George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽And I say to Justice Alito, no provision in the Constitution gives him the authority to regulate women's bodies.
Andy Lyon
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The Former Guy has made it clear, friends. It’s up to us and our votes to keep him from ever entering the White House again.
Everywhere employers are screaming for help. The obvious answer is immigration, which will make us stronger and better as a country (or possibly several countries down the line). Instead, we spend our resources trying to turn away the workforce we need. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/business/economy/local-government-jobs-unions.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
"I don't think independent journalists like myself are a silver bullet for the media industry's larger problems — but we can help. We can take on overlooked local stories and expose them to a national audience."
In my latest Q&A, I speak with Judd Legum to explore the challenges, triumphs, and importance of uncovering the truth. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/big-questions-answers-judd-legum
@georgetakei That’s so important for so many grifters today — focus on fear and faux victimization for power and money. Why offer solutions when just making people angry will drive them to the polls?
@rbreich This COS resident agrees but “American exceptionalism” today means most of the country will shrug and say “it’s sad, but what you gonna do?” The richest country in the history of the world does nothing about so many issues we could solve. That is sadly exceptional.
Three things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving week: the negative test belongs to the 90-year-old in the house; Paxlovid was available for him; vaccinations mean, so far, this disease is a lingering cold and nothing worse.
Robert ReichAs Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Stripe, Shopify, Lyft, Netflix, and Microsoft lay off workers, let it serve as a reminder that free snacks, beer kegs, and ping pong tables are not real perks.
Do you know what is? Being part of a union that will defend you.