@klafong.bsky.social
Screenwriter, storyteller, actor, and graphic artist. Reposts don't necessarily mean agreement. (he, him)
when we talk about efforts to "erase DEI" can we be more precise and say "efforts to re-segregate workplaces and schools"
19.11.2025 10:58 — 👍 1735 🔁 476 💬 7 📌 5one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
19.11.2025 13:13 — 👍 5875 🔁 1127 💬 125 📌 39
This keeps happening.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Chief Justice John Roberts rigged our democracy, helped Trump retake power, and is now discarding legal and constitutional constraints on Trump's actions.
But Roberts needs Trump, too. This symbiotic relationship means there is no hope for course correction.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
19.11.2025 16:25 — 👍 2774 🔁 579 💬 59 📌 20![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less." She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards. They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it. This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil. The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option. "We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents. "We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
20.11.2025 00:07 — 👍 7501 🔁 2749 💬 125 📌 143the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
20.11.2025 03:19 — 👍 2844 🔁 653 💬 4 📌 10
On the plus side, DoJ now has viewpoint diversity
19.11.2025 21:33 — 👍 56 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0“Sometimes, you have to burn the village.” Miller, probably.
19.11.2025 21:41 — 👍 76 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 0Heartbreaking: the person you campaigned and championed to get elected does exactly what he said he would do
19.11.2025 23:46 — 👍 1314 🔁 214 💬 24 📌 5
"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Chicago has great journalism.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/19/4...
Could the Epstein Files kerfuffle take down Trump? Sure, maybe. Which could end up with Russell Vought and Steve Miller transferring allegiance to a MJT or Tucker Carlson or whomever. Don't take your eye off the big picture. It's the fascism, stupid.
19.11.2025 17:43 — 👍 194 🔁 34 💬 14 📌 5
People don't get that George Wallace also always lost in court, too, often stupidly. Liberals would declare victory. But Wallace won where it counted for him: in performing for his base, and building extra-lega authoritarian powerl. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/due-to-...
19.11.2025 19:22 — 👍 63 🔁 10 💬 7 📌 0my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center
we're really not prepared for what's coming
you: please act normal you need these people to like you
people: hello Ed nice to meet you
me: The German practice of leaving cities to circumvent rationing by bartering for food with farmers during WWII was called "Hamstering" and the Nazi propaganda poster against it somehow turned out cute.
19.11.2025 23:33 — 👍 115 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Willingly scarring your body to own the libs. These people are straight up insane. This is Manson Family shit
19.11.2025 23:28 — 👍 3442 🔁 931 💬 114 📌 57The House approves 427-1 and the Senate unanimously approves it. The president signs it into law…So the DOJ has 30 days to release (BTW why are they given 30 days? It should be released immediately.) the Epstein files. At the last minute, a bullshit investigation starts and they can’t be released.
20.11.2025 07:52 — 👍 71 🔁 16 💬 9 📌 2
Epstein abused hundreds while Pam Bondi was Florida AG
20.11.2025 07:56 — 👍 235 🔁 120 💬 23 📌 5Franchesca: #epstein #clayhiggins #PedophileProtectionProram
20.11.2025 08:29 — 👍 50 🔁 17 💬 7 📌 4
Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein – Byline Times
20.11.2025 09:04 — 👍 63 🔁 40 💬 2 📌 2Trump is trying to serve Ukraine up on a platter that looks precisely like the platter Putin's guys demanded in the 2016 quid pro quo offer given to Paul Manafort.
Taibbi: MAN, THE EPSTEIN FILES IS JUST LIKE RUSSIAGATE
I kinda like reading this in Harvard’s student paper considering that the last public pronouncement Summers made before his shit hit the fan was a bullying threat to round up alumni to “investigate” The Crimson for its “moral bankruptcy” on supporting Palestine. Who’s being investigated now, Larry?!
20.11.2025 03:44 — 👍 336 🔁 70 💬 13 📌 2That's a good start, but Harvard itself on an institutional level is just as compromised as he is.
A whole lot of Summers' colleagues gotta see the fucking door.
For instance, every single person who Epstein met in his 40+ visits to Harvard *after his 2008 conviction*.
Good
As he plotted with a known sex offender a plan to sexually exploit a mentee, this leave should be permanent
He has proven himself to be categorically unfit to be in contact with students, at Harvard or anywhere else
#EconSky
Harvard just opened an investigation into Larry Summers's ties to Epstein.
That's just PR cover for Harvard.
They've known this entire time.
Epstein literally had an office at Harvard for years.
man, it's always the same fucking list
20.11.2025 03:29 — 👍 195 🔁 33 💬 12 📌 1
