I know I keep going on about this but 1) yes 2) it has DEEPLY embarrassed the media people who kept trying to pretend that this regime can be treated as legitimate, and 3) we absolutely cannot let them forget it

if you can look at it without catching poster’s madness, the list of who actually gets engagement here is pretty interesting. somewhat dire at the top but quickly it’s real and high quality posters. bluefacts.app/top-reach

NJ PBS shutting down next summer. “15yrs ago Gov. Christie ended 4 decades of state funding for public TV, forcing them to find a new funder. The state cut $750k in funding this yr, but that was hardly the fatal blow; that came from the end of federal funds.” newjerseyglobe.com/media/new-je...

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Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

Why is this happening? I’ll explain. If the FCC approves Nexstar’s merger deal, the company’s reach would increase from 39% to more than 80% of US households. But the deal ALSO depends on the FCC eliminating the current 39% cap on reach. Sinclair has been lobbying for this change as well.

it would be nice if we could all just move on from the medical model of disabilities (they must be 'cured') and embrace the social model (the world must be made accessible and livable for all people)

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

I'm taking my first poetry class ever through Grubstreet, Revolutionary Poetics, which is reminding me that art can't be divorced from action in these times, and art can move people towards that action. I went down a little rabbit hole tonight for the poems written about my uncle Vincent Chin:

El Grito de Independencia (Mexican Independence Day) celebrations in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, tonight!

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

Note for NY: I got my COVID shot at a Walgreens but didn't disclose I have asthma & almost wasn't able to get my shot. It could be Walgreens policy, despite Hochul's executive order, requires people to have an underlying condition, where my friends who've gotten boosters at CVS have had no problems.

I do not know how to fix it, but I cannot say enough how much we in the news need to figure out how to handle the “flood the zone with shit” strategy.

One of the few good things about early Bluesky culture is the commitment to accessibility. A lot of people who've been here longer than Nov. 2024. won't share your skeet if you don't use Alt text. Adding #Alt4Me can summon help and many of us will pitch in as we have spoons if you don't that day.

Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

I miss Twitter of the late 2010s

Gotta say seeing governors competing to one up each other to see who can make vaccines most accessible is a refreshing change.

sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this

Ticketmaster just quietly changed its fine print so that the next time you buy a ticket to a concert or a game, you'll be forced to sign away your legal rights. Pass it on. www.levernews.com/ticketmaster...

BREAKING, from NY Playbook PM: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid vaccines to New Yorkers who request them.

Good news: I made my 2-year anniversary as a manager of an Asian American low-income immigrant HS youth virtual mentoring program! Bad news: Maybe because I'm staring at the screen so much, my eyesight, which has remained a steady prescription for ten plus years, has finally gone up 0.50 per eye 😭

To read:

Scientific studies in the last month: COVID damages immune systems for a year or more, causes “silent” heart damage, mild cases cause brain damage, the Long Covid rate may be 30%, etc. The New York Times, the Atlantic, & NPR: You’re good! Enjoy your flights & restaurants & get back to the office!

Today I was typing into a Google sheet for work and it wasn't accepting my keyboard responses. Restarted the computer. Keyboard worked except the right arrow key. I try for an hour :( until I finally look, and see... ...a piece of pearl barley grain from dinner last night was lodged underneath it 🤦🏻‍♀️

Literally, the $930 billion in Medicaid cuts passed the Senate by ONE vote

The fact so much of Bluesky expresses absolute revulsion at the idea of Gavin Newsom running for president gives me the feeling that, just like Joe Biden, he is likely the next Democratic nominee.

Trying to be on social media less so I can not be in complete despair about the news every day and to finally finish revising this third draft of my memoir, but I do really appreciate this space and the news I get here and that an algorithm isn't stealing my attention. Hope you're doing okay.

bored and friendless rich people need to be stopped. LEAVE US ALONE.

🚨The push to dismantle the Department of Education is an attack on those who’ve served. Veterans. Troops. Spouses. Kids. Everyone pays. A thread 🧵

July 14, 2025 Protesters at Trump Tower demanded funding to be restored to the National LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention Hotline Last month Trump terminated federal funding of the 988 LGBTQ+ youth crisis line 988 program has assisted over 1.3 million young people in 3 years. RISEandRESIST.org

Thanks Senators Sullivan & Murkowski. Alaskans really appreciate your vote on the #BUGLYBill. You will see how much in 2026, 2028 respectively.

Guilherme Lemes Cardoso E Silva, an artist known for painting murals across the Bay Area, was taken into custody by ICE agents. His wife is now pleading for his release before their baby is born.

The Alexandria Declaration is an indication of serious trouble inside the agency. The decision to pull it for fear of retaliation is a five alarm fire.

“A farmworker labor strike is coming”

There are no red states, no blue states, only purple, from Idaho fuchsia to Vermont violet. And in every state there are children, non-citizens, and prisoners who can't vote. In every state where one candidate won, a bunch of people voted for the other candidate. And so forth.

🚨2 months ago, every National Weather Service Director of the last 34 years took the unprecedented step of signing a joint, open letter. “Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.” The Houston office is 44% UNDERSTAFFED.

The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.

You're telling me the mainstream media & the Democratic Party were more focused on skewering Zohran Mamdani for a week than focusing on the fact that millions of people NATIONALLY would lose their Medicaid health benefits & food stamps with the Big Ugly Bill to give tax cuts to billionaires?!

Do you make the effort to include disabled people in your organizing and social activities? Do you work to make yourself a safe person? This can mean personal discomfort, and it’s well past time to get used to that. Things like wearing a mask, learning to sit with upsetting feelings—

If a person can’t work, medical costs just became absolutely prohibitive. If you care about disability justice at all and you have the ability, it is now a moral imperative to help people meet needs. I am not exaggerating. This may be the difference between life or death.

Hey, so I am semi-retired from disability advocacy, but in light of what happened today, I want to talk about what it actually means to support disabled people. Lots of people thought that, until today, when you become disabled, there is a safety net waiting. That has never been true.

Follow @thecity.nyc. We relentlessly investigate people in power & when we have the goods on them, whatever their political position, we hit publish. What we don't do: Publish crap.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Senate Republicans are eyeing a 4pm vote today on the motion to proceed to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, per senior GOP aide. Needs 50 senators to vote YES to advance. Not set in stone yet but that’s the goal.

"They lit $20 million on fire, and all it did was boost Zohran's numbers. And in no small part because they corrupted their own souls by supporting a person they know to be a corrupt, abusive asshole. What are they gonna do now?" @bradlander.bsky.social, the man you are. (via @hellgatenyc.com)