Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialDr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.” ~Dolores Huerta. Image: PBS Distribution. 16311
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026#CO8 GOP Rep Gabe Evans and Manny Rutinel (D) have not agreed to a televised debate and would not take voter questions at a televised town hall. So 9NEWS held the town hall without them. Health care was a key focus with one family after another sharing how they're struggling. 2639192
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"publicnotice.coRetire in peaceMcConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go. 1719258957943
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...gillianbrockell.comThe truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been. 3245781497
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialDr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Ben's account has unfortunately been temporarily suspended for tagging all the wonder scholars in #ScholarSunday this week, so please make sure to subscribe to the newsletter to get it in your inbox every week! If you find value in Scholar Sunday, please share it with people who don't know it yet!blackwhiteandread.com#ScholarSunday Thread 293 (9/13/26) – Black and White and Read All OverHere it is, my 293rd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, &... 65033
leendahansen.bsky.social @leendahansen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Thanks for mentioning that! I am in Crawford for a Rock Swap so we went out to Fort Rob and saw the memorial at the site of the stabbing. People had left offerings, including berries, a banana, some ribbons, and rocks. my first time to this part of the state. 010
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Apparently, one thing that USAID was funding before Elon put it in the woodchipper was an early warning system along those Nepali rivers billmckibben.substack.com/p/two-men?r=...billmckibben.substack.comTwo MenOne as great as America ever produced, and the other Elon Musk 11444191
leendahansen.bsky.social @leendahansen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Such a great time of year! I'm wondering if we can fit another pound or two in our freezer, on top of the chiles we just bought, lol.... 000
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialLaura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026And again I ask: why haven't we heard more about the fact that *100% of the job losses in July were women*? nwlc.org/press-releas...nwlc.orgJuly Jobs Report: Women Accounted for 100 Percent of the Labor Force Decline - National Women's Law CenterWASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Th... 5244101
leendahansen.bsky.social @leendahansen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Shameless plug: Our local community radio station, KZUM.org online, has a Tuesday morning show of protest music called The Melting Pot. :) Shows are available for 2 weeks in the archive. Gospel & Broadway music theme yesterday! 🤩kzum.orgKZUM 89.3 FM – Local Radio in Lincoln, Nebraska | Music, Arts, Culture and Community – Listener-supported local radio from Lincoln, Neb.Check out the latest from KZUM Nothing Found Listen local, Support local KZUM News 182
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026This WSJ editorial unwittingly makes my point about the danger of Bernie's plan to turn all Americans into AI investors: "give public workers a direct stake in the success of AI and other companies. Maybe then government unions wouldn’t be as hostile to private business." www.wsj.com/opinion/publ...hamiltonnolan.comAn AI-Funded Sovereign Wealth Fund Is DangerousSome constructive thoughts on Bernie's proposal. 68523
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialChuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I got salty about AI bullshit because it's all such bullshit, so here is me being very mad and probably not very clear about how mad it makes me. Do with this as you will. *kicks rocks*terribleminds.comYou Cannot Use One Bullshit Machine To Catch Another Bullshit MachineI really fucking hate AI right now. I really fucking hated AI yesterday and the day before, too, though I think the hate is growing faster and hotter, like a sun about to explode and consume the ga… 1240574
leendahansen.bsky.social @leendahansen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I appreciate that you know this! I've watched eclipses this way. And agree that the light quality under smoke is really interesting. You can tell there's smoke even if it's not so thick that you smell it. :) 000
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 18/06/2026When I use the term “white trash,” it is usually self-deprecating, but I see the actual epitome in Donald Trump. The manifestation in his regime. The incarnation in his actions. He is white trash… substack.com/@jesspiper/n...substack.comSoft White UnderbellyMy name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri. I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyon... 24475107
leendahansen.bsky.social @leendahansen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Welcome to Nebraska, lol, where it's all Huskers, all the time.... 110
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 22/05/2026Important reading --> www.drought.gov/drought-stat... "West braces for critical water shortages after unprecedented snow drought" "Snowpack, the western U.S.’s largest non-man made reservoir, is already gone in many places." "... there are no comparable years."drought.govSnow Drought Current Conditions and Impacts in the West | May 14, 2026 | Drought.govNIDIS and its partners release these snow drought updates for the Western U.S. every 4 weeks from December through June. 817577
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialMark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Thanks to @thebulwark.com for allowing me to write this piece, and for @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social for allowing me to discuss it on their program. 1124175
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Data centers are just the newest iteration of an issue that has been generations in the making. More extraction from rural spaces. More pollution and decay. More hollowed-out communities. I have already seen how this story ends. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...open.substack.comStripped for PartsMy name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri. I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyon... 19999384
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it. 6961252565
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialking ned ludd 🇨🇦 @grumble.social · 09/04/2026This is the good shit.leehanchung.github.ioThe AI Great Leap ForwardIn 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba... 5250133
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Good time to remember that rich people are okay with this in exchange for tax cuts 8724192
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialMinas Karamanis @minaskar.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...ergosphere.blogThe machines are fine. I'm worried about us.On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable. 1101781531
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialChuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 11/02/2026If you really want to learn about AI hype, please read about my many excellent catsterribleminds.comVital Cat UpdateIt’s time to talk about my cat. To which you might be saying, “Chuck, I didn’t know you had a cat!” and I’d respond with, “I didn’t know I had a cat either… 1620948
leendahansen.bsky.social @leendahansen.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Oh man, that's too bad! I love local papers and have always been proud of Gallup having one. (I lived in Gallup as a baby) 000
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime. 6303561212729
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming) 17403078314339
leendahansen.bsky.social @leendahansen.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Oh man, that's amazing. :) Thanks! 000
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13/01/2026“But what do you expect Democrats to doo-hooo?” 1) Refuse to fund this criminal government anymore. 2) EVERY one of them call to abolish ICE (and bonus, DHS). No more “they need training” shit. Promise prosecutions. 3) EVERY one of them call for Trump’s impeachment, relentlessly, EVERY day. 3859931665
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face. 9046182722191
leendahansen.bsky.social @leendahansen.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Yeah, got my first "Let AI help you write an email" in gmail today. It presents the usual "Yes" and "Learn more" options and I wish there was a third option to tell them to F--- off. Sigh. 100
leendahansen.bsky.social @leendahansen.bsky.social · 19/12/2025That was such a good book. I reread it recently and thought the ending was sooo creepy... :) 120
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialDan Osborn @osbornforne.bsky.social · 01/12/2025I believe Tyson's decision to shut down its Lexington plant instead of selling it is a PLOY to manipulate cattle and beef markets in violation of our antitrust laws. 🧵 313550
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever. 176117642890
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/11/2025it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?" 13744391112301
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 26/10/2025October 25, 2025heathercoxrichardson.substack.comOctober 25, 2025Yesterday the Trump administration said it would not use any of the approximately $6 billion the U.S. 741286426
leendahansen.bsky.social @leendahansen.bsky.social · 23/10/2025"They will not be able to order food in a restaurant without having it spit in. Who do you think works in New York City’s kitchens, fuckos? Don’t miss the spit bagels, spit hot dogs, and spit pastrami sandwiches of our fine city. You sad little clowns. " Ahahaha love it. 000
leendahansen.bsky.social @leendahansen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025The balloon had to travel down a hallway, through a door, across the kitchen, and it had to float without helium. Mom yanked it down, set it on the table, went back to watch TV. "Bap bap bap" again! The third time, Mom told the little girl ghost to knock it off, heard a giggle & the girl left. 010
leendahansen.bsky.social @leendahansen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025A couple weeks later, on Halloween, the cake was gone, and the balloon was almost deflated on her bedroom floor. Mom walked home from work, got comfy, sat in her recliner. Suddenly she heard this weird "bap bap bap" sound from the kitchen! The balloon was floating, hitting the ceiling fan blades! 110
leendahansen.bsky.social @leendahansen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Ghosts were just a fact of life (ha?) for my mom, so she just talked to the ghost like it was a regular little girl. I wonder if Mom yelled at it for dropping plates, lol. So one year, the kitchen staff threw Mom a birthday party: cake, balloons, cards. She walked home, a block away, with her loot. 110
leendahansen.bsky.social @leendahansen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025That, they say, is why she haunted the nursing home. Lots of people reported creepy things happening. When my mom worked there, in the basement kitchen like 20 years ago, she often heard the ghost giggle and run down the hall. The ghost liked to push plates off shelves, drop things in the dish room. 110
leendahansen.bsky.social @leendahansen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025in the basement, and they remodeled the upstairs to be an assisted living home/nursing home when I was in high school. The little girl died in the 1950s; she was hit by a grain truck on Main Street (there's an article!) and her body was taken to the temp-morgue in the basement of the nursing home. 110
leendahansen.bsky.social @leendahansen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Not as spooky as the story from Gallup (I have family there!) but I love to tell this hometown story. I grew up in a small town in Nebraska where the nursing home was haunted by the ghost of a little girl. The nursing home had seen several configurations; when I was growing up there was a daycare... 110
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025The defining experience of fascism is familiar to anyone who has written stuff on the internet. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...hamiltonnolan.comGetting Yelled at By DumbassesThe defining experience of fascism. 1241494
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16/08/20251. You may have noticed something. I used to talk about the president’s dementia pretty regularly, but haven’t in months. That’s because I’ve lost faith. I used to believe the Washington press corps would see the plainly obvious. I no longer believe that. The hypocrisy is too baked in. 962231713
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialnanmac2000.bsky.social @nanmac2000.bsky.social · 05/08/2025@hcrichardson.bsky.social My son’s article, great read: U.S. President Donald Trump’s $200 million plan to construct a new golden ballroom at the White House is not just a monument to narcissism. It is statecraft by spectacle, financed by national rot. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...commondreams.orgThe Gilded Lie: Trump’s Ballroom, a Ballooning Deficit, and the Reign of Useful Splendor | Common DreamsTrump’s defenders will call the ballroom symbolic. They are right. It symbolizes a state that has abandoned the moral obligations of government and replaced them with architecture. 930787
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country? 707186276129
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialDahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 04/07/2025J Michael Luttigtelos.newsThe Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of TyrannyTwenty-seven truths about America, our Democracy and Rule of Law, and our rights, freedoms, and liberties. 13332124
Reposted by @leendahansen.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/06/2025This is excellent and exactly matches what we've seen in reporting w construction teams, farm managers, food service, bldg maintenance. Let's not even talk about packing houses Everyone knows this, except Miller, Noem, Homan, Trump, Congressional GOP. (Actually, they know.) 100% worth watching 31747223
