“.. Prices are expected to spike even further, especially as rising energy demands are driven by data centers and extreme heat, the study said.” $XLU abcnews.go.com/US/energy-bi...

"According to the most recent edition of an annual Harris Poll, for the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."

We're back! Baristas on ULP strike have once again brought the picket line to Starbucks's biggest regional distribution center in York, PA. We're making sure that Starbucks hears us: we need finalized contracts, an end to union-busting, and resolution to all outstanding unfair labor practices.

Zink’s story is just one example of how the DOGE cuts to public lands agencies are hitting rural, conservative communities — one of this administration’s strongest voting bases — the hardest.

I went to Giant last night and heard no fewer than 4 people literally saying “holy shit” about the grocery prices (including me).

I’m 44 years old, have moved 9 times since i got my braces off and just now gently yeeted my retainer into the trash like it was the Heart of the Ocean.

Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

It's two weeks to Christmas on a Thursday night...so rather than being physically at the West Shore School Board meeting, I'm watching virtually. It's the first meeting of our new board. All members are present.

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly: - DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems - Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.

With universal school vouchers on any given day (2024-25), Florida’s education department did not know where 30,000 students were going to school and could not account for the $270 million in taxpayer funds it took to support them…. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

It’s reorganization night for the west shore school board so of course I’m here! 🎉 Despite noting at the last meeting she’d be there to see the new board be sworn in, Ms. Kelly Brent is not in attendance in the crowd this evening.

AI data centers produce massive noise pollution, use huge amounts of water and keep us hooked on fossil fuels.

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls." time.com/7335723/auto...

Happy Thanksgiving! (that’s about 23 lbs of potatoes, 4 packs of cream cheese, 1.25 lbs of butter.)

NEW: Pittsburgh Public Schools, Indiana Area, Leechburg & Ligonier Valley school districts have sued the state education department and Pennsylvania's largest cyber school. ✍🏼 by Jillian Forstadt and me @wesa.fm: www.wesa.fm/education/20...

Yikes. (via @steverattner.bsky.social)

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

Why does People Magazine seem to have more journalistic integrity than CBS these days

I’m at the West Shore School board meeting for the last meeting of our current board configuration 🎉 Of note; this item i. The finance committee report - WSSD lost out on $156k in interest earnings compared to last year bc of lower rates and having to use reserves to cover bills.

Democrats say culture war fatigue helped them flip Pa. school board seats www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/11... via @SpotlightPA

NEW: ProPublica has identified dozens of instances in which the Trump administration’s DOT has moved to cut, weaken or delay safety regulations for cars, trucks, planes, trains and even oil pipelines. Experts say the changes will cost lives.

The distribution center in York, PA is one of Starbucks’ biggest operations on the East Coast – so today, workers brought the fight here. We DEFINITELY believe that they will win! #NoContractNoCoffee

Elizabethtown Area School District board removes “The Hate U Give,” by Angie Thomas; “The Glass Castle,” by Jeannette Walls; “The House on Mango Street,” by Sandra Cisneros; & “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath from High School ELA curriculum because they're not "age appropriate." READ: tinyurl.com/yn3y6s9t

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures My latest for @sentientmedia.org

It’s a Thursday and of course I’m at the west shore school board meeting! Before the meeting started officially, new member John Dormuth - chosen to replace Heidi Thomas, who resigned- is sworn in. Yay!!!

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein

This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?

Something to read while we wait to see if SCOTUS upholds Trump’s mission to starve people

Want to know what a sea change looks like? Via @inquirer.com, here's a map showing the 16 PA counties which voted for Trump in 2024, and flipped blue to vote to retain the three Dem supreme court justices in 2025. GOP state legislators in those 16 counties . . . www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

Five yrs ago today in my role as head of Voter Protection for Biden-Harris in Phila, at right about this moment, I was reaching out to our team to figure out who could sneak into a hastily-called press conference by Rudy Giuliani at the Four Seasons Hotel ... and then, what, it's going to be where??

Also - everyone is talking about Central Bucks’s school board- and rightly so- but Centennial SD’s board hired former CB super Abe Lucabaugh & another former CB admin- there, they flipped a seat & retained a Dem member to have a 5-4 majority there in January.

While our airports are in chaos, the Transportation Secretary is flying to a campaign fundraiser for his son-in-law.

You all might remember that I'm in West Shore School District - which straddles York & Cumberland Counties. We had a school board race with a registered Dem challenger running to oust our terrible (IMO) board president. Our challenger, Teri Mickle, won!

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published February)

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

"In normal times, against a normal candidate, we have no evidence that picking a friendly, relatable, likable candidate without a history of sexual abuse will work. Let’s not read too much into it." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/yea...

Whoops it goes back farther than i thought - May 2024 in the PA Independent. pennsylvaniaindependent.com/education/ex...

We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

In Lancaster County, Pa., Democrats regained control of municipal government in Manheim Township, the second-largest (by population) muni in the county and the richest by far. The won 3 of 3 seats on the 5 member board and now hold all 5 seats.

There's really no logical way that tonight can be spun any other way than a resounding victory for Democrats and a repudiation of a historically unpopular President.

Derry Township, which is Hershey, PA has fallen. Dems ousted the sitting Republican Chair of the Board of Supervisors and also defeated the other Republican incumbent.

Hi remember when i told yall after the primary this spring that a hard shift was coming for communities with extremist school boards in PA?? Cause HELL YEAH i was right.

A Marc Levy (PA AP reporter) mention in @hcrichardson.bsky.social post tofay! 👍

HACC professors and faculty members have faced 5 years of union-busting tactics from their administration. Today, they went on strike. My story below 👇 keystonenewsroom.com/2025/11/03/h...