@sjcares.bsky.social
Reposted
This young man has it exactly right.
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This young man has it exactly right.
Reposted
I thought, 'no way the BBC article could state that, that must be an exaggeration' and lo and behold:
'The new instructions also deem countries that subsidise abortion or facilitate mass migration as infringing on human rights.'
'The new instructions also deem countries that subsidise abortion or facilitate mass migration as infringing on human rights.'
November 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I thought, 'no way the BBC article could state that, that must be an exaggeration' and lo and behold:
'The new instructions also deem countries that subsidise abortion or facilitate mass migration as infringing on human rights.'
'The new instructions also deem countries that subsidise abortion or facilitate mass migration as infringing on human rights.'
Reposted
And all of this connects directly to the discussion here.
Right now, NIH institute directors are civil servants and experienced, top-expert scientists. That is the way NIH has run for decades.
It looks like Trump and Vought are planning to politicize those positions.
Right now, NIH institute directors are civil servants and experienced, top-expert scientists. That is the way NIH has run for decades.
It looks like Trump and Vought are planning to politicize those positions.
A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
November 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
And all of this connects directly to the discussion here.
Right now, NIH institute directors are civil servants and experienced, top-expert scientists. That is the way NIH has run for decades.
It looks like Trump and Vought are planning to politicize those positions.
Right now, NIH institute directors are civil servants and experienced, top-expert scientists. That is the way NIH has run for decades.
It looks like Trump and Vought are planning to politicize those positions.
Reposted
It was never about illegal immigration. It was about immigration.
"an email from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Thursday canceled 'all local Tompkins County scheduled naturalization ceremonies' and announced that none would be held 'until further notice.'...no reasoning had been given in the letter."
ithacavoice.org/2025/11/feds...
ithacavoice.org/2025/11/feds...
Feds tell county to cease naturalization ceremonies - The Ithaca Voice
ITHACA, N.Y. — Tompkins County officials received a directive from federal immigration officials to cease all local naturalization ceremonies. Naturalization ceremonies are typically held throughout t...
ithacavoice.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It was never about illegal immigration. It was about immigration.
Reposted
Past is prologue.
In 1933, during the Great Depression, a group of wealthy businessmen tried to overthrow the US government and install a fascist dictator to protect their own interests.
And everything that led to it feels way too familiar right now.
This is not a history lesson, it’s a warning.
In 1933, during the Great Depression, a group of wealthy businessmen tried to overthrow the US government and install a fascist dictator to protect their own interests.
And everything that led to it feels way too familiar right now.
This is not a history lesson, it’s a warning.
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Past is prologue.
In 1933, during the Great Depression, a group of wealthy businessmen tried to overthrow the US government and install a fascist dictator to protect their own interests.
And everything that led to it feels way too familiar right now.
This is not a history lesson, it’s a warning.
In 1933, during the Great Depression, a group of wealthy businessmen tried to overthrow the US government and install a fascist dictator to protect their own interests.
And everything that led to it feels way too familiar right now.
This is not a history lesson, it’s a warning.
Reposted
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
I blame capitalism for everything terrible in our country. Capitalism constantly propagandizes us to not Give a shit about each other because it teaches us to see our fellow countrymen as potential competitors instead of people.
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I blame capitalism for everything terrible in our country. Capitalism constantly propagandizes us to not Give a shit about each other because it teaches us to see our fellow countrymen as potential competitors instead of people.
Reposted
MacCALLUM: You're implying that Trump might do something they wouldn't want to uphold. What are you talking about?
CROW: The protests at Lafayette Square where he said, 'Can't you just shoot them in the legs'
MacCALLUM: That's not an order. That's a comment
CROW: That's coming from the president
CROW: The protests at Lafayette Square where he said, 'Can't you just shoot them in the legs'
MacCALLUM: That's not an order. That's a comment
CROW: That's coming from the president
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
MacCALLUM: You're implying that Trump might do something they wouldn't want to uphold. What are you talking about?
CROW: The protests at Lafayette Square where he said, 'Can't you just shoot them in the legs'
MacCALLUM: That's not an order. That's a comment
CROW: That's coming from the president
CROW: The protests at Lafayette Square where he said, 'Can't you just shoot them in the legs'
MacCALLUM: That's not an order. That's a comment
CROW: That's coming from the president
Reposted
I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.
Reposted
If we don't rapidly phase out fossil fuels, we can say goodbye to coral reefs, the Greenland and Antarctic icesheets, and permafrost. The results will not be pretty.
3 massive changes you'll see as the climate careens toward tipping points
Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun.
www.npr.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
If we don't rapidly phase out fossil fuels, we can say goodbye to coral reefs, the Greenland and Antarctic icesheets, and permafrost. The results will not be pretty.
He must have finished redacting them.
In a reversal, President Trump calls on House Republicans to support the release of the Epstein files in this week’s expected vote.
Trump says House Republicans should vote to release Epstein files: 'We have nothing to hide'
President Donald Trump's statement comes as the House is set to vote on the files this week after a discharge petition forces a floor vote.
nbcnews.to
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
He must have finished redacting them.
Reposted
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Reposted
The State Department is required to publish “a thorough, accurate, and reliable” history of U.S. foreign policy within 30 years of the events.
But it deleted documents about the risk of inadvertent nuclear war. https://wapo.st/49TiRY4
But it deleted documents about the risk of inadvertent nuclear war. https://wapo.st/49TiRY4
November 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The State Department is required to publish “a thorough, accurate, and reliable” history of U.S. foreign policy within 30 years of the events.
But it deleted documents about the risk of inadvertent nuclear war. https://wapo.st/49TiRY4
But it deleted documents about the risk of inadvertent nuclear war. https://wapo.st/49TiRY4
Reposted
What Pete says.
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
What Pete says.
Reposted
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
Reposted
This is absurd and plainly illegal. The courts should reject this fringe theory.
But the real news here is Trump will do anything to try to kill an agency that has returned more than $21 billion to scammed Americans, but he'll do nothing to lower costs for American families.
But the real news here is Trump will do anything to try to kill an agency that has returned more than $21 billion to scammed Americans, but he'll do nothing to lower costs for American families.
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is absurd and plainly illegal. The courts should reject this fringe theory.
But the real news here is Trump will do anything to try to kill an agency that has returned more than $21 billion to scammed Americans, but he'll do nothing to lower costs for American families.
But the real news here is Trump will do anything to try to kill an agency that has returned more than $21 billion to scammed Americans, but he'll do nothing to lower costs for American families.
Reposted
This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here.
bsky.app/profile/mand...
bsky.app/profile/mand...
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here.
bsky.app/profile/mand...
bsky.app/profile/mand...
Reposted
No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
“Standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She asks ‘What’s the point of standards?’
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
Reposted
Senate Dems have nothing but contempt for their own voters, them blame us for being disgusted and outraged.
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Senate Dems have nothing but contempt for their own voters, them blame us for being disgusted and outraged.
Reposted
So we protect the airlines, but not hungry children depending on SNAP?
F*ck this country.
F*ck this country.
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
So we protect the airlines, but not hungry children depending on SNAP?
F*ck this country.
F*ck this country.
Reposted
Without ACA subsidies, the entire last month and change was a completely unnecessary and cruel waste of time. Either stand up for something or get out of the way and let someone else do the job of governing.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Without ACA subsidies, the entire last month and change was a completely unnecessary and cruel waste of time. Either stand up for something or get out of the way and let someone else do the job of governing.
Reposted
So after all of this, the Dems got a deal that is just a promise of a vote on ACA subsidies in December that isn't guaranteed to pass. Absolute chickenshit stuff from senate Democrats. They couldn't even get the thing they were asking for.
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
So after all of this, the Dems got a deal that is just a promise of a vote on ACA subsidies in December that isn't guaranteed to pass. Absolute chickenshit stuff from senate Democrats. They couldn't even get the thing they were asking for.
Reposted
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
Reposted
if your enemies are offering starvation OR disease OR both, your job is to tell them to go fuck themselves and demand neither. i will never believe any rationale otherwise.
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
if your enemies are offering starvation OR disease OR both, your job is to tell them to go fuck themselves and demand neither. i will never believe any rationale otherwise.
Reposted
THAT IS ALREADY A LAW. TRUMP IS THE PRESIDENT WHO SIGNED THAT LAW. YOU ARE A FUCKING NEWS REPORTER
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
THAT IS ALREADY A LAW. TRUMP IS THE PRESIDENT WHO SIGNED THAT LAW. YOU ARE A FUCKING NEWS REPORTER