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If you’re a Wells Fargo customer, maybe you shouldn’t be.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere “It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

#WarRavagedPortland

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

New Bill Would Allow Rubio to Strip US Citizens’ Passports Over Political Speech The legislation would allow the Secretary of State to strip anyone’s US passport with no legal due process.

"Free speech advocates are sounding the alarm about a bill in the US House of Representatives that they fear could allow Secretary of State Marco Rubio to strip US citizens of their passports based purely on political speech."

I am from Missouri and do politics for my job, and am just now learning of this sit-in to protest attempted RW seat-stealing.

AOC: Millionaires are very overrepresented in congress… If we want a congress that reflects the actual country we seek to represent and fight for, we need to have working class people who work here

Since when has Ted Cruz claimed laTINo?

Florida to end vaccine mandates for children as state’s surgeon general likens them to ‘slavery’ Joseph Ladapo, a long-time vaccine skeptic, says that every state vaccine requirement would be repealed

We are Through the Looking Glass now. Ladapo is barking mad, and I mean actually deranged. And please stop calling him a skeptic. He’s a full out anti-vaxxer and denialist. This only ends badly not just for Florida, but for the entire country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

St. Pete Florida rainbow intersection painted black

Florida road crews in St. Pete were out at 3 a.m. just to do this

“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.”

- Fred Hampton

State steps in to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccine Public health order counters potential limitations set by the USFDA

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them.

States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

Even in florida, charges like this don’t stick.

But the point is to terrify queers into silence, with the knowledge that whether the charges stick or not, they will jail us, and if they can, brutalize us whole they have us.

Florida Government endorses the Pulse massacre.

Everyone in public health, healthcare and biomedical research has been screaming this for months. It’s time for RFK Jr to go. Everyone, please, please get on the phone to your members of Congress. Call them every day. This man is that dangerous.

'Cowardice of a leader': CDC official hits Trump and RFK with blistering rebuke on way out A top official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced his resignation in a lengthy social media post in which he delivered a blistering rebuke of the Department of Health and Huma...

www.rawstory.com/cdc-26739341...

“Art carries what is too heavy for language to hold. “
Amy Sherald

There’s a thin line between staying as informed as you should and making yourself anxious in a way that is completely unproductive and every single day the news is trying very hard to push you over into the latter

this thread. all of this.

Sonya Massey bill, aimed at improving police hiring practices, is signed into law The law requires extensive background checks before Illinois police agencies hire officers. It was named for Sonya Massey, who was shot and killed in her home near Springfield by a deputy who had a st...

'The law requires extensive background checks before Illinois police agencies hire officers. It was named for Sonya Massey, who was shot and killed in her home near Springfield by a deputy who had a string of prior discipline complaints.'
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/08...

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

say hello to the new college of florida in manhattan

Don't use abolish ICE if what you mean is Re-Form ICE.

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.

Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire

Florida tribe joins the fight against "Alligator Alcatraz" The Miccosukee, who live n the Everglades, said authorities didn't do an environmental review.

“We are going to make sure that we fight this facility on whatever front is available to us,” said William “Popeye” James Osecola, the secretary of the Miccosukee tribal council.

I really just thought it was a given that Diego Luna would be nominated. Like, he was just nominated. His name was there the whole time Andor was streaming. like, how is this not real life?

Repost to help share my new course! Fall 2025 @huntercollege.bsky.social

I wish I could have taken a lab class on Native American x African American science and history as an undergraduate. So now I’m teaching one as a prof and yes, we’re whale watching in Manhattan. And learning to DJ.

I love how much Andrea Gibson’s words are filling up my socials. 💜 www.instagram.com/reel/DMGUM6U...

Karen Bass, Mayor of Los Angeles, was equally, if not more involved getting things done.