Carmen Fortes

@cefortes.bsky.social

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

California is heading into its fourth straight spring of strong water storage, with most of the state’s major reservoirs nearly full, despite one of the worst snowpacks in recorded history.

State reservoirs are at 118% of the historical average for late April.

Four consecutive years of strong storage is a remarkable streak for a state that has spent much of the 21st century going from one record-breaking drought to the next.

[Ian Copeland, PhD @IanCopeland5]

The internet gave everyone a microphone but took away the pause that used to come before speaking.

When decades of research from PhDs is treated as just another “opinion,” expertise collapses into nothingness. A society that can’t tell the difference between knowledge and confidence eventually makes decisions based on the loudest voice, not the smartest one.

That’s not a progress problem, it’s a survival problem.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

A judge has ordered the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality.

A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

#ICYMI: Nick Maynard, a British surgeon in Gaza, says he observed a pattern of gunshot injuries among Palestinian teenage boys who visited US- and Israeli-backed 'Gaza Humanitarian Foundation' aid sites.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security. 

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

[أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAlSharif0]

85% of Gaza’s population have entered the "fifth stage" of malnutrition — the most critical and dangerous phase, which is often irreversible even if food becomes available in the future.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Ok, so Republicans just introduced a 900 page bill none of them have read. But my team is going through it line by line and on this 🧵you can see the hidden provisions we found. Will update all day.

1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

They’ve found Oxycodone in bags of flour distributed by U.S./Israeli backed ‘aid centers’ in Gaza.

It is an opioid, highly addictive. It is not enough to incinerate Palestinians, to bomb them, shoot them, starve them, maim them; to destroy the healthcare infrastructure so they are vulnerable to diseases, infections and thus death.

They have to sow addiction too—one of worst and most destructive diseases.

[Global Black Studies at Duke @DukeAAAS]

'For @aperturefnd's summer issue, “Liberated Threads,” guest editor Tanisha C. Ford explores fashion’s ability to create possibilities for solidarity and selfhood across the African diaspora.'
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[Rep. Mike Thompson @RepThompson]

The President and Congressional Republicans’ big, ugly bill will rip health care away from 16 million people, force some rural hospitals and nursing homes to close, and devastate local access to care for everyone — all to give a tax break to their billionaire donors. We won’t stand for it. https://t.co/FWZCPaZgTK

[Carmen Fortes @cefortes]

@RepThompson Thank you, Rep. Thompson.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

.@ZohranKMamdani is standing up to the oligarchy and fighting to make one of America’s most expensive cities affordable for the working class.

If you’re a New York City voter, I urge you to rank him #1 on your ballot by next Tuesday.

[J. D. Landis @J_D_Landis]

Most of the greatest writing ever written, since the beginning of writing—and, obviously, since the invention of printing--has never been read by anyone except the person who wrote it.

[Coco Gauff @CocoGauff]

wow.
this means so much to me truly….french open champion🥹
i worked so hard for this moment and for it to have happened is insane. thank you God ❤️ and thank you everyone. this means the world…. I ‘m still in shock honestly can’t find the words but all I can say for now is just thank you and never give up on your dreams🫶🏾

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1830, President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, forcing Indigenous people who had lived in the southeastern U.S. for centuries to migrate west in brutal and dangerous conditions.
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[John Garamendi @RepGaramendi]

This GOP tax scam doesn’t pay for itself—it adds $5 trillion to the national debt.

Where are the deficit hawks?

The CBO says it raises incomes for the top 10%—and lowers them for the bottom 10%.

They do this by cutting Medicaid, SNAP, and school meals. It’s a disgrace.

[Carmen Fortes @cefortes]

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[Adia H Wingfield @AdiaHWingfield]

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[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

Genocide and ethnic cleansing fail to describe what are witnessing. Gaza has become a mass killing and torture box for the world to watch