Sam Keaser

the verge's comment section has some shooters

Brad Lander Wants New York City to Resist The NYC Comptroller talks ICE, Trump, Zohran, and Brooklyn.

Loved chatting with @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social about all things NYC—and the urgency of standing up to Trump and ICE to protect our neighbors and our communities.

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

Too often, we talk about homelessness as if it's natural or inevitable. The truth is that it's a political choice.

When then-Gov. Cuomo cut the Advantage program rather than tax his wealthy donors, his decision sent thousands of New York families into shelters.

The UAW’s Shawn Fain on Union Growth and Union Power United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain: “Make no mistake: the billionaire class is not going to give up power willingly. They are on an endless pursuit of profit, no matter the cost.”

"This fight is bigger than one contract. It’s bigger than one union. It’s bigger than one industry. This is a fight for the soul of the working class." — @shawnfainuaw.bsky.social via Jacobin

📰 https://jacobin.com/2025/09/fain-uaw-union-power-billionaires

Basically

This morning, Benjamin Netanyahu will address the United Nations — an institution which has concluded his government is committing a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. He arrived in New York after a flight that added hours to its path to circumvent the airspace of countries which might enforce the International Criminal Court's warrant for his arrest. During the course of his speech, another Palestinian child will undoubtedly be killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, as they have been every single hour for nearly two years. Eric Adams will greet Netanyahu as a friend. Andrew Cuomo proudly served on his legal defense team. Both have jockeyed for the approval of Donald Trump, who has sent billions of our taxpayer dollars to support these war crimes. A Mayor cannot end these atrocities. But they can speak for the values of this city: a commitment to human rights for all people, including Palestinians, and a yearning for peace and justice. Even if those values are anathema to those in power now, they will endure.

As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

The UAW’s Shawn Fain on Union Growth and Union Power United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain: “Make no mistake: the billionaire class is not going to give up power willingly. They are on an endless pursuit of profit, no matter the cost.”

UAW president Shawn Fain: “Make no mistake: the billionaire class is not going to give up power willingly. They are on an endless pursuit of profit, no matter the cost.”

jacobin.com/2025/09/fain...

Saying this as a professor at Fuller—the Bluesky of evangelical institutions—sure is something

Charlie Kirk, Not In His Own Words: We Honor The Right-Wing Activist By Making Up Quotes That Sound Much Better, Given The Moment

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Republicans are honoring Charlie Kirk’s memory by declaring war on the First Amendment Where’s all that free speech absolutism now?

Here’s @thedextriarchy.bsky.social saying it as bluntly as possible, in classic Verge tradition www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Please go to a single evangelical church service and then say this to me with a straight face

This is just straightforwardly a take that only an elite who has existed among the wealthiest Americans for their entire life could write or endorse

No one with literally any experience of actual American life could believe that universities are opposed to free speech or sources of political violence

an MSNBC commenter saying this of all people! they killed elected democrats in fucking July

There is straightforwardly no way for Democrats to support the functioning of this government and hold true to our party’s basic values

Le Blueskyisme

RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history

BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.

Stupid Times Call for Stupid Jokes It makes perfect sense that I Think You Should Leave has found new life as a political metaphor.

www.vulture.com/article/i-th...

Lmfao

I don’t know the specifics, but in most cases it means the employer is contesting whether the ballot was cast by someone who was entitled to vote. E.g., if the voter is a supervisor, wasn’t employed during the relevant time period, or isn’t in the “unit” of workers their ballot would be discarded.

The @uaw.org has claimed a narrow victory in a union election at the BlueOval battery plant in Kentucky, a historic win.

The tally is 526-515 for unionization.

Ford is contesting 41 ballots, a challenge the union is urging them to drop.

Fortunately, the Supreme Court will stand up to Donald Trump here,

Ohio Planned Parenthood Workers Demand Executive Pay Cuts Before Proposed Layoffs The staff union says it’s worried that laying off clinical employees could lead to delays in time-sensitive patient care, like emergency contraception. The national federation has also recently cut st...

Unionized employees at Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio, one of the state’s two Planned Parenthood affiliates, are asking PPGOH leadership to take 25% pay cuts before laying off any frontline staff amid losses in federal funding. Management has proposed cutting 20-30% of clinical staff.