🎉We're honored to announce the winner and finalists of the 2025 MOLLY National Journalism Prize. This annual contest celebrates the best in impactful accountability reporting and narrative storytelling.
🧵(1/5)
Edited 219d ago
uspol
“Palestinian Liberation has always shown us that everything is interconnected.”
Out today in Deceleration: San Marcos' city council wouldn't acknowledge the genocide in #Gaza, so Amanda Rodriguez ran for city council and won. My interview with her and others from Palestine Solidarity SMTX. https://deceleration.news/gaza-ceasefire-vote-a-first-in-texas-san-marcos/
#Texas #politics #USpol #news #GregAbbott #Palestine #democracy #solidarity #activism
#AUTOCRACY NOW!
#CurtisYarvin’s calls for an American king once seemed like a joke. Today, the right is ready to bend the knee.
#USpol #law #democracy #Constitution #authoritarianism #tyranny #FarRight #Trump #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile?utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=tny
Adam Levitin on the GENIUS Act: “[I]n regard to cash deposits, the stablecoin investors will have priority over the claims of ma-and-pa for their bank deposits (and thus over the FDIC's subrogation claim when it pays ma-and-pa). Yes, you read that correctly: Congress is about to put the claims of stablecoin investors ahead of ma and pa's bank deposits. That's just stunning. Now ma-and-pa's deposits are FDIC insured, so they'll be alright, but it means the FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund is footing the bill. In other words, the GENIUS Act is subsidizing stablecoin issuance on the back of bank deposits. By subordinating the FDIC's subrogation claim in a bank insolvency to the claims of stablecoin investors, the GENIUS Act is effectively letting FDIC insurance leak out to cover uninsured stablecoins, without any insurance premiums paid.”
ICE shot a journalist in the leg. A journalist.
They’re shooting people who are there to cover the protests as an essential part of the freedom of the press and the right to free speech.
It was apparently a non-lethal round, yet emergency surgery is required.
This regime has already silenced so many journalists.
Kicked them out of the Oval Office and filled it with “friendlies” (ie propagandists).
These are dark times:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/08/la-protests-photographer-hit-by-non-lethal-rounds
"HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE crowd has gathered in the streets of Los Angeles, California to peacefully protest against Donald Trump’s American Gestapo (ICE) (Video: Anthony Cabassa)"
https://bsky.app/profile/marcofoster.bsky.social/post/3lr4v2g5hvc2k
Report: Israel's Navy is planning to intercept the Madleen tonight - as far from the coast of Gaza as possible.
The vessel will be boarded by commandos if it does not turn around & will be taken to Ashdod port.
Madleen’s crew has said they remain resolute in breaking the Israeli blockade.
![Screenshot of a post by Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social:
The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow
[photo of a no parking any time street sign, with the "par" covered by white tape so the sign now says, "no king any time"]](/proxy/post_attachment/740412/572b0c6b35.png "Screenshot of a post by Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social:
The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow
[photo of a no parking any time street sign, with the \"par\" covered by white tape so the sign now says, \"no king any time\"]")
Hey everyone,
With all the craziness going on, please check out and share:
http://www.dontcallthepolice.com
It’s an online directory of local resources available as alternatives to contacting law enforcement if you need help with DV, mental health, housing, LGBTQ+ support, protecting your vote, crisis management, addiction, etc.
#politics #uspol #ice #Police #mentalhealth #housing #lgbtq #votingrights #addiction
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office [#CBO] said Wednesday that the broad Republican bill to cut taxes for corporations & the wealthy & slash federal programs would add $2.4 trillion to the already soaring #NationalDebt over the next decade, in an analysis that was all but certain to inflame concerns that #Trump’s domestic agenda would lead to excessive government borrowing.
#USpol #economy #government
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/trump-policy-bill-deficit-estimate.html?smid=url-share
🚨 Trump’s Bedminster golf club flagged for 18 health violations in latest inspection—earned lowest grade in county (32/100)
Among the violations:
🤢 Expired milk
🤢 Raw meat stored above cheese.
🤢 A hand-washing station without soap
me, for @Forbes
#trump #news #USPol
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/06/04/trump-health-inspection-violations-golf-club-bedminster/
Report: "Israel plans to prevent Madleen aid ship from approaching Gaza coast"
The ship, part of Freedom Flotilla Coalition, is carrying urgently needed supplies for Gaza
Israel is considering:
1. preventing the ship from approaching Gaza & leaving it adrift at sea, or
2. having it escorted to Ashdod port & arresting the activists there.
#FreedomFlotilla #GazaGenocide #USEnablement #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol @palestine .
"MAJOR:🚨SC's conservative majority appears poised to protect Fed Reserve from being fired by pres (if #Trump tried), citing its historical context, but WILL ALLOW PRETTY MUCH EVERY OTHER BOARD DISMISSAL."
-D Stublen
"#SCOTUS allows Trump to fire labor board mems. Apparent 6-3 decision with all liberal justices in dissent. Ct says more harm from denying POTUS right to remove officials than from those officials staying in office."
-J Gerstein
#Fed #Impunity #Fascism #USPol https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25951855-24a966-order/
Edited 217d ago
nuclear war is a hell of a way to get people to stop talking about the epstein files
#epstein #uspol #putin #medvedev #VladimirPutin #nuclearWar #epsteinFiles #epsteinCoverup
"I just want to stop the killing”
That is a sentence, Trump has repeated again and again throughout 2025. But is it true?
Watch my latest analysis of the #Ukraine peace deal that failed, and find out Trump's real reason for helping Vladimir Putin:
1/2
Edited 210d ago
I think this is a more or less up-to-date map of the businesses, LLCs, and people associated with the Trump family crypto projects.
Edited 204d ago
"We found out that ICE is staying at the AC hotel in #Pasadena and now there's a couple of hundred people protesting #noice "
Give ICE no rest, no time to relax.....destroy them.
https://bsky.app/profile/adefwebserver.com/post/3lr4vou4sp22t
GENIUS Act (stablecoin bill) has passed the Senate.
Wow! Seattle Reign soccer team has issued a statement warning fans not to attend matches and FIFA World Cup events as they could be targeted by ICE agents
With the unravelling of America I cannot see the US successfully hosting major international sporting events, including the Olympics - fans, athletes, maybe even entire countries will boycott over safety
"These Christians claim that true compassion comes from rejecting empathy, arguing that empathy gets in the way of speaking what they believe are "hard truths" they need to browbeat alleged sinners with. This is how the conservative Christian convinces himself it's love to deny LGBTQ people their freedom, b/ compelling heterosexuality will get them into heaven. . . . These are the rationalizations of people who want to hate while denying they are hateful."
Websites hosting major US #climate reports taken down
Websites that displayed legally mandated US national climate assessments seem to have disappeared, making it harder for #state & #local governments & the #public to learn what to expect in their backyards from a warming world.
#law #EnvironmentalLaw #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Trump #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8
Calling your senator may not change them, but it will change you
Be defiant
Call your senators and tell them to vote against the MAGA Murder Bill
Negotiating is not an option
Their job is to protect and expand fundamental rights to food, health, and due process
Here's the switchboard:
202-224-3121(voice) 202-224-3091 (TTY)