Blas Kisić
@blaskisic.bsky.social
Just passing through, hoping to leave this place a bit better than I found it…
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Today is the day of the special election to fill the seat of former MN State Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot by a right-wing extremist.
September 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Today is the day of the special election to fill the seat of former MN State Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot by a right-wing extremist.
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Kroger will lay off ~1,000 employees.
In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks – which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay.
Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024.
Textbook corporate greed.
In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks – which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay.
Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024.
Textbook corporate greed.
September 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Kroger will lay off ~1,000 employees.
In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks – which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay.
Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024.
Textbook corporate greed.
In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks – which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay.
Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024.
Textbook corporate greed.
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Millions of dollars worth of contraceptives destined for low-income countries were destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration.
$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials
The birth control pills, IUDs and hormonal implants were purchased by U.S.A.I.D. for women in low-income countries. They had been in limbo in a Belgian warehouse after the U.S. cut much of its foreign aid.
nyti.ms
September 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Millions of dollars worth of contraceptives destined for low-income countries were destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration.
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NEW: Texas Says It’s Strict on Oil Field Emissions. New Data Shows It’s Not. by @psskow.bsky.social and Mark Olalde @insideclimatenews.org @propublica.org
Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells.
The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere.
www.propublica.org
September 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
NEW: Texas Says It’s Strict on Oil Field Emissions. New Data Shows It’s Not. by @psskow.bsky.social and Mark Olalde @insideclimatenews.org @propublica.org
The pederasts keep covering for each other…
🚨 BREAKING: I just caught several agencies in an open lie about Tom Alexandrovich, the Israeli pedo arrested in Las Vegas.
What I can't fully figure out is why they are telling this lie. I only have one real conclusion and will share it here.
www.thenorthstar.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The pederasts keep covering for each other…
If you’re a crier, maybe it’s better that you read this in private
What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen
Over the past four months, a photojournalist documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. CECOT left a mark on the men, t...
www.propublica.org
August 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
If you’re a crier, maybe it’s better that you read this in private
This is how we get to the Great Depression… again.
Lovely.
Lovely.
CEO pay at top US companies accelerates at fastest pace in four years on.ft.com/4oyBhSS
CEO pay at top US companies accelerates at fastest pace in four years
Median package for S&P 500 bosses was $19mn in 2024, pay advisory calculates
on.ft.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This is how we get to the Great Depression… again.
Lovely.
Lovely.
I wish I were making this up…
Commentary: Trump wants NASA to burn a crucial satellite to cinders, killing research into climate change
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatories have produced groundbreaking data about global warming and crop health. Trump wants the observatories destroyed by burning them up in the atmosphere — but why?
www.latimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I wish I were making this up…
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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
August 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
“Trump was subdued and unsmiling in the joint appearance before the U.S. and Russian press, though he did look over with an approving look to Putin after the Russian president said the war with Ukraine would not have happened if he had been in office.”
He thinks that’s a flattering comment. Unreal.
He thinks that’s a flattering comment. Unreal.
August 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
“Trump was subdued and unsmiling in the joint appearance before the U.S. and Russian press, though he did look over with an approving look to Putin after the Russian president said the war with Ukraine would not have happened if he had been in office.”
He thinks that’s a flattering comment. Unreal.
He thinks that’s a flattering comment. Unreal.
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Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.
As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
With @texastribune.org
As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
With @texastribune.org
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers
Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney…
www.propublica.org
August 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.
As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
With @texastribune.org
As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
With @texastribune.org
Great. Now autotune has pervaded Muzak in waiting rooms. Shoot me now.
August 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Great. Now autotune has pervaded Muzak in waiting rooms. Shoot me now.
The voice of reason. How refreshing.
Opinion | Geometry Solves Gerrymandering
www.nytimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The voice of reason. How refreshing.
I only hope to be alive when all these traitors –from the monster all the way down to the last captain urging his soldiers to fill out their quotas– are finally brought to justice, so I can witness it in living color.
This leaked memo exposes an agenda so awful even Trump wants it kept secret
After a couple of wannabe carjackers punched out the DOGE operative known as “Big Balls” in DC, Trump used it as an excuse to threaten to take over the city and bring in the National Guard to police i...
www.rawstory.com
August 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I only hope to be alive when all these traitors –from the monster all the way down to the last captain urging his soldiers to fill out their quotas– are finally brought to justice, so I can witness it in living color.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Cameron Stracher wrote contracts to effectively bury stories on Donald Trump in 2015 and 2016. “I believed I had a higher duty to represent my client zealously and to protect the tabloid’s First Amendment rights,” he says, adding: “I wonder whether I was kidding myself.”
Cameron Stracher wrote contracts to effectively bury stories on Donald Trump in 2015 and 2016. “I believed I had a higher duty to represent my client zealously and to protect the tabloid’s First Amendment rights,” he says, adding: “I wonder whether I was kidding myself.”
Opinion | I Helped Bury Stories About Trump. I Regret It.
What if those two unpublished National Enquirer stories had run?
nyti.ms
August 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Cameron Stracher wrote contracts to effectively bury stories on Donald Trump in 2015 and 2016. “I believed I had a higher duty to represent my client zealously and to protect the tabloid’s First Amendment rights,” he says, adding: “I wonder whether I was kidding myself.”
Cameron Stracher wrote contracts to effectively bury stories on Donald Trump in 2015 and 2016. “I believed I had a higher duty to represent my client zealously and to protect the tabloid’s First Amendment rights,” he says, adding: “I wonder whether I was kidding myself.”
I’m sick of powerful people behaving as petulant children…
'Sick': JD Vance draws bipartisan outrage after demanding water level adjustment for kayaking trip
When Vice President JD Vance turned 41 on Saturday, August 2, he celebrated with a family boating trip in his native Ohio. And according to reporting in The Guardian and later, the Daily Beast, Vance ...
www.alternet.org
August 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I’m sick of powerful people behaving as petulant children…
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The Freedom of the Press Foundation is turning the tables on Brendan Carr, filing a complaint to investigate and potentially disbar the FCC chairman over his moves to punish Donald Trump's media critics.
More in Status: www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...
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August 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The Freedom of the Press Foundation is turning the tables on Brendan Carr, filing a complaint to investigate and potentially disbar the FCC chairman over his moves to punish Donald Trump's media critics.
More in Status: www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...
More in Status: www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...
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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
August 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
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Lots of myths about tipping, thanks to unethical lobbying.
“No Tax on Tips” Is an Industry Plant
Trump’s “populist” policy is backed by the National Restaurant Association—probably because it won’t stop establishments from paying servers below the minimum wage.
www.newyorker.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Lots of myths about tipping, thanks to unethical lobbying.
There doesn’t seem to be a single person in charge in this administration who is sincerely concerned about the welfare and well-being of its constituents.
The institutions were supposed to protect us from this clusterfuck. Nope. And it will take years to undo this.
The institutions were supposed to protect us from this clusterfuck. Nope. And it will take years to undo this.
Under RFK Jr, CDC skips study on vaccination rates, quietly posts data on drop
Vaccination rates fell once again as nonmedical exemptions hit a new high.
arstechnica.com
August 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
There doesn’t seem to be a single person in charge in this administration who is sincerely concerned about the welfare and well-being of its constituents.
The institutions were supposed to protect us from this clusterfuck. Nope. And it will take years to undo this.
The institutions were supposed to protect us from this clusterfuck. Nope. And it will take years to undo this.
Of the GOP truly cared for its voters, it would clap back against Trump and his Project 2025 cronies, and start working for THE PEOPLE.
'You're not the right fit for us anymore': GOP lawmaker runs into buzzsaw at town hall
Despite warnings from the House GOP leadership to avoid holding town halls during the summer break, Rep. Bryan Stiel (R-WI) decided to give it a shot on Thursday night — and was promptly showered with...
www.rawstory.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Of the GOP truly cared for its voters, it would clap back against Trump and his Project 2025 cronies, and start working for THE PEOPLE.
Where are the principled Republicans who will put a stop to this?!
A D.O.J. Whistleblower Speaks Out — The Daily
Warning: This episode contains strong language. An explosive whistle-blower report claims that the Justice Department is asking government lawyers to lie to the courts, and that this has forced career...
overcast.fm
July 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Where are the principled Republicans who will put a stop to this?!
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This is who Trump shipped to a Salvadoran dungeon:
An event planner
A coal miner
An Uber driver
Tortilla maker
Barber
DoorDashers
Soccer coaches
Furniture-maker
Car washers
Taxi drivers
HVAC techs
Auto parts worker
Tire plant worker
and 240 more...
projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
An event planner
A coal miner
An Uber driver
Tortilla maker
Barber
DoorDashers
Soccer coaches
Furniture-maker
Car washers
Taxi drivers
HVAC techs
Auto parts worker
Tire plant worker
and 240 more...
projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison
On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...
projects.propublica.org
July 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This is who Trump shipped to a Salvadoran dungeon:
An event planner
A coal miner
An Uber driver
Tortilla maker
Barber
DoorDashers
Soccer coaches
Furniture-maker
Car washers
Taxi drivers
HVAC techs
Auto parts worker
Tire plant worker
and 240 more...
projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
An event planner
A coal miner
An Uber driver
Tortilla maker
Barber
DoorDashers
Soccer coaches
Furniture-maker
Car washers
Taxi drivers
HVAC techs
Auto parts worker
Tire plant worker
and 240 more...
projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...