Erica Brody

And in less-breaking news.
#SignOfTheDay

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

Kathy Hochul tweets: My top priority is the safety of all New Yorkers. I am receiving intelligence briefings and closely monitoring the evolving situation in Iran alongside federal and local partners. The New York State Police are working to protect at-risk sites and fight cyberattacks. 9:15 PM • Jun 21, 2025

NY gov Kathy Hochul says she is working with state police to secure at-risk sites in the wake of the Iran bombings

Without Congressional approval or the support of the American people, Trump took unilateral action to bomb Iran — an aggressive first strike against a powerful adversary, made only to feed the ego of a man obsessed with holding power over people’s lives. I condemn him, and I condemn his illegal war.

Sign of the day. #Sighted
Brooklyn street art. #ParkSlope

Pink protest makes watching this slightly more bearable.

This Sunday!

To America’s 2.3 million federal employees:

Don’t accept a buyout.

Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.

And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?

Sincerely,
Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor

🔜

Yes. I like that my senator’s call to action is simple. And something every day people around the country can do.

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A small piece of good news, I just read this in my newsletter from Dan Rather (you're on his list, yes?)

www.theskimm.com/news/reprodu...

The only minority group destroying America are billionaires.

Heil Tesla YouTube video by Led By Donkeys

Just in time for Intl Holocaust Remembrance Day
Elon Musk calls on Germany to move past guilt
in support of its far-right AfD party
A dystopian future
more tangible each day
w/ fascism rising
& in America, next to of course, etc
We must #NeverForget
The hate of the Holocaust
or THIS heil
this hell

Just what I needed.
Thanks, @jennpozner.bsky.social (and @veronicaeye.bsky.social) for lifting up voices new (to me) and loved by me.

#WorthNoting

Nikki Giovanni wrote this poem on the death of Gwendolyn Brooks but her words are big and right enough to immortalize her, too. And in them, we see how Giovanni's own power, of mind and word, "revolves into a resolve that we carry in our own hearts."
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90181/...