On January 20th, one year into Trump's second term, do I really need to remind you? zeteo.com/p/our-year-f...

The other day I bitched that people always forget LaMonica McIver in their list of politicized prosecutions. The New Yorker has a profile here, so hopefully we can change that. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The conversation on Threads

11% of Americans think Trump is honest and trustworthy. 14% of Americans believe in Bigfoot. 🥴

In the #gonad, #sex is not an irrevocable commitment, and requires active maintenance. Artyom Kopp explores a new @plosbiology.org study elucidating the molecular mechanisms that preserve sexual identity in the adult #Drosophila #testis 🧪 Paper: plos.io/4pMT6hq Primer: plos.io/3MRBBxG

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

We just dropped a major new investigation with partners @lighthousereports.com and a dozen other international partners, uncovering a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries, including the US. WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWy...

The beginning of the end of free press. Ellison is a maga billionaire trumper who will force CBS & subsidiaries to be proTrump. He is trying to buy WB who owns CNN so that will be next. NBC & MSNBC will be all that’s left that’s not proTrump & I imagine that won’t be able to hold the line for long.

At a time when so many people feel “really powerless, Michelle’s work is a reminder that it’s still possible to be powerful, and she’s done it through art.” One woman’s quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health

Amazing how people like, Musk, Thiel, Vance and others have had amazing opportunities that so many others have not and come out on the other side BSC. apple.news/ASkA50fXCSq2...

Is anyone hearing about this in the mainstream news? youtu.be/w8LNLa6kI8M?...

“if he can order the Navy to operate as a presidential hit squad on the high seas, any number of grim hypotheticals could become reality sooner than Americans might expect,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why fascist strongmen rely on women at home

This is a great cover.

ICE -American bred cruelty. youtu.be/IMutqZiGt0Y?...

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Cleveland’s mayor wants Democrats to know millennials like him are impatient and ready to lead. Justin Bibb says Democrats need to listen more to mayors. They see the impact of federal policy first-hand.

❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.

A post for Labor Day, originally published September 9, 2022.

Please sign and share our petition to remove RFK Jr. www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...

🚨 BREAKING: Republicans are lashing out at the creators of this new ad. They're TERRIFIED. It must have struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as pedophile-protectors. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles

The Alaska summit between Trump and Putin was never about Ukraine or a ceasefire, but about US and Russia making peace with each other, political scientist Klemens Fischer tells Reuters. The Big Con.

open.substack.com/pub/chadbour... People, please read!

Succinctly stated.

Share this debunking widely so that folks - especially Millennials and Gen Z - understand what’s actually happening with Social Security, and how it actually works.

"There's clinical evidence that learning on a screen is inferior." Sophie Winkleman tells @tomswarbrick.bsky.social there's a reason the big tech bros send their children to schools with blackboards.

Listening to the asshole @SpeakerJohnson just blame Senator Padilla makes a few things clear. 1st - He uses God and religion to justify lying. 2nd - IT IS TIME FOR A NATIONAL STRIKE. AMERICANS SHOULD CALL IN SICK AND SHOULD STOP SPENDING MONEY ON ANYTHING BUT NECESSITIES.

In this speech, you can hear and see troops cheering when Trump talks about his election and booing when he talks about Joe Biden, the governor of California, and the mayor of L.A. This sends a message that many members of our armed forces view half of our people as their opponents. It's chilling.

“If we can learn to love truly, which means to will the well-being of another, we can achieve unity,” writes Arthur Brooks of the new pope’s message to the world:

open.substack.com/pub/theoryma... my latest where I argue universities need to install values such as humility, shame, and reciprocity into their systems if they want to survive the scourge of AI @chadbourn.bsky.social thought you may enjoy this :)

We lose our empathy, we lose our country. Must read —> www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...