Dani Welch

Oh. Oh no.

The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics are becoming uncomfortably akin to the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

Covid vaccines saved millions of lives and won the Nobel Prize and this hungry ghost just cancelled the program that brought them to us. (Gift link)

My best friend who watches Maddow just called to tell me that she landed the plane and plainly stated that the US is currently being ruled by a consolidating authoritarian regime. Not that it is 'descending into' etc etc but that it is here. Maybe this will move more liberals to say the same.

The book cover for Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, Edited by Kelly Hayes. The book cover features an artistic rendering of a person with long hair wading into a body of water at night in a wilderness.

Hey fam, my new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart, comes out in three months. That means now is the critical window for preorders, which help get books on shelves, in libraries, and into the hands of the people who need them most. www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/vCQt68D...

Suddenly feeling ever so slightly better about my recently-re-damaged-by-flooding backyard.

Still looks better than this.

Hot dog spill shuts down highway in Pennsylvania commuters' wurst nightmare By Associated Press UPDATED: August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM ET SHREWSBURY, Pa. (AP) - A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania interstate Friday after a crash that briefly clogged the heavily traveled artery in both directions.

A writer waits a lifetime for a moment like this.

Unsealed documents detail alleged Epstein victim’s recruitment at Mar-a-Lago The woman was allegedly recruited to give Epstein massages that often involved sexual activity.

They were "taken out of the spa" by Ghislaine Maxwell, who recruited them from Mar-a-Lago. You know, the woman His Magasty is thinking about pardoning.

I'll never understand the enthusiasm for trying to find the right spin for dehumanizing people, especially an already marginalized, vulnerable group.

They do know that you can just...not do this, right?

The reception was mostly warm besides an occasional detractor, including a man who pulled Cuomo in for a handshake, took out his phone for a selfie, and as the former three-term governor of New York smiled for the camera, told him, "I can't wait to watch you lose again.

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When 100% Doesn't Mean 100% How often is a case cleared in the year it occurred?

This week I wrote about why a 100% clearance rate doesn't mean every crime was solved.

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"[T]he military bombed a family home in Beit Lahiya, killing 16 ... [T]he army struck again during rescue efforts, wounding rescuers who had arrived at the scene. Nine of the victims of the attack were children, including a 5-year-old and a 2-year-old. The youngest victim was a two-month-old baby."

Every journalist on 60minutes and the cbs news needs to quit and publicly explain why.

"This would have never happened had [3-year-old Ke'Torrius 'K.J.' Starkes Jr.] been with his parents."

We need Democratic leaders who are willing to cast America’s billionaires not as success stories of American capitalism, but as parasitic oligarchs robbing the people blind, dismantling the country, undermining western democracy, and burning the whole world just to keep their taxes low.

Two things:
1. This is disgusting, like nearly everything Israel has done in this "conflict"
2. Fuck yeah, Christian Smalls!

a thin white woman in head to toe lululemon screaming at these thugs makes me think ICE has jumped the shark

Another officer says, “They’re starting to resist more now,” to which an officer replies: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them.”

"An internal U.S. government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas of U.S.-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation."

Again the same tragic arc of genocide where - in the moment - there is vicious anger at those suggesting genocide should be named & stopped, followed by decades of research & examination dedicated to “why was this allowed to happen?” We get a glimpse, again, as to how easy genocide can be to commit.

Black and white photo of the young boy Emmett Till (approx. 14 years old). He is dressed in a shirt, tie, wearing a fedora hat and smiling.

Emmett Till would have been 84 years old today.

I celebrate your life, sir 🕯️

Always enough money for cops, but never enough for the public defenders...

"More than 120 cases, including some for assault on family members and police, were dismissed... fallout from a monthslong dispute over pay that has led public defenders to stop taking new clients"

Reports @apnews.com

This is the only news I care about now

He helped the families of dying children. Spent all night with them even once the child was taken to the morgue. A former colleague tells us on the record that Ayman Soliman is the reason certain poor families who lost their babies at the hospital didn’t have…

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A hugely underdiscussed effect of the creeping fascism of ICE is that debt collectors and landlords are filing more cases against immigrants, even when they're inflated or outright falsified, because they know immigrants are too fearful of deportation to show up to court to fight them.

An NYPD recruitment banner ad that notes that the starting salary is $60,884 and the salary after 5.5 years is $126,410. The ad notes that new hires are required to complete 24 college credits from an accredited institution.

An NYPD officer with 24 college credits and 5 years of experience makes substantially more than I do as a public defender with 10 years of experience (and 7 years of very expensive higher education).

No wonder @lasattysunited.bsky.social are ready to strike.

This is a case where writing a public comment would have real value. A simple observation is that fraud reduction efforts often find little fraud but instead increase burdens on eligible applicants

ESCALATION ALERT 🚨 TICK TOCK

It meant so much to have @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social - our next mayor - and @newyorkstateag.bsky.social (former Legal Aid lawyer and union comrade) come out in solidarity with us today at our rally, and was lucky to have the best spot in Foley Square.

Eric Adams can do the right thing and fund us.

STRIKE FUND FOR @uaw.org LEGAL SERVICE WORKERS

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