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The reason given by non voters is belief Biden-Harris were tolerating genocide, a damned lie since Palestinians begged Americans to vote for her. She focused on affordability more clearly than Mamdani who is vague about HOW to do anything. Why would Congress endorse someone who ignored fascism?
Actually that's not the issue. His ideas are DEM ideas, no threats there. The issue is his willingness to encourage not voting for Harris and thus showing that fascism wasn't a deal breaker for him. THAT is a major concern. Nothing whitewashes tolerance of the hell we now have.
WHAT??? Abolishing DEI, telling even liberal churches they can't get FEMA grants for safety training unless they reject DEI and social justice work. Creating a state religion and that's LEFT of the Dems? NOTHING the fascist does is left of the Dems.
👍 Ali and the Troll are missing the massive sweep of Dem victories across the country in many states flipping red to blue in huge numbers. What happens locally is how DNC rolls. They don't decide whom to run. They fund local/state offices to do that, and it's working. TRUE grassroots democracy.
So? He's not head of DNC anymore. Of course he's stepped back.
Plus, Jaime Harrison is no longer the head of the DNC. So how are his posts the cause of depressing the base. When all else fails, they blame Black people who are the true base of the Democratic Party.
Thank you so much for this. I do get tired of the Dem bashing in the media when voters decided to give them no power. They’ll are doing all the can with the cards dealt. I’m glad Mr. Velshi acknowledged you and here’s hoping he hosts you on his show for the actual facts.
Congress people rarely endorse in mayoral races. When Mamdani actively worked against Harris, he made clear that fascism wasn't a deal breaker. So even if Jeffries were to endorse, why would he now? Why Mamdani who help deliver this fresh hell we're living? Good idea aren't enough today.
May you find the joy this pup has found. Good night.
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We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is. Serge King
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"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children." Native American Proverb
Used to eat at one weekly because I taught about 40 miles from home, and that was the only decent lunch place between home and campus. I spent a LOT of time looking at that "Precious Moments" stuff they sold and discovered tons of things I did not need. So that was that. Food's OK!
😂 I think you're onto something!
Cracker Barrel is bizarre(/bazaar)
Oh wow - I thought I WAS following you. Now I do! That's super. Thanks for the GREAT talk. And not even on phones! Good night! I'll head to bed soon, too. Sweet dreams!
We're in Sacramento. And yes, she has an account. Just look her up as Miss Aja. You won't be sorry. She's GREAT.
I'm a sucker for "dumb girl tries to get smart" movies like 1950s "Born Yesterday" w Judy Holliday. From the start I thought if she ever got some moxie and got educated, she might not be a bimbo anymore. Could happen?
JD's weaknesses my outdo his few strengths. He's nasty, doesn't really like anyone, and NOBODY likes HIM. He has no base, no followers, no nothing. Congress will be out from under the thrall of Trump but not IN JD's shadow. Game changer.
I guess. I admit because our house while small is oddly laid out, and hubs and I can't hear each other room to room. So recently I've started CALLING him rather than walking 20 feet. The lure of phones is real.
I gather Waffle Houses would be even more ripe for it--I heard of the Waffle House sign that the hurricane's REALLY serious when they finally send the servers home--but I've never been to one, not being in the right region
My one visit was odd. Driving back roads in SE TN and NW GA during a HUGE smoke event from Mexico. Gag worthy. We stopped for AC and food at a Waffle House only to find something had cremated on the grill. Worse inside than out. Food was good though. That was my only trip. I'm OK w that.
Nobody can argue with that. If one had to choose, that would be sensible. However, with BOTH of them, well ick.
I find that oddly charming. Maybe she is tired of the bimbo role and wants to learn a bit from him. Well, you never know. That's just kind of nice. Hope it helps her grow.
Oh check her OUT! She is freaking brilliant, also very funny. She is lovely to know in real life, too. She has some of the BEST commentary! She's a strong Black woman who wades social issue and policy waters with enormous skill. I always learn from her. She will link you to others equally fine!
The party has attracted really creepy people. It's no wonder when their private lives are so dysfunctional.
Miss Aja, if you follow her - she's amazing - did a letter writing campaign in a library. I went several times and had a blast. Yeah, the chairs were uncomfortable, but I had a grand time, good talk, and she provided SUPER food. That was great fun!
There are libraries. There are parks. Struggling. And libraries aren't always comfy esp in a back room where you don't have to shush, and parks, there's weather. and omg I went to a WeWork one time for a meetup. I HATED IT SO MUCH FLAMES ON THE SIDE OF MY FAAACE Kombucha on tap. Nuff said.
I've heard him here in videos, and he's powerful. Plus he and Warnock like each other, and it's palpable. They're a great team.
Well...what wouldn't??? But Denny's servers have seen it all and are ready to revolt if ANYONE is!
also I should say there's the LGBT center that has a cafe and also rooms; and city community/rec centers, there's at least one group I've attended meetings at my local. but not everywhere has those. They should!
it's also a question of--is rentier the right term here? well, again: physical places to just hang out, that you WANT to just hang out and aren't prohibitively expensive. the destruction of public spaces is very much a right wing project for a reason. in cities I just wish cafes stayed open
Went to Applebees (sue me; I like them) w older people there all laughing and talking. Four young people came in, sat down, never said a word, all on phones. Server took the order, gave it out, they ate, never said a word or put down the phones. Left. So...why BOTHER? 🙄
Hell - the servers would become the vanguard!
I think yes, but it'd be a bit sui generis, not a chain, in a city and it'd have to have committed and good-at-the-books owners. It's a good idea. In SF there is or was a nice fantasy/SF bookstore that had a cafe next store, with frequent author presentations and groups in the back, that was nice
Apparently by a journalist pointing out democrat flaws rather than GOP hypocrisy and flagrant bullshit.
Pundits and party operatives think we have to have a Great Man to lead us instead of what is actually happening. We are grabbing local power with both hands, resistance and voting. As the Music Man said, "Ya gotta know the territory". So DNC funds that to happen and leaves them alone. It works.
I'll jump back in. What he's doing is giving money so locals can decide who and what they want. They've flipped districts, won steadily, so something is working quite well. DNC doesn't direct locals. It funds them to direct themselves. Why the "great man theory of leadership" is old hat.
I'd far rather spend time/ally with progressive churchgoers than New Atheists. Reverend Warnock or Bill Maher? What to do, what to do.
Definitely Warnock for me! No cynicism, no preaching either. Solid commitment to justice and inclusiveness. And very funny to boot.
I wonder how long an "open late" cafe with all electronics but e-books banned would survive? Would people actually TALK with strangers? Used to have a coffee place w artists and cops that was remarkably social and welcoming. People DID talk to one another. Not sure why that worked so well but it did
I think also non religious folk--I mean this is an endemic issue, none of us can just snap fingers and solve it--are generally hurting for a lack of a (non online) third space. I'd love cafe society but everyone on their phones at Starbucks (closed at 7) is not gonna be the vibe.
That's a really good point. People hang onto congregations as community. We've tried "church without walls" that SORT of works, but having secular safe space w conversation and interaction is hard to find. Someone either wants you to draft an 'action plan' or has music that makes you gag. 🙄
JB Pritzker just dropped a bomb, saying that Trump is putting military in U.S. cities because he might aim to stop the election in Nov 2026. Pritzker, who's Jewish, compared it to how the Nazis came to power in Germany: "Donald Trump is just following that playbook."
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I had never thought of this- and it's creepy to contemplate!
They were and are incredibly powerful in upholding the lives and rights of their communities. I've worked w a lot of them on health care particularly, and they are powerhouses on issues like that. Civil rights, human rights, it doesn't matter. They are THERE. They are also great fun!
I'm so happy to see this discussion. It's become a strange world, indeed, when I am the one defending religion and going to church. Yet I do it a lot. Partly because I admire Black churches and the central role they've had for generations of people living with some hideous truths.
GOP Rep Chuck Edwards is confronted by infuriated constituents at his town hall.
The biggest news story in the news right now is that the president of the United States hasn't made a public appearance or spoken to the protective pool in four days and the White House is actively lying about his activities, yet no news organization is covering it.
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Brian’s long-deleted mocking of Joe when he signed the National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act sticks out egregiously for me, because CNN didn’t rehire him until *after* that incident. The funding’s been threatened like all medical funding has been. But that was particularly cruel & unnecessary.
Around 10 ICE agents showed up at Malcolm X Park to detain an unarmed man peacefully sitting on a bench. Wouldn't it be great to see them raking leaves instead of harassing innocent, harmless people and using the National Guard for free maintenance labor? What a total disgrace. #OnYourSide
What in the world was their pretext for arresting him? It is not illegal to sit on a park bench. He is not therefore obliged to ID himself. These bozos are identifiable and therefore suable.
Ex-U.S. ambassador Michael McFaul slammed Trump’s Ukraine strategy as “atrocious,” saying his push for talks while selling arms to Europe only emboldens Putin, who keeps expanding the war without consequences. www.rawstory.com/michael-mcfa...
I believe that.
Are Stelter & friends gonna mock him too or does that only happen when a Democratic President’s public medical records show he doesn’t have it & he signs a transformative law for Parkinson’s research thanks to the work of a Dem Rep forced into early retirement due to progressive supranuclear palsy?
My father had it for 60 years. We were so lucky he did so well. It appears the later you get it, the faster it progresses. I am very sorry for him and his family. Those who are lucky enough to enjoy good health should seriously STFU about others. It can happen to anyone.
That's tidy. No one can jam him now. He 'doesn't remember' why he stiffed his state. 🤦♀️
Rep. Tom Emmer said he couldn’t recall why he opposed a school safety bill after a Minnesota shooting, while blasting Gov. Walz for lacking school resources—even though Emmer opposed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act that funded school safety. www.rawstory.com/tom-emmer-sc...
Once she gets there, I'm sure Trump will introduce her all around. She will be the "smallpox in the blanket" gift from GB to the White House.
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If Democrats retake a chamber of Congress they should use investigatory powers to release the names of ICE officers so the public can shame them properly. At least the ones wearing masks
The shrill insistence that we, the Americans whose tax dollars pay these freaks' salaries, are not only not allowed to know who is carrying guns on our supposed behalf, but that we are a danger to society for asking -- this is one of MAGA's most disgusting claims. Unmask every ICE gunman.
From Ballymena to Bucharest, Europe’s Roma face firebombs, forced evictions & school segregation. This isn’t “public order.” It’s Europe’s oldest policy of exclusion. 📖 Read → www.citizenofeurope.com/europe-roma-... #RomaRights #StopAntiRomaHate #HumanRights #Europe #CitizenOfEurope
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Trump is turning US Park Police into lawless Gestapo www.thehandbasket.co/p/parks-offi...
LOL! Might be a good time to either go to bed or get off social media. But that DID make me laugh! Have a good night!
Damn. That's awful!
He looks better dead than Trump does still trodding on this side of the dirt.
I CANNOT BELIEVE HE SAID THAT TO YOU!!! OMG. 🤢 I am SO sorry he had the unmitigated nerve to say that. How utterly vile to say that to a BLACK WOMAN!
The unmitigated gall of these people to tell a Black woman, whose ancestral DNA is encoded to "create space for other people's suffering". 92% of us voted in the best interest of ourselves and others, including Gaza. And yet, they have the nerve to say shit like this to us?
Take care of yourselves. We are all very much needed. Goodnight. Thanks for the companionship.
Perfect fit! 😂 I adored our UU minister in Buffalo when we lived there. He had a delicious sense of humor. It was a fun place to be. Always was comfortable, and their choir was stunningly wonderful (not always true). Good folks.
Oh, Kristi - we were fine before and fine now. Portland, too. Minneapolis as well. NOBODY burned to the ground. Go away, silly airhead.
Make Racism Shameful Again. Stop the infection.
The problem with typing fast is I'm not that good a typist!
I grew up secular Jewish, experimented a bit with Buddhism and neo paganism and as progressive synagogues as I could find before deciding mostly I'm not feeling most of it; but then landed at UU.
UU used to be part of my organization, but we helped them spin off to their own. Mostly good folks though often very cranky people. My folks were UU so I remember that well! 😂
Well, that's because I misspelled it. Ernst Thalmann, 1930s head of the German KPD, the communist party. He would not oppose Hitler and said, "After Hitler, us." Then Hitler rounded them all up. Didn't work out well. And yet, this is the DSA policy! Burn it down. We will fix it. Oh, sure.
Well, this "pushing Dems Left" leaves me cold. I did CA single payer for 6 years w a superb Dem Senator. Arnold vetoed it each time. But it worked, just couldn't pay for it well. Every "left" person trying it elsewhere has failed. Bern's sucked BIG time. So...who's "left"? Smarts matter more.
Thanks! We thought so. Nice to have it from an authoritative source. Thanks, JC.
We'll see.
😂 Yeah - he should have gone with the shampoo dodge. No, I don't think Congress has ever endorsed mayoral.
Why? Can you tell us when that ever happened in civil rights, anti war, women's rights ANYTHING? That's what WE do, and their job is to secure the rights we win on the streets, put it in LAW to keep it for us. Oh, sure ceremonial marches for commemoration, but they don't have time to lead. WE do!
I do policy education and grassroots mobilization for a VERY liberal faith organization. Four denominations are historic Black Churches. Lived and worked in Black communities and learned a lot about their brilliant self-direction, but the Churches added layers to that!
Yeah it does piss me off that people keep saying Jeffries DID endorse Cuomo. I don't see that. I see him being pissy and Not Helping, mainly. I also think people are being entirely too bitches eating crackers over Jeffries, Schumer, and the Dems as a party and a lot of people are being played.
Agreed. He did not endorse anyone. I don't think he LIKES any of them.
When he speaks "God is on His Throne" it's a signal to remember that people will be strong enough for the fight. White people have to know the history to understand the message. Black Church isn't your passive white oppressive experience. Mmm. NOT at all!
Yep. That's something I've been hesitating to say but: yep. Contest. Schumer is a Jewish Boomer and yeah so is Sanders but Sanders is in frigging Vermont. Jeffries is Black, and a lot of people have been giving him shit for things they don't understand--"God's on His Throne" is *not* "be passive"
I keep urging lefties to watch Prof. Gates' "The Black Church" 2-part special on PBS. It's transformative. The Black Church was and is a liberation base. Only place Black people could learn to READ during slavery. It's not a passive, wimpy place. Oh, some, mostly POWERFUL! Led EVERY social movement.
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SERIOUSLY. That's very well said!
and I said basically the same thing, re her saying there were questions about whether getting rid of USAID "would" be worse, and like: lady. There's no "would." People are literally dying *right now* by the hundreds of thousands or more. If your ideology matters more than that, fuck your ideology.
It would SO help if people didn't demand elected officials do something they're not elected to do. Not one social movement has ever started or been led by legislators. They carry out legal changes to help us secure what we get on the streets. Now Dems are a minority and can't grow new things. VOTE!
I was with them in the 70s as DSoc. That was their goal from the start. It's the old Thalmass view: burn it down, we, DSA, will fix it. Yeah - 85,000 members, ZERO accomplishments anywhere, and yet THEY will 'save us'. 🤦♀️