Provo Macher

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Fantastic piece from our friends at @natfairhouse.bsky.social and Relman & Colfax. Proving discrimination through circumstantial or indirect evidence is an approach grounded in over half a century of case law and shouldn't be considered remotely controversial. www.americanbanker.com/opinion/redl...

New Quinnipiac University poll out today and hoo boy. If you can vote in New York or know people who can, then you need to activate. Not liking this Q-Poll trend as the racist attacks have mounted. Oct. 23-27: Mamdani +10 Oct. 3-7: Mamdani +13 Sep. 4-8: Mamdani +16

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

...at some point around the middle they came for John Bolton, and I did not speak out, because it kinda seemed like that dude belongs in prison.

#WolffBites: The Billionaire class's capitalism is already cutting back Medicaid for the poor in several states cut their budgets even before Trump's federal cuts kick in. All part of MAGA. www.npr.org/2025/10/05/n...

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

"His mother told NBC4 that the agent told her son they had confused him with someone else, but to “look at the bright side: you’re gonna have an exciting story to tell your friends when you go back to school”." WTF www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

All in all, I’d recommend not to ride the “is he dead” train but think why was this trendy rumor planted now and what shall this redirect your attention from.

I often talk about the fact that MAGA does not access the same news as the left wing. I present to you Exhibit A. Dr. Daskalakis’ resignation letter excoriated RFK Jr. and shared that RFK Jr. was lying to the public, manipulating data, and ordering unethical actions. This what Fox News served.

This month, outlets like @washingtonpost.com and @npr.org have let DC Police union head Greggory Pemberton present himself as an authority on crime statistics. But he's at the heart of an ongoing scandal that led to the first ever sanction of a DC prosecutor for manipulating and hiding evidence:

Zohran Mamdani destroyed decades of fear-mongering about NYC safety in one afternoon with a scavenger hunt.

if no one ever burned another American flag they'd just loop old footage of flag burnings and call Democrats the flag burning party as long as they thought that might get them a vote. stop pretending reality matters and start playing the damn game.

Anti-AI activists targeted "AI Portland’s Summer Soiree," writing anti-AI graffiti, throwing paint on cars, and leaving behind these flyers declaring '“Butlerian Jihad Against AI,” a reference to the Legends of Dune prequel trilogy...depicting a war of humanity versus robots and computers."

Secretive dark money groups are pushing states to redefine methane gas, undermining renewable energy initiatives. www.levernews.com/war-is-peace...

lmao every tough guy wants to dress like a soldier and be treated like a soldier. none of them want to spend days shitting themselves in a shipping crate while someone fires rockets at them in the distance this isn't exactly what they deserve but it's pretty funny

Some protests happening this weekend so time to re-up this banger

I hesitated posting this bc my philosophy is always that you have to wait a long, long time before calling a peak and describing a trend, but this is very well researched and caveated and worth reading Take nothing for granted, but do celebrate how much harm has been avoided so far (which is A LOT)

When people say the Paris agreement caused a decrease in fossil CO₂ emissions, I always wonder whether they're aware of the recent global pandemic and energy wars. A temporary blip ≠ a trend change. This trend shows an increase in CO₂ emissions of about 4.5 billion tons/yr/decade:

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you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

Robert Kennedy Jr. doesn’t care about making America healthy or chronic disease. Get that idea out of your head. His undermining of science and public health helps big business, the wellness industry, and anti-vaccine dark money groups like the one that will be waiting for him when he leaves govt.

THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS. Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!” Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.

If you have time and a way with words this is a great way to resist from your couch ❤️

"The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people" via @propublica.org:

#WolffBites: Rising need for food banks vs cuts in gov't aid to food banks = savaging America's poorest. When capitalist empires decline, the richest shift decline's costs onto the poorest. The system is the problem. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride. If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.

When you read this vile headline wording (actually, RFK "raised the profile of autism" like Hitler "raised the profile of Judaism')... Remember that Autism $peaks was founded by NBC executives. It's all connected.

The media's notion that every story has two equal and opposite sides is going to kill us all.

Did Dave Anthony deactivate his BlueSky account or randomly block people who have been nothing but supportive?

JUST IN: A federal judge in Texas, appointed by Donald Trump, will allow those targeted by the Alien Enemies Act in South Texas to proceed with a class action against the government. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Correct. Hochul is blight.

let me try to spare ppl some pain today, and repeat something I said in a talk on resistance to Trump last week: you do not have to take advice on how to protest from those who are not themselves willing to protest (and in the NYT ed board’s case, who see disciplining protestors as part of the job)

If you’re in NYC, join Sojourners for Justice Press, IC co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social and many other exhibitors this Saturday, May 3 at the Black Zine Fair, a celebration of all things Black and independent publishing! Free and open to the public. Learn more: blackzinefair.org

Congratulations for fucking over your constituents @repglatimer.bsky.social

In 1983, a group of US labor leaders visited a notorious El Salvador prison & met with trade unionists who'd been jailed without due process, then led a successful international campaign to free them. My latest: jacobin.com/2025/04/us-l...

I'd register for the Super Mario political party.

NEW PIECE: I've been working for a while on a piece on social security death notices and payment finality. Just as I was finalizing it, including with a new legal memo!- it was reported that DOGE declared four MILLION people dead. Read all about the issues here www.crisesnotes.com/the-crisis-a...

ICE can enter anyone’s home, and abduct and deport them to a foreign prison indefinitely because the DOJ says they can ignore the 4th, 5th and 15th amendments. If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.