Todd Rossman
@mystic-scientist.bsky.social
American beekeeper &
philosophical counselor
in Latvia, EU
philosophical counselor
in Latvia, EU
An indicator of public opinion opposing more and personal conscience expressed with non-violent protest.
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
December 30, 2025 at 7:48 AM
An indicator of public opinion opposing more and personal conscience expressed with non-violent protest.
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The top secret migrant detention camp that Rachel Maddow is describing in Fort Bliss Texas—that absolutely nobody has access to because it is on a military base—sounds a lot like a concentration camp😱
December 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The top secret migrant detention camp that Rachel Maddow is describing in Fort Bliss Texas—that absolutely nobody has access to because it is on a military base—sounds a lot like a concentration camp😱
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Since 1975, $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1% — a 1% that now owns more wealth than the bottom 93%.
We can respect innovation & entrepreneurship, but we cannot respect the extraordinary greed that now exists.
We need a wealth tax.
We can respect innovation & entrepreneurship, but we cannot respect the extraordinary greed that now exists.
We need a wealth tax.
December 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Since 1975, $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1% — a 1% that now owns more wealth than the bottom 93%.
We can respect innovation & entrepreneurship, but we cannot respect the extraordinary greed that now exists.
We need a wealth tax.
We can respect innovation & entrepreneurship, but we cannot respect the extraordinary greed that now exists.
We need a wealth tax.
1/3 Kristi Lee decided to withdraw from playing at the Kennedy Center. Asked why, she reported
" I think is a very simple place, it was a kind natural instinct, a simple gut pull, which is a natural way to live life. So when the name change happened, it just didn't sit right. "
" I think is a very simple place, it was a kind natural instinct, a simple gut pull, which is a natural way to live life. So when the name change happened, it just didn't sit right. "
December 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
1/3 Kristi Lee decided to withdraw from playing at the Kennedy Center. Asked why, she reported
" I think is a very simple place, it was a kind natural instinct, a simple gut pull, which is a natural way to live life. So when the name change happened, it just didn't sit right. "
" I think is a very simple place, it was a kind natural instinct, a simple gut pull, which is a natural way to live life. So when the name change happened, it just didn't sit right. "
Getting rid of corporations' power & influence in US elections is feasible in 2026. 75% of Americans already agree and Montana leads the way.
Do you have the initiative happening in your State?
Do you have the initiative happening in your State?
Friends — Here's one "big idea" for how we can start to fix the system in 2026. Let me know your thoughts.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
December 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Getting rid of corporations' power & influence in US elections is feasible in 2026. 75% of Americans already agree and Montana leads the way.
Do you have the initiative happening in your State?
Do you have the initiative happening in your State?
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
December 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.
December 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.
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Christmas attack on civilians in Kyiv. Sure, the Russians want peace
‼️ Movement of missiles and drones during the massive Russian attack on Ukraine
December 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Christmas attack on civilians in Kyiv. Sure, the Russians want peace
1/2 When we learned about different forms of government in school, the difference between just and unjust, good and evil, and history one thing was evident. When more sudden funding goes to a new governmental armed force after years of appeal for educational resources, something is off.
December 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
1/2 When we learned about different forms of government in school, the difference between just and unjust, good and evil, and history one thing was evident. When more sudden funding goes to a new governmental armed force after years of appeal for educational resources, something is off.
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As an anthropologist, I believe art can only be understood in context. This music belongs on the list of best Christmas music. This performance, in this particular time and place…all the feels. bsky.app/profile/pete...
The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground.
Wonderful!
Wonderful!
December 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
As an anthropologist, I believe art can only be understood in context. This music belongs on the list of best Christmas music. This performance, in this particular time and place…all the feels. bsky.app/profile/pete...
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no will convince me that "Heritage American" is anything other than an heirloom farmer's market tomato name
December 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
no will convince me that "Heritage American" is anything other than an heirloom farmer's market tomato name
Always we must remember the past in all nuance and detail, and not only leave place names like Wounded Knee as a legacy
163 years ago in Mankato, 38 Dakota men were hung in the largest mass execution in our nation’s history.
I’m grateful to the riders who continue to remind us the importance of fighting for accountability and healing for the Dakota people.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
I’m grateful to the riders who continue to remind us the importance of fighting for accountability and healing for the Dakota people.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Dakota riders return home to Minnesota via horseback, honoring legacy of Dakota 38
Dakota riders completed a journey of hundreds of miles to honor the 38 Dakota men executed in 1862 — the largest mass execution in U.S. history. The annual rides ending in Mankato serve as a poignant ...
www.mprnews.org
December 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Always we must remember the past in all nuance and detail, and not only leave place names like Wounded Knee as a legacy
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Venezuela, Iran and Nigeria are all in Trump’s gunsights. Turns out that together, the 3 countries also hold almost a third of the world’s oil reserves.
Canada, aka Trump’s “51st state,”holds an additional 10 percent.
Canada, aka Trump’s “51st state,”holds an additional 10 percent.
December 27, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Venezuela, Iran and Nigeria are all in Trump’s gunsights. Turns out that together, the 3 countries also hold almost a third of the world’s oil reserves.
Canada, aka Trump’s “51st state,”holds an additional 10 percent.
Canada, aka Trump’s “51st state,”holds an additional 10 percent.
Greed and inequity is an equal opportunity folly. Impermanence of all people & things including nations, ego, stories, desires, compassion, languages, inventions like governments - any form of polity is inevitable. So taught my 2nd wave feminist mom who also taught undying hope about all of them.
December 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Greed and inequity is an equal opportunity folly. Impermanence of all people & things including nations, ego, stories, desires, compassion, languages, inventions like governments - any form of polity is inevitable. So taught my 2nd wave feminist mom who also taught undying hope about all of them.
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Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine
December 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine
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The group of six authors includes two-time Pulitzer Prize winner John Carreyrou… “They argue, as in previous cases, that high-quality books are the "gold standard" of training data and that the AI companies "used those copies to build systems now worth many hundreds of billions of dollars."
Authors File New Lawsuit Against AI Companies Seeking More Money
Six authors have filed individual lawsuits against Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity AI, arguing they are entitled to more than the $3,000 per title proposed by the Anthropic copyri...
www.publishersweekly.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The group of six authors includes two-time Pulitzer Prize winner John Carreyrou… “They argue, as in previous cases, that high-quality books are the "gold standard" of training data and that the AI companies "used those copies to build systems now worth many hundreds of billions of dollars."
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The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
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I can’t believe they’re doing this to the only person on earth who’s won the FIFA peace prize.
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
December 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I can’t believe they’re doing this to the only person on earth who’s won the FIFA peace prize.
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Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
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Now that Stephen Miller is calling for CBS to fire journalists who are trying to tell the truth about Trump's mass deportations, it's a good time to check out our deep reported dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda:
Now that Bari Weiss pulled a segment telling the truth about Trump's deportations to let Stephen Miller have his say (i.e. spread propaganda), it's a good time to check out our deep dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda, which doesn't pull any punches:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Now that Stephen Miller is calling for CBS to fire journalists who are trying to tell the truth about Trump's mass deportations, it's a good time to check out our deep reported dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda:
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Trump has revoked legal status for at least 1.6 million immigrants over the past year by cancelling programs like TPS and student visas.
Remember: these are people who entered the country legally.
Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.
Remember: these are people who entered the country legally.
Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.
December 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Trump has revoked legal status for at least 1.6 million immigrants over the past year by cancelling programs like TPS and student visas.
Remember: these are people who entered the country legally.
Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.
Remember: these are people who entered the country legally.
Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.
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Thanks, vexedheretic. I had forgotten about that recording.
Certainly looks like they are delivering on their promise, richly earning Republicans their new logo.
Certainly looks like they are delivering on their promise, richly earning Republicans their new logo.
December 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Thanks, vexedheretic. I had forgotten about that recording.
Certainly looks like they are delivering on their promise, richly earning Republicans their new logo.
Certainly looks like they are delivering on their promise, richly earning Republicans their new logo.
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A reminder that the Epstein Files Transparency Act stipulates that ONLY information on Epstein's victims can be redacted. It goes on to specify that no information can be redacted to spare anyone embarrassment.
DOJ redacted the names of all 10 of Epstein's co-conspirators.
Bondi is a criminal.
DOJ redacted the names of all 10 of Epstein's co-conspirators.
Bondi is a criminal.
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A reminder that the Epstein Files Transparency Act stipulates that ONLY information on Epstein's victims can be redacted. It goes on to specify that no information can be redacted to spare anyone embarrassment.
DOJ redacted the names of all 10 of Epstein's co-conspirators.
Bondi is a criminal.
DOJ redacted the names of all 10 of Epstein's co-conspirators.
Bondi is a criminal.
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The “Warrior Dividend” Trump announced during his televised address to the nation is not a Christmas bonus made possible by tariff revenues, as the president suggested. The $1,776 payments to troops come from a congressionally-approved housing supplement — money they were already set to receive
Trump’s new $1,776 ‘Warrior Dividend’ to troops is coming from Pentagon funding, not tariffs
It’s not a Christmas bonus made possible by tariff revenues, as the president suggested.
trib.al
December 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The “Warrior Dividend” Trump announced during his televised address to the nation is not a Christmas bonus made possible by tariff revenues, as the president suggested. The $1,776 payments to troops come from a congressionally-approved housing supplement — money they were already set to receive