Why do you appreciate unions? Iāll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
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Why do you appreciate unions? Iāll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
"Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah"
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The scenery at Zion National Park in Utah, USA, is truly breathtaking! #FridayFeeling #FridayMorning
Chicago keeping art alive:
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
You are a national treasure, sir! ā¤ļø
The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage ā and solidarity. Be prepared.
A reminder for future generationsā¦.please donāt let this kind of music die out.
Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: āWe are not going to normalize this despot and his wifeā¦ if this happens, iām gone, and so is half my team.ā www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...
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New in PN: Chairman Trump's Great Grift Forward "In his second term, Trump is at last unleashed to fully realize his vision, and on economics, that means a new kind of mobster state capitalism."
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Schools Theaters Concerts Malls Churches Synagogues Mosques Parks Nightclubs Offices Festivals Stores Military Bases Bars Post Offices Yoga Studios Super Bowl parades Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.
NEW: Yesterday, I posted that I was unable to get the COVID vaccine at my VA clinic, and many of you assured me that the new one would be available soon and that I was overreacting. I was not overreacting. I am no longer eligible for the vaccine. apnews.com/article/vacc...
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Giving any land to Russia rewards the aggressor for his aggression. Not one inch!
#Saturday. Good morning Blue Sky
I think thereās one in the back. But still.
"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt #trees #art #nature #landscape #bluesky #photo #photography
The person recording the attack can be heard at the end saying, āHe was eating crabs. Iām baffled.ā
WHAT THE FUCK???!!!
Hereās what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwellās sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
š„ STEWART: āThis is the lie they tell you ā that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefitā¦. That government intervention for corporations is our āFREE MARKETā, but government intervention for workers is āSOCIALISMā.
Iām only sorry that I donāt believe in Hell.
Watkins Glen State Park, NY
āNo matter how dark it gets,ā Jon Batiste told the crowd last night. āI know: We can win. We can win. We can win.āā Yes, we can. Letās not lose sight of the good & motivated people in our country who remain committed to creativity, diversity, inclusionā& joy. www.americaamerica.news/p/america-wh...
They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say
Round up every last Trumpfascist and put THEM in the alligator camps for treason. Run on that promise. Now THAT would be justice.
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This is EXACTLY how EVERYONE should post on SM concerning him. Stop posting like mature adults. Get in the sandbox with him and THROW SAND! Remember these?
On Earth 2, of course, where he and his followers live.
MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING THAT I, JEFF TIEDRICH, YOUR FAVORITE WRITER, HAVE COME UP WITH THE "GREATEST" IDEA EVER. NOT EVEN HEATHER COX RICHARDSON (TINY HANDS!) COULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THIS. SAD! EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT MY BEAUTIFUL POST. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER link: bit.ly/4oCc7D1
Quiznos? Cosi? Subway? Jimmy John's? Jersey Mike's? Any sub shop I visit from this day forward will be judged not only on the taste & value of its sandwiches, but their weight, velocity, & stability of their wrapping.
International embarrassment.
#Caturday Andy Warhol, āReclining Cat With Two Shoesā (c. 1956) (ink and graphite on paper) #AndyWarhol
Don't discount what South Park is doing right now. Mocking fascists is a VERY important part of ANY resistance movement. It always has been.
Nailed it! š„
A view of the night sky that those of us that live on the northern hemisphere are missing The Southern Cross.
Odd, how South Park is covering Kristi Noem and her ICE hooligans more accurately than The New York Times.
Violent crime in Washington DC is at a 30 year low, but youāve got Stephen Miller screeching that itās like a war zone. Temu Goebbels is insufferable. š
So woke of her. I thought fuck them if they canāt take a joke was their motto: "ICE Barbie Lashes Out at āSouth Parkā After It Tore Her Apart" www.thedailybeast.com//petty-ice-b...
He may or may not be controlled by Russia but his interior decorator is.
āTruth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.ā -Mark Twain
A French lemonade from 1651
The best 6 seconds today
āThe dog in the front definitely thinks he's the captain!ā šš¾ kookslams #dogs #bluesky
Hereās a š„š„exchange between me and Mick Mulvaney during @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's brilliant interview of Mulvaney on Al Jazeera's Head to Head. The whole episode is worth a watch, and you can find it on @aljazeera.com's YouTube channel.
It ain't going away, no it ain't going away....
Have a golden day blue sky
I hear people all around me saying, āThey are going to crash the economy. Surely they donāt mean to crash the economy.ā I beg to differ. This is curated failure open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
I just fired my car because the odometer differed from my hunch.
Can you truly love the art but hate the artist?
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Flowers, 1964 #artbots #warhol https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/3904
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This is Mii. She was caught mid-escape. Luckily she has a get out of jail free card, which is her face. 12/10 (IG: sea.mie0731)
American photographer Alison Scarpulla To give her images a mysterious look, she edits the negatives using acid and wine and expired film. She utilizes experimental techniques such as multiple exposures and film soaking to create surreal, evocative images. #AlisoSncarpulla #Photography
I do not care that you are not āsurprised.ā Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is ānot surprising.ā Nothing is āsurprisingā anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Letās deal with it together.
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF
Ugh, I hadnāt heard that one.
I read Bernieās tweet multiple times, and I canāt find any lies.
Thatās the thing about these people, they donāt care that theyāre being hypocritical.
I think the idea that āThe President is simultaneously an institution beyond the reach of criminal law and also a private person who can file $10 billion defamation suits when he dislikes a news articleā is not very sensible.
Or a peanut?
Finally got a chance to watch the @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social routine about Trump and Epstein that came out a few days ago. I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell. Give it a watch and share it.
š§µ Fascism and the brain. The colonisation of the brain through state manufactured fear. By your logical Mr. Spock. It has been ten years of Trumpism. 10 years of fascism being embedded in your nervous system. This is a tweet for all. MAGA included. State manufactured fear is
This is why I say: do things that make you happy and smile. Just smiling can help you beat feeling fear and dread. You shouldn't stick your head in the sand. But protect your own joy and happiness. That's also good for people around you. Plus, if you do get angry, it'll scare the shit out of people.
Great. Now I will, too. Thanks.
This is a weird thing for Cuomo to say. I thought he wanted people to vote *against* Mamdani
"If MAGA recognizes their empathy-deficient heroes in the filmās main bad guy, itās not because Lex Luthor is based on Thiel and Andreessen and Musk; itās because Thiel and Andreessen and Musk are themselves comic book villains." #Superman
It's amusing to me that kindness and compassion can be so triggering to people who would prefer a hero to be more about brute force and violence. He's Superman, not Homelander.
America has the most corrupt political system in the Western world.
REPORT: Most seizures of fentanyl occur at U.S. points of entry, not via migrants. In reality, U.S. citizens are the primary smugglers.
Got damn
NEW -- "Itās a political equivalent of being a fire hydrant. You get pissed on by everyone." DNC Chair Ken Martin opens up abt the frustrations and opportunities of his job in a dishy new interview with @lauren-egan.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/surprising...
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Good morning #bluesky Photo just to add some more content to this post.
At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, āI am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.ā It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.
Tech bros donāt want to save the world. They want to own it, brand it, license it, and charge you a monthly fee to visit.
CA recently rose to 4th largest economy. We passed Japan, I think.
The licks at the end! š
And now for something completely different.. Lars Lerin, Swedish, b. 1954 At Home, 2011 Watercolor on paper 100 Ć 150 cm
A wildlife photographer joked that his wife managed to capture an extraordinary photo that outdid him: a European eagle owl, one of the world's largest, perched on his camera lens.
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) American āCalla Liliesā 1924 Oil on canvas, 16 Ā¼ x 12 Ā¼ in. (41.3 x 31.1 cm.) Private collection
Wet Leg Heat Up NPR Tiny Desk Concert With Four-Song āMoisturizerā LP Preview L
Letās talk about weather balloonsāa.k.a. radiosondesāand why recent cuts to NWS staffing and balloon launch schedules are putting the public at risk (eg., Deaths in Texas). No satellite or model can replace what these humble balloons do. Here's why. š§µ
The littlest helper š¤ šødogsig #dogs #BlueSky
My plan to revive American manufacturing is to: raise the price of inputs like steel, aluminum & copper; create shortages of rare earths; generate less electricity; invite retaliatory tariffs; cut R&D; raise borrowing costs by blowing out the budget; and to cover it all in a cloud of uncertainty.
āIf your friends jumped off a 50 foot cliff would you jump too?ā āHell yesā -Emperor Penguin babies www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PwD...
Have a great day everyone! Don't forget to put your pants on! š¤£š„
āMove towards automationā should raise eyebrows Also: they want you to think ā34 Million able-bodied on Medicaidā means people are LAZY, when what it really means is people are UNDERPAID. The oligarchy thinks we are all idiots. They are stealing from you and laughing at you.
July 7, 2025