James Bearden

Take some time to read this enlightening analysis of the power of wealth.
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Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale has become ‘more and more plausible’ Canadian author discusses US under Donald Trump and says setting of dystopian novel has ‘become much closer’

Oh I hope you are right, Margaret, about this.

““These kinds of regimes don’t last, partly because they become unsustainable. This particular one seems quite chaotic,” Atwood said.”

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Another reason to oppose Hochul’s re-election @governor.ny.gov

Free Omar and all others detained. Rochester demo Dec 5th

This is what we need! ICE is breaking the law.

Tasneem's three children; Hasan, Rafif and Alma.

Le Monde: "Silent deaths among Gaza's sick and wounded denied medical evacuation."

Gaza is in an urgent humanitarian crisis, the displaced civilians rely on our donations to survive.

Please give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can feed her children. And to others. ❤️🙏

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Family photo and text about Rally & Press Conference Fri. Dec. 5 at 5pm 121 Fitzhugh St. ICE detained Omar after a check-in. We need him.

Rochester Rapid Response
A RRRN community member was detained this week after ICE required him to check in in person and lied about why. He's lived here for decades and is a community leader, who always lends a helping hand to neighbors. We have a chance to support him and his family tomorrow!

Opinion | A lethal disease — The Washington Post Michael Ramirez cartoon on conspiracy theories and misinformation.

A lethal disease.

@rfk-junior.bsky.social

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Marco Rubio’s Sales Pitch: War in Venezuela - The American Prospect Right-wing exiles in South Florida want regime change. Rubio is selling it with a false narrative about drug trafficking.

"Appeasing his home state’s exile ring is a rather parochial origin story for an international incursion, but it happens to be true."

Rubio's role in the illegal war on Venezuela (and how that's likely his payoff for handing his job off to Witkoff, Kushner & Putin) is a HUGE story. Dayen is on it.

An eco obscenity: Norman Foster’s steroidal new skyscraper is an affront to the New York skyline It contains enough steel to go round the world twice – and even has a fake breeze to flutter the stars-and-stripes flag in its lobby. If this colossus is just the first of a new breed of bulky superta...

JPMorgan exhibitionism!

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘The dinosaurs didn’t know what was coming, but we do’: Marina Silva on what needs to follow Cop30 Exclusive: Brazil’s environment minister talks about climate inaction and the course we have to plot to save ourselves and the planet

#climate #environment
#fossilfuels #plastics

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ASAP Teach-in 12.9.25 Please join us for “Build Solar ASAP” - a virtual teach-in on the ASAP Act on December 9, 2025 at 12pm. New York is rapidly falling behind on our climate goals and electricity rates are skyrocketin...

Join virtual teach-in by NYSEIA “The ASAP Act increases rooftop and community solar in NY, makes it cheaper to build, and brings more bill savings, jobs and renewable energy
to our state.”
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Opinion | This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza

Hey Joe, Hey Chuck are you still “hugging Bibi”?
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

Yep!

‘What’s going on with this place?’: GOP faces a House in chaos | CNN Politics House Speaker Mike Johnson already had one of the toughest jobs in Washington: controlling an unruly GOP conference, with its razor-thin majority on the line next November.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/29/p...
“I think we just gotta quit electing knuckleheads. We have a very high knucklehead percentage compared to non-knuckleheads up here,” Rep. Tim Burchett said when asked about recent rise in tensions on the floor. “By and large, we just need to start electing better people.”

Nov. 30, 1921 | Texas Sheriff Permits Lynching of 15-Year-Old Black Boy in Broad Daylight Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1921, a white mob lynched a 15-year-old Black boy named Robert Murtore after a local sheriff in Texas failed to protect him while he was in his custody.

When Howard Dean was the Democratic frontrunner for President, he was disqualified, by the media, for yelling "Yeah!" once.

At some point we just have to admit that mainstream media sources are biased.

Elite tech industry mania for throwing $100s of billions (or trillions?) at so-called "AI" was a high-risk bet (which doesn't seem to be panning out) that more & more & more $ would make an AI superintelligence to solve all humanity's problems & create utopia.

It's like "The Rapture" for techbros.

What specifically are you doing to achieve those goals Joe?

Opinion | A.I.’s Anti-A.I. Marketing Strategy

AI poses a threat to the environment and a drain on energy. We are already starting to pay. AI companies will try to manage the narrative.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

Reith lecturer accuses BBC of censoring his remarks on Trump Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed

“Bregman, who is giving the BBC’s prestigious annual Reith Lectures, said his claim that Trump was “the most openly corrupt president in American history” had been taken out.”

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

What the Flock is happening with license plate readers? What Flock's ALPR cameras really collect, how they’re used in neighborhoods, and what you can do to stay in control.

Is there a “Flock” camera near you?

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/privacy...

In advance of NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani’s visit to the White House Friday, Republicans put forth a resolution “denouncing the horrors of socialism.”
Morelle voted with the incipient fascists.
Call Morelle’s office at (585) 232-4850 and/or at (202) 225-3615
@morelle.house.gov
@schumer.senate.gov

Very few people read this. Maybe no one will care until Congressman Bello pops up.

Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing In October, amid the two-year anniversary of the Gaza genocide, Jewish settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank hit an all-time high. And they will escalate – as long as they are allowed by U....

Via @jricole.bsky.social, excellent deep dive into skyrocketing squatter violence in the West Bank. It’s systemic, & #UScomplicit. www.juancole.com/2025/11/squa...

‘I can’t be silent. I’ve been through too much’: Dee Dee Bridgewater on singing with the greats – and confronting Maga with jazz Fuelled by a loathing of Trump, the war in Gaza and anger at ‘the same old chauvinistic crap’, the 75-year-old – who cut her teeth with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins and more – has no plans to stop p...

Dee Dee Bridgewater
““I couldn’t go to a No Kings protest, but I do protest songs with the We Exist! band,” she says. “The programme I am doing now started out of the war in Gaza – I watched the news and thought: I am witnessing the beginning of a genocide.”

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Yes, but the volume is so great we need a lot of people doing “careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.” My head spins at the thought.

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie What's the deal with the filibuster?

new video up at my youtube page on the history of the filibuster and why it’s Bad. watch/share/subscribe/etc!
youtu.be/a30e7lw6KL4