Reposted by Kit StolzCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 13hThere is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 10262361789
Reposted by Kit StolzDean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Republicans aren't very sharp. Their parents never taught them how to apologize. 1665092
Reposted by Kit StolzSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21074892442
Reposted by Kit StolzSenator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes! 2505251586209
Reposted by Kit StolzTexas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.texastribune.orgICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identifiedThe federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte... 20566323330
Reposted by Kit StolzChristopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Jesus weeps all across our nation for the children who have been arrested, detained, and transported to far-off centers with terrible living conditions and cut off from their families.” — Cardinal Robert McElroy 15316
Reposted by Kit StolzDean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Remember, they prosecuted Aaron Swartz and drove him to suicide for hacking one system with the goal of making academic articles freely available to the public. Sam Altman hacked 1000s of sites with the goal of being a trillionaire. 7401172
Reposted by Kit StolzRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026www.ms.now/rachel-maddo... 641681619
Reposted by Kit StolzThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026They are playing in our faces 409125785955
Reposted by Kit StolzMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Wait, a man who drove his wife to suicide by proving how popular he is with the ladies stole money from black kids for their health to fund an entourage to prove how important he is? It's *almost* as if RFK, Jr. is a truly horrible, insecure person!wsj.comExclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health OfficeThe cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026. 627117884548
Reposted by Kit StolzProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵 410113476033
Reposted by Kit StolzCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Mark today as the first time Trump's approval rating dropped into the 20s. 691866487
Reposted by Kit StolzCliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream 172961930
Reposted by Kit StolzHal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It isn't explicit, but we've seen this pattern before. 1) Black Americans are twice as likely to get Alzheimer's 2) Scientists want to study Black communities to figure out why and what insights this has for treatment/cause 3) Trump people cut the program, most likely because they think it's DEI. 151480472
Reposted by Kit StolzAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia. 5953724213383
Reposted by Kit StolzSenator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 13/09/2026Climate issues raising family costs: the cost of insurance for the typical homeowner jumped by 24 percent between 2021 and 2024, according to research by the Consumer Federation of America. Free-to-pollute isn’t free to you. 1124580
Reposted by Kit StolzHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Lone Progressive Dissenters have the highest batting average of being correct in history, yet that does nothing to change the widespread conviction that today’s Lone Progressive Dissenters must be crazy wackos. 271648401
Reposted by Kit StolzSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Impressive restraint and dignity by the honorable Zohran Mamdani when dealing with the Islamophobic and hateful Rudy Giuliani. 1212270441
Reposted by Kit StolzAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad. 352512636
Reposted by Kit StolzMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“I have a lot of men [at Ground Zero] right now,” Trump told German TV station N24. “We have over 100 and we have about 125 coming. So we’ll have a couple hundred people down here.” Meanwhile, back in the real world . . . In 2001, the Trump Organization had *12* employees. 431109305
Reposted by Kit StolzPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Yeah dude - the more I pay at the pump the less I fear nuclear attack by people who don’t have nukes and who wouldn’t be able to have them if you idiots didn’t tear up obama’s deal and start a self-defeating war about it. 521740
Reposted by Kit StolzJames Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026As of Dec. 2019, according to the Atlanta Fed, the median household income of $66,000 was enough to afford a median-price home. "As of May 2026, a household would need income of $124,674 a year to afford a median-priced home—45% more than the median household makes." www.wsj.com/economy/cons... 054
Reposted by Kit StolzSuli Qyre @suliqyre.com · 08/09/2026“There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life — we are never bored. We can’t be. There is always something new to be investigated. Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one…” — Rachel Carson, Lost Woods 065
Reposted by Kit StolzBrooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Looking forward to living in America City on the shores of Lake America with a view of many Mounts America in the America Range, & the America Rivers that will flow across the America Plains, dividing toward the America Oceans to the east and west and north and south www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/u...nytimes.comTrump Posts Map Suggesting New Mexico Be Renamed as ‘New America’The suggestion, posted on social media, appeared to be the latest in the president’s efforts to alter geographic names. 132
Reposted by Kit Stolzjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026under remarked on aspect of trump is his deep hatred of natural beauty and the natural world. 16858921180
Reposted by Kit StolzDan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Imagine a world where Biden is president: No threatened invasions of Denmark or Canada No war with Iran No trade wars WH and federal govt with capable, boring staffers No concentration camps Funding for medical and scientific research USAID Occasional malapropisms and doddering The horror. 5309
Reposted by Kit StolzJames Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026On the other hand, this administration's ability to disrupt the normal lives of Americans appears to be approaching infinity 13713116
Reposted by Kit StolzSarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." —The Misunderstanding, Albert Camus #BookologyThursdaystatic.klipy.comVibrant Autumn Forest SunsetALT: Vibrant Autumn Forest Sunset 051
Reposted by Kit StolzRebuild Local News @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social · 31/08/2026ICYMI: The California Senate advanced the Community NEWS Act (AB 2222) last night, moving a bill that would create journalist employment credits to help local newsrooms strengthen and expand essential community coverage. More below. ⬇️ 184
Reposted by Kit Stolzjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026so according to the CDC, *foodborne illness* is responsible for about 930 deaths a year. "food-induced illness" is a made up term RFK is using for basically every cause of mortality minus suicide. 22656921274
Reposted by Kit StolzKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I’m telling you - the default position of this administration is fear. Fear of questions, fear of transparency, fear of being found out, and fear of the American people.nytimes.comTreasury Bars Some Reporters From G20 Finance MeetingSpecific reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg were not granted credentials to cover the meeting of financial leaders next week in Asheville, N.C. 1183093891
Reposted by Kit Stolzryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/08/2026if I had presidential aspirations, I would be making clear that anyone who tries to take this sale has another thing coming 382328521
Reposted by Kit StolzThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/08/2026Q: “Are either of you concerned that the reduction in funding for SNAP and the reduction in eligibility for SNAP will reduce access to food for children and families?” Sec. Kennedy: “I don't think it's gonna have that much effect.” 6712358
Reposted by Kit StolzLaurel @laurelfynes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The Host, by the brilliant Bong Joon Ho (of Snowpiercer, Okja, Parasite, Mother, Mickey 17 and more). I love every one of his films that I’ve seen, but the Host was my first and remains indelible in my mind. 141
Reposted by Kit StolzChristopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 22/08/2026“People always come before borders, before definitions and institutions. “This realization stands at the center of Christianity. “Evil is not fought with evil. It is time to oppose the false realism that rearms minds, words, and nations with the realism of mercy.” — Pope Leo XIV 05314
Reposted by Kit StolzConstantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Each of these cancers have been, historically, a near guarantee of an awful, painful, slow, miserable death. There is good news and we should share it. 229585
Reposted by Kit StolzDeborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This administration won't rest while there's a tree left standing.nytimes.comTrump Administration Live Updates: White House Seeks to Lift Development Ban in National Forests (Gift Article) 98565
Reposted by Kit StolzAntonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026While your community burns.... Two organizations in Washington are still awaiting $15 million in grants the Forest Service announced in September 2025 for projects to reduce wildfire risk. The groups expected the money months ago. Trump withheld the funds over "DEI." www.politico.com/news/2026/08...politico.comDEI dispute delayed wildfire grants for area engulfed in blazesA fight over USDA immigration and diversity policies held up $15 million in wildfire-prevention grants for an area in Washington state that’s now burning. 187
Reposted by Kit StolzJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17/08/2026A hit dog will holler. 2219333
Reposted by Kit StolzAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This shouldn't be happening to them or anyone else, but the fact is they were fine with it happening to other people as long it did not happen to them, and the same is true of tens of millions of other voters. It certainly says something about the American electorate bsky.app/profile/brad... 852677515
Reposted by Kit StolzAnza-Borrego Desert Research Center @anzaborrego.bsky.social · 17/08/2026A bighorn ram getting a good drink at the Borrego Palm Canyon desert pupfish pond on a hot Thursday last week (Photo: Sicco Rood). 015427
Reposted by Kit StolzWallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026What's behind this is that what didn't work was carrying guns and the cult of the operator, but those are for men; and what worked was whistles, taking children to school, doing children's laundry, feeding children, and candlelight protests, and those are for women. Leftism is, apparently, when men. 637754
Reposted by Kit StolzAsh Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Those mountains are older than the concept of trees and bones and you WILL respect them 442567553
Reposted by Kit StolzChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025For all the TRUMP = STRONG propaganda this is *exactly* what his “leadership” was like in Covid. Constant zigging and zagging, self-contradictory, incapable of commitment, wanting to have it both ways. It was a disaster! 437124282045
Reposted by Kit StolzDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Normally, if in a single week the chief White House counsel and the White House press secretary were to announce their resignations, people might think there were problems behind the scenes. Or they were losing faith in their boss. 30859187
Reposted by Kit StolzAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/08/2026“It’s going to take us a little while to fabricate a case against an innocent guy.” 53593542536
Reposted by Kit StolzAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️ 693232885829
Reposted by Kit StolzThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/08/2026Stephen Miller: "We get off of this ridiculous path of having our children get seventy to ninety shots. That is wantonly excessive. Remember, every one of these shots produces a profound immunological response." Vaccines are bad because they...work?lnk.thebulwark.comVaccine Lies, Direct from the Oval Office“Nothing bad can happen,” Trump says—as measles levels keep rising. 6731878
Reposted by Kit StolzHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Who would have guessed this absolute lunatic would refuse to concede that he lost the Republican primary for governor of Minnesota, besides everyone? 82769188