Bret McCabe
@bretmcbret.bsky.social
Goddess Arika Casebolt's husband. Arts writer, Tejano, giggler. Pro science, #BLM, immigrants, public schools, unions, taxing the rich, 🏳️⚧️, pets, nachos.
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Last month, the Tule River Indian Tribe purchased 17,000 acres of their ancestral lands where they are reintroducing tule elk. The purchase was partly funded by California’s Tribal Nature-Based Solutions Grant, which funds tribal land return projects. www.latimes.com/california/s....
Elk are again roaming on lands that California has returned to the Tule River Indian Tribe
Tribal leaders and Gov. Gavin Newsom gathered Wednesday to mark the return of 17,000 acres of ancestral land to the Tule River Indian tribe.
www.latimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Last month, the Tule River Indian Tribe purchased 17,000 acres of their ancestral lands where they are reintroducing tule elk. The purchase was partly funded by California’s Tribal Nature-Based Solutions Grant, which funds tribal land return projects. www.latimes.com/california/s....
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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A Muslim activist tried to tell Texas education leaders about a growing wave of Islamophobia. Some of them called her a terrorist.
A dispatch from the front line of the battle to Christianize public schools:
A dispatch from the front line of the battle to Christianize public schools:
She Wanted to Speak on Anti-Muslim Bigotry. She Was Labeled a Terrorist Leader.
Shaimaa Zayan, who works for the Austin chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, urged the Texas State Board of Education to reconsider its curriculum changes.
www.texasmonthly.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
A Muslim activist tried to tell Texas education leaders about a growing wave of Islamophobia. Some of them called her a terrorist.
A dispatch from the front line of the battle to Christianize public schools:
A dispatch from the front line of the battle to Christianize public schools:
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honestly a huge round of applause to FT for finding their angle on this. saw the headline and laughed out loud
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
honestly a huge round of applause to FT for finding their angle on this. saw the headline and laughed out loud
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They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
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BALTIMORE! Need y'all to come out to @redemmas.org tomorrow. We're talking about the state of the free press & we got a LOT to discuss. I'll be joining the great Mickey Huff, @eleanorg.bsky.social, & Mischa Geracoulis of @projectcensored.bsky.social. Come join us!
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Project Censored presents "State of the Free Press 2026: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition" with Mickey Huff, Mischa Geracoulis, Maximillian Alvarez, Allison Butler, and Eleanor Goldfield
Highlighting the year’s most significant independent journalism—including original, investigative reports on ICE surveillance, Meta censorship, and police violence—State of the Free Press 2026 illumin...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
BALTIMORE! Need y'all to come out to @redemmas.org tomorrow. We're talking about the state of the free press & we got a LOT to discuss. I'll be joining the great Mickey Huff, @eleanorg.bsky.social, & Mischa Geracoulis of @projectcensored.bsky.social. Come join us!
redemmas.org/events/proje...
redemmas.org/events/proje...
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NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Those six brave Democrats...and OTHERS...should IMMEDIATELY create and release ANOTHER video message to our military men and women...and point out how bat shit crazy Donald Trump's response to it was, and why that confirms the necessity of their first video message.
November 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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En route to @citylightsbooks.bsky.social to see #RoddyBottim in conversation with #BrontePurenll about Roddy’s great new autobiography #TheRoyalWe — and you can join! Here’s the Zoom link — event starts in an hour! us02web.zoom.us/j/87274994936
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November 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
En route to @citylightsbooks.bsky.social to see #RoddyBottim in conversation with #BrontePurenll about Roddy’s great new autobiography #TheRoyalWe — and you can join! Here’s the Zoom link — event starts in an hour! us02web.zoom.us/j/87274994936
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California’s child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
California's child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
www.latimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
California’s child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Kropotkin's analysis of women's domestic labour remains relevant over a century later.
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Kropotkin's analysis of women's domestic labour remains relevant over a century later.
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NEW: The leading organization for music scholars — the American Musicological Society — is facing an uproar from hundreds of its members, who are threatening a boycott unless it meets a chorus of demands. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
Why a Musicology Society’s Members Are in Revolt
The leading organization for music scholars is facing an uproar from hundreds of members, who are threatening a boycott unless it meets a chorus of demands.
www.chronicle.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
NEW: The leading organization for music scholars — the American Musicological Society — is facing an uproar from hundreds of its members, who are threatening a boycott unless it meets a chorus of demands. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
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Absolutely crucial piece for historians and heritage practitioners, regardless of whether you study Palestine
What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Writing history in a time of genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Absolutely crucial piece for historians and heritage practitioners, regardless of whether you study Palestine
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Page One in Iowa.
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Page One in Iowa.
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This is so embarrassing and bad
HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
November 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
This is so embarrassing and bad
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#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
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Authoritarianism is the bailout.
White House drafts order directing Justice Department to sue states that pass AI regulations
The draft order comes after Republicans in Congress failed to pass a federal ban on state AI regulation, as more lawmakers raise concerns about the technology.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Authoritarianism is the bailout.
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There has never been a clearer signal that America is not a country, it's just a business. And that there are no red lines when there is enough money on the line.
End-stage capitalism knows no bounds in its pursuit and sycophantic courting of power and wealth.
End-stage capitalism knows no bounds in its pursuit and sycophantic courting of power and wealth.
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
There has never been a clearer signal that America is not a country, it's just a business. And that there are no red lines when there is enough money on the line.
End-stage capitalism knows no bounds in its pursuit and sycophantic courting of power and wealth.
End-stage capitalism knows no bounds in its pursuit and sycophantic courting of power and wealth.
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when we talk about efforts to "erase DEI" can we be more precise and say "efforts to re-segregate workplaces and schools"
Since 1981, Chicago Women in Trades has worked to promote equity by getting more women into the construction trades. Now the nonprofit faces a different challenge: Trump's efforts to erase DEI. n.pr/4pmCNr2
How a small Chicago nonprofit is resisting Trump's war on DEI
Since 1981, Chicago Women in Trades has worked to promote equity by getting more women into the construction trades. Now the nonprofit faces a different challenge: Trump's efforts to erase DEI.
n.pr
November 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
when we talk about efforts to "erase DEI" can we be more precise and say "efforts to re-segregate workplaces and schools"