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Susan Chumsky
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Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law.

There must be consequences.
Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
November 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The absolute first thing Democrats Must Do if/when they hold power again is restore as much of the funding/agencies illegally dismantled & cancelled by these unprecedented criminals as possible & then put Musk & everyone else involved in jail for the rest of their lives.
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Congrats to everyone who covered the obviously bad faith, unprecedentedly illegal, & wildly unconstitutional data theft & dismantling of the federal government by a billionaire criminal Nazi & his henchmen as a legitimate process of “government efficiency.” Truly, well done.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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The Salt Lake Tribune, which went from for-profit to non-profit 6 years ago, is about to drop its paywall. "The Tribune cannot afford to limit who has access to independent and trusted news."

Meanwhile, it just launched a new newspaper in southern Utah.

www.sltrib.com/news/2025/11...
The Salt Lake Tribune will drop its paywall next year, CEO tells donors at NewsMakers gala
After years of requiring people to pay for online news content, The Tribune announced an upcoming change during its 2025 annual NewsMakers Gala.
www.sltrib.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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the son he always wanted
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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By the way, Jeff Bezos, you fucking pathetic coward: Zohran Mamdani got the pragmatic things he needed to get as a leader without ever submitting to the likes of MBS and disrespecting the memory of Khashoggi and every journalist in America.
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
When he spoke with Obama at the White House during the 2016 transition, Trump was aglow, excited, as if his big brother had deigned to be nice to him
in the last decade we’ve been cursed to have trump ruin the world and politics, i’ve maybe only seen him smile the way he smiled at zohran mamdani for like, 3 other people ever
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Credit to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for continuing to call out the moral cowardice of blue chip companies & their CEO’s. With every step, they march right alongside Trump & his vile policies. Keep that in mind when you shop, bank, use social media, etc.

www.status.news/p/jd-vance-b...
November 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Wetlands expert Alito & cronies doing their best to poison us
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Happy 25th! The stolen 2000 election seems like only yesterday. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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🧊✈️ BACK TO THE WAR ZONE ⛓️😲

⚠️ The U.S. government is removing 80 or so Ukrainian refugees back to their war-ravaged country tonight.

We should be sending weapons instead 🇺🇦
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This analysis of PA Gov Josh Shapiro's cave on climate change is the most Axios thing ever
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Are you paying attention? MAGA Republicans are stealing from you! The vote to reopen the government includes a multi-million dollar payoff a QUID PRO QUO to 8 senator conspirators who colluded with Trump during the January 6th insurrection.
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Thanks to Clarence Thomas and the other far-right justices, applications for concealed-carry gun permits have risen nearly tenfold in NYC.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/12/n...
New Yorkers Fill Gun Classes as Concealed Carry Applications Surge
Would-be gun owners seeking a concealed carry permit are required to take a safety training course, but with few rules on how they are taught, gun aficionados have stepped in to run them.
www.thecity.nyc
November 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Spreading our racist slop to Europe
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks.

So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.

It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Welcome to NYC, Lina Khan!
November 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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so what you're saying is the centrist brunchlord substack punditry's claims that Dems have to shift further right to win is complete bullshit
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM