@elesw19.bsky.social
Let’s make some good trouble! There’s strength in solidarity. We still have our voices and our votes…until we lose them. Ciao, Bella! Ciao, Bella! Ciao! Ciao! Ciao!
“Marketed as tech geniuses, yet they could barely keep up with basic tasks. In reality, they were overconfident, drunk on power and utterly clueless. They giggled and asked me how my day was going—right as they hit the keys to obliterate nearly a decade of my work.”
NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled
The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster”
NO PAYWALL!
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster”
NO PAYWALL!
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
July 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“Marketed as tech geniuses, yet they could barely keep up with basic tasks. In reality, they were overconfident, drunk on power and utterly clueless. They giggled and asked me how my day was going—right as they hit the keys to obliterate nearly a decade of my work.”
“The Treasury Department has this information because that’s where banks file Suspicious Activity Reports... Wyden’s staff documented that Epstein-related filings by banks contain “information on more than 4,725 wire transfers involving Epstein’s accounts, all of which merit further investigation.”
NEWS --> Sen Ron Wyden writes to Pam Bondi, urging DOJ to probe $1.5 billion in Epstein financial transactions that banks flagged for Treasury Dept. He lays out roadmap for DOJ to examine money flow related to sex trafficking. Challenges Bondi in new way.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/1982...
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/1982...
Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb
Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.
newrepublic.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“The Treasury Department has this information because that’s where banks file Suspicious Activity Reports... Wyden’s staff documented that Epstein-related filings by banks contain “information on more than 4,725 wire transfers involving Epstein’s accounts, all of which merit further investigation.”
Journalists are dying of hunger: “without immediate intervention the last reporters in Gaza will die”. Write your elected representatives if the images of starving children were not already enough to move you.
July 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Journalists are dying of hunger: “without immediate intervention the last reporters in Gaza will die”. Write your elected representatives if the images of starving children were not already enough to move you.
“Tiffany Doe claims she convinced the then-13-year-old plaintiff to attend the parties as a means to break in to New York's professional modeling world. “
July 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“Tiffany Doe claims she convinced the then-13-year-old plaintiff to attend the parties as a means to break in to New York's professional modeling world. “
“There are celebrities, princes and princesses, high-profile scientists, artists from all over the world, all alongside some of the world’s most powerful oligarchs and political leaders—people like Prince Andrew (circled), Ehud Barak (circled), Donald Trump (circled).”
Now seems the time to repost this big story we did a few years ago... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book.
What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.
www.motherjones.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“There are celebrities, princes and princesses, high-profile scientists, artists from all over the world, all alongside some of the world’s most powerful oligarchs and political leaders—people like Prince Andrew (circled), Ehud Barak (circled), Donald Trump (circled).”
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To those who question what Labour stands for – look at Best Start. It will change Britain’s future | Polly Toynbee
To those who question what Labour stands for – look at Best Start. It will change Britain’s future | Polly Toynbee
Sure Start was New Labour’s finest achievement, and the Tories destroyed it. Now it’s back with a mission to put children at the heart of everything, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 5:31 AM
To those who question what Labour stands for – look at Best Start. It will change Britain’s future | Polly Toynbee
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Lord, they’re making me do it. They’re making me talk about Jeffrey Epstein. Why? Because they are so damn set on trying to cover up whatever this all is. I explain the sordid mess in today’s piece, link in the replies.
July 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lord, they’re making me do it. They’re making me talk about Jeffrey Epstein. Why? Because they are so damn set on trying to cover up whatever this all is. I explain the sordid mess in today’s piece, link in the replies.
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“The psychological toll of ICE raids isn’t borne only by the new immigrants whom Trump calls 'invaders,' but also by many of the Americans tasked with protecting us from real foreign threats,” Xochitl Gonzalez writes:
America Just Beat Up These Marines’ Dad
What is it like for Latinos in the military now?
bit.ly
July 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
“The psychological toll of ICE raids isn’t borne only by the new immigrants whom Trump calls 'invaders,' but also by many of the Americans tasked with protecting us from real foreign threats,” Xochitl Gonzalez writes:
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You don’t have to love America right now. Not the one under assault from a vengeful despot. But I do hope you care enough to reflect on the commitment of our founders to form a union & free the new nation from a mad king and the yoke of oppression—care enough to be willing to fight for America now.
July 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
You don’t have to love America right now. Not the one under assault from a vengeful despot. But I do hope you care enough to reflect on the commitment of our founders to form a union & free the new nation from a mad king and the yoke of oppression—care enough to be willing to fight for America now.
“Scardina says he voted for Trump and still supports many of the former president’s policies, but this isn’t what he signed up for. “Buyer’s remorse? I don’t know, a little bit.” A LITTLE BIT????
I'm torn. Do I not give a shit, or do I welcome him to stop voting for fucking republicans?
Impeach pedophile piggy. Believe the victims. Defend Democracy.
@daangrypacifist.bsky.social
· Jun 12
Trump Voter Gets Choked Up After ICE Detains a Third of His Staff
www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
June 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
“Scardina says he voted for Trump and still supports many of the former president’s policies, but this isn’t what he signed up for. “Buyer’s remorse? I don’t know, a little bit.” A LITTLE BIT????
John Lewis:
"If it hadn't been for the media, for brave, courageous journalists, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings."
Democracy cannot function without an informed public.
"If it hadn't been for the media, for brave, courageous journalists, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings."
Democracy cannot function without an informed public.
Dozens of journalists were assaulted by law enforcement in Los Angeles this weekend.
The press were just doing their job -- a sacred one explicitly protected by law.
Press rights orgs will follow up collectively tomorrow.
Tonight, I emailed evidence to local/state/federal officials. My sign off:
The press were just doing their job -- a sacred one explicitly protected by law.
Press rights orgs will follow up collectively tomorrow.
Tonight, I emailed evidence to local/state/federal officials. My sign off:
June 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
John Lewis:
"If it hadn't been for the media, for brave, courageous journalists, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings."
Democracy cannot function without an informed public.
"If it hadn't been for the media, for brave, courageous journalists, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings."
Democracy cannot function without an informed public.
Yes, we must now deploy the tactics of “the baddies” to protect ourselves from our own gov’t: “Face coverings also have the benefit of shielding your identity from cameras and police surveillance…If you wear a hat, and you're interested in further protecting your identity, keep the brim low.”
Americans are taking to the streets and showing up in US cities by the thousands to protest a plethora of President Donald Trump’s second-term policies—from trans rights to travel bans from foreign nations and deportation policies.
This is a WIRED guide on how to best protest safely.
This is a WIRED guide on how to best protest safely.
How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid
If you’re planning to hit the streets, here’s what you need to know.
www.wired.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Yes, we must now deploy the tactics of “the baddies” to protect ourselves from our own gov’t: “Face coverings also have the benefit of shielding your identity from cameras and police surveillance…If you wear a hat, and you're interested in further protecting your identity, keep the brim low.”
“Therefore the latest polling tells us less about Trump than it does about the catastrophic failure of not just Democratic campaign professionals, but also civil society and the media, to effectively inform voters of the consequences of the choice they had before them.”
A long, rich, and compelling analysis of the American electorate, arguing against a lot of conventional wisdom, from @mikepod.bsky.social.
www.weekendreading.net/p/the-re-eme...
www.weekendreading.net/p/the-re-eme...
The Re-Emerging Anti-MAGA Majority
If voters had known in November what they know now—which could and should have been possible—Trump would have lost.
www.weekendreading.net
May 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
“Therefore the latest polling tells us less about Trump than it does about the catastrophic failure of not just Democratic campaign professionals, but also civil society and the media, to effectively inform voters of the consequences of the choice they had before them.”
Get busy! There are seven vulnerable Senators. This Reverse Robin Hood monstrosity can be killed if we can persuade 3 not to vote yes with Vance as tiebreaker.
As Republican senators go home for the Memorial Day weekend, it’s an excellent time for those of you who live in their states to be heard — especially on the Big Ugly Bill that’s coming to the Senate from the House next week. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/as-these-senators-go-home-for-the
As These Senators Go Home for the Memorial Day Weekend …
Friends,
robertreich.substack.com
May 24, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Get busy! There are seven vulnerable Senators. This Reverse Robin Hood monstrosity can be killed if we can persuade 3 not to vote yes with Vance as tiebreaker.
“Trump was not done. He lied that Qatar “gave $5.1 trillion worth of investment in addition to the jet,” before returning to Alexander. “Go back— you ought to go back to your studio at NBC because Brian Roberts and the people that run that place, they ought to be investigated…”
“This thin-skinned tyrant is determined to strip the White House of actual reporters & threaten media companies if they dare to question him. It’s an appalling sign every reporter in the Oval Office didn’t speak up or get up and leave in support of NBC’s Alexander.”
open.substack.com/pub/america/...
open.substack.com/pub/america/...
How Much More Stupidity Will Americans Endure?
Reflecting on the escalating hostility to America values, principles and decency in a 24-hour period
open.substack.com
May 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
“Trump was not done. He lied that Qatar “gave $5.1 trillion worth of investment in addition to the jet,” before returning to Alexander. “Go back— you ought to go back to your studio at NBC because Brian Roberts and the people that run that place, they ought to be investigated…”
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Good time to remember:
The last time Trump was president, he ran up more than 25% of ALL the debt in the entire history of America
$7.8 TRILLION DOLLARS
And he’s about to do it again — so he and his billionaire friends, Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg, can get tax cuts
The last time Trump was president, he ran up more than 25% of ALL the debt in the entire history of America
$7.8 TRILLION DOLLARS
And he’s about to do it again — so he and his billionaire friends, Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg, can get tax cuts
May 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Good time to remember:
The last time Trump was president, he ran up more than 25% of ALL the debt in the entire history of America
$7.8 TRILLION DOLLARS
And he’s about to do it again — so he and his billionaire friends, Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg, can get tax cuts
The last time Trump was president, he ran up more than 25% of ALL the debt in the entire history of America
$7.8 TRILLION DOLLARS
And he’s about to do it again — so he and his billionaire friends, Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg, can get tax cuts
Superb thread with advice on the process and what we can do. “The most important thing you can do, by a parsec, is attend a town hall with your Republican Senator and with your Republican member of Congress. There is nothing more useful than spending even a minute talking face-to-face with them…”
House Republicans passed their bill that’d rip health insurance from millions and take food assistance away from millions including households with kids as young as 7 in the largest Medicaid and SNAP cuts in history - while giving giant tax cuts to the rich.
Thread on the next steps of the process.
Thread on the next steps of the process.
May 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Superb thread with advice on the process and what we can do. “The most important thing you can do, by a parsec, is attend a town hall with your Republican Senator and with your Republican member of Congress. There is nothing more useful than spending even a minute talking face-to-face with them…”
“Kasper has never been charged with or convicted of any crime.”
When he showed up to an immigration meeting in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen thought he was on the verge of becoming a citizen.
Then ICE arrested the Mississippi father of four, not even giving him a chance to say goodbye to his wife, whisking him away to a prison.
@nickjudin.bsky.social reports:
Then ICE arrested the Mississippi father of four, not even giving him a chance to say goodbye to his wife, whisking him away to a prison.
@nickjudin.bsky.social reports:
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing
ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
May 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
“Kasper has never been charged with or convicted of any crime.”
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More than 700K Americans died from COVID after he wrote this. We still have not achieved herd immunity.
May 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
More than 700K Americans died from COVID after he wrote this. We still have not achieved herd immunity.
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Plus, as always, a @resist.bot.
Stop and Investigate Trump’s Qatari Sky Palace
Text SIGN PIQXHS to 50409 to send this to your officials.
resist.bot
May 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Plus, as always, a @resist.bot.
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If you still do have the plot, though, here are updated scripts/language calling on Congress to do something about Trump's Qatari sky palace bribe.
Looking like amendments to the NDAA are probably our best route.
Looking like amendments to the NDAA are probably our best route.
May 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
If you still do have the plot, though, here are updated scripts/language calling on Congress to do something about Trump's Qatari sky palace bribe.
Looking like amendments to the NDAA are probably our best route.
Looking like amendments to the NDAA are probably our best route.
Just one of its failings: “This is the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, based in Alaska and California, which does not inspire confidence as it has failed nearly half of its tests. It would have minimal value against a Russian or Chinese attack.”
Dad did a good piece on why the Golden Dome isn't going to work. (Even if someone who wasn't an alcoholic TV host was in charge).
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/d...
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/d...
May 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Just one of its failings: “This is the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, based in Alaska and California, which does not inspire confidence as it has failed nearly half of its tests. It would have minimal value against a Russian or Chinese attack.”
Excellent suggestion to write media executives. “In your message, avoid generalities. Instead, focus on two key things that news executives have to take responsibility for: facts and rules. List any falsehoods and misleading claims. And questions their standards and practices.”
Legacy media loves to crown itself the guardian of truth. But Josh Levs wants you to look closer.
Image over integrity defines too much of the output.
Image over integrity defines too much of the output.
How to dismantle the media’s bothsidesism
News agencies complain about it, but do it anyway
contrarian.substack.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Excellent suggestion to write media executives. “In your message, avoid generalities. Instead, focus on two key things that news executives have to take responsibility for: facts and rules. List any falsehoods and misleading claims. And questions their standards and practices.”
Alarmingly terrible! …”it would mean that hundreds and hundreds of court orders – in cases ranging from antitrust to protection of private tax information, to safeguarding the social security administration, to school desegregation to police reform – would be rendered unenforceable.”
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky Trashes Trump’s Terrible Scheme for Rendering Courts Toothless
www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...
www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...
A Terrible Idea
Dean Chemerinsky discusses the reconciliation bill’s provision that would restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt for violating court orders
www.justsecurity.org
May 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Alarmingly terrible! …”it would mean that hundreds and hundreds of court orders – in cases ranging from antitrust to protection of private tax information, to safeguarding the social security administration, to school desegregation to police reform – would be rendered unenforceable.”
“colleagues who also bought into the school’s opening blather about academic freedom are getting crushed by what she acknowledges in her piece is a dominant political agenda of attacking so-called “woke” doctrine, including diversity, and belittling elite traditional universities”...
You can laugh at the hypocrisy of Bari Weiss' "free speech" UATX that cancels actual free speech, or cry at NYU's attack on a pro-Palestine commencement speaker
But U.S. college free speech is dead. Let's talk about the far-right plot that killed it. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
But U.S. college free speech is dead. Let's talk about the far-right plot that killed it. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
Free speech is dead at the American university. Here’s who killed it.
Today's U.S. university is overpoliced, with students and profs afraid to speak their mind and punished if they do.
www.inquirer.com
May 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“colleagues who also bought into the school’s opening blather about academic freedom are getting crushed by what she acknowledges in her piece is a dominant political agenda of attacking so-called “woke” doctrine, including diversity, and belittling elite traditional universities”...