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So many own goals.
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product

'i did not know that there were so many cowards in this country'

The Trump white house being genuinely shocked that there’s more rural poor white people on food stamps than not is peak ”live by the spectacle die by the spectacle” lmfao

He's been a raging Islamophobe my entire life and I'm in my mid-40's.

100%

AFSCME also organizes cultural institutions, as well as city employees, etc. The folks in my union, under the umbrella of AFSCME Council 31, are actively organizing in the city of Chicago for a more progressive reality for all our neighbors every single day.

Sounds like a you problem, frankly. The biggest unions in this country are teachers (AFT and SEIU), municipal workers (AFSCME), and hospitality workers, all of which tend to track progressive, not in small part because these workers are likely to be women or minorities, or both.

The Nation story on publicly financed campaigns

The answer to corruption is publicly financed campaigns.

This should be the biggest takeaway from NY’s mayoral race.

Thanks to public financing, corrupt oligarchs are about to lose the mayoral race.

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I’m so confused as to what you are trying to prove here. It isn’t a nazi tattoo, according to Google, so it must be a nazi tattoo? And why the calendar???

That sucks, I’m sorry :/

(from the inbox) Less than an hour later this morning, just before 10:30 at Roscoe and Harding, feds again released gas as they were driving away, unobstructed, from a relatively small number of neighbors.

At the end of this great, heartbreaking, true post by Dan, there are links to resources, organizing tools, whistle flyers/3d printing & orgs that could use our help. 💚

100% this. They are trying to moneyball their way into winning elections as opposed to going out and changing minds.

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

I think the ‘breakup message’ ended up being more true for me than them, but so it goes.

⛵️~~~~~~~~~

Not the dumper, but the dumpee:

I had someone break up with me via email while they were hiking machu pichu. “It’s not that I don’t love you…..it’s that I love someone else. Who I haven’t met yet.”

Anyway. I fell quickly (and deeply) in love with someone new, who is still a dear, dear friend.

⚔️❤️

This is unhinged, and we should say so.

Addiction is a national problem. It is a problem of mental health and of inadequate support for sufferers.

Dealing with addiction involves helping the sufferers, not killing people.

The most effective way to end the cartels is to end the demand.

No, this is literally his film. I knew multiple people that worked on this set. He wasn’t a ‘producer’, he was *the producer*. There is a lot of press on this.

Crew walked off the set just the day prior, in protest for the dangerous shit he was asking them to do.

He was the literally producer of this movie, and there is a lot of evidence that he was pressuring the crew to cut corners and break protocol. He hired the daughter of a qualified armorer to save money. Now a woman is dead, her kids don’t have a mom.

The issue is that he was also the boss, the producer. There is evidence that he pressured the crew to cut corners, he hired unqualified people, and now someone is dead.

He was *also* the producer of the film, and that is the real issue. They were cutting corners and breaking protocol, and that responsibility lies with the boss, i.e. him.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Holy crap, yes @cohen489.bsky.social!!

politicians aren't your friends. they're not your heroes. they're supposed to be working for you, not the other way around.

No mention of the fact that WBEZ’s former CEO, Torey Malatia, methodically terminated all programs serving the Black community, including its storied Jazz programs.

NEW: A Border Patrol spokesperson did not deny agents pointed a gun at state Rep. Huynh in a statement to @wttw.bsky.social.

"He was given a warning the first time he was stopped, and he ignored that warning forcing agents to get out of their car a second time to assess if he was a threat."

Finally get the messaging on point, you love to see it

That is not how it works, in the least.

Yep. Man with Nazi tattoo ain’t gonna beat Collins. I dislike Collins. You dislike Collins. Maine voters keep voting for her. Voting for her is a habit. She’s their senator, she’s theirs. Beating an incumbent is always hard.

So … find a better candidate. If it ain’t Mills, keep looking.