The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

I sometimes think that being a competent writer actually hurts your career prospects as a reporter because editors and publishers at major outlets consider clear, crisp descriptions of Republicans' actions more biased than muddled, passive-tense argle bargle.

Florida’s Social Studies standards are getting another update next month. No, those terrible African American History standards will stay, but there’s a huge update to our Anti-Communism education. This is just one page.

"We need better democrats" - @jeremymatlow.bsky.social (at an FSU Dems event) speaking on the failures of Tallahassee Democratic leadership. Matlow is they type of progressive leadership Tallahassee needs, he's not just another Democrat.

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

Parent needs a hand coming up with a fantastical story at bedtime whose details may resemble fact but are impossible to verify? Congratulations, Nature has already filled this void: what you're looking for is 'an uncle''

The most important thing to remember about Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl is that Puerto Rico is a colony whose residents are US citizens and pay taxes but don't get to vote for the president, have no voting representation in Congress,

Let’s be real: the struggle isn’t about avocado toast. It’s about billionaires hoarding power and keeping wages flat—all while costs rise. Workers aren’t the problem. Billionaires are. Until we flip that script, nothing changes.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

Since Antifa isn’t really an “organization”, this is just carte blanche to arbitrarily declare people terrorists.

@1lukeaf.bsky.social: “It should be illegal to be that handsome.” #Caturday #CatSky #CatsofBlueSky

Fred’s First #Caturday! This morning Fred graduated from the guest bathroom to the guest bedroom! He has already mastered his SureFeed microchip feeder that is activated by his collar (which is a super-fast learning curve). Once he gets chipped, he won’t even need the collar. @1lukeaf.bsky.social

When our working families are strong, Minnesota is strong. That’s why we’ve established paid leave, expanded the right to collectively bargain, and why we’re investing in the projects creating the union jobs of the future.   Happy Labor Day, Minnesota.

Yes. Once you start seeing this (Institution X probably wanted do this conservative thing anyway but now can blame it on Trump), it's everywhere. It's not capitulation, it's agreement. "We can stop doing this thing we started doing from 2014-2020 because of woke/progressive/anti-racist pressure."

“If you’re too far left you can’t win conservative voters” is the kind of thing that sounds sensible - until you see the “too far left” guy win 23% support from them

I once thought the point of a business was to create a product or provide a service that people liked so much they paid for it and told others about it. But that's not American-style capitalism. The point of American capitalism is simply to extract wealth from consumers by any means necessary.

The state’s tool (which comes at a much higher price tag for taxpayers) is just about ready. The description of the tool no longer includes that it will allow access to review materials in their entirety - noting it is “protecting publisher rights.” www.tegtech.io/success-stor...

"The right wins when people believe that a hero is coming to save them. If the left is going to win, we have to provide an alternative: one that empowers people through collective struggle, rather than the false promises of powerful men." graceblakeley.substack.com/p/no-one-is-...

🎥 Watch as Carole breaks down why the Pay Teachers Act is urgently needed. (Pt. 2)

FEA Vice President Carole Gauronskas joined @sanders.senate.gov, Sen. Edward Markey, @aft.org, and @neatoday.bsky.social for a powerful town hall today on teacher pay and the fight to save public education. 🎥 Watch as Carole breaks down why the Pay Teachers Act is urgently needed. (Pt. 1)

Thinking about this piece from yesterday as I read the news of Columbia's breathtaking cowardice.

My basic response to the question of pronouns defaults to, "Why would I speak to someone in a way that hurts them on purpose?" A lot of people - maybe most people - in this country apparently don't feel that way, and I guess I'll just never understand that.

I encourage everyone to read this letter. Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.

There is only one possible ending to this story, and sports aren't the last chapter. I guarantee that if you haven't lost five decades of rights in two weeks, you have no idea what this feels like, so I'm begging you: protect trans kids right now with everything you've got.

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

As I approached the detention center, 105 heat index, surrounded by local cops, I saw 3 roseate spoonbills fly above it. I snapped several shots and thought how cruel humans are to lock up our friends and neighbors for walking over the same fake lines these bird freely cross. Then I saw this. 🪶 🗺️

BREAKING: 220 Autoworkers in Alabama are unionizing with @uaw.org.

If I use my credit card to send a bunch of money to people who need mutual aid, that's a good use of debt. If I use it to buy a bunch of guns to go on a murder spree, that's a bad use of debt. The problem with Trump's bill isn't that it adds to the debt. It's what it spends that money on.

The folk in Franklin County just 60 miles from the state capital haven’t had clean drinking water for a month. DeSantis’ reaction has largely been: 🫣🫢🤫🤐😶 But if there’s $$$ to me made off of dehumanizing Brown people, DeSantis is all like 🥳😎👏🙌🤑

The "Mandani is a communist" November over some very mild demsoc suggestions really gives the game away that capitalism is not "when people buy and sell things" but a structure of power and domination in which the wealthy and the bosses control everybody else's lives.

11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls

“They hate America” Why???? “The context of all that has been”

Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

god I love him, I love that his losing watch party is basically a second victory party

Prophylactically pissed about tomorrow's inevitable "yes but that was just because it's NYC" spin. Reminder: NYC is the city where the greatest amount of Americans live. It's as "real" as America gets.

Turns out, you can in fact run a values forward, energizing Democratic campaign against a known corrupted, billionaire-backed sexual predator born into privilege. The trick is you have to actually have a concrete populist agenda.

Wake up Democratic Party old guard establishment. This isn’t about New York City. This is the way the wind is blowing. Step aside for young people who this country will need over the next several decades long after you are gone. Enough with your egos and the big money interests.

In case you need a moose calf in your timeline.

We got a delivery today. #CatsOfBlueSky #CatBoxSunday

this 'war, hmm, maybe, but we must follow proper PROCEDURE' bullshit is fucked and a huge part of the problem. a posture of evenhanded civility about the perpetration of atrocity is not in fact the calm peaceable disposition it pretends to itself that it projects, it's further normalization of evil.

I'm gutted and furious that the Iranian people will be injured, harmed and killed as a result of this absolutely depraved act of violence. What a complete travesty on every single level.

The president does not have Congressional authorization to start a war with Iran. This is a brazenly illegal and illegitimate action that the President does not have the authority to make. Congressional Democrats must act accordingly.

It's already a huge selling point for this consumer.

Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.

My God. Everything about this clip — the two of them high-pitch squealing at each other, the posturing, the boots, the awkward sitting, the profile view, the kitsch on set, the mural in the background — it’s both visual and auditory nails on a chalkboard.