Rekha Murthy

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

Denying climate change and it's causes is no different than denying gravity. It is an argument made by idiots. It does not change the laws of nature, but when used to change the laws of the country, people will die. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

Billionaires are inheriting record levels of wealth, UBS report finds The spouses and children of billionaires inherited more wealth in 2025 than in any previous year since reporting began in 2015, according to UBS's Billionaire Ambitions Report published on Thursday.

There are 8.3 billion people in the world. Let this sink in: "In the 12 months to April [2025], 91 people became billionaires through inheritance"
www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Everytime I think I couldn't love her more, she proves me wrong.
Muy linda, Mayor Wu.

And if you don’t think that was explicitly political you were maybe not watching things like… the sugar cane fields? Electric poles? The men grinding on each other? The little boy? The americas shout out? What moooore do you want?

Holding us accountable for the shameful failure to restore power to PR

trump almost certainly trying to figure out if he can deport people back to puerto rico right now lol

I think one of the best things about Bad Bunny’s performance is that it was so *specific*. It so clearly had a point of view coming from real lived experience and actual emotion, actual heart, not cynical calculation. Just beautiful.

It doesn’t seem like Epstein is a hoax after all.

Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest

I thought this was fake, but apparently, they've arrested Don Lemon for reporting from Minneapolis.

I'm not a huge Don Lemon fan, but this is totalitarian nonsense meant to threaten anyone who reports on the regime's horrors.

Actually, since we're well before the Nuremberg/accountability phase, this is important information.

Sure, she's deflecting blame... but intentionally or not she's also reminding everyone that this is coming from the top. That firing Bovino and possibly her will not change the fascist reality.

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I just donated. Thank you for suggesting. Now I will go donate to MPR as well.
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I am thrilled that @mprnews.org is doing a live call-in. But the rightwing guy who was just on made me feel physically ill. ICE is saving abandoned children, people confronting ICE are to blame for their own hurt, MPR is telling lies, etc. I forgot to breathe. Such hate and gaslighting.

It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

Ha! Well, that was fast.

Get this guy a rage room and maybe he'll leave us alone.

Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan.

Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

There is video circulating on social media of a group of ICE agents beating a man near 26th and Nicollet in south Minneapolis, then one of the ICE agents shoots the man while he's on the ground numerous times. A witness can be heard yelling that the victim is dead.

New report: Gas utilities spent record amount replacing leaky pipes in 2024 - CommonWealth Beacon The latest data on utilities’ work to replace leaky pipes paints an even more damning picture of GSEP as costs balloon with few additional results — driving up ratepayer bills — and places recent refo...

Gas leaks are so dangerous. We are losing the game of Whack-a-Mole and paying a lot for the privilege. 😬 commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/new-r...

I'm not on TikTok - watching a few links from Bsky would make my day.

NEW: It appears billionaire Bill Ackman has donated $10k to a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good.

Ackman has reposted the fundraiser but hasn’t posted about his own donation.

Very glad to hear @pauloffit.bsky.social on CSPAN this morning. The new vaccine schedule is terrifying. As is the occasional conspiracy theorist caller.

I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.

I genuinely admire your courage and strength to move beyond that horrible tragedy and through your own your personal, physical toll to remain a public figure and leader.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.