Ruth Walter
@ruthwalter.bsky.social
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There's always a dozen or so Democrats who screw us on just about everything!
The SPEED Act protects corporate interests, not the public, and it should be rejected by any senator who claims to stand with the people,” said one campaigner.
Jessica Corbett
Dec 18,
www.commondreams.org/news/permitt...
The SPEED Act protects corporate interests, not the public, and it should be rejected by any senator who claims to stand with the people,” said one campaigner.
Jessica Corbett
Dec 18,
www.commondreams.org/news/permitt...
11 House Democrats Help GOP Pass 'Disastrous' Pro-Polluter Permitting Bill | Common Dreams
Eleven House Democrats joined Republicans in advancing a disastrous
permitting reform bill attacking a landmark environmental protection
law.
www.commondreams.org
December 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
There's always a dozen or so Democrats who screw us on just about everything!
The SPEED Act protects corporate interests, not the public, and it should be rejected by any senator who claims to stand with the people,” said one campaigner.
Jessica Corbett
Dec 18,
www.commondreams.org/news/permitt...
The SPEED Act protects corporate interests, not the public, and it should be rejected by any senator who claims to stand with the people,” said one campaigner.
Jessica Corbett
Dec 18,
www.commondreams.org/news/permitt...
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"Bondi and company are sorely mistaken if they think breaking the law and giving Congress a middle finger will make the Epstein scandal go away."
The regime's new Epstein coverup will backfire
They're buying time but not fooling anyone.
www.publicnotice.co
December 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Bondi and company are sorely mistaken if they think breaking the law and giving Congress a middle finger will make the Epstein scandal go away."
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Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
December 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
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Today I wrote about 60 Minutes' decision to obey in advance and why it represents the sad end to the storied franchise.
We are in desperate need of strong independent media. You can help Democracy Docket be a part of it by becoming a premium member today. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
We are in desperate need of strong independent media. You can help Democracy Docket be a part of it by becoming a premium member today. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
December 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Today I wrote about 60 Minutes' decision to obey in advance and why it represents the sad end to the storied franchise.
We are in desperate need of strong independent media. You can help Democracy Docket be a part of it by becoming a premium member today. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
We are in desperate need of strong independent media. You can help Democracy Docket be a part of it by becoming a premium member today. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism.
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
CBS Pulled a “60 Minutes” Story Because the White House Refused to Comment — That’s a Veto on Journalism
Pulling a finished investigation because the administration refused to comment isn’t journalism. It’s submission.
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism.
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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HAPPENING NOW: Catholic leaders lead a march to an ICE office in Detroit to hand deliver a letter calling for humane treatment of immigrants (Video: Niraj Warikoo)
July 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Catholic leaders lead a march to an ICE office in Detroit to hand deliver a letter calling for humane treatment of immigrants (Video: Niraj Warikoo)
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There’s a growing problem you’re not supposed to question: masked agents detaining migrants. Not in war zones...here...on U.S. soil. When power hides its face...it stops being accountable. When you can’t ID authority...you can’t challenge it. 1/5 🧵
June 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
There’s a growing problem you’re not supposed to question: masked agents detaining migrants. Not in war zones...here...on U.S. soil. When power hides its face...it stops being accountable. When you can’t ID authority...you can’t challenge it. 1/5 🧵
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I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along.
Really scary stuff.
Really scary stuff.
June 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along.
Really scary stuff.
Really scary stuff.
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Meant to mention this last week, but if you have a young person in your life who’s into history or graphic novels or just good books, buy them George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy.” My oldest couldn’t put it down.
June 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Meant to mention this last week, but if you have a young person in your life who’s into history or graphic novels or just good books, buy them George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy.” My oldest couldn’t put it down.
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Newsom: "Speaker Johnson -- his eloquence was elevated when he called to 'tar and feather' the governor of California. Very religious man. I guess that's the spirit. The word of the Lord."
June 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Newsom: "Speaker Johnson -- his eloquence was elevated when he called to 'tar and feather' the governor of California. Very religious man. I guess that's the spirit. The word of the Lord."
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Big point that is being missed: without the insurrection act, the activated Guard troops are now federal army and cannot
Do law enforcement.
Period
Do law enforcement.
Period
June 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Big point that is being missed: without the insurrection act, the activated Guard troops are now federal army and cannot
Do law enforcement.
Period
Do law enforcement.
Period
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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Horrified by today’s terror attack in Colorado.
Antisemitism has no place in our nation and we must continue to unite together against such hatred.
Our hearts are with the victims and their loved ones.
Antisemitism has no place in our nation and we must continue to unite together against such hatred.
Our hearts are with the victims and their loved ones.
June 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Horrified by today’s terror attack in Colorado.
Antisemitism has no place in our nation and we must continue to unite together against such hatred.
Our hearts are with the victims and their loved ones.
Antisemitism has no place in our nation and we must continue to unite together against such hatred.
Our hearts are with the victims and their loved ones.
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It would be nice if there were more support groups for what’s happening to scientists right now. I don’t need more information firehose or more suggestions for ways to take action; I’m set on both. I just want to talk to other new PI’s about how hard it is right now
May 28, 2025 at 2:21 AM
It would be nice if there were more support groups for what’s happening to scientists right now. I don’t need more information firehose or more suggestions for ways to take action; I’m set on both. I just want to talk to other new PI’s about how hard it is right now
They cannot stop because they don’t want to face the truth they contributed to DJT in the WH. Their ageism and ableism and resentment—the podbros can’t back down.
somehow reading this made me even more persuaded that this is more about the resentments and ax grinding of professional commentators than an honest electoral analysis www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Biden Scandal Goes Well Beyond the Aging Cover-Up
The former president’s stubbornness and narcissism led to disastrous Trump victory.
www.thenation.com
May 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
They cannot stop because they don’t want to face the truth they contributed to DJT in the WH. Their ageism and ableism and resentment—the podbros can’t back down.
Essential analysis of we can learn to coexist without destroying the commons.
A new paper shows humanity *can* live within planetary boundaries, with a massive *however*: "Although such measures are technically feasible ... it is an open question whether they can also be implemented based on social or institutional feasibility considerations."
With current trends and policies, we'll transgress all planetary boundaries in 2050, except for ozone depletion. Targeted interventions — e.g., the Paris Agreement — can help, but not enough. More effective policy measures are needed to ensure we live well within the planetary boundaries.
May 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Essential analysis of we can learn to coexist without destroying the commons.
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Cal-Maine, the biggest egg producer, has been accused of using bird flu as cover to jack up prices and triple its profits from a year ago.
It also received $22M in federal aid.
While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.
It also received $22M in federal aid.
While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.
May 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Cal-Maine, the biggest egg producer, has been accused of using bird flu as cover to jack up prices and triple its profits from a year ago.
It also received $22M in federal aid.
While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.
It also received $22M in federal aid.
While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.
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Hi, I'm God.
Human beings should not be thrown into prisons without due process.
Even Jesus got a hearing.
Human beings should not be thrown into prisons without due process.
Even Jesus got a hearing.
April 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Hi, I'm God.
Human beings should not be thrown into prisons without due process.
Even Jesus got a hearing.
Human beings should not be thrown into prisons without due process.
Even Jesus got a hearing.
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In the mid-1980s, Charles Bronson delivered one of the hardest Earth Day PSAs ever seen by mankind.
April 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
In the mid-1980s, Charles Bronson delivered one of the hardest Earth Day PSAs ever seen by mankind.
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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
www.nbcnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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“Every time we get in the car, we face an enormous threat to our safety. [The U.S. is] the high-income country with the highest road traffic fatality rate, and we just accept that"
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(story by @tanyalewis.bsky.social)
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(story by @tanyalewis.bsky.social)
These Charts Explain Why Public Transit Is Safer Than Driving
The rates of fatal crashes and crime are both lower on public transportation than on roadways
www.scientificamerican.com
April 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
“Every time we get in the car, we face an enormous threat to our safety. [The U.S. is] the high-income country with the highest road traffic fatality rate, and we just accept that"
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(story by @tanyalewis.bsky.social)
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(story by @tanyalewis.bsky.social)
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How did I know they would completely defund Headstart?
They wrote it down in Project 2025 .
They wrote it down in Project 2025 .
April 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
How did I know they would completely defund Headstart?
They wrote it down in Project 2025 .
They wrote it down in Project 2025 .
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Republicans want to make this all about criminals and victims. It’s about the Constitution and due process for all. It doesn’t matter who they are torturing today. They want it to be us next. That’s the fight.
April 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Republicans want to make this all about criminals and victims. It’s about the Constitution and due process for all. It doesn’t matter who they are torturing today. They want it to be us next. That’s the fight.