Underachievers March & Fight Song

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

ABSOLUTELY INSANE.

THE HOUSE DEMOCRATIC ****WHIP**** WAS THROWING THE FUNDRAISING BASH THAT KEPT DEMOCRATS FROM VOTING TO SEND THE HEGSETH IMPEACHMENT VOTE TO THE FLOOR.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

66% want Medicare for All
61% want a billionaire wealth tax
57% want a $20/hour minimum wage
63% want a data center moratorium
58% want to end military aid to Israel
73% want to ban super PACs
79% want a 10% credit card interest rate cap

No more excuses. Democrats must deliver.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 6 days before the midterms, Trump’s top political advisers reportedly held a private call, and they already knew they were about to get crushed.

The president’s chief pollster opened by asking if they wanted the good news or the bad news first, joking about cyanide, according to 4 people on the call who spoke to the NYT.

The bad news was a wipeout.

“I’m getting my affairs in order,” James Blair, who runs Trump’s midterm strategy, allegedly said. “I suggest everybody else do the same.”

For the next 30 minutes, they reportedly joked about funeral arrangements, prison food, presidential pardons and fleeing the country.

Israel had voted the day before, and Blair sarcastically said:

“At least Bibi won. He’ll protect us.”

Trump’s chief pollster, Tony Fabrizio, responded:

“Maybe we could get asylum in Israel.”

A spokesman for Trump’s super PAC called the quotes made up and the people leaking them “cowards and losers.”

Made up or not, Tuesday night played out exactly like the jokes.

Source: NYT / Writer: Julie

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

66% want Medicare for All
78% want to expand Social Security
57% want a $20/hour minimum wage
61% want a billionaire wealth tax
58% want to end military aid to Israel
63% want a moratorium on data centers
63% want tuition free public colleges
73% want to ban super PACs

Pass it.

[Ron Wyden @RonWyden]

Subpoenas.

[Rian Johnson @rianjohnson]

So I recently badgered my cinematographer @steveyedlin into making my ideal iPhone still camera app. It shoots RAW, bypasses the iPhone's look processing and instead uses the same image processing we use on our movies. https://t.co/makZzhFd2Q

[Sam Stephenson @SAMIAM775]

Father and Daughter Hunters missing. Please share.

[Mike Baker @ByMikeBaker]

NEW:

O.J. Simpson. A secret informant. The missing murder weapon. An accomplice tale. And law enforcement records that were kept secret for 30 years — until now.

https://t.co/RTQFLMadcR

[Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule]

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states, and at one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. https://t.co/6WzY71J99c

[News to Remember @allchronology]

Every fucking word of this. OMG share this with everyone—crying my eyes out…

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Macklemore just summed it all up perfectly:

“I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.
The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone.”

Enough is enough. Stop the genocide and stop the assault on free speech that Israel is waging to silence any and all criticism of its barbaric policies.

[Tess Riski @tessriski]

I am one of the reporters who lost their jobs in the wave of McClatchy layoffs last week

Covering Miami City Hall has been fulfilling and challenging in the best way possible. Thanks to everyone who’s followed my work at @MiamiHerald these last 4 years

Stories I loved covering:

[Anna Kramer @anna_c_kramer]

Time to reintroduce myself! I cover the Trump admin for the @washingtonsun.

I’m focused inside the agencies — who’s playing politics, who’s peddling influence, who lost funding, etc.

☕️ would love to meet some new sources for coffee. Plz reach out.

[Thomas Hawk @thomashawk]

Unknown location. Found Kodachrome.

Night. Wet pavement. Cars look late 40s, maybe early 50s.

I put this up on Flickr and asked my contacts. Nobody could place it. I can’t either. A couple people said Bangkok. Somebody said Panama City. Key West comes up a lot because of Sloppy Joe’s.

There is a Sloppy Joe’s in Key West. I’ve been on Duval. I’ve photographed it. This doesn’t feel like that building.

Louisiana in neon with the arrows. That’s got to be a clue, right?

Angelini straight up the side of the building. I googled Angelini and got nothing that matches. AI couldn’t find it either.

Lucky Strike in the circle down the block. On the right a beer sign that says TOME and a mug. Tome means drink in Spanish. A lot of the other signs look Spanish too.

Is it Havana, Cuba?

Wherever it is I haven’t been able to find a match yet. Maybe somebody else can. Beautiful photograph though. Night, wet street, neon. That’s the stuff I go out for.

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

McClatchy guts Miami Herald, Lexington Herald-Leader newsroom, among nationwide layoffs https://t.co/g7M1BEZkGP

[Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild @PacNWGuild]

The Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild is shocked and disappointed by @mcclatchy 's decision to lay off 33% of its unionized workers at the Idaho Statesman, The News Tribune (Tacoma), Tri-City Herald, The Olympian and Bellingham Herald. This includes 10 journalists in Idaho, and seven across Washington.

These severe cuts will hobble these news organizations and leave the public throughout the Northwest less informed about the events and decisions that affect them, and with fewer people holding the powerful to account.

These are journalists  who investigated local hospitals, served as watchdogs over state and local government, showed up at every high school game, jumped in to cover breaking news like wildfires, covered news in overlooked communities, and monitored development in one of the fastest growing regions in the country. One of these papers will no longer have a dedicated reporter covering city hall. Another will no longer have anyone dedicated to covering the state capitol.

McClatchy has decided that short-term profits for a hedge fund matter more than the wellbeing of the communities that its newspapers are supposed to serve. That is a model that is destined to fail.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

A call center is paying incarcerated people in Oklahoma just $2/hour to do a political party’s bidding.

Here's the kicker — that ridiculous wage is still 3,900% higher than the wages of other incarcerated workers in the same state prisons.

https://t.co/vOEtuXoRcX

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

No one has seen Mitch McConnell alive since June 11.

He's missed 60 roll call votes since then, and has been paid more than $35,000 in taxpayer salary during that time.