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i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.
December 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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More than 2,000 supporters, including students and faculty, signed onto a petition as of Thursday opposing a University of North Carolina system proposal to require the public release of all class syllabi and materials. Story by @kingdollar.bsky.social #unc #ncpol
UNC system faculty condemn proposed policy disclosing course materials to public • NC Newsline
Backers of the proposal say it’s a necessary move to restore trust, while opponents raised concerns over harassment of faculty and students.
ncnewsline.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Good for the dang Wolves if they can get Coby!
The Timberwolves feel like they are a title contender and also a point guard short of completing that, so while they've kicked the tires on big-name items like Ja and Kyrie, White is a realistic option they can settle on. Will the sinking Bulls be willing to part with him, however?
Time is of the essence as trade rumors grow around Bulls' Coby White
chicago.suntimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I did not see this coming!

Is a good reminder to myself, too, to reject cynical doomcasting.
The House today repealed a Trump executive order for the 1st time, passing a bill restoring federal workers’ bargaining rights

20 Republicans joined Dems to do so

The vote was a rare rebuke of Trump’s policies, as GOP lawmakers have repeatedly capitulated to Trump
www.notus.org/congress/hou...
House Republicans Actually Rebuked Trump Over Labor Rights
Twenty House Republicans voted to overturn an executive order by President Donald Trump and restore federal workers’ bargaining rights.
www.notus.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Just so we understand how ridiculous the Republican Party is, how fucked the Republican Party is and how desperate they are, here was Heritage foundation earlier today, threatening those Indiana senators
December 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Robbing from consumers to reward disgraced predatory lenders? You’re a real creep, Mr. Grinch-Vought! change.org/StopVought
December 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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We used to have an agency dedicated to… consumer protection
December 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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The U.S. Senate failed to pass legislation Thursday to address spiraling health insurance costs via @jennifershutt.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/12/11/r...
US Senate hits stalemate on solution to spiraling health insurance costs • Wisconsin Examiner
The U.S. Senate failed to advance legislation Thursday that would have addressed the rising cost of health insurance
wisconsinexaminer.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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A MUST READ to understand how wind energy was killed in the US (and how this “a lifelong conservationist” was at the center of it) by @fieseler.bsky.social for @canarymedia.com 👇
In Feb 2023, I attended a climate skeptics conference in Orlando. I was the only reporter.

David Stevenson told me there that the offshore wind industry would ​“crumble” before it reached South Carolina. And that he was leading the opposition.

I followed him for 3 years and wrote this story.
The man behind the fall of offshore wind
David Stevenson has solar on his roof and drives a hybrid. How did he become the leader of the movement that helped Trump crush offshore wind farms?
www.canarymedia.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking."

It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
December 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
It seems like the bottom line is don’t buy a new Tesla, don’t buy a used Tesla.
Consumer Reports ranks Teslas as the least reliable used cars. "The best of the worst [ten] was Chevrolet at a score of 40. But Tesla makes that failing grade seem respectable with its absolute rock bottom rating of 31, trailing Jeep by just one point.” futurism.com/advanced-tra...
Old Teslas Are Falling Apart
On Consumer Reports' latest ranking of used car reliability, Tesla came in dead last with a rating not even half of the top placed brand.
futurism.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Two more deaths in ICE custody were confirmed today, bringing total to 25

These are just the ones we know about

There’s others, like Randall Esquivel, who become deathly ill in custody but get deported before they die

He was in a vegetative state when they deported him.

He died in Costa Rica
Family speaks out after death of man deported by ICE in vegetative state
Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel’s family alleges negligence and inhumane treatment
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
It’s bananas to me because republicans *do* have a platform- it’s lowering the cost of doing business for corporations at anyone and anything’s expense while lowering the tax rate on the wealthy, even if it’s subsidized by a higher cost burden on low-income families.
GA Republicans seem pretty upset over tonight's special election loss.

This is Insurance Commissioner John King, a statewide elected official. He is exhorting Republicans to help win *another* special ... in a Trump+47 district. x.com/JohnKingGA/s...
December 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Wonder how else all of that associational data will be used? Especially if a third party gets the contract to evaluate the data.

What could go wrong!
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
December 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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The disconnect between the leadership and the base continues to expand, this time on AI and Silicon Valley influence. I think it’s beyond even the disconnect in the GOP during the Tea Party.
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Increasing political pressure on the Fed by half as much as Nixon did, for six months, raises the price level by 7% over the next decade.
econweb.umd.edu/~drechsel/pa...
December 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
@isabellamweber.bsky.social has been putting out some of the very best scholarship since the economic woes of Covid-era times. Another banger 👇
The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it's not just inflation—it's a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest.
In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵
scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...
December 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Just want to warn everyone that I’m cycling through another bout of rage at all these Don’t Tread on Me twits who are REAL FREAKIN QUIET WHILST TREADING ABOUNDS!
This week, a federal judge wrote that federal agents – largely from ICE, but also CBP and other agencies operating in D.C. – had adopted an “arrest first, ask questions later” approach, ignoring legal requirements around when and how immigrants can be detained.

@maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
Federal judge limits warrantless immigration arrests in D.C.
Lawyers say federal agents unlawfully operated under an ‘arrest first, ask questions later’ policy.
51st.news
December 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Just want to warn everyone that I’m cycling through another bout of rage at all these Don’t Tread on Me twits who are REAL FREAKIN QUIET WHILST TREADING ABOUNDS!
This week, a federal judge wrote that federal agents – largely from ICE, but also CBP and other agencies operating in D.C. – had adopted an “arrest first, ask questions later” approach, ignoring legal requirements around when and how immigrants can be detained.

@maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
Federal judge limits warrantless immigration arrests in D.C.
Lawyers say federal agents unlawfully operated under an ‘arrest first, ask questions later’ policy.
51st.news
December 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Here are eight ways that Senate Democrats should be holding Trump and corporate wrongdoers accountable — one for each member of the Cave Caucus.
8 Ways Senate Dems Should Have Been Holding the Line With Oversight | Revolving Door Project
Here's a congressional oversight target for each of the eight Senate Democrat that caved to end the government shutdown.
therevolvingdoorproject.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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It’s also plainly absurd that someone just happened to discover the true meaning of the common law that just evaded everyone else for 800 years in a few weeks of work. I don’t even know what to do with that.
the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism
December 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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This week, a federal judge wrote that federal agents – largely from ICE, but also CBP and other agencies operating in D.C. – had adopted an “arrest first, ask questions later” approach, ignoring legal requirements around when and how immigrants can be detained.

@maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
Federal judge limits warrantless immigration arrests in D.C.
Lawyers say federal agents unlawfully operated under an ‘arrest first, ask questions later’ policy.
51st.news
December 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM