People like Maher are taking all the sting out of terms like “communist”. I’m older than he is and he seems antiquated to me. And badly read, can’t forget that.
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People like Maher are taking all the sting out of terms like “communist”. I’m older than he is and he seems antiquated to me. And badly read, can’t forget that.
Love the quote from Jim Hightower (armadillos)
Yes! I followed you for this @stuartpstevens.bsky.social
FBI why isn’t this a terrorist threat?
Please post a cat or other pet photo. Keep the Brooke entry tax alive!
You are right. And history doesn’t start post WW2. There were many periods of doubt and distrust before that.
Don’t pretend elections with prescribed parties are democratic
Might be the funniest thing I’ve read in weeks
🚨 While kids in MN were gunned down at school, Rep. John James starred in a gun-fetish video with right-wing tabloid Michigan Enjoyer. Spraying bullets & “joking” that K-12 kids need weapons training. Guns are the #1 killer of kids in America—and James thinks it’s funny. No wonder they deleted it. 👇
🧊🖕🪖 TERRORIZING KIDS 😲 Schoolkids in DC ride free on Metro, and a lot of them use this benefit to commute to school. They're talking about the soldiers they're seeing at the stations, and the rumor is that if you so much as eat a snack on the train, they will grab you and deport you. ✊ FREE DC!
@repmikejohnson.bsky.social as my mother used to say: clean your own house first. You lying fascist. (Yes she would have said that too)
@npr.org it means: fascism.
For several days, Bluesky won't stop banning the accounts of Joy from Gaza. She did nothing wrong, at all. Joy is a writer. Her account and her voice are important, her words are powerful. We need to still look at her, to still hear her. @joyfromghazza.bsky.social , @joybskyacc.bsky.social
"end run around Congress' funding power" is quite the euphemism for "blatantly unconstitutional."
HAPPENING NOW 🚀: MASSIVE Anti-Trump march on Wall Street in NYC! Led by Sharpton, Zohran Mamdani & MLK III Date: 8/28/2025
I’ll give you a trend: it’s men. Count RW as a woman , I would, and it’s still men.
No one voted for this.
Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.
old enough to remember the breathless litigation over whether or not it was credible that the IDF may have possibly bombed 1 (one) hospital
The right way
the thing that's so fucking infuriating about this is how much more that matters for the bottom 10% $1200 can be life or death at that level of income top 10%? $13K is nice, to be sure, but it's "maybe we'll take another vacation" nice not "oh good now we can afford to eat this month"
Vance is truly a man who has sold his soul.
America’s leading physician groups are now openly defying RFK Jr. www.vox.com/health/45922...
So the regime is going after the Native Americans again. The White Man have been fucking the Native Americans over, since Mayflower.
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
However evil you think this is, it’s worse: “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
They are evil. Fucking evil.
HOLDING STRONG: As more people realize greedy corporations are screwing us all, a new poll shows that an astounding 68% of U.S. adults approve of labor unions. This is the fifth consecutive year in the 67% to 71% range, a level last reached in the late 1950s and early 1960s. #SolidaritySeason
The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly barring states and organizations that receive government funds from helping undocumented immigrants. This will make it harder for the most vulnerable people to get help in the aftermath of disasters. It was always about cruelty.
Every charge made by the agents of this administration is a lie.
Brava for refusing to step down. Made them fire her.
Why is that good?
There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.
His death will not solve our problems. Quite possibly it will exacerbate them.
Tsvi Yehezkel, chief commentator of Israel’s i24 channel, openly called for the killing of all journalists in the Gaza Strip: “If Israel has indeed decided to eliminate the journalists, then it’s better late than never."
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
Umm, Desert Veteran, it’s also bigotry.
theonion.com/former-japan...
I wrote about the manifestly illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/in-the-mat...
"Everybody else in the entire world ... (is) watching out there, because they understand history, and they're seeing what happened with Franco ... they're seeing what happened with Hitler — this is how it's done. ... It's time for Americans to wake up. This is serious."
People keep telling me to wait for the next election & I genuinely think this reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of what’s happening. What we are experiencing is fascist state capture by a fascist political party, one destroying institutions, civil liberties, & the rule of law.
"This means that [Trump's administration] views what they're doing at the DOJ, in terms of who they select to prosecute, as something that is White House policy. ... This is not the way America has conducted prosecutions ever. The cause of justice has to be independent of politics."
today a UN body announced famine is in Gaza. this oped from New Disabled South connects US funding of Israel's starvation campaign to Trump's BBB cutting SNAP as fundamentally American. "The U.S. allegedly has no money to feed its children or the world’s children, but has plenty of money for war."
A little on the nose for someone who was famously accused of plagiarism
Jakob Engel-Schmidt told the Guardian: “In the bill we agree & are sending an unequivocal message that everybody has the right to their own body, their own voice and their own facial features, which is apparently not how the current law is protecting people against generative AI.”
The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off
Texas AG Ken Paxton committed mortgage fraud, according to documents filed in his divorce proceedings. Not a single GOP member has called for his resignation or for him to be fired.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s fight is our fight. Trump’s regime uses deportation as a weapon to punish dissent & terrorize families. If they come for one, they come for all. Stand up, speak out, resist. #FreeKilmar social.demcast.com/s/8CPcuYJF
Every. Single. ICE agent. Every. Single. DHS agent. At Nuremberg. Every. Single. One.
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.
Chicago ain't having it.
I know. Is it time for active sabotage? Where and how? For blue states to withhold surplus funds from red states?(we know who’ll suffer)
Pritzker: “to trump officials who are complicit in this scheme, to public servants who have forsaken their oath to the Constitution to serve the petty whims of an arrogant little man, to any federal official who would come to incite my people into violence…We’re taking names!”.
Pritzker is a straightforward Midwestern antifascist. I’m in love.
What's making me pull my hair out is that Shor isn't even a data "scientist." He started on the 2012 Obama campaign as a 20-year-old, got assigned to the quantitative team, then started referring to himself as a "data guru." Zero formal education in methodology, survey design or policy analysis.
I’m no supporter of Harris but he’s right.
The logic of opposing AI for ecological reasons is simple. We have too many roads and not enough mass transit. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t oppose more roads. We should. AI isn’t the only energy glutton but we don’t need more.
You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption. “We” is more important here.
"whether he illegally shared or possessed classified information"
Illinois tells Bondi that its sanctuary status stands firm.
Horrifying
Krugman: AI is increasing demand for electricity while Trump is decreasing supply. I vaguely remember from an Econ class what happens in that situation
"I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. we are." -JB Pritzker youtu.be/WN1c6mCitIk?...
No shit. I have this fantasy of going into churches and standing up and calling them out. I should be braver.
Not helpful but find the obscure ones. I ate a great orange apple in the Netherlands. I did find one called Pennsylvania Liberty that rocked. But tbh give me a peach. Or a mango.
Whiteness, straightness, the world in their image not a divine one
Also what’s with all the men?
American fascists and their apologists made up that "democracy" means "a vote took place." Doesn't have to be free and fair, nor follow laws. It's the new "we're a republic, not a democracy," which is merely an excuse for minority rule. Every country with elected representatives is a republic.
And dog
It’s remarkable how much energy this paper expends to avoid writing “racist.”
Trump's going to let his liege Vladimir Putin attack American factories with no response now too. kyivindependent.com/russian-atta...
Oregon faculty ask that we sign and share widely. actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...
A week before the semester starts, Columbia University is replacing its unionized graduate student TAs with non-unionized adjuncts. This comes as Columbia sold itself out to the fascists, and the unions were mulling a strike. Any adjunct who takes a class there right now is a scab.
Have you heard about the 2 TX Billionaires controlling the state government?
Not just him. They have killed all they can from Shireen Abu Akleh on. It is a perverse admission of guilt
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
Fascism is expensive
The Haitian Revolution began on this day in 1791. It became a tremendous symbol of hope for slaves throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States — and one of tremulous fear for their masters.
Was it Herr’s?
this isn't an intervention, it's an occupation
This is the issue! The Texas legislature pushed their plan through AGAINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. I hate it here.
Ossoff: "There is at some point is going to be a reckoning for all of this. These folks who are working at these private prison companies who are on Kristi Noem's staff right now, they are at some point going to have to testify under oath about what is happening in the facilities they're running."
Three new gas plants for a Meta AI data center.
ANY VETERANS, WHO JOIN ICE IS AN TRAITOR, TO THEIR OATH TO THE CONSTITUTION & TO DEMOCRACY!! The Secretary of Veterans Affairs is an asshole for allowing this to happen. Who are they going to hire? Unhinged veterans, who have a history of violence.
Or undesirable at this point
“Those of you who feel like this is okay, get ready for the fight. Because the fight ain’t over. It’s not over until we’ve energized America to save Democracy.”
"I must admit: I write this piece while starving – too hungry to think clearly, too weak to sit upright for long." a haunting account of a starving Palestinian academic in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
They’ve tried to erase us for centuries. Didn’t work then, won’t work now. Black history IS American history.
Critical to remake a party that has lost its way
It’s important that Mamdani win, by a lot, so that the establishment Dems can cry in their beer about how all they accomplished was driving a stake through the heart of the notion that their endorsements matter
The subrising. Iconic. “Sandwich imagery has made it into signs at protests (“These condiments don’t run!”), & social media…(“Don’t Bread on Me” atop the traditional yellow Gadsden flag long used by conservatives who oppose big gov).“ 51st.news/the-subrisin... @maustermuhle.bsky.social @51st.news
Heads up, @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com @latimes.com -- here's how to inform your readers with a headline, and make them want to click for the details. Fist bump to @bostonglobe.com and thanks to @sulliview.bsky.social for spotlighting media normalization of Trump
Yes!
The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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