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@appiah.bsky.social
Calmly speaking in the direction of the void, as opposed to screaming into it. He/him/his.
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The time between Christmas and New Year's eve
December 27, 2025 at 5:14 AM
The time between Christmas and New Year's eve
I respect the hell out of folks like @katmabu.bsky.social who are actually walking the walk *in addition to* talking the talk. More people, never mind candidates for elected office, should be like her.
When I launched my campaign, I said I wanted to do politics differently… and we’re actually doing it.
Thank you to Jessica Washington and @theintercept.com for covering the most exciting and rewarding part of this campaign: theintercept.com/2025/12/26/k...
Thank you to Jessica Washington and @theintercept.com for covering the most exciting and rewarding part of this campaign: theintercept.com/2025/12/26/k...
Kat Abughazaleh Thinks Campaign Funds Should Help Feed People
Kat Abughazaleh, an activist running for Congress in Illinois, turned her campaign office into a mutual aid hub.
theintercept.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I respect the hell out of folks like @katmabu.bsky.social who are actually walking the walk *in addition to* talking the talk. More people, never mind candidates for elected office, should be like her.
Patiently waiting for all of the supposedly progressive Christian denominations (looking at you, Episcopal Church) to loudly and forcefully denounce the Trump Administration, along with the christian fundamentalists who unequivocally back him.
The Trump administration celebrated Christmas on Thursday by posting a series of religious messages from official government accounts, using language that drew criticism from those who pointed to America's separation of church and state.
Trump Administration Emphasizes Religion in Official Christmas Messages
Government officials have traditionally steered clear of such overtly religious language, as the Constitution prohibits the establishment of an official state religion.
nyti.ms
December 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Patiently waiting for all of the supposedly progressive Christian denominations (looking at you, Episcopal Church) to loudly and forcefully denounce the Trump Administration, along with the christian fundamentalists who unequivocally back him.
Melissa McCoul should sue the everliving hell out of Texas A&M. What an abominable institution.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Melissa McCoul should sue the everliving hell out of Texas A&M. What an abominable institution.
Wagner in the Desert by Greg Jackson. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
December 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Wagner in the Desert by Greg Jackson. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
She has been the president of the AFT for nearly two decades because the vast majority of labor unions in the U.S. are completely defanged institutions.
Randi has a storied history of being on the wrong side of key political issues when big money is involved (see also: healthcare). Almost makes you wonder why this person has been president of one of the biggest labor unions in the U.S. for *seventeen* years now.
December 24, 2025 at 2:37 AM
She has been the president of the AFT for nearly two decades because the vast majority of labor unions in the U.S. are completely defanged institutions.
One of the rarest of occurrences: a Supreme Court W.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
One of the rarest of occurrences: a Supreme Court W.
The entire Trump Administration should be (peacefully) removed from office. Immediately.
Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020
'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
December 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The entire Trump Administration should be (peacefully) removed from office. Immediately.
Michael Lewis said as much over 30+ years ago. www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/Me...
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Michael Lewis said as much over 30+ years ago. www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/Me...
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there’s so many reasons we need to abolish ICE
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
there’s so many reasons we need to abolish ICE
Hell yeah
December 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Hell yeah
Reconstruction didn’t go anywhere near far enough, and that’s why we’re at this moment.
NEW: A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises.
An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”
These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:
An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”
These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:
Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
www.propublica.org
December 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Reconstruction didn’t go anywhere near far enough, and that’s why we’re at this moment.
He should be tried and convicted at The Hague.
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
He should be tried and convicted at The Hague.
“The social internet is geared toward the worst of us, and also, now, the thumb is on the scale of certain platforms to amplify them. But I have never once had someone, in person, say anything approaching the kind of stuff that people say on the internet.”
Enjoyed being interviewed by @sarahenni.bsky.social for @thebeliever.net about a wide variety of things, including my odd little career path, sports television, the NFL, etc
Check it out here
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
Check it out here
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
An Interview with Mina Kimes - Believer Magazine
For most of my life, I was a die-hard sports fan who considered SportsCenter as much a part of a balanced breakfast as a bowl of Wheaties. But then I turned thirty, got divorced, moved to a new city, ...
www.thebeliever.net
December 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
“The social internet is geared toward the worst of us, and also, now, the thumb is on the scale of certain platforms to amplify them. But I have never once had someone, in person, say anything approaching the kind of stuff that people say on the internet.”
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NEW: The Trump administration announced a harmful new proposal that would block access to essential gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth across the country.
If this discriminatory regulation moves forward, we will see this administration in court.
If this discriminatory regulation moves forward, we will see this administration in court.
December 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
NEW: The Trump administration announced a harmful new proposal that would block access to essential gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth across the country.
If this discriminatory regulation moves forward, we will see this administration in court.
If this discriminatory regulation moves forward, we will see this administration in court.
A few months ago, the German Physical Society and German Meteorological Society said that we face the possibility of hitting 3 degrees of warming by 2050. The fact that the EU just did this in response must be seen as climate change denialism.
What this means after intense lobbying by German car makers is that due to economies of scale they’ll produce only high end internal combustion cars which means rich people get to carry on polluting, so that’s nice www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
EU waters down plans to end new petrol and diesel car sales by 2035
Carmakers, particularly in Germany, have lobbied heavily for concessions to the planned rules.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
A few months ago, the German Physical Society and German Meteorological Society said that we face the possibility of hitting 3 degrees of warming by 2050. The fact that the EU just did this in response must be seen as climate change denialism.
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all the articles you read about this will say it "would charge doctors" but there is nothing in the bill limiting the felony crime to medical providers. you could write "would charge parents" and be just as correct. news outlets downplay it because news outlets are transphobic.
December 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
all the articles you read about this will say it "would charge doctors" but there is nothing in the bill limiting the felony crime to medical providers. you could write "would charge parents" and be just as correct. news outlets downplay it because news outlets are transphobic.
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he was good at his job, his job was explicitly to destroy things so they'd be acquired and shareholders would make a bunch of money
this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut
this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut
"Zaslav will receive $30 million in "Golden Parachute' compensation along with $537 million in equity for a total of $567 million in a transaction-associated pay."
half a billion dollars for being terrible at your job
half a billion dollars for being terrible at your job
Warner Bros. Golden Parachutes Revealed: What David Zaslav and C-Suite Will Get In a Deal
The CEO stands to gain $567 million if a deal is sealed to sell the WB empire while longtime lieutenant Gunnar Wiedenfels will see $144 million in cash and stock considerations if a transaction close...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
he was good at his job, his job was explicitly to destroy things so they'd be acquired and shareholders would make a bunch of money
this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut
this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut
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ICE repeatedly questioning and detaining Native Americans is proof the raids aren’t targeting people based on their citizenship status, but on the color of their skin.
December 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
ICE repeatedly questioning and detaining Native Americans is proof the raids aren’t targeting people based on their citizenship status, but on the color of their skin.
The Trump Administration is able to kill and maim non-white people here and abroad because every other presidential administration in my lifetime (from Bill Clinton onward) has done something similar.
The White House is now just explicitly stating its intent to kill and maim non-white people here and around the world and white men are *still* insisting they are at a societal disadvantage
December 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The Trump Administration is able to kill and maim non-white people here and abroad because every other presidential administration in my lifetime (from Bill Clinton onward) has done something similar.
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Whenever someone tries to tell me that we have "a class issue, not a race issue," i think about how the wealthiest Black families in the U.S. experience infant mortality at a higher rate than the poorest white families
December 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Whenever someone tries to tell me that we have "a class issue, not a race issue," i think about how the wealthiest Black families in the U.S. experience infant mortality at a higher rate than the poorest white families
There are so, so many cowards in our midst.
New @propublica.org:
@emsimani.bsky.social analyzed nonprofit tax filings and found that more than 1,000 charities have stripped DEI-related language from their mission statements this year.
www.propublica.org/article/dele...
@emsimani.bsky.social analyzed nonprofit tax filings and found that more than 1,000 charities have stripped DEI-related language from their mission statements this year.
www.propublica.org/article/dele...
December 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
There are so, so many cowards in our midst.
The speech Donald Trump is giving in a little over 25 hours is more than likely a declaration of war against Venezuela. I really hope I’m wrong.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The speech Donald Trump is giving in a little over 25 hours is more than likely a declaration of war against Venezuela. I really hope I’m wrong.
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if capital can't justify the operating costs of a newspaper in every city over a few hundred thousand people (even though this worked profitably for decades) i think it's up to the federal government to fund them and if red states don't like a bunch of big city libs reporting on them, all the better
"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
if capital can't justify the operating costs of a newspaper in every city over a few hundred thousand people (even though this worked profitably for decades) i think it's up to the federal government to fund them and if red states don't like a bunch of big city libs reporting on them, all the better
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I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.
December 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.