Dan

What if we could have leaders who aren't either evil monsters or spineless weenies

The ‘Welfare Queen’ Is Back, but She Never Quite Left - The American Prospect The stereotype of the welfare queen, typically a single Black mother, was employed to rationalize the pause in SNAP benefits, and it proved effective.

As Americans struggled to feed their families without SNAP benefits, Republicans saw an opportunity to resurrect the “Welfare Queen” by lying about benefits and spreading racist AI-generated videos. From Naomi Bethune: trib.al/emmnett

Why is Mainstream Media Ignoring Overtly Racist Attacks on Mamdani from Congressional Republicans? Non-stop Islamopbohic vitriol, threats of deportation, and virtually no coverage from CNN, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal or The Washington Post.

Congressional republicans have been spewing racist attacks on Mamdani for weeks and it’s almost never mentioned in our media. Not only that, the person leading the hate campaign—Randy Fine—is treated by the same media as a good faith expert on antisemitism. I wrote about this obscene double standard

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

After an economic crash you always see headlines like What Was Everyone Thinking? What do you mean everyone, most of us are waving our arms and screaming every day, it's a handful of insanely rich assholes who aren't listening

It's funny how they're everything they accuse the poor of being. They're pedophiles, barely literate criminals. We pay for them to live, but they barely work. They spend all our money on frivolous and stupid things like bombs and private jets. Dirtbags. Leeches.

Starbucks Workers Tell Bosses: No Contract, No Coffee - The American Prospect Starbucks baristas didn’t want to go on strike. But after four years of waiting for a contract at any of their hundreds of unionized stores, 12,000 workers at one of the world’s biggest fast-food comp...

“The board of Starbucks has suggested that they believe shareholders hold all the power. But this is a consumer-based company, consumers hold a lot of power. And there’s going to be a direct ask of them.” - @sharblock.bsky.social in @prospect.org
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You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Israel Considers Instituting a Death Penalty for Palestinians—but Not for Jews - The American Prospect The bill, which would impose a mandatory death penalty on Palestinians who kill Jewish Israelis, was introduced by the far-right Jewish Power party, and a sizable minority of Knesset members backed the legislation.

Israel’s far-right Jewish Power Party introduced a bill mandating the death penalty for Palestinians who kill Jewish Israelis, while Israeli settlers in the West Bank continue to kill with impunity. From Harold Meyerson: trib.al/ljgMRm9

“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...

NEW: 2020 footage said to be in 2025. A neighbor who keeps reappearing in the same clip, said to be on different days & months. A broadcast from elsewhere suggested as Portland.

How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president.

www.propublica.org/article/port...

Just learned the medication I pay $16 a month for will cost around $400 next year but at least there aren’t long lines at the airport anymore

It's good to have this on the record.
There are 8 (probably more) Senate Democrats who don't believe in majority rule, and who desperately want excuses for failing to govern in ways their voters want when in power.

NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Exclusive | Fannie Mae Watchdogs Probed How Pulte Obtained Mortgage Records of Key Democrats FHFA’s acting inspector general handed probe report to U.S. attorney office that had indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James

Seems clear that Pulte 1) broke the law while going on fishing expeditions for baseless mortgage fraud claims 2) immediately removed everyone who tried to investigate that wrong-doing.

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean:

"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."

Also, the HHS Secretary sold cocaine in college and was a heroin addict for 14 years so it is RICH whenever they go after people for old drug offenses.

Here’s the single frame from the video where you can see clearly a masked Border Patrol agent with one hand on the steering wheel and the other hand outside the window spraying pepper spray randomly into the open window of a passing car.

Shutdown Deal Kills Food Safety Rules After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.

BREAKING NEWS: Senators quietly put language into the shutdown deal helping their donors block rules to prevent food contamination & foodborne illnesses at farms & restaurants, according to bill text reviewed by @levernews.com.

The provisions come amid an explosion of foodborne illnesses.

Twitch is sorely lacking in basic tax guidance for creators and this just makes it more difficult.

Apart from any psychological factors, I don't like that doing this makes it unclear when your earnings are taxed. With payouts, you have receipts of each payout event and can apply it to the appropriate tax year and locale. As far as I can tell, when enrolled in this every earning event is taxable?

this is the part of trump you only see in feeds like aarons and the rest of the mainstream media like ny times, nbc, cnn, etc wipes out of existence like it doesnt happen nearly every day

The Myth of the Democrats’ Gerontocracy Problem - The American Prospect The Democrats’ problem is not age—it’s corporate and centrist Democrats of all ages. What distinguishes some of the most successful young Democrats is not just their youth but the fact that they are compelling progressive populists.

The problem with the Democratic Party isn’t age—it’s centrist opportunists. Democrats need younger leaders, but they really need more progressive candidates. From Robert Kuttner: trib.al/CCurWV0

How Elon Musk’s Changes to X Made Our Discourse Far Stupider We don’t know the minute when X started throttling links to news,...

Read @daveweigel.bsky.social on the widespread societal consequences of Elon's link suppression:

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Democrats Get Rolled by Their Own - The American Prospect Coming out of last Tuesday’s election blowout, the Democrats were riding high and unified. But on Sunday night, centrist Senate Democrats, with Chuck Schumer’s tacit encouragement, voted to reopen the government on Republican terms.

Senate Democrats voted to reopen the government on Republicans’ terms, forfeiting their growing leverage as Republicans felt the pressure of the shutdown. Robert Kuttner reports on the state of the funding bill:
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Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.

Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.

In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.

Fascinating to watch Donald Trump take the Joe Biden approach to economy messaging with an economy he's personally tanked