Leslie Brice Bustmante
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September 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Where is the widespread outrage? How can this atrocity continue with impunity?
It is unconscionable and immoral for the world to allow this horror to take place.
2.2 million people are trapped with no food, water, aid, medicine, and baby formula.
This genocide must end and we must stop being complicit in the mass slaughter of babies and civilians.
2.2 million people are trapped with no food, water, aid, medicine, and baby formula.
This genocide must end and we must stop being complicit in the mass slaughter of babies and civilians.
May 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Where is the widespread outrage? How can this atrocity continue with impunity?
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"Do America and the world really need more grotesque creative interpretations of Trump and his visage? The best art can do now is to activate in us the emotional and social muscles we’ve let atrophy in our public life."
Trump, Fascism, and What Artists Can Do
There is tension between wanting art to transcend and wanting it to reflect reality back to us. Plus: Are Dems finally ready to retire the purity tests?
www.thebulwark.com
April 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"Do America and the world really need more grotesque creative interpretations of Trump and his visage? The best art can do now is to activate in us the emotional and social muscles we’ve let atrophy in our public life."
Relived he is alive. So grateful to and proud of my Senator.
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Relived he is alive. So grateful to and proud of my Senator.
Hello, Sen. Cruz? Feel free to speak out at any time.
Trump's IRS targeting Harvard? In honor of Tax Day, we found these old receipts
April 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Hello, Sen. Cruz? Feel free to speak out at any time.
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I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.
www.npr.org
April 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
www.harvard.edu
April 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
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For the layman, US treasury bonds have long been the safest of safe investments, meaning when the market tanks, people start buying bonds. In these cases, the 10-year yield goes down because bonds are being bought vs sold.
If the yield goes up as the markets goes down, that is bad. Very bad.
If the yield goes up as the markets goes down, that is bad. Very bad.
JUST IN 🚨: 10-Year Treasury Yield soaring above 4.4% for the first time since February - Scott Bessent in Panic Mode
April 9, 2025 at 4:02 AM
For the layman, US treasury bonds have long been the safest of safe investments, meaning when the market tanks, people start buying bonds. In these cases, the 10-year yield goes down because bonds are being bought vs sold.
If the yield goes up as the markets goes down, that is bad. Very bad.
If the yield goes up as the markets goes down, that is bad. Very bad.
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Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth."
No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
www.commerce.gov
April 9, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth."
No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
More than we knew.
April 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
More than we knew.
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The message is: crowd large.
Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift.
Events like this puncture that delusion.
Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift.
Events like this puncture that delusion.
You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.
People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—and what they fear he will do next.
www.motherjones.com
April 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The message is: crowd large.
Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift.
Events like this puncture that delusion.
Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift.
Events like this puncture that delusion.
“The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found.”
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
April 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
“The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found.”
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There’s another old community organizing adage that was demonstrated yesterday- ‘Organized people can beat organized money.”
April 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
There’s another old community organizing adage that was demonstrated yesterday- ‘Organized people can beat organized money.”
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"The power of the people is greater than the people in power." Wael Ghonim
Thank you, @booker.senate.gov
For your 25 hr 5 min record-breaking speech.
For your mental fortitude.
For your openness.
For being human.
For speaking 25 hrs of TRUTH to cut through the thick fog of gaslighting & LIES. ✊🏼
Thank you, @booker.senate.gov
For your 25 hr 5 min record-breaking speech.
For your mental fortitude.
For your openness.
For being human.
For speaking 25 hrs of TRUTH to cut through the thick fog of gaslighting & LIES. ✊🏼
April 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"The power of the people is greater than the people in power." Wael Ghonim
Thank you, @booker.senate.gov
For your 25 hr 5 min record-breaking speech.
For your mental fortitude.
For your openness.
For being human.
For speaking 25 hrs of TRUTH to cut through the thick fog of gaslighting & LIES. ✊🏼
Thank you, @booker.senate.gov
For your 25 hr 5 min record-breaking speech.
For your mental fortitude.
For your openness.
For being human.
For speaking 25 hrs of TRUTH to cut through the thick fog of gaslighting & LIES. ✊🏼
Listening to this now for the first time. Heart racing--the outrage, the portent. But yes, the beauty, and its knowing, its convincing. We must continue in the spirit of resistance and with the strength of love.
“challenging listeners to reconcile shimmering beauty with shattering portent”
Downbeat magazine on the release of _Defiant Life_
downbeat.com/news/detail/...
Downbeat magazine on the release of _Defiant Life_
downbeat.com/news/detail/...
Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith United by Values on ‘Defiant Life’
On March 20, the night before the release of Defiant Life, the new Vijay Iyer-Wadada Leo Smith duo album from ECM, the label was throwing what their invitation termed a “private listening party” at Ba...
downbeat.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Listening to this now for the first time. Heart racing--the outrage, the portent. But yes, the beauty, and its knowing, its convincing. We must continue in the spirit of resistance and with the strength of love.
"Trump-administration attorneys told the court to dismiss the request on multiple grounds, including that Trump’s “primacy in foreign affairs” outweighs the interests of Abrego Garcia and his family."
The Trump Administration admitted it made a mistake deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, even though he had protected status in the United States and had no criminal record.
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/Bot5mE4O
April 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"Trump-administration attorneys told the court to dismiss the request on multiple grounds, including that Trump’s “primacy in foreign affairs” outweighs the interests of Abrego Garcia and his family."
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It’s Election Day, Wisconsin! Have you made a plan to vote?
Your vote and your voice matters, so head to myvote.wi.gov to find your polling place, grab your photo ID, and get out to vote! 🗳
Your vote and your voice matters, so head to myvote.wi.gov to find your polling place, grab your photo ID, and get out to vote! 🗳
April 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It’s Election Day, Wisconsin! Have you made a plan to vote?
Your vote and your voice matters, so head to myvote.wi.gov to find your polling place, grab your photo ID, and get out to vote! 🗳
Your vote and your voice matters, so head to myvote.wi.gov to find your polling place, grab your photo ID, and get out to vote! 🗳
For the joy if it. 💕
This is what a loving Mexican gray wolf family looks like ❤️
March 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
For the joy if it. 💕
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He does discuss how changes to SSA will impact people so this is a good watch.
BREAKING: Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear reveals that DOGE’s “efficiency” screws 700,000 Kentucky seniors and threatens healthcare for fired federal employees.
Watch this and share so EVERY American sees what a disaster this is.
Watch this and share so EVERY American sees what a disaster this is.
March 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
He does discuss how changes to SSA will impact people so this is a good watch.
“If forced to do so, however, individuals from court security officers and probation officers to local police and sheriffs have the training and experience to bring contemnors into court. And unlike the marshals, these individuals would be responsible to the court alone.”
Are you subscribed to Democracy Docket? Here, they explain that the court has the power to appoint someone to execute civil contempt if the Marshall’s are ordered by Bondi to ignore them. 👀
I strongly suspect this recent piece from Prof. David Knoll is about to be come extremely relevant and widely read.
"Even a rogue marshal’s service, in other words, is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law. If courts have the courage, the legal tools are there."
"Even a rogue marshal’s service, in other words, is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law. If courts have the courage, the legal tools are there."
March 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
“If forced to do so, however, individuals from court security officers and probation officers to local police and sheriffs have the training and experience to bring contemnors into court. And unlike the marshals, these individuals would be responsible to the court alone.”
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If you are experiencing rage and despair about what is happening in America and the world right now because of the Trump-Vance-Musk regime, you are hardly alone. But a groundswell of opposition is growing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ten-reasons-for-optimism
February 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If you are experiencing rage and despair about what is happening in America and the world right now because of the Trump-Vance-Musk regime, you are hardly alone. But a groundswell of opposition is growing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ten-reasons-for-optimism
JD Vance’s Debacle in Germany Exposes MAGA’s Sinister Global Endgame newrepublic.com/article/1916... via @newrepublic.com
JD Vance’s Debacle in Germany Exposes MAGA’s Sinister Global Endgame
Did you know that the United States is joining an international fascist network?
newrepublic.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
JD Vance’s Debacle in Germany Exposes MAGA’s Sinister Global Endgame newrepublic.com/article/1916... via @newrepublic.com
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He says what we've been shouting that MAGA just wouldn't hear but he says it in a way that some of them will hear. He's a rural farmer who speaks how they speak. @hcrichardson.bsky.social I posted 4 you to watch bec I think he's the missing link in our messaging. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4CR...
From One Farmer to Another
YouTube video by The Back Forty
www.youtube.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
He says what we've been shouting that MAGA just wouldn't hear but he says it in a way that some of them will hear. He's a rural farmer who speaks how they speak. @hcrichardson.bsky.social I posted 4 you to watch bec I think he's the missing link in our messaging. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4CR...