Beth Holtzman

There's no excuse for the Vice President of the United States to use a heinous killing as an occasion to baselessly frame political opponents as accomplices to murder while threatening to use the power of the government to attack them.

This dangerous rhetoric will only fan the flames.

YouTube video by Robert Reich The Secret Behind High Gas Prices

Big Oil spent nearly half a BILLION dollars in last year’s election cycle.

Now, they’re coming to collect — and they’re getting a big return on investment. Watch. youtu.be/aDQXiNlM5iM?...

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Robert Reich How Trump is Following Hitler's Playbook | Robert Reich

Yesterday, protestors heckled Trump and called him "the Hitler of our time."

Whether you agree with that or not, it's clear that Donald Trump is already following a dictator's playbook just months into his second term. Watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSxJRIiCNs8

Trump's approval ratings are tanking. He's blowing up the economy. He hasn't done squat to help the working class. The Epstein scandal haunts him.

He is a weak and failing president with his back against the wall.

Keep up the pressure.

When Trump said "I am your voice," this is who he was talking to.

After heavy corporate lobbying, RFK Jr.'s new MAHA report takes a hands-off approach to Big Ag and "forever chemicals" — despite their connection to rising cancer rates and drinking water contamination.

Tell me how this is supposed to make America healthy again?

A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story A conversation with George Retes, an Army veteran swept up in a California raid

Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.

Pessimism among job seekers is the worst in a decade Workers feel awful about their chances of finding new jobs. Recent data from the New York Federal Reserve highlights the reality for those out of work amid the most stagnant labor market in years.

Candidates are facing some of the toughest job-hunting conditions since the 2008 financial crisis due to a blend of forces — low unemployment and job quits, slowly rising layoffs, and sluggish hiring.

Adrian Klenz, who works with deafblind adults in Wisconsin, said he was told the grant was apparently flagged bc of the words "transition" (as in, transitioning from childhood to adulthood) and "privilege" (one parent said it was a privilege to work with the program's staff).

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Inflation grew hotter in August, as tariffs hit consumer prices New inflation data due Thursday showed prices ticking higher again, offering fresh evidence that tariffs are filtering into consumers’ wallets.

Inflation heated up in August at a 2.9 percent annual rate — a faster pace than in June and July — as trade policy continues to filter into consumers’ wallets.

How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein

A six year investigation by NYT reporters found the nation’s largest bank enabled Epstein for years.

🎁 article

Jim Jordan in 2010: "Within a couple years we'll be paying a billion dollars a day just to service the debt...America understands the budget path we're on is unsustainable."

We're now spending $2.6 billion a day to service our debt and Jim Jordan added $4.1 TRILLION to the debt.

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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

Trump Asked EPA Employees to Snitch on Colleagues Working on DEI Initiatives. They Declined. EPA staff didn’t use a tip line set up by the Trump administration to identify and assist in slashing programs focused on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.

NEW: When Trump took office, the administration set up a tip line for employees to identify and assist in slashing programs focused on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.

Not one of the EPA’s more than 15,000 employees used it.

Big companies might be able to get exemptions from the tariffs. Small ones will just go bankrupt

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

We’ve been warning about this on @pivotpod.bsky.social for 6 months now.

USCG District 1 Navigation Beacon Removal Interactive Map Explore an interactive map of proposed U.S. Coast Guard navigational marker removals for District 1. View approximate locations, learn about the changes, and find out how to submit public comments. No...

If you’re concerned about the proposed removal of navigational markers along the Northeast coast, the Coast Guard is accepting public comment through June 13. Email: DPWPublicComments@uscg.mil

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3 children who are US citizens — including one with cancer — deported with their mothers to Honduras, lawyers and advocacy groups say | CNN Three US citizen children were deported to Honduras with their mothers last week, including a 4-year-old receiving treatment for metastatic cancer, according to the families’ attorneys and civil right...

Three children who are US citizens were deported to Honduras with their mothers last week, including a 4-year-old receiving treatment for metastatic cancer, according to the families’ attorneys and civil rights and immigration advocacy organizations.

Manufacturing employs 11m, tourism 12m.

#richkid
#amateur

Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.

Signalgate 2.0
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Harvard pushes back on claim that Trump team mistakenly sent demand letter Harvard on Saturday balked at claims that the letter was sent in error, pointing out that the Trump administration had “doubled down” on its threats.

“‘Even assuming the Administration now wishes to take back its litany of breathtakingly intrusive demands,’ the university said in its statement, ‘it appears to have doubled down on those demands through its deeds in recent days.

‘Actions speak louder than words.’”

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...

NEW: In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies.

By @alecmac.bsky.social

Oil Spill in North Dakota Prompts Shutdown of Keystone Pipeline An estimated 3,500 barrels of oil spilled in a field near Fort Ransom, N.D., and the release was contained, the pipeline’s operator said.

The Keystone pipeline system, which carries crude oil from Canada to the U.S., was shut down on Tuesday because of a leak that spilled an estimated 3,500 barrels of oil in southeastern North Dakota, government and company officials said.

Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.

“Mommy, no. Mommy.”

Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.

The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.

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Follow the money.

The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points.

And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.