Head Start has served >30 million kids since 1965, part of LBJ's War on Poverty. Bipartisan, expanded by Reagan, Bush, Trump 1.0. Project 2025 and WH budget last yr proposed zeroing out funds for Head Start, calling it “radical indoctrination of our children.” 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)

The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.

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The Iron Dome missile systems Zelenskyy pleaded for when Russia attacked, and US wanted to transfer to Ukraine, are stationed in the US southwest and paid for by US taxpayers but a contract w/ Israel gives it control and Netanyahu vetoed it for Putin and the 🇷🇺-🇮🇱 transnat'l oligarchy. wapo.st/4w60rLf

House push to integrate defense industries of Israel, U.S. draws scrutiny

Critics of the legislation fear that, if adopted, it would give Israel veto power over U.S. weapons systems.

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Priorities.

"It's too late. We’ve had 28 COP meetings on climate change and we haven’t been able to cap carbon emissions. We need a revolution." There are 9 planetary boundaries; we passed the 7th in 2025 — Ocean Acidification. "We’re in the extreme danger zone." We have until 2030 to fix the seven below.

Jorie Graham@joriegraham.bsky.social · 2w ago

5 years left. You might want to read this www.instagram.com/p/Da9IylFEgE...

Wake up Dems. Read the room. Or, better yet, try reading reality,contemporary history,casualty figures, genocidal actions, Americans lost,whatever you want to read, look at these numbers before you take any more money from AIPAC or the other entities it funnels thru. www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar...

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads

Enten on the 67 point swing (!!!) against Israel among Americans: "We're not just talking about the Democratic base anymore. The general electorate has turned against Israel. This is not just a left i...

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10 years since this moment, and 10 years of being told calling them Nazis is hyperbole.

Our soldiers are dying because Netanyahu finally convinced a President to bomb Iran.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

What he means is that he committed crimes.

Enjoy your dinner tonight, members of the White House Correspondents Association, you miserable embarrassments to the profession.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Q: Do you think it's appropriate to subpoena family members of journalists to find out information? TRUMP: I don't know. Barack Hussein Obama did it all the time. He went after journalists and nobody said anything about it.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 (@rahmstorf) on X

As long expected. It’s climate science 101. The vapor thirst of the atmosphere increases exponentially with temperature. A law of physics known since the early 19th C (Clausius–Clapeyron law). It causes more drought even if rainfall doesn’t decline. https://t.co/YVlzNhVsLA

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Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 (@MrMatthewTodd) on X

Even camels are dying of heatstroke. This is very upsetting. We are insane. Literally committing slow motion suicide and taking countless animals with us. Even camels can't cope: Africa's ships of the desert hit by rising temperatures https://t.co/0rV6tlriNv

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Sometimes the last straw is quite surprising.These images are the last straw for me.I can no longer support the state of Israel – not until its people wake the fuck up, take a look at themselves,understand they are no better than others,& resist their gvmt's horror www.instagram.com/reel/DbLw5Wk...

Fɪʟᴀsᴛᴇᴇɴɪ on Instagram: "A celebration turned into a military raid in Hebron as students marking their high school exam results were forced from their vehicles, searched, and abused while children lo...

filasteeni on July 24, 2026: "A celebration turned into a military raid in Hebron as students marking their high school exam results were forced from their vehicles, searched, and abused while childre...

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Breaking coup update— Before the 7/8 article publication, a senior FBI official contacted NYT & asked them to hold the article, calling it an issue of "national security" but the FBI official refused to explain the nat sec issue when asked by a reporter & editors. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...

Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media (Gift Article)

The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”

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AI is fueling a new era of violence against women and girls (VAWG), online and IRL. Misogynistic chatbots, deepfake nudes, and support of sexual abuse fantasies, the dehumanization of women is the calculated cost of unregulated AI—one its male creators DGAF about. open.substack.com/pub/citizens...

AI chatbots are fuelling a new era of violence against women

From "sycophantic" chatbots to deepfake sexual abuse, the dehumanisation of women is the calculated cost of untested, unregulated AI.

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Bombing as a temper tantrum.

Soupy Mess of Heat and Humidity Puts 100 Million at Risk of Tornadoes, from Texas to New England. For the second day in a row, Chicago is in the bullseye of the areas facing severe weather on Thursday, but the storm forecast is widespread. — NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

Soupy Mess of Heat and Humidity Puts Millions at Risk of Tornadoes

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Trump regime just bombed 2 reservoirs, leaving 20,000 people w/o drinking water in searing 113–122ºF. Humanitarian crisis. A war crime—bombing civilian infra as collective punishment for a military loss, downed Apache. Trump's undeclared war of aggression is 100% illegal. www.msn.com/en-xl/news/o...

SA Govt: “The resettlement of South Africans to 🇺🇸 under the guise of being ‘refugees’ is entirely politically motivated and designed to question 🇿🇦 constitutional democracy.” Trump has also cut off aid to 🇿🇦 based on specious claim of discrimination vs Afrikaners. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

US accepts only white refugees for sixth consecutive month

The Trump administration is spending more than $100 million to fight the "emergency" of "white genocide" in South Africa.

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Since 1 October 2025, the US has accepted just 6,668 refugees. Of those, 6,665 were white South Africans. Trump sees Afrikaners, descended primarily from European invaders, as victims of “white genocide” — a far-RW racist conspiracy myth promoted by Elon. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

US accepts only white refugees for sixth consecutive month

The Trump administration is spending more than $100 million to fight the "emergency" of "white genocide" in South Africa.

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The president of the United States—elected by the GOP voters—is hosting a cage fight at the White House for personal profit. He’s just YOLO doing it, doesn’t care that we know. GOP folks, how can you live with this as the head of your party?

David Waldman@kagrox.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I can’t believe we’re sleepwalking into this shit.

climate action is justice

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 2mo ago

More research on mortality from heat alone: "We estimate that a single day of extreme heat causes approximately 3,400 excess deaths nationally; a five-day heatwave causes nearly 30,000." www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...

If you’d told me on January 7th 2021 that everyone in this picture would be pardoned and be paid $1 million each for reparations, I’d have said you were insane. It turns out that it’s American voters that are insane.

Review of Jorie Graham's just-published, astonishing book of poetry. I've been savoring it for three days now. "Shocked and Shattered Elegies for a Lost Utopian Dream— In “Killing Spree,” Jorie Graham confronts a world living through apocalyptic times." 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/b...

Shocked and Shattered Elegies for a Lost Utopian Dream

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The Appall | Jorie Graham, Nawal Arjini

Jorie Graham’s poem in our December 5, 2024, issue begins: The Killing Spree whizzed past, we liked the look of it, it liquefieddeath, it was here to

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Marty Dart (@martinldart) on Threads

If you "Did not vote", then you helped Trump do everything he's doing now.

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sarah on X: "This is Qana in South Lebanon today. An ancient village with over 3,000 years of history — where Jesus performed the miracle of turning water into wine. Israel is wiping it off the map. Not a peep from the “civilized world.” Not a word from the “international community.” https://t.co/sDO8PSlZAf" / X

This is Qana in South Lebanon today. An ancient village with over 3,000 years of history — where Jesus performed the miracle of turning water into wine. Israel is wiping it off the map. Not a peep from the “civilized world.” Not a word from the “international community.” https://t.co/sDO8PSlZAf

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New investigation: a book about the future of truth in the age of A.I. contains more than a half-dozen quotes invented by A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.

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Impossibly kind words from a hero. @joriegraham.bsky.social couldn’t know how foundational Overlord (esp. “Other”) was to this book. Or maybe it was that obvious!

Jorie Graham@joriegraham.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thank you @compatibilism.bsky.social for this incredible book. The prose is so lucid and honest and probing it moved me near tears repeatedly. And the thinking is scintillating. I cannot tell you how grateful I am for this book. And thank you @penguinusa.bsky.social

WATCH — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social : “Trump entered office worth $2.3 billion and is now worth $6.5 billion… Decisions are made based on what's good for the president's own companies, not Americans… for example — why did the Saudis invest $2 BILLION in Kushner’s companies?”

The IRS has agreed to not audit Trump's taxes. But in 2024, a @propublica.org @nytimes.com investigation found that a long-running audit involved Trump allegedly claiming the same huge write-off twice on a Chicago tower. That audit could've led to a tax bill of $100M for Trump. (From May 2024)

IRS Audit of Trump Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million

The tax agency concluded in its long-running investigation that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on his failed Chicago tower.

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