A Thousand Autumns
@wellsbe.bsky.social
Worker, parent, hobbyist.
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
If you aren’t white, you aren’t safe in this country. Listen to this young man, a US Citizen, describe how ICE took him.
Yet another person whose Constitutional rights (4th and 5th amendments) were violated in a #KavanaughStop.
#UnSupremeCourt
#NoKings
youtu.be/_p7cMCd-vC0?...
Yet another person whose Constitutional rights (4th and 5th amendments) were violated in a #KavanaughStop.
#UnSupremeCourt
#NoKings
youtu.be/_p7cMCd-vC0?...
Police Chief O’Hara and Mayor Frey standing with American citizen Mobashir
YouTube video by Amy Klobuchar
youtu.be
December 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
If you aren’t white, you aren’t safe in this country. Listen to this young man, a US Citizen, describe how ICE took him.
Yet another person whose Constitutional rights (4th and 5th amendments) were violated in a #KavanaughStop.
#UnSupremeCourt
#NoKings
youtu.be/_p7cMCd-vC0?...
Yet another person whose Constitutional rights (4th and 5th amendments) were violated in a #KavanaughStop.
#UnSupremeCourt
#NoKings
youtu.be/_p7cMCd-vC0?...
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
MORE OFFICIAL FONT UPDATES www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
December 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
MORE OFFICIAL FONT UPDATES www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
The Trump administration is uniquely cruel and hypocritical in its treatment of coal miners, but I want people to understand that health agencies have been warning about the danger of silica exposure since the 1970s. SO many people—Dems included—have let these workers down and left them to suffer.
December 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The Trump administration is uniquely cruel and hypocritical in its treatment of coal miners, but I want people to understand that health agencies have been warning about the danger of silica exposure since the 1970s. SO many people—Dems included—have let these workers down and left them to suffer.
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
While these states have laws against discrimination, those laws are useless if they are not enforced, and it appears state AGs have completely abandoned transgender people even in blue states while institutions capitulate to Trump.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/suing-trum...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/suing-trum...
Suing Trump Isn't Enough: Blue State AGs Must Enforce State Laws Protecting Trans People
Private entities overcomplying with Trump executive orders and targeting transgender people must not be given free passes to do so by blue states.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
While these states have laws against discrimination, those laws are useless if they are not enforced, and it appears state AGs have completely abandoned transgender people even in blue states while institutions capitulate to Trump.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/suing-trum...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/suing-trum...
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
When people say "Newsom is electable" what they mean is that he is palatably conservative enough for the corporations that fund Republicans to fund him, for the same reasons, and he is palatably covertly racist enough to appeal to white supremacists.
December 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
When people say "Newsom is electable" what they mean is that he is palatably conservative enough for the corporations that fund Republicans to fund him, for the same reasons, and he is palatably covertly racist enough to appeal to white supremacists.
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
Gender-affirming care saves lives
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Gender-affirming care saves lives
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
Again it’s not good that the most prominent leaders of the party keep insisting it’s a trap to talk about “identity” when the Trump administration is pushing white supremacy.
Speaking at a Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the Democratic Party for failing to reach everyday Americans, arguing that it “got sucked in” to a conversation about identity. #TribFest25
Pete Buttigieg critiques Democrats for focus on identity
The former U.S. transportation secretary said the Democratic Party should focus more on issues gripping the country, such as health care and housing affordability.
www.texastribune.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Again it’s not good that the most prominent leaders of the party keep insisting it’s a trap to talk about “identity” when the Trump administration is pushing white supremacy.
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
Employer plan, but going from $630/month to $980/month for me and my spouse ☹️
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Employer plan, but going from $630/month to $980/month for me and my spouse ☹️
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
10/10 take. No notes.
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
Bad AI supplanting human expertise is an issue that transcends any one field, but man—not many people on earth whose knowledge and dedication deserves respect like LIBRARIANS.
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Bad AI supplanting human expertise is an issue that transcends any one field, but man—not many people on earth whose knowledge and dedication deserves respect like LIBRARIANS.
Deferral and finance schemes do not actually help mitigate climate change.
"Natural CO2 removal is increasingly being claimed as anthropogenic climate mitigation. This misrepresentation is already prevalent for forests and coastal ecosystems; there is now the risk of the error reoccurring for open-ocean CO2 uptake via the biological carbon pump."\
🌊
rdcu.be/eOooz
🌊
rdcu.be/eOooz
Natural carbon uptake by ocean biology will not deliver credible carbon credits
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - Natural CO2 removal is increasingly being claimed as anthropogenic climate mitigation. This misrepresentation is already prevalent for forests and coastal...
rdcu.be
November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Deferral and finance schemes do not actually help mitigate climate change.
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
From Evan: it's a huge night of hope for the trans community. The Republicans went all in on anti-trans ads in multiple races and so far there's no sign it got them anything.
Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.
Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.
November 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
Keep the No Kings momentum going today by supporting your neighbors as government fails in real time. There won't be a SNAP distribution in November. People won't be able to buy groceries.
So buy someone groceries. Stock your community fridge/shelf, or start one. And donate cash to a food bank.
So buy someone groceries. Stock your community fridge/shelf, or start one. And donate cash to a food bank.
October 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Keep the No Kings momentum going today by supporting your neighbors as government fails in real time. There won't be a SNAP distribution in November. People won't be able to buy groceries.
So buy someone groceries. Stock your community fridge/shelf, or start one. And donate cash to a food bank.
So buy someone groceries. Stock your community fridge/shelf, or start one. And donate cash to a food bank.
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
October 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
Reposted by A Thousand Autumns
Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.
This is the official US response to Petro's comments.
This is the official US response to Petro's comments.
October 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.