You're not in a position to op....you fucking co-wrote it!!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

DURBIN: You wrote an article in which you claimed 'Black inmates are most like to become sexual aggressors.' Why should people of color believe you've changed? CRONAN: I co-authored the article. I haven't re-read it in a long time. DURBIN: Do you believe it? CRONAN: I'm not in a position to opine

Workers have no choice but to pay into the workers' comp system, there is no opt-out. And mostly get nothing in return.

David Michaels@drdavidmichaels.bsky.social · 3h ago

Adding injustice to injury, workers' comp payments are so low that few attorneys are willing to represent injured workers. Another powerful piece on the failings of the workers' comp system, this one by Lauren Weber of @wsj.com .

I can't tell if this is from the US or the UK. Two countries that allowed money to influence politics, and now this.

Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

funny how that works

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 · yesterday

Banks 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

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

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:

Acting AG Todd Blanche plans to outlaw abortion nationwide: We're working to get solutions so that the Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state. We're putting policies in place so that states can't do things like mail abortion drugs. We will have victory, and it will be permanent.

Take a moment.

Made the mistake of reading the Facebook comments for this article. Mood degraded from angry to stabby. www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics

Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

wsj.com

"These tapes were made by a great supporter of mine, a great guy, named Chad G. Petey. Chad calls me up and said "Sir, how can I get this evidence to you?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife."

This is banana republic stuff - we all know that, right?

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

The whole point of the Bill of Rights is to protect the only true minority - the individual. It limits the governments power to harm the individual. The whole constitution is designed to limit the governments power.

Read this thread. My take: "Don't buy from them" is a "market solution" to societal problems. It is not effective at addressing societal problems. "Market solutions" is promoted by the corporate world to prevent government action to stop corporate harms, which, when done right, IS effective.

Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 2d ago

the TLDR is, yes blaming e.g. carbon emissions only on the producers of fossil fuels is dumb but the "midtwit" take that has emerged the past five years that the silliness of that take means ownership and distribution mechanisms are irrelevant to the social impact of consumption is also very wrong

This is America.

slate@pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 3d ago

my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

wapo.st

Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨 ABC News: The Johns Hopkins University researcher released after being detained by ICE at Maryland airport: Fatima Ameaka was held at a facility in Louisiana, according to her lawyer. The ICE kidnappings must stop. abcnews.com/US/johns-hop...

Johns Hopkins researcher released after being detained by ICE at Maryland airport

A Johns Hopkins University researcher, originally from Cameroon, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers earlier this week.

abcnews.com

It's not strange at all. 'Holy fuckballs, we've been *wrong* all this time?? Bernie was right? People actually vote for this commie pinko leftie shit??? But...but...commie pinko lefties don't have billionaire and corporate backers that can afford our consultant fees..."

Here's the thing - they could have gotten a book with a map of Africa, slapped it on the photocopier, and then used crayons to color in the relevant countries. Or googled "Africa" and hit the print button. But noooo, they're too lazy and stupid even for that...

U.S. State Dept Apologizes For Map That Mislabels Every African Country

The map was hastily created using AI, said a spokesperson.

crooksandliars.com

"When an ICE agent is involved in a deadly, high-profile shooting, you should now assume that the government’s initial story is packed with lies—and that the truth will only come out over time as the spotlight fades." [Adrian Carrasquillo, @thebulwark.com] /1

Assume ICE Is Lying

Plus: How many citizens can Trump actually denaturalize?

thebulwark.com

There are a lot of important things going on. Maybe this isn’t a top twenty concern. But, this is actually workplace harassment, the kind that can get people killed.

@carmenlynn.bsky.social · 5d ago

The Koch Nazis are back “A shadowy network of conservative activist groups, backed by Koch-linked dark money, is deploying hidden cameras and mass public-records requests to hunt down and destroy the careers of college professors and administrators — and it's working.”

Today is the last day of public comment on a rule that would force cancer and HIV patients to prove "significant impairment" so they can keep their exemption to Medicaid work requirements. This "will kill people, I’m literally living proof of that," said one patient with a brain tumor.

Trump to HIV and Cancer Patients: Get Back to Work - The American Prospect

A surprise rule added to the Big Beautiful Bill could disrupt access to Medicaid for people with serious illnesses who thought they were exempted from work requirements.

prospect.org

Said it a million times, I'll say it again - it's the same part of their brains (yeah yeah I know) that keeps going back to the church whose pastors are kiddie-diddlers and rapists and adulterers and druggies and drunks and live in million dollar mansions while the congregants/voters pay for it.

Nothing Will Break the Bond - Digby's Hullabaloo

I think we knew this when none of Trump's scandals, from sexual assault to fraud to trying to overthrow the government, had any effect. Still it is something to see it laid out so starkly: And no, bot...

digbysblog.net

think it's gonna be important to focus on stories like this: small towns, often out of the public eye, where tiny police departments are financially incentivized by ICE to hand over immigrants

Project 2025 calls for eliminating Head Start. A leaked draft of Trump's first budget zeroed it out before he backtracked. Now the administration has found a way to essentially gut Head Start through regulation. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

A New Trump Rule Would Lower Standards at Head Start and Exclude Immigrants From the Program

The Trump administration is on the verge of releasing a proposed rule that would eliminate crucial quality standards at the nation’s preschool program for low-income children.

thenation.com

Who's going to ask "But sir (he loves being called *Sir*), if vets wanted a CDL and a trucking job, wouldn't they already have one?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Trump claims he’s going to replace migrant truck drivers with veterans

Never, ever ask "How stupid can they possibly be???" about the Trump regime.

State Department Map Labels Every African Country Wrong at Conference

The State Department embarrassed all of America at an international conference.

newrepublic.com

Why do so many senators appear to have eaten lead paint chips as small children?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Rep. John McGuire: "I don't know if you heard about the BLT sandwich -- using human fetus baby parts in the vaccine when they could've used ivermectin"