No worker should have to risk their life in the Texas heat so a billionaire can make a few extra pennies! “People are shocked that we would have to make sure that cool water be provided on these worksites,” said @theemrhammer.bsky.social, of the Texas State Building & Construction Trades Council.

President Trump has floated the idea of mortgages that take half a century to pay off. Here’s how that could affect Bay Area home prices — and why financial experts don’t like the idea.

I have in my hands definitive evidence that my opponent has committed a world-historic evil. Evidence that, were it to be released to the public, would cause his supporters to abandon him and his entire world to crumble to dust. I therefore have no choice but to give in to every one of his demands

SCOOP: ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.

"Wind projects lead to better local schools and lift neighbouring property values by about 3 per cent, according to a surprising new piece of research out of the US this week." reneweconomy.com.au/wind-farms-l... via @racheljourno.bsky.social 🔌💡

Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.

Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities

Anyone who goes to conservative conferences knows how many groypers and or Nick Fuentes disciples staff Capitol Hill offices, think tanks or lobbying firms.

You’ve GOT to be kidding me!

Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The WPA kept two of my great-grandfathers working.

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents. I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.

Another thing to keep in mind: www.dmagazine.com/micropost/wi...

And this is a Marshall Project story about how it could have a negative impact on police retention. www.dmagazine.com/micropost/th...

Several people have signed up to speak. What's interesting is it's not just a single demographic--they're all being represented so far, and they're all adamantly against the city partnering with ICE.

wrote about ai real estate listings for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

RFK Jr. peeling out of the meeting like he can't remember whether he's the one who sold that guy the heroin.

All I'm saying is the reason I don't buy that POLITICO article about Rs moving away from Trump is that they could easily just agree to release the Epstein Files and then they wouldn't even have to worry about the political fallout. Media would do the work for them. They want and like him in charge.

If you are a federal worker or know someone who has been impacted by the shutdown, these resources can help: aflcio.org/about-us/pro...

TurboTax makers Intuit have lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing. Now Trump has terminated the free IRS Direct File program, nearly a year after Intuit gave his inauguration $1M. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

If NYC is more than happy to vote for a young Muslim man, then I think that's a pretty strong indicator that 2024 was not about Americans rejecting a woman of color.

Today, Idaho is the reddest state in the union. The current GOP governor, Brad Little, is considered way too liberal for the right wing of the party despite being pro-life, pro-business, pro-Trump. The Dems haven't won a statewide office in years. You cannot appease your way to victory.

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Seymour Hersh

WOAH. Texas GOP Executive Director Jen Hall and another top party official just resigned. In her letter to party Chair Abraham George, Hall said she "cannot in good conscience continue to work this way" but doesn't elaborate. Hall and George are both longtime Tim Dunn allies. This is...interesting.

Oooooh! The knives are going to be coming out in the GOP.

Oh! Virginia is a blue state now? That's news.

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

Stop telling people that we can win by voting with our wallets. We’re not going to consume our way out from under the thumbs of the oligarchs. Especially in 2025 where every possible product and supply chain is incredibly more consolidated than at any other point in history.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Trump is quite literally the biggest union buster in American history. Every single Republican who supports Trump is anti-union, including Vance and Hawley and the other mythological “we love workers” ones. You are all lying rat cowards.

Defend and protect the motherfucking AFSCME video. Save it to a USB drive. Write it to a tape backup. Print out every frame on glass and record the audio to vinyl.

I would like to welcome Kat to the club of people who committed no crime but were indicted for political reasons. The club's membership is growing at breakneck speed!

It’s not law enforcement. It’s a deputized partisan militia.

NEW: A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica sets up new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.

Wondering when everyone is going to realize that we’re going to have to basically create a whole new country from scratch if we make out of the other side of all of this.

Is it just me or are podcasts just not as good as they used to be? I feel like podcasts peaked in like 2017. What am I supposed to listen to while I do stuff around the house?

Ezra Klein: Donald Trump is doing videos the right way

Unions mean more than just good jobs — they mean safety for workers & the community. Listen to Texas State Building and Construction Trades Council Executive Director Ryan Pollock discuss Chevron's $5 billion project on the America’s Work Force Union Podcast: awf.labortools.com/listen/ryan-...

If I had done the same shit Olivia Nuzzi did my name would never be allowed in the VICINITY of a legacy pub ever again.

Comedians are far quieter today than I would have hoped.

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

hey so this is insane

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Wake up, y’all. Another front just dropped.