I genuinely hate the push to make smoking a thing again. I have watched so many drawn out, ugly, painful deaths from smoking. It makes everything disgusting. It enslaves us to the worst kinds of corporations. There’s ZERO positive here.

This column by @moiradonegan.bsky.social is an example of how our "leaders" do not represent their constituents (in this case, age). We deserve progressive candidates; not simply b/c leftist ideals, but b/c progressivism is about lifting ignored voices for better representation of all the people.

We could've learned so much about our failings during the pandemic and come back economically and politically stronger, but we did not. Compiled by @democracyatwork.bsky.social during COVID, @profwolff.bsky.social's essays make clear the Sickness is the System. #booksky read finished. #nonfiction

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

ICE is playing judge, jury, and executioner as they murder people in cold blood. It ends when enough of us say fuck no and vote in our primaries and then again in November for candidates who are going to hold these rogue ICE agents accountable and abolish this corrupt, lawless agency.

RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now? A cyclosporiasis outbreak has sickened thousands across 34 states. "Make America Healthy Again."

*taps sign*

anyone else stop using google search because they didn't want to have to filter through shitty AI responses that weren't what you wanted? i've switched to qwant, but am wondering if there are other/better options that people are using?

ABOLISHING ICE IS NOT ENOUGH. Today ICE killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine. He was 26. He was a husband and father. His daughter and wife were with him. He was not the person ICE was looking for. And yet again, ICE is trying to lie about what happened. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

ICE killed a random guy today.

TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS! 🏳️‍⚧️ You will always have a home here at We of Action Virginia, and we will never stop fighting for you. 🩷🩵

I don't understand when athletes are unwelcoming to their trans teammates. I practiced casually with a rugby team in college that had a high percentage of trans players and thought it was a ball. Plus they gave support at a tough time in my life. Maybe I was having to much fun to discriminate?

I believe in cultural evolution. This is how society decides what are desirable traits and which are not. Politicians should be concerned with how they will be spoken of after they die. We can all learn from it and get better.

WATCH: When her son Chris was 7, Mary McGonigle-Martin gave him raw milk, as it promised to treat allergies and digestive problems. A month later, he fell gravely ill. Now 27, he’s still dealing with the effects of kidney damage and other health issues. This is their story.

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. (Published Oct. 2024)

Damn when even the LAPD thinks you’re a threat to civil rights you’ve really achieved a high mark on the all-time worst guys scoreboard.

That weirdness when you go into another room of the house for something but leave an hour later with a clean room and not an idea of what you were looking for.

The population of metro Washington DC is about double that of the entire country of Albania .. but yeah the USA is too large to sustain a protest movement like this. How much more does this admin have to do before the people take to the streets?

Vote YES, YES, AND YES when it comes time to vote in the fall! 3 Constitutional Amendments will be on Virginians’ November ballots, and we’re urging you to vote YES on all 3 to protect same-sex marriage, protect reproductive freedom, and expand voting rights here in the Commonwealth. #VoteYES

Democracy has always been a feminist project. Explore FEMINIST 250:

A good step in the right direction. Still not enough?

These days it feels like 99% of financial success is built on hype and convincing people to take the jump off the bridge with you. See also, cryptocurrency.

Just finished this book by @jacobsilverman.com on how Silicon Valley capital pivoted to right-wing oligarchy and authoritarianism. Would highly recommend for those looking to understand how DOGE and other tech-controlled takeovers of our political system have been possible. #booksky

It's my belief that Joel Pett was let go from the Lexington Herald Leader (@kentucky.com ) because he was one of the few who dared remind readers what #MoscowMitch was really up to, daring to tread waters none of their "journalists" dared to enter. To this day they're still whitewashing his legacy.

Billionaires (and a trillionaire) are not being taxed fairly in America. In Virginia, we had a REAL opportunity to finally tax millionaires and billionaires at higher, fairer rates with VA HB979, HB378 or HB188. We’ve gotta keep pushing to finally TAX THE RICH here in Virginia and across the nation.

Corruption is UNPATRIOTIC. Hate is UNPATRIOTIC. WofA is PATRIOTIC, and you can join us anytime ➡️ wofava.org #Virginia

A huge problem with the Platner apologists is that women are just supposed to take it so we don’t get in the way of progressive politics. SA’d by a progressive man? Better than the alternative, right? We have to keep taking one for the team. Over and over again.

Breaking: Graham Platner suspends his congressional campaign amid several accusations of sexual assault Democrats drew a line,making clear there is no room in the party for someone facing such allegations. Meanwhile Republicans continue to turn a blind eye to adjudicated sexual abuser Donald Trump

DOGE officially ended over the weekend. One of its crowning achievements was cutting $15M from the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1B to combat the screwworm outbreak. "Efficiency."

In 2023, the Supreme Court cut the amount of sensitive streams and wetlands it can protect. Under Trump's EPA, data center developers are breezing past federal regulations to build their projects immediately. Some are even withdrawing their permit requests, all without penalty.

ICE has not quieted down. It’s even worse. It’s just become less visible and less covered by the media. Here's what you should know. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ice-is-even-worse

We deserve better progressive options. The politicians we have are not going to save us. Stop relying solely on "leaders". Look for people that are on the ground. The people connecting others, providing shelter and raising voices. The people that know what we need because they are part of us.

Meta’s AI data-center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been caught infecting the town’s water supply with deadly bacteria. Officials say wastewater from Meta’s AI data-center flooded the town’s pipes with the bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii, and they found the company violated industrial waste regulations.

My interview: “I came to this country as an infant and became a U.S. citizen,” Roswell Encina said. “So sitting there, on the Fourth of July, I couldn’t help but think about the promise of America and the work still required to protect it.” www.advocate.com/news/people/...

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Strange. I rarely hear the news talking about fascism or kleptocracy, the real threats we’re currently facing.

Recently spoke to Julie Bolthouse, Director of Land Use at Piedmont Environmental Council, for @wofava.bsky.social about her organizing in VA! Check it out: open.spotify.com/episode/2H8s... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Get out and early vote, Virginia! Early voting ends on August 1, and Primary Election Day is Tuesday, August 4. Make a plan to vote ➡️ iwillvote.com/va #Virginia #vote

if we didn't call it socialism would they be up for it? maybe, we could use a different term. no-person-left-behind? pour down economics? democracy-partisan? have any good ones?

fireworks shaking the house at 12:30 across the river. Happy 5th! ...I guess...

This is the white supremacist group Patriot Front and we condemn in the strongest possible terms their ideology and presence in our communities. We advise DC neighbors to protect the most vulnerable people around you today. We reaffirm DC’s values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.

Mourners marched across the Mississippi to the federal building carrying coffins for every migrant that has died in DHS custody.

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

We demand nothing less than equal justice under the law. Nothing has stopped us from fighting for that vision in the over 100 years since our organization’s founding, and nothing ever will.

I’ve spoken with Jason Watson. He knew exactly what this would cost him. He gave up his military career to take a brave stand for democracy. Patriotism that only works with obedience isn’t patriotism.

Governor Walz deployed Minnesota’s National Guard to DC this week to support Trump’s corrupt and destructive “Freedom 250” celebration and enable this regime’s ongoing occupation of the capital city. There’s nothing patriotic about that.

"I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim." A reminder that even if you celebrate today, we can still evoke Frederick Douglass' famous Independence Day address. We have not come far enough.

Please vote some younger, tougher leftists into Congress. These long term corporate dems ain't cutting it.

i have not been watching the world cup closely. but in the last hour i have decided i'm all in for cabo verde. #worldcup

be safe out there!