It’s a Love Actually kind of night
December 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
It’s a Love Actually kind of night
I’ve recovered from Thanksgiving. I like wine again.
December 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I’ve recovered from Thanksgiving. I like wine again.
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this is especially important to know about right now as the feds pour tens of billions into detention
Prisons across the U.S. rely on incarcerated labor, often paying people cents per hour—or nothing at all. Historian Robert Chase answered readers’ questions on how this system developed, how it works today, and efforts to challenge it. boltsmag.org/the-pas...
The Past and Present of Prison Labor: Your Questions Answered
A historian answers <i>Bolts</i> readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and efforts to challenge it.
boltsmag.org
July 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
this is especially important to know about right now as the feds pour tens of billions into detention
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Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
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63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys
46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll
to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership
46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll
to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership
EXCLUSIVE: A top Democratic strategist has launched new policy research and messaging hub, called Searchlight, with a goal of pushing the party toward the most effective, broadly popular positions.
Dems are quietly forming a think tank to help them win again
Searchlight, a name inspired by the birthplace of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, comes at a precarious moment for a Democratic Party.
www.politico.com
June 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys
46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll
to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership
46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll
to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership
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This is the right-wing playbook:
Undermine the law. Call your critics crazy.
Repeat.
That’s why we need to call out authoritarianism and fight back.
Undermine the law. Call your critics crazy.
Repeat.
That’s why we need to call out authoritarianism and fight back.
March 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This is the right-wing playbook:
Undermine the law. Call your critics crazy.
Repeat.
That’s why we need to call out authoritarianism and fight back.
Undermine the law. Call your critics crazy.
Repeat.
That’s why we need to call out authoritarianism and fight back.
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Waiting until after Democrats caved on the CR, Trump issues a late night order to eliminate 7 agencies “to the maximum extent” allowed by law, including the organization running the Voice of America, the agency that helps fund museums and libraries in all 50 states, and so on. Order in alt text:
March 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Waiting until after Democrats caved on the CR, Trump issues a late night order to eliminate 7 agencies “to the maximum extent” allowed by law, including the organization running the Voice of America, the agency that helps fund museums and libraries in all 50 states, and so on. Order in alt text:
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Amplify this more. Elon has no ability to assess downstream consequences of his decisions because he knows nothing about govt besides what can be fed into an algorithm.
Really smart people have residency t for what they don’t know. The willingness to learn is a key quality of the truly brilliant.
Really smart people have residency t for what they don’t know. The willingness to learn is a key quality of the truly brilliant.
Can confirm. Former USAID here, and I’ve been approached twice in the last 30 days.
Your new allies: www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
March 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Amplify this more. Elon has no ability to assess downstream consequences of his decisions because he knows nothing about govt besides what can be fed into an algorithm.
Really smart people have residency t for what they don’t know. The willingness to learn is a key quality of the truly brilliant.
Really smart people have residency t for what they don’t know. The willingness to learn is a key quality of the truly brilliant.
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Musk using Trump to try re-establishing apartheid wasn’t on my bingo card, but it absolutely should have been.
Trump is suddenly concerned about South Africa. Gee, I wonder where that came from.
February 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Musk using Trump to try re-establishing apartheid wasn’t on my bingo card, but it absolutely should have been.
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‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB".
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
January 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB".
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
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Some news: A few hours after I filed the draft to this story, CNN laid me off.
As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.
It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.
It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
Trump’s executive order took aim at “environmental justice” — eliminating positions and assessing spending on projects, including those aimed at poor, rural communities.
I talked to former WH environmental justice advisers to the Biden administration on what this means. www.cnn.com/2025/01/26/c...
I talked to former WH environmental justice advisers to the Biden administration on what this means. www.cnn.com/2025/01/26/c...
Trump’s gutting of federal DEI programs will hit rural poor communities | CNN
Just hours after his swearing-in this week, President Donald Trump signed action to end “radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preferencing.” Communities across the country, including in po...
www.cnn.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Some news: A few hours after I filed the draft to this story, CNN laid me off.
As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.
It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.
It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
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Republicans thought they were voting for cheaper eggs and what they’re going to get is war with Denmark and Panama.
January 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Republicans thought they were voting for cheaper eggs and what they’re going to get is war with Denmark and Panama.
We’ve lost a man of moral courage and that saddens me. Though happy he does not have to experience a 2nd T***p term. If only politicians today had half the character of President Carter.
December 29, 2024 at 9:27 PM
We’ve lost a man of moral courage and that saddens me. Though happy he does not have to experience a 2nd T***p term. If only politicians today had half the character of President Carter.
70th anniversary of this gem
December 16, 2024 at 3:20 PM
70th anniversary of this gem
I dream of life where I get both Kate Winslet’s English country cottage & Cameron Diaz’ LA mansion in The Holiday. Is it that too much to dream for?
December 8, 2024 at 2:40 AM
I dream of life where I get both Kate Winslet’s English country cottage & Cameron Diaz’ LA mansion in The Holiday. Is it that too much to dream for?
Starting Christmas movies for the season: first watch is Love Actually. ❤️
December 5, 2024 at 3:08 AM
Starting Christmas movies for the season: first watch is Love Actually. ❤️
Y’all do not sleep on Pachinko on Apple TV+ it’s sooo good!
November 25, 2024 at 12:25 AM
Y’all do not sleep on Pachinko on Apple TV+ it’s sooo good!
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cynthia erivo and ariana grande were completely and utterly made for their roles in wicked, truly
November 24, 2024 at 4:32 AM
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