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•Every $1 per hour increase in minimum wage corresponds to a 1% decrease in suicide rates Blocking these common sense policies to protect 800 billionaires isn’t just fiscally dumb—it’s literally killing us by the hundreds of thousands 2/2

To recap: •Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually •Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses •The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45% 1/2

NEW: President Biden commuted the death sentences of most people on the federal death row before exiting office. President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports: boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...

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"These findings highlight the divergence between what the candidate emphasized and what the media reported" hmmmmm www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest survivor of The Tulsa Race Massacre passed away. Let’s honor her memory by remembering her story

Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Which school? Universities being a pillar of support to fascism when MAGA fascist fucks are working overtime to destroy education is WILD. Oh, wait. MAYBE NOT. It's bc so many schools are actually huge hedge funds who think they can profit by betraying democracy.

For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given. The same is true for everyone who swear their oath. Hope that clears things up.

More faith leaders and religious institutions standing up for their beliefs and the rights of their congregants who this government is committing an ethnic cleaning against, please.

"Trump’s invasion of NC has been met w/ rapidly organized opposition & is likely to result in another political backfire in a state with a critical upcoming Senate race. Much of the resistance emanates from churches, demonstrating again how repulsed many Americans are by Trump’s war on the nation."

Kendrick's half time show was THIS YEAR. It's been a long year

Senator Murphy sounds the alarm as Trump calls for the deaths of Dems who served the country to be killed for reminding the military their loyalty is to the constitution not to him 🇺🇸

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

It seems worth getting very crisp on whether the presumptive 2028 Republican nominee for POTUS agrees with his boss that members of Congress should be killed.

Personalized gold bars from the Swiss. Used jumbo jet from Qatar. Huge amounts of $$$ from crypto. The amount of corruption in the White House is at unconscionable levels. We need some real serious ethics across the federal government.

as an MIT-trained science writer: being willing to ask dumb questions is a superpower

I could assemble an oral history of “environmental disasters of the postwar era” from the replies and quotes of this.

Happy International Men's Day, especially to trans men.

NEW: The Social Security Administration is abandoning plans to promulgate rules that experts say would have resulted in thousands of people losing their disability benefits. www.nextgov.com/policy/2025/...

if you get it, won't you tell me how

Maybe you shouldn't have glued yourself to Tr*mp like a male anglerfish to a female, bc you're going down with this ship, Mikey boy. But bless your heart for trying to stop the wave from crashing into you.

My “my 17 references to George Soros aren’t political” footnote is raising a lot of questions answered by my footnote.

The Great Smog was not long after he died. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_S...

Literally just lectured about this! In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.

As a seasoned emergency manager who's overseen some of FEMA's biggest response and recovery plans, I can assure you this is nonsense. Reducing the 75/25 cost share and assuming states not ending in -orida have the capacity to manage major public assistance projects is naive and dangerous policy.

Members of the military take an oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to obey the orders of the president too. I guess they never imagined the president could present the threat to the Constitution, but here we are.

It's a right-of-passage within Republican circles.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.

A former Palantir exec just published an extortion letter in the Washington Post: Democrats must fund tech oligarchs, abandon antitrust, and create 15 deregulated corporate zones—or “lose.” When I challenged her, she blocked me. Tech’s moral rot, exposed: www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...

When I was homeless in 2019, the Salvation Army shelter refused to give me a bed (even though they were available), because I was on immunosuppressant meds and they didn’t want to be responsible or liable if I got more sick or died on premises. They’d rather I die on the street.

The Transportation Security Administration is investigating how someone was able to bring a meat cleaver on a Delta Air Lines plane in Portland, Oregon. https://cnn.it/4pejQXl

THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

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These incredible fucking assholes. These application processes are already so deeply burdensome and frustrating. They are trying to starve people.

not cops, not genocide, not tax breaks for people who have never been hungry kids. schools. feeding people and making sure they have safe places to live. why the fuck do we even have a government if all they do with our tax money is try to kill us

You'll never be invited back, no. But the nation will build statues in your honor.

And if they stay with it, don't let up. "No, I don't think the political framing is the most important here. These were young girls raped by prominent men and traded around like they were things. Are you not outraged by that? If not, what the fuck is wrong with you?"

Right, if someone asks you this, your response should be to raise your eyebrows as high as possible, blink twice in an exaggerated fashion and then say slowly, "I'm sorry ... are you asking me why we should *care* about a sex trafficking ring of pedophiles that apparently includes the president?"

Politics 101: Any issue that unites your base and divides theirs is a good issue that you should keep pounding.

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As a beekeeper, I've been thinking a lot about the terrifying collective power of honeybees. When you are in the colony and you piss off 40k or 100k divas who will move AS ONE against you...one cannot help but think of how we could look to the bee for wisdom on collective resistance.

The Democrats called out racist shitbags and serial sex offenders. If you heard those attacks and felt they were calling *you* out personally, then that's entirely on you, champ. The rest of us white guys didn't hear that. At all.

Update to the update to the update: Like that it’s GONE AGAIN! Real humans at Tiktok decided I did nothing wrong, and yet it was taken down again and now I can’t even appeal it. So here it is. Reuploading on this post for convenience.

oh fuck yes