Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
Simmering Rage
@musicislife.bsky.social
Xennial/musician/therapist/veteran/teacher. As many interests and proclivities as my neurospicy brain can manage. Just trying to make it while watching history repeat itself. Go birds!
"Marshall, a Republican seeking re-election this fall, filed lawsuits against more than 700 patients with outstanding bills ... Marshall's lawyers garnished patients’ paychecks and bank accounts. They routinely charged patients an 18% annual interest rate."
Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator. (Gift Article)
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
nytimes.com
🚨 NEW: ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database: As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database. @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
wired.com
Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
ysph.yale.edu
Among the first agencies President Donald Trump gutted after taking office for his second term was a Department of Homeland Security team that had repeatedly disproved his stolen election claims.
8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
From dismantling guardrails that upheld the integrity of past elections to gutting federal agencies and installing allies who supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 vote was stolen, here are the key ta...
propublica.org
Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care." So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents. It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2148...
What Darline Graham’s Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals
The senator’s parents died when she was a kid. That’s tragic. But it’s also tragic that she’s against the kind of care that could help untold numbers of people avoid that fate today.
newrepublic.com
After FDR cleaned up the mess created by Calvin Coolidge and blamed on Herbert Hoover, Democrats spent decades reminding voters what the two parties had done. In recent generations, that basic act of politicking has been deemed impolite by Democratic leaders. That needs to end.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoNew in PN: Are voters finally realizing that GOP presidents are disasters? "The last 3 R presidents have handed their D successors an economic catastrophe, & the last 3 Ds have had to do their best to clean it up. Why don’t Ds ever say that? I think it would make a difference" — @mjtoma.bsky.social
"The Trump administration has been deploying an obscure legal maneuver to try to obtain private information on journalists, non-profits and unions, raising alarm over a power the government has asserted without judicial oversight."
Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’
Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies
theguardian.com
This is a horror and criminal and not enough people are talking about what they're doing to Haitians and US kids of Haitian descent.
Faith M. Jackson@kissedbythesun.bsky.social · 2w agoFrom Democracy Now!
Hegseth’s entire plan to modernize the military was basically carried out to get rid of “woke,” to purge anyone who didn’t meet his Christian warrior image, and to sunset rules of engagement that might prevent the killing of civilians. trib.al/LvdNDrH
It's a complex message to convey and designed to be that way. So what can EVERY DEM say instead, instead of attacking Twitch streamers they've never even watched: THE WORST OF WHAT DONALD TRUMP IS DOING HAS NOT EVEN BEGUN TO BE FELT YET
🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · 2w agoRural hospitals closing or shutting down key departments like obstetrics will be one of the biggest stories of 2027. Democrats need to make it one of the biggest stories of the next two months.
This is where we are: a tech billionaire who, as an undergrad writing in the Stanford Review, "blasted a student movement to raise custodians' pay, warning it 'destroys incentive for them to improve themselves,'" is now a chief architect of a homelessness policy built around punishment and coercion.
How the Billionaire Joe Lonsdale Shaped Trump’s Homelessness Policy (Gift Article)
As Republicans have embraced tough measures to clear the streets, no group has led the way more than the Cicero Institute, founded by the venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale.
nytimes.com
Slavery linked to mortality gap between Black and white Americans today. New study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Slavery linked to mortality gap between Black and white Americans today
New study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities
science.org
Body cameras, lol they’re following themselves with film crew and putting it to fucking Beastie Boys music Body cameras without civilian oversight and control of the footage is a fig leaf
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoJeffries stop short of committing to holding a vote to abolish ICE is he's House Speaker next January, but says he's "committed to dramatically reforming ICE ... the masks should come off, body cameras should come on, judicial warrants should be required."
I wrote about competing visions and lacks-of-vision, and the fault lines between our competing and overlapping stories of Us. Seeking radical vision at a time when people increasingly seek radical remedy. Coherent and incoherent politics. The doctor is in. www.the-reframe.com/story-of-us/
Story of Us
People increasingly want radical remedy, and need a radical vision. Pearls before swine, and disrupting the dominant scripts.
the-reframe.com
Anyway, if you or someone you know is a currently serving sailor or Marine deployed aboard a ship and dealing with poor conditions, @taskandpurpose.com wants to hear from you. taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-ab...
Navy to swap USS Abraham Lincoln for George Washington in the Middle East
The US military reportedly plans to send the aircraft carrier USS George Washington to the Middle East to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln.
taskandpurpose.com
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 4w agoReporter: Family members of service members are concerned about conditions on the LIncoln. Trump: No they’re not. Reporter: Has the deployment gone on too long? Trump: No. Not nearly long enough.
There is a certain type of bad guy whose main contribution is sowing confusion between good and bad by failing to understand things that are easily understood.
burn it all down@russbengtson.bsky.social · last mo.ah so that's why 60 minutes hired douchehat
Are we comfortably numb with police violence? The brutal cop killing of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisc. sparked local protest but only muted outrage on the national level. Despite falling crime, cops gun down more Americans than ever Where's the outrage? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/core...
Corey Ruiz police killing reveals an America numb to violence | Will Bunch
Police killings like the death of Madison’s Corey Ruiz, caught on gruesome video, are rising, but public outrage is not.
inquirer.com
"This is more than just a niche issue for astronomers. This is an issue that's going to affect the quality of life for everybody on Earth." https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/private-companies-could-ruin-the-night-sky-for-the-entire-world-and-international-law-cant-stop-them
Private companies could ruin the night sky for the entire world, and international law can't stop them
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) can single-handedly approve space projects that will change the night sky around the world. The international community can do very little against it.
space.com
Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”
This take seems to come out every two months or so and I honestly don't get it. If the most right-leaning Dem ran for office, MAGA would still call them "communist." They always do. The actual policies don't matter. Run people who believe in building a better world and who connect with voters.
Mona Charen@monacharen.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe DSA Is a Gift to MAGA www.thebulwark.com/p/the-dsa-is...
We’ve been banking right for decades and it hasn’t worked. Let’s try banking left just for funzies. We’ll be called the same names either way