John Bito

@troublemakers.bsky.social & @350seattle.bsky.social team up to make a point with clowns and buffoons at the #NoKings march on October 17!

ProPublica identified 155 counties in the Deep South with private schools that opened as likely segregation academies. One in Amite County, Mississippi, has never — over nearly 30 years of surveys — reported enrolling more than one Black student. (Published Dec. 2024)

ICE agents give contradictory orders on purpose. “You f*cking move I’ll f*cking tase you! Get out of the f*cking car!” It’s a no win situation. The person being violently accosted in this video is a disabled veteran. Imagine if the agents had been wearing shock gloves? Abolish & prosecute ICE

Wake up, Seattle! In the last month, ICE has arrested people in Maple Leaf, Sodo, CID, West Seattle, South Lake Union, Queen Anne, Wallingford, Wedgwood and at University Village. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Sooo good. “This is where the decisions are made,” said Christina. “We are living in a place where we have influence, & it’s our responsibility to show up here & to fight in solidarity with all those places where people are fighting data centers on the ground every single day.” With rogue agents!

And now, from the folks who brought you explosive diarrhea...

The Democratic Party’s mega-donor class is horrified by the rising tide of progressive populism. Too bad. It's time they recognize the real choice is between democracy and tyranny, between an economy that works for all or one that works for a small sliver at the top.

“As with immigration, the lesson is the same: it is grassroots resistance, not elite caution, that is winning this fight, and Democrats’ cowardice in scapegoating their own base is what’s holding the party back.” @cnewman.bsky.social via @commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

So NYT reports that Third Way will spend $15-million to discredit democratic socialism ahead of the presidential elections. “Their fear: Dr. El-Sayed was paving a path for a progressive to seize the party’s presidential nomination in 2028 — and then go on to lose the general election.” Except...

Now corporate Democrats will spend $15 million to fend off the rise of socialism, instead of joining allies in resisting rising fascism?!

Hegseth's ’Department of War' killed two US nurses and two medevac pilots last spring. The incompetence is heinous.

Decent column, but this is not what happened. What happened is that the same petrostate bad actor (Russia) has successfully deployed the tactics it used to hijack U.S. politics against the U.K. GOP=UKIP=Putin. Goal is defeating renewables & doubling down on fossil fuel dependence.

Extinction is forever. We can't afford to let the Endangered Species Act (ESA) be dismantled. But this month, the Trump admin finalized three new rules that put wildlife of greater risk of extinction. Here's what you need to know ⬇️

The procurers die off - one every 3-4 years? First Jeffrey #Epstein (2019), then his associate Jean-Luc Brunel (2022) - both 'suicides' while in custody facing trafficking charges. This week, Epstein's 'scout' was found dead, 5 months after prosecutors started investigating him.

Washingtonians! We've got inside intel that hyperscalers have been having "urgent" meetings with Governor Ferguson. THIS IS NOT GOOD. He stood up to Trump as AG; make sure he knows we expect him to stand up for our communities now, and not roll over for Big Tech. Statewide moratorium now!

We Are Nothing Like the Gestapo.

ICE hi speed chased “man before he hastily parked his car on the side of the road, jumped out & hid on a nearby residential property. ICE agents sought access to the property, but were denied entry by the person living there, a resident named Kyle.” 🫡 Kylie www.ospreynews.net/p/ice-ramps-...

Dude who looks like a lightbulb and plays an invisible cello while he talks sure has some opinions!

Looks like some troublemakers showed up at the @microsoft.com convo at Climate Week... ...because Microsoft has INCREASED emissions by 80% since 2020. Is that the plan for Washington State? Businesses that fan the flames on our wildfires, droughts, and heatwaves? This is bullshit.

Today, Stand.earth and local groups dropped by #PNWClimateWeek in Seattle, Washington to see @microsoft.com’s Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa, who – despite the company’s massive investments in fossil fuels – ironically served as the keynote speaker for a talk on climate targets. 🧵

Join Dance Against DOGE tomorrow as we dance to World Music and celebrate the World Cup! Saturday, July 18th from 11am - 1pm EDT 3307 M St NW, Washington, DC 20007 @teslatakedown.com Register: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Member of Congress from Chicago: "DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity." When I was a kid, the FBI acted with impunity, assassinating people identified as threats and disrupting community organizations. DHS was created to reestablish that oppressive force.

23 zettajoules is the latest measure of excess heat into oceans caused by fossil fuel: 23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules Entire human energy production = 1/2 a zettajoule.

RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now? A cyclosporiasis outbreak has sickened thousands across 34 states. "Make America Healthy Again."

New York will ban construction of new data centres of more than 50 megawatts — a typical data centre is at least 100MW — for a period of one year, stopping new permit applications and pausing outstanding ones, said governor Kathy Hochul. ft.trib.al/WZC79ES

A protest group called The Secret Handshake placed a giant gold “Iran war participation trophy” for President Trump on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

If Trump had his way the next Folarin Balogun would not be born a US citizen. He'd be playing for a better team. Irony, thy name is Trump.

Humans now being asked to use less electricity in favor of data centers. www.newsweek.com/teachers-ask...

As many experience lethal, unlivable heat, it's a good time to remember that there is no such thing as a climate refugee under the law. Climate breakdown was not understood when the UN convention was written. In the US, there is one way for extreme weather to be the basis for legal status: TPS.

NEWS: Two people have climbed to the top of the Empire State Building antenna. They are holding a banner that reads: “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace”

"Europe’s extreme heat would be impossible without climate change, scientists say" by Alexa St. John for the @apnews.com: apnews.com/article/euro...

I'm feeling despondent after the Supreme Court threw out the limits on Presidential power that I grew up with.

Jeffries and his ilk were quick to discount Mamdani’s political project as one that could never take root beyond New York City. But as other primary races this cycle have shown us, that’s simply not true.

it's because the major questions doctrine is a crock of shit

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

The World Cup is here. On this week's episode of Reveal, reporters Alex Shephard, Tim Murphy of Mother Jones, and Reveal producer Artis Curiskis follow the money, power, and politics behind the World Cup and ask who gets to be part of the world’s biggest game.

And....a nice video from Monday! #SignsOfFascism

When you are paying $765 million to companies to get them to cancel clean, renewable energy projects, you are screaming to the world that you are a corrupt fossil fuel lobbyist bitch who does not give a damn about what's best for America. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/c...

Looks like we've got some signs of fascism down at 2nd & Jackson (as well as in far too many other places).

#FIFA: enslavers, much?! Preventing Team #Haiti from wearing uniforms depicting the emancipation of their enslaved ancestors is totally consistent with your fascist history. (Free article)

"Trump has agreed to the release of $24 billion of Iran’s frozen assets, but is unwilling to announce it publicly," Rezaie, who is a former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said, according to YJC. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/l...

There is something terribly wrong about an economy that produces its first trillionaire, but cannot provide health care for its people. Or one in which the richest handful of families have the combined wealth of almost forty percent of the rest of the country.

"We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They’re called Ponzi schemes." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...