#ResistanceEarth Farmworkers are struggling as temperatures rise, and not only due to heat stress. Extreme heat causes pesticides to evaporate faster, filling the air with dangerous chemicals. As workers sweat, their pores open, also increasing exposure through the skin. www.rfi.fr/en/environme...

Farm workers face a ‘double-edged sword’ of extreme heat and pesticides

As extreme heat makes working outdoors increasingly dangerous, farm workers face another, less visible threat: the pesticides used on the crops around them. Higher temperatures can make these chemical...

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Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it may ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

It's the plan for everything. There's to be no US govt, no US as a nation at all. Everything will be divvied up among oligarch billionaires w/ the idea that the rest of us will be entirely dependent on their monopolies & therefore be mere 24/7 surveilled, compliant sources of labor for their profit.

Lee West@whodat35.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bulletin: David Lorch has some explaining to do with his highly illegal Venezuela oil equity stake deal which he didn’t have the authority to make. Full stop. www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Yeah, whole bunch of Dolly-washing going on.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2d ago

Hypocrisy Alert: Parton was, arguably, America’s most well-known drag performer. Dolly once mailed a rhinestoned guitar to a drag queen suing Texas over its drag ban. Gov. Bill Lee wants to name Nashville's airport after Dolly Parton—the same governor who signed America's first public drag ban.

Holy smokes an unreal rendition of "I Will Always Love You" by Cynthia Erivo in Vancouver last night to honor Dolly Parton….incredible

Why we have these wars. We'd have been in ongoing wars even w/out Iran cuz he intended to move on Cuba, Greenland, Canada then... Instead everything is just going to Iran but he & his billionaire buds are making the same bank. Plus they're still gonna do the others for West. Hemisphere empire goals.

US Political Politics News 💙🌈🦋The Fighting Liberal@us-political-news.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trump Invests in Defense Contractors as He Wages War in Iran ...

🚨🚨 Wheat prices have exploded 35% in just the last 2 months as US wheat production hits its lowest level since 1971. US wheat stockpiles are set to drop 22% this year, down to 722 million bushels. @FinDicer

if maga vandals tried to break into voting machines they aren’t “election” “monitors” in any sense of the word they are thieves rerunning Coffee County operation ad infinitum.

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 4d ago

DOJ election monitors reportedly tried to access voting machines in Wyoming last week. I’ve spent thousands of hours reporting on past efforts by Trump allies to access machines & copy data. Mark my words: State officials need to be ready for this to happen again. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...

“You have kids as young as 2 months old who have been in prison there,” says Castro. “And every child that’s put in there — every woman, every person — there are American investors who are making money off of their imprisonment.”

And that folks, is how you do it.

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An Israeli occupation soldier recorded a video showing the destruction that US-Israeli genocide has caused to Gaza. Not a single structure is left standing. The world must never forget.

We have lost our world standing in multiple ways. This would have been inconceivable but for the Trump administration. Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top U.S. Universities www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...

Canada Hires U.S. Scholars From Harvard and Other Top Universities

A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.

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For those of you that haven't read it, Chapter 10 of Project 2025 was literally about creating food insecurity by cutting safety nets and slashing regulations and restrictions on food production. No, we weren't overreacting to Project 2025.

The real American 🇺🇸 “brain drain” isn’t that a few established scholars might get new jobs outside the US, it’s the enormous number of grad students - particularly international grad students - who can’t or won’t study in the US now or in years to come. That’s the body blow.

I am so sad and so tired and so angry. Angry not merely at the fascism but at the never ending conversation that the way to defeat it is to refuse to name it, to tiptoe around it, to take care not to seem too supportive of the people being assaulted.

Trump bought Boeing stock on the same day that the Navy gave Boeing an $880 million contract. Yawn. Just another day.

To underscore why this is especially awful for those who may not know, the measles vaccine is usually given at 12 months. Newborns rely on community immunity to prevent exposure, which until recently we have had in the US. This quite literally could be anyone's newborn. None of this had to happen.

Lisa Jarvis@lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 5d ago

A newborn was one of the 2 measles deaths in Pennsylvania. My god. www.inquirer.com/health/measl...

Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’

Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’

The federal judge, who cited Dolly Parton in his ruling, found that the state law violated the First Amendment.

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Plus they are using the money from tariff refunds to help consumers. Leadership stated that recovered funds will not boost corporate earnings; instead, Costco is routing the money back to shoppers by reducing prices on select goods like textiles, bedding, cookware, coffee, and select grocery items.

The Trump beef screw ups are already underway. www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-...

US Beef Recall: Nearly 30,000 Pounds Of Argentine Beef Pulled Amid Trump’s Import Push

Nearly 30,000 pounds of raw beef imported from Argentina have been recalled after entering the U.S. without required reinspection., US News, Times Now

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This decision recognizes the essential work of the workers who put food on our tables. While this is a heartening step, we know attacks on farm worker wages will continue. The UFW will continue to fight for the wages farm workers deserve. 1/

Fourteen years ago, HBO's 'The Newsroom' laid out the truth about voter ID in this segment. It’s striking how little the arguments — or the tactics — have changed. Still a solution in search of a problem. History doesn’t repeat itself — it gets rerun.

Steal $30 million in a bank fraud scheme? Pardoned. Run a $60 million tribal bond scam? Pardoned. Bill Medicare for $205 million? Pardoned. Turns out the fastest way to get away with massive fraud in America right now is knowing Don the Con. #TrumpsCorruptionCostsUS #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

4 days ago The Pentagon fired the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes. Yesterday they broke the story of Elsie Dominguez, a civilian engineer who was raped repeatedly by the Captain of a Navy ship she was on. They keep trying to silence the press & quash the truth. Elsie’s story must be told:

Lawsuit over sexual assault aboard Navy transport ship dismissed as worker’s comp issue

The order handed down this month closed an attempt by a civilian engineer to get justice for an assault she said threw her life into shambles.

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A sailor who jumped off the USS Lincoln is 19, married with two kids, and is being charged by the Navy under UCMJ for “malingering” and absence without leave. Because we have completely lost the fucking plot.

Navy sailor who jumped off USS Lincoln faces disciplinary charges

The sailor on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier who jumped overboard in an attempt to die by suicide has been charged with violations and could have his pay docked.

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Project 2025 is 1000 pages of insane, unconstitutional, illegal, oppressive, dangerous and unamerican destruction. Not one single thing should have ever been possible. Over 53% has been completed. We're not angry enough, doing enough, or horrified enough 🤬

🇷🇺 Putin may resort to the use of tactical nuclear weapons, with a growing number of Russian officials reportedly reaching this conclusion, Bloomberg reports, citing sources close to the Kremlin.