Today would be a great day to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks, don't you think? Thanks @rbreich.bsky.social

BREAKING: Listen to this. Reporter: "Your husband bought stock in Elon Musk's xAI days before the Pentagon expanded its role. Can you assure us it wasn’t based on inside info?” Representative Lisa McClain: “100%. If it was, we would've bought a heck of a lot more."

Hello US Senate, Congress? About that funding…

More demonizing. "over public assistance concerns" in the headline is world-class sanewashing. apnews.com/article/trum...

Velazquez: The American people are upset. They did not sign on for this. The most fundamental principle for the American people is fairness and humane policies, not beating the shit out of people, especially vulnerable women and children.

The end of coal is inevitable, by 2035: both China and India added a record amount of new clean-power generation last year, which was more than sufficient to meet rising demand. And they won't stop. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coa...

A reminder that not so long ago we honored immigrants in the US, even by carving monuments like this one at Immigration Point, over the Golden Gate connecting the Pacific to SF Bay. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

If you need a deep breath, a mental reset, a reminder of why you CARE and why you act, this is a very short read meant to give just that. (I’m there because I take no money and it’s free. The other places aren’t. And @hcrichardson.bsky.social is there.)

Be like Jerome. We won't back down. bsky.app/profile/noth...

Gestapo is here, and proud of it.

ICE beat a U.S. Marine Veteran, telling her: “Have you not learned? This is why we killed that lesbian bitch!” Credit to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social for the interview.

Tonight, 6-8 at Taste-of Rome in Sausolito—bluegrass time! #bluegrass #acousticmusic #bayareamusic

Plunder!

This is 1930s Germany foreign policy. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

@davidfrum.bsky.social offers a strong warning against the weakness in being ineffective in opposing T47. Offering nothing constructive, he proves his own point quite well… www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

trying to look at the new year as a slate... no illusion of clean slate, but a slate. Let's see what we can make of it.

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

Happy New Year! Let's see what we can make of it... Here's good news! youtu.be/MzyMwwZKneM?...

ICE raids appear to be 100% responsible for the current housing crunch in south Texas. Indeed, they have brought residential construction to an end.

International leadership. How bout that?

This is unacceptable. Our veterans deserve to make their own healthcare decisions. The VA must reverse course.

I feel like that makes it worse, bc it underscores that it's not just (using just loosely) RFK Jr randomly being a conspiracy addled eugenicist wackjob -- this catastrophe was coordinated and had the backing of the conservative legal movement

@pkrugman.bsky.social nails it. "Trump has no idea how to govern. Faced with adversity, he’s unable to propose policies to improve the situation. All he can do iscontinue to gaslight the public and claim that everything is great, while smearing his opponents." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

and there’s this one.

“And I voted for him!” open.substack.com/pub/official...

51.5% of India's power came from renewables on 29 July - an amazing achievement so many said can't be done - while the country delivered 50 % of installed electric power capacity from non-fossil fuel sources 5 years early Renewables are unstoppable www.pib.gov.in/PressRelease...

Some say courage is contagious. I hope this version spreads to the US!

Credit not only RFK and the wrecking ball that appointed him, but every Senator-sheep who approved his appointment.

> @amysiskind.com

“That’s not how a democracy works” could be the lead line of every story about this administration.

On Monday morning, Paramount announced a $77.9 billion hostile takeover offer of Warner Bros. Discovery. What is not mentioned in the press release is that the majority of the equity financing comes from the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Qatar.

We should change laws to make this impossible.

A brand new throwback holiday classic from my friend John Tuttle. Complete with locally sourced retro video theme... youtu.be/Aay93v0W3ac?... @oh-that-guy.bsky.social

No one mouthes the messages of Russian influence operations more loudly or consistently than Elon Musk. And note how he refuses to talk about his regular direct talks with Vladimir Putin, which as a top secret security holder he is obligated to report to USG, but does not—ever.

Bears repeating that one of Russia’s first major social media influence campaigns in the US promoted antivax views. Why? For it’s a way to do clear material harm to the country. And here we are.

pathetic. Link is paywall-free. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

Simpler times, sure. But ‘Media’ is more than the weak-kneed NYT class, so we can see plenty more than batting an eye. Thanks @hcrichardson.bsky.social @democracydocket.com @marisakabas.bsky.social @joycewhitevance.bsky.social just for starters

The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.

Someone needs to set up a camera so we'll know when Pete Hegseth orders this plaque removed from West Point.

NIH grant terminations disrupt hundreds of clinical trials, affecting more than 74,000 participants www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

Focused spending strike: Thanksgiving day-Cyber Monday, join a boycott of Target, Home Depot, & Amazon. protest these corporations enabling this administration, ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities—to enable their tax breaks. Pass it on! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/u0yKhPwF

NEW: The Trump administration's brutal removal of so many workers is projected to shrink the nation’s GDP by as much as 6.8% — a deeper hit than the one sustained during the Great Recession. A.J. Schumann:

The federal government is trying to place the University of California under political control. Sign the UC Unbowed petition before the UC Regents meet on Nov 18 and tell them to protect UC's independence. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/un...

Chocolate lovers —support workers at the famous SF company here actionnetwork.org/letters/ghir...

NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body." Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

“Until we have real data, people making policy haven't got a clue what to rely on”- Prof. Daniel Hamermesh. And as @marisakabas.bsky.social sets out, the Trump regime's economic 'data' ranges from cherry-picked figures to blatant lies. www.thehandbasket.co/p/wh-inflati...

Stay with the fundamentals.

Life under the campaign of continuing cruelty

Recovery requires persistence. Keep going! open.substack.com/pub/protectd...