The wild fires in the southwest of France have stopped all mail delivery for weeks, and our grocery store’s produce section is empty. The haunting increasing crisis of climate change continues, and we continue to shrug and go about our day.
Carson Leigh Brown
@carsonleigh.bsky.social
🇨🇻 bilingue Mission-driven media-lover interested in diaspora, human interaction, and foodstuffs. Based between Dakar, Senegal and Richmond, Virginia. Occasionally doing comms for progressive campaigns
"Crucially, [the Trump admin] also dropped a rule that prohibited the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which cares for unaccompanied migrant kids, from sharing information about potential sponsors with ICE."
Teddy Wilson@reportbywilson.bsky.social · 2w agoICE is arresting relatives who come forward to take custody of migrant children in federal shelters
Cape Verde didn't win a match at the World Cup, and somehow, that didn't seem to matter. The African team's debut on this stage was unforgettable. n.pr/4p28mY1
Cape Verde's historic World Cup ride ends after pushing Argentina to the brink
Cape Verde didn't win a match at the World Cup, and somehow, that didn't seem to matter. The African team's debut on this stage was unforgettable.
n.pr
Today I signed an Executive Order for every worker exposed to extreme heat on the job. It requires multilingual heat safety guidance for workers, a review of construction site heat safety practices, and heat illness prevention plans at every mayoral agency.
🇫🇷🌡️ Canicule: ce graphique représente les journées les plus chaudes en France, d'après l'Indicateur thermique national, utlisant la température moyenne quotidienne mesurée par Météo-France dans 30 stations de référence depuis 1947. Données jusqu'au 22, jour le plus chaud mesuré pour un mois de juin ⤵️
“When the Knicks won the NBA Cup this season, Brunson devised a plan to make sure that the peripheral people in the Knicks organization—medical staff, locker-room attendants, etc.—received a portion of the money that the players get for winning the in-season tournament. This is who Brunson is.” 🎁
Jalen Brunson, NBA champion and finals MVP, is officially the greatest Knick ever (Gift Article)
Jalen Brunson has placed New York back on top of the basketball world, where it belongs.
nytimes.com
storycorps.org/stories/daug... "He died where he felt like himself" Broke my heart this morning.
A Daughter Remembers her Father, A Pulse Shooting Victim - StoryCorps
Alexia Henry remembers her father, Paul Henry, who was murdered in the Pulse night club shooting on June 12, 2016.
storycorps.org
US accepts only white refugees for sixth consecutive month
US accepts only white refugees for sixth consecutive month
The Trump administration is spending more than $100 million to fight the "emergency" of "white genocide" in South Africa.
motherjones.com
Solve long term structural budget shortfalls with one easy trick
Jonathan Berk 🏠@berkie1.bsky.social · 2mo agoA new @pewresearch.org study finds that infill housing near jobs, stores, and transit costs governments ~$21,000 less per home to serve, cuts long term infrastructure maintenance costs in half, and generates 13% more in annual property tax revenue per acre than sprawl.
I've worked in Democratic digital comms for a long time and pay attention to campaign metrics across platforms. Increasingly I'm seeing Dems who crosspost on X, Bluesky, and Threads get better engagement on Bluesky even with far fewer followers. Here's @jamestalarico.bsky.social's clip last night:
so excited that this group of hard working journalists and media workers is getting to the table! their employer is famously anti-union, so it'll be a fight, but I know they got it in 'em. <3
Connecticut News Guild@ctnewsguild.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday, we meet Hearst at the bargaining table to begin negotiating our first contract. Across our unit, many of us already shared some of our top priorities, creating a mosaic of better working conditions.
Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make. (Published May 2025)
The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
propublica.org
NEW on the podcast: REI workers are calling for a national consumer boycott of the popular outdoor sports co-op during it’s annual anniversary sale from May 15-25. I sat down with Ashley, a worker in Greensboro, NC to talk about what’s been happening at the table, boycotts as a tactic, and more.
The Union Bug: Ep. 006
Boycotting as a Tactic: The REI Boycott w/Ashley Hamilton
wordsaboutwork.news
Really sad it’s come to this. On my way to join my colleagues at the picket line. We deserve a fair contract!
ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · 4mo agoWe’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
About 100 people a year die from heart attacks brought on by shoveling snow. Thousands more wind up in the emergency department with chest and back pain and other problems.
How to stay safe and not have a heart attack while shoveling this weekend.
inquirer.com
"And in Paris, Mayor Anne Hidalgo has over the last decade prioritized banning cars from the city center and expanding pedestrian space. Last year, Parisian voters passed a referendum to close an additional 500 streets to traffic — and remove 10% of the city’s parking spaces."
Gothamist@gothamist.com · 6mo agoMamdani's DOT commissioner wants NYC to be more like Paris, Bogotá, Tokyo https://gothamist.com/news/mamdanis-dot-commissioner-wants-nyc-to-be-more-like-paris-bogot%C3%A1-tokyo
Happy National Squirrel Day! This American Red Squirrel, also known as a Pine Squirrel, perched on this branch for a moment before launching off. These squirrels are territorial, often chasing away much larger squirrels.
Horror pon horror.
Dr. Prakash Kashwan@pkashwan.bsky.social · 7mo ago"Google says that if you upgrade, "your Google Photos data is used to infer your interests, relationships to people in your photos, and where you’ve been, including by associating your face with corresponding location data and timestamps.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
Thousands of nurses in three hospital systems in New York City went on strike Monday after negotiations through the weekend failed to yield breakthroughs in their contract disputes. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4bvuYLH
We’re ready to bring fairness and transparency to Hearst CT and negotiate our first contact with Hearst Newspapers in 2026. It’ll ensure better journalism for our readers and better working conditions for all our colleagues, including our members and managers. Let’s get bargaining!!
How Senegal rose to become one of the most fertile grounds in African football, and why this success still struggles to transform the local football economy. africasacountry.com/2025/12/the-...
The Senegalese paradox
How Senegal rose to become one of the most fertile grounds in African football, and why this success still struggles to transform the local football economy.
africasacountry.com
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration announced a major settlement in a case against Starbucks, which alleged that the company flagrantly violated the city’s Fair Workweek Law.
NYC reaches $38.9 million settlement with Starbucks over worker rights violations
Starbucks will pay $35.5M to 15,000 NYC workers after violating the Fair Workweek Law with over 500,000 infractions.
amsterdamnews.com
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
NEW: 88 Ski Patrollers for Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wyoming are unionizing with @cwaunion.bsky.social.
the owner of an irish pub i frequented in the south of france gave me the typical, joyous "a good irish name!" response to finding out my last name before his smile dropped and the blood drained out of his face :) love that man
Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · 8mo ago“Experimental data from largest online survey of Irish Americans reveal learning about African Americans with Irish ancestry reduces prejudice among white Irish Americans who identify with Irish American identity, and effects are mostly driven by Republicans…” www.jasmineenglish.net/uploads/1/4/...
unfathomable
Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 8mo agoFresh back from a taxpayer-funded trip to Israel and Uzbekistan, Mayor Adams already has plans to visit New Orleans next week to get an award for “his leadership in fighting antisemitism" by a group that honored him for the same thing in Tel Aviv last week. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/24/a...
an oldie but goodie www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t... (relatedly, teen vogue's recent anti-union firings will make this type of work more difficult)
There’s No Room for Police Unions in the Labor Movement
No other union employees are allowed to kill other human beings.
teenvogue.com
Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 8mo agoWhen the prison guards went on strike, many inmates said they were doing so to preserve their ability to do things like this.