Retired English professor. UT Austin (Philosophy) and URI (English/Contemporary Critical Theory). Currently living in a rural red state and trying to be loud against the fascists. I read history.
🚨 NEWS: The Trump administration plans to END a Medicare subsidy program that has helped keep prescription drug plan premiums down for seniors, according to the Wall Street Journal. The program will expire after 2026, potentially leaving millions of seniors facing HIGHER Part D premiums in 2027. 1/
No one is safe when ICE feels empowered to detain U.S. citizens, use violence, and retaliate against those exercising our free speech rights. ACLU state affiliates across the country are representing people harmed by federal law enforcement to make sure immigration agents aren't let off the hook.
ACLU puts feds on defense: 54 claims in 17 statesThe civil liberties group also released a report identifying 432 incidents of alleged misconduct.www.allrisenews.com
Democrats sense Todd Blanche nomination is vulnerable Sen Dick Durbin (D-IL): “Pardoning Jan 6 rioters & cop-beaters wasn’t enough for Pres Trump… So, two months ago, Blanche colluded with President Trump’s private lawyers to create a nearly $2 billion slush fund to benefit the Jan 6 mob”
Trump Is Rolling Back So Many Workers' Rights, He's Placed the US on a Watchlist www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
Trump Is Rolling Back So Many Workers' Rights, He's Placed the US on a Watchlist | Common DreamsThe inclusion of the United States on the International Trade Union Confederation's Watchlist serves as a troubling indicator of the country’s current state of affairs.www.commondreams.org
What lessons will societies learn from this? "Danube Falls to All-Time Low as Europe’s Drought Forces Nuclear Reactors Offline". #ClimateSky www.techtimes.com/articles/322...
Danube Falls to All-Time Low as Europe's Drought Forces Nuclear Reactors OfflineDanube drought 2026 has pushed the river to its lowest recorded level in Budapest — 31 centimeters — as Europe’s water crisis forces Hungary’s Paks Nuclear Power Plant to slash 491 megawatts of output...www.techtimes.com
The Trump administration has approved the first AI data center to be built on federal public land. The project will occupy roughly 88.5 acres of Bureau of Land Management land in southern Nevada and will set a major precedent for using America’s public lands for private AI infrastructure.
Hi Rep. Val Hoyle. I’m your constituent and a journalist, working on a follow-up to my story for the @thequeenzone.bsky.social about ICE for-profit prison contractors. Why won’t Oregon PERS (Public Employment Retirement System) divest from GEO and CoreCivic? www.thequeenzone.com/a-private-pr...
A private prison company will run new ICE children's facility--and IRS pros have questionsA tax-exempt nonprofit tied to a private prison company will operate a new ICE facility in Louisiana, prompting questions from a former IRS expert.www.thequeenzone.comRepresentative Val HoyleChildren are being locked away and traumatized at the Dilley Trailer Prison. NO child should have to suffer like this. I joined 110 of my colleagues to demand the President shut down Dilley and free the children.
"States never gave up the right to define the powers given to corporations. Hence they have the right to remove political spending from these powers." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-corporat...
The Corporate Power ResetLegislation in Hawaii and Montana shows how pro-democracy advocates can fight back against Citizens United.www.liberalcurrents.comDilley is run by ICE for-profit prison contractor CoreCivic (NYSE: CXW). Institutional investors, pension funds, foundations and endowments must divest from CoreCivic, as well as from GEO Group (NYSE: GEO). Do not reap profits from torture of kids. #Divest $CXW $GEO
Joaquin Castro112 children are imprisoned at Dilley. The youngest child imprisoned at Dilley is 2 months old. None have committed any crime. Private investors make money for each new child taken into Dilley. We need to #ShutDownDilley and end family detention.
