Jeff Waid
@jeffwaid.bsky.social
"the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial" We are all Abrego Garcia. "The answer to all your questions is: Money." here, and elsewhere: https://answerkeysurvivalguide.blogspot.com/
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.
Republicans Livid As Missouri And Kansas Vote For Democracy And Abortion AGAIN www.wonkette.com/p/republican...
Republicans Livid As Missouri And Kansas Vote For Democracy And Abortion AGAIN
Democracy for Missouri and abortion for Kansas, to be specific.
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Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
"The present text argues that a robust response to the ills of market ideology requires cultivating shared knowledge about the political constitution of money."
Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City
Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …
moneyontheleft.org
Eliminating Head Start was a goal of project 2025. Without standards, I'm guessing red states can do to this program what they're doing to K-12: introducing Christian nationalist curriculum.
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
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Anti-Mamdani columnists always sound like they think people are being fooled by him? "Oh his lower prices sound good but wait till you hear about taxes!" Don't worry people know.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Once a motherfucker, always a motherfucker. And Cornyn and Tillis have fucked mothers their entire pathetic careers.
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d agoJohn Cornyn & Thom Tillis issue a joint statement announcing they will support Todd Blanche for AG. He's now in good position to clear the Judiciary Committee tomorrow and head to the full Senate.
Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.
It turns out establishment Democrats believed in purity tests all along.
Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social · 3d ago"I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker ... if he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I am out of here," James Carville says on Fox this morning. Reminder: The Left Insurgency airs tonight on CNN at 8p ET.
“I mean, come on, abusers are always held accountable and the people they abuse never try to placate them to avoid further abuse. Think about it.”
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."
Standardized testing. Why DO we still run schools around it? Why we shouldn, from Bruce Lesley @brucelesley.bsky.social .
Most Adults Don't Want Standardized Testing and Neither Do Kids: So, Why Do We Still Run Schools Around It?
Start with what nearly everyone in this fight agrees on.
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This is a story about the President and several of his hand-picked appointees all committing crimes and blatantly lying to the public while stealing public funds and abusing the criminal justice system, but the NYTimes describes the situation like they're recapping a soap opera.
Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 3d agoAnother example of the problem with the fixation with Trump’s putative emotions: here a story about the Trump administration’s corruption, incompetence, and venality is framed as one about Trump’s “wrath.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
ICYMI: Down East Edition (8/2) - Peter Greene's weekly education article roundup. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EducationMatters
ICYMI: Down East Edition (8/2)
The Board of Directors, CMO, and I are currently operating from the Maine field office, an annual adventure completre with woods, water, a little ocean, and other rebalancing team building exercises d...
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But everything that Silicon Valley fascists are doing came first from science fiction. We cannot cede dreaming and speculative fiction to the fascists. Call it speculative realism if you want, but there’s political value in going out on a limb to come up with detailed plans.
Prototyping Democratic Public Finance With the Seattle Loop
By Will Beaman Seattle is once again being told that a projected budget deficit requires difficult choices about which public commitments the city can continue to honor. Councilmember Robert Kettle…
moneyontheleft.org
You hear it more and more. The only thing stopping this from happening is electing Establishment Dems.
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 5d agoChaperoning a preschool trip to the aquarium and one of the other dads who is vaguely familiar with what I do comes up to me and goes “man I sure hope we get some Nuremberg-style trials at the end of all this”
Chaperoning a preschool trip to the aquarium and one of the other dads who is vaguely familiar with what I do comes up to me and goes “man I sure hope we get some Nuremberg-style trials at the end of all this”
This guy would win in a landslide if he ran for office. I promise you there are SO MANY voters waiting for the "Were going through every file and we will find all of you" candidate to take on the New Gestapo. Establishment Dems will never hold anyone accountable. They had their chance and blew it
Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 5d ago"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
The easiest possible layup for a President at war with another country would be to explain that they are attacking us. Trump won't do that because he views Minnesota as a bigger enemy than Iran.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoTrump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
Can someone explain how Axios could publish this and not note that DOJ has lost 18 of these cases and not won a single one? 0-18 is smart brevity.
Mount Holly Springs is a tiny Pa. borough - 4 cops covering 1.4 square miles, pop. 2,300 It's turned a staggering 32 immigrants over to ICE in just 4 months since teaming with the feds The cruelty of mass deportation has come to small-town America. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...
This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch
Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in Central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.
inquirer.com
New article! On AI, war, and other bad things: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand
Quicksand
Gen X was right after all.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
‘“I thought about Alex Pretti because he was a nurse. He was helping someone up off the ground that had been shoved,” Bowe said.’
Candice Norwood@candicenorwood.bsky.social · 6d agoNorma Bowe, a nurse in New Jersey, runs a mobile health clinic that stops outside Delaney Hall detention center, where she provides blood pressure checks, stroke assessments and other care. Yesterday, she told me about the day she says she was assaulted by an ICE agent. My latest via @19thnews.org
“Right now, we’re rushing ahead with AI without doing the basics of computer and corporate security. The AI companies are pleading for others to make them act responsibly. And here we have a pressing example of how they’re acting irresponsibly in the meantime.”
Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · last wk.The OpenAI/Hugging Face incident is worthy of your time—it's an important warning sign about the weird moment we're in with AI, with a side order of US-China rivalry. Most of all, though, it's a reminder that AI is a story about humans, not technology. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...
Oh good now the New York Times is profiling Reihan Salam, the head of the fascist Manhattan Institute, and someone who sold his soul to money and fascist billionaires like Paul Singer