It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

Starbucks Workers United escalates strike during busy holiday season Starbucks Workers United is expanding the strike, but the company says it has not yet disrupted the key holiday season.

Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Solidarity with the thousands of unionized Starbucks workers who are on strike. Keep up the fight. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/s...

Solar capacity is expected to triple based on new projects in the pipeline.

Total global solar capacity, including all projects in construction and planned, is expected to reach almost 3 terawatts, with 80% concentrated in just 15 countries.

Data @globalenergymon.bsky.social

Senator Slotkin reacts to Trump's threats of death for sedition

Statement from Rep. Crockett on Threat at D.C. Office

Top military lawyer raised legal concerns about boat strikes The lawyer at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the operations against alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela, disagreed that the strikes are legal and was overruled, according to six sources...

“The JAG at Southern Command specifically expressed concern that strikes against people on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean…could amount to extrajudicial killings, the six sources said, and therefore legally expose service members involved in the operations.”

#GVerse #KingResist #Unite #FBaRmy
🇺🇸US Senator Chris Murphy Just Released This Video🇺🇸

Swalwell: I am running to be California’s next governor.

When a sitting president calls for death to lawmakers, it’s not a warning sign, it’s the emergency siren. He is talking like a dictator and telling you exactly how he plans to use his power.

This is how democracies fall and how dictatorships begin.

The Wealthy Are Spending More On Vacations, Fine Dining And Yachts, Report Shows The consumer base for luxury goods is shrinking—but the ultrawealthy are still spending.

The consumer base for luxury goods is shrinking—but the ultrawealthy are still spending.

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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

#Pinks #ProudBlue
My heart breaks for the families of Tierra Walker and all the other women who have died from lack of access to women’s healthcare in Texas. This is all preventable! Stop killing women!! 🥲💔
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They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

Sorry, George Washington Would Not Have Hung Them. This week, Donald Trump continues to use his claimed power to kill people who have received no due process, in international waters, based on his administration’s assertion that they are narcoterroris...

Trump called for members of Congress to be hung for stating that members of the military & the intelligence community shouldn’t follow illegal orders. Read on for details & a discussion of why it’s essential we discuss this, not just push it aside as “politics.” open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Prosecutors move to drop charges against Chicago woman shot by border patrol agent — Guardian US Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez after he claimed she struck his vehicle, and bragged about shooting her in texts

Feds drop charges against protester shot 7 times by ICE.
Body cam footage and evidence showed Miramar Martinez did not box in agent Exum like he claimed.
Exum bragged about the shooting & drove his car to keep it from being examined.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
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It's not a sophisticated reaction, but my response to both "quiet, piggy" and the Coast Guard okaying swastikas and nooses is a deep sadness that the compassion we're working so hard to foster in our children will not just be challenged by schoolyard bullies but by the highest levels of society.

Today would be a great day to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks, don't you think?

Federal judge rules Trump's D.C. troop invasion is likely illegal, must end by Dec. 11 National Guard troops have been in D.C. since August. A federal judge ruled Thursday that both deployments — D.C. National Guard and out-of-state troops — likely violate the law.

NEW: Federal judge rules Trump's D.C. troop invasion is likely illegal, must end by Dec. 11.

National Guard troops have been in D.C. since August. A federal judge ruled Thursday that both deployments — D.C. National Guard and out-of-state troops — likely violate the law.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

Fugees rapper Pras Michel sentenced to 14 years in prison over illegal donations to Obama campaign | CNN Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison for a case in which he was convicted of illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign c...

Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison for a case in which he was convicted of illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.

LEAVITT: They are encouraging service members not to follow lawful orders!

REPORTER: They're talking about illegal orders

LEAVITT: They're suggesting the president has given illegal orders, which he has not. Every single order given is lawful.

NOW HEAR THIS: Every service member has an OBLIGATION to NOT carry out “Blatantly” Unlawful orders:

1) COMMIT A CRIME OR WAR CRIME
2) VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION
3) VIOLATE TREATIES & INTL LAWS
4) VIOLATE THE UCMJ
5) ORDERS YOU TO ABUSE YOUR POSITION OR AUTHORITY OR SUPERIORS PERSONAL GAIN

Despite being threatened by the President of the United States, these Senators and Representatives will not be deterred. They will not be silenced. They will not be intimidated. They love this country and believe we are better than what the politics represent!

The Epstein Files bill has a lot of protections in it to prevent Bondi from doing what we all suspect she's going to do: hold back or redact because of an open investigation or national security concerns. If she improperly withholds, she'll be sued, and SCOTUS will eventually decide.

AI=“someone else”?

BREAKING: Judge Cobb rules that the Pentagon's National Guard deployment into D.C. was illegal.

However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.

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JP Morgan knew about Epstein's sex trafficking, but didn't report it so they could keep doing business with him.