Reposted by Susan ChumskyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026"I can go ramp, I can go stairs" -- Trump's audience in Texas gives him an extremely tepid round of applause as he brags about being able to go up stairs without falling 7443968770
Reposted by Susan ChumskyKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752451429
Reposted by Susan ChumskyKai Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Dems need to commit to finding every one of these renditioned people, repatriating them with full citizenship and reparations. They can use the money from nationalizing Elon's companies and zeroing out DHS/ICE's budget 316930
Reposted by Susan ChumskyRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The vicious and corrupt cycle of monopolization: 1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market. 2) Use their monopoly power to price gouge consumers and shaft workers. 3) Use profits to make political donations. 4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement. 5) Repeat. 351719572
Reposted by Susan ChumskyMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026You read that right: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will, thanks to the approval of Trump's FCC, own 49.5% of Paramount Warner Brothers, and CBS, and CNN. One of many things to keep in mind when you cast your vote in the next six weeks. 12738355
Reposted by Susan ChumskyMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Did Bonta get ANYTHING from Ellison? Because the 30-films-a-year deal that is being reported has been promised for months, and the "editorial board" overseeing CBS and CNN means nothing without teeth. To me it sounds like Ellison threatened to move Paramount out of CA, and Bonta and Newsom folded. 1844899
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The slime has oozed from Opinion section to News. Thank you, Elizabeth Dwoskin and Jeff Bezos 000
Reposted by Susan ChumskyDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20/09/2026But the promise isn’t just to tear them down, but punish everyone who did the work. Liquidate companies. Strip the private assets from executives of the demolition and construction firms. And start telling them it’s gonna happen 318127
Reposted by Susan ChumskyAnne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026amazon search thing where you want to look at books by, for example, David Roberts, and it shows you every single bloody book by everyone called "David" or "Roberts". Tried the traditional enclosing full name in quotes. Tried clicking on HIS ACTUAL NAME as author of another book. No dice. FFS. 141374
Reposted by Susan ChumskyNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Trump's nominee for special counsel of the United States wrote "I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time," intensifying the need for every elected Democrat to go on Sunday morning shows to denounce Hasan Piker. 6994120
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"The more the media cast the Venezuela operation as a 'success,' the more they encourage Trump to menace the Middle East and move on to Greenland and Cuba." 000
Reposted by Susan ChumskyElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/08/2026Last year, six huge companies got $83 BILLION in federal tax breaks. Meanwhile, Americans struggled to afford groceries and doctor's visits. Let that sink in. 1352684944
Reposted by Susan ChumskyKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/08/2026Basically Musk hijacked billions of taxpayer dollars that was supposed to go to affordable fiber optic broadband, and instead gave it to himself for slower, more congested satellite broadband he had ALREADY PLANNED TO DEPLOY anyway My June piece in The Verge, if you missed it:theverge.comElon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband“We’re fed up … The BEAD program has failed us.” 7265121
Reposted by Susan ChumskyMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Meanwhile, Darline Graham's Republican runoff opponent is a traitor. 313242
Reposted by Susan ChumskyOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/08/2026context if anybody missed it bsky.app/profile/kohn... 6/ 217023
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Rabid opposition to medical leave FOR OTHERS has always been a through line in Mitch's career. Amazing compilation from @juddlegum.bsky.social and the @popular.info crew open.substack.com/pub/populari...open.substack.comMcConnell, out sick for two months, voted against medical leave 23 times since 1985Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was hospitalized on June 14 after suffering a fall that left him unconscious. 000
Reposted by Susan ChumskyDr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 10/08/2026A public health system at full strength catches threats when the risk is low and an effective response is easy. A weakened system finds outbreaks late, when they are big and much harder to stop. 0163
Reposted by Susan ChumskyGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Susan Collins, who voted for $70 billion in no-strings-attached ICE funding, is now taking credit for securing new bodycams to distance herself from Trump and ICE. This is how Collins wins in Maine. Dems must go on offense on ICE to thwart this scam. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2138...newrepublic.comWhat Susan Collins Just Did on Trump and ICE Should Worry All DemsShe voted for $70 billion in no-strings-attached ICE funding. But now she’s taking credit for a new bodycam commitment from ICE. Democrats can’t let her get away with this. 47874291
Reposted by Susan ChumskyDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 30/07/2026A reminder to those with short memories: A move toward more progressive policies among Dems is actually a return to party roots. Today's "centrists" are vestiges of a Reagan-lite shift in the Clinton & Obama-era econ policy. And fwiw, Biden understood, his econ polices were most liberal in decades. 827884
Reposted by Susan ChumskyMicah @rincewind.run · 29/07/2026man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing 6979731584
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Murdoch and his NY Post have been a cancer on our city for more than a generation 000
Reposted by Susan ChumskyKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 23/07/2026putting an overt white supremacist on your cover in 2026 is certainly a choice, @economist.com it's not journalism, it's weird agitprop fused with pseudo-intellectual infotainment so MBA hustlebros and brunchlords can ignore ethics and pretend to be informed I'm utterly fascinated by the art form 411519
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The admin has proposed a new rule that would make it much easier “to fast-track projects that destroy, or cause irreversible damage to, our historic places, with virtually no public oversight.” @timothynoah.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2132...newrepublic.comTrump’s Latest Plan to Sell Your History Out From Under YouThe administration has given a regulatory green light to miners, oil drillers, and Trump himself. 000
Reposted by Susan ChumskyChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026It’s giving FIFA Peace Prize. 17832170
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Please Streisand the shit out of this. Dolan is evil 000
Reposted by Susan ChumskyJess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 15/07/2026If I hear someone say “meeting in Bronx” I will kick them in nuts 871742204
Reposted by Susan ChumskyTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I’m interested in any political imagination for accountability. It has to be proactive & retroactive. It has to be spectacular. And, ideally, it would leave so many of them broke that it actually becomes a deterrent. Being poor is truly all they care about not because they don’t care about prison. 282018414
Reposted by Susan ChumskyNitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 12/07/2026harpers.org/archive/2018... 332966951
Reposted by Susan ChumskyMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Donald Trump cannot cancel elections but he can try to make it harder for people to vote and easier for the GOP to cheat. That includes misuse of the federal government and inciting his MAGA mob of election vigilantes. We need to be ready to send up and protect elections. 9435761351
Reposted by Susan ChumskyGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/07/2026We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend. 1129301559
Reposted by Susan ChumskyEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 04/07/2026On our 250th birthday, celebrating the contribution of immigrants and international collaboration —46% of people with doctoral-level degrees working in US science and engineering fields are foreign-born 7513171
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Greenspan's greatest achievement was convincing the political word that speaking incomprehensibly about the economy was a mark of genius. Also I had no idea he'd married the great New York School artist Joan Mitchell. I guess he liked his wives named Mitchell. 010
Reposted by Susan ChumskyKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/06/2026As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment. And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment. 310170635145
Reposted by Susan ChumskyBrian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Look, maybe the Knicks DID win, but the way this progressed just confuses people and reduces confidence in the whole 'sports' process. -NYT Editorial Staff 119634
Reposted by Susan ChumskyDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Wait, we are making civil immigration detainees do forced labor??? For a private for-profit firm? For no pay? Jfc this is evil and unlawful. 515264
Reposted by Susan ChumskyRachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 31/05/2026the Alabama governor unilaterally voiding election results and it barely making news just seems kinda ominous to me idk 1265111
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The ballroom is a Trojan Horse to distract from his fully weaponized bunker beneath and above it. And yes, it's designed to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power 010
Reposted by Susan ChumskyBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026"Third Way" liberal politics involves *saying* things that working people love, but *doing* things that sociopathic plutocrats love. It works ...right up until voters notice that you're not *doing* the things. That realisation breeds cynicism and fury and paves the way for fascist strongmen. 2/ 6592244
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Abigail Youngkin? Abigail Sinema? Gov Abigail Spanberger has vetoed popular Dem bills—depriving Virginians of the right to form public unions, bring class action suits, pay less for meds, avoid voter purges, and enjoy free speech at unis. She's fine with cops helping ICE thugs persecute immigrants.newrepublic.comZohran Mamdani Gets It. Abigail Spanberger Does Not.The New York City mayor has spent the beginning of his term delivering on one promise after another. The Virginia governor, meanwhile, has been busy vetoing progressive legislation. 000
Reposted by Susan ChumskyKate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 26/05/2026SCOTUS ultimately blocked Alabama's illegal map in 2023, but not before it cost Democrats House seats. Purcell-justified stays of orders blocking challenged maps in AL, LA and GA likely cost Dems around 4 seats in 2022; House Republicans came out of that election with a 5-seat majority. 14711
Reposted by Susan ChumskyEmily PhD 🎓 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 24/05/2026So many shitty things at once: huge waste of OUR $ in a system badly in need; setting $ on fire to facilitate attempted corporate capture of students; paying to undermine student learning&achievement; destroying the solid rep of these unis; complicity in destroying students’ futures in so many ways 04414
Reposted by Susan Chumskyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/05/2026The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...ballsandstrikes.orgTrump DOJ: Yale’s Medical School Has Way Too Many Black StudentsThe administration’s view is that the mere presence of students of color at Yale Medical School proves discrimination against white people. 11343881615
Reposted by Susan Chumskyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/05/2026Trump has purged federal agencies of black workers, the military of high-ranking black officers, supports GOP efforts to purge Southern states of black representation and wants elite universities to discriminate against black applicants, lest they admit too many (who obviously don’t deserve it.) 211221262
Reposted by Susan ChumskyMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/05/2026New — I spoke to parents whose kids are former patients of NYU Langone's trans youth health care program about the Texas criminal subpoena for their private health records. "I was furious. I was in disbelief. I was scared for my child's well-being." Read my full report:thehandbasket.coSubpoena of NYU Langone trans youth health records pierces ‘bubble’ of safety for patients & familiesThe Handbasket spoke to some of those impacted. 362336782
