Sarah Bosley

Congratulations! Don’t let the bastards get you down (but you clearly already know that)!

Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Apparently, every city needs an oligarch to protect them.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason. Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I would like to get to a place where consigning 14 million people to death isn’t described as “DOGE didn’t do much.”

Trump and the right wing bullshit machine working in high gear to motivate and justify a (potentially violent) federal response to unrest that is largely a figment of their imagination and (where it is real) a reaction to federal agitation. A vicious, intentional, and intensifying cycle.

I’m sorry, which is it: are boys in an acute crisis that demands that all the nation’s resources and attention be leveraged toward their improved happiness and status? Or is their natural superiority only obscured by affirmative action for women? You have got to pick one because you can’t have both.

Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Attacked by Groups of Men Earlier this month, three trans women were beaten by a group of young men in Seattle's gay neighborhood. According to the county prosecutor's office, there's been at least four more group beatings sin...

The Stranger is reporting more incidents in the Seattle area, unfortunately.

www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

ICE is Eating the Soul of America Four things that show ICE increasingly considers itself outside the law

ICE is going out of its way to avoid transparency and accountability and, in doing so, is torching the moral legitimacy of all federal law enforcement: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-is-eat...

The Supreme Court is really “just vibes” In a new book, legal podcaster Leah Litman describes how the GOP and its jurists are "just not that into democracy."

@leahlitman.bsky.social said it best: “Political culture imagines that the Supreme Court safeguards the Constitution, when in reality it is chipping away at the constitutional rights of historically marginalized groups."

I'd like to see the frequency tables for each group. They just pick top three . . . .

Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power *neighborhood in southeast Baltimore

The great @sifill.bsky.social shreds the media for falling for Trump's narratives -- in this case, that these occupations have anything to do with crime. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer:

-Australia by 2028
-Sweden by 2027
-Rwanda by 2030
-UK by 2040
-Indonesia by 2030
-Bhutan 2030
-El Salvador by 2030
-Canada by 2040

How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban.

You will note USA is not on this list.

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost.

We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Seriously awful and very well reported. If you’re a woman with the option to go through pregnancy (or even childbearing years) inside or outside of TX, you may want to consider this—your chances of dying really go up significantly there until this law is changed.

This is really, really bad. Columbia made the mistake of thinking that placating the administration would spare them. Other universities made the mistake of thinking it would stop with Columbia. It won’t stop without disciplined pushback; it’s an existential question for American universities.

"It just seems really strange to me that a parent would have an opportunity to protect their kid against something like what I've been through and yet would forgo that opportunity."

This is the proper amount of contempt with which the representatives of the people should be treating an unelected billionaire who has been contemptuously and illegally sabotaging the agencies Congress has created and funded.

If we run, we can make anywhere and everywhere competitive. This is your cue. runforwhat.net

I don't think the Premier of one province can renegotiate the USMCA on behalf of Canada. (speaking to the press statement, not to you)

Re-upping this again as more people read about the Khalil case. More information to come, but nothing in WP and NYT so far contradicts original reporting. Again, it DOES NOT MATTER what you think about him or his cause. Either government is bound by the law for all of us or we're all at their mercy.

High school. Didn’t “date” until we crossed paths again in our early twenties. Married 27 years this May.

Immigrants, trans people, palestinian rights activists, eventually it’s going to be your turn when the regime decides you are an enemy

Something that should happen but won’t (especially since NYT no longer has a public editor): a public reckoning among American journalists over how the structure of most mainstream Trump coverage excuses and even rewards these kinds of threats.

honestly wild to me that, at this late date, any ostensibly informed person would insist that we could ignore trump’s words as just bluster

Any reporter who says that Trump is "hitting" Canada and Mexico with tariffs should quit now and get into another line of work. Trump is hitting Americans who import items from these countries. This is a simple and obvious point and if you don't understand it, get a new job.

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Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud All they've really got is "spending that Elon Musk doesn't like."

"The goalposts for DOGE have silently moved from finding fraud and corruption to simply pointing out and cancelling government programs that Trump and Republicans simply don’t support." -- @justinglawe.bsky.social

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.