Stuart Levy

For those of you under 50, please google Shari Lewis. For us oldies 🤣

Excellent argument for use against dangerous Reform UK Islamophobic illogic via Simon Mathews

An incredible sentence in the context of a purported op-ed on how policymakers can make things affordable: forcibly increase the out-of-pocket cost of health care for seniors to (if it works) stop them from going to the doctor www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/o...

"The Senate's bipartisan permit reform bill would upend the National Environmental Policy Act and also weaken the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act." Legal analysis from Michael Gerrard, Columbia Law scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scho...

Lula has taken the lead in polling in the last week of the Brazilian Presidential race. The fight back here in Brasil is one of the most inspiring stories I have ever covered. paydayreport.com/lula-takes-l...

UPDATE: The fines have not stopped him from honoring the girls Israel has killed. www.instagram.com/p/DepGy1CM9q...

the second el-sayed chose to treat tommy as an equal and not a nuisance, tommy was cooked

In the 1960s, the US used the military for coups in Brasil. In the 1990s, the US used the IMF. In the 2020s, the US uses Meta for coups in Brasil. paydayreport.com/meta-censors...

Yes, policy and leadership matter. Trump's policies, as greenlit by a Republican-led Congress, are the reason why your electricity & gas bills keep rising (while worsening the expensive & deadly climate crisis). Which means a change in policymakers can result in lower bills and a healthier climate.

#WoodyGuthrie #FolkLegends 🎸🎻🌻

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. Allison Gill Sued, and Today She Got Them. "I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response." open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

The next in our series of the impact of the Big Beautiful Bill looks at student loans, where massive changes began July 1. People are getting 90-day notices that they have to get out of the most generous repayment plan, which is leading to sustained confusion. More from @jamesjbaratta.bsky.social.

The latest on mass evacuations still in place in California as a chemical tank is on the brink of cracking open or exploding in Orange County, and tens of thousands of people have evacuated. Here’s where the situation stands. www.latimes.com/california/l...

Suzanne Vega releases “Luka” 39 years ago this weekend. She said she once received a fan letter about it: “Dear Suzanne, Luka is the most compelling piece of music I’ve heard in a long time. There are no words 2 tell U all the things I feel when I hear it. I thank God 4 U, Prince”

Guys I found the best Epstein Files email. The one that illuminates an elite class that's cocooned themselves into an unaccountable shell of wealth and privilege, fighting to protect their secrets and offenses. I could write a novel about this email. prospect.org/2026/02/17/e...

So this is funny. The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Racism Knows No Bounds

An investigation by Payday Report raises concerns about human trafficking in the ICE raid & detention of 300 Korean workers at Hyundai’s megasite in Georgia. Hundreds of Korean immigrants were forced into dangerous work by Hyundai w/ no legal rights or status. One worker was killed in May

She was too busy firing the only prosecutors who were trying to send people to jail for foreclosure fraud

We need to organize around medicaid cuts & highlight them

Pay raises for nursing home workers passes Minnesota House with bipartisan support minnesotareformer.com/2025/05/06/p...

Commercial real estate for older office buildings is barely hanging on, trading at massive discounts, with growing defaults on mortgages & related bonds. Great time for the government to terminate thousands of leases! The economics of the DOGE fire sale, from me: prospect.org/economy/2025...

Saying the quiet part out loud.

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"How Labor Can Fight Back Against Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda" labornotes.org/2025/01/how-...