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It’s up to all of us to use our economic power and shut it down. Everyone do whatever they can to not spend or work November 25-December 2.
October 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
It’s up to all of us to use our economic power and shut it down. Everyone do whatever they can to not spend or work November 25-December 2.
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I feel like I have a conversation every other day with someone going through this exact crisis.
We need better options for those aiming to do good work.
We need better options for those aiming to do good work.
Life situations are bleak right now for a lot of people. In tech, the "Venn Diagram" of (1) positive work and (2) making enough money to support your family is increasingly non-overlapping. We all do what we can.
This image has been living in my mind rent-free for months.
This image has been living in my mind rent-free for months.
October 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I feel like I have a conversation every other day with someone going through this exact crisis.
We need better options for those aiming to do good work.
We need better options for those aiming to do good work.
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If you travel around your city using public transit, why not print out copies of Megan's "How to Report ICE" in your city and hand those out? It's a simple way to inform people. drive.google.com/drive/folder... - I distributed some to folks on the bus today and they were all grateful to receive them
SALUTE zines **BE SURE TO PRINT AT 100%!** - Google Drive
drive.google.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
If you travel around your city using public transit, why not print out copies of Megan's "How to Report ICE" in your city and hand those out? It's a simple way to inform people. drive.google.com/drive/folder... - I distributed some to folks on the bus today and they were all grateful to receive them
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TODAY: test drive different types of e-bikes on City Hall Plaza —for free! — from 4 - 6 p.m. 🚲
Learn more: boston.gov/calendar/try-e-bike-event-city-hall-plaza-1
Learn more: boston.gov/calendar/try-e-bike-event-city-hall-plaza-1
October 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
TODAY: test drive different types of e-bikes on City Hall Plaza —for free! — from 4 - 6 p.m. 🚲
Learn more: boston.gov/calendar/try-e-bike-event-city-hall-plaza-1
Learn more: boston.gov/calendar/try-e-bike-event-city-hall-plaza-1
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Never stop telling normies about the ghoulish behavior being committed on their behalf, in this country, by their countrymen and women.
THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS OR KNOW THAT THIS IS HAPPENING.
THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS OR KNOW THAT THIS IS HAPPENING.
“Medical staff did not give her any food, water, or pain medication for several hours. Much later that evening, after a significant loss of blood, Lucia was transported to an emergency room approximately an hour away, with her arms and legs shackled.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say
The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.
www.nbcnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Never stop telling normies about the ghoulish behavior being committed on their behalf, in this country, by their countrymen and women.
THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS OR KNOW THAT THIS IS HAPPENING.
THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS OR KNOW THAT THIS IS HAPPENING.
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Re Graham Platner: A lot of folks are just now realizing how much our military’s culture is deeply right-wing and regressive—a place where Nazi and white nationalist iconography are commonplace (even if sometimes not recognized by the troops themselves).
This was literally last year:
This was literally last year:
Army investigating social media post showing Nazi symbol
The Army opened an investigation after a National Guard unit posted a photo online that contained a symbol worn by Nazi SS troops.
www.militarytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Re Graham Platner: A lot of folks are just now realizing how much our military’s culture is deeply right-wing and regressive—a place where Nazi and white nationalist iconography are commonplace (even if sometimes not recognized by the troops themselves).
This was literally last year:
This was literally last year:
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“There are definitely Nazis in uniform…In my experience they are typically relegated to conventional, noncombat arms units. Occasionally they end up in the infantry or the engineers…to learn combat tactics and explosive fabrication.”
October 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
“There are definitely Nazis in uniform…In my experience they are typically relegated to conventional, noncombat arms units. Occasionally they end up in the infantry or the engineers…to learn combat tactics and explosive fabrication.”
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H-2A apple workers in upstate NY tell us farms have gotten rid of piece rate pay, but are still forcing outrageous daily bin requirements. If workers don't meet the requirements, they won't be rehired next year. That's why they want a union to protect them. #WeFeedYou
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
H-2A apple workers in upstate NY tell us farms have gotten rid of piece rate pay, but are still forcing outrageous daily bin requirements. If workers don't meet the requirements, they won't be rehired next year. That's why they want a union to protect them. #WeFeedYou
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So, this crucially important state race in Georgia that I told you about? Let me offer you a frustrating update. (cc @hankgreen.bsky.social)
With 14 days to go, Dems are up by a decent margin in early voting, but Kemp -- GA's loathsome governor -- has just dumped *$500K* into TV ads on the race.
With 14 days to go, Dems are up by a decent margin in early voting, but Kemp -- GA's loathsome governor -- has just dumped *$500K* into TV ads on the race.
Today on Volts: hey listen up! The most important election of the year is happening in Georgia next month. Two seats on the (currently all-GOP) Public Service Commission are up & rising electricity prices are on everyone's mind. This is a bellwether for next year's governor & midterm elections!
Pay attention to the most important political race of 2025
With energy affordability set to dominate national politics, Peter Hubbard and Brionté McCorkle explain why a down-ballot Georgia race is ground zero for the fight.
www.volts.wtf
October 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
So, this crucially important state race in Georgia that I told you about? Let me offer you a frustrating update. (cc @hankgreen.bsky.social)
With 14 days to go, Dems are up by a decent margin in early voting, but Kemp -- GA's loathsome governor -- has just dumped *$500K* into TV ads on the race.
With 14 days to go, Dems are up by a decent margin in early voting, but Kemp -- GA's loathsome governor -- has just dumped *$500K* into TV ads on the race.
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Trump's private army under development.
ICE and other agencies are bringing high-powered weapons into American cities at an unprecedented rate and amount.
Guns, armor, chemical weapons, guided missile warheads, and explosive components.
ICE and other agencies are bringing high-powered weapons into American cities at an unprecedented rate and amount.
Guns, armor, chemical weapons, guided missile warheads, and explosive components.
ICE’s spending on weaponry has soared more than 700 percent this year
The $71.5 million spent so far has paid for guns and armor, chemical munitions, “guided missile warheads," and "explosive components.”
www.motherjones.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trump's private army under development.
ICE and other agencies are bringing high-powered weapons into American cities at an unprecedented rate and amount.
Guns, armor, chemical weapons, guided missile warheads, and explosive components.
ICE and other agencies are bringing high-powered weapons into American cities at an unprecedented rate and amount.
Guns, armor, chemical weapons, guided missile warheads, and explosive components.
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There are 3 ways for this to go: a) Ds break, b) Rs break, c) Rs do a filibuster carve-out, or d) Trump decides he can appropriate, allocate, and authorize spending entirely w/o Congress and the courts don't stop him.
My current odds:
A) 10%
B) 15%
C) 25%
D) 50%
D is the admins current plan.
My current odds:
A) 10%
B) 15%
C) 25%
D) 50%
D is the admins current plan.
So have we all concluded that the government is going to be shut down basically indefinitely?
October 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
There are 3 ways for this to go: a) Ds break, b) Rs break, c) Rs do a filibuster carve-out, or d) Trump decides he can appropriate, allocate, and authorize spending entirely w/o Congress and the courts don't stop him.
My current odds:
A) 10%
B) 15%
C) 25%
D) 50%
D is the admins current plan.
My current odds:
A) 10%
B) 15%
C) 25%
D) 50%
D is the admins current plan.
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It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
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Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.
Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
October 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.
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When my family immigrated to this country, they did it the right way: falling from the night sky like embers, burrowing into the familiar silicates, slowly extending questing tendrils to sample the complex organic molecules of this new world, learning the logic of the self-replicators, assimilating
October 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
When my family immigrated to this country, they did it the right way: falling from the night sky like embers, burrowing into the familiar silicates, slowly extending questing tendrils to sample the complex organic molecules of this new world, learning the logic of the self-replicators, assimilating
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People who missed the “pre-existing conditions” nightmare have no concept how bad that was.
Being diagnosed with anything might mean no coverage & bankruptcy/death decades later. Pre-cancerous lump removed? No cancer coverage for 7 years. Past heart attack? No private coverage, ever. It was deadly.
Being diagnosed with anything might mean no coverage & bankruptcy/death decades later. Pre-cancerous lump removed? No cancer coverage for 7 years. Past heart attack? No private coverage, ever. It was deadly.
October 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
People who missed the “pre-existing conditions” nightmare have no concept how bad that was.
Being diagnosed with anything might mean no coverage & bankruptcy/death decades later. Pre-cancerous lump removed? No cancer coverage for 7 years. Past heart attack? No private coverage, ever. It was deadly.
Being diagnosed with anything might mean no coverage & bankruptcy/death decades later. Pre-cancerous lump removed? No cancer coverage for 7 years. Past heart attack? No private coverage, ever. It was deadly.
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in its original form the medicaid expansion was basically mandatory and would have very clearly formed the nucleus of a genuinely universal system. and in its neutered form (thanks john roberts) it is still a powerful policy that can be built on and expanded in straightforward ways
October 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
in its original form the medicaid expansion was basically mandatory and would have very clearly formed the nucleus of a genuinely universal system. and in its neutered form (thanks john roberts) it is still a powerful policy that can be built on and expanded in straightforward ways
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I mean this is viscerally upsetting because it's really genuinely him treating the white house like it's his own personal property; he's the king and it's his palace. No other president ever thought like this, even if they were a fucking horrible person, because it goes against our founding creed
I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.
The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
October 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I mean this is viscerally upsetting because it's really genuinely him treating the white house like it's his own personal property; he's the king and it's his palace. No other president ever thought like this, even if they were a fucking horrible person, because it goes against our founding creed
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tbqh traveling the entire country and touching grass every day for two months made me a lot less anxious about where all this is headed because there’s what the phone will tell you and then there’s real life and the gulf is just so profound between their fiction and our reality
October 21, 2025 at 5:33 AM
tbqh traveling the entire country and touching grass every day for two months made me a lot less anxious about where all this is headed because there’s what the phone will tell you and then there’s real life and the gulf is just so profound between their fiction and our reality
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I do think the more you dig into things, the idea that Trump is American Yoon makes more and more sense
October 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I do think the more you dig into things, the idea that Trump is American Yoon makes more and more sense
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love to see it. curious which unions will respond
October 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
love to see it. curious which unions will respond
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Chicago teachers said they’re dealing with traumatized students in underfunded schools — while the Trump administration spends millions to militarize American cities.
Teachers Scrambled After ICE Released Tear Gas Outside a Chicago Elementary School
Chicago teachers said they’re dealing with traumatized students in underfunded schools — while Trump spends millions to militarize American cities.
interc.pt
October 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Chicago teachers said they’re dealing with traumatized students in underfunded schools — while the Trump administration spends millions to militarize American cities.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.