Debra Glagola
daglagl.bsky.social
Debra Glagola
@daglagl.bsky.social
Spirit in the material world
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When Bezos changed the Washington Post's editorial board standards to align with “personal liberties and free markets,” he meant his own liberty to become even richer and more powerful, as the rest of America slides into worse economic insecurity and fear.
The Washington Post editorial board railed against a wealth tax without noting its owner, Jeff Bezos, stands to benefit more from its tax policy prescriptions than nearly anyone else on the planet.

Read the full article about how the Post serves Bezos's interests: zeteo.com/p/washington...
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Kagan dissent in Texas gerrymandering case: "Today’s order disserves millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to new districts based on their race...Race provided the excuse for the partisan effort. And yet more critically, race provided the key means of implementing it."
December 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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While unionized Starbucks workers are on strike for a fair contract, don’t cross the picket line!

Show solidarity — like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders.

Listen to what they had to say.
December 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.

Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.

The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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a lot of people have elaborate ideas about how house districting could be reformed, up to and including proportional representation, but it would be interesting to see the fallout if congress just passed a very short law saying that partisan gerrymanders are illegal
December 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Ever wonder why the "too-many-immigrants" president is literally recruiting white South African refugees?
Or why Elon Musk & the MAGAminion are whining about the birth rate
Or why the US suddenly realized mass incarceration won't fix the drug problem?

Here's a theory
The Great Replacement Theory Is Now Our National Policy
In a series of unapologetically racist events this week, the far-right conspiracy theory reached its final boss status.
dlvr.it
December 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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🚨 Rep. Rob Bresnahan was recently exposed for getting rid of $130,000 in stocks from four Medicaid providers before voting for huge cuts to the program.

But that wasn't the first time this prolific stock trader sold out his constituents in #PA08. 🧵
December 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
WTAF, ICE?
#GVerse #Veterans
US Citizen detained by ICE: Clearly it didn't matter that I was a citizen, a veteran, or identified who I was. They ignored everything I said. They just broke my window and dragged me out. I let them know I was a veteran, I wasn't doing anything wrong, just trying to get to work.
December 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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#GVerse #Veterans
US Citizen detained by ICE: Clearly it didn't matter that I was a citizen, a veteran, or identified who I was. They ignored everything I said. They just broke my window and dragged me out. I let them know I was a veteran, I wasn't doing anything wrong, just trying to get to work.
December 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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SCOTUS conservative justices upholding Texas gerrymander is yet another example of how Roberts court has greenlit the many undemocratic schemes of Trump and his party

They’ve now ruled for Trump and his allies in 90 percent of shadow docket opinions www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Roberts court just helped Trump rig the midterms
The Supreme Court reinstated the Trump-inspired congressional map in Texas.
www.motherjones.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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I will be honest. I didn't think we'd get to the "Arguing About Whether Murder Is Wrong" stage quite this fast
December 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed.

Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by the system?

People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system.
December 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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#Trump pardoned Tim Leiweke — who his own DOJ indicted in July for rigging a public university’s arena bid—

It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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For the #ArtAdventCalendar – a grouchy great horned owl trying to simultaneously sleep and soak sun. I quickly left it be. #birds
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
robertreich.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company.

This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone comp
popular.info
December 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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This is so messed up… Amnesty International reports that detainees at Alligator Alcatraz (and at another facility, Krome North Service Processing Center) describe being placed in a “punishment box,” a cage-like structure in the yard so cramped that people could not sit, lie down, or
December 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.

Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.

Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Trump’s USDA is threatening to withhold food stamp funding for 20 Democrat-controlled states if they don’t share recipients’ sensitive personal data.

Yes: Trump is weaponizing hunger against millions of Americans, including children, to score cheap political points.

The cruelty is endless.
December 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The "horns" of a great horned owl are actually tufts of feathers called plumicorns.

When juveniles start to develop their plumicorns, they often come in lopsided.

You can see the full-res preview here: laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/a-y...

#owls #birds #nature
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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"It’s difficult to conceive of a cohesive and robust Republican Party emerging out of the ruins being wrought by Trump. And considering the untold damage the party has done to the nation over the past 25 years, perhaps that's for the better."
Republicans in the era of Late Trumpism
The end is in sight — and it's not pretty for the GOP.
www.publicnotice.co
December 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.

But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.

The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM