“I refuse to accept this is normal.” - JB Pritzker. Amen, governor. Amen.
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“I refuse to accept this is normal.” - JB Pritzker. Amen, governor. Amen.
Holy smokes This is the crowd at the Bernie Sanders/Graham Platner Fighting Oligarchy event in Portland, ME tonight Platner is the oyster farmer challenging Susan Collins; Senate seat👇 Overwhelming turnout! I feel like maybe Susan's number is finally up ..
Words are magic
Sooooo True... 👍
Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
#SeaScrolling #Breathe
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, I’m like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.
SPOTTED: Mobile billboards driving around D.C. demanding federal agents take their masks off — because public servants should face the public. Go follow @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social!
The president is busy, of course. He is frequently late and it can’t be avoided. But I would expect for this they’d try to keep it to five or ten minutes. They’re a bunch of clowns and amateurs.
RFK is a singularly horrible & bizarre person, but he is able to exploit the culture's ableism for his eugenicist plans, the revival of ableist language that had once been banished is part of it, because this language is used to justify real life brutality against us & that's its historical root.
#Seaweed farms are a dual solution for climate change & sustainable energy. - don't require freshwater, fertilizer, or arable land to grow, making it one of the most eco-friendly resources - naturally absorbs massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis helping 1/...
I’ll be going live with an Illinoisan who is aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian flotilla trying to break Israel’s siege of Gaza to deliver life-saving aid. Join on Instagram at 3 PM CT: www.instagram.com/kabughazaleh
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
It’s odd that the president would need to give an Oval Office address about something as arbitrary (albeit idiotic) as moving Space Force or renaming the DoD. I have to assume he’s doing it because he knows the world thinks he’s hiding.
Prolific native actor Graham Greene has died after a long illness. He was nominated for his role as Kicking Bird in Dances With Wolves. I was always pleased to find him in a movie.
BREAKING: The Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges. This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two. Every day, we inch closer to fascism.
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.
😎🌵🪴 obviously Hegseth is having a good day if his shoes are on the right feet and his pants are zipped. Military lawyers are NOT qualified to judge www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
A great way to prove to people that you're not dead is to hold an event and then be late so people have lots of time to speculate about how your team might be working to reanimate you.
Furries against fascism! At the Chicago Labor Day rally and march #chicago
Kennedy must be removed from office. He has already caused a catastrophe at HHS and the CDC. I strongly suspect that he is about to use data manipulated by unscrupulous and unqualified individuals to attempt to falsely show that vaccines are in some way a net harm. He simply must be stopped.
Margaret Atwood is taking aim at Alberta's controversial ban on school library books containing sexual content with a new, satirical short story after the famed author's novel "The Handmaid's Tale" was yanked from some shelves due to the province's sweeping new rules. globalnews.ca/news/1135817...
something something two weeks tremendous never seen anything like it huge many people saying
🚨BREAKING: Federal court STRIKES DOWN down new South Dakota law imposing a nine-month deadline to file ballot measures declaring it unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Congrats to Dakotans for Health and their legal team! www.democracydocket.com/cases/south-...
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
#writingcommunity Another teaser from the WIP. "When people are determined to save the world, logic doesn’t enter into it and I guess that’s why people occasionally succeed at it. We need more of them and the rest of us should just get the fuck out of their way and let them do it."
Liked Graham Greene in everything I ever saw him in, which was a lot. Stole almost every scene he was ever in. Great humour and gravitas. Game-changing career. RIP. #GrahamGreene
We want to give a big shout-out to Palm Beach Gardens, New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Houston, Albuquerque, Cleveland, and Greensboro! Thank you for showing up today and making your voices heard! 💚✊
I just saw an article that said a CEO that stole a hat from a kid at a tennis event was the most hated man in America. I feel like that's forgeting someone.
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
Heaven forbid that the big Canadian grocery chains are penalized for lying to Canadians...... @mark-carney.bsky.social @liberalca.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
Medicare for all. Paid leave. Universal childcare. Break up corporate monopolies. Take on Wall Street greed. Get big money out of politics. Support unions. Raise wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda.
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Hey GOP: You are killing the economy with your policies you dumba**es. Who do you think is going to pay your rent and buy your goods after you wreck the economy? The Middle Class literally supports you and your yachting lifestyle and you are crushing us. Wake TF up.
Way to rise up San Diego Labor Day ✊
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
Assuming he's sick, l just pray he follows the medical advice of "one of the world's foremost voices, advocates and experts on public health," RFK Jr.
Thank you on this labor day!!
This Wednesday..... let the truth come out....
Is it any surprise RFK Jr is a threat to public health? Look at the lifestyle he’s lived …… his brain was eaten by a worm…. Let’s be serious.
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Dead, alive, or hiding — doesn’t matter. Release the Epstein files.
It’s still early, but pretty good turnout so far for Bernie Sanders and Graham Platner’s (running against Susan Collins) rally here in Maine today.
This flower is called "Queen of the Night." It blossoms only at night once a year.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social let’s work with Washington and Oregon to create a similar system for the Best Coast!
We dumped a president for being too old only to elect one who immediately died. You can't say that's not funny
How will you feel when you wake up one day and learn that he died overnight by choking on a hot dog? 🌭
They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.
Sometime between the fall of 1963 and the late summer of 1964, the actor and photographer Dennis Hopper stopped at an intersection in L.A., took out his Nikon, and made history.
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Mueller, the former FBI director and special counsel, had been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee as part of an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Happy Labor Day to the union workers who built America’s middle class.
I told you guys he was dead. He just doesn't know it yet...
I didn’t really need more evidence that RFK Jr is nuts and delusional.
Hey Congress – make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
It is really irksome that the Jan 6 traitors, now that they got their very expansive pardons, want financial compensation from the US taxpayer! Fuck that!!!
Austin Labor Day: really catchy music and great energy! Really love the vibe!
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
How about God Bless all nations?
What Makes Picasso’s Guernica a Great Painting?: Explore the Anti-Fascist Mural That Became a Worldwide Anti-War Symbol www.openculture.com/2025/09/what...
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Causing a Führer
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”
There are 79 working days left in 2025. If you write 1 1/2 pages a day, every working day, you can finish a script before New Years. If you write 3 pages a day, you could complete a novel. 1000 words a day, roughly 4 pages, and you could write three scripts. A page at a time comes together quickly
ICE procurement activity since August 22, totaling ~$19M. Companies highlighted in yellow are new to the "Who's Profiting from ICE?" map, available here: bit.ly/3TgUZEq Source: USAspending.gov
DEVELOPING: ICE agents in Los Angeles are nothing but state-sanctioned thugs. One sprinted from behind a fence, tackled a protester, and the pack unloaded on bystanders with “less lethal” rounds. Then they dragged him across 4 lanes of traffic like prey. This is organized brutality.
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
I love how music transcends not only every human but every species. That’s why I love all musicians because they share a message that resonates with every living being on this planet.
Happy to report Toms River, NJ, dropped plan to condemn Episcopal church to prevent them from building homeless shelter, after combination of public opposition and threatened legal challenges by Institute for Justice, PLF, and the Becket Fund: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
I was at a prof. sporting event at the Navy Yard in D.C. today. Passed multiple Nat. Grd. members fully kitted out with long arms. It wasn't "normal" as we've been doing this for years. It felt dystopian. It's NOT supposed to be like this in the U.S. I was federal law enforcement. This isn't OK.
9 Former CDC Directors who were all qualified for their posts are warning that deranged chaos agent RFK Jr is a danger to public health. I’d say he’s actively destroying public health and committing murder on a daily basis with his destructive monstrous agenda.
Ditto.
Today's a good day to learn Colbert found a new job. Hope it's a good one for everybody! #HappyLaborDay
Reminder as kids head back to school next week: There are over 4800 schools in Ontario. We do not know the indoor air quality status in any of them. #OntEd #OnPoli
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
"The contracting utilities will pay for this pipeline capacity every month and every year for 20 years, regardless of how much gas they actually use for power burn. These costs are passed directly to ratepayers."
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean