Rep. Tom Kean Jr. spent 4 months away from Congress on full taxpayer pay. As a NJ state senator he voted against paid sick leave for workers. He got the time off he denied to everyone else. NJ07 deserves better. #NJ07 #PaidSickLeave
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My childhood memory: Sunday mornings, family, hung out and read the paper... LA Times, M Guardian, NYTimes, Esquire, New Yorker, etc. Illustrator. Owned by cats. Old, but still ready to stand up.
This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.
This lady had something to say y’all. Rep Mike Flood (R-NE) held a town hall and let’s just say it didn’t work out so swell for him. I would like to know the answer to her question as well, how much does it cost us, the tax payers to become a fascist country? #CantAffordTrump
If MAGA thinks California is slow counting votes, wait until they find out how long it's taking the Trump administration to release the Epstein files.
If we give the madman unlimited war funds, he will never stop warring. 🤬
MAGAs are gutting: •SNAP—which 40M Americans need to eat •School Lunch—which 30M kids need every day •Medicaid—which 60M Americans need to survive •Housing Assistance—which 5M families need to live ALL to cut trillions in taxes for 800 Billionaires & give $70B to ICE gestapo Absolute MAGA fascism
"The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with." #MondayThoughts #DogLover #DogsOfBluesky
Shortly after the 2025 elections, I published a list of seven voting laws every blue state should enact. While I stand by all seven, I want to highlight three. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...
It’s not too late for states and Congress to stop Trump from subverting the midterms
With only nine months before the midterm elections, Trump is plotting to prevent Democrats from taking control of Congress.
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#ResistanceRoots Maria Echaveste was born on this day in 1954 in Texas. She is an attorney, public policy consultant and civil rights activist who served as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff during the second Clinton administration. Her activism spans labor, education and immigration reform. /1
Well deserved. But will not bring Alex and Renee back. And so far no one has been held to account for their murders
MPR News@mprnews.org · 2mo agoThis year, the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award will go collectively to the people of the Twin Cities “for risking their lives to protect their neighbors and immigrant community members” as federal immigration agents flooded the region earlier this year.
I know there is a lot going on, and not all of this is new, but numerous aspects of this OMB proposal are highly alarming and would, if enacted, effectively force American scientists receiving federal funding (which is...most of them in some capacity or another) to stop engaging with the public.
elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo agoSummary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
We are losing our best and brightest. Trump’s immigration policies will have an effect on immigrant scientists like Shirley Meng. She is stepping down as director of Energy Storage Research Alliance and will be relocating to Singapore. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
Pushed by Trump policies, top U.S. battery scientist is moving to Singapore
Shirley Meng explains why her passion for decarbonizing the global economy required her to relocate
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So let’s get something straight about the unhoused: California is expected to carry a massive share of America’s homelessness crisis, then gets mocked for struggling under the weight of a problem that clearly extends far beyond Los Angeles. 🧵
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
📌Fact is, most everything Mamdani is doing in NYC would benefit rural America, and the bought-off propagandists at Fox will do everything possible to make sure they never know it.
PG&E is spending a shit ton of money against Steyer, so that is another reason to vote for him, along with his other endorsements (Sanders among them)...but it really is an odd situation...
Immense love and congratulations to my former Chicago Tribune colleagues, reporters, editors, photographers and all. A most-deserved, hard-earned Pulitzer for their incredible work covering Operation Midway Blitz. 💪
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 3mo agoThe Chicago Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting Monday for its coverage of Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement mission in the Chicago area last fall.
Without clean air and water you can expect higher medical costs and new varieties of illnesses. This is the #Project2025 we warned about prior to the 2024 election. Now here we are!
Rep. Mike Levin@levin.house.gov · 3mo agoProject 2025 called for gutting the EPA's scientific research office. In under a year, the Trump Administration has done exactly that, taking a division of more than 1,500 scientists down to 124…
An excellent and unapologetic commentary on the dangers of electing Becerra as governor of California by @andrealeon.bsky.social www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/01/x...
Xavier Becerra Says We Must Think About the Future of Humanity — Then Cashes Checks from Chevron
Xavier Becerra recently told Californians that we need to think about the future of humanity. He said it with conviction. He said it with urgency. He said
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Took a video of this cool shell formation on my beach walk. If all of you repost it as many times as you can maybe some journalists will see it and do something about it