Larry F
@trailrunnr.bsky.social
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NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
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“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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NEW— DC Metropolitan Police just shared a tiny bit more body cam footage from the March US Institute of Peace raid in response to my FOIA lawsuit w/ @rcfp.org
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
NEW— DC Metropolitan Police just shared a tiny bit more body cam footage from the March US Institute of Peace raid in response to my FOIA lawsuit w/ @rcfp.org
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
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A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit
A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit
Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit
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A new book diagnoses a sickness affecting some of America's biggest companies.
A theory why the internet is going down the toilet
A new book diagnoses a sickness affecting some of America's biggest companies.
n.pr
October 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A new book diagnoses a sickness affecting some of America's biggest companies.
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Goodbye Reps. Rob Wittman (R-VA01), Jen Kiggans (R-VA02), and John McGuire (R-VA05)? Yes, please!
bluevirginia.us/2025/10/ny-t... h/t @zacharydonnini.bsky.social
bluevirginia.us/2025/10/ny-t... h/t @zacharydonnini.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Goodbye Reps. Rob Wittman (R-VA01), Jen Kiggans (R-VA02), and John McGuire (R-VA05)? Yes, please!
bluevirginia.us/2025/10/ny-t... h/t @zacharydonnini.bsky.social
bluevirginia.us/2025/10/ny-t... h/t @zacharydonnini.bsky.social
This greatly impacts Ben Clines’ constituency, and of course his statement suggests it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread…
Be sure to stay for the part where the head of the Virginia state Republican party calls the closure of multiple rural health clinics "a win for rural communities”...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/p...
Rural health clinics are starting to close, raising the political risks of Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ | CNN Politics
Two months after President Donald Trump signed his policy megabill into law, a Virginia health care company cited it when it announced the closure of three rural clinics serving tiny communities aroun...
www.cnn.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This greatly impacts Ben Clines’ constituency, and of course his statement suggests it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread…
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The data you depend on – about jobs, weather, health, water and more – is quietly vanishing from federal sites.
Here’s how it’s happening and how you can join efforts to help save it:
buff.ly/I5YFwzR
Here’s how it’s happening and how you can join efforts to help save it:
buff.ly/I5YFwzR
Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it
Detailed data that US government agencies collect and make available has underpinned research about people, medicine, science, crime, jobs, housing, climate and the economy.
buff.ly
August 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The data you depend on – about jobs, weather, health, water and more – is quietly vanishing from federal sites.
Here’s how it’s happening and how you can join efforts to help save it:
buff.ly/I5YFwzR
Here’s how it’s happening and how you can join efforts to help save it:
buff.ly/I5YFwzR
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Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance
1/2
1/2
August 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance
1/2
1/2
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Drawing through Gramsci, Fanon, the mondine, & the Black Panthers to ask what counterhegemony looks like in crisis, Raj Patel's latest offers food as care, care as anti-fascism. Read it. Share it. Teach it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Counter-hegemony and polycrisis I: how to eat and how to think
Using Gramscian and Fanonian theories, this paper examines counter-hegemony through two 20th-century movements: Italian mondine (rice weeders) and the Black Panther Party. These movements met crise...
www.tandfonline.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Drawing through Gramsci, Fanon, the mondine, & the Black Panthers to ask what counterhegemony looks like in crisis, Raj Patel's latest offers food as care, care as anti-fascism. Read it. Share it. Teach it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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NEW — Video shared with me by a bystander shows Customs and Border Patrol violently arresting people yesterday outside a Home Depot in Van Nuys, CA. One man screams in agony as he’s handcuffed, while another is on the ground with two agents on top of him. The agents refuse to identify themselves.
July 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
NEW — Video shared with me by a bystander shows Customs and Border Patrol violently arresting people yesterday outside a Home Depot in Van Nuys, CA. One man screams in agony as he’s handcuffed, while another is on the ground with two agents on top of him. The agents refuse to identify themselves.
Although I don’t often agree with Judge Luttig, the updated “self-evident truths” are valuable and important to recognize, especially, All People…..
The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny
Twenty-seven truths about America, our Democracy and Rule of Law, and our rights, freedoms, and liberties.
open.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Although I don’t often agree with Judge Luttig, the updated “self-evident truths” are valuable and important to recognize, especially, All People…..
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A critical investigation of the private DeSantis donor reaping the most reward from helping build the Everglades concentration camp.
Incredible independent journalism from @floridatrident.bsky.social.
Incredible independent journalism from @floridatrident.bsky.social.
Governor DeSantis is building “Alligator Alcatraz” with little oversight – and this big campaign donor is set to reap millions from it
As the large commercial trucks roar one after another onto the airfield property in the Everglades where a massive detention camp for immigrants is being
floridatrident.org
July 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A critical investigation of the private DeSantis donor reaping the most reward from helping build the Everglades concentration camp.
Incredible independent journalism from @floridatrident.bsky.social.
Incredible independent journalism from @floridatrident.bsky.social.
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NEW: Gov. Youngkin doubles down on ICE courthouse raids in Virginia, saying undocumented immigrants “should be arrested” — even after traffic court sweeps detained people with no criminal record.
“It’s common sense,” he tells me.
virginiamercury.com/2025/07/02/t...
“It’s common sense,” he tells me.
virginiamercury.com/2025/07/02/t...
'They should be arrested': Youngkin holds firm on support for ICE raids at Virginia courthouses • Virginia Mercury
Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Wednesday doubled down on the controversial use of courthouse arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, brushing off criticism that some of the individuals ...
virginiamercury.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
NEW: Gov. Youngkin doubles down on ICE courthouse raids in Virginia, saying undocumented immigrants “should be arrested” — even after traffic court sweeps detained people with no criminal record.
“It’s common sense,” he tells me.
virginiamercury.com/2025/07/02/t...
“It’s common sense,” he tells me.
virginiamercury.com/2025/07/02/t...
Check out this data to see how many Virginia’s, by Congressional District, may soon lose access to healthcare
acasignups.net/cd-pie-chart...
acasignups.net/cd-pie-chart...
House District Enrollment: Virginia (now w/high-res PDFs!)
Over the past couple of months I've compiled a master spreadsheet breaking out enrollment in ACA plans (Qualified Health Plans & Basic Health Plans), Medicaid/CHIP coverage (both traditional & via ACA...
acasignups.net
July 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Check out this data to see how many Virginia’s, by Congressional District, may soon lose access to healthcare
acasignups.net/cd-pie-chart...
acasignups.net/cd-pie-chart...
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here’s the moment LASD advanced on protestors with horses and used flash-bangs as we reported live yesterday. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-vi...
NBC's Jacob Soboroff reports from the Los Angeles protests as law enforcement fires flash bangs
NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff was reporting on the ground in Los Angeles when law enforcement started using crowd control tactics against protesters, including firing flash bangs. Soboroff spe...
www.msnbc.com
June 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
here’s the moment LASD advanced on protestors with horses and used flash-bangs as we reported live yesterday. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-vi...
Terrifying and oh so real! vimeo.com/1091012065
TALKING HEADS PSYCHO KILLER
This is "TALKING HEADS PSYCHO KILLER" by Mike Mills on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
vimeo.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Terrifying and oh so real! vimeo.com/1091012065
Well, for the Orioles, one inning after Hyde’s firing, they’re down 6-0 (thanks Kyle Gibson) to the Nats. Clearly it hasn’t been completely Hyde’s fault. www.si.com/mlb/brandon-...
Brandon Hyde Pays the Price for Orioles Front Office’s Inactivity
Baltimore, MLB’s most disappointing club of the year, fired its manager Saturday. But these Orioles are beyond saving this season.
www.si.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Well, for the Orioles, one inning after Hyde’s firing, they’re down 6-0 (thanks Kyle Gibson) to the Nats. Clearly it hasn’t been completely Hyde’s fault. www.si.com/mlb/brandon-...
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True Springsteen fans know his values and his politics. But when he named this "The Land Of Hope And Dreams" tour, we should have been prepared for the angry, soulful preaching he did in Manchester: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
This Is the Bruce We’ve Been Waiting For
Springsteen’s fans knew his politics, but he didn’t always show them off. Now he’s jumped out of the gate to stand against “dangerous times in my home.” Let freedom ring.
www.thenation.com
May 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
True Springsteen fans know his values and his politics. But when he named this "The Land Of Hope And Dreams" tour, we should have been prepared for the angry, soulful preaching he did in Manchester: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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I took my malaise about the Orioles and wrote 5,000 words about how technology, AI, simulations, and "expected stats" have changed what it's like to be a baseball fan:
www.404media.co/the-simulati...
www.404media.co/the-simulati...
The Simulation Says the Orioles Should Be Good
AI, simulations, and technology have revolutionized not just how baseball is played and managed, but how we experience it, too.
www.404media.co
May 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I took my malaise about the Orioles and wrote 5,000 words about how technology, AI, simulations, and "expected stats" have changed what it's like to be a baseball fan:
www.404media.co/the-simulati...
www.404media.co/the-simulati...
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ICYMI, I wrote about Hegeseth's banning of White Fragility at the Naval Academy as an ironic confirmation of the embattled book's thesis for @liberalcurrents.com.
He's a fragile man, scared of ideas, and mistakes bluster for strength.
www.liberalcurrents.com/white-fragil...
He's a fragile man, scared of ideas, and mistakes bluster for strength.
www.liberalcurrents.com/white-fragil...
White Fragility Comes to the Naval Academy
Treating America’s soldiers and sailors like scared children, too delicate to read a history of lynching, shows the administration’s deep contempt for them.
www.liberalcurrents.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
ICYMI, I wrote about Hegeseth's banning of White Fragility at the Naval Academy as an ironic confirmation of the embattled book's thesis for @liberalcurrents.com.
He's a fragile man, scared of ideas, and mistakes bluster for strength.
www.liberalcurrents.com/white-fragil...
He's a fragile man, scared of ideas, and mistakes bluster for strength.
www.liberalcurrents.com/white-fragil...
“When we refuse to cooperate with efforts that forsake our values, we are already united in a moral struggle.”
This Is Our Moral Moment
A new, historic wave of mass movement in American public life begins the moment we recognize that we are already united by a moral crisis.
We invite you to us in committing to move forward together, n...
open.substack.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
“When we refuse to cooperate with efforts that forsake our values, we are already united in a moral struggle.”
Libraries across the country began receiving official notices from the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services terminating their grants, effective April 1, 2025.
EveryLibrary Condemns the Trump Administration's Termination of IMLS Grants as an Attack on Libraries, Museums, and Archives Everywhere.
State Library Agencies and other grant recipients across the country began receiving official notices from the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services terminating their grants,...
www.everylibrary.org
April 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Libraries across the country began receiving official notices from the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services terminating their grants, effective April 1, 2025.
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
