Let’s put the $1.8 billion slush fund in perspective. DOJ spent ~$35M on Jack Smith’s Trump cases. That’s about 2% of $1.8B. The rioters caused $2.7B in damage to the Capitol. They were collectively ordered to pay about $3.2M restitution but only about $437,000 was paid before pardons wiped the rest

Exxon funded 60 social media accounts (that researchers could find...) spreading climate disinformation online. Which is weird for a company that knew its pollution was causing catastrophic climate change 50 years before social media was invented.

It only cost Big Oil $445 million in the last election to get Trump to steal them $200 billion ($1508 x 135M households) straight from Americans' pockets. Heckuva dealmaker he is.

🚨 THE SHEER NERVE 🚨 They honestly think they can just illegally dismantle the US Forest Service while we aren't looking. Show them exactly how loud we can get. Tell Congress to stop this scheme. Takes 30 seconds to send your letter and RT: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

After federal courts forced Mississippi to create more majority-Black state House and Senate districts in 2025, voters broke the GOP Senate supermajority. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed that ruling.

Such welcome U.S. news—effective governing for ordinary people, not the wealthy. @aclu.org @splcenter.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @frost.house.gov @mayor.nyc.gov @mayorofseattle.bsky.social @demgovs.org @votersoftomorrow.org @electdemocrats.bsky.social

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

"A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free." The Declaration of Independence (1776) Seems relevant now.

The Trump administration continues the rape of our nation, here handing long-held public lands to billionaires. @thirdactorg.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @janefonda.com @dmbofficial.bsky.social @envirovoters.bsky.social

Breaking: a new Public Citizen report just dropped: For-profit detention companies like GEO Group & Core Civic are paying ICE detainees $1 a day to cook, clean, and run their facilities — then threatening solitary if they refuse. Meanwhile, GEO Group's profits jumped from $32M to $254M in 1 year.

This. Brilliant planetary investment.

ProPublica obtained 3,000 pages of emails sent last year by executives asking that their facilities be exempted from Clean Air Act requirements. The White House approved more than 180 requests and is considering more.

Not only will they not face any consequences for attempting a coup Donald Trump is getting set to PAY them

Gaza role in 2024 Harris loss/Trump win. “For many voters watching the horrific, painful footage out of Gaza, it became a moral question—one we didn’t have a good answer for,” Flaherty said. “In ways that may not be reflected in a poll, it meaningfully reduced enthusiasm.” @uncommited.bsky.social

Holy moly this is great

THREAD. Flying under the DC press radar, the tech/Christian Nationalist network has lain a wide net to capture US democracy. @jennycohn.bsky.social tracks, cites, links—read and follow. @karaswisher.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social @pkrugman.bsky.social @rbreich.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov

GILLIBRAND: How did we bomb 22 schools? COOPER: There's no indication we have G: So how do you explain publicly available information that 22 schools have been hit and multiple hospitals? C: There's no way we can corroborate that G: Have you investigated those claims? C: We have not

▶️ After inheriting a historic $12 billion budget gap, Mayor restores NYC’s fiscal health ▶️ Mayor balances budget without slashing services, raising property taxes or draining long-term reserves ▶️ Mayor refuses to let working New Yorkers foot the bill — secures historic tax on the rich

DOGE-linked Jennica Pound publicly warned anti-ICE app GTFO ICE would "learn the hard way," and hours later nearly 18,000 users received messages claiming their locations and contacts were forwarded to the FBI, ICE, and Homeland Security. Totally normal data security stuff. 1/2

Why did Trump pardon drug trafficker and Honduran president Juan Hernández? According to leaked audio tapes, it was an initial payment in part of a agreement between Trump, Bibi, and others to take down Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. english.elpais.com/internationa...

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

But, look, it's not complicated: it is good politics to take a position that the majority support and that your opponent is absolutely terrible on. Why on earth wouldn't the Democrats NOT want to keep climate change in their arsenal? 9/n

THREAD: Tech billionaires in collusion with Trump, to benefit the wealthy, not the rest of us or the planet. As always, deeply researched and cited by @jennycohn.bsky.social cc @karaswisher.bsky.social @bencollins.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social @kathleenbelew.bsky.social @rokhanna.bsky.social

Absolutely outrageous Virginia Supreme Court invalidated redistricting referendum approved by the voters when voters haven’t been able to weigh in on a single gerrymander passed in red states

A woman suffering abuse called 911 to protect herself & her daughter. Police arrived and handed her over to ICE fascists, who deported her and her daughter, who is a US citizen. Women suffering abuse risk deportation due to Trump's ICE policy. Horrific. letsaddresstexas.substack.com/p/texas-is-t...

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

This is what US dollars to Israel looks like👇🏼

Shell made nearly $7 billion in profit in the first three months of 2026—double the previous period. BP's Q1 profits also doubled to $3.2 billion. While millions feel economic pain from the disruption of the Iran War, oil and gas companies are making massive sums of money.

THREAD: How the wealthy rose to dominate US culture, and why so few voices “for the people” break through now.

2024 Stolen by Algorithms? “Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice.” @ms.now @zeteo.com open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

Good morning everyone.

China is developing a bamboo-based replacement for plastics. So many reasons to ditch fossil fuels. phys.org/news/2025-10...

I completely agree that Democrats should run on ripping out the diseased roots of corruption.

Just read this book by Nick Enrich I found it very hard to contain my outrage and sadness – every single page was distressing to read, and I can only imagine what the author and USAID colleagues went through, and the millions who were suddenly abandoned... www.simonandschuster.ca/books/Into-t...

Recommended read: Trump in the 1990s is the same man dismantling US democracy now. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social @bencollins.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Fool-People-...

They are breaking the law and overturning the Constitution in an attempt to protect their power, with the overarching goal of ending democracy and enslaving us

Local TV News is vanishing too—a distressing trend as local newsrooms dissolve without notice (victim to more billionaire buyouts/consolidation). A healthy democracy requires free speech, truth. @markjacob.bsky.social @mmfa.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

So deserving. This powerful book brings the attention on homelessness back to where it belongs, not on the discomfort many feel about having to see visible homelessness, but onto the people who desperately need decent, stable housing—who are mostly much less visible.

Legal good news re Fulton County’s confiscated election ballots. @marcelias.bsky.social @rickhasen.bsky.social @votevets.org @ossoff.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov @leahlitman.bsky.social

“The agreement — and the decisions Media Matters won… — offers a roadmap for other newsgathering and nonprofit organizations facing, or at risk of, government retaliation” @ms.now www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carus.... matters-secures-complete-and-total-victory-against-federal-trade-commission#

"Emergent technologies – including generative AI and nudification tools – are becoming increasingly integral to the deliberate targeting and silencing of women in public life by lowering technical barriers to abuse while amplifying its reach": @thenerve.news.

As a scientist, this is my worst nightmare. There are one-of-a-kind instruments that you spend your life perfecting. When they’re lost, no amount of time or money will bring them back. My thoughts are with @oceanandclimate.bsky.social @ashevenell.bsky.social and others @cmarinescience.bsky.social. 🥺

My name is Ken I'm from Seattle. My mom worked at a church my Dad drove a beer truck for the union. They raised seven kids in a 7 bedroom house by Greenlake on a truck driver's salary. None of that is even remotely possible now. We have to make the working class high priority in the country again.

Earnest environmentalists meet. “By all accounts it was a kinder, gentler version of the regular climate talks, in part because fossil fuel lobbyists…were not welcome.” @billmckibben.bsky.social @doctorvive.bsky.social @climatehuman.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

The editorial cartoonist's pen is one of the sharpest tools in journalism, whittling issues down to basics for satire or rage. I'm proud to say that my long-ago colleague, Milt Priggee, is unafraid to shock with a tough point of view.

🌍 The Horn of Africa is in mourning. Farms are barren, deserts are advancing, rivers are drying, pests are spreading, and crops are dying. Climate change is not a distant threat,it’s here. #ClimateAction #HornOfAfrica #ClimateCrisis

This. We have a beautiful planet but human dominance is disabling its beautifully designed systems. @climatehuman.bsky.social @climateofgavin.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @billmckibben.bsky.social @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social @votersoftomorrow.org @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @dmbofficial.bsky.social

Google co-founder Sergey Brin — the third-richest man on the planet — is reportedly spending $57M to defeat California's proposed billionaire's tax. So he and his fellow oligarchs can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections? See the problem...

This is what happens under fair maps—and why they gutted the Voting Rights Act. Get it? This is why generations marched, organized, and mobilized. And so must we. 📈