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From our conversation, no one in that family was under the delusion that LIU stood any chance of winning. She was definitely proud of her boys and it was cool that circumstances aligned so that the dad got to be on the field with his son. #GoGators
Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
Tranya? They better use the right bathroom.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
My wife and I were talking with a mom who has a son on the LIU team and one who plays for Michigan. They went to Tampa Jesuit and their dad coaches for the Bucs. The dad got to be on the field with his boy today because the Bucs are off this weekend.
Yeah. Wonât Back Down is after We Are the Boys.
The Gators wonât back down.
At the game today! Go Gators!
Private concerts by Marty Balin at a friendâs home before he passed. My friend played lead guitar for, and Marty sang, for about 50 people at his home at his Christmas party. One year, as we were leaving, we passed Marty driving his plain, late-model minivan home. He was a regular guy.
"The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the worldâs leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism." Must read from @vermontgmg.bsky.social. Tell us again about our "shared values" with US, @albomp.bsky.social? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I think a defining dynamic of the 2020s, on both the center and the left, is an inability to just call bad things bad without inserting nuance to demonstrate your sophistication/independence/whatever else. Sometimes it's just important to call bad things bad.
Thesis: Trump is ticking off his authoritarian to do list quickly Antithesis: While Trump is *trying* to tick off his authoritarian to do list, he's not fully succeeding Synthesis: Each item on this check list is not a binary but a spectrum, and we're *way* too far down the spectrum for any comfort
This is such a no-brainer that the lack of a coordinated response feels deeply damning. A Democratic leadership team that can't mobilize an instant all-hands-on-deck effort on RFK Jr. isn't a leadership team at all.
House Democrats could force a vote on impeaching RFK any time they want. Of course it would fail. But do you want to make an issue of it or not?
RFK Jr is driving this country towards an almost certain public health disaster. If Democrats canât stop it, at the very least they can get it on the record now that they wanted him gone and the GOP wanted him kept in. Underline how they own the disasters to come. Itâs Politics 101.
Another banger of a thread from @editorialboard.bsky.social. IMO, we canât wait for Jeffries to get on board the âFight! Fight! Fight!â train. He and Schumer have failed the moment and their positions. But I also think we can do this without them. We have to sideline leaders who donât lead.
400,000!
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we donât acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
Elimination the de minimus exception âis making it harder and more expensive to, for example, buy vintage film cameras, retro video games, or vintage clothes from Japan, where many of the top eBay sellers are based.â @dieworkwear.bsky.social
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wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kidâs âmitochondrial challengesâ just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
#NationalParks
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Tom Clancyâs Kama Sutra
"WGBH, the bellwether public TV station in Boston, has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series âAmerican Experienceâ and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." đď¸ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...
they were eight and ten. Eight and ten. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
After the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, Pope Leo retweeted this from Senator Chris Murphy: âYour cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers.â
âDemonstrators seem to be part of the political world nowadays,â Collins said. âIt was interesting to see how much misinformation they had.â Sue is now deeply concerned about misinformation.
FDA is authorizing anybody with a risk factor from this list to receive the vaccines, as well as anybody 65+.
Fuck these Nazi scum www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
âViolent crime ⌠has declined 51 percent when measuring the year-over-year period since Trump issued his order Aug. 11.â WTF is this?
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IYNAYNPA* #NationalParks *If youâre not angry, youâre not paying attention.
This report is devastating: "There are no longer ranger-guided tours for school groups at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Park in Hodgenville, Ky., which the townâs mayor, James B. Phelps Jr., described as 'a vital education opportunity.'" #NationalParks www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Whatâs all this fuss I keep hearing about violins in television?
Constituent: You need to take your head out of Trumpâs ass.
Been having a lot of rain and the trees are foaming. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2022...
Itâs been wet here and the #fungus is everywhere.
Or, how the blind political hog found a strategic acorn.
Whatever it takes to light the fire.
Thatâs it! No more mail-in ballots anywhere!!
âSomething that Democrats and liberals generally, and I think it's even includes a lot of journalists, do when it comes to Republicans is they feel compelled to give them the benefit of the doubt.â Exactly why we need new Dem leaders, because Schumer & Jeffries canât stop giving them that benefit.
Those who are loyal to this phony king must be purged from government.
Indeed. But in the end, few recall precisely the days January 30 (when Hitler became Chancellor), February 27 (Reichstag fire), March 22 (Dachau opened), March 23 (Enabling Act passed)âthey just remember 1933. Likewise, everyone will remember 2025.
"many ... wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from 'democracy' to 'authoritarianism.' Instead, this is exactly how it happens â a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged. Then you wake up one morning and our country is different."
I always thought they opposed government taking without due process. 5th amendment, it was nice knowing you.
"Hey, we need a Republican to talk about how totally believable it is that an eyewitness to sexual assaults now insists they never saw anything wrong -- who should we get?"
You get a LOT of courtroom and just plain old life experience as an APD. Sink or swim. Always fighting uphill. The pain, the horror. The stupidity and the greed. It was quite the experience.
You could always be an assistant public defender and make even less money.
The only thing tough there was that course on his knees.
@schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please resign.
FWIW, "yours for the restoration of the Republic" was a common salutation American fascists gave to each other in the 1950s and 1960s. This is from a 1952 letter by Ohio white supremacist terrorist Peter Xavier. The rest of the rhetoric here might be familiar too.
Fake hues
â[T]his is what the 2028 Democratic presidential primary campaign should be about: who can demonstrate the greatest ability to use power effectively and aggressively to counter Trump and Trumpism.â
You donât want to do this. Lifeâs too short. Put the weapon down, @marisakabas.bsky.social, and dial 988!
Jesus, please every Democrat needs to use this language: courage, cowardice, freedom, justice, competition and cheating, and the roots of it all, racism.
The Democrats have the moral high ground â if they have the words to take it and if they have the will to.
Ann Johnson is different from Democrats like Schumer in that she has no hope in the Republicans acting in good faith. She expects them to be their worst selves and treats them accordingly. Schumer always hopes to see evil men act in good conscience and heâs blindsided every time.
Itâs about racism and pretending itâs not about racism will not magically erase the racism
"Garlandâs protection of the DOJ did nothing but preserve that institution long enough for Trump to return to power and weaponize it against political opponents. It was a profound failure that our democracy will be lucky to recover from."
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
that the phrases âintentionally destroying the economyâ and âworst economic president of our lifetimesâ arent being said everywhere right now by dem politicians makes my head want to explode
No one will ever trust the US government again. Nor should they. Take a bow, Mr. Putin; the long game worked ⌠and Trump sold us out.
I look back on the Bicentennial with fond memories. I remember a feeling of national pride. I look forward to the Semiquincentennial with a sense of dread and embarrassment.
The History Museums We Need Right Now đď¸ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Another read is not that SCOTUS is shy about confronting Trump but that they're basically on board with his project but would be embarrassed about the legal arguments they'd have to make if they upheld his actions on the merits, so they find procedural means to let him get his way.
Touch one of their reeds and holy hell do they (my sister,at least) go apeshit.
That was me. My sister played the oboe.
Count de Monet: My Lord, you look just like the piss-boy! King Louis XVI: And you look like a bucket of shit!
"If Trump were as good a dealmaker as he claims to be, he would be focusing far more on exploiting Russiaâs weaknesses, than on basking in the chumminess of his KGB-trained counterpart, which is nothing more than deception." A fine piece from @EliotACohen www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
"J Michael Luttig, who served on a federal appeals court for 15 years, put the criticism starkly. 'The chief justice is presiding over the end of the rule of law in America,' Luttig told the Guardian." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Salty: Name and nature.
Frank Caprio Sr., a municipal judge in Providence, Rhode Island, has died at 88. He became a social media star for courtroom videos that exemplified empathy on the bench, and he became known far beyond the state because of his nationally syndicated television show.
As you can imagine, I'm not in the mood to hear Dems who believe the lies told by their enemies about them â not when inflation would be down, interest rates would be lower, housing would be more affordable, there would be no tariffs, and I would still have healthcare had Kamala Harris been elected.
What is that you want to loudly say and do?
Same!
I am so very, very relieved.
"I don't have to talk to you. Can I leave?" That's it, wait, repeat no matter what else they say. other variations "I got nothin to say, can I leave?" "I don't know, can I leave?" "I'll talk to my lawyer, can I leave?" "(glares silently) can I leave?"
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Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
27. He who can destroy a thing controls it. So Trump *chooses* weakness. And the rest of his party follows. www.editorialboard.com/graham-hopes...
yes! and: it's important to remember that the reason you are doing that is not necessarily because those kinds of words, or a video at all, have power over these people the reason to do it is because those words are likely to have the intended effects of keeping you safe while protecting others
Congrats. I guess itâs now safe to ask how the manuscript is going?
If he were talking about the actual DNC he would have a valid point.
It's amazing Republicans are willing to support peace through defeat rather than peace through victory. America is unrivaled in its military and diplomatic might. We could end this war by arming Ukraine to the teeth, greenlighting Ukraine's entry to NATO, and so on. But the GOP chooses weakness.
Restoration of funding for #NationalParks is only the beginning of whatâs needed to course correct.
Here is an image of the crowd of people that chased a dozen ICE agents out of Columbia Heights yesterday. I donât see one âelderly white hippieâ there. I do see a wide variety of ages, genders, and races; DC residents united in disgust at what Miller is cheering on.
"There is no spending police that can force the Department of Ed. to follow the law." Which, hoo boy, is a sentence. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
Can't leave Moraine Lake without climbing the stairs to the top of the Rockpile for the view! But one warning: it's crowded. Banff National Park #nationalparks #lakes #mountains #Canada #parkchat #scenery
If this is what your God wants, fuck your God. He is unworthy of worship.
If there's a problem with how the Smithsonian deals with slavery, it's that it doesn't come anywhere close to conveying "how bad [it] was." Hard to imagine how any museum possibly could.
