Passing this would be a step in the wrong direction. No on Three, please.
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3d agoPlease amplify the opposition campaign started by labor and progressive groups! www.votenoon3mass.com
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"The news media need to say plainly: Trump is building a dictatorship. Use the D word...say that the president is mentally unstable...state painful truths directly and loudly before it’s too late." Via @markjacob.bsky.social, the conventions of political reporting aren't up to the moment:
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 5d agoMost major media still won't say directly that the U.S. is sliding toward dictatorship. Will they ever sound the alarm, or will they be part of the most shameful episode of journalism neglect in our nation's history? My Stop the Presses newsletter.
This is incredibly disturbing. The number of cases in Mississippi alone of Black people who met their deaths in dubious/highly suspicious ways, only for authorities to shrug it off and do a piss poor job if investigating...there are so many names
Tasia Fortune Identified as Woman Found Hanging in Tree Behind Vacant Jackson Home
The woman whose body was found hanging from a tree behind a vacant Jackson, Mississippi, home is 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, the Hinds County Coroner’s Office said.
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ICE fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a Houston enforcement operation. His family says he was a hardworking father on his way to work. This is a deadly pattern at DHS: no transparency, no oversight, no accountability. We demand an independent investigation.
Clarence Thomas worked for Monsanto and should have recused himself. www.npr.org/2026/06/25/g...
Supreme Court backs Monsanto in its fight against liability from popular weed killer
The central issue in the Roundup case, filed by Missouri resident John Durnell, was who decides what should appear on a pesticide or insecticide label and whether a federal law overrides state claims.
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@progressivemass.bsky.social what is your take on the ballot measure to move to all-party primaries? It seems to me like a bad idea, that will lead to vote-splitting, but I’m not sure if I see all its likely outcomes clearly.
Dear Santa, This year for Prime Day I want the breakup of Amazon as a corporate conglomerate monopoly, with Kindle and Audible being nationalized into a sort of publicly owned internet library funded by a progressive tax on the hyper-rich and an annual stipend for authors.
ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 3mo agoICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.
When people compare AI to the industrial revolution, what they leave out: the IR was hell on earth for working people. Their pastoral lives forcibly destroyed, their new jobs dreary, dangerous, low pay, and monotonous compared to their varied work before. It took decades of violence to fight back.
Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com · 3mo agothis graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
In case you haven’t heard we are all boycotting REI until they respect the union. Please spread the word.
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The revocation of TPS for Haitians is just making me so angry. These are people who escaped a horrific situation, followed the rules, and have become part of communities across the U.S. And now this regime just wipes out their status and has the gall to smear them as "illegal."
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…
Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
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schumer: don't worry, I've got us right where they want us
So What Can Our Elected Reps Do? 🧵 1. Nothing about what is going on is normal. Dems are presenting, let's say odd, responses to the dismantling of this nation, from protesting at different agencies, to throwing their hands asunder as if they're powerless, to this nonsense. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Mark Warner on Fox: "I may disagree with the president, but I respect the office of the president. I'm probably not gonna be jumping up applauding a lot, but I owe him his due as president. The president has made great, great progress on border crossings. That's something we ought to celebrate."
When it comes to boycotting, just a thought. It’s okay if you can’t quit a company cold turkey. In Master Gardeners, when we encourage people to switch to native plants, the goal is 70% native, not 100%. If you were shopping at a store 80% of the time and cut it back to 60%, that 20% still hurts.
I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water. Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
Please call us in the USA if you need any stories about how SHIT a privatized healthcare system can be!
Dr Julia Grace Patterson@jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 2y agoIf you care about the future of the NHS & you see this on Boxing Day, please could you share this? If we want privatisation to be removed from the NHS, NHS campaigners like me have a *lot* of work to do next year and…I’d just like to see if people care enough about this for our campaigning to work…
New study from IIHS shows that car bloat is dangerous even at low speeds: If hit by a sedan going 27 mph, a pedestrian has a 60% chance of a moderate+ injury and 30% chance of a serious one. If it's a pickup going 27 mph, those odds rise to 83% and 63%, respectively. www.iihs.org/news/detail/...
Vehicle height compounds dangers of speed for pedestrians
New pedestrian injury risk curves calculated by IIHS show that vehicles with taller front ends begin to cause serious injuries at lower speeds.
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