Trump’s going for the full scare tactic now. Everyone would have healthcare!!
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Yet another great reason to vote for the Democrats in 2 weeks 👇
Instead of getting mad at The Atlantic--a magazine entirely dedicated to making you upset--you can read the article linked below that explores the theory that crime is high in the US relative to other OECD nations because our police are risk-avoidant and low-effort despite being higher paid.
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11h agoFrom "Enough Police, but Not Enough Police Work: An Institutional Explanation of Under-Policing in the U.S.” with @robmickey.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social ungated: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/35o94...
Death by malicious negligence is a defining characteristic of concentration camps
Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · 6h agoA 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.
I've got a column in the @sfstandard.com today about how a lack of electoral competition leads to substandard outcomes here in California, plus what we can do to fix it.
To fix California, make its politicians afraid to lose
The state has the nation’s largest homeless population and some of its most expensive housing — yet incumbents rarely pay a price. A slew of new parties is the answer.
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today was a very beautiful fall like day here. so much so that train rides were in order even into the golden hour sunlight at the end of the day
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · yesterdayRubio claims US didn’t slow down Starlink for Ukraine, and Ukraine doesn’t even have Starshield
it is very funny to me that we libs have become the pocket constitution party now
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · yesterdayThis is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
The SF Chronicle's rejection of Prop 45 nails it: "Lawmakers need to craft more fundamental CEQA reforms...But [Prop 45] as written would lock California into a regulatory regime that makes it easier to build the same environmentally ruinous projects that gave us CEQA in the first place."
Endorsement: CEQA is a mess. Prop 45 is even messier
OPINION: There is no question that CEQA needs fundamental reform. But California’s Prop 45, at its core, is poll-tested nonsense in service of sprawl, the Chronicle’s editorial board writes.
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The wine makers doing the lobbying also make the shittiest wine in the country. Waving the white flag to chuds so that Americans can enjoy bland ass cab savignon full of wood chips.
CAHSR's Strongest Soldier@emoscientist.bsky.social · yesterdayBetween this and Gruesome Newsom, it seems like the CA wine industry is a driving force behind the CA Surrender Caucus. Should I be boycotting California wine in protest?
It’s taking a long time for people to wake up to the fact that these platforms are not public forums but privately owned companies with terrible agendas and total control. If you lay down with these dogs…
The Hollywood Reporter@thr.com · yesterdayTikTok “Permanently Suspends” the ‘Musk’ Film Account, Raising Suppression Fears (Exclusive)
Between this and Gruesome Newsom, it seems like the CA wine industry is a driving force behind the CA Surrender Caucus. Should I be boycotting California wine in protest?
Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 4d agoWithout American wine on Canadian shelves, Canadians are also missing out on tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue they would obtain from selling our wine.
The fascist international is real, and silicon valley is one of its support beams
Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · yesterdayMeta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish
"Well, Commander, I guess that takes care of the war. Obviously, the Organians aren't going to let us fight." "A shame, Captain. It would have been glorious."
This chapter of the Edge of Midnight is brought to you by The Forces of History, which are currently recovering from violent injuries sustained in a head on collision with a deus ex machina
The Edge of Midnight @eomproject.bsky.social · 2d ago"A Shame, Captain. It would have been Glorious." The Organian War ends, before it has really begin. One chapter has no choice to end: but is the next ready to begin? CHAPTER 17 OF THE ARSENAL OF FREEDOM IS OUT NOW.
"The US conservative movement is engaged in a nationwide effort to reverse child-labor laws and reinstitute child labor" sounds like a crazy leftie conspiracy theory, but ... yeah. It's real.
The Return of Child Labor | Alice Driver
For years I have been haunted by a grainy video I saw in 2023, when I was interviewing poultry processing workers in Green Forest, Arkansas. In those
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"I'm trying to deliver Jesus from identity theft. Folks who claim to share the faith that I share support these mean-spirited policies that kick people off of their healthcare & take food out of the mouths of hungry children. I don't understand that kind of faith." ~ Sen. Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock
#Trektober2026 day 5. Ritual Today is a good day to die🔥🍷💀 #startrek #klingon #stovokor #deathhowl #bathlet
although andoria is often depicted with barren, icy, surfaces, the moon is host to a variety of surface biomes. valley regions in the southwest quarter of the globe feature steep-faced walls of rock with paths leading to naturally occurring hot springs heated by hydrothermal shallow-water corals.
The US and the West welcomed Russia into the community of nations after the Cold War. Investment poured in. The G7 turned into G8. The idea that Poland, Estonia, etc. forming their own foreign relations was so unfair to Moscow that Russia is entitled to murder Ukrainians 20 years later is insane.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoRon Johnson blames US for Putin invading Ukraine: "The way we treated Russia after we won the Cold War, how we pushed them. I'm not defending Putin, but we said we were not gonna move NATO one inch to the east. We brought it right to their doorstep basically. What did we think Putin was gonna do?"
Israeli settlers burn olive trees, injure journalist in West Bank attack reut.rs/4yod45k
Israeli settlers burn olive trees, injure journalist in West Bank attack
Clad in black and their faces masked, dozens of militant Israeli settlers burned olive trees and threw rocks at Palestinians in a coordinated attack on Friday on a West Bank village's annual harvest that injured at least two people including a journalist.
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Cosmopolitanism is a foundational democratic value. All anti-cosmopolitan ideologies are just different flavors of volkism.
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 4d agoi do unironically think people that are cosmopolitan need sorta paradoxically be more chauvinist about it tbh. places and people that are cosmopolitan in outlook are better than places that are provincially minded. the kind of performative handwringing about not being 'authentic' is bad and weak.
I think what’s happening in the West Bank right now is best understood as a single unending pogrom
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3d agoMasked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY
