Today, for the first time in New York City history, 2,000 two year-olds received offers for FREE 2-K. A big step for those who take baby steps. A big step towards a City every New Yorker can afford.
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Retired Courtroom Clerk Wife of a 💜 Vietnam Vet Happily a Bubble off Center to the Left 💙 Survived too much to trade Democracy in on Fascism over $3/doz 🥚.
There was also a massive weapons fire sale to the UAE in the final weeks of his first administration. Really shameful. Biden was at least able to stop some of it before it was finalized. 
Biden was replenishing our stockpiles with US manufacturers using US union steel. Trump has sent tens of thousands of those jobs overseas and has crippled our supply chain with tariffs and none of our allies want to help us. Maybe we can buy our arms back from Saudi Arabia.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · yesterdayIn case you’re wondering who’s really “begging for a deal”
Trump is rolling out yet another key plank of Project 2025: privatizing airport security. History has shown us time and again this makes both workers and passengers less safe. Everything is for sale under Trump.
TSA Privatization Returns Airport Security to a Dangerous Past - The American Prospect
The Trump administration wants airport screening to revert to the way it was before 9/11, when private security companie
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MAHA - the pro-death movement of RFK JR and Republicans. A viral collapse, intentional. Enjoy your explosive diarrhea, America. Hope it makes you feel great again and owns "the libs" and "the woke." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
CDC expands largest known cyclosporiasis outbreak to 15 states
Missouri reported a dramatic jump in cases in the past week. Six states have joined the outbreak linked to lettuce from central Mexico, according to people familiar with the investigation.
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Frances Perkins was the patron saint of American workers and an inspiration for me during my time as labor secretary. She was the guiding light behind the creation of Social Security, the 40-hour workweek, the National Labor Relations Act, and much more.
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · yesterdayToday's Prospect Patriot is Frances Perkins. She saw the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory go ablaze in 1911 and her life changed. "The New Deal was born that day," she said. 22 years later she'd be America's first female cabinet member. prospect.org/2026/08/04/a...
This Thursday, SpaceX insiders will be released from their first post-IPO stock lockup and can cash out early. As I've been saying, this has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.
Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
I've been getting donation requests from all over the country for Dem Primary Candidates. I've dropped $5, $10, maybe $20 on a number of interesting out of state races. I received one from Haley Stevens a few days ago. It read like a Mob enforcer DEMANDING the past due vig. NO HERO - HER
America's "Golden Age" feels more like a return to the DARK AGES. Culture returning to barbarism, education no longer considered of value, critical thinking replaced by AI, science considered suspect, medication no longer tested, social structure destroyed, warrior ethos replaces peace.
In 2024, Minnesota’s Superior National Forest secured a $10 million grant for wildfire prevention efforts. Then, DOGE delayed it. Now, parts of that forest are burning. Former ranger Aaron Kania says we “need action,” not politics, to effectively fight wildfires. #ConnectwithJacob
Fmr. fire ranger: DOGE DELAYED a $10 million wildfire grant. It ‘would’ve really helped us’
Minnesota’s Superior National Forest received a $10 million grant in 2024 to cover wildfire prevention efforts, then DOGE came along and delayed funding. Now, parts of that area are burning. “Could th...
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The best measure of how America is doing isn’t the stock market, or GDP growth. It’s how well most Americans are living — and right now most are struggling.
The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told | Robert Reich
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I’ve been thinking about a couple I met, Larry and Wendy, from Galveston, Texas and how their postcards written by hand to people in North Carolina and Texas are acts of patriotism in these dark times.
Sunday thought: Real Patriotism
From Texas to North Carolina
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Could these WORK REQUIREMENTS be applied to Mitch McConnell and his GOVERNMENT FUNDED HEALTH CARE ...? PROVE you are too ill to be working ?
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 4d agoAppalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.
Performative bullshit. Fauci is a hero. Besides, they’re trying to ban an 85-year-old retiree from a job he already left.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936
Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.
@connectwithjacob.bsky.social Sunday's Connect sure isn't the same without @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social 😭
“The Trump administration has denied two of Gov. Tina Kotek’s requests for firefighting-assistance grants as wildfires ravage eastern Oregon.” Eastern Oregon is Trump Country. I hope they are okay, and I hope they can think clearly about what their votes have done to all of us.
Americans are Americans when disaster strikes... Trump acts like ONLY HE can decide who is "deserving". www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
Trump administration denies emergency funding for 2 Oregon wildfires
U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have sent a letter to the federal agency expressing frustration with the decision.
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Trump's ICE murdered a son, a nurse, and a kind, loving person, and no one other than the people who loved him have faced any consequences.
Mike Nellis@mikenellis.bsky.social · 2w agoAbsolutely heartbreaking letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after his murder by ICE agents. How is it possible that we still haven’t seen even a hint of justice for such a heinous crime?
A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by more than two dozen Democratic states to halt a Trump admin policy that requires Medicaid recipients with terminal diseases to prove they are too sick to work in order to be exempt from new work requirements. www.rawstory.com/trump-admin-...
Court lets Trump admin force some terminally ill patients to work for health care
A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by more than two dozen Democratic states to halt a Trump administration policy announced last month that would require Medicaid recipients with terminal di...
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Tough question, I guess.🙄
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 6d agoSen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) stared off into space today when I asked if he thinks fellow Ohio Republican Rep. Max Miller should end his reelection bid amid allegations by his ex-wife that he abused her and their 2-year-old daughter. www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...