Debra Marshall

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

For me, it was growing up in public housing. My mom worked multiple jobs and still it was so hard for us to move ourselves up and out. Eventually we did and it was precarious for years after. Growing up poor is something that only those who go through it can fully understand.

Public Enemy Urge Us To 'Do Something' In Politically-Charged Music Video Chuck D and Flavor Flav, with help from a U.S. water polo Olympian athlete, tell us to 'do something' on 'The Hits Just Keep On Comin''

New IMPORTANT Public Enemy just dropped via Rolling Stone

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.

If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

I Got Tenure and Now I Can’t Seem to Form Simple Declarative Sentences When I received the email, I was holding a piece of toast. Dry, no butter. I remember this vividly because it was the last thing in my life with a ...

"Email has become a crucible. I can no longer say 'Attached is the draft.' I must instead write, 'Enclosed—though, of course, enclosure itself is a problematic modality—please locate a text-in-process, emergent rather than concluded.'”

Protesters at No Kings. me and my lowlife friends.

protest poster showing actual size of Trump’s penis.

Me and my lowlife friends. So proud of my poster 😊

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life

and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

Coast Guard bought Kristi Noem two private jets (I guess if one breaks down). Cost: $172 million. Is that what you call draining the swamp?

If you were out in the streets today, thanks. If you left feeling inspired, please seek out local ways that you can keep organizing with others.

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

No Kings protest, Palm Bay, FL

No Kings protest, Palm Bay, FL

No Kings protest, Palm Bay, FL

No Kings protest, Palm Bay, FL. Fun for all, and an excellent crowd of HUNDREDS 😁

They’re eating the people!

I was born in 1972. The replacement rate he's panicked about has been below 2.1% for almost every year of my life.

If you're really worried about the population falling, giving immigrants a path to citizenship is an obvious and easy solution.

Unless there's ... something about them you don't like?

The Dem establishment is going to back Mills over the absolute phenom outsider Platner in Maine, which tells you everything you need to know about how well they understand the current moment & how prepared they are to meet it.

Rep. Bryon Donalds (R-Fla.) is running for governor.

In the last quarter, his congressional campaign spent $101,000, per new filing.

Almost half of it went to security.

For his wife.

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation By Daniel Ducassi, FloridaBulldog.org - More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts missing legally required public documentation.

“More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation”

Daniel Ducassi for Florida Bulldog

Seems the Narcissist-in-Chief is mad about the Time Mag cover neckgina pic so please don’t share it widely

Thank you for your attention to this matter

Two more Lopez co-defendants take plea deals in gambling case Two more of Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez’s co-defendants have taken plea deals for their roles in the illegal gambling operation, adding to the mounting obstacles for Lopez.

Two more Lopez co-defendants take plea deals in gambling case trib.al/n8qbdRe

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants.

Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

There are so few academic jobs, and thousands of excellent scholars are all trying to move at the same time due to location. 

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

NO KINGS Melbourne/Palm Bay · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

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Your honor, I AM a kitten.

Coming soon to a bookstore near you :-)