Sarah H
@sehackney.bsky.social
Food & farms grassroots organizing by day, cultural ephemera all the time.
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What would Alito and Thomas not agree to if Trump proposed it? Is there any line?
BREAKING: SCOTUS denies the Trump administration’s request to enforce the new U.S. Postal Service rule for the 2026 elections. Justices Alito and Thomas dissent.
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![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 26A305
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, ET AL. U.
CALIFORNIA, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[September 14, 2026]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is denied. The Government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the District Court's preliminary injunction. And the equitable factors applicable for obtaining emergency relief from this Court do not favor a stay.
JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, concurring.
In my view, based on the briefing the Court has received at this interim stage, there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service's statutory authority. See 39 U. S. C. §401(2). But applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections. See 39
U. S. C. §3001(m); 5 U. S. C. §706(2)(A). For that reason, I concur in the denial of the application for stay.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreicqn5lewxb2bkaazujt77bmsjfq4ultwu2alo3emhvgsnpkotnwoy)
September 15, 2026 at 12:01 AM
What would Alito and Thomas not agree to if Trump proposed it? Is there any line?
This is so good. "Now that we are here together, carrying all of this—our dead, our histories, our disappointments, our anger, our attachments, our grief—how are we going to take care of one another and endure what comes next?"
Something has really bothered me about the Gloria Steinem discourse—something that's not really about Gloria Steinem. So, I wrote about it.
Grief Is Not a Verdict: This Is Not Really an Essay About Gloria Steinem
We grieve the worlds we’ve known and what it felt like to live in them.
organizingmythoughts.org
September 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM
This is so good. "Now that we are here together, carrying all of this—our dead, our histories, our disappointments, our anger, our attachments, our grief—how are we going to take care of one another and endure what comes next?"
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Reading and listening to Tressie McMillan Cottom is always worth the time. So smart about how we are not creating/replacing the things that make possible the new brilliance that might replace what we've lost with the deaths of Dolly and Prince (and others). Worth a trip over to IG for a listen.
I dropped in very quickly to my Instagram stories with the first draft of my thoughts. Tl;dr is there multiple forms of grief.
I’ll be on MSNBC at about 8 o’clock tonight, if you’re into that kind of thing.
I’ll be on MSNBC at about 8 o’clock tonight, if you’re into that kind of thing.
August 25, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Reading and listening to Tressie McMillan Cottom is always worth the time. So smart about how we are not creating/replacing the things that make possible the new brilliance that might replace what we've lost with the deaths of Dolly and Prince (and others). Worth a trip over to IG for a listen.
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Whenever I’m down I watch this video of Dolly Parton joining Kenny Rogers during their joint 1985 tour. The crowd pop when she comes onstage mid-song is unlike anything I’ve ever heard.
We Got Tonight - Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers live 1985
YouTube video by dollyabba
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August 25, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Whenever I’m down I watch this video of Dolly Parton joining Kenny Rogers during their joint 1985 tour. The crowd pop when she comes onstage mid-song is unlike anything I’ve ever heard.
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🚨 Kentucky has announced the finalists in its "I Voted" sticker contest. 🚨
Per the Secretary of State: Kentuckians can vote for their favorite sticker at the SOS's booth at the State Fair from August 20-30.
Per the Secretary of State: Kentuckians can vote for their favorite sticker at the SOS's booth at the State Fair from August 20-30.
August 20, 2026 at 1:45 PM
🚨 Kentucky has announced the finalists in its "I Voted" sticker contest. 🚨
Per the Secretary of State: Kentuckians can vote for their favorite sticker at the SOS's booth at the State Fair from August 20-30.
Per the Secretary of State: Kentuckians can vote for their favorite sticker at the SOS's booth at the State Fair from August 20-30.
July 29, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP.
www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
July 21, 2026 at 4:24 PM
🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP.
www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
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here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.
you know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport
June 30, 2026 at 9:37 PM
here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.
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Jalen Brunson: “You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.”
A good mantra for fighting fascism too.
A good mantra for fighting fascism too.
June 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Jalen Brunson: “You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.”
A good mantra for fighting fascism too.
A good mantra for fighting fascism too.
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Farm bankruptcies spiked 46% in 2025.
Brooke Rollins: "Farmers are moving into hopefully what will be a golden age under this president"
May 7, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Farm bankruptcies spiked 46% in 2025.
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One indication of congressional atrophy is that people turn to SCOTUS for the thing we should but don't get from Congress: an actual public debate on an important policy issue. Which of course isn't supposed to be a legislative debate, but we've stopped having any actual legislative debates.
April 1, 2026 at 2:06 PM
One indication of congressional atrophy is that people turn to SCOTUS for the thing we should but don't get from Congress: an actual public debate on an important policy issue. Which of course isn't supposed to be a legislative debate, but we've stopped having any actual legislative debates.
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They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...
Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.
Big change for California small businesses: No more SBA loans for non-citizens
Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.
bit.ly
March 31, 2026 at 11:28 AM
They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...
Man I love a great lede.
Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.
March 26, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Man I love a great lede.
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If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.
Stephen Miller: "The human rights that we are gonna protect are not of the savages that torture and rape and murder. The human rights we are going to protect are of the peaceable citizens who have an absolute human right to live in physical safety and security every day of their lives."
March 5, 2026 at 3:04 PM
If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.
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Good morning! Yes, this is he
March 4, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Good morning! Yes, this is he
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In the past, sometimes presidents have said it’s just a military operation or limited airstrikes to skirt Congress. Trump has unilaterally launched major combat operations, declaring war with the goal of regime change. A major violation of the U.S. Constitution, also illegal under international law
February 28, 2026 at 8:46 AM
In the past, sometimes presidents have said it’s just a military operation or limited airstrikes to skirt Congress. Trump has unilaterally launched major combat operations, declaring war with the goal of regime change. A major violation of the U.S. Constitution, also illegal under international law
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“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
February 28, 2026 at 12:03 PM
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
New: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray and HR Chief Wayne Connell tell employees to stay home for a zoom webinar ahead of “significant actions across the company.” Widely expected layoffs are scheduled to begin today.
February 4, 2026 at 11:53 AM
I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
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Wrote myself a pep talk to get back to work tomorrow. It helped me. Hope it helps you.
I don't know how to do this
But I'm going to keep doing it anyway.
heated.world
January 26, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Wrote myself a pep talk to get back to work tomorrow. It helped me. Hope it helps you.
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Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
January 25, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
January 23, 2026 at 10:20 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
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Everyone in America should have to see these cases and think about what they mean for the kind of society we are becoming. They killed a mom in her minivan. And now they have grabbed this poor sweet kid, used him as bait to grab his dad, and sent him to a detention center in Texas.
January 22, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Everyone in America should have to see these cases and think about what they mean for the kind of society we are becoming. They killed a mom in her minivan. And now they have grabbed this poor sweet kid, used him as bait to grab his dad, and sent him to a detention center in Texas.
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The inevitability of AI is now under threat from no one wanting to use it.
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:14 PM
The inevitability of AI is now under threat from no one wanting to use it.
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just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
January 11, 2026 at 1:59 PM