Jo Ellen Green Kaiser

Time to plan for a #calexit

Does the Trump admin know that Puerto Ricans are US citizens?

Good time to reread David Eggers, The Circle, a very under appreciated book.

Illiteracy is a policy choice Why aren’t we gathering behind Mississippi’s banner?

Let’s go California !
www.theargumentmag.com/p/illiteracy...

When one company/university/ state folds, Trump will keep pushing.

Terrible news from Mississippi. So glad @mississippifreepress.org is there to tell the story

Man Found Hanging in Tree in Vicksburg, Hours After DSU Hanging The body of 35-year-old Cory Zukatis, a homeless man, was found hanging from a tree in a wooded area in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

NEW: Two men were found hanging from trees in Mississippi on Tuesday—a Black student at Delta State University in Cleveland and a homeless white man in Vicksburg.

Police say the deaths aren't connected, but speculation has spread on social media like wildfire.

I finally cancelled my subscription to @washingtonpost.com because they fired @karenattiah.bsky.social Attiah is an excellent journalist. She was fired because she dared to quote Kirk’s own misogynoir. Follow attiah on Substack.

We are in an another McCarthy era. This is America. 1950s, 1910s, 1870s in the south… we see these reactionary periods over and over as white supremacists attempt to assert control over this country. We can fight back. We must.

The president should not own any media.

5 More Faculty, Staff Removed for Kirk Comments Republican politicians and other conservatives are calling for employees, including those in higher ed, to be terminated for their social media posts about Kirk's killing.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The free speech crusade will continue until complete conformity and submission are achieved.

SEPT, 1933, GERMANY: The new Nazi government arrests tens of thousands of homeless citizens and disappears them into prisons and camps in what they called Beggars’ Week [Bettlerwoche], carried out by the SA and SS, with the support of the police.

Useful chart but can you take it up through 2024?

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.

Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

So sorry someone scammed you into writing an RPG for next to nothing

Dear Teddy, wishing you a strong and lasting recovery. I care about you.

Trump Administration Says Boat Strike Is Start of Campaign Against Venezuelan Cartels

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

In the former official’s opinion, it was more likely that the vessel was carrying migrants on a human smuggling run. It would be impossible to know for sure, however, given that any evidence of drug smuggling was destroyed in the attack.

75 cents per word for a 2000 word piece is too little, whether it is online or not.

Watchdog report finds overwhelming majority of IRS employees fired by DOGE for performance had no documented issues - ICIJ A new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration notes that the termination letters were written for the agency by the OPM and its cuts failed to follow internal IRS procedures.

NEW: US Treasury watchdog finds that of the 7,315 IRS workers terminated by DOGE, just 43 were documented underperformers. Almost 50% of the fired employees had been appraised as working at or above expectations. www.icij.org/news/2025/09... via @icij.org

I seem to remember that the main concern Republicans had about the ACA was that they wanted to ensure “your doctor” makes all the decisions about your health care. Now,we’re hoping that MAGA lets a human being make decisions about our healthcare

Journalists are asked to rush towards danger. They perform a critical service, providing accurate trustworthy reports so that the rest of us can make informed decisions. Most of the world has accepted guidelines that “press” should not be targeted. It’s dismaying to see Israel leave that consensus.

Five journalists among 20 killed in Israeli attack on Gaza hospital, say health officials Deaths take the number of Palestinian journalists killed in the conflict since 7 October 2023 to at least 192

Miriam was an AP video journalist. She was killed on the job, photographing the impact of an Israeli drone strike on a Gaza hospital. She was killed in a second wave of Israeli drone strikes.

Folks this is what real antisemitism looks like

DHS speechwriter linked to hateful social accounts ‘They are not migrants. They are not ‘undocumented.’ They are an invading army. The largest invasion in American history,’ DHS speechwriter writes on X

The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that many federal jobs that have been cut were disproportionately filled by black women, especially in DC.

These guys are such racists

Screenshot of a Fox Business News broadcast on Inauguration Day 2025, where EJ Antoni has Nazi battleship art on his wall.

YouTube screenshot of EJ Antoni doing a Main Street Matters interview on the Job Creators Network, where he has Nazi battleship art on his wall.

YouTube screenshot of EJ Antoni doing an interview with @kitco, where he has Nazi battleship art on his wall.

Screenshot of the Nazi battleship art for sale online.

This is Heritage Foundation Chief Economist EJ Antoni, Trump's new nominee for Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner.

And THAT is his Nazi battleship wall art/Zoom background.

Honestly nothing funny about it

I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.

As Trump shifts federal agents on to the streets of Washington, local leaders call it "unnecessary" and point to the stats

Violent crime dropped 26% from last year

Trump alleges DC is graffiti-filled and dangerous

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