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More than 3,000 Boeing workers are set to strike after rejecting a contract offer The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union members in Missouri and Illinois rejected a modified contract offered by Boeing last week.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union members in Missouri and Illinois rejected a modified contract offered by Boeing last week.

Yes but nobody cares about educated people losing work

Opinion | Strangers Adopt Woodville’s Jewish Memories Austin Reid Albanese shares the history of the Jewish community of Woodville, Mississippi, and the townsfolks’ commitment to preserve it.

OPINION: "Today, as Jewish communities across rural America continue to shrink—or vanish altogether—the story of Woodville reminds us that disappearance is not the same as erasure," Austin Reid Albanese writes.

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

“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab.

Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us.

It’s time to fight back.

"It's not that hot outside."

Outside:

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

Israeli forces kill at least 27 at food site while minister’s al-Aqsa visit causes outrage Six more people die from malnutrition, while Itamar Ben-Gvir is first minister to publicly pray at sensitive site At least 27 people were killed by Israeli forces while trying to get food and six others died from starvation or malnutrition in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials said, amid a regional outcry over an Israeli minister’s visit to Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site. Witnesses said Israeli forces fired on hungry crowds who were attempting to get food aid from a distribution site run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in the south of the territory, with some describing the fire as indiscriminate. Continue reading...

Israeli forces kill at least 27 at food site while minister’s al-Aqsa visit causes outrage

The main rationale offered for this fundraising frenzy is that it's a necessary evil—that the tactics, while unpleasant, are brutally effective at raising the money needed to win. But that’s a lie. A fundraising model with a 1.6% efficiency rate is not a pragmatic fundraising strategy.

Missouri is preparing to hand the GOP an additional seat, to go on top of the five in Texas (and we haven’t gotten to Florida or Ohio yet)

Sudan war: Medics say more than dozen children in Darfur camp have died because of food shortages Famine has been declared in areas of Darfur, an region particularly hard hit by the ongoing civil war.

Saying lack of free press allows famines to happen ignores history. The NYTimes chose not to report on Stalin's starvation of the Ukranian people.

Regimes cause famine when media, govts and international community doesn't see some people as human.

Sudan famine is too rarely mentioned on here.

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

Dream turns to nightmare for midwest town in grip of US migrant crackdown An imam’s detention, firings and police violence have sown fear among immigrants who helped revive an Ohio town

"The detaining of hundreds of people on immigration charges earns the jail more than $24,000 a day or $720,000 a month in fees paid by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) – on top of $36 an hour in transportation fees the jail charges Ice."

The History of Blue Jeans Has Been Whitewashed What the Civil Rights Movement has to do with denim.

"While at first activists snapped on their overalls out of practicality — they were tired of mending tears from attack dogs and high-pressure hoses, and jeans could withstand the abuse — they also put them on to bring back a not-too-distant past."

A travesty and a tragedy.

The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) 🛵

War is peace.

Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.

In This Heat | Atonement (2007) - Bright Wall/Dark Room The first act of 'Atonement' takes place in the summer of 1935 in Shropshire, England, and this is the kind of heat that’ll drive you insane.

"In a lesser film, the dress is red."

- @franhoepfner.bsky.social on ATONEMENT

Zohran didn't win by relying on standard turnout patterns. We had to fundamentally transform the Democratic electorate.

I was part of a group of NYC-DSA members that applied lessons from our previous campaigns to design the “universe” of voters to talk to. Here's how we won 🧵

More ambulances leaving Alligator Alcatraz. One at 10:30 am today and the other at 6:30 pm. Another at 11:57 pm last night, 6:10 pm on July 31st. Florida Department of Emergency Management, which operates the site, refuses to confirm hospitalizations but they are happening.

Incredibly excited to share that I’ve been included in @vinsyn.bsky.social’s inaugural issue of its new quarterly “This is Cinématographe,” with an essay about Spike Lee’s underseen masterpiece GIRL 6.

Thank you @jlalibs.com for bringing me on to contribute!

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For $5/month or $60/yr you get access to PBS Passport and the entire Masterpiece library plus Great Performances, etc. Defunded but not defeated. www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

A professor had a $2.4m grant to study Black maternal health. Then Trump was elected Jaime Slaughter-Acey said it was ‘heartbreaking’ to discover her study on Black maternal health was cancelled after the Trump administration’s NIH cuts

*The NIH-grant cancellation in late March followed the release of data from the CDC revealing that Black women were the only race or ethnic group who didn’t experience a decline in deaths from pregnancy related causes in 2023."

Texas is moving forward with its radical redistricting plan Will Democrats respond?

Texas Dems are considering fleeing the state (again) to block this gerrymander.
Meanwhile, Democratic governors in NY, CA, and IL are talking retaliation.
This is what happens when one party abandons all pretense of good-faith governing.
Buckle up.

This thread (and the multiple quotes) remind me of something: it is a lot harder to build something than it is to break it down.

There is no “Democratic Stephen Miller” because turning off a hundred switches takes one person, but turning on one hundred programs is going to take thousands.

University sidelines scientist who exposed toxic metals in Lake Maurepas The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation

Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There “Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.

Trump sent Jerce Reyes Barrios to CECOT without charge, indefinitely, over a Real Madrid-inspired tattoo and a "rock&roll" hand signal. Jerce told us his story. (& he wants the world to know: “I’ll always be a fan of Real Madrid”)

w/ @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...

Breaking: Texas House redistricting committee passes Trump’s egregiously gerrymandered US House map giving GOP 5 new seats & 80% of congressional delegation in state Trump won with 56% of vote. Increases # of seats Trump won by 10+ points from 25 to 30 & reduces # of competitive seats from 2 to zero

Yes!! I’m not the only one! 😭😭😭