Scott Aaron Rogers

Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding

You know what would've stopped Trump's blackmailing of these universities? What could STILL stop it?

If Penn retracted his degree.

If Penn merely announced it was being "reviewed" because of problems in the admissions office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

It's ALL Infrastructure, If you THINK about it.

Roads, bridges, and ports - obviously.
Healthcare, education, childcare, elder care - also foundational infrastructure without which our communities cannot function.

w/ @BartlettForIN

As the piece notes, the PragerU propaganda is being used in schools in Louisiana, Florida, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Montana, Arizona, South Carolina and Idaho.

Check with your district to see if they're using this garbage to brainwash your kids.

Popping in before I head to the woods for the weekend to remind everyone that the far right Destroying pbs and replacing Sesame Street with Prager u is a literal form of information warfare and the construction of hardened fascist propaganda in an effort to radicalize children to the right.

It's time to build a different kind of power, from the bottom up, with community-centered campaigns. Both major US parties have catered to elites for far too long.

☎️📱📣🌊💪 & ❌👑

Episode 90: It's All Infrastructure, Really Watch now | Guest: John E. Bartlett - Candidate for Indiana State House, District 33

Episode 90: It's All Infrastructure, ReallyWatch now | Guest: John E. Bartlett - Candidate for Indiana State House, District 33
https://www.hoosleft.us/p/episode-90-its-all-infrastructure

If you don't run, you can't win. Democrats can only win if we contest every seat everywhere. People can't trust someone who doesn't even show up.

People have trouble interpreting this. Nobody’s saying Donald Trump or Pam Bondi are personally selecting Nazi iconography. They don’t read enough for that. The point is they hire and promote Nazis who ARE steeped in Nazi iconography, and they’re fine with it.

💯 Echoing the wisdom of #Indiana's own Mayor/Secretary Pete, here, @hoosleft.us is EGG-sactly correct. LFGGGGG!

#Hoosiersky: Can't make it to the #Indiana Statehouse 2 protest the Hillbilly Grifter's nefarious visit? There will be an evening protest tomorrow, August 7th at the Gov's mansion in #Indianapolis. @hoosier-jezebel.bsky.social @hoosleft.us @prodigalhoosier.medsky.social @firerokita.bsky.social

Bad Religion was in Indy last night (with Dropkick Murphys), and they sang this:

You are the government.
You are jurisprudence.
You are the volition.
You are jurisdiction.
And I make a difference too.

Government is us. We make up government. The right has groomed us to believe government is some far-off 'other,' but at its best, government really is of, by, and for the people. NOW, let's drive the corruption out of OUR government.

Hoosiers will not stand idly by and watch Trump and Braun cheat us in plain sight. Tell JV Dance to go back to coddling Daddy T's 🥜🥜 in DC and, for the love of God, keep him away from the Kittle's.

The right has been playing the long-game for decades — pumping dark money into politics, infiltrating the courts, and stoking religious hatred. It may take us just as long to dig out from under the wreckage.

Israel's international isolation is painful. But it is also necessary | Opinion ***

While calling for sanctions on your own country is extraordinary, it must become a key part of Israeli resistance to our anti-democratic government. Not because we have nothing left to lose – but because we still have everything to lose

David Issacharoff

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

He’s right.

Healthcare is a human right, not a privilege - and universal healthcare is both cheaper and more effective.

Slave-catcher energy here

Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London

HoosLeft This Week 8/3/25 Host Scott Aaron Rogers welcomes guests Derrick Holder, Jennifer David, and Scott Johnson to discuss this week's top news stories from Indiana and beyond.

HoosLeft This Week 8/3/25Host Scott Aaron Rogers welcomes guests Derrick Holder, Jennifer David, and Scott Johnson to discuss this week's top news stories from Indiana and beyond.
https://www.hoosleft.us/p/hoosleft-this-week-8325

This is what is happening right now.

Good morning Indiana! Join me and my panel of guests at 10:30 ET this morning for the state's most thorough (and most fun) Sunday morning news and politics show.

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If politicians aren't picking your pockets themselves, they're setting up their donors to. Money in politics is corruption and you should view everybody with skepticism.

We need more diversity in the kinds of people we send to Indianapolis and Washington. Working-class voices are missing.

The stock market is NOT the economy and the current economic metrics don't reflect the struggles of everyday Hoosiers.

Republicans are NOT economic geniuses.

If you offer and investor a 20% return, that'd be AMAZING!

Yet, if you INVEST in PEOPLE early in life, you can get returns of over 50X!!!

So why won't our GOP leaders invest in us!?!

Teachers and families attend a public education rally on Monday, April 14, 2025, at the Indiana Statehouse. (Casey Smith/Indiana Capital Chronicle)

Public education is under attack. We must fight for fully funded, fully public schools.

Bluer by the Lake | Substack Northwest Indiana's only blue-focused podcast. Click to read Bluer by the Lake, a Substack publication. Launched 2 months ago.

#Indiana, 🌊💪🌽 we're here, we're blue, we're #Hoosiers. Get used to it! If this describes you,you'll want to follow the new(ish) NWI -focused podcast, bluerbythelake.substack.com, which complements the Bloomington-based @hoosleft.us Recent episode on LGBTQ-inclusive religion is aMAZing.