@wrkinclass4evr.bsky.social
CPUSA. Marxist-Leninist. I love reading and writing. Am an overly enthusiastic book purchaser. 📚
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Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday plans to sign an executive order to restrict the mass collection and sharing of autism-related data for Illinois residents, in response to the country’s top health secretary’s rhetoric around the cause of autism.
In response to RFK Jr., Pritzker to sign first in nation executive order protecting autism data
The governor's office said the executive order is in response to rising concerns about efforts to create federal autism registries or databases without legal safeguards or accountability.
buff.ly
May 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday plans to sign an executive order to restrict the mass collection and sharing of autism-related data for Illinois residents, in response to the country’s top health secretary’s rhetoric around the cause of autism.
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Over at the other place, JD Vance is calling me a ‘dummy’ for pointing out his administration’s attacks on journalists and free speech here at home. Musk literally today called for the jailing of CBS journalists.
The VP clearly has a lot of time on his hands.
The VP clearly has a lot of time on his hands.
February 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Over at the other place, JD Vance is calling me a ‘dummy’ for pointing out his administration’s attacks on journalists and free speech here at home. Musk literally today called for the jailing of CBS journalists.
The VP clearly has a lot of time on his hands.
The VP clearly has a lot of time on his hands.
Interesting posts on the reddit subreddit. Worth reading.
Week Two and we’ve already reached the righteous indignation stage where the workers find the courage to fight the man.
Say what you will about us, but Americans are feisty.
Say what you will about us, but Americans are feisty.
January 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Interesting posts on the reddit subreddit. Worth reading.
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Dispatch from a CPUSA member living in Moscow, USSR in December 1991:
"In the West, social democracy wants to reform capitalism. In the Soviet Union, it wants to restore capitalism.
To restore capitalism, you have to inevitably become anti-communist."
peoplesworld.org/article/the-...
"In the West, social democracy wants to reform capitalism. In the Soviet Union, it wants to restore capitalism.
To restore capitalism, you have to inevitably become anti-communist."
peoplesworld.org/article/the-...
The death of the Soviet Union: Our Moscow correspondent reports in 1991
This article is part of the People’s World 100th Anniversary Series. On Dec. 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union, and the red hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over ...
peoplesworld.org
December 21, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Dispatch from a CPUSA member living in Moscow, USSR in December 1991:
"In the West, social democracy wants to reform capitalism. In the Soviet Union, it wants to restore capitalism.
To restore capitalism, you have to inevitably become anti-communist."
peoplesworld.org/article/the-...
"In the West, social democracy wants to reform capitalism. In the Soviet Union, it wants to restore capitalism.
To restore capitalism, you have to inevitably become anti-communist."
peoplesworld.org/article/the-...
Washington Post, yes, I know. It's crucial to analyze the factions at play here.
News Analysis: President-elect Trump’s final flurry of cabinet picks and other appointments rounded out what his aides described as a unified, loyal, MAGA-driven administration. But scratch the surface and there are at least three distinct factions. One faction appears focused on revenge.
Trump Cabinet: Inside the Many Ideologies of His Nominees
One faction of prospective nominees appears focused on revenge, another on calming markets and a third on relentlessly — perhaps hopelessly — cutting people and budgets.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Washington Post, yes, I know. It's crucial to analyze the factions at play here.
"Process errors," rather than engage with the details of the allegations are very telling.
White House NSC spokesperson on ICC warrants: "The United States fundamentally rejects the Court’s decision to issue arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials. We remain deeply concerned by the Prosecutor’s rush to seek arrest warrants and the troubling process errors that led to this decision."
November 21, 2024 at 7:49 PM
"Process errors," rather than engage with the details of the allegations are very telling.
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Perhaps it’s not the most riveting answer but Sanitation issues are a big one. Landlord issues is maybe number 2.
Your city councilperson can do a lot! Like when they were rolling out the rat bins in NYC, sometimes areas that got them came down to those who asked! Good rep + ppl speaking up matters
Your city councilperson can do a lot! Like when they were rolling out the rat bins in NYC, sometimes areas that got them came down to those who asked! Good rep + ppl speaking up matters
Which requests do you get most often that are under the purvey of other parts of state or local government? Who do you wish your constituents were talking to in addition to you?
November 21, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Perhaps it’s not the most riveting answer but Sanitation issues are a big one. Landlord issues is maybe number 2.
Your city councilperson can do a lot! Like when they were rolling out the rat bins in NYC, sometimes areas that got them came down to those who asked! Good rep + ppl speaking up matters
Your city councilperson can do a lot! Like when they were rolling out the rat bins in NYC, sometimes areas that got them came down to those who asked! Good rep + ppl speaking up matters
Absolutely wild response from that Trump transition member. Those tariffs, if they go through, will backfire.
From a friend: “Someone I know had a meeting with a Trump agriculture transition team member. This person said surely you’re not going to impose tariffs on food imports. He responded why wouldn’t we? And my person said: because about 30% of the food Americans regularly consume cannot be grown here…”
November 18, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Absolutely wild response from that Trump transition member. Those tariffs, if they go through, will backfire.
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this is literally the future republicans want: public funds for segregation academies and religious private schools that actively discriminate against LGBT students or students with special needs
NEW: Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a @propublica analysis found.
www.propublica.org/article/segr...
www.propublica.org/article/segr...
Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2024 at 2:14 PM
this is literally the future republicans want: public funds for segregation academies and religious private schools that actively discriminate against LGBT students or students with special needs
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New op-ed from me & @leahgreenberg.bsky.social with some of the top points from the new Indivisible Guide. Please share! www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The guide to fighting back against Trump 2.0
Ordinary people can organize themselves to break MAGA’s political strength. We know because we’ve seen it before.
www.msnbc.com
November 17, 2024 at 4:23 PM
New op-ed from me & @leahgreenberg.bsky.social with some of the top points from the new Indivisible Guide. Please share! www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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i understand and empathize with the urgency of pressuring Biden to improve his atrocious Israel policy but the idea that "it couldn't get worse" or that Trump would potentially be the same or an improvement for Palestinians was just not true.
Some tidbits: Huckabee refers to the West Bank as “Judea and Samaria”, has held fundraisers in Israeli settlements, thinks there is “no such thing as a Palestinian,” and that the very concept of Palestinian identity is “a political tool to try and force land away from Israel.”
November 15, 2024 at 3:42 PM
i understand and empathize with the urgency of pressuring Biden to improve his atrocious Israel policy but the idea that "it couldn't get worse" or that Trump would potentially be the same or an improvement for Palestinians was just not true.
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Consolidation Threatens to Rip ‘Service’ Out of Postal Service
Consolidation Threatens to Rip ‘Service’ Out of Postal Service
Unlike other public services that are perennially on the chopping block, USPS already gets zero tax dollars. Yet a string of right-wing politicians, Donald Trump among them, have called for privatizin...
inthesetimes.com
November 15, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Consolidation Threatens to Rip ‘Service’ Out of Postal Service
Never thought I would get to listen to #LinkinPark in 2024, y'all. Tears in my eyes listening to a new album. 😭
November 15, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Never thought I would get to listen to #LinkinPark in 2024, y'all. Tears in my eyes listening to a new album. 😭
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Please take a very quick moment to fill out this form to ask your senators to confirm judges now!
Seems like they should already know to do this, right? But Sen. Elizabeth Warren said last night on the Indivisible call that it helps a lot, and is extremely valuable for them to hear from us.
Seems like they should already know to do this, right? But Sen. Elizabeth Warren said last night on the Indivisible call that it helps a lot, and is extremely valuable for them to hear from us.
It’s extra important for your Democratic senators to hear from you right now. Email your senators and tell them to confirm as many pro-democracy judges as possible before the GOP takes control of the Senate: act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo...
November 14, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Please take a very quick moment to fill out this form to ask your senators to confirm judges now!
Seems like they should already know to do this, right? But Sen. Elizabeth Warren said last night on the Indivisible call that it helps a lot, and is extremely valuable for them to hear from us.
Seems like they should already know to do this, right? But Sen. Elizabeth Warren said last night on the Indivisible call that it helps a lot, and is extremely valuable for them to hear from us.
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‘I suppose it must be said that while fascists enjoy art, art does not enjoy them. In any case I suspect art is where we can hide truths where fascists cannot find them, as artists have always done’
H/T @jwomack.bsky.social
H/T @jwomack.bsky.social
I wrote about this terrible week, dark times ahead, and how we can best oppose fascists by doing all the many things fascists can't.
www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-...
www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-...
Fighting In The Dark
Doing things fascists can't do.
Not doing things fascists want us to do. Doing thing fascists don't want us to do.
Refusing the fascist offer.
www.the-reframe.com
November 11, 2024 at 2:34 PM
‘I suppose it must be said that while fascists enjoy art, art does not enjoy them. In any case I suspect art is where we can hide truths where fascists cannot find them, as artists have always done’
H/T @jwomack.bsky.social
H/T @jwomack.bsky.social