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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.

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

Good Bones Maggie Smith Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I've shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I'll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that's a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.

This poem. Every single word.

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

AOC always gets it right...

Big Thanks to Canada for that! 😎✨

Pass. It. On. 👇

This could save someone’s life.

Ive said this before. Unions have a moment in time to create parallel, Non Profit Trust or Associated Health Plans and
offer them to small to medium size businesses.

Unions can negotiate far better than SMBs or associations .

Imagine if millions got their healthcare from unions ?

Thoughts ?

Just say NO to fascism!

Trump’s neofascism is here now. Here are 10 things you can do to resist | Robert Reich America has deep problems, which is why we can’t give up. Protect the vulnerable, organize boycotts and keep fighting

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Trump’s neofascism is here now. Here are 10 things you can do to resist.

⏬ Bluesky article thread (8 min) with extra links 📖 🍿 🔊

i love that bishop baddie’s book is on being brave. #church @mariannedgarbudde.store

Immigration Raids Begin as Judge Halts Birthright Citizenship Order As the Trump administration launches what it touts as the largest mass deportation campaign in U.S. history, we look at how immigrant communities and advocates are fighting back. The administration al...

“Shock and Awe”: Immigration Raids Begin as Judge Halts Unconstitutional Birthright Citizenship Order www.democracynow.org/2025/1/24/bi...

Secret Service Agents — Not ICE — Denied Entry At Chicago School Despite Initial Reports, CPS Source Says CPS officials initially said agents who identified themselves as ICE arrived at Hamline Elementary in Back of the Yards Friday, but it was actually Secret Service agents looking for an 11-year-old who...

Secret Service showed up at a Chicago public school to confront an 11 year old who made an anti Trump video.

1, that's good parenting at work, but 2, this is a fear tactic. Do not let this deter you from making and posting anti Trump content. blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/24/i...

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Ladies and gentlemen: we did it

Now we're talking

SARS-CoV-2 sars_cov.2_covid_19 1h Indiana just confirmed two major H5N1 outbreaks in commercial poultry, resulting in the loss of 353,300 egg layers and 18,800 turkeys. Over 370,000 birds have been destroyed in just a matter of days. The virus is spreading quickly, worsening the strain on food production.

H5 is spreading 〰️AdminJenn

Analyzing tropes and teaching the public to recognize to them is such an important project.

The more I learn about her, the more I love her

Biden Leaves With an Uncertain Economic Legacy. Not So in This Indiana Town. Green shoots from Biden’s big initiatives are starting to pop—many in red states.

Featuring my own Terre Haute, Indiana. I see the investments daily, driving around my city. The new transitional housing facility on my regular walking route. The affordable housing units going up in several places. The abandoned houses in my neighborhood being rehabbed as we speak.

one reason democrats should cut the “we just want to work together” shit is that you lose the opportunity to do things like, for instance, hold a loud press conference on the fact that trumps ICE thugs arrested a veteran www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...

To wit: In his first spree of executive orders, President Trump first banned all “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programs across the entire federal government. But then, in a much more alarming set of steps, he revoked President Johnson’s 1965 executive order banning discrimination among federal contractors; his appointees at the Department of Justice have now ordered a halt to all civil rights litigation, and even “signaled that it might back out of Biden-era agreements with police departments that engaged in discrimination or violence,” The New York Times reports. It was always preposterous to think that discrimination magically ended in the 1960s. When the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act back in 2013, removing “preclearance” requirements in Southern electoral districts with a history of egregious racism, those districts immediately went back to discriminating blatantly.

The "DEI" purge is really more about rolling back 60 years of civil rights and anti-discrimination guidelines for the federal workforce and even beyond, writes @ryanlcooper.com:
prospect.org/politics/202...

It just gets worse and worse. I'm afraid to find out what rock bottom is for these folks

Sci-fi has warned us of soooo much.

Some sci-fi can be a legit warning.

Trump Is Already Drowning Us in Outrages A guide to the Week One distractions, late-night devilry, executive overreach, and the Administration’s early infighting.

"He loves to drown us in outrage," @sbg1.bsky.social writes. "The overwhelming is the point – too many simultaneous scandals and the system is so overloaded it breaks down. It can’t focus. It can’t fight back. The distractions are just too damn distracting." www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

My boys, Genghis (L) and Attila (R), in case someone needed a cat pic today

they're mad at Bishop Budde for asking for mercy, which is interesting to me. "mercy" situates Trump in a position of power. you don't ask for mercy from someone weak or impotent. they truly just hate compassion itself lol