Lindsey Boylan
@lindseyboylan.bsky.social
Mom. Fighter + Community Leader https://lindseyfornyc.com/
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
Powerful, important read from @rosebroderick.bsky.social. As states absorb Medicaid funding cuts, family caregivers face financial ruin: www.statnews.com/2026/07/13/f...
As states absorb Medicaid funding cuts, family caregivers face financial ruin
Family caregivers of people with disabilities face a grim financial future as several states consider steep cuts to their wages.
statnews.com
Another wild scandal that would have consumed any other president’s second term for the growing pile
Lauren Ashley Davis@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 3w agoTrump ballroom donor to lead state department’s $200m Armenia fund Konstantin Sokolov, who gave undisclosed sum and has not held government job before, to chair Tripp+ trade project www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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?”
stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.
Alex Aronson@alexaronson.bsky.social · 3w agoAmy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.
Key point with this piece is that Mandami is pushing back against the McKinsey approach to governing. Alondra Nelson actually put this best: "How a City interacts with its people shouldn’t be outsourced. It should be local and accountable."
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3w agoNew w @pamherd.bsky.social: Mamdani just announced PIT Crew — an NYC tech unit that will build digital public products. Takeaway: Mamdani is reclaiming a vision of tech in govt for progressives, one not driven by consultants and which solves real problems. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...
Monstrous. Abolish ICE. And punish them. Hold them accountable or this will keep happening.
We can’t all be as talented or famous as Sam Neill, but we can all aspire to be kind enough that people happily tell stories like this about us one day.
Melanie Lynskey@melanielynskey.bsky.social · 3w agoI won an award at Sundance years ago and Sam Neill, whom I did not know, tweeted to me “we’re all so proud of you, sweetheart”. I can’t even express what that meant to me. That our most beloved national treasure, a man I worshipped, would take the time to write to me!
I won an award at Sundance years ago and Sam Neill, whom I did not know, tweeted to me “we’re all so proud of you, sweetheart”. I can’t even express what that meant to me. That our most beloved national treasure, a man I worshipped, would take the time to write to me!
Ideally I don’t think politicians need to be emphasizing how masculine or feminine they are. This obsession with asserting traditional gender roles is a very clear conservative agenda and it’s a bunch of made up bullshit anyways
The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.
Amnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'
Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".
thepinknews.com
My piece on Lindsey Graham from late November 2019... "The conversion of Lindsey Graham did not occur on the road to Damascus, like Paul of Tarsus, but on the back nine of the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. And he did not come to Jesus, but to the Antichrist."
Lindsey Graham is Trump's Hostage
There is no other rational explanation for his complete 180.
gregolear.substack.com
"Tributes Pour In for Senator Lindsey Graham", then a dramatic blank space on the landing page of NYT.
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.
Phil Plait@philplait.bsky.social · 3w agoWhen a politician dies we see a lot of hagiographies about them. If you mention they were a terrible person IRL, you get chastised. My feeling? If you don't want people to talk shit about you after you die, don't be shitty when you're alive.
NY Tmes exec editor Joe Kahn said in 2024 that the issue of democracy's survival was not a top priority in his newsroom's coverage. Now Trump is sending federal agents to NYT reporters' homes to deliver subpoenas over coverage he doesn't like. I wonder if democracy is a priority for Joe now.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 4w agoThe Trump regime issued subpoenas to NY Times journalists over their reporting on Trump’s new Qatari-donated Air Force One. NYT called the subpoenas “an extraordinary escalation in Trump’s efforts to threaten and intimidate independent news organizations.” The dictator Trump hates the free press.
Someone told me this wasn’t an acceptable look for a politician. So here we are. 👋👋
Congratulations to all the men now mansplaining ancient Egyptian pyramid construction to me, an Egyptologist who has excavated pyramids and works on a pyramid site and has surveyed the pyramid fields. Truly, you are doing the Lord's work. Go cry to your mummies.
Misogyny is alive and well all around us.
Kath Barbadoro@kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 4w agoI think this is why it’s making me so angry. Feels like there is no political tendency that actually takes us seriously. You can have an extremely poisonous if not outright violent attitude toward half your constituents and nobody considers it a problem
People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.
*angrily, bitterly*: "you can't even be a rapist anymore, because of woke"
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 4w agothis guy man
I adore you Leon, Egyptologist here, they were built by a largely volunteer force (corvée labor) of 25,000. The builders were very well fed, paid in bread and beer, and received excellent medical care. There was no slavery whatsoever, it is a common misconception.
leon@leyawn.bsky.social · 4w agoum, so everyone cheering on egypt in the world cup realizes how the pyramids were built right? but i guess that's a conversation you're not ready to have
Sen. Bernie Sanders on the Maine U.S. Senate race: “I have spoken with Graham Platner about the best path forward for Maine. In light of these very serious allegations, I have recommended that he step aside.”
BREAKING: Mamdani, one of the most prominent voices on the American left, has called on Platner to end his Maine Senate campaign.
Mamdani calls on Platner to drop out of Maine Senate race
The New York City mayor never endorsed, but several of his top aides have played leading roles on the progressive oysterman’s campaign.
politico.com
The have reversed the logic of democracy: they are no longer accountable to us; we are accountable to them
dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · last mo.NEW: The ICE office that customarily probes employee misconduct is being refocused to investigate ICE critics, opening hundreds of "doxing and threat" cases and subpoenaing tech companies to unmask anonymous posters. Detention facility inspections, meanwhile, are plummeting. by @regret.bsky.social
