Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

A few years ago, the IRS got additional funding. What happened? More audits of wealthy tax cheats and better customer service for everyone else.

Fast forward to now and the IRS is so understaffed and underfunded that it’s using HR employees to process tax returns.

Trump delivers for the oligarchs.

For those keeping score at home:

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

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Jeffrey Epstein’s brother Mark sent a tip to the FBI accusing Trump of authorizing his murder:

“I have reason to believe he was killed because he was about to name names. I believe Present Trump authorized is murder.“

Vancouver councillors want ICE agents banned from FIFA World Cup events Two Vancouver city councillors are pushing to ban U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from local FIFA World Cup events this year.

🇨🇦Vancouver councillors want ICE-Gestapo banned from FIFA World Cup events.

ICE-Gestapo has been murdering US citizens.

"We don’t want it disrupting the success of an event that we, collectively, have invested a lot of money in,”

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It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

A pastel grey-yellow newspaper background with splotches of faded ink. In the foreground is a row of three identical portraits of Callie House, a 19th-century Black woman with her hair pulled back, wearing a ruffled black dress with a white lace collar and black bow. The portraits are tinted orange, grey, and yellow, respectively. There are orange and yellow scribbles behind the row of portraits. The text above says: “@HealthJusticeCommons. Black Futures, Black Health.” And the text below says: “Callie House and the movement for reparations.”

A pastel grey-yellow newspaper background with splotches of faded ink. In the foreground is a row of three identical portraits of Callie House, a 19th-century Black woman with her hair pulled back, wearing a ruffled black dress with a white lace collar and black bow. The portraits are tinted orange, grey, and yellow, respectively. The text above says: “@HealthJusticeCommons. A formerly enslaved Black woman with limited access to education. A working-class widow, mother, and washerwoman. An advocate who petitioned the US government for reparations in the form of pensions and encouraged other formerly enslaved Black people to do the same. Co-founder of a national organization with nearly 300,000 members at its height. Her name was Callie Rose.”

A pastel grey-yellow newspaper background with splotches of faded ink. There are yellow scribbles in the top right and bottom left corners. The text from top to bottom says: “@HealthJusticeCommons. Callie House (1861 - 1928) co-founded the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association which, at its height, had almost 300,000 members. Local chapters emerged across the country and used monthly dues to take care of those who were sick or disabled and cover members’ burial expenses. This is one example of what mutual aid looked like among Black people in the post-Emancipation era.”

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A formerly enslaved Black woman with limited access to education. A working-class widow, mother, and washerwoman. An advocate who petitioned the US government for reparations in the form of pensions and encouraged other formerly enslaved Black people to do the same.

Her name was Callie House.

A displaced Palestinian father in besieged Gaza painted a sun on his tent window to bring some comfort and normalcy to his children amid Israel's ongoing war.

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

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“Per a new report from The New York Times—cowritten by former Post media columnist Erik Wemple—the paper is initiating “a widespread round of layoffs.” Other outlets reported that at least a third of Post employees across business and editorial are being let go.

Congress, it's time to start an independent commission to investigate and make sense of the Epstein Files.

The American public demands answers for everyone named in the files and accountability for the victims. It's time.

How deep does this go? Why won't the DOJ do their job? Investigate them.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
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Amazon dropped $75M on the Melania doc — with a big chunk going into the Trumps' pockets.

Since then, Amazon Web Services got a $580M Pentagon contract.

And this week, Pete Hegseth visited Blue Origin facilities as the DoD overhauls how it hands out defense contracts.

Always follow the money.

It is like a tsunami of sewage. And we mustn’t be too overwhelmed, shut down, or desensitized to allow it all to go unaddressed, to give these subhumans yet another pass in accountability.

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This is an Underground Railroad style operation. This is what I mean that we should study UR history, tactics, and strategy.

What has happened in Minnesota should terrify every single American. If they can erode the rights of some, they can do it to you. No one is safe.

We must stand up for the rights of EVERYONE in our communities and protect our democracy and our Constitution.

ICE and Border Patrol agents must be reined in. Here is one thing we can do right now. Please read and share. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/americas-gestapo

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

Gaza death toll rises as Israeli raids intensify post ceasefire Israeli raids cause rising casualties in Gaza, as attacks persist despite the ceasefire agreement.

Israeli raids cause rising casualties in Gaza, as attacks persist despite the ceasefire agreement.

damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

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Can you commit to reading, analog-style/a real world book or magazine, for ten minutes a day, for 14 days? Reclaim your time and attention!

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Cristina on Instagram: "1/7 - The Face of the ICE Officer in MN." The deadly shooting of a US citizen by an ICE officer in Minneapolis has left many questioning the officer's actions and the lack of accountability. The officer, who has not been named, claimed he was...

Name and shame time.

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