atlantablackstar.com/2025/08/06/m... The frequency of this experience for Black children is intolerable.

Hearing "What A Wonderful World" playing in a kitchen full of laughter is the best gift ever.

You guys caught this too, right? “Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” ███████ noted some girl with a funny name “took me into a fancy hotel or building, that’s how it happened.” Also this: she was advised to call the police. But she replied, “I can’t, they will kill me.” 1/2

One person who has benefited from AquaBounty coming to Pioneer, Ohio is the town’s mayor. His company bought land for $600K before the deal was publicly announced, then flipped that property to AquaBounty for ~$2.1M. (Published Feb.)

Make 2026 be the year you credit authors and artists you "borrow" from and post on Bluesky.

I'm giving the gift of "Reality-based Creative Approach to Being Covid Safe" this holiday. 1. Mask up indoors the week before gathering 2. Test before gathering 3. Run a HEPA air cleaner during gathering 4. Rejoice knowing you're not infecting anyone with Covid, a cold, the Flu, etc ❤️ Easy peasy

I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.

During the year’s busiest season of charitable giving, donors may wonder whether the nonprofits they are considering donating to are going to be good stewards of their money. Our Nonprofit Explorer can help you look into that:

If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Accurate about a Pathological Liar and Convicted Felon who Incited an Insurrection, tried to Steal a Fair Election and is Covering up Sex Crimes against Children, shouldn't his Disgraceful Presidency be terminated? I say, YES!

Let us be honest: few people will be pleased if you give them test kits and masks as stocking stuffers, but along the same lines few people will be pleased if you give them Covid or flu and make them suffer.

This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

People often ask why Democrats don’t have something like TurningPoint USA — so before the year ends, let me introduce you to Voters of Tomorrow. We’re on campuses across the country, organizing over 10,000 Gen Z members to engage our generation. 🧵THREAD

Cancel your Paramount plus subscription today it’s the one thing they’re afraid of and it will harm their attempt to buy WB / CNN

COVID-19 spread continues to increase across the U.S. as we head into the most travel-and-gathering-heavy part of the year. Flu levels are also going up, more aggressively than COVID-19. Read @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social's weekly COVID-19 trends report: bit.ly/44K5je9

1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated 2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements 3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program 4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states

Kash lied to congress.

This leftwing cancel culture is out of cont... Oh wait.

Poisoning local ground water using a business practice that is directly the cause should be a crime 🤬🤬🤬 Instead people are forced to "deal with it"

Thousands turn out for anti-ICE march in Minneapolis. “Thousands of people braved the bitter cold Saturday morning, marching more than a mile along Minneapolis’ Lake Street corridor in a massive, coordinated anti-immigration enforcement protest." www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

This clusterfuck of a year is finally coming to an end, which means it’s almost time for an election year. For my Substack, I wrote about how Gen Z will define the midterms. open.substack.com/pub/santiago...

I’m sure this will be popular. 5 million people are in default right now. The Dept of Ed estimates as many as 10 million by end of next year because of job market.

A disturbing update to this story: Despite the fact that he was about to be released from a US prison after completing a sentence here, when Kelvin Membreño was deported to El Salvador he was sent to CECOT prison and remains there. The family has not heard from him since.

Adam Smith

"Defendants violated their fundamental obligations as trustees and, in Defendant Grenell's case, as an employee. ... Defendants' actions wasted the trust property, including by expending resources to unlawfully deface the Kennedy Center's building and its website ...."

If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.

Key word: insinuation. Clinton comes out swinging.

Trump really lives and governs like a terminal Make a Wish kid whose wish was to be American Hitler.

The flu killed 3 kids in Ottawa over the last 2 weeks. “Immunity debt” is a lie. Letting kids repeatedly get Covid does NOT made them stronger, it’s WEAKENED immune systems and why flu is more devastating. PARENTS! Join @onschoolsafety.bsky.social in fighting for kids’ right to clean air! ✊ #ONpoli

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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Wrong. The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.

BREAKING: We are suing Trump & his cronies to restore the Kennedy Center’s lawful name We @democracydefendersaction.org are proud to represent Kennedy Center Trustee @repbeatty.bsky.social w/ our friends at Washington Litigation Group Congress named the Kennedy Center & only they can change it

THIS:

🗞️From Dan Rather tonight: "What happened to (60 Minutes) Sharyn Alfonsi’s piece is no less hard to take even, though anyone could see it coming. The barbarians are no longer at the gate. They have breached the walls and are now running the show."

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

The president has ended protected status of Ethiopians, Haitians, and Somalis and will deport thousands — including children who grew up in the US. Many will be forced to return to countries still experiencing armed conflict and instability. This decision puts lives at risk.

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CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

ICE has posted a video of Santa Claus arresting immigrants. Your government is hijacking a symbol of charity to spread fear and hate. it’s up to all of us to defeat these twisted fascists.

Bill Clinton is calling for the full release of the Epstein files. Not partial. Not redacted. All of it.

I told you we would fight Trump's DOJ to protect voting rights. I promised we would not let them gather your most sensitive voter data without a fight. As of today, my law firm has filed to intervene in all 22 lawsuits filed by Trump's DOJ. We are not done fighting and we are not done winning.

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

Farewell to CBS News and "60 Minutes." It just went the way of the Washington Post's editorial page Once you begin surrendering to Trump, he always wants more. You can’t appease a tyrant. Some thoughts...

As a historian I've looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents. And I just have to say that aside from being obviously illegal and clearly suggestive of some major crime, this “redaction” business is not a position in which serious people or serious governments find themselves

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Earlier this year the people at 60 Minutes urged me to overcome fear and speak on camera about what it's like being a lawyer being targeted by Trump. When I did, they lavished me with praise -- noting I was the only person willing to do it. Now it is their turn to show courage.

NEW: Rep. Cory Mills owns a defense company that appears to have been illegally exporting weapons to Ukraine—while Mills sits on the committee with oversight of those sales. This has gone unreported and for a long time unknown in Congress. My latest here: sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/george-san...

“I love my country enough to risk its wrath by drawing attention to the negative things we don't always want to see. And that can be risky and you have to pay for that.” Martin Sheen 🇺🇸 (born Ramón Estévez) Son of immigrants Spanish father/Irish mother Lithuania is Europe 🇪🇺 #DEFENDDEMOCRACY 4/5🧵