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Pete Hegseth reposts video that says women shouldn’t be allowed to vote Progressive evangelical group says ideas shared by pastors and amplified by defense secretary are ‘very disturbing’

Le gouvernement des Etats-Unis d'Amérique montre combien il rejette la démocratie électorale et le droit. #Trump #droitsdesfemmes.
"Pete #Hegseth reposte une vidéo affirmant que les femmes ne devraient pas avoir le droit de vote"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“By indulging in the spectacle, the Apple boss helped legitimize Trump’s transactional style. .. Cook may see it as a small concession.. but the performance.. signaled to other corporate leaders that pandering is the price of doing business.”

@passantino.bsky.social
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The federal government’s demand of $1 billion from @UCLA would devastate the nation’s best public university, cut off life-saving care, halt tech and economic growth and reduce educational access.

Stand with UC to protect our vital mission: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...

Great thread! I have found the same digging into my own geneology. With recent discoveries around viral mediation of chronic illness, like EBV increasing the odds of developing MS, it is certainly reasonable that the perception of less chronic illness is more that people didn't always live that long

Statement on union busting at the VA Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham & Secretary-Treasurer Brad Lehto made the following statement in response to the Department of Veterans Affairs unilaterally terminating collective

This decision isn’t just a slap in the face to working Americans, it shows that Donald Trump doesn’t care about veterans or the people who put in long hours to care for them, many who are veterans themselves. aflcio.mn/3HmJx7M

Low key one of the worst anbuses of power ever? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website | TechCrunch Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful dete...

The constitution. They sliced out the parts of the constitution that they don’t like from the government website.

Yet another reminder that in an aspiring authoritarian government, you should never rely on online document as definitive sources.

Researchers found that pediatric ER visits for asthma decreased by 40 percent almost immediately after a local coal processing plant closed down in 2015.

Our current administration is trying to bring back and increase coal burning power plants, and working to eliminate clean air protections.

A UNIDOS MN event graphic, that reads: MONARCA. Upstander Training. River Falls, WI. Wednesday, August 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM. Months into the Trump administration, we are seeing a growing wave of executive orders and policies aimed at targeting and deporting millions, especially in states like ours. Agencies are showing up in neighborhoods, workplaces, and schools. We are coming together to build power, stand with our neighbors, and shine a light on these injustices. Register to attend our River Falls, WI training - location details provided in registration. - Learn how to support immigrant communities - Become part of Unidos' rapid response network - Ensure no one faces this threat alone REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/RRT_0827

Last Friday, ICE was in Hudson again–ripping apart families and leaving local businesses unable to operate. 😢

If you're in western Wisconsin and want to support our local immigrant community, please attend this Unidos MN training on 8/27 in River Falls!
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"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."

cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy

I Studied Poverty for Years. Then I Ended Up on Medicaid. I Learned a Hard Truth That Everyone Should Know. The day I enrolled in Medicaid, I arrived at the welfare office carrying a designer bag.

Really important essay.

Absolutely any of us parents are one child medical crisis away from needing Medicaid. But the programs that have let kids needing serious medical care live far better lives are under major threat from Trump’s budget devastation.

Donald Trump is taking food directly out of the mouths of our people and money out of the pockets of small business owners and local economies.

That includes our food banks, like the St. Louis Area Foodbank, which will have to deal with devastating cuts to SNAP.

note that this isn't a denial and ICE is kidnapping and disappearing people

Minnesota National Guard activated, state of emergency declared after cyber attack against St. Paul City officials are planning a news conference at some point on Tuesday.

Press conference on cyber attack on St. Paul.

Because this is unbearable, I just gave to the Sameer Project - recommended by @prisonculture.bsky.social.

linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

Thread from March 2021 on how if Dems do not hold Trump and his cohort accountable and address structural problems, then all the Biden admin wil be is an interlude between autocracies. Someone with better eyesight is welcome to retype it all by hand but I'm not doing that; thus alleged altvtexr system with a tiny box of type is not designed for people who are vision impaired like me

See other box

Everything happening now was obvious by March 2021. That's why I wrote about it *then*.

This matters because this is a planned autocracy. Feigned surprise at horrors is meant to rewrite history and present our plight as if it wasn't a plan obvious four years ago and countenanced by both parties.

Thank you! This is a fantastic list

‘Capitalism Is Theft’: I Followed Zohran Mamdani’s Internet Trail

Mamdani’s internet trail reveals far more than a veneered candidate biography on a website ever could. In tweet after tweet, he calls for the end of the free market, for defunding the police, and for dismantling the prison system, which he describes as the “carceral state.” He champions communism (at least in one jokey photo), stans anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour, calls cops “haram” (the Arabic term for forbidden under Islamic law), and insists that New York should look more like socialist Vienna. As Mamdani moves more into general-election mode as the front-runner to beat—wearing suits, moderating his message, and cozying up to the business community—his digital past offers a rare glimpse of the ideology beneath the polish.

Under capitalism, he wrote, gender equality was “impossible.” The only way forward, in his view, was to decriminalize “both the buying and selling of consensual sex.” In a section titled “Protect Sex Workers and End Violence Against Women and Nonbinary People,” Mamdani rejected the so-called Nordic Model, which makes it illegal to buy sex, but not to sell it. He called that model “untenable.”

Bari Weiss's website assigned a reporter to read every single Zohran Mamdani tweet over the last 18 years and came up with shockingly little dirt.
www.thefp.com/p/capitalism...

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is what we need from our leaders. Bravery.

Isaiah put his body on the line to call out Greg Abbott and Donald Trump’s illegal power grab. Dragged to the ground in our state capitol for demanding fair maps. That’s courage.

We stand with @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social

Keep your eye on this.

Do not let any LLM serve as a form of epistemic grounding for society.

Reporter who covered Ghislaine’s trial: “How can you trust her? She has every incentive in the world to get out of her 20 year sentence.”

So…not antisemitism.

The result—an increase of executive power at the expense of legislative authority-does not stand alone. Just last week, this Court granted another stay allowing the President to ignore a federal statute. That decision permitted the President to push forward in dismantling the Department of Education, even though Congress created that agency and tasked it with performing vital functions. See McMahon v. New York, 606 U.S. (2025) (SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 1). If the majority had any valid basis for taking that action (relating, say, to the breadth of the District Court's preliminary injunction) it did not appear on the face of the Court's unreasoned or-der. See id., at _ (order) (slip op., at 1); id., at (SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 18). That order simply signaled that the President could carry on, even in the face of a conflicting statute. So too does this order, and with the same lack of care. The majority has acted on the emergency docket—with "little time, scant briefing, and no argument" —to override Congress's decisions about how to structure administrative agencies so that they can perform their prescribed duties. Wilcox, 605 U.S., at _ (KAGAN, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 5). By means of such actions, this Court may facilitate the permanent transfer of authority, piece by piece by piece, from one branch of Government to another. Respectfully, I dissent.

By a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS lets Trump fire the Dem members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who are protected against removal by statute.

Dissenting, Kagan says the majority is undertaking a “permanent transfer of authority” from Congress to the president.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

I think a lot of folks on #academicsky could make great use of David's #scicomm expertise - even beyond sharks! Promises to be a great course.

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By charging Americans 15% tax to buy Toyota, but charging GM 50+% tax to import their raw materials, Trump is *crushing US manufacturing*

District court judges voted today against keeping Alina Habba in her role as interim US attorney. Instead of abiding by that, AG Pan Bondi announces she's firing the woman who would've replaced her. A Watergate-style attack on the rule of law.