iskhavin.bsky.social
@iskhavin.bsky.social
Cat lady for science and democracy
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I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel.

We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.

You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Philadelphia - can you provide any information about a planned small "armed" protest today?
October 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Where are all the corporate media headlines demanding his resignation? Where are the all the assumptions that about specialists visiting the White House meaning the president is dying? They did this daily with Biden. Why not now? Are they covering for their cash cow? Are they paid to cover it up?
Is Trump's Declining Health Driving the MAGA Rush to Autocracy?

Donald Trump is an aging, criminal vulgarian with cankles and a troublesome wound he's trying to hide on his right forehand. The MAGA ramp-up on fascism could be a sign their King is ailing.

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
August 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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It never ceases to amaze me

that after so much history to the contrary,

people and institutions still believe

that they’re the chosen ones

who will show the world their power

by grabbing chaos by the tail and

not being consumed.

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July 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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If state election officials refuse to comply with Trump’s unlawful edict to share their voter rolls with Elon Musk, the attorney general could withhold law enforcement grants.

“He’s going after the voter rolls in big cities, in blue states.”
https://trib.al/S9evcf5
Republicans Are Already Plotting to Steal the Midterms
With Trump’s help, Republicans across the country are sowing doubt about next year’s congressional elections—and gearing up for 2028.
trib.al
July 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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After yesterday's SCOTUS order, a federal judge PAUSED that flight to South Sudan.

The eight men in Djibouti are fighting for a temporary restraining order right now in an ongoing hearing. If not blocked, it'll take off at 7 p.m TODAY.

Background www.allrisenews.com/p/litman-sco...
July 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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There are picket lines set up all over the city, come out and show your support and appreciation for the workers who keep Philly running!!
July 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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eakins oval for picket support if you can get there!!
July 3, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Update from the Capitol.
July 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Strongly encourage everyone to start calling the mountains of trash at the drop-off sites “Parker Piles”
July 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Forcing Philly Future Track participants—a job training program for at-risk residents—to serve as scab labor during the strike is pretty scummy behavior on the part of the Parker administration. www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
July 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Trump promised to build concentration camps when he campaigned last year, and the media largely ignored it or acted as though that was an overreaction, and a lot of voters were willfully ignorant of anything he actually said.

And he's building concentration camps.

www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...
Trump tours 'Alligator Alcatraz,' a day before its first arrivals are expected
During their visit, Trump administration officials said the facility should be operational within 24 hours — despite the protests of pro-immigration, Indigenous and environmental groups.
www.npr.org
July 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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If one of these people is your senator, it is incredibly important that you call them today.

Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.
June 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Patiently waiting for the rest of the Philly delegation to get off the sidelines and make this stand
June 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Not enough people realize that Merrick Garland let an entire network of White Power groups that literally built Timothy McVeigh's bomb off the hook because he had the one guy that was easy to convict because he admitted to the bombing. They are still out there plotting. Garland made sure of that.
I mean, Merrick Garland went for a quick and dirty conviction of Tim McVeigh after OKC so he could score a win, while letting the people that literally built the bomb go free forever. Entire networks of White Power groups that blew up OKC were never looked at because he wanted a quick win.
June 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..."

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid
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www.haaretz.com
June 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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I wrote about how to turn in-person meetings into Signal groups, how to manage large semi-public Signal groups while vetting new members, and how to sue announcement-only Signal groups, perfect for rapidly responding to ICE raids micahflee.com/using-signal...
Using Signal groups for activism
Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism. Communities around the US are organizing to defend against ICE raids, to protest Israeli ge...
micahflee.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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U.S. regional electric grid operators scrambled to avoid rotating blackouts on Tuesday, preserving razor-thin power generation margins as temperatures in the eastern half of the country soared past 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius).
Electricity prices soar as US regional grids wobble from extreme heat
U.S. regional electric grid operators scrambled to avoid rotating blackouts on Tuesday, preserving razor-thin power generation margins as temperatures in the eastern half of the country soared past 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius).
www.reuters.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Even if you are not a ZKM fan, you have to thrill to the stunning failure of so much money to buy an election.
This chart tells you everything you need to know about the NYC mayoral race. Everyday New Yorkers vs money.
June 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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if you've had a shitty week, here's the fantastic news you needed:

solar is SO efficient now that nothing else really comes close. Solar farms like this- under which other countries plant crops that thrive in the controlled bright shade- are the easy future.

this makes me sleep okay at night 😌
Solar + storage is now $104 per MWh in Las Vegas or similar regions for nearly 100% clean firm power. There is no way new nuclear can compete with this. Even new gas plants will struggle and that is assuming access to cheap gas over the life-cycle of the plant, which is kind of a crazy gamble TBH.
Batteries are so cheap now, solar power doesn’t sleep
Batteries are now cheap enough to make 24/7 solar power affordable, unlocking round-the-clock clean energy in the world’s sunniest cities.
electrek.co
June 23, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Watching institutional figures rally around total creep Andrew Cuomo is instructive.

The people in charge are more worried about a supposed “leftist” gaining power than they are authoritarianism or exposing their supposed “principles” as meaningless.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/dont-forge...
Don't Forget Who They Are: Political Amnesia in Times of Crisis
Politicians and parties are revealing who they are and what they value. We cannot afford to forget, no matter how uncomfortable it may be
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM