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I want to uplift again this brilliant piece of writing and thinking by @shannonmattern.bsky.social - placesjournal.org/article/extr... - I think that everyone who is interested in libraries would benefit from reading it.
20.11.2025 22:01 — 👍 119 🔁 41 💬 1 📌 1
This is a thread detailing a series of incidents where federal Judge Ellis rules that Gregory Bovino and his agents lied or misrepresented what was happening on the streets of Chicago. In this one, she says body cam footage suggests they brake checked to cause accidents
20.11.2025 21:27 — 👍 1179 🔁 461 💬 19 📌 38
TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families."
Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
yeah I really don't even think we've started to sniff the impact of the GOP's complete destruction of federal consumer protection and public safety regulatory independence, and that's just the tip of the iceberg
this stuff is going to come in concussive, brutal waves
"We seethe over the betrayal by a supposedly democratic society that quickly averts its collective eyes and allows predators ... to get away with it and reinvent themselves right in front of our eyes as we’re punished if we speak out about our basic rights to survival and safety," Donna Ladd wrote.
15.11.2025 21:30 — 👍 317 🔁 108 💬 4 📌 2A massive corruption scandal is brewing in Nevada: it appears the Republican Governor's office stepped in to cover for Elon Musk's Boring Company after safety violations caused two firefighters to suffer chemical burns. Even worse? It looks like they deleted evidence of their meetings!
14.11.2025 21:59 — 👍 570 🔁 219 💬 13 📌 3
“Given this administration’s track record of weaponizing federal agencies to chase baseless voter-fraud conspiracies and challenge voters’ eligibility. The public should be deeply concerned about what’s being built behind closed doors with their tax dollars and the threat it could pose to voters."
14.11.2025 22:00 — 👍 159 🔁 79 💬 3 📌 2Donald Trump has not quite made being a Democrat or opposed to him illegal. But he has done everything short of that. Prosecuting Dems. Classifying groups that oppose him (Antifa) as terrorists. Deporting/blocking entry of people who criticize him. Keeping federal funds from Dem states & cities.
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This may be Trump's perfect social media post. A true work of art. He confirms:
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
So much worse
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NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."
13.11.2025 21:52 — 👍 3299 🔁 981 💬 40 📌 43This little man is out of control.
I feel like I’m saying that all the time.
Wild to watch playbook run cover for this particular Trump scandal
13.11.2025 13:49 — 👍 1666 🔁 301 💬 102 📌 75Hey, you know who would never give cover to fascist pedophiles and then whine when they’re caught doing it?
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Thanks David!
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A screenshot of an article containing several paragraphs of text. It describes a 17-year-old high school junior in Florida who worked at McDonald’s and lived in and out of a homeless shelter. To save money for braces, she falsely listed herself as 18 on a companionship website in 2017. The article says this led to events that affected her life and the political career of one of the men she met: Representative Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican. It states that Gaetz was investigated by the Justice Department for child sex trafficking but never charged. It adds that after the previous year’s election, he became President Trump’s first choice for attorney general, then resigned from Congress and later withdrew from attorney-general consideration amid scrutiny.
One of the 17 year old girls Matt Gaetz allegedly trafficked and had sex with needed the money to pay for braces. She ended up homeless and working at McDonald's. Just incredibly bleak stuff.
archive.ph/CV16n
My latest piece for @damemagazine.bsky.social on the Trump shadow presidency, what happens as autocrats grow old and infirm, and what it means for the rest of us.
13.11.2025 16:36 — 👍 30 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0The New York Times **HAD EMAILS IN ITS POSSESSION** tying Donald Trump directly to Jeffrey Epstein's global elite pedophile cabal conspiracy –– in the middle of a 2016 election where a global elite pedophile cabal conspiracy was a HUGE topic –– and they didn't publish one word it for a decade.
13.11.2025 14:49 — 👍 909 🔁 372 💬 25 📌 37
The story isn’t just *if* Trump is in decline.
It’s who benefits when he does.
Today, @zeblarson.bsky.social breaks down the shadow power structure around the Oval Office
Congrats again, everyone
13.11.2025 14:27 — 👍 550 🔁 160 💬 18 📌 8two possibilities, both impossible to dismiss:
1) The Trump White House views the Epstein files as such a threat to its survival they must be discussed in a secure room
2) Leavitt has no idea what the situation room is and thinks its just a figure of speech
And let's not forget that ICE agents have responded to these instances of community solidarity by launching tear gas canisters at peaceful outdoor gatherings.
11.11.2025 18:17 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
What the national press is missing is this: Those physical confrontations aren’t protests. They’re a community organizing itself against its own government. In the absence of help from the courts, parents are forming brigades to watch schools during pickup and dropoff.
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Trump has manufactured a crisis of violent crime in the Windy City, siccing masked ICE agents on immigrants and their defenders. And the mainstream media is both-sides-ing the story. @allisonhantschel.com in her column this month
11.11.2025 18:17 — 👍 27 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 1
This month in @damemagazine.bsky.social I wrote about the siege of Chicago, what it feels like to live here, about the violation of the ICE invasion and the gratuitous violence of the president against a city he's hated for years:
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Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
Trump’s DOJ has asked the Supreme Court to issue an order that will let them withhold payment of full SNAP benefits for November
They’re prepared to starve 42 million people-16 million kids-so they can pressure Democrats to do what Trump wants
It’s monstrous
And nobody in the GOP will stop him
Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
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⚖️ The Trump administration is firing scores of immigration judges, many w/ a background in defending immigrants, while hiring new judges tied to DHS, ICE, & the military.
For many, this isn’t just a reshuffle.
It’s a restructuring of who gets to decide who stays in the U.S.🧵
