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@borisbrum.bsky.social
Girl dad. Urban educator. Musician 📯Amateur ornithologist. Ally. Dreamer
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Woody Harrelson has done an ad "for Exxon". Well worth watching
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More than 5 million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. That has meant many more people are turning to food banks for support. https://to.pbs.org/47Sb4rd
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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted
We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.
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10 days until Election Day! This is when the political mail gets WILD. Make sure to submit your mail to paidforby.info: 1. Instantly find out who is really paying for the mailer — and their donors (federal elections only) 2. Get your mailer reviewed by an independent journalist (all elections)
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I have a vague memory of my dad taking me to see Song of the South when I was really little cuz he used to read me bedtime stories from a book about Brer Rabbit. It was probably at the Elsinore Theater in Salem, OR around 1980 But the first I remember for sure would be E.T. - 1982
First film you saw at the cinema. The real first one, not the pretend one you tell people! Mine: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980, Wigan. We were near the front and I can still remember how massive the AT-ATs looked, looming over us out of the snow :) Film, year, where, and whatever stuck with you.
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This has been the fundamental mechanism through which political media operates my entire life. The right makes a bunch of noise about a fake scandal, the mainstream media "covers the controversy," & normie voters get the vague impression that Dems are constantly involved in scandal.
This awful saga is a good glimpse into how MAGA gets propaganda laundered into mainstream discourse by making just enough noise to get news outlets to treat their outrage as a "controversy," which then requires even-handed treatement of both sides' stances: newrepublic.com/article/2168...
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The hearings, trials, and jail time can not come fast enough to calm the burning rage I have for the people who are doing this
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
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🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
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The degree to which @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been telling us this would happen for over ten years is truly remarkable
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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Republicans, the self-appointed guardians of women’s sports, have in fact spent years blocking efforts to expand women’s access to athletic opportunities.
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An analysis of voting equipment in Puerto Rico grew into a US federal effort spanning multiple agencies to find proof voting machines were manipulated to flip votes in the 2020 election, Reuters found. The probe ultimately found found no evidence votes were manipulated reut.rs/4hHBkcA
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Literally no one’s life is made better by this. The death penalty does nothing to make society safer. It should have been abolished a long time ago
Tennessee fails to execute the lone woman on its death row, Christa Pike, as planned, after injecting her twice with a lethal drug. Attorneys for Pike say that she is being treated at a hospital, but they did not know her condition.
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Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb
As fas as I’m concerned, the lesson we should take from this is that cops will do whatever they think they can get away with unless we hold them accountable Honestly, nobody should be surprised. Our oversight systems for the police are severely lacking
Our Flock reporting just got five cops arrested. The Indianapolis officers were just criminally charged for spying on women. @aaronschaffer.com, @douglasmac.bsky.social and I found suspicious searches and got their agency to investigate. How many bad cops are still getting away? wapo.st/4xDOH3d
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Maybe they’re not supporting Paxton, but all those other nominees will be a rubber stamp for Trump. GWB is no ally of democracy and he never has been
Scoop: John Cornyn & George W. Bush are headlining a Dallas fundraiser tonight for all of the Senate GOP nominees in tossup races—except Ken Paxton It benefits a new joint fundraising committee for IA, ME, NH, OH, AK, MI & the NRSC w/ @teddyschleifer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...
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Meanwhile EPA says that regulating climate pollution is none of its business, but your uterus is www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
EPA is launching a drinking water study that will test, for the first time, for traces of the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol — advancing a major goal of anti-abortion activists who have spent years trying to use environmental regulations to curb access to the drugs
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their line was that people **asked** to be put in these cages, that it was what they wanted: "facility staff said... detainees asked to spend time in the enclosures." www.cnn.com/2026/09/14/p...
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Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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“The Bureau of Land Management has asked its state directors to identify public land ripe for data center development…Interior leadership gave state leaders just three days to produce the lists and told its directors the issue was a top priority, according to a former BLM official”
This moment from 25 years ago still holds a special place in my heart, along with the NY Phil’s memorial performance of the Brahms Requiem after 9/11 youtu.be/ToECtXPMvNM?...
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worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.
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2027 = deadly Medicaid cuts. Many clinics did their projections & shuttered their doors across the country. There will be maternity care deserts throughout the midwest. Here in NYC major healthcare systems are already denying Medicaid. For every Medicaid $1 lost, it will negatively impact Medicare.
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CHICAGO (AP) - US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average as the Iran war disrupts the flow of fuel worldwide. @apnews.com
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