@gentlystream.bsky.social
Pro-kindness, pro-planet, pro-democracy. For my children and grandchildren.
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Unemployment was at 7.8% when Obama took office. He got it down to 4.7% by the end of term
Trump then lost millions of jobs, and left Joe Biden with unemployment at 6.4%
Biden CREATED millions of jobs and reduced unemployment to 4.3%
Unemployment is rising under Trump-again-standing now at 4.6%
Trump then lost millions of jobs, and left Joe Biden with unemployment at 6.4%
Biden CREATED millions of jobs and reduced unemployment to 4.3%
Unemployment is rising under Trump-again-standing now at 4.6%
December 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Unemployment was at 7.8% when Obama took office. He got it down to 4.7% by the end of term
Trump then lost millions of jobs, and left Joe Biden with unemployment at 6.4%
Biden CREATED millions of jobs and reduced unemployment to 4.3%
Unemployment is rising under Trump-again-standing now at 4.6%
Trump then lost millions of jobs, and left Joe Biden with unemployment at 6.4%
Biden CREATED millions of jobs and reduced unemployment to 4.3%
Unemployment is rising under Trump-again-standing now at 4.6%
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Important read from @chrishatch.bsky.social:
The current bonfire of fossil fuels is driving an annual increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide that is 100 to 200 times faster than our most recent analogue: the end of the last ice age. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/15/o...
The current bonfire of fossil fuels is driving an annual increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide that is 100 to 200 times faster than our most recent analogue: the end of the last ice age. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/15/o...
The numbers sound small. The consequences are not
As 2025 draws to its close, European scientists are noting that the three-year average temperature has exceeded 1.5C above preindustrial levels for the first time — and the impacts are tangible. The y...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Important read from @chrishatch.bsky.social:
The current bonfire of fossil fuels is driving an annual increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide that is 100 to 200 times faster than our most recent analogue: the end of the last ice age. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/15/o...
The current bonfire of fossil fuels is driving an annual increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide that is 100 to 200 times faster than our most recent analogue: the end of the last ice age. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/15/o...
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Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son was pulled over by ICE and forced to prove he is an American.
Two options:
1) ICE deliberately targeted him.
2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens.
Hard to say which option is scarier.
Two options:
1) ICE deliberately targeted him.
2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens.
Hard to say which option is scarier.
December 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son was pulled over by ICE and forced to prove he is an American.
Two options:
1) ICE deliberately targeted him.
2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens.
Hard to say which option is scarier.
Two options:
1) ICE deliberately targeted him.
2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens.
Hard to say which option is scarier.
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As a director, Rob Reiner released these five movies all in a row
1986 Stand by Me
1987 The Princess Bride
1989 When Harry Met Sally…
1990 Misery
1992 A Few Good Men
All remarkable and vastly different films, showing extraordinary range and talent
1986 Stand by Me
1987 The Princess Bride
1989 When Harry Met Sally…
1990 Misery
1992 A Few Good Men
All remarkable and vastly different films, showing extraordinary range and talent
RIP Rob Reiner. You were a prince and I’m grateful we intersected.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Rob Reiner, ‘When Harry Met Sally,’ ‘The Princess Bride’ and ‘Stand by Me’ Director and ‘All in the Family’ Actor, Dies at 78 in Apparent Homicide (Report)
The two-time Emmy winner and Oscar nominee and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their Brentwood home.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM
As a director, Rob Reiner released these five movies all in a row
1986 Stand by Me
1987 The Princess Bride
1989 When Harry Met Sally…
1990 Misery
1992 A Few Good Men
All remarkable and vastly different films, showing extraordinary range and talent
1986 Stand by Me
1987 The Princess Bride
1989 When Harry Met Sally…
1990 Misery
1992 A Few Good Men
All remarkable and vastly different films, showing extraordinary range and talent
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
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As one of those Democratic attorneys who was camped out in West Palm Beach - taking depositions from inconsolable grandmas swearing they hadn’t voted for Buchanan, I still have trauma. 🥺
25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
December 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
As one of those Democratic attorneys who was camped out in West Palm Beach - taking depositions from inconsolable grandmas swearing they hadn’t voted for Buchanan, I still have trauma. 🥺
25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
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We documented dozens of cases of brutality — including physical and sexual abuse from guards — that show a humanitarian disaster unfolding at the Fort Bliss military base, where ICE is operating its largest detention center.
President Trump’s mass detention expansion is inhumane and dangerous.
President Trump’s mass detention expansion is inhumane and dangerous.
Immigrants Detained at Fort Bliss in Texas Report Abuse and Inhumane Conditions
Detained people at largest immigration detention facility in the country report accounts of physical and sexual abuse.
www.aclu.org
December 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
We documented dozens of cases of brutality — including physical and sexual abuse from guards — that show a humanitarian disaster unfolding at the Fort Bliss military base, where ICE is operating its largest detention center.
President Trump’s mass detention expansion is inhumane and dangerous.
President Trump’s mass detention expansion is inhumane and dangerous.
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Read Shadow Network by Anne Nelson about the far right’s decades-long takeover of US radio and smaller-town media, leading to the split info space dividing us today. @maxtani.bsky.social @semaforben.bsky.social @joshtpm.bsky.social @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social @velshi.com @jelaniya.bsky.social
People are dismissing network television like they did radio 20 years ago. If a bunch of liberal rich people invested in non-profit independent radio across the country twenty years ago we would live in a fundamentally different country
December 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Read Shadow Network by Anne Nelson about the far right’s decades-long takeover of US radio and smaller-town media, leading to the split info space dividing us today. @maxtani.bsky.social @semaforben.bsky.social @joshtpm.bsky.social @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social @velshi.com @jelaniya.bsky.social
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A good time to open @craigunger.bsky.social House of Trump House of Putin for the details of the Trump Mafia active for decades.
December 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A good time to open @craigunger.bsky.social House of Trump House of Putin for the details of the Trump Mafia active for decades.
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Republicans’ voter suppression tactics rarely make headlines, but it remains the greatest threat to democracy. This year, we’ve seen one of these tactics on full display through map-rigging efforts.
But @marcelias.bsky.social warns this is only the tip of the iceberg.
But @marcelias.bsky.social warns this is only the tip of the iceberg.
The Greatest Threat to Democracy
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Republicans’ voter suppression tactics rarely make headlines, but it remains the greatest threat to democracy. This year, we’ve seen one of these tactics on full display through map-rigging efforts.
But @marcelias.bsky.social warns this is only the tip of the iceberg.
But @marcelias.bsky.social warns this is only the tip of the iceberg.
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It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
Again, US tech in the hands of authoritarian states raises the question: what all was in those files Trump stole/stashed at Mar-a-Lago? @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @benrhodes.bsky.social @slotkin.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov @jahimes.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @nicollewallace.bsky.social
China is using surveillance technology - much of it originating in the U.S. - to cement its power at home and vastly amplify it abroad. The story of retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang, who now lives in Texas, shows how Beijing uses such tech overseas.
A Chinese whistleblower now living in the US is being hunted by Beijing with help from US tech
Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang fled to the U.S. seeking asylum, fearing persecution from the Chinese government.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Again, US tech in the hands of authoritarian states raises the question: what all was in those files Trump stole/stashed at Mar-a-Lago? @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @benrhodes.bsky.social @slotkin.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov @jahimes.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @nicollewallace.bsky.social
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America is a mafia state running a protection racket in the interest of the boss, not the people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... bsky.app/profile/john...
December 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
America is a mafia state running a protection racket in the interest of the boss, not the people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... bsky.app/profile/john...
Will the US ever know what files Trump stole/stashed at Mar-a-Lago? US tech in Russian weapons seems problematic. @carolleonnig.bsky.social @weissmann.substack.com @raskin.house.gov @davidcorn.bsky.social @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @brma64.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @craigunger.bsky.social
Despite years of sanctions and export controls, U.S.-made electronic components — which have unique markings and cannot be copied — continue to appear in Russian cruise missiles and drones.
15 Ukrainians are suing US tech factories over chips in Russia's deadly weapons
It was a regular workday when the air raid alarm sounded at Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital at 11 a.m. on a Monday in Kyiv. Dr. Olga Babicheva and her colleagues moved their young patients to a room wit...
kyivindependent.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Will the US ever know what files Trump stole/stashed at Mar-a-Lago? US tech in Russian weapons seems problematic. @carolleonnig.bsky.social @weissmann.substack.com @raskin.house.gov @davidcorn.bsky.social @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @brma64.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @craigunger.bsky.social
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I talked to @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW about adapting to increasingly strong atmospheric rivers, and that reducing risk ultimately requires tackling GHG emissions.
"If we don't do that, atmospheric rivers are going to keep growing stronger...It's going to overwhelm our ability to respond.”
"If we don't do that, atmospheric rivers are going to keep growing stronger...It's going to overwhelm our ability to respond.”
Northwest floods offer sneak peek of hotter climate's toll
“The science is clear that floods are going to become larger and more frequent in the future,” Washington State Climatologist Guillaume Mauger said.
www.kuow.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I talked to @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW about adapting to increasingly strong atmospheric rivers, and that reducing risk ultimately requires tackling GHG emissions.
"If we don't do that, atmospheric rivers are going to keep growing stronger...It's going to overwhelm our ability to respond.”
"If we don't do that, atmospheric rivers are going to keep growing stronger...It's going to overwhelm our ability to respond.”
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Lonsdale is poisonous fool. Almost all states have a provision in their constitutions like this one from Minnesota.
'Republican' here is from the Latin ' res publica,' or of the public. In other words, 'democratic.'
'Republican' here is from the Latin ' res publica,' or of the public. In other words, 'democratic.'
December 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Lonsdale is poisonous fool. Almost all states have a provision in their constitutions like this one from Minnesota.
'Republican' here is from the Latin ' res publica,' or of the public. In other words, 'democratic.'
'Republican' here is from the Latin ' res publica,' or of the public. In other words, 'democratic.'
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"People often retreat into saying that democracy hasn’t fallen 'yet.'... But it’s not true for everyone currently living in America. Some people in America are already living under conditions that resemble dictatorship."
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-wage...
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-wage...
Trump’s Wager and the Authoritarian Shift
Is Trump getting weaker, or is the authoritarian danger increasing? Yes.
www.thebulwark.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
"People often retreat into saying that democracy hasn’t fallen 'yet.'... But it’s not true for everyone currently living in America. Some people in America are already living under conditions that resemble dictatorship."
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-wage...
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-wage...
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Literally NOTHING Donald Trump says is truthful
It's not ignorance. It's not malice. It's not that he's owned by petrostates and polluters.
It's ALL of these things!
#ScienceUnderSiege
It's ALL of these things!
#ScienceUnderSiege
December 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Literally NOTHING Donald Trump says is truthful
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1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner and Saudis back hostile takeover of Hollywood giant
Jared Kushner is funneling $24 billion from Middle Eastern governments to back a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—all while advising President Trump on foreign policy.
popular.info
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
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Around the world, America's historical allies now see a Trump led America as their greatest enemy, supplanting Russia and China. In Canada, 3 in 5 see a Trump led America as the country's leading threat. www.economist.com/the-world-ah...
The Trump administration is undermining American soft power
Donald Trump’s policies on foreign students are harming America’s universities. Innovation and entrepreneurship will also suffer as a consequence
www.economist.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Around the world, America's historical allies now see a Trump led America as their greatest enemy, supplanting Russia and China. In Canada, 3 in 5 see a Trump led America as the country's leading threat. www.economist.com/the-world-ah...
Ah, all these old GOP/Russia ties… trumpfile.org/fbi-finds-le...
December 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Ah, all these old GOP/Russia ties… trumpfile.org/fbi-finds-le...
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Read Shadow Network by Anne Nelson about the far right’s decades-long takeover of US radio and smaller-town media, leading to the split info space dividing us today. @maxtani.bsky.social @semaforben.bsky.social @joshtpm.bsky.social @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social @velshi.com @jelaniya.bsky.social
People are dismissing network television like they did radio 20 years ago. If a bunch of liberal rich people invested in non-profit independent radio across the country twenty years ago we would live in a fundamentally different country
December 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Read Shadow Network by Anne Nelson about the far right’s decades-long takeover of US radio and smaller-town media, leading to the split info space dividing us today. @maxtani.bsky.social @semaforben.bsky.social @joshtpm.bsky.social @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social @velshi.com @jelaniya.bsky.social
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I would really like to see more Ds speaking up to defend her. this is ridiculous and horrific.
Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help.
Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.
He continues to be a national embarrassment.
Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.
He continues to be a national embarrassment.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I would really like to see more Ds speaking up to defend her. this is ridiculous and horrific.
In “Defining the domestic terrorism threat,” the memo cites “extreme viewpoints on immigration, radical gender ideology, and anti-American sentiment” — indicators that federal law enforcement are instructed to refer to FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs). www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
In “Defining the domestic terrorism threat,” the memo cites “extreme viewpoints on immigration, radical gender ideology, and anti-American sentiment” — indicators that federal law enforcement are instructed to refer to FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs). www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...