Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books: www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

just shared this in a group and realised it’s the anniversary of this absolute s tier tweet by @jon-snow-420.bsky.social

Critical Thread: Basic Reminders on Cultivating Authentic Solidarity vs. The Savior Performance (This applies to us all, and although it’s Ally 101, it’s also the essential foundation for effective, tangible community protection — and exponentially more important for what we’re up against now)

Dear New York, at the very least, please give wonderful Democratic Socialist Mamdani a massive landslide victory so that he has a mandate.

If California voters fail to pass Prop 50, the GOP could steal enough House seats to pass a nationwide abortion ban after 20 weeks, overriding state laws. Don't expect the Senate filibuster to save us—they might nuke it to end the shutdown www.democracydocket.com/opinion/abor... @democracydocket.com

Today's winner of the "Please STFU" Award is Kat Abughazaleh. She was right to hang up! Don't talk about the facts of your federal indictment on a podcast! Or anywhere except your lawyer's office! Sincerely, Every Lawyer, Literally All Of Us, Heed Our Counsel And Shut The Fuck Up

NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more. I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...

If your medication was made in a contaminated factory, the FDA won’t tell you. Even ProPublica reporters hit a dead end when trying to track down where a popular prescription drug (atorvastatin, which treats high cholesterol) was made and whether the factory had a troubled record.

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

TIRED: “I alone can fix it.” WIRED: “Do something Democrats!!!”

remember when elon musk was still in government and DOGE still active and they pretended for like a week rampent social security fraud was happening, and then it turned out they just didn’t understand that databases would include people who passed away and we never heard about this “fraud” again lol

Narrator voice: the legal case for a third term is that Trump violates the constitution at will. This is not so much a legal case as an illegal one.

In this election, the people have two separate but equally important choices: a city they can afford or the billionaire-backed politics of the past. Our new ad just aired during Law & Order.

The entire entrance to the Treasury Dept on the side that faces the East Wing demolition has been closed, per a staffer there. This is after Treasury Dept leaders told staff not to take photos of the demolition -- twice -- because it's such a devastating image.

Sad

The President of the United States is so upset about his failed campaign for a Nobel Prize that he's now trying to claim someone else's prize as his own. Pathetic.

Wanted to talk about the fact that the ONLY form of communication/transparency the MAGA world seems to believe in is "trolling the libs." And why they're doing that. And why it's so stupid.

A "Katie Porter moment" and it's just Kat correctly saying that she can't say much about the case. What?

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All the pundits and news outlets that bought into these schmucks’ transparent nonsense about antisemitism at the Ivies should reflect for a few minutes on how badly and easily they were played.

Swear her in. Release the Epstein Files.

Independents blame Trump and the GOP for the shutdown by a 2:1 margin. Trump’s approval with people under 30 has completely cratered. 63% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s management of the federal government. #GOPShutdown

After Kosplay Kristi just lied that she is making things safe for kids

ABANDONED THE TODDLER IN THE BACKSEAT Arrest these motherfuckers for child endangerment

This is a lie: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

monstrous wickedness

Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light. newrepublic.com/article/2023...

Trump’s Government Of Spite: Political Performance Art For Assholes A couple weeks ago, as hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets in what may have been the largest single day of protest in U.S. history, the President of the United States responded by… posting a video of himself…

we're now a hair away from it being "treason" to utter a single critical syllable about Dear Leader on any topic whatsoever

"If we had a contingency fund." You mean like this contingency fund the Trump Administration just deleted off their website? The one they are legally required to use to keep SNAP funded? www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Apparently hates puppies AND hates kids. Man, what a role model!

An increase of $13 a month? I'm sure millions of Americans wish they lived in whatever alternative timeline Dr. Oz is because the truth is that premiums are going to double, or worse! Oz has clearly not even looked at the ACA marketplace—which is crazy, BECAUSE THAT IS HIS JOB.

He said, "When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One" He lied But what's worse-he didn't even TRY to lower prices Instead, almost as soon he got into office, he started hitting people with tariffs-making things infinitely worse

But it's in the federal REAL ID Act, which was pased in 2005? As part of the Global War on Terror bill (HR 1268). (I may be wrong here, but here's my evidence: www.nilc.org/wp-content/u...)

Trying to blame the Dems cutting off SNAP (while sitting on billons of available contingency funds) as his boss bulldozes the WH to build a ball room like Saddam's palace, sends $40 billion to bail out Argentines, and eats "gold adorned" brownies in Korea is not gonna work.

Ahh AHh AHH *BULLSHIT* Oh. Excuse my sneeze.

Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."

Oops. LMAO

Someone recently managed to get on a Microsoft Teams call with representatives from phone hacking company Cellebrite, and then leaked a screenshot of the company’s capabilities against many Google Pixel phones 🔗 www.404media.co/someone-snuc...

From Tuesday: “An appointed board of managers is beholden not to local citizens, they’re beholden to Mike Morath and ultimately, Greg Abbott.”

As November looms, states are trying to sort what options they can offer beneficiaries to fill the gap in food assistance. Reporters from the NPR Network are covering the impact of this potential lapse in states across the country.

NCGOP spokesman appears to be threatening @propublica.org's @dougbockclark.bsky.social with retaliation by the Trump administration for reporting on a state Supreme Court justice www.propublica.org/article/paul...

Stephen Miller’s wife threatened to have a naturalized citizen deported because she didn’t like what he said during a TV debate. www.rawstory.com/katie-miller...

NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

Please do *not* circulate this story that the NC GOP does not want circulated. Please, they have threatened you nicely, please.

Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.

NEW: DHS used to only have information on immigrants who’d had contact with the agency. Under a new data-sharing agreement, the system added information — including full Social Security numbers — on millions of Americans not in DHS databases.