Cassandra Simmel

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #217,378!

So now we’re colonizing Venezuela?

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

Pour one out for all the rich Republicans who threatened to leave NYC if Mamdani won. Enjoy Tennessee or Arkansas-- I'm sure it will be very fulfilling and the social life will be totally comparable!

Total Dipshit Fans Think Pop-Up Fly Ball Going To Be Home Run

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Democrats Must Abandon the Moderate Messaging of The White Dude Data Complex Democrats have their lowest favorability rating since 1994, & still believe they can be "Republican-lite" & win elections by ignoring a progressive, anti-oligarchy message. They're wrong. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election. A new generation of leaders is here.

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November. Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them theonion.com/democra...

I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

This is exactly the right tone when privileged people suffer minor or temporary consequences standing up for powerless people. It’s still about the powerless people. ICE is Gestapo trash.

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

It sure seems like men are too emotional to run the most powerful country on earth!

On the topic of presidential mental acuity, the current president was awake at 1:30am rage tweeting about his former opponents’ crowd sizes and calling Beyoncé, Bono, and Bruce Springsteen ‘unpatriotic entertainers.’ Where is the news cycle about his fitness for office?

Super important post about combatting #tyranny Thanks for your work @annahaleysw.bsky.social

Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

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Good way to see the current tariffs, as of literally today, is no tariffs on high value add manufactured goods marketed to middle and upper middle classes. Massive tariffs for cheap consumer items which amount to the biggest economic privilege of working class/middle class life in US.

Maybe his plan is to make it seem like eggs are getting cheaper by making everything else even more expensive than eggs.

The people are awake. The people are angry. And the people are organized. 📍 Chicago, Illinois #HANDSOFF

The good news: over the long run, stocks with be fine. The bad news: over the long run, the Earth will become uninhabitable

April = Academic Advocacy Month. academeblog.org/2025/04/01/f...

EXCLUSIVE: This just happened onstage in front of 6,000 Bostonians at the Dropkick Murphys concert. "This is America, no kings here!" @dropkickmurphys.com nails it again!!

Schumer and these 10 Senate Democrats overplayed their hand. They think people will forget and move on. They won't. Schumer just sealed the end of his leadership. It's done. Just a matter of when. Tick Tock.

Every Democrat who lost in a district in 2024 should hold a town hall if those Republicans won't.

The cabinet must invoke the 25th amendment and remove Elon Musk from office

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

I am very pleased to provide a free link to a recent paper I published in CYSR with colleagues (none of whom are on BlueSky!): Youth in Foster Care: Highlighting the Importance of Youth Engagement in Mental Health Treatment Decisions. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kN3NhNfL1...

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

They’re going to shutdown the government before they even have a chance to run it.

When the right has succeeded in a decades long mission of ensuring government doesn’t work, this is what we end up with. Makes demagoguery all too effective

Very cool! Thanks @bsky.app

My take on the Hunter Biden news is that trump has proposed creating a network of concentration camps to deal with the undocumented millions in our country

The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.