Debra Marshall

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

There are people who've been waiting 8 years for a reply from my opponent. That is not representation. That is not good leadership. It is cowardice. I will never be afraid to talk to you.

Apparently, I now have my own QR code! Point your phone at it & it takes you to MY BOOK. No idea how. No mice inside. Disappointing. 🙄 Could you give it a little share & help more people discover me? The FC calls it word of mouth. I prefer word of MEOWTH. 😹🧡🐾

Our new seminar season starts soon! If you're interested in the history of women, why not come along? Join us at the Foundling Museum in London on Saturday 17 October. We have four great papers lined up, and you'll receive a warm welcome. Image courtesy Met Museum (Item 17.3.257) /1

"Bonita"' is weeding and thinning lettuce fields in Tehachapi CA. "This is hard work especially right now as it is very hot with highs in the 90s. There isn't shade in the field so the heat can feel overwhelming and we get tired easily. We earn CA minimum wage." #WeFeedYou

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This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.

To succeed in higher education leadership in Florida that you have to be a part of the dominant political regime, which hands out well-paid positions to unqualified officials. Rodeo cowboy who impersonated a police office becomes college President! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/which-stor...

Our @spspnews.bsky.social Preconference on Economic Inequality&Social Class is back,co-organized with Efraín García Sánchez, Kristin Laurin,& @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social! Datablitz submissions now open, keynotes @keithpayne.bsky.social & Jean-Claude Croizet Find us here: spsp.org/events/annua...

Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚨 CORRUPTION #9 — THE BALLROOM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Remember: “Taxpayers aren't paying for Trump's ballroom.” Except now we're talking about a gigantic White House redevelopment with underground security infrastructure, military facilities and hundreds of millions of dollars

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Media has not aired this - it's up to us to do so.

Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.

A state grand jury found the DeSantis admin "misappropriated" taxpayer money when it diverted $10 million from a Medicaid settlement into the Hope Florida Foundation, arguing the transfer was "part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities," according to the sealed grand jury report.

You have to be a better reader than a lot of people are lately to glean from this article the extent to which Finland's housing-first policy was wildly successful until a racist right-wing government derailed it by gutting funding and services. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Justice for Johan. #AbolishICE (🎥: @nytimes.com)

Data centers

WATCH — @kelseyhuse.com: “Before xAI came to Memphis, there was the Byhalia Pipeline — @Justinjpearson organized the community to fight back, and won… they underestimated people power… make sure to vote (TODAY).” #TN9

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Here's what I think about how Marco Rubio is doing:

Means-tested programs like SNAP are shaped not just by benefit levels, but by hassle. And hassle is regressive: it hits hardest when you lack a car, flexibility, cash, or time.⁣ ⁣ https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-snaps-new-rules-make-eligible

Iran's latest.

Florida officials say it’s not climate change but their own citizens’ massive fraud that’s driving the home insurance crisis. Nice, huh? Here’s how many Floridians get zero dollars after an insurance claim:

Wowza they REALLY don’t want to talk about #MissingMitchMcconnell 🤔😬

Fauci accuses Rand Paul of having an "unhinged obsession with calling for my prosecution" and of making "repeated slanderous comments," then says "although it pains me to do so... under advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the 5th Amendment to refrain from answering your questions."

Missed payments. Slashed staffing. Broken security. A patient who froze to death on the roof of a hospital. Inside American Healthcare System, the for-profit healthcare company driving hospitals around the country to financial chaos.

Much of Fort Lauderdale’s street art—including its rainbow pride flag—had disappeared by Saturday morning as state workers began covering it over following a settlement agreement with the city.

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In case it wasn't yet clear, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have no qualms about sacrificing your children in a stupid war in Iran. They don't care. They view your children as cannon fodder in service to Trump's narcissism and never-ending incompetence.

“We should be collectively concerned about a reduction in the pipeline of #humanities graduates and the cold spots in knowledge it creates. In an age of AI, we’ll value the understanding of how humans think and act more, not less, in the future.” bit.ly/4fiVLeK

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

Election fraud is a GOP thang

Ohio’s #SB461 forces state universities to fund partisan "civic centers" at record levels—even if students aren't taking the classes. Instead of fixing soaring tuition, lawmakers are wasting tax dollars to force an agenda. Ohio families deserve affordable education, not mandated indoctrination. 🎓❌

The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.

U.S. military spending could soon hit a record $1.5 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that have routinely price-gouged the government, according to investigations. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed eight straight audits. Hello???

The anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense (part of the MAHA core) rushed to blame vaccines for the death of Idaho twins last year. This is from their Good Morning CHD broadcast last year.

Ah yes, about that. The video is now complete. (It's not actually centered on hairstyles, it's about how Northwestern European and North American-European fashions responded to the Little Ice Age of circa. 1400-1900 CE There are some graphs involved....) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDJt...

LMAO -- GOP Rep. French Hill is literally right now during a news conference touting the bipartisan housing bill and the president's support for it, unaware that Trump moments ago angrily announced he won't sign it

"Current policies incentivize all of us to push care downstream. This cascade is fundamentally unsustainable, as it concentrates care in the hands of those already overburdened." My latest for @rooseveltinstitute.org on neoliberalism's trickle-down of care: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Social Security is earned, not given. We paid into it our entire working lives. Speaker Johnson knows how unpopular cuts would be. That’s why these conversations happen behind closed doors instead of out in the open. We earned these benefits. We’ll fight to keep them. #HandsOffSocialSecurity

What in the world does this strange story have to do with AI, you ask? Turns out you shouldn't rely on AI "research" for, well, anything 🤨 The geniuses at Starbucks didn't bother to do their own research and so weren't aware they were designing an ad campaign For "Tank Mugs" in South Korea🧵

Meet Crumb, Button, and Clover. A friend in the Bay Area found them behind a gas station. Unfortunately, she isn't able to keep them, so if she can't find someone to adopt them, they will be going to a shelter. Can you help me find them a home? They are in good health and very tame.