Jeff Rogers
@lefthandedjeff.bsky.social
Poet, writer, reader, author of Right Wrong Night Song (World Stage Press 2022). Michigan, Los Angeles, Crestline. Communications for unions. Poetry's as big as the world, there's nothing it can't carry. https://linktr.ee/lefthandedjeff
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be more like the mayor of boston
This is badass.
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
August 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
be more like the mayor of boston
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Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
August 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
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this is (1) not a distraction, (2) not able to be disentangled from the military occupation of multiple us cities, and (3) the greatest threat to liberty in this country since jim crow
August 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
this is (1) not a distraction, (2) not able to be disentangled from the military occupation of multiple us cities, and (3) the greatest threat to liberty in this country since jim crow
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Trans rights are, in fact, human rights. Pass it on.
August 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Trans rights are, in fact, human rights. Pass it on.
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August 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Follow the Kleptocracy Tracker! It's on my Substack, and also now @snfagora.bsky.social
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Kleptocracy Tracker Timeline
SNF Agora faculty and fellows are frequently called upon by local, national, and international media to offer context and insight on the complex challenges facing democracy today. Drawing on their […]
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August 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Follow the Kleptocracy Tracker! It's on my Substack, and also now @snfagora.bsky.social
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The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend.
This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending.
Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared
This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending.
Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared
The Real Reason the Economy Might Collapse | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
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August 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend.
This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending.
Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared
This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending.
Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared
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Hey folks,
Below is a place to submit your photos of Park signs.
Supposedly they’ll be whitewashed by September 17.
So now is a good time to start taking photos.
Below is a place to submit your photos of Park signs.
Supposedly they’ll be whitewashed by September 17.
So now is a good time to start taking photos.
August 9, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Hey folks,
Below is a place to submit your photos of Park signs.
Supposedly they’ll be whitewashed by September 17.
So now is a good time to start taking photos.
Below is a place to submit your photos of Park signs.
Supposedly they’ll be whitewashed by September 17.
So now is a good time to start taking photos.
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August 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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"We can't effectively carry out our core job functions if you won't let us be openly racist" is pretty much all anyone just joining us from 2003 needs to know about Immigration and Customs Enforcement
New: The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to halt an injunction that’s currently preventing it from racially profiling Hispanic people while conducting immigration arrests in part of California. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
August 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
"We can't effectively carry out our core job functions if you won't let us be openly racist" is pretty much all anyone just joining us from 2003 needs to know about Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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No one saw this coming, right? (Looking at you, Bill Cassidy.)
Kennedy lied his way thru his confirmation hearings so he could attain the power he needs to implement his reckless plan to undercut, if not destroy, the nation’s vaccine system.
This will cause deaths. Thank you, Trump voters.
Kennedy lied his way thru his confirmation hearings so he could attain the power he needs to implement his reckless plan to undercut, if not destroy, the nation’s vaccine system.
This will cause deaths. Thank you, Trump voters.
August 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
No one saw this coming, right? (Looking at you, Bill Cassidy.)
Kennedy lied his way thru his confirmation hearings so he could attain the power he needs to implement his reckless plan to undercut, if not destroy, the nation’s vaccine system.
This will cause deaths. Thank you, Trump voters.
Kennedy lied his way thru his confirmation hearings so he could attain the power he needs to implement his reckless plan to undercut, if not destroy, the nation’s vaccine system.
This will cause deaths. Thank you, Trump voters.
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If you live in a blue state, it’s time to call on your state Democrats to fight fire with fire by readying new congressional maps: www.bluestatedefiance.org/redistrictin...
August 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
If you live in a blue state, it’s time to call on your state Democrats to fight fire with fire by readying new congressional maps: www.bluestatedefiance.org/redistrictin...
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August 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Pretty, pretty, pretty bad
And not
And not
August 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Pretty, pretty, pretty bad
And not
And not
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"The Making of the Perfect Martini" by Guy Buffet (2000).
August 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"The Making of the Perfect Martini" by Guy Buffet (2000).
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We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
This has been a big week in media for white liberals to demonstrate their “one of the normal ones” bona fides by sneering at people upset by a genetics themed corporate campaign, but the people reacting are reacting to something real: the reentry of overt eugenics in mainstream politics.
Trump on undocumented farm workers: "People that live in the inner city are not doing that work. They've tried, we've tried, everybody tried. They don't do it. These people do it naturally. Naturally ... they don't get a bad back, because if they get a bad back, they die."
August 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being
August 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being
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I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING!!!
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research
Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.
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August 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
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Generational public health sabotage
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
August 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Generational public health sabotage
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The pancreatic cancer vaccine trials have been so promising, this would have been a literal life saver for so many and now its gone. I cant tell you how heart breaking this is. Horror after horror with this administration.
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The pancreatic cancer vaccine trials have been so promising, this would have been a literal life saver for so many and now its gone. I cant tell you how heart breaking this is. Horror after horror with this administration.
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This is the spirit of Los Angeles.
This is California.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
This is California.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
June 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is the spirit of Los Angeles.
This is California.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
This is California.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
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Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
July 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
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The end result of this is that a bunch of cis women athletes are going to find out they're intersex.
July 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The end result of this is that a bunch of cis women athletes are going to find out they're intersex.