Geoff Kent

This $50 billion band-aid won’t save rural health care It is just a fraction of the money these facilities will lose thanks to massive Medicaid cuts.

The #BigUglyBill made deep cuts to healthcare across the country - cutting people off from their coverage & putting community hospitals at risk of closing. This $50B infusion isn't going to cover even half of the cuts or fix the problems Trump created. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

... freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility for every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities and talents with which nature has endowed him, and turn them to social account.

RR 1938

Enjoy this pentagon rolling around a square.

Source and context of $\frac{22}{7} - \pi = \int_0^1 (x-x^2)^4 dx/(1+x^2)$? Possibly the most striking proof of Archimedes's inequality $\pi < 22/7$ is an integral formula for the difference: $$ \frac{22}{7} - \pi = \int_0^1 (x-x^2)^4 \frac{dx}{1+x^2}, $$ where the inte...

happy pi approximation day!
mathoverflow.net/questions/67...

Politics feels corrupt because it is.

This gets me every time; previous sentences hit hard too: ' Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate?'

“No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.” from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dispossessed was first published in 1974 by Harper & Row.

ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants "They want to be doing this with no witnesses."

ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants

Sign Petition: 'Alligator Alcatraz' Is the Newest Site of Human Rights Abuses Against Immigrants. Demand Its Closur Maggots in their food, sweltering conditions, overflowing toilets, and being locked inside cages in tents: these are the conditions of 'Alligator Alcatraz.' (30876 signatures on petition)

Thank you. Your name here means so much to those of us who have lived through this before and to those who are living through it now.

— Uncle George

www.thepetitionsite.com/983/564/587/...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

AFL-CIO Urges Every House Member to Sign the Discharge Petition to Reverse President Trump’s Attack on Federal Workers’ Rights | AFL-CIO AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement on the introduction of a discharge petition in the House of Representatives that will bring the Protect America’s Workforce Act (H.R. 2550) ...

Union busting undermines freedom. We stand with workers and with the @AFLCIO.org in calling for the restoration of federal workers’ collective bargaining rights. aflcio.org/press/releas...

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

I’ve been investigating Paramount’s deal with Trump. Here’s what we know:

- Trump sued CBS
- CBS called the lawsuit “meritless”
- Paramount (owner of CBS) still settled, handing $16 MILLION+ to Trump’s library
- Paramount has a billion-dollar deal that needs Trump’s approval

Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ canceled by CBS, to end in May 2026 CBS said in a statement that it was “purely a financial decision.” The show launched with Colbert as host, executive producer and writer a decade ago.

Breaking news: “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, CBS said in a statement.

The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million paid earlier this month by Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.

Just say no.

What if we had scabs, but they were a computer???

Similarities between ICE & the Gestapo

pll.harvard.edu/course/we-pe...

Fresh cut.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Judge restricts Border Patrol in California: 'You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin' 'You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin and say give me your papers,' a judge said in ordering the Border Patrol to halt warrantless sweeps in California.

Judge restricts Border Patrol in California: ‘You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin’

calmatters.org/justice/2025...

Under Fascism, the state makes sweeping changes (sold as an attack on waste, fraud, and abuse) in the name of efficiency…and “the trains will run on time!”

Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.

Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death WASHINGTON—Warning that even the slightest dent, knick, or scratch would henceforth be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday that Raymond Pratt, a 5...

Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death

this guy should call his senator tbh

The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL.
#HandsOff

Portland OR Hands Off Rally

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING
#handsoff

To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.

—With love,
Your American allies.

Dictators of all stripes hate solidarity. They’d prefer that we cower alone. They want us to feel powerless.

This is why I encourage you to participate in the peaceful demonstrations planned for today across America. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/april-5-hands-off-our-healthcare

Thousands and thousands of people at Civic Center SF, @indivisible.org organizers doing a great job teaching people why confronting aggressive counter protesters ( I haven’t seen any) plays into the autocrat playbook

Ok starting a new thread from the 10,000+ (could be more) rally at SF Civic Center. And my colleagues are posting from around the country. See some at the @motherjones.com feed