Kevin Sanchez

Kevin Sanchez

@captswing.bsky.social

Scrutineer/bloviator: #BadTakesSATX. https://youtu.be/SI4ZTXOi6Ew

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Kevin Sanchez
@captswing.bsky.social

"Neighborhood residents used to fill the square, playing dominoes and chess, shopping at produce carts, children playing in the park. Now we’re like a ghost neighborhood. People pull down the shades of their houses and stay inside". hammerandhope.org/article/puer... via @hammerandhope.bsky.social

hammerandhope.orgIn Puerto Rico, the People Demand “ICE, Go Home!”An intensifying ICE presence and local government complicity have prompted a defiant politics of sanctuary that is both pro-immigrant and anticolonial.

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PEN America
@penamerica.bsky.social

🧵 Nearly 12,000 (11,982) books were banned in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, according to PEN America’s newly updated Index of School Book Bans. #BannedBooks #BannedBooksWeek

Kevin Sanchez
@captswing.bsky.social

"For every dollar earned by the 10% at the top, the bottom 10% made eight cents, a number that has gone down from 11 cents in 1967. According to the Census Bureau’s latest numbers, medical expenses pushed 7.7 million people into poverty in 2025." www.usatoday.com/story/money/... via @usatoday.com

usatoday.comThe rich got richer in 2025. The poorest households? Not so muchNew data shows median household income rose 2.6% in 2025, income at the top rose 1.7%, while earnings at the bottom stayed flat.
Kevin Sanchez
@captswing.bsky.social

"Over half a dozen states require employers to implement measures to protect workers such as rest, water breaks and access to shade. Texas not only lacks statewide heat-safety standards but blocked cities from adopting their own." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi... via @houstonchronicle.com

houstonchronicle.comTexas workers face life-or-death heat risks as workplace protections lagTexas has no statewide heat safety standard for workers, even as OSHA data and researchers suggest workplace heat illnesses are sharply undercounted.
Kevin Sanchez
@captswing.bsky.social

United Nations Human Rights Council "found reasonable grounds to believe the US committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks resulting in the loss of life to civilians... which killed approximately 120 girls and boys". news.un.org/en/story/202...

news.un.orgUS likely committed war crimes against Iranian civilians: Independent expertsIndependent investigators appointed by the UN’s Human Rights Council found “reasonable grounds” to believe that the United States committed war crimes during “indiscriminate attacks” against an Irania...
Kevin Sanchez
@captswing.bsky.social

"This report documents at least 30 federal actions since January 2025 that could increase pollution-related health risks, weaken protections, or shift more costs onto families and communities. ... EPA should be the public-health watchdog, not part of the industry’s development team." #AirQuality

Environmental Protection Network@enviroprotnet.bsky.social

What happens when pollution safeguards are weakened as AI infrastructure expands? Read The Hidden Health Costs of AI Data Centers: safernotsicker.org/ai

safernotsicker.orgThe Hidden Costs of AI Data Centers - Safer Not SickerThe Hidden Health Costs of AI Data Centers AI data center pollution can make people sick. Instead of protecting Americans’ health, the EPA is making the health risks worse. A new report finds the unpr...
Kevin Sanchez
@captswing.bsky.social

"Texas is the only state with wastewater concentrations considered very high." "Get your COVID shot now because it very well could be sitting on the edge of a cliff ready to jump to cause us real harm." www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt... via @mtosterholm.bsky.social & @cidrap.bsky.social

cidrap.umn.eduMaking Sense of Measles MisinformationThis past August, Pennsylvania announced two measles-associated deaths in unvaccinated residents, marking the first measles deaths in the state in thirty-five years. This week, hosts Chris Dall and Dr...
Kevin Sanchez
@captswing.bsky.social

"The idea of enough is alien to capitalism, which respects no limit." -- Wendell Berry, foreword to 50th anniversary edition of 'The Unsettling Of America', 2026 www.counterpointpress.com/books/the-un... via @catapultbooks.bsky.social

counterpointpress.comThe Unsettling of America (50th Anniversary Edition)A landmark work of environmental writing that powerfully argues that our estrangement from the land through industrial farming is a cultural and spiritual crisis—now presented in a beautiful …
Kevin Sanchez
@captswing.bsky.social

"When SpaceX went public as one of the ten largest firms in the United States, it could be virtually assured of a government bailout were it ever to falter." www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/elon... via @quinnslobodian.com & @projectsyndicate.bsky.social #TooBigToFail #EconomicRoyalists

project-syndicate.orgHow the Tech Lords Hacked the FirmQuinn Slobodian explains how a new generation of corporate founders has overthrown shareholder democracy in the United States.
Kevin Sanchez
@captswing.bsky.social

“Legal immigrants enrich our nation and strengthen our society in countless ways. I want people to come into our country in the largest numbers ever, but they have to come in legally.” -- Donald Trump, State Of The Union, 2019 www.forbes.com/sites/stuart... via @forbes.com

forbes.comTrump Officials Now Restricting All Legal Immigration CategoriesRecent immigration policies of the Trump administration affect American citizens sponsoring family members and employers seeking workers as the economy has slowed down.
Kevin Sanchez
@captswing.bsky.social

"When liberal and conservative think tanks measure the economic effects of migration and produce policy papers advocating for one position or another, ... these studies present the human figure of the migrant as an arithmetical representation on a balance sheet". brooklynrail.org/2026/04/fiel...

brooklynrail.orgPrison and Port: Lineaments of Migrant Detention in South Texas | The Brooklyn RailIn April 2025, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons obscenely declared that the agency must handle deportations as Amazon does package delivery. This promise is becoming a reality. In early 2026, DHS pur...
Kevin Sanchez
@captswing.bsky.social

#ClimateChange #Wildfires #ExtremeHeat #IPCC #HurricaneHarvey #DataCenters #IranWar #BenjaminFranklin #ActOnClimate

San Antonio Current@sacurrent.bsky.social

Despite all the naysaying from the right, a majority of U.S. residents are aware of the climate crisis we now face.

sacurrent.comClimate change isn't the new normal. What we’re experiencing now is just the beginning.Smoke from recent wildfires rolls over a Spanish highway. Bad Takes is a column of opinion and analysis. Good thing climate change is a hoax or we'd be in
Kevin Sanchez
@captswing.bsky.social

"People are sick of fake solutions that don’t actually change anything, and socialists are thinking boldly about how to make meaningful differences in people’s lives." www.currentaffairs.org/news/sociali... via @nathanjrobinson.bsky.social & @currentaffairs.bsky.social

currentaffairs.orgSocialism’s Moment Is HereWith a flurry of election victories, nonstop media attention, and a shift in public opinion, the fortunes of the American left are finally starting to turn.
Kevin Sanchez
@captswing.bsky.social

We need to be more social because helping others flourish is crucial to living a fulfilling life.

Jan Kandiyali@jkandiyali.bsky.social

Jacobin has kindly published a short extract from my recently published book, Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society (OUP, 2026) jacobin.com/2026/08/marx...

jacobin.comKarl Marx’s Vision of the Good SocietyKarl Marx’s ideal society is taken far less seriously than his critique of capitalism. But he did offer a rich account of what a better society would look like — one built around meaningful work, mutu...