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EvOutWest, prepping for Thunderdome

@evoutwest.bsky.social

historian, curmudgeon, artisanal tinfoil hatmaker, probably a hot mess. she/her.

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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h ago

Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h ago

SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know

Lynda Lopez@lyndab08.bsky.social · 12h ago

“Hundreds of longtime customers of Fresh Market Place [a grocery store in Belmont Cragin] have been kicked off SNAP after President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy law, known as the “Big Beautiful Bill,” added newer, stricter work requirements for the program’s recipients in February.”

Chicago grocers are severely affected by reductions to SNAP: ‘We need to bail out this industry’

In Illinois, the implications threaten not only individual households but also the viability of the Chicago area’s independent authorized SNAP retailers.

chicagotribune.com

EvOutWest, prepping for Thunderdome@evoutwest.bsky.social · 13h ago

There was just a big fight over a data center in CO Springs--HUGE turnout from the community opposing it (corrupt city officials passed it anyway; fight's not over). One guy said he's hardcore progressive but found common cause with m@ga militia dudes against it at the city mtg. Defo has legs.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h ago

I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 16h ago

Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

This is a wildly prescient story about Chicago's proto-RFK Jr., in charge of public health during the Spanish Flu. He thought beer killed malaria and that bathing could kill you. He had a feud with an actual TB doctor, who insisted bathing is good. He bullied the TB doctor until he killed himself.

Sachs believed that the new administration was undermining patient care by making hiring and contract decisions based on political connections. Thompson and Robertson in turn accused Sachs of being financially extravagant, incompetent, and dictatorial. As Sachs resigned from the sanitarium he had worked tirelessly to build, Frank Billings, one of the most respected physicians in the city, called Robertson “utterly unqualified.” On April 2, 1916, Sachs committed suicide. For reformers and the medical establishment, Sachs was a martyr to grotesque political corruption. Although The Republican, a propaganda sheet literally published in an office in City Hall, sneered that suicide “occasionally has been a haven of moral cowards who preferred the shelter of death to public exposure of their shortcomings,” Robertson took a less confrontational tone after Sachs’s death. Still, he refused to step down.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 2d ago

An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. (Published May)

This Sheriff’s Office Says Racial Profiling Reforms Are Too Costly. Auditors Found It Misused $163 Million.

Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was...

propublica.org

@thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · yesterday

Is it me or did the Capital One affair not really break through On Here Another day, another scandal that would have tanked basically any other presidency

Andrea LaFlamme@andrealaflamme.bsky.social · yesterday

A MaineHealth registered nurse who works at Maine Med in Portland has been abducted by ICE! She is an asylum seeker who is legally authorized to work in the US until 2030. She is currently being held in Boston but we fear she may soon be transferred to Louisiana or Texas.