Kyle Dirkes #UnionStrong #Solidarity
@kdirkes.bsky.social
I want a society where my immigrant daughters thrive. I will not be silent or complicit. I oppose fascism. #UnionStrong💪 #Solidarity🌹 #SlavaUkraini🇺🇦
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I stand in solidarity with the Starbucks workers on strike.
When a corporation can pay $96 million to its CEO for just four months of work, it can afford to pay its workers a living wage and decent benefits.
When a corporation can pay $96 million to its CEO for just four months of work, it can afford to pay its workers a living wage and decent benefits.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I stand in solidarity with the Starbucks workers on strike.
When a corporation can pay $96 million to its CEO for just four months of work, it can afford to pay its workers a living wage and decent benefits.
When a corporation can pay $96 million to its CEO for just four months of work, it can afford to pay its workers a living wage and decent benefits.
Let’s recall that Sumners was an advisor in Democratic administrations. He oversaw some of the most draconian and regressive policies when Democrats were in power. They (Senators et al) should disavow this elitist freak who was all about cutting social welfare and bolstering neoliberalism.
The former Treasury secretary, now overseeing economic policy for a Center for American Progress guide for a future Democratic president, regularly emailed the notorious sex trafficker about his personal life. From @drboguslaw.bsky.social:
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Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding CAP’s ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
trib.al
November 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Let’s recall that Sumners was an advisor in Democratic administrations. He oversaw some of the most draconian and regressive policies when Democrats were in power. They (Senators et al) should disavow this elitist freak who was all about cutting social welfare and bolstering neoliberalism.
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La Nina is here and the global cool-down is well underway (global mean sea surface temps are lowest since March 2023).
Remember it's not the individual ups & downs that matter, it's the steady warming trend, which will continue until we reach zero carbon emissions.
#Urgency #StayFocused #COP30
Remember it's not the individual ups & downs that matter, it's the steady warming trend, which will continue until we reach zero carbon emissions.
#Urgency #StayFocused #COP30
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
La Nina is here and the global cool-down is well underway (global mean sea surface temps are lowest since March 2023).
Remember it's not the individual ups & downs that matter, it's the steady warming trend, which will continue until we reach zero carbon emissions.
#Urgency #StayFocused #COP30
Remember it's not the individual ups & downs that matter, it's the steady warming trend, which will continue until we reach zero carbon emissions.
#Urgency #StayFocused #COP30
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Direct air capture is not currently viable strategy. Likely increases carbon pollution (more carbon energy required to than saved). See @mzjacobson.bsky.social's work: news.stanford.edu/stories/2019... & Joe Romm's review for our center (@penncssm.bsky.social): bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/web.sas.upen...
Study casts doubt on carbon capture
Current approaches to carbon capture can increase air pollution and are not efficient at reducing carbon in the atmosphere, according to research from Mark Z. Jacobson.
news.stanford.edu
November 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Direct air capture is not currently viable strategy. Likely increases carbon pollution (more carbon energy required to than saved). See @mzjacobson.bsky.social's work: news.stanford.edu/stories/2019... & Joe Romm's review for our center (@penncssm.bsky.social): bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/web.sas.upen...
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On Friday, Trump reversed the administration’s stance that there was nothing left to see in the Epstein case and ordered the FBI to target his political enemies.
Trump calls for an Epstein investigation into everyone but him
The Department of Justice has launched a probe targeting prominent Democrats.
www.motherjones.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
On Friday, Trump reversed the administration’s stance that there was nothing left to see in the Epstein case and ordered the FBI to target his political enemies.
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
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Lina Khan should be everywhere www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRJW...
Lina Khan On Zohran Mamdani, Corporate Welfare & the FTC | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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November 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Lina Khan should be everywhere www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRJW...
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Epstein survivor Annie Farmer:
"It was very unlikely that we would get the signatures we needed for this discharge petition. And here we are. ... For years people said it was unlikely that anyone would care or know about the crimes of Epstein and his co-conspirators."
@kaitlancollins.bsky.social
"It was very unlikely that we would get the signatures we needed for this discharge petition. And here we are. ... For years people said it was unlikely that anyone would care or know about the crimes of Epstein and his co-conspirators."
@kaitlancollins.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Epstein survivor Annie Farmer:
"It was very unlikely that we would get the signatures we needed for this discharge petition. And here we are. ... For years people said it was unlikely that anyone would care or know about the crimes of Epstein and his co-conspirators."
@kaitlancollins.bsky.social
"It was very unlikely that we would get the signatures we needed for this discharge petition. And here we are. ... For years people said it was unlikely that anyone would care or know about the crimes of Epstein and his co-conspirators."
@kaitlancollins.bsky.social
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We left T- Mobile last week best decision ever!
We went to T-Mobile HQ to deliver 20k petition signatures incl 5k customers asking the company to cut ties with Elon and Trump. They called the cops and told us the company doesn't care what its customers think. Join the boycott: tmobileboycott.org #teslatakedown #BoycottTmobile #weaintbuyingit
November 14, 2025 at 3:42 AM
We left T- Mobile last week best decision ever!
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"People have to have a language to speak about what other possible futures are available to them,” Hall wrote. One task...is therefore to devise a language that expands the sense of what is possible"
NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
Reading Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
Stuart Hall’s politics of culture offers the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.
www.break-down.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"People have to have a language to speak about what other possible futures are available to them,” Hall wrote. One task...is therefore to devise a language that expands the sense of what is possible"
NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
youtube.com/watch?v=s4SG... No corporate PACS, listening to Minnesotans not the lobbyists. Peggy Flanagan for the U.S. Senate in 2026.
GOP in TOTAL CHAOS As Democrats STRIKE BACK
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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November 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
youtube.com/watch?v=s4SG... No corporate PACS, listening to Minnesotans not the lobbyists. Peggy Flanagan for the U.S. Senate in 2026.
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NEW: During the government shutdown, many theories emerged as to what Republicans were up to. Today’s stunning email release may have answered that question: it was all about the Epstein files. Whatever is in them has kept the government closed and Trump awake at night, Marc Elias writes.
It Was the Epstein Shutdown All Along
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
NEW: During the government shutdown, many theories emerged as to what Republicans were up to. Today’s stunning email release may have answered that question: it was all about the Epstein files. Whatever is in them has kept the government closed and Trump awake at night, Marc Elias writes.
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1. In an email, Epstein mentions a former girlfriend he "gave" to Trump.
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“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
1. In an email, Epstein mentions a former girlfriend he "gave" to Trump.
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Follow the money. And then get it the the fuck out of our government. Elected officials cannot be our public servants AND serve their piggy banks off our backs.
For Democrats willing to promote fossil fuels as clean energy, the payoff is pretty nice
Other Dems who've joined Natural Allies receive anywhere from $180K - $250K per year. It doesn't appear to be a full-time job either.
Other Dems who've joined Natural Allies receive anywhere from $180K - $250K per year. It doesn't appear to be a full-time job either.
Here’s how much Democrats get paid to shill for fossil fuels
Two former Democratic lawmakers made six-figure salaries for falsely promoting methane gas as a climate solution, tax documents seen by HEATED show.
heated.world
November 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Follow the money. And then get it the the fuck out of our government. Elected officials cannot be our public servants AND serve their piggy banks off our backs.
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0% surprised. Did you know more than 50% of retiring senators also swiftly go on to become board members and CEOs for corporations that padded their coffers, or lobbyists for those corps? I don't think the avg American knows how hard corporate influence runs our Senators and governors.
Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe is the latest prominent Democrat to join Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future, a fossil fuel industry front group that seeks to influence liberals to embrace methane gas as clean, climate-friendly energy
Former Gov. McAuliffe joins pro-natural gas group as national co-chair • Virginia Mercury
Terry McAuliffe to promote natural gas as a route to long-term energy reliability as renewable energy sources are built out.
virginiamercury.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
0% surprised. Did you know more than 50% of retiring senators also swiftly go on to become board members and CEOs for corporations that padded their coffers, or lobbyists for those corps? I don't think the avg American knows how hard corporate influence runs our Senators and governors.
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Look, I know we’re all rightfully pissed about the current Epstein stuff, but you should really set aside some time and read this piece. There’s a reason “mitigating the effects of climate change” is one of my key policy positions.
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Look, I know we’re all rightfully pissed about the current Epstein stuff, but you should really set aside some time and read this piece. There’s a reason “mitigating the effects of climate change” is one of my key policy positions.
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The Epstein Saga Is the Biggest Political Cover-up in Modern History
The release of Epstein's emails reaffirms Donald Trump's close association with the world's most notorious pedophile and reveals the biggest, ongoing political cover-up in modern history.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
The release of Epstein's emails reaffirms Donald Trump's close association with the world's most notorious pedophile and reveals the biggest, ongoing political cover-up in modern history.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
November 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The Epstein Saga Is the Biggest Political Cover-up in Modern History
The release of Epstein's emails reaffirms Donald Trump's close association with the world's most notorious pedophile and reveals the biggest, ongoing political cover-up in modern history.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
The release of Epstein's emails reaffirms Donald Trump's close association with the world's most notorious pedophile and reveals the biggest, ongoing political cover-up in modern history.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
youtube.com/watch?v=ygd3... @senwhitehouse.bsky.social you can have unity for 2026, call for Senator Schumer to resign. There should be consequences for the dinodems who joined with Republicans to end the shutdown surrendering. Primaries and voting out dinodems is the solution.
To Senator Whitehouse and his millions of $$ calling for “unity”
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
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November 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
youtube.com/watch?v=ygd3... @senwhitehouse.bsky.social you can have unity for 2026, call for Senator Schumer to resign. There should be consequences for the dinodems who joined with Republicans to end the shutdown surrendering. Primaries and voting out dinodems is the solution.
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After enduring the pain of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, millions of working Americans are seeing their healthcare premiums skyrocket. This was avoidable. 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM
After enduring the pain of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, millions of working Americans are seeing their healthcare premiums skyrocket. This was avoidable. 🧵
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REPUBLICAN Rep. @repchiproy is rightly APPALLED that hagerty & @marshablackburn and others snuck a provision to let senators sue taxpayers for $500,000 MINIMUM for being investigated as part of Trump’s insurrection into the government funding bill.
Insane corruption.
Insane corruption.
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
REPUBLICAN Rep. @repchiproy is rightly APPALLED that hagerty & @marshablackburn and others snuck a provision to let senators sue taxpayers for $500,000 MINIMUM for being investigated as part of Trump’s insurrection into the government funding bill.
Insane corruption.
Insane corruption.
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An amazing night to remember with vivid reds and aurora overhead! Photos taken near Zimmerman, MN.
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
An amazing night to remember with vivid reds and aurora overhead! Photos taken near Zimmerman, MN.
youtube.com/watch?v=RQGO... Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin need to resign from leadership. We have no confidence they are willing or able to lead in this time. @klobuchar.senate.gov and @smith.senate.gov call for their resignation.
Furious at Surrender Dems? This is where we go from here.
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
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November 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
youtube.com/watch?v=RQGO... Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin need to resign from leadership. We have no confidence they are willing or able to lead in this time. @klobuchar.senate.gov and @smith.senate.gov call for their resignation.
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Book's done. Goes to copyedit now. Out of my hands.
There's something in there to tick off just about anyone - at least if you rely on bad principles, bad politics, and bad history to get you through.
For everyone else: American resistance has a way, and that way has a history. This book is it.
There's something in there to tick off just about anyone - at least if you rely on bad principles, bad politics, and bad history to get you through.
For everyone else: American resistance has a way, and that way has a history. This book is it.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Book's done. Goes to copyedit now. Out of my hands.
There's something in there to tick off just about anyone - at least if you rely on bad principles, bad politics, and bad history to get you through.
For everyone else: American resistance has a way, and that way has a history. This book is it.
There's something in there to tick off just about anyone - at least if you rely on bad principles, bad politics, and bad history to get you through.
For everyone else: American resistance has a way, and that way has a history. This book is it.