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Is Schumer still the minority leader? Is Durbin still the whip? Is Cortes-Masto still a vice chair? Good Democrats -- rank and file, those committed to restoring party --must tell Act Blue and every candidate with hands out for the coming midterms -- that there's no cash coming without new leaders.
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Is Schumer still the minority leader? Is Durbin still the whip? Is Cortes-Masto still a vice chair? Good Democrats -- rank and file, those committed to restoring party --must tell Act Blue and every candidate with hands out for the coming midterms -- that there's no cash coming without new leaders.
Truly grateful for access to AFI Silver Spring, where they have had several screenings of Seven Samurai this week. While my younger self recognized it as one of the great all-time action epics, the class consciousness of Kurosawa is much more visible to me as I age.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Truly grateful for access to AFI Silver Spring, where they have had several screenings of Seven Samurai this week. While my younger self recognized it as one of the great all-time action epics, the class consciousness of Kurosawa is much more visible to me as I age.
A significant difference between 2025 and 2017 is that the mask is finally all the way off of those who claimed solidarity for so long. There’s barely even lip service anymore that claims of protecting rights and livelihoods are anything more than broken promises in waiting.
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A significant difference between 2025 and 2017 is that the mask is finally all the way off of those who claimed solidarity for so long. There’s barely even lip service anymore that claims of protecting rights and livelihoods are anything more than broken promises in waiting.
It’s not accurate to say that Senate Dems got nothing in return for their cowardice. Or, that Democratic voters didn’t get anything either. The politicians got the voter turnout they needed on election day. And in return, they gave us all a knife in the back.
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
It’s not accurate to say that Senate Dems got nothing in return for their cowardice. Or, that Democratic voters didn’t get anything either. The politicians got the voter turnout they needed on election day. And in return, they gave us all a knife in the back.
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Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
I may not live in LA anymore but I’m so happy the Dodgers got this series to November, that Rojas got them to November 2, and that Yamamoto carried them over the finish line.
November 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I may not live in LA anymore but I’m so happy the Dodgers got this series to November, that Rojas got them to November 2, and that Yamamoto carried them over the finish line.
BUGONIA FTW
November 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
BUGONIA FTW
I love October baseball. November baseball is better.
November 1, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I love October baseball. November baseball is better.
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How hurricane relief efforts in Jamaica are affected by the end of USAID : Goats and Soda
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
How will the dismantling of USAID affect U.S. relief efforts in Jamaica?
USAID was the lead American agency in disaster response. Now that it's been dismantled, questions are arising about how effective U.S. relief efforts will be in Jamaica after the hurricane.
www.npr.org
October 31, 2025 at 11:32 AM
How hurricane relief efforts in Jamaica are affected by the end of USAID : Goats and Soda
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
How is it that if I Had Legs I’d Kick You is more unsettling and full of existential dread than any horror film that’s been raved about this year?
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
How is it that if I Had Legs I’d Kick You is more unsettling and full of existential dread than any horror film that’s been raved about this year?
It may not be the ultimate Frankenstein but it does feel like the ultimate Del Toro. Not necessarily the film he was born to make, but clearly the film he has wanted to make his entire life.
October 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
It may not be the ultimate Frankenstein but it does feel like the ultimate Del Toro. Not necessarily the film he was born to make, but clearly the film he has wanted to make his entire life.
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Last June, more than 5 million Americans joined #NoKings rallies across the country, protesting President Trump's authoritarianism. And this Saturday, with your help, it's going to be even bigger and better.
Last June, more than 5 million Americans joined #NoKings rallies across the country, protesting President Trump's authoritarianism. And this Saturday, with your help, it's going to be even bigger and better.
October 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Last June, more than 5 million Americans joined #NoKings rallies across the country, protesting President Trump's authoritarianism. And this Saturday, with your help, it's going to be even bigger and better.
Last June, more than 5 million Americans joined #NoKings rallies across the country, protesting President Trump's authoritarianism. And this Saturday, with your help, it's going to be even bigger and better.
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A year ago yesterday was a very happy day for me. I had lost my prostate. It was good riddance, as it was riddled with cancer. I’m now cancer-free — and thankful for the tax-funded technology that saved my life.
A year ago yesterday was a very happy day for me. I had lost my prostate. It was good riddance, as it was riddled with cancer. I’m now cancer-free — and thankful for the tax-funded technology that saved my life.
October 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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A year ago yesterday was a very happy day for me. I had lost my prostate. It was good riddance, as it was riddled with cancer. I’m now cancer-free — and thankful for the tax-funded technology that saved my life.
A year ago yesterday was a very happy day for me. I had lost my prostate. It was good riddance, as it was riddled with cancer. I’m now cancer-free — and thankful for the tax-funded technology that saved my life.
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I had a moving, heartbreaking, powerful discussion with 2 Israelis who lost family members to Hamas on Oct. 7th, 2 years ago today, on the power of 'radical forgiveness' & on standing up to the Israeli government that abandoned their family members.
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/israel-gaz...
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/israel-gaz...
October 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I had a moving, heartbreaking, powerful discussion with 2 Israelis who lost family members to Hamas on Oct. 7th, 2 years ago today, on the power of 'radical forgiveness' & on standing up to the Israeli government that abandoned their family members.
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/israel-gaz...
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/israel-gaz...
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Nearly 8% of the people on our planet are farmers who produce more than a third of the world’s food on small plots of land...just an acre or two each. These farmers want to work, produce, feed their families, sell what’s left, and stay on their farms (cont.)
Farmers Embracing Smart Agriculture
YouTube video by Classroom Europe
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Nearly 8% of the people on our planet are farmers who produce more than a third of the world’s food on small plots of land...just an acre or two each. These farmers want to work, produce, feed their families, sell what’s left, and stay on their farms (cont.)
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Nearly 10% of humanity (~800M people in 2025) struggles to live on less than $3 a day. It’s important for Americans to appreciate that reality — and the growing gap between the extremely poor & the extremely privileged — because, as USAID demonstrated, our nation has the power to change it.
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What Extreme Poverty Looks Like
Ten percent of humanity struggles to live on under $2 a day. That, and the gap between the extremely poor and the more privileged, is important to see.
classroom.ricksteves.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Nearly 10% of humanity (~800M people in 2025) struggles to live on less than $3 a day. It’s important for Americans to appreciate that reality — and the growing gap between the extremely poor & the extremely privileged — because, as USAID demonstrated, our nation has the power to change it.
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One Battle After Another may have been filmed in 2024 and loosely inspired by a 35-year-old book, but it drives home how much the present moment feels like the bleak absurdity of a Thomas Pynchon novel.
October 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
One Battle After Another may have been filmed in 2024 and loosely inspired by a 35-year-old book, but it drives home how much the present moment feels like the bleak absurdity of a Thomas Pynchon novel.
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In other words fund the government so we can impound the funds and fire government employees anyway or we’ll shoot the hostages outright and blame Democrats for it instead.
The White House budget office is telling federal agencies to prepare plans for mass firings during a possible government shutdown.Listen to that and the latest stories on Bloomberg News Now.
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September 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
In other words fund the government so we can impound the funds and fire government employees anyway or we’ll shoot the hostages outright and blame Democrats for it instead.
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"What has already been a pretty dark year, could get a lot darker." –Senator Chris Murphy
September 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"What has already been a pretty dark year, could get a lot darker." –Senator Chris Murphy
“Today there are more cameras than ever, and we’re drowning in videos documenting the last breaths of victim after victim… Reducing tragedy to voyeuristic content, they dehumanize not just the victim but all of us.” - Zeynep Tufekci
Opinion | Social Media Reduced Two Horrific Killings to Cheap Snuff Films
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“Today there are more cameras than ever, and we’re drowning in videos documenting the last breaths of victim after victim… Reducing tragedy to voyeuristic content, they dehumanize not just the victim but all of us.” - Zeynep Tufekci
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I hope @ezraklein.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov and others who have celebrated Charlie Kirk-as distinct from deploring his murder-will read and consider the points @espiers.bsky.social makes civilly, in good faith, and-presumably-*in the right way* in this piece.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I hope @ezraklein.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov and others who have celebrated Charlie Kirk-as distinct from deploring his murder-will read and consider the points @espiers.bsky.social makes civilly, in good faith, and-presumably-*in the right way* in this piece.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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