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I don't understand why more roofs aren't white, let alone covered in radiative-cooling paint.

a federal judge sanctioned the lawyers who tried to help Trump create a $1.776 billion slush fund so obviously House Republicans are now targeting the judge, saying *she's the one who committed professional misconduct ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

With this indictment, President Trump is tripling down on weaponizing the Justice Department to punish a perceived political opponent. This is an unconscionable abuse of power — but the public won't be scared into silence.

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

You can't expect the New York Times to give any attention to a story about the president being credibly accused of violent rape when the story breaks so close to an election. It's not like we're talking about something *really* important, like email security protocols.

It's 6:50am in Oxnard CA. "Leonide" is at the side of a strawberry field ready to start harvesting at 7am. "I earn CA minimum wage. That's not enough for the grueling work I do. The cost of living is very high, but wages are not rising at all. We deserve to earn more." #WeFeedYou

while Republicans are out here defending the honor of Cheesecake Factory, let's take a moment to remember how they're actually spending their time--and our money 👇🏾 ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Elizabeth Holmes is not the face of motherhood for incarcerated women. Jazmin Valentine wailed in agony for 6 hours in labor while staff and nurses LAUGHED at her. She had to resort to sliding her amniotic sac under her cell door to prove she was in labor.

Also, I'd love to know how two different stories -- each written by three reporters, with no overlap in the authors -- managed to find Jolene Riessen and make her the stand-in for apolitical Iowa farmers.

The persecution of @repilhan.bsky.social just days before an election is vile and politically-motivated. I'm leading 175 House Democrats in denouncing this. When we retake power, we have to seriously look at how we can stop these abuses of power — starting with the power of the purse.

BREAKING: 174 bipartisan former judges are calling on the 8th Circuit to toss DOJ’s misconduct complaint against the Minnesota judges DOJ wants them investigated & some barred from DHS cases, all for saying ICE violated 210 court orders @democracydefendersfund.org is proud to stand w/ them👇 -TN

Pauli Murray was a visionary lawyer, activist, poet, and Episcopal priest who spent their life breaking boundaries and fighting for justice. Our history podcast, Let the Record Show, dives into their work to fight racism and sexism in jury selection during the civil rights era.

This is an incredibly important point

"On a scale from 1- 10, how are you worried about the disappearance of our remaining forest and it's resources?"

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

Robert Dillon was wrongly arrested for trying to lure a child out of a McDonald's in a city he'd never been to — all because Jacksonville Beach police trusted a false facial recognition match. Their errors cost him his livelihood and sense of security. We're demanding an apology and justice.

Workers in upstate NY harvest apples as the season winds down climbing 8-10 ft ladders wearing buckets that weigh up to 50 lbs when full. "We must work fast enough to meet production quotas while being careful that we don’t damage bruise any apples. It's hard work.” #WeFeedYou

look, nothing is simple and i have no parsimonious explanation for anything here, but a student protest movement, focused on corruption & authoritarianism, just won a major european election. a big deal.

Join us for a virtual town hall where we’ll break down our plan to protect our democracy in the 2026 midterms. Our experts will discuss how we’re safeguarding the vote, our readiness to respond quickly to different scenarios, and what you can expect before, during, and after Election Day.

In his talk at Princeton, @marcelias.bsky.social noted that the election suppression he worried about was less ICE at the polls and more ICE putting up traffic checkpoints and other things that made access to the polls much harder. And it looks like we’re seeing a version of that in Brazil.

Trump is straight up saying during speeches that he wants white people coming to the country but not black. I don’t know what else people need to see.

This seems like a big deal

Unusual heat at this Central Coast vineyard has caused workers to harvest grapes at night. Harvesting grapes during a cooler time of day protects the quality of the fruit and gives winemakers better control over the winemaking process. #WeFeedYou

I’m six episodes into #DiarraFromDetroit and I’m calling it. This show is definitely worth watching! Diarra is a schoolteacher going through a messy divorce who ends up trying to solve a murder-mystery after a one night stand. The show is a love letter to black women and Detroit.

Nobody should be allowed to strip-mine the planet's lungs.

There are people, even some trans people, who think that we can give up sports to appease bigots. That if we give up on sports, this all goes away. That is a lie. I have reported on this for years, and EVERY state that passed a sports ban as a moderate compromise has gone on to pass worse.

New in PN: In defense of empathy "Being aware of other people’s feelings, sensitive to them, and able to put yourself in another person’s shoes is pretty much essential for humans to function as a community. But the current conservative project has zero room for that sort of thing."

What's causing the DOJ freakout? Maybe it's the early vote Texas early voting is up 74% from 2022 & Kansas has more than doubled And DDF has a dozen+ national law firms ready w/ complaints drafted How ready we are, in this week's publisher's note 👇 -TN

scott galloway and jessica tarlov held an event here in town yesterday where “don’t impeach or waste time on investigations because ‘28” was the consensus position of the panel. so yeah, this is something to anticipate.

I need people to understand this selective good ole boy justice — the kind that protects abusers, rewards impunity, and openly flouts rule of law and equal protection under it — is Jim Crow shit, practically speaking. It's how Jim Crow terrorism FLOURISHED. Trump broadened the acceptable targets.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Remember when I said this was the most pro-cancer administration in my lifetime, at *least*? Listen, if there's one thing I'm gonna be, it's *right* 👇🏽

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This won’t be reported widely, but Jason Arday has been cleared of plagiarism for a second time. Still nobody has been held accountable for this man’s death.

fwiw back in 2019, the last time the Trump admin directed federal authorities to comb through Ilhan Omar’s immigration records, they found no evidence of wrongdoing but actual legal wrongdoing is very much not the point of this "investigation" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

"Elena" works in the green onions in the Tehachapi CA area. "Each box contains 96 bundles. We're paid hourly minimum wage but we must make a minimum of 4 boxes per hour or we will not continue to have a job." #WeFeedYou