Jenny
@hoedeman.bsky.social
Former teacher and community builder, current bureaucrat trying to make things not worse.
They don’t want to cut access to food and medicine they want to cut fraud. They don’t want to push Black people out of public life, they want to promote merit. They don’t want to normalize bigotry they want to promote free thinking and open debate, so on and so forth
Various flavors of covid denialism (lab leak, exaggeration of school closures, pretend ignorance of the reasons for all such things) have become a cult belief among many journalists.
Worried that Emily Wilson is establishing a rockstar standard for translators that will kill future generations of classicists like Keith Richards’ tolerance killed a generation of succeeding rock stars
The current fascism is a climate change problem. Both product and driver of. Of course there are many other tributaries. But talking about fascism without talking about climate isn’t really contending with the current fascism.
They are executing people in the streets over immigration if you can not find room in your platform or stump speeches to talk about that and immigration stop running for office and go fuck yourself
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is the problem with the idea that Dems can't go on offense on immigration. It's not okay for Collins to have a clear field on TV to sell herself as a moderate on ICE. CNN has Trump 22 points underwater on this. Two other polls have Ds *tied with the GOP* on it! newrepublic.com/article/2138...
Hey Philadelphia!! Do you want this mural on your building?? Here’s what we’re looking for: You must own the building. Must be in Philly The flatter the surface the better! The more people that will see it the better. We want to install in September Email me if that's you SkypeAScientist@gmail.com
In the "sequels better than the original" discussion, you gotta put Honey Nut Cheerios right at the top.
Michael Landon’s portrayal of Pa Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie is a blueprint for modern-day white Christian male masculinity with the potential to maximize harm reduction to the rest of society. In this essay I will
STRAIGHT INTO MY VEINS
Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 6d agoThe left needs a candidate it can unite around in the 2028 primaries and AOC is the only real choice. Nobody else checks all of the boxes. Every other option is worse. If she doesn't run, it's a missed opportunity of historic proportions. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/aoc-must-r...
The US is torturing this man and his family www.inquirer.com/news/ice-imm...
ICE wants to deport a Philly man who has lived legally in the U.S. for 20 years. He fled Guinea after being jailed by the government.
Mamadou Fadel Cherif had been jailed in his native Guinea for protesting the 1998 presidential election, then fled to the U.S.
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“Honestly if I were in her shoes I don’t know what I’d do… at some point we need a different kind of politics.” Ta-Nehisi Coates to @timmiller.bsky.social on Dems who won’t break with 🇮🇱 (like all Republicans) asking for the votes of folks who lost family in 🇵🇸 Full: youtu.be/z11IP4ze7bM?is
As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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Examples of bureaucratic red tape stifling small businesses that Republicans and centrist Democrats claim to oppose but never actually fix
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2w ago
This is what I mean. This guy should have all of his money forcefully, loudly & hostilely taken. He is robbing his fellow citizens of money & welfare in order to subvert democracy & subjugate them.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w agoTikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. (Published 2022)
I love my local newspaper so much and read it everyday! Sign the workers’ petition, they deserve the world!!
Abraham Gutman@abgutman.bsky.social · 2w agoHelp us. We are fighting for a fair contract that protects The Philadelphia Inquirer's journalism, our livelihoods, and our healthcare. We need you. If you value local news and what we do, *please* sign and share our petition: phillynewsguild.com Let our management know we are not alone.
Cheltenham is closing its Citizens Bank accounts totaling about $9 million after months of organizing from residents concerned about the bank's business with companies running detention centers.
Cheltenham to pull millions from Citizens Bank over immigrant detention facilities
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1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment
The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.
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So that’s TWO ex-wives, two daughters and an immediately family member that he physically abused and/or threatened. Just an insane story
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3w agoICE officer who shot Colombian man in Maine has history of threatening behavior and mental illness, family and court documents say.
If you have your hard-earned money in Citizen's Bank, you are supporting Trump's concentration camps. www.phillyvoice.com/phillies-cit...
Ahead of MLB All-Star Game, activists to fly banner urging Phillies to cut ties with Citizens Bank
Advocacy network cites the financial institution's ties to private prison companies that support ICE detention centers.
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News organizations should periodically stop and look in the mirror and ask themselves “Have we internalized copspeak to the point that our headlines indistinguishable from police department email subject lines?”
once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
Reuters@reuters.com · 3w agoSecurity camera footage obtained from local businesses showed individuals who are believed to be U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surrounding a car and pulling the driver onto the street, in events connected to the fatal shooting of a man in a coastal town in Maine on July 13.
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3w agoIt took DHS 12 hours to come up with this statement, And the best they could come up with is that ICE shot and killed an unarmed man who didn’t present a threat to the agents. They know they fucked this one up. And it’ll be up to state and local prosecutors—not the feds—to make the case
Even though we didn’t always see eye to eye, he wanted to kill ‘em all, for example, while I simply wanted to let the market determine who lives and dies, we nevertheless wanted people killed.
It was an honor to join a home-based providers round-table at Xiomara Family Day Care in the Bronx. While Wall Street execs make $1,796/hr, child care workers earn a median of $6/hr — a reflection not of their value, but of a system that has failed to value care itself. We're changing that system.
We did and then Sandra Day O’Connor decided that we didn’t need to count all the votes
Paul Crider@paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 4w agoWe could've had a POTUS who would lecture us about Habermas and Adorno and climate science.
