Every year I give to Appalachian Citizens' Law Center to support their Black Lung Fund and environmental justice work. It's hard to imagine what they've been through after the flooding two years in a row, but they continued to show up for the community. If you give today, there is a matching funder!
NYPD Clears a Path for Federal Agents on Canal Street With Violent Arrests and Pepper Spray
An immigration crackdown was scheduled for Saturday afternoon on Canal Street, but was abandoned after demonstrators and vendors caught wind of it.
In 2025, as of September 9, there have already been 300 mass shootings in the U.S., according to CNN.
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Can't believe we're going to do tulip frenzy every 5 years until the world turns to dust
Some of the best films and tv from the past decade have been about identity, race, gender and consent (ie woke): random acts of flyness, get out, watchmen, I may destroy you, Nate, transparent
@thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social please bring back the weekly ask the mayor show if Zohran wins!
A new legislative carveout could redirect billions in funding for rural broadband construction to Elon Musk’s satellite company. www.levernews.com/trump-just-q...
In 2020, George's Floyd's killing by police sparked a reckoning in America — in many cases, with Black women at the center. For my latest Amendment column, I asked some of them: What did that moment ask of you — and what, if anything, did it give back? 19thnews.org/2025/05/blac...
It's really not. When Dems bother fighting back with arguments, they easily win this issue every time. When they stick their head in the sand and ignore it, they lose.
From WWII through 1980, as Americans fairly shared the wealth, the federal tax rate on incomes over half a million or so was never less than 70%.Then in the 80s it was cut in half, where it remains—37%.
Since 1980 U.S. debt increased 10X. In no small part due to reckless GOP anti-tax extremism.
An excellent article -and podcast- questioning whether climate activists are really so radical. It makes you wonder: has any society in history been as willingly docile as ours?
An IT worker for the nat'l parks drove to a bridge & called a friend to talk him down.
A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family.
A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Why would I read abundance when I could get more wisdom from a Dr Bronners bottle
“We know further that if all those who squander to-day the fruits of others’ toil were forced to employ their leisure in useful work, our wealth would increase in proportion to the number of producers, and more.”
“We know, indeed, that the producers, although they constitute hardly one-third of the inhabitants of civilized countries, even now produce such quantities of goods that a certain degree of comfort could be brought to every hearth.”
“Why, even to the best paid workman, this uncertainty for the morrow, in the midst of all the wealth inherited from the past, and in spite of the powerful means of production, which could ensure comfort to all, in return for a few hours of daily toil?”
“In our civilized societies we are rich. Why then are the many poor? Why this painful drudgery for the masses?”
Why would I read Abundance when I could read Peter Kropotkin’s 1892 Conquest of Bread
This is unironically what New York City was like before the fiscal crisis and I’m sad I wasn’t there
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@bhighsmith.bsky.social and Quinn slobodian write about this billionaire and corporate retreat substack.perfectunion.us/p/musk-is-bu...
This model creates a tax and amenities haven, it’s a retreat from local democratic governance after SpaceX secured millions in tax incentives to come to the region.
Locals from the rest of Cameron county, one of the poorest in the nation, will commute to work in landscaping, construction and service industry jobs. And importantly, they’ll be contractors, not employees. /
It’s tempting to call this a company town but what Musk is building, and has built at many of his corporate campuses is a planned community for white collar space x workers, with the attendant amenities for a work force making high six figures. /
We have other great stuff today! This from @brycecovert.bsky.social gives a sense of the anxiety that Head Start programs and families feel when appropriated federal funding is delayed. The programs operate on such thin margins (by design) that a few days' delay could mean having to close
Just learned today that 92% of US import consumption is dolls for beautiful little girls. Higher than I would have expected!
I’m frustrated by the outsized attention the Blue Dog coalition dems get, some of whom barely won their districts. They say they’re voting according to what their base wants (often rural, wcw or wc Latinos) but they’re actually pandering by taking the positions of right wing media. For example:
Brooklyn bus stop ads being replaced with guerilla public service announcements.
