When ProPublica’s @gingerthompson.bsky.social began talking to people in Albany, GA, she didn’t expect that they would be so fearful to criticize the town’s sole hospital on the record — or how powerless they were to hold that hospital to account. Read our 5-part "Sick in a Hospital Town" series:

A federally funded community health center in Kansas has filed at least 1,000 lawsuits since 2020 against patients over unpaid bills. Many of the patients sued were uninsured and qualified for discounted care, a former employee told ProPublica. By @aliyyaswaby.bsky.social

TONIGHT: Join our free, one-time-only live watchalong of "The Last Class" at 5:30 pm PT / 8:30 pm ET — with Robert Reich himself! RSVP now: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/last-class-live/

The “emergency billionaires tax” would offset the billions of dollars being stripped from CA Medicaid recipients.

This is what you get when billionaires own the media. Support grassroots, independent media like Truthout if you can. truthout.org/donate/

Democrats must show America that they can be better trusted than Republicans to bring prices down and real wages up by fighting for these 10 things. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-democrats-must-pledge-to-america

Breaking: STAR Voting used to elect Astoria City Councilor! - mailchi.mp/equal.vote/s...

Astoria, Oregon: On December 1st, Oregon’s oldest city made history, using Score Then Automatic Runoff "STAR" Voting to fill a recently vacated seat on their City Council.

While Mike Johnson is running around trying to act like he’s not the most incompetent Speaker in US history, we’re pushing hard to extend the ACA tax credits for millions of Americans. We’re almost there, and you can help!

Missing @lastweektonight.com too? Get the climate environment version: Last Week in Collapse lastweekincollapse.substack.com?r=6uetoq&utm...

Finally someone in the international media covered the biggest story of #COP30

"Israel is now escalating on all fronts." "[L]aunching strikes and military incursions across Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank." "All of this takes place as Israel is nominally party to two ceasefires." #Israel #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Lebanon #Syria #Genocide #Housing #Military

Trump’s cuts to the VA are pushing nurses & veterans into crisis. Already stretched thin by years of understaffing, VA hospitals now face plans to eliminate 70,000 workers. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports on how VA nurses are fighting back. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

Trump blames blue states for rising electricity costs. Cool, except Montana is up 25.3%, Wyoming 22.9%, North Dakota 30.3%, Oklahoma 29.9%, Missouri 37%.

The plug has been pulled. The Mass Blackout is officially ON. From today November 25th, through December 2nd, we starve the system that starves us. No Spending, No Work, No Surrender, Let's take our power back. #MassBlackout #MBO #Blockparty #Generalstrikeus

🚨New: At COP30, the pesticide industry has been making big pledges to fight deforestation by turning Brazil's over-grazed pasturelands into new areas to grow crops. Small-holders fear it's all just a ploy to sell more of the toxic chemicals poisoning nature and harming human health. buff.ly/Yc8qocr

Epstein's foreign policy emails with fmr. Israeli PM Ehud Barak. Pro war, Iran, Israel, Syria, China discussed. Cenk & Ana of TYT reporting. 16mins www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s5R...

Ken Burns' 12-hour documentary series THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION starts tonight on PBS. "None of this happens anywhere else but PBS," Burns said. "Nobody else is going to give us ten years to build a history of the Revolution. No one." www.pbs.org/show/the-ame... #PBS #KenBurns

“In a bombshell decision on Tuesday, a federal court in Texas blocked a new congressional map that was created after President Donald Trump demanded that the state redraw district lines to hand Republicans five new seats.”

Top Republican Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls: New oops feature on Elon Musk's updated swastika X unwittingly reveals “America First” MAGA movement. #ConflictOfInterest #bribes #TaxWealth #BillionaireTax #Putin #Netanyahu #fascism www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...

It's highly unlikely billionaires hire to help the person applying. They won't create a position in their company just for the good of a person needing a job. The billionaire has a need, a position that THEY need to hire someone to do that job for the benefit of the company. So👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

I'm proud to announce the endorsement of Patriotic Millionaires — a group of millionaires dedicated to taxing the rich and taking on the billionaire class so that we can build an economy that works for working people, not the oligarchs and corporate elites.

Cognoscenti editor Cloe Axelson interviewed Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and her dog Bailey, who's dressing up as Stephen Colbert for Halloween this year. They talked about dogs, political humor in a democracy, and why Warren keeps moving.

right wing support for Israel is from the Evangelical Christian theory that Israel needs to exist in order for there to be a second coming. Support for Israel is not support for Jewish people. It is a mistake to think one is the same as the other. globalaffairs.org/commentary/b...

'60 Minutes’ Exposes Trump’s Controversial Pardon Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, founder of cryptocurrency firm Binance. He pleaded guilty to money-laundering violations allowing criminal groups to move money connected to drug trafficking & child abuse. www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-e...

President Trump’s pardon of Changpeng Zhao came shortly after Zhao’s company, Binance, helped catapult the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm, World Liberty Financial, into international recognition. The firm is a major source of the Trump family's fortune. 60 Minutes reports, Sunday. 60Minutes.com

Seattle’s new wave of progressive leadership has taken on national visibility. Its newly elected mayor, Katie Wilson, has embraced comparisons to Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist mayor-elect of NYC.

Kansas "But even in a state that went for Trump by 16 percentage points in 2024, Republicans could not rally enough support this fall for a special session on redistricting." www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n... @npr.org Story by Zane Irwin

Today's must-read by @thomasbirm.bsky.social: a major corporate landlord is fueling homelessness across the U.S. *and* the mass displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank. The Israeli company owns tens of thousands of apartments in the South, filing evictions at nine times the national average.

We have a stunning story from @thomasbirm.bsky.social in @thenation.com. It's about how one of Israel's biggest companies, with deep ties to the IDF and illegal settlements, is taking over huge swathes of US real estate—with tenants paying the price. A MUST-read. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

NEW: A Fort Worth church is offering a $100 online academy that aims to train conservative Christians to run for office. At the core of the program is the idea that there's no separation between what happens within the church and in the government. w/ @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org

“His only real ‘offense’ was speaking clearly about Israel’s genocidal war crimes against Palestinians,” said one advocate. buff.ly/A4PgnNc

#bribes #grift #oligarchy Trump's DOD ("Department of War") Gives Massive Contract to Corporation With Ties to his Son: Donald Trump Jr. joined Florida-based drone manufacturer Unusual Machines as an adviser in November 2024, shortly after daddy was elected president. newrepublic.com/post/202253/...

Democrats have a lot of old leaders. But there are plenty of old populists, and plenty of young corporate Dems. The wisdom lies in knowing the difference, as Bob Kuttner writes. prospect.org/2025/11/11/m...

Time for Chuck to step aside? Survey results: tinyurl.com/4kzw8e2u

“It has been widely assumed that the group of 8 mostly centrist Senate Democrats, who have been looking to broker a hollow deal on Republican terms, were freelancing. In fact, they were acting with the express approval of Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) & were reporting to him daily.”

8 Dem Senators: "The GOP will not negotiate, so we'll just cave (again)." Ro Khana is right. Chuck Schumer is not an effective leader, and he must go! Gavin Newsom is right: "Pathetic" Primaries start May '26.

People are just now finding out that Chuck Schumer, whose closest advisor on major issues is an imaginary family he made up in his childhood (yes, really), might not be the best choice to lead in times like these

Tim Kaine (VA) John Fetterman (PA) Dick Durbin (IL) Maggie Hassan (NH) Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) Jackie Rosen (NV) Angus King (ME) They do not support the concept of a fundamental right to healthcare. They sold the American people out. They must be primaried and stay gone. Chuck Schumer too.

Call a Senator that voted no tonight and demand that they vote to remove Chuck Schumer as Senate Minority Leader. He has weaponized his incompetence against the American people by allowing 8 Dem Senators to cave to an authoritarian regime. We need real leadership, not the oligarchy’s lapdog

It's time for Chuck Schumer to read the handwriting on the wall. We need new blood in Democratic leadership. He needs to GTFOOTW and make room for someone who will actually fight for the people. 👎

These 8 Senators sold us out to Trump: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.

Chuck Schumer was responsible for defining the stakes of this fight, for defining its strategy, and its goals, for counting and keeping votes. Spin whatever bullshit you want, he caved by his own criteria.

1 of the more important things about this shutdown "deal": "Hemp farmers are sounding the alarm about a provision ... they say would “effectively eliminate the legal hemp industry built under the 2018 farm bill,” ... statement from the Hemp Industry and Farmers of America." #DFL #NotMeUs #legalize

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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

DNC Vice Chair calls Chuck Schumer's shutdown deal a "mistake"