AirandMist
@airandmist.bsky.social
Hope is the strongest form of resistance.
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Steve Witkoff isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Is Steve Witkoff Trying to Do?
Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war.
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Steve Witkoff isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
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Meet the 37 private donors for Trump’s ballroom—many of whom have ongoing governmental contracts or regulatory cases.
It sure looks like their multi-million dollar donations are a way to curry favor.
It sure looks like their multi-million dollar donations are a way to curry favor.
Meet all 37 White House ballroom donors funding the $300 million build, including Silicon Valley tech giants, crypto bros and the Lutnicks | Fortune
The list, reviewed by Fortune, did not mention specific dollar amounts offered by each contributor.
fortune.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Meet the 37 private donors for Trump’s ballroom—many of whom have ongoing governmental contracts or regulatory cases.
It sure looks like their multi-million dollar donations are a way to curry favor.
It sure looks like their multi-million dollar donations are a way to curry favor.
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Allow me to reintroduce myself. I’m Fred Wellman and I’m running for Congress to win next. Join us and let’s take back Missouri.
Here we are in another Republican government shutdown and my Rep is home doing photo ops instead of in D.C. trying to help working Americans. I didn't think I'd have to run to the trumpets again but I am. I'm running for Congress because I'm not done yet and neither are we. youtu.be/OSOAPMl_BSc?...
We're Not Done Yet - Fred Wellman for Missouri
YouTube video by Wellman For MO
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Allow me to reintroduce myself. I’m Fred Wellman and I’m running for Congress to win next. Join us and let’s take back Missouri.
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Trump’s $230 million cash grab isn’t just wrong—it’s unconstitutional
The Domestic Emoluments Clause says no
And the rule of law will say no too
We explain why in our new @contrariannews.org piece 👇 - TN
contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-230...
The Domestic Emoluments Clause says no
And the rule of law will say no too
We explain why in our new @contrariannews.org piece 👇 - TN
contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-230...
Trump’s $230 Million Heist Is Unconstitutional
Publisher's Roundup 41
contrarian.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Trump’s $230 million cash grab isn’t just wrong—it’s unconstitutional
The Domestic Emoluments Clause says no
And the rule of law will say no too
We explain why in our new @contrariannews.org piece 👇 - TN
contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-230...
The Domestic Emoluments Clause says no
And the rule of law will say no too
We explain why in our new @contrariannews.org piece 👇 - TN
contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-230...
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Anyone who needs extra help affording food can visit a food pantry or meal program. Some pantries or programs may have additional requirements, like living in a certain area.
www.feedingamerica.org/take-action
www.feedingamerica.org/take-action
Take Action | Feeding America
Ready to make a difference? Find impactful ways to volunteer, advocate, and raise awareness with Feeding America. Join us in the fight to end hunger in America.
www.feedingamerica.org
October 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Anyone who needs extra help affording food can visit a food pantry or meal program. Some pantries or programs may have additional requirements, like living in a certain area.
www.feedingamerica.org/take-action
www.feedingamerica.org/take-action
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US national debt surpasses a record $38 trillion
This is roughly $111,000 of debt for every person in the US, and is equivalent to the value of the economies of 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇩🇪 & 🇬🇧 combined.
flip.it/KT3elC and this doesn’t include the costs of Trump’s putinous destruction. Will Trump double or triple it?
This is roughly $111,000 of debt for every person in the US, and is equivalent to the value of the economies of 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇩🇪 & 🇬🇧 combined.
flip.it/KT3elC and this doesn’t include the costs of Trump’s putinous destruction. Will Trump double or triple it?
US national debt surpasses a record $38 trillion
The figure amounts to roughly $111,000 of debt for every person in the US, think tank says.
flip.it
October 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
US national debt surpasses a record $38 trillion
This is roughly $111,000 of debt for every person in the US, and is equivalent to the value of the economies of 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇩🇪 & 🇬🇧 combined.
flip.it/KT3elC and this doesn’t include the costs of Trump’s putinous destruction. Will Trump double or triple it?
This is roughly $111,000 of debt for every person in the US, and is equivalent to the value of the economies of 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇩🇪 & 🇬🇧 combined.
flip.it/KT3elC and this doesn’t include the costs of Trump’s putinous destruction. Will Trump double or triple it?
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Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
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Trump’s administration laid off thousands of federal workers, gutting critical departments: Treasury, HHS, and Education.
What we’re seeing now isn’t new. The shutdown is the new excuse. Create chaos, starve the government, and leave folks struggling while Trump’s billionaire buddies get richer.
What we’re seeing now isn’t new. The shutdown is the new excuse. Create chaos, starve the government, and leave folks struggling while Trump’s billionaire buddies get richer.
October 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Trump’s administration laid off thousands of federal workers, gutting critical departments: Treasury, HHS, and Education.
What we’re seeing now isn’t new. The shutdown is the new excuse. Create chaos, starve the government, and leave folks struggling while Trump’s billionaire buddies get richer.
What we’re seeing now isn’t new. The shutdown is the new excuse. Create chaos, starve the government, and leave folks struggling while Trump’s billionaire buddies get richer.
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James Bowman aka JD Vance knows his audience well.
August 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
James Bowman aka JD Vance knows his audience well.
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New reporting shows that Tom Homan was under internal investigation after accepting $50,000 in cash from the FBI last year.
The case was then dropped after Trump assumed office.
The case was then dropped after Trump assumed office.
September 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
New reporting shows that Tom Homan was under internal investigation after accepting $50,000 in cash from the FBI last year.
The case was then dropped after Trump assumed office.
The case was then dropped after Trump assumed office.
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The US Justice Department appears to have removed from its website a study into political violence in America by the National Institute of Justice, the Justice Department’s research agency, which concluded that far-right extremism outpaced “all other types of domestic violent extremism”.
September 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The US Justice Department appears to have removed from its website a study into political violence in America by the National Institute of Justice, the Justice Department’s research agency, which concluded that far-right extremism outpaced “all other types of domestic violent extremism”.
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Check out my new co-authored article published in Critical Sociology. Shannon Gleeson and I put our two preoccupations together to compare unions and the military, specifically how they talk about immigrants. I'll share a bit about our findings and link a free postprint. 🧵 doi.org/10.1177/0896...
Framing the Immigrant in Labor Unions and the Military in the United States - Sofya Aptekar, Shannon Gleeson, 2024
We present a comparative study of organizational discourses on immigrants in two cornerstone US institutions: labor unions and the US military, both powerful pl...
doi.org
January 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Check out my new co-authored article published in Critical Sociology. Shannon Gleeson and I put our two preoccupations together to compare unions and the military, specifically how they talk about immigrants. I'll share a bit about our findings and link a free postprint. 🧵 doi.org/10.1177/0896...
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This is one of my favorite posts from @hcrichardson.bsky.social
It strikes directly into the misconception so many people have about Mexicans in the US. Awareness and an understanding of history can completely change the way someone sees something.
And in the comments is a map for context.
It strikes directly into the misconception so many people have about Mexicans in the US. Awareness and an understanding of history can completely change the way someone sees something.
And in the comments is a map for context.
August 28, 2025
On August 29, 1970, journalist Rubén Salazar died instantly when Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy Thomas Wilson fired an 8-inch bullet-shaped tear gas projectile into the back of his head.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
August 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This is one of my favorite posts from @hcrichardson.bsky.social
It strikes directly into the misconception so many people have about Mexicans in the US. Awareness and an understanding of history can completely change the way someone sees something.
And in the comments is a map for context.
It strikes directly into the misconception so many people have about Mexicans in the US. Awareness and an understanding of history can completely change the way someone sees something.
And in the comments is a map for context.
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California lawmakers reach an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app-based drivers to form unions.
This is a victory for organized labor that could lay the groundwork for similar efforts in other states.
This is a victory for organized labor that could lay the groundwork for similar efforts in other states.
California reaches deal with Uber, Lyft to allow gig worker unions
The deal brings Uber and Lyft on board with a pathway to unionization for ride-hailing workers after the companies spent years fighting against the idea.
www.politico.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
California lawmakers reach an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app-based drivers to form unions.
This is a victory for organized labor that could lay the groundwork for similar efforts in other states.
This is a victory for organized labor that could lay the groundwork for similar efforts in other states.
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DOGE gutting of USAID has turned a humanitarian mission into a chaotic garage sale. Priceless medical equipment and vital supplies are now being sold off for pennies, abandoned or destroyed with critics warning the fire sale jeopardizes global health.
Inside the USAID Fire Sale
Around the world, defibrillators, motorbikes, and water towers are being donated, sold, or simply abandoned.
www.theatlantic.com
August 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
DOGE gutting of USAID has turned a humanitarian mission into a chaotic garage sale. Priceless medical equipment and vital supplies are now being sold off for pennies, abandoned or destroyed with critics warning the fire sale jeopardizes global health.
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August 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Corporate America’s playbook:
1) Exploit workers to maximize profits
2) Use profits to buy Congress
3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws
4) Use these laws to further exploit workers
5) Repeat
Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
1) Exploit workers to maximize profits
2) Use profits to buy Congress
3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws
4) Use these laws to further exploit workers
5) Repeat
Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
How Corporations Crush the Working Class | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
August 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Corporate America’s playbook:
1) Exploit workers to maximize profits
2) Use profits to buy Congress
3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws
4) Use these laws to further exploit workers
5) Repeat
Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
1) Exploit workers to maximize profits
2) Use profits to buy Congress
3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws
4) Use these laws to further exploit workers
5) Repeat
Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
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"In this moment, scientists, legal experts, and advocates must speak up to defend climate science, push back on disinformation, and preserve tools for accountability." Read UCS's Delta Merner's new blog.
The US Undermines Science While the World Demands Climate Justice
Thousands of peer-reviewed studies conducted over decades show that burning fossil fuels is driving climate change, with devastating consequences for people and ecosystems. That consensus is not in question.
blog.ucs.org
August 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"In this moment, scientists, legal experts, and advocates must speak up to defend climate science, push back on disinformation, and preserve tools for accountability." Read UCS's Delta Merner's new blog.
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The Trump administration announced that it plans to dismiss nearly all remaining employees at Voice of America, escalating tensions with a federal judge who had previously blocked efforts to overhaul the government-funded broadcaster.
August 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The Trump administration announced that it plans to dismiss nearly all remaining employees at Voice of America, escalating tensions with a federal judge who had previously blocked efforts to overhaul the government-funded broadcaster.
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"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power."
New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military
If there’s no difference between upholding the Constitution and attacking it, then there’s no honor in service.
www.thebulwark.com
August 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power."
New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
New from @markhertling.bsky.social: