Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Such an important piece. The positive momentum behind clean indoor air is palpable. But we’re not there yet as my last post demonstrates. Please read and share and get behind this cause. theconversation.com/why-investme...

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all. 🔗 library.saintheron.com

It’s #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown 🚫

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

The marvelous Angela Narciso Torres will lead the Zoom class "Twists, Turns and Tumbles: Syntax and the Art of Poetic Surprise"! Please join us if you can. frostplace.org/workshops/#t... Sunday, October 26 @ 12:30 pm ET

I repeat that whenever you see a man toss a woman around in front of witnesses and cameras, you can bet he’s had practice in private.

Reports from the Miami Herald reveal that a staggering 1,200 people have gone missing from just this one facility. Alcatraz is now drawing comparisons to Auschwitz.

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move. 1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year. Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Thanks RFK Jr. www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...

This is your regular reminder that Covid is airborne. It’s not over. It’s still killing and disabling people. It’s a novel virus and we still don’t know the full long term effects, but what we do know is not encouraging. Wear a mask. Clean the air. Stay home when sick. Protect one another.

😕 This is the “Trump Health Care Tax” @mcuban.bsky.social told Kanew Dems need to talk about more directly

Trump posted his text message to Bondi demanding persecution of his enemies and 4 days later Comey is indicted on some bullshit.

This is what politicization of the Justice Department results in.

🚨 Some of the best trolling of the FCC I could have imagined — being released. Adam Kinzinger is speaking truth to power. A MUST watch.

Here's the link for audios from Ghislaine Maxwell / Todd Blanche meeting turned over to House Oversight. I encourage everyone to listen to them. Open the link, and each file with .WAV is the Maxwell/Blanche audio. Gives you a firsthand sense of her slyness & Blanche's juvenile handling. #Epstein

Trump tells Charlie Kirk memorial: ‘I hate my opponents, don’t want best for them’

BREAKING: In a complete lie, Senator Jon Husted just claimed zero Ohioans are going to lose Medicaid because of the Big Ugly Bill. Reports show up to 490k of his constituents could lose care.

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WaPo: Pentagon says it will require reporters "to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey."

Alex Acosta remains defiant defending his decision not to prosecute Epstein. He “essentially said he didn’t have faith in the victims, their stories and their ability to tell their own story and their own testimony, which is deeply disturbing to all of us sitting in there,” said Rep. Maxwell Frost.

I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject. Gift link:

This will be called "evidence of consciousness of guilt" in subsequent criminal trials.

The British invaded 171 out of the UN's 193 member states. That's forcibly (e)migrating to 90% of the world's countries (where we committed endless atrocities rather than assimilate). And now we have the temerity to begrudge the arrival of refugees...

Cartoon by ArtandResponse.com.

That was fast. This is also why you don’t surrender to autocrats - you fight them and beat them.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

Yes, RFK Jr is a monster. A cruel, ignorant, pathologically dishonest, conspiratorial monster. And it’s not surprising RFK Jr is where he is now. A cruel, ignorant, pathologically dishonest, conspiratorial monster chose him, nominated him. Vote in 2026 like your life depends upon it. Bcuz it does.

I once toured Atlanta’s 175-year-old Oakland Cemetery with a friend. Were struck by how many families lost multiple children within days of each other. We realized it was due to the lack of vaccines. And this kooky, lying moron wants to take us back to those days. RFK Jr. should resign.

AXIOS: “.. Massachusetts is the first state to mandate insurance coverage of vaccines even if the federal government stops requiring it.” @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/09/04/m...

Last night, yet another person died on Rikers Island — the fifth New Yorker to lose their life in City custody within the last two weeks and the 13th this year. These deaths are a result of Eric Adams' failure to reckon with the crisis of violence and neglect in our jails.

RFK lied to my face. He said he hadn’t fired any scientists. RFK has fired over 3,000 scientists from HHS. It’s shameful. He must resign.

RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.

Oh, so guns *do* kill people? Gotcha.

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Man, they REALLY don’t want to hang that plaque honoring the police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan 6. @acyn.bsky.social

Florida’s ending all vaccine mandates. Because nothing says “personal freedom” like spreading preventable diseases. They say it’s about “choice.” But the kids can’t choose. Cancer patients can’t fight. This isn’t freedom. It’s a death cult. Let the weak die, as long as the base stays angry and dumb.

It turns out that the "Kennedy Curse" was not to have so many die, but to have the stupidest survive.

For more than a decade, Andrew Cuomo pretended he had nothing to do with deteriorating subways and endless delays — even as he siphoned off funding from the MTA he controlled.

Good morning to you 🌞 from the Southern Coast on the

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” -Aldous Huxley

Epstein survivor: We were horrified to learn that Ghislaine Maxwell had been transferred to a prison camp. She is someone who was found guilty by a jury of sex trafficking. She also participated in the abuse. She was a major architect of the scheme.

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A victim of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has revealed how a group of survivors is compiling a client list of their own.