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There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
"knowing casino" is kind of an overstatement since they all went bankrupt but I'm not about to break the rule of 3's maybe sub "divorce" for "casino"?
When you only know casino, hotel, and golf club
Why are you elevating Sanders to chief Democratic strategist?No else is talking about this interview bc it's irrelevant. Bernie has some good issue framing, and some serious blind spots. But his direct influence on Dem messaging and policy peaked in 2020.
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Perfect - thank you!
Yes, precisely, how is Sanders' view of the 2024 election relevant today? Why does this erroneous retelling need a correction? Is Sanders about to pass sweeping economic policies? Any policies at all? How does this help anti-Trump folks defeat Trump?
When you're definitely still alive
Hi did you move your newsletter away from substack? drop it in the replies so people can find you and subscribe! I am big on rewarding good choices
Can you share more about the folks organizing the counter protest?
🚨WALTHAM MA ACTION ALERT🚨 Two TERF orgs "MA for Women" and "DIAG" are hosting a "gender critical pie social" at the local VFW 623 Trapelo Road, Waltham Sunday 9/7. Please join us in a counter-protest at 12:30PM to make it clear:::::🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ TERFs are not welcome in Waltham!🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Not really living up to the lofty Lincoln Square dot com header: "Where facts, experts, fearless media, and the ferocious opposition meet. We're fighting back against the American autocratic movement and fighting forward to create the America we all deserve. Join us."
How is this relevant? Are Sanders' economic policies about to be implemented? @lincolnsquare.media who is this for? How is it fighting Trump and the GOP? Is the point of the Lincoln Project, and affiliates like Lincoln Square, to stop Trump? Or to fragment the not-Trump coalition?
Sure, but there's no shortage of popular policies, with good long-term results. The information environment is continuing to degrade, while many institutions are trying to wait out fasciam. Courage and truth are in short supply.
That's a great piece Folks use #bg3 and similar hashtags for BG3 art, maybe try those?
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
Harris's actual policy positions were popular, but very few voters knew what those were. Trump's mostly false statements about Harris were better circulated, and much better known. Good thread+article on this ⬇️
Reading In the Garden of Beasts, about Americans in early 1933 Berlin, and the parallels are everywhere
At the risk of being annoying, please add Alt text to your photos and images, for accessibility and (text search indexing) discoverability. More on this manningkrull.com/digital-phil...
IRS direct filing is a great idea, but it doesn't go far enough. How about this? On or before 3/1, the IRS sends their calc. If you do nothing, that's your filing on 4/15, and they send you a bill or check. If you file on time, your filing gets used. If you're late but unhappy, you can appeal.
This used to be a 75 kb executable with zero dependencies. Simple and quick and impossible to screw up. And yet
Idiots. I love that feature and AFAIK most cars let you turn it off?
People are starving for community - any smart campaign will create a fun, welcoming community
Absolutely - people come out for the candidate but they come back for the community. Zohran and his organizers are building community, which creates field capacity, which supports voter ID/persuasion/GOTV. If the stars align, the local party committees and hierarchies will change too.
Reminds me of a similarly pointless hypothetical www.vice.com/en/article/c...
I think the implicit question is "Are you a pragmatic realist (like me) or are you a dumb ideologue?" Condescending, at best. Surely Mark Cuban has more interesting things to say than the edgelords and fascists on X?
"cot of fornication, never used"
I imagine there's a big subset of GenX USians who would freak out at a 1950's McDonalds Classic makeover, because it's never been part of their lived experience change = bad
The Chemical Brothers put out For That Beautiful Feeling in 2023 and I'm just listening to it now. It's awesome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP3g...
Whew. At least they didn't take anyone's guns.
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FYI Natalie Alms is active here (laudatory) bsky.app/profile/alms...
Truly impressive effectiveness from CA Dems. Need more like this.
Every single person who thinks a trans person should just pipe down until we restore democracy is, in my view, an enemy of democracy. I’m not doing it.
Props to @dianainitiative.bsky.social for running a fully-masked infosec conference at UNLV this month www.dianainitiative.org/annual-event...
Ha ha I can smell it from here
Microsoft is ending volume discounts on many enterprise services, raising prices for big accounts Alphabet/Google will probably follow suit. Meta sells ads - hard to say what changes there? Stock market fall of the highest valued corps crashing seems like the biggest problem for most people.
Losses to AI investments are massive, and big tech will need a new future-profit story. Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet and especially nVidia share values will plummet.
And corn based alcohol like bourbon
hey cville: it would be great if a lot of us could show up at this event to ask the district if now is really the time to spend half a million dollars putting armed police in our schools! charlottesvilleschools.org/sros
People of the Boston area! If you're around Tufts on September 24, I'd love to see you come out to this talk, which will be open to the public.
Nobody ever pays protection money only once. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
Throwing some dollars to Chrissy because **** Substack
This is my favorite PC gamer series. There's usually a ~5 year gap between my gaming PC builds, and I always go to the latest Ars system guide. They help me catch up and start my (excessive) part selection process.
This is fantastic and made me tear up unexpectedly at several points because the campaign is so clearly, explicitly, tapping in to what could be the cure for so many ills beginning (but not ending) with the Dem's terminal consultant-brain. defector.com/selling-zohran
Energy Healing Conservative for the win
Person who has friends everywhere ⬇️
More bold vision and leadership from Dan McKee.
Great stuff - thank you for this
This is a real concern. And I suspect long-term under-staffing and recent budget shocks will make it challenging to use infosec for mass surveillance. Of course, if there is new funding for surveillance, everything will change.
Aside from the multiplication, it was a very good post
Regular human contact, visible and audible community. Density. "Walking" is very good but "not driving" is equally important.
Blanca is free!
The article - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - calls for a more consistent Left populism, popular with many voting blocs, like younger and infrequent voters. "Corporate" dollars are easy to raise. if we believe in the things we say, Dems have to fight for the poor and marginalized.
Fealty to the wealthiest Americans is bad for Democrats, it conflicts with most Dem policies and beliefs. The fact that personal wealth wasn't an electoral problem for Trump is a separate phenomenon. Republicans revere wealth and the wealthy - ideally that's a difference between the parties.
Right, that's why Trump gutted NASA and NOAA and NIH, to punish the poets and playwrights
Exceptional content 🥇
Connecticut inequality is quite high, from many angles. IIRC, CT has the highest average per-capita income, and two of the 10 poorest cities in the US, Hartford and Bridgeport.
Of course capitulation is a mistake, morally and tactically, but I wonder how many grad programs can survive if Trump/Rubio keep adding international student restrictions?
Yikes. That's bananas.
Specifically bsky.app/profile/did:...
I don't know how many people use it, but you show up in the Covid Conscious feed
I love this so much and I am absolutely tearing up about it. The gentleness and plainness of this, the way he just lets her be her (and she seems so damn lovely, who wouldn’t?), the generosity. It isn’t going to solve the world’s problems, but this kind of humanity is a hell of a start.
More antifascist protest coverage like this
Centre Pompidou for modern art, the Louvre for classics. I believe Notre Dame is still being repaired, but it can be visited. There's good food everywhere, but I'm partial to Au Pied de Cochon - www.pieddecochon.com - for traditional French cuisine.
New protest coverage! @piperbomb.bsky.social documented a Chicago protest by Trans Up Front this weekend, responding to UChicago Medicine ending legal, safe, evidence-based gender affirming care for youth. Will thread some of our favorite shots.
Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are. (unlike other campers, I read this and LOTR trilogy at camp, the summer after 6th grade)
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Sorry are we doing export tarriffs or just plain extortion?
the thing about trans rights is that we fight the civil rights issues of our time. nazi chuds have made this the issue of our time. it's not more *important* than other civil rights issues, but it is the battleground of the moment, and we have to meet the moment to support everyone's rights.
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Instagram provides an Address field, and many physical, single location businesses just leave it blank. Help me find you! Let me click on your address as soon as possible!
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For about >1,000 people per day, and their families, "normal" life *has* stopped
Tangentially, I think it can be useful to switch therapists. Worked with one for 5 years - they helped me in many ways. They took a sabbatical, I started working with someone new. It was surprisingly helpful to start from scratch, tell my stories to a new audience, from a new perspective.
You can't have a happier childhood (not from my therapist by someone in a therapist-like role)
And I think this spans the political and socio-economic spectra. More people are scared/worried/angry/etc, more of the time, for valid reasons and imaginary reasons. Introspection is a luxury when you're worried about safety and air/food/water/shelter.
My uninformed guess is that stressors on individuals have increased in number. There are more crises, more risks. It's harder for people to operate on higher level needs - self actualization, esteem, love & belonging - while focusing instead on safety and physiological needs.
I am sorry this happened to you, and glad the phone was recovered, and it's a great story. And I expect to have a similar experience with my octogenarians.
Hours and hours listening to thehistoryofbyzantium.com are starting to pay off
I don’t know what changed, but this is what it feels like to use this website now
For elected officials, I suspect there's a risk/reward problem. Asking Trump DOJ to investigate loyalists won't work, just invites GOP retaliation and left wing despair. Marc Elias and Josh Marshall come to mind. Josh has proposed a DOJ-in-Waiting talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doj-i...
Amazing. I could listen to this all day.
There are plenty of diehard activists, organizers, even some electeds, on the Left. There's no need for psychopaths.
Samuel Jackson for Swedish wind farms www.jwz.org/blog/2025/07...
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This appeared in my inbox and I couldn't put it down The structure is so clever and engaging - thank you for writing this
Used to have LAN parties
The Def Con #infosec conference is also in Las Vegas, 8/7-8/10 defcon.org P. S. Alt text?
Hey there - I joined a fencing club. I don't know what I'm doing, and I may have injured my knee, but it's a great break from (waves hands and screams)
Also this network rack 🍝
I've heard EMT, then Police, then Fire Department youtu.be/kms2GOPmKL4
Post first? Or alert the bouncer at The Harp first?
You don't not call the fire department? I think it's too late in the evening, and maybe too late in the life of that power line, to call 311, right?
Solar farms don't smell of pig feces
How so?
Please for the love of God go to a meeting ❤️
