do the Trump Inaugural Ball? No! Bad! She would never do that! Idiots.

I know this is old news by now but I just find it so incredibly embarrassing how many people I respect don't understand the difference between taking a regular gig at the Riyadh Chuckle Hut & accepting millions of dollars from the Saudi government to make people forget that they're monsters.

that the entire republican party and the supreme court have enthusiastically gone along with this is a structural issue that also needs to be solved and we cannot simply return the pre-trump status quo, yes

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

Pelosi: "Democrats who created Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, all of that, are now being asked to reject that so we can give a tax cut to the rich. We're not doing it. It isn't a question of, 'let's come back together so we can discuss it.' That isn't going to happen."

These are the people we’re told we must adjust ourselves to accommodate.

Shades of the Aurora, CO Tren de Aragua origin story. Similar scapegoating there by another neglectful landlord.

The myopia is necessary to make these politics work. People have to approach politics as celebrity and policy as immaterial to continue this spectacle-first approach to understanding the world.

In his demented state, Trump is very confused. He thinks he can get a Nobel Peace Prize for starting wars on American cities www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

The “Republicans keep forgetting who was president in 2020” problem clearly isn’t going away. It’s not a new problem — there are even examples from 2021 — but it’s arguably getting worse. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

yday, when an attorney said 'conversion therapy' falls below professional standards, Justice Alito was like 'but can we trust those standards? the medical consensus used to be pro-eugenics' like....bruh that injustice is not a license for more injustice, actually ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...

Is PBS pre-kneeling to Trumpist ideology by taming American history in a manner acceptable to the new far right censors? I.e., in the same way national parks now hide slavery references? Even AFTER they've already lost funding? youtu.be/GAKX0VDh9TY

The fact that Fanone had to stop being a police officer because he was so vocal about January 6 should’ve been a big clue for people.