Ellin Stein
@ellinst.bsky.social
Arts journo (now mostly Slate and Byline Times), MA Screenwriting lecturer @Goldsmiths UoL, authorina https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393074093, tech fumbler
The purest expression of corporate capture in Congress: With an explosive diarrhea outbreak sweeping the country, Republicans are simultaneously trying to ram through a provision that would repeal hundreds of food safety/animal welfare provisions. Incredible. 📹: @calltoactivism.bsky.social
Congress Urged to Reject Pentagon Effort to 'Hide Unclassified Information From the Public' www.commondreams.org/news/pentago...
Congress Urged to Reject Pentagon Effort to 'Hide Unclassified Information From the Public' | Common Dreams
Rights groups warned that giving Secretary Pete Hegseth near-total control of what information is released under the Freedom of Information Act "will naturally favor politicization and avoiding embarr...
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In Bari Weiss' Free Press, Olivia Reingold reported from El-Sayed's watch party that "there were keffiyehs as far as the eye could see ... keffiyehs on heads, keffiyehs as belts, keffiyeh-printed phone cases." Not a single one made it into images from Reuters, a local ABC station, or Detroit News.
Imagine if Donald Trump got himself and a passenger jet all killed bc he was building shit on the WH lawn w/o doing any planning first. 🙁 The producers of this Reality Show really need to find some more convincing scriptwriters.
This is the priority. Even if the D candidate doesn't clear the bar you've set on every particular issue you care about, keeping functional government departments and stopping the strangling of the democratic process and the independent judiciary is the most important. EVERY VOTE COUNTS.
Facts suck, if you're delusional and in a cult.
The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Give Them an Inch...
And they'll take away women's sports...
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“This is not a problem of perspective or political persuasion. It is a fundamental question of competence," former asst U.S. attorney Sean Murphy said today on Cap Hill. Murphy is one of 12 former fed prosecutors who wrote to senators today, raising red flags about how dangerous these nominees are.
Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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Call your Senators and let them know to BLOCK BLANCHE. He's coming for your reproductive rights.
Reproductive Freedom for All@reproductivefreedomforall.org · 8h ago@katiephang.bsky.social lays out how nominee for AG Todd Blanche is saying the quiet part out loud: The Trump admin will use every lever they can to restrict abortion, in every state. Call your Senators and tell them to vote NO on Blanche. 📞 888-380-2711 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vXNF98NXAjg
Maybe if the UK taxes them they'll leave! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss
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The latest CBS News hire shows that the way to get ahead in journalism is to act as a tool for the powerful.
Bari Weiss’s “60 Minutes” Hires Producer Who Downplayed Gaza Starvation, Justified Killing Journalists
Tanya Lukyanova’s qualifications for “60 Minutes” include casting doubt on starving kids in Gaza and promoting work from a pro-Israel front group.
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I'm delighted to hear that BP doubled their profits, making £4.2bn in just 3 months. Not that I have any vested interest in it, other than the £50,000 given to us by the wife of former senior BP executive James Hay.
'Solar farms are destroying our productive farmland!' cry the fossil-fuel-funded climate science deniers. In reality solar farms currently use up about 10% of the land area taken up by golf courses (0.07% vs 0.7%). And climate change is wrecking far, far more productive farmland.
regular reminder to americans to read the wikipedia page of the german media company that bought politico, axel springer SE, which is probably the dominant force of rightwing propaganda in germany after ww2
Politico@politico.com · 16h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
An association of thousands of FBI agents and other groups are backing a lawsuit filed by three bureau employees who were fired last year for their roles in an investigation into President Donald Trump's efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
3 FBI agents fired over Trump investigation get broad backing in lawsuit against administration
The agents were terminated as part of a broader personnel purge by FBI Director Kash Patel that has targeted employees who investigated Trump or are perceived as being against the administration's int...
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Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterdayBanks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS
Echoing the below. Hungary saw an 80% voter turnout. That's what it will take. This is no time to sit on your ass because you don't like the candidate's view on one particular issue that's important to you while meanwhile the basic foundation of US democracy is being demolished.
Inequality News@inequalitynews.bsky.social · 13h ago📢 THIS - A MILLION TIMES THIS 🔽🔽🔽. Trump will try and rig the midterms as surely as a bear shits in the woods, so a landslide is what's needed, not just a narrow victory... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Oregon government is giving $450 million in tax breaks for data centers *this year*, a figure that is set to grow "enormously" in the years ahead Nobody wants this aside from tech companies and politicians getting checks from them
Mike Rogoway@rogoway.bsky.social · yesterdayBy a 3-to-1 margin, Oregonians say no more data center tax breaks. Two-thirds of voters want a temporary moratorium on new data center construction. via DHM Research
the day2 installment of this week’s “Start The Steal” series at @zeteo.com, focusing on Trump and Republicans’ many many efforts to rig the midterms and attack free and fair elections for years to come — and efforts to fight back: zeteo.com/p/19-ways-tr...
Here Are 19 - Yes, 19! - Ways Trump and Republicans Are Plotting to Rig and Steal the Midterm Elections
Attacking immigrants and Black voting power. Gutting election security. Voter purges. Threats of arrests and raids. And so much more. Trump’s assault on elections is truly unprecedented.
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Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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Our thoroughly corrupt electoral system.
Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."
This hasn’t gotten much attention, but it should. While everyone was focused on Schedule F, the administration created something even broader. On July 30, a new OPM rule took effect that creates a second way to fire federal employees outside the normal civil service process.
