it was close to 6 years ago that we had @abdulelsayed.bsky.social on to talk about the case for Medicare for all, among other topics. time flies man www.leftanchor.com/e/episode-15...

Episode 153 - Healing Politics with Abdul El-Sayed | Left Anchor

Today we've got Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on to talk about his new book, Healing Politics. We discuss the coronavirus pandemic, health care reform, the experience growing up in an immigrant community, what h...

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This is a 1,600 bed facility, so it will instantly become one of ICE's largest facilities. It will also be one of (if not the actual) largest ICE jail/prison in the midwest.

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterday

🚨ICE has awarded CoreCivic $536.2 million to operate the Prairie Correction Facility in Appleton, Minnesota as an immigration jail. The period of performance begins August 11.

way closer than expected, but an Arab leftist besting 70 million in outside spending is an Arab leftist besting 70 million in outside spending: a political earthquake and a new dawn 25 years after 9/11

Just FYI, there's a new Orchestra Baobab record coming in October. One song out now. strut.bandcamp.com/album/made-i...

Made In Senegal, by Orchestra Baobab

12 track album

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A federal judge ordered the Adelanto ICE facility to fix its water. But only weeks later, a detainee filmed worm-like creatures swimming in his drinking water. How is DHS claiming it meets FDA standards?

'Disturbing' video shows 'worm-like creatures' swimming in ICE detainees' drinking water

A video shared by attorneys shows a California ICE detainee holding up a water bottle crawling with "worm-like creatures" just weeks after a judge ordered the facility to fix its water problems.The fo...

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two more votes for @abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is still one of my favourite photos, mainly because he told the government "you'll have to arrest me" and FDR went "fine" and literally told the press where and when he was going to arrest him

Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 4mo ago

FDR literally had the president of Montgomery Ward arrested and the company seized for not negotiating with his workers

what planet does she live on

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 3d ago

It's rarely ever said so outright but basically the thesis of the Stevens surrogates as of today is that Arab Americans cannot possibly have any legitimate grievances about someone who is openly and proudly supportive of a country that kills their families lol

This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.

(voice of a guy gamely trying to recall the 90s, but he can’t quite get there) 🎶Tracey Jacks has got it goin on🎶

general anxiety disorder, ditz, dramedy, improv, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor my life is, after all, an improvd dramedy about a ditzy guy who takes a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor to treat his general anxiety disorder

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 5d ago

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

Yep 100%! That's because those are jobs the local gentry can't gatekeep. So if you ever wondered why local leaders in rural areas keep getting rid of schools & medical services & thought "That makes no sense!" Now you know why they do that. Public services bring people they can't control. 💀

Mom for Gliberty@fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 5d ago

It's also notable that rural areas with some sort of middle class employment center tend to be much less right wing. Places with colleges, federal projects, etc. Even the conservative small towns with the hospital or county seat are usually a bit less stiflingly right wing.

I am in the funniest possible situation I am trying to go see The Odyssey but may not get there because of transportation delays

horrific, antihuman

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

A new, centrist Uncommitted Movement has emerged... Except this time it’s in support of genocide, rather than trying to stop one @ahjohnson.bsky.social therealnews.com/a-new-centri...

A new, centrist Uncommitted Movement has emerged

Except this time it’s in support of genocide, rather than trying to stop one.

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It brutally embarrasses me that, when I was a teenage Christian fundamentalist, I earnestly believed that the “but obviously with exceptions in cases of danger to the mother’s life!” that anti-abortion people (myself included) added to the end of the sentence “I am pro-life“ meant something

ProPublica@propublica.org · last wk.

After Emily Waldorf was denied care for a life-threatening miscarriage, her mother and stepfather, who considered themselves “pro-life,” were outraged: “If I took my dog to a vet and it had this problem, that dog would get better treatment.” (Published May)

My coworkers were discussing the Odyssey, which I have not seen. I told them my favorite part of the Odyssey is where Delmar say "They turned Pete into a horny toad!"😶

Phil Christman@philipchristman.bsky.social · last wk.

I think a good bit would be to pretend to be one of those people who's really mad about the modernized sensibility of Nolan's Odyssey but the more you talk the more it becomes clear that you've confused the Odyssey with that He-Man movie from a couple months ago

I think a good bit would be to pretend to be one of those people who's really mad about the modernized sensibility of Nolan's Odyssey but the more you talk the more it becomes clear that you've confused the Odyssey with that He-Man movie from a couple months ago

John Gai carried his sick father to a nearby clinic in a wheelbarrow, but he died from cholera on the way. Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.” (Published December 2025)

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

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most galvanizing thing you’ll read all week slate.com/news-and-pol...

We Faced Down Trump’s Secret Police in Minneapolis. Here’s How We Did It.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Families are torn apart; men, women, and children are separated.”

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I have just Had a Vision. There is one artist on earth who could adapt The Book of the New Sun to a visual medium, and it is Danny McBride

🎶zaccheus was a short little king and a short little king was he🎶

Tfw mothra gave you power of attorney

A dark money campaign is offering influencers $1,500 per post to attack Abdul El-Sayed and support Haley Stevens. Same exact dollar figure that was paid to attack @katmabu.bsky.social (Nobody ever found out who was paying for that campaign.) Gross, lazy and above all cynical shit.

Secret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate race

Rep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her.

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So uhhh apparently Haley Stevens’ main spokesperson was also working for Palantir

do I know any really mean lawyers who’d like to engage in a worthy pro bono project

Smalls@shutupsmalls.bsky.social · 2w ago

The thing about having awful stuff happen to your apartment is that you have basically no real enforceable rights, no one in power cares, and everyone around you gets annoyed with you for being so obsessed and such a pessimist

I finally got around to reading this one, and it was even better than I expected. @philipchristman.bsky.social knocked it out of the park I've already bought another copy and given it to a friend The chapter "Some Left Tendencies, Very Briefly Described" is worth the price of the book

The dynamic where it is impossible to take credit for quantitative improvements in anything because it's seen as disrespectful or insulting to the exceptions has already made criminal justice reform impossible and it's going to do the same for economic policymaking too.

The plan: activate a controversial immigration court that has never once been used by any U.S. president. slate.trib.al/UVXHCzv

Trump’s Latest Under-the-Radar Mass Deportation Moves Are Truly Creepy

This week’s Executive Dysfunction.

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Me listening to any Brian Eno song from his mid-70s rock records: this bangs. wonder what the lyrics are about Me from five minutes in the future, mind scarred by learning of the existence of yet another eldritch pornography Brian was into: DON’T FIND OUT