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Target is now requiring its employees to smile more As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.

"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.

They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.

If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."

🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.

'25-'26 Thought Leader Series at Space Center Houston The series kicks off on Nov. 6 with Hank Green, science communicator and bestselling author!

HOUSTON!

TOMORROW I'm going to speaking at Space Center Houston! We'll be talking about science and story telling and I have a discount code!

Use code HANK25 at checkout to get $25 off your ticket. Doors open at 5:30PM | Event begins at 6:15 PM

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If one follows the money and leadership of these groups, the lines between them quickly blur. Stand Up for Science (SUFS), for instance, is a 501(c)(4) advocacy group founded by Colette Delawalla, a science activist who rose to prominence opposing Trump administration science cuts. SUFS spearheaded the highly theatrical “Impeach RFK Jr.” petition drive – complete with delivering over a thousand “Quack-O-Gram” rubber ducks to Congressional offices as a publicity stunt.[8] SUFS boasts that its grassroots volunteers and a person in a giant duck costume have been visiting lawmakers to demand Kennedy’s impeachment, and even credits this pressure for a Congressmember drafting Articles of Impeachment against RFK Jr.[8] In reality, SUFS is less a spontaneous grassroots uprising than a professional campaign organization – it has a government relations team, runs donation drives, and coordinates closely with Washington insiders (evidenced by that immediate response from at least one Representative). It is activism, to be sure, but astutely orchestrated activism, not simply an organic wave of employee discontent.

TAKE NOTE! @standupforscience.bsky.social is officially a "professional campaign organization", as per conspiracy theorist and MAHA hag Sayer Ji.

Also, please note we are a 501(c)4 AND a 501(c)3!, so your donations can be tax-exempt!

sayerji.substack.com/p/false-upri...

I have a very bad feeling about this...

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

A poster for "Amphifa: amphibians against fascism" showing a black and green flag with a green frog

Three protestors dressed in inflatable frog costumes holding a sign that says "Portland frog brigade"

We 💯 support Amphifa! Give me ribbety, or give me death. 🐸

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

Trump-Epstein 'friendship' statue removed from National Mall one day after it appeared A statue of Trump and Epstein was removed from the National Mall by U.S. Park Police, despite a permit allowing it to remain until Sept. 28.

It's no longer on the mall. It was supposed to be up until Sunday, but someone decided it should come down . . . 🤔

www.wusa9.com/article/news...

This morning, we filed a FOIA request regarding the removal of the Trump-Epstein statue from the National Mall by the U.S. Park Police.

The statute was supposed to be on display until Sunday. We want to know if the administration is hiding art just because Trump doesn’t like it.

I think also he and the administration like pain for women, from no Tylenol for moms to no abortions for those who wanted to be moms but had serious pregnancy issues. Lying about autistic people also hits moms hard as they still do a disproportionate amount of childcare.

They want to hurt women.

Didn't realize until I was omw home that it's two blocks from this:

Me, for scale 😄

Why do we fund the NEA? Why do we put money into the arts?

Because it's fucking important

If you want to see it person, too, it's on the National Mall, on 3rd.

It's real, and it's glorious 😂

I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source.

You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"?

My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

What an exhausting time to be able to read

Resistance in action! Proud of DC residents! #FREEDC

Thank you, AG Schwalb, for standing up for us.

Fyi, AG is elected by the citizens of DC. This isn't a move by the Bowser administration, and she hasn't "endorsed" the lawsuit, according to CNN.

Next mayoral primary is June 16, 2026.

Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures.

Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims.

Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘Warrior ethos?’: Trump’s army of garbage collectors exposes ‘absurd’ orders

OPINION:

Trump’s army of garbage collectors exposes ‘absurd’ orders

“Soldiers wear camouflage to conceal themselves from the enemy they want to kill. Safety vests are what municipal workers put on so you can see them at work,” @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Trump’s army of garbage collectors in DC.

Robert Reich How Trump’s Agenda Could Kill You

Trump just hung a giant portrait of himself over the Department of Labor building, claiming he puts "American Workers First."

Take it from a former Secretary of Labor: Donald Trump doesn't give a shit about working people. https://youtu.be/ARL5VvYJUe8?feature=shared

Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"

Turns out some of the “we want small government” people kiiiinda wanted the government to be just one guy.

I've gotten two emails in the past two days about "Join[ing] Mayor Bowser for Women’s Equality Day 2025 – August 27 at the Go-Go Museum" and nothing about "Join Mayor Bowser in Standing Up for Our City against the Forces of Fascism at the Go-Go Museum."

Am I missing a listserv?

At today’s press briefing, Trump was asked how long he plans to keep troops stationed in Washington, D.C., and what his plans are for Chicago. He didn’t give a direct answer. Instead, he said: “I really want to be appreciated.”

LIVE: Gov. Pritzker holds presser amid Trump’s threats to send National Guard to Chicago YouTube video by MSNBC

WATCH LIVE: Gov. Pritzker holds presser amid Trump’s threats to send National Guard to Chicago

Trump: "The whole issue of the women. Comfort women. Very specifically. We talked and that was a very big problem for Korea, not for Japan. Japan was, wanted to go, they want to get on. But Korea was very stuck on that."

Apparently it takes 4 guards to keep the (very safe) Dupont Circle metro safe. I asked if they were on a break or if this is where they're stationed today.

This is where they are - nothing to do but stand there, talk, and watch work being done next to them. 🙄

Great use of $ & time - intimidation

See, before today I didn't really want to burn an American flag.

Now it's basically my duty as an American