This is a good read. How the stupid are going to kill America.
This is a good read. How the stupid are going to kill America.
#artistfave15 #musicchallenge Day 2 with The Smiths: Bigmouth striktes again youtube.com/watch?v=ToWS...
In Chicago, we do not submit www.stopthepresses.news/p/in-chicago...
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That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
Sources on the ground tell me this was the most energy in the arena formerly known as Cumberland County Civic Center since 12/30/93
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I do wish they would! But since the Gov. & legislature are in the process of gerrymandering the state *even more* as I type this, I doubt it will happen any time soon.
I suppose it's a victory, but look to Missouri to see how well ballot measures do when they're not favored by those in power. MO citizens voted to legalize abortion, raise minimum wage to $15/hr. AND get paid sick leave. Less than a year later the Gov. & legislature are rejecting ALL of that.
U.S. officials of both parties spent years struggling to develop homegrown alternatives to China’s telecom giants. The GOP abruptly defunded its biggest tool.
The FAA’s much-hyped hiring push has attracted thousands of air traffic controller applicants, but now the agency does not have enough qualified instructors to train new recruits.
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In Portland today, a roaring crowd welcomed Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, signaling real momentum in his challenge to Susan Collins.
Oooooo mmmmmmyyyyyyyy
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#20songsbyyear #musicchallenge Welcome in 1992! Day 2: Shakespears Sister - Stay youtube.com/watch?v=YCYa...
The son of a Republican lawmaker is suing Gov. Mike Kehoe alleging his First Amendment rights were violated when Kehoe preemptively declared a state of emergency for what turned out to be peaceful protests against the Trump administration in June. - Missouri Independent www.kcur.org/politics-ele...
Cat. It’s what’s for lunch.
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
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.
In case you were looking for this tonight … How The 25th Amendment Actually Works — And What Nobody's Ever Figured Out www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chri...
Given that Trump and major allies of oligarchs, GOP donors and figures are in there as well... and the gaps left are telling from their crap AI editing job...
NEW: Massie tells CNN that there is significant pressure from the White House to BLOCK the release of the Epstein files.
By pardoning justly sentenced J6 conspirators, Trump gave aid and comfort to our enemies.
#ChristiansDidThis Never forget Never forgive The deist founders of this country were extremely clear and did everything in their power to prevent its ascension to power. They wrote profusely, repeatedly, warning us Christians were, are, and always will be a major threat to freedom and democracy
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#Mythology
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "I was elected as the Labor Secretary for all Americans" (She was not elected)
Never forgive and never forget the Republicans betrayal of our Constitution and America for #TraitorTrump & #Project2025. Always fight fascism. Always.
“those opposed to autocratic capture need to organize, build infrastructure and stop being polite.” -Kim Lane Scheppele, Sociologist, Princeton University. Sept 2, 2025
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
Thank you on this labor day!!
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New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
It’ll be hilarious if the big announcement is NFT death masks.
Thinking back to simpler sweeter times today. Neko would always demand snuggles from everyone around him, even smelly foster kittens and puppies. I think I miss him wanting to be snuggled more than anything. Hug your pets close today for us♥️ #cats
📌 Nice to see D.C. show up day after day. ✊🏼 Power to the people!
One of the world's largest food brands is splitting apart a decade after a messy mega-merger staged by Warren Buffett.
DC MUSIC FESTIVAL HAPPENING NOW 9/1
A lot of very pleased people last night at the Fighting Oligarchy rally in Portland, Maine to hear Graham Platner, Troy Jackson, and the inimitable Bernie Sanders speak out for labor and against oligarchs. #RESIST
Hey Mikey! We didn't forget about the Epstein files while you were gone! #USDemocracy abcnews.go.com/Politics/con...
Congress is back — and a laundry list of thorny issues threatens to complicate the funding fight.
Ditto.
I thought 2004 and especially losing 2004 would lead to organized liberalism. Here we are more than 20 years later still disorganized.
180 shots fired, 150 broken windows. Tumultuous firings and resignations at the CDC. The installation of a techno-optimist with a history of pushing unproven medical treatments. The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department.
Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice | Trump administration | The Guardian share.google/XGcSa8R9xKHX...
Just so. Never forgive and never forget the Republicans betrayal of our Constitution and America for #TraitorTrump & #Project2025. Always fight fascism. Always.
I love this guy
😔🕯️A Canadian First Nations actor who opened doors for Indigenous actors in Hollywood, died September 1 in a Toronto hospital after a long illness. 72. “He was a great man of morals, ethics and character and will be eternally missed,” #Canada #FirstNations #Indigenous deadline.com/2025/09/grah...
I don’t think a lot of people on the right understand that a lot of people on the left regularly hear people on the left spout opinions we too think are ridiculous, annoying and buzz-killing too, only we don’t then decide it’s worth destroying democracy because Tara thinks bin bags are classist
The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.
A shout-out to Portland, Little Rock, Ocean City, San Diego, Indianapolis, Salem, Denver, Asheville, and Pittsburgh!
A comfortable life used to be the American Dream. Not being a financial mogul. Not fighting for the top spot on the food chain. Working to get your share of the pie with the whip cream on top. Grabbing enough food to fill your plate, but leaving plenty on the table for others. Let’s do that again.
Getting closer to #sunrise at the #southpole, with official sunrise still nearly three weeks away. Winterover Sim capturing a picture of the horizon behind the ceremonial South Pole with his rubber duck on top. #Antarctica
Senate candidate Graham Platner, speaking against funding bombs in Gaza last night at Bernie Sanders' Fighting Oligarchy tour in Portland, Maine. The crowd was an estimated, & unexpected, 6500 people. There were so many RSVPs the rally was moved to the larger Cross Arena days in advance. #RESIST
How will you feel when you wake up one day and learn that he died overnight by choking on a hot dog? 🌭
=================== SEPT 2, Tues 8-9:15PM ORGANIZE IN SOLIDARITY =================== A 5-week training series on organizing our communities to resist ICE, from Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). #RESIST #ProtectImmigrants
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Indeed.
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.
A Democratic super PAC is launching a $700,000 digital ad blitz slamming Susan Collins for opposing a bipartisan bill that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks. This ad accuses Collins of “the worst kind of greed… using insider information to trade stocks.” Please WATCH and SHARE. 👀
This doesn't not sound like he's running for Governor.
A1 above the fold in the @nytimes.com. The message is getting through. Keep pushing everyone. We can save the #CDC, save the #NIH from the clutches of #RussellVought #StephenMiller and #DonaldTrump. Keep the pressure up on your members of Congress and the media (letters to editors, op-eds).
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Rising inequality is turning US into an autocratic state, billionaire warns — Guardian US Ray Dalio says business leaders scared to criticise Donald Trump as he warns of debt-induced crisis for the economy. #RESIST this admin, the P2025 steering committee, and their push for economic inequality.
“Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.” -Roger Rosenblatt Artist, Sarah Kay
Never forgive and never forget the Republicans betrayal of our Constitution and America for #TraitorTrump & #Project2025. Always fight fascism. Always.
Congress returns to the nation's capital as the deadline to avoid a government shutdown looms. And, Brazil's former president is on trial for attempting to overthrow the government.
It pisses me off that Trump will get the very best of health care at Walter Reed for whatever is physically wrong with him, while JD Vance & Republicans continue to brag about ending Medicare for the rest of us. #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Los Angeles, CA Music Festival 9/1/25
Will there be a government shutodwn? GOP Congress faces deadline share.google/FCNVlnf5TH4G...
Vile replacement theory... Never forgive and never forget the Republicans betrayal of our Constitution and America for #TraitorTrump & #Project2025. Always fight fascism. Always.
"Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up." www.ft.com/content/b86b...
The two random tubes of paint placed behind that elephant statuette on the right are also sending me.
Like idk, maybe some people use easels like that with their paints practically on the floor, but anyone who's seriously working isn't going to leave their paints in an unsorted heap like that. (And also, THE PAINT DABBED ALL OVER THE INSIDE BACK OF THE TROUGH. 🤣)
"Yes, I shall leave my paints at my feet while I work instead of on that table at arm level, and also strategically dab them all over the inside of a box so that everyone can see that I totally use them all the time."
As an acrylic artist, that weird trough thing at foot level full of paint tubes tossed in like it's a paint tube trash can is PEAK "how do you do, fellow acrylic painters?" 🤣 Especially with all the dried paint splattered onto the back wall of it as if it was used for a palette.
Eureka! I know what was bugging me! I am Columbo! The yellow on the brushes! Yellow paint turns swampy if you look at it cross-eyed but their brush is “dirty” with a merry shade of daffodil
I absolutely have some clean and new brushes in my mix but I also am not selling AI art at a human art convention, so I can speculate maliciously as much as I like. Those are some awfully aesthetically dirty brushes.
Those brushes look like they were strategically dipped in paint to be dirtied up and a few of them are clearly new and never used. Acrylic artists should chime in but I think the whole setup is fake or the acrylic is used to add brushstrokes to a canvas print.
Good.
I love the first image with the AI art surrounded by paint tubes and art supplies. I baked a box cake with artificial raspberry flavoring, I will style it with a flour barrel, brown farm eggs, pats of churned butter, a jar of honey and fresh raspberries. (And my cake is still better than AI)
“Not that Bluesky is important” I say to myself every day through gritted teeth. The butterfly logo haunts my dreams. Why doesn’t anyone like me anymore :(
I fled from Xtwitter after the muskrat took over. I joined Bluesky 2024 03 09. Since then I built up a following of 17.4 and I was following more than that. I got a DM saying I was getting a reward from Bluesky. I fell for it and my account is gone. Starting over, meeting more awesome people.
Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social was curious; so he asked Ben Smith — co-founder of Semafor, and former media columnist at the New York Times — if Smith thought democracy is under threat in the U.S. Good question.
The media could do a huge story on how the trump administration was just stopped from doing the same thing they got in trouble for multiple times by deporting 600 children without any due process. This story could even move the needle. They could do this. If they wanted to.
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
@50501movement.bsky.social 150 protesters lined both sides of Rockville Pike in Rockville, MD to send the message loud and strong: #Resist #LaborDay
One thing they’ve been very successful at is making it so when sober experts put their careers and reputations on the line to issue grave warnings, it gets mostly a shrug.
