@stpauldeb.bsky.social
Pinned
Hitting me hard. In Vienna my grandmother hid my mother from Russian soldiers known for raping and worse during the occupation, after the Nazis did the same in WWII. My grandfather had been forced to flee to Poland because he refused to join the Nazi party. He walked back a skeleton after the war.
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I'll bet there is some dirt on Peter Thiel
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick calls Epstein "the greatest blackmailer ever"
www.salon.com/2025/10/05/t...
I'll bet there is some dirt on Peter Thiel
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick calls Epstein "the greatest blackmailer ever"
www.salon.com/2025/10/05/t...
November 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Time to get to know our local coffee shops!
Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract
*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***
Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy
*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***
Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Time to get to know our local coffee shops!
November 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
It CAN be done.
#Renewables will grow faster than any major energy source in the next decade, according to the world’s #energy watchdog, making the transition away from #fossil fuels “inevitable”, despite a green backlash in the US and parts of Europe
Supply boom in cheaper renewables will seal end of fossil fuel era, says IEA
Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It CAN be done.
Absolutely agree!
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Absolutely agree!
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Oh whoa!
As Karoline Leavitt concludes her press briefing and walks off, @andrewfeinberg.com asks: "What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"
She did not respond.
She did not respond.
November 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“Democratic U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva is sworn in by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at the U.S. Capitol. Grijalva won a special election to replace her late father on September 23, but was not seated as a member of Congress until the end of the government shutdown.”
@gettyimages.com #AZ07
@gettyimages.com #AZ07
November 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
“For the first time since 1948, the "household survey," from which the unemployment rate is calculated, was not carried out last month, according to Claudia Sahm, chief economist at New Century Advisors”
Authoritarian blindness that leaves an information void that can be filled with lies or spin.
Authoritarian blindness that leaves an information void that can be filled with lies or spin.
www.reuters.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Let’s make this prediction come true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Let’s make this prediction come true.
Louder!
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 11:28 PM
Louder!
Release Epstein Files bsky.app/profile/chri...
#Trump #EpsteinFiles #GhislaineMaxwell #Maxwell
👉 "I Wish Her Well!" - Trump to child sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, partner of Jeffrey Epstein (2020) With follow-up Interview by AXIOS
👉 "I Wish Her Well!" - Trump to child sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, partner of Jeffrey Epstein (2020) With follow-up Interview by AXIOS
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A normal reaction to today's news, dear Nancy, would be to express shock and horror at the significant possibility that the president of the United States is a child molester.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Anyone wonder why men abuse girls and women half their age (or more)? Will it ever change?
Targeted advertising for people who think we need to be in the office more than once a week.
November 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Anyone wonder why men abuse girls and women half their age (or more)? Will it ever change?
The Epstein saga is the biggest political cover-up in modern history.
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The fact that Trump is calling Mace and Boebert today pleading with them to remove their names from the Epstein petition at the last minute tells you everything you need to know about how incriminating the info in the files is to him and his cronies.
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
bizarrely this article does not simply directly answer the question raised in the headline (spooling it over several subsections that start many paragraphs in) but the answer is: Colombia, the UK, and the Netherlands
time.com/7333231/coun...
time.com/7333231/coun...
Which Countries Have Stopped Sharing Intelligence With U.S.?
Some countries have now suspended—or curtailed—their intelligence sharing with the U.S. Here's what to know.
time.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
November 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
“What is new is the confluence of three trends:
The sheer scale of wealth for the richest.
The untethering of compensation from performance.
The amount of harm these figures are willing to inflict on society.
All three are rising to a dangerously high tide.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
The sheer scale of wealth for the richest.
The untethering of compensation from performance.
The amount of harm these figures are willing to inflict on society.
All three are rising to a dangerously high tide.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Welcome to Tesla Capitalism
Or: JVL explains why Americans are toying with socialism.
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
How to raise an Incel.
Shitty parenting from the Silicon Valley set. Never occurred to me to tell my math gifted son that he could be an asshole since he was good with numbers.
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
How to raise an Incel.
Cowardice And Capitulation At Cornell
On Friday it was announced that my alma mater, Cornell, had caved to the Trump administration and agreed to a “deal” the federal government had offered them to get back the funding it had illegally cut off from Cornell as part of its authoritarian efforts to…
On Friday it was announced that my alma mater, Cornell, had caved to the Trump administration and agreed to a “deal” the federal government had offered them to get back the funding it had illegally cut off from Cornell as part of its authoritarian efforts to…
Cowardice And Capitulation At Cornell
On Friday it was announced that my alma mater, Cornell, had caved to the Trump administration and agreed to a “deal” the federal government had offered them to get back the funding it had illegally cut off from Cornell as part of its authoritarian efforts to bully top universities into submission. This capitulation came just days after the American electorate showed that…
www.techdirt.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Reality check.
The market for health care isn’t at all like the market for apples or oranges. It’s life-and-death, with info gaps, emergencies, and insurance market failures. That’s why we regulate and subsidize. Pretending the market works isn't a plan, just as a “plan in 2 weeks” isn’t a plan.
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Reality check.