jon-sociologist.bsky.social

@jon-sociologist.bsky.social

Neurodiverse and proud of it (fair warning: I say a lot of shit some people find inappropriate) Naturalist Atheist (I believe in the universe as revealed by science) I value democracy, compassion, and inclusion

WE NEED 4 SEATS TO FLIP THE SENATE. JOSH TUREK SHOULD BE ONE OF THEM. I was researching Josh and came across one of his signature issues: Right to Repair. I had no idea how important this was. Most people in big cities probably don’t either. 🧵

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 ... "

James Talarico on Texas officially banning THC: “Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst."

Greece is burning. Spain is burning. Sicily, Wales, Türkiye, Canada, the US— the entire planet is engulfed in flames. Decades of warnings ignored. Decades of corporate denial exposed. The science was right all along: our home is on fire. We need immediate, radical climate action.

Elon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

James Talarico: “We have a government not of, by, and for the people, but of, by, and for the billionaires. We have to overturn Citizens United and get big money out of politics. We must ban corporate PACs and Super PACs so billionaires aren’t making unlimited secret donations to campaigns."

Jim Jordan raises an excellent point about Platner right at the end of the clip. "It wasn't me that kicked him off the ballot, it was the Democrats." Yes. Exactly. When Republicans find out a candidate is a monster, they support him more. When Democrats find out the same thing, they remove him.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d ago

“Should Max Miller resign?” Jim Jordan: “He’s a good man. I’m helping him get re-elected.” Kasie: “He’s accused of throwing boiling water on his ex, held a gun to her head, fractured their daughter’s collarbone…”🤔 Jordan: *stammers helplessly as she plays his Platner comments*

Ricardo Hernandez-Navarrete is only 18 years old, but he says he was subjected to horrid conditions at six different ICE detention centers in the span of two months. "One day I was a senior in high school." "The next day, I was in detention."

Trump's Medicaid work requirements are putting even terminally ill patients through bureaucratic nightmares to keep their health insurance — all to fund even more tax cuts for the wealthy.

This used to be history. Harassment of scientists is now current events. More than 155 scientists, physicians & public health advocates have called for an end to “vilification and harassment of many American scientists” by the Trump & allies. 🧪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump administration needs to stop ‘public harassment’ of Fauci and scientists, open letter says

Letter, published before Anthony Fauci will appear before Congress, accuses Republicans of ‘waging a war on individual scientists’

theguardian.com

A woman’s Global Entry was revoked days after she legally observed ICE agents. ICE agents showed up to a polling place to demand a worker remove an anti-ICE post. A man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of left-wing magazines. Trump’s crackdown on dissent is here. Be warned.