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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

HBO's Last Week Tonight featured @levernews.com's reporting on how Medicare Advantage plans pushed by both parties trap seniors while enriching politicians’ health insurance industry donors. Watch it and share.

Original story here: www.levernews.com/care-denied-...

John Oliver citing The Lever’s reporting.

At @levernews.com, we do a lot of health care reporting. It is great to see it amplified by @lastweektonight.com

Subscribe to The Lever’s free daily newsletter at LeverNews.com/daily — and please repost this.

Davis Schneider gives The Batting Stance Guy a run for his money on MLB Network's Intentional Talk:

The Landlord, the Tenant and a House Fire in Milwaukee A young mother rents a house near Milwaukee. The previous tenant tells her, “Baby, they shouldn’t have let you move in.”

Near Milwaukee, two lives intersect in a house that catches fire.

What came before and after shows there’s one kind of justice for those who own and another for those who rent.

(Published 2022 w/ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

BREAKING: Video shows Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino personally throwing two canisters of tear gas at protesters in Little Village in Chicago earlier this morning. Video via Yani Sotelo on Facebook. (Warning: Strong language)

Despite the state's appeal, FEMA denied Michigan's request for disaster aid following a devastating March ice storm. The parts of the state most affected, including much of Northern Michigan, are reliably Republican areas that contributed significantly to putting President Trump in power.

Guillermo del Toro adds maternal twist to classic ‘Frankenstein’ tale Guillermo del Toro proves he's a cinematic master. Read our review.

Guillermo del Toro proves he's a cinematic master. Read our review.

And there it is. The Bribery Ballroom is cover. He's razing the East Wing to upgrade his spider hole.

Because when he steals the election next year, or cancels it outright, he knows we'll make No Kings look like a PTA meeting.

He's terrified.

The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It. Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

EPA scientists linked PFNA with developmental, liver and reproductive harms.

Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but it has yet to be released by the Trump administration.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47 X.com A lot of FAKE OUTRAGE over construction of the big, beautiful (and privately funded) White House Ballroom. FACT: Presidents have been renovating and expanding the White House for more than 100 years. In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt built the West Wing. In 1909, President William Howard Taft added the first Oval Office during a West Wing expansion.

The White House keeps making a big deal of the fact that the ballroom is privately funded but that’s one of the worst things about it.

These people and companies are buying influence. None of this is okay.

Rolling Stone excerpt about Montana’s ballot initiative to combat Citizens United

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇

Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.

Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

On the Front Line of the Fluoride Wars, Debate Over Drinking Water Treatment Turns Raucous After decades of fluoridating drinking water to improve public health, some communities are wavering on the practice. In one Michigan county, the medical director is mirroring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ...

There already aren’t enough dentists who accept Medicaid patients, said Kimberly Raleigh of the Michigan Oral Health Coalition, and “if there is a reduction in community water fluoridation, it’s just a downward spiral.”

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

the imposter syndrome that comes with being a billionaire must be wild, like you have all this money and you know for a fact it isn't because of your ability, no wonder they actively surround themselves with sycophants, being alone with their thoughts must be torture

IndyStar 2 . Follow 1h: "All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff should be scared by this blatant attack on someone standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement. Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1 IndyStar. IDS The original investigative student newsroom of Indiana University Barge suspends Bloomingtonr LITTLE 500 IDS IDS She should've knownbetter:' nt in N eoiencnalt. A INnpttM Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid push to control student newspaper's content

The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper. As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

Generative AI’s Productivity Myth | TechPolicy.Press People may be using artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean it’s useful, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

The push to maximize productivity is at the heart of the current rush to adopt AI, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio, but that doesn’t mean it’s useful. “On a social scale, productivity gains that don’t lead to pay raises, or lead to layoffs, are not productivity gains at all.”

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

Opinion | What Chuck Schumer Can Learn From Bad Bunny

Here’s a gift link to my New York Times piece on what Dems can learn from bad bunny

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

This was an emotionally wrenching piece to write, for reasons that are made explicit in the article, but the ongoing political weaponization of the FBI — both in its internal machinations and its criminal investigations — should not be allowed to pass unnoticed.

Making a Scarecrow of the Law: A Former Agent’s Reaction to Recent Events at the FBI My response to the ongoing politicization of the FBI under Kash Patel.

"I know that at least one agent held the potential of being an upstanding public servant, who embodied the best ideals of the FBI, and now will always be associated with an elected official’s unending quest for revenge."

@michael-feinberg.bsky.social discusses the politicization of the FBI.

Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump's Nutjobs to Kill Democrats - emptywheel Stephen Miller just confessed on Fox News that when he uses dehumanizing language -- when he calls Democrats "fascists" or "Marxists" or "radical" -- he intends it as a message to "all the crazies and...

Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump's Nutjobs to Kill Democrats

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/02/s...

YouTube video by Wellman For MO We're Not Done Yet - Fred Wellman for Missouri

Here we are in another Republican government shutdown and my Rep is home doing photo ops instead of in D.C. trying to help working Americans. I didn't think I'd have to run to the trumpets again but I am. I'm running for Congress because I'm not done yet and neither are we. youtu.be/OSOAPMl_BSc?...

The Shutdown Will Make Trump's Theory of Government-ICE but No Healthcare-Visible - emptywheel No one knows how this shutdown will go. It truly is unlike any shutdown that has gone before. But it will serve to make the reality of Trump's abuse of power visible in a way that has not fully happen...

The Shutdown Will Make Trump's Theory of Government--ICE but No Healthcare--Visible

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/01/a...

There we are.

I'll just add on to this that my other advice for parents is to recognize that Big Tech social media harm is systemic, not individual. There are steps you can take, but in the end we need policy solutions, like strong privacy, antitrust and algorithmic justice legislation. And alternative platforms