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It's wild that people know Amazon is 100% colluding with every fucked up agency out there, yet have a direct line microphone surveilling all of their activities & training on the sound of their voice, all so they can pick a song using their voice or turn off lights in a room. Girl, buy a Clapper.

For months, working people have been making phone calls, sending emails and knocking on doors to tell Congress to keep their hands off our healthcare. Instead of listening, the Republican Party has continued its agenda to make the rich richer.

Republicans control the White House, Senate, and House. This government shutdown is on them.

Workslop is AI output that looks polished but is hollow on closer read, leaving the receiver to decipher it to find any actual substance. With companies pushing AI everywhere, we’re drowning in empty content no one bothers to read before spreading. Instead of AI boosting productivity, it kills it.

America doesn’t need more billionaires. What we do need is a society where everyone has health care, a safe place to live, and food on the table. It's time to tax the rich and build a fair society.

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

A friendly reminder: US billionaires have gained $968 billion in wealth so far this year—that’s 30X the annual cost of ACA subsidies Congress is fighting over in the shutdown talks. That $968B is enough to send every single US household a $7,300 check.

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter: "There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

Meta (Facebook) is a chronically dishonest and harmful company. In this piece for Tech Policy Press, I dissect the obfuscation and bad faith on display in a new book by former Facebook No. 2 executive Nick Clegg. Please give it a read and share. Thanks! www.techpolicy.press/in-new-book-...

Just another situation we find ourselves in because we created this situation. 🚫 TikTok 🚫 Facebook 🚫 Twitter 🚫Amazon Stop lining the pockets of #bloatedbillionaires 😠

Too often, we talk about homelessness as if it's natural or inevitable. The truth is that it's a political choice. When then-Gov. Cuomo cut the Advantage program rather than tax his wealthy donors, his decision sent thousands of New York families into shelters.

"...more and more, the longer this anomoly continues, am I losing the inner connection with my nature, and this condition leads to a silentness inwardly and outwardly to an insensibility of which I daily complain and which I still cannot overcome." from wartime letters of Rilke

"It is not, of course, the business of an artist to give satisfaction as if he were some sort of home appliance, but to enlarge our sensation and perception of life." Shirley Hazzard "The Lonely Word" in collection, We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think

He’s got terminally online joke at the ready, AND he follows it up with some data and a real substantive answer. My dude is so good at this, a generational talent.

Me: "Do you really want to drive Bill Ackman out of New York?" @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: "Even Bill Ackman, I want him to stay here. Because I don't want someone to write a long-worded tweet from somewhere else in the country. Calligraphy needs to live!" 😂😂 Full intv: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

Washington Week and @tanglenews.bsky.social are my primary news sources. In this age of AI slop, it's important to ignore most of what comes at you, trying to amp shit up 24/7. Choose your trusted sources and go to them.

Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. -Adam Zagajewski Resharing a favorite. [trans. Clare Cavanagh, published in TheNewYorker’s Sept 2001 special issue] #everynightapoem

Starting a busy week holding onto my garden, illuminated by that gorgeous Virgo full eclipse moon, still shining in my window at 6:30 a.m. saying: "Discernment, baby. Start seed-sorting, wheat from chaff." #gardening #rewilding #nativegardening #FullMoon #eclipse

Scams, like the "tech support scam," steal more than the entire DOJ budget each year, going into the coffers of overseas crime gangs and/or North Korea. Listen to this podcast! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Organized labor has always been the biggest threat to fascists. That's why it's targeted first. Happy Labor Day.

BREAKING: We just launched the #First45TaxFree campaign, a working class tax cut paid for by millionaires. No one working full-time should be taxed into poverty. That’s why we want to make the first $45K income tax-free. Yup, you read that right. First 45 tax free.

NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.

BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:

We are a dead culture, let's face it.

Again! The people, in the form of a grand jury, call bullshit. Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

yesterday they charged someone with a felony for "causing [an HSI agent] to fall to the ground and scrape his knee"

At least the grand jury system is working. The people called bullshit 3 times on this nonsense. Prosecutors Fail 3 Times to Charge Woman With Felony Assault of F.B.I. Agent in D.C. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...

Every time someone proposes taxing the wealthy, millionaires threaten to leave. In cities across America, when they raised taxes on the ultra-wealthy, millionaire populations actually grew! It's time to TAX THE RICH and invest in cities where working families can thrive.

Honestly, this may be one of the most important media graphs I've ever seen. The claim: Democrats keep using annoying words. The data: Republicans CLAIMS Democrats use them, which then becomes the narratives. Then centrists attack DEMS for things GOPer CLAIM they say, not GOP for making stuff up.

Over a quarter of all homes sold in the first three months of 2025 were bought by real estate investors. If we want to make housing affordable again, we must get Wall Street out of our homes. https://youtu.be/q9TOGxDJ0TE?feature=shared

South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water chuffed.org/project/1132...

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

I somehow want to mash up the Arby's in pockets hilarity with the getting arrested for assaulting someone with a sandwich. Should we all be carrying sandwiches in our pockets now?

Good morning, incorrigibly plural world! World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various. from Snow by Louis MacNeice

A day spent gardening is never misspent. #nativegardens #nativegardening #rewilding #puttering

“Night is falling fast in our world, so we must learn to be gardeners in the dark.” --Joel Elkes From Parker Palmer's latest newsletter parkerjpalmer.substack.com/p/on-bearing...

Just replace "superintelligence" with "total surveillance" when you read this note and you will understand exactly what these clowns want to do to you.

US Gov page on climate emphasizes the ECONOMIC damage. What about life? "Among the key findings, the report concludes that carbon dioxide (CO2) -induced warming appears to be less damaging economically than commonly believed...aggressive mitigation strategies could be more harmful than beneficial."

It's hot and so are my plants! Okay, one is not native to upstate New York; it's a Torch Tithonia. I plant it so my neighbors see blooms while I am waiting for some of my slow natives to put on their show. But already ironweed + Joe Pye are on it! #nativegardens #nativegardening #nativeperennials

the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it

Although I'm an avid listener to audiobooks, the digestion of complex sentences on the page really constructs our brain. I feel my brain getting more mushy as my attention gets harder and harder to harness into focus.

The gifts of native gardening: this time of year, so much is in bloom. But also I've found 4 native volunteers all over the place this year: Eastern Enchanter's Nightshade, rhomboid mercury, snakeroot, white avens. Still some invasives but maybe the tide is turning. #nativegardens #nativegardening

Queuing this up now. Loved and Missed was such a beautiful, heartbreaking, funny novel.