Retired Govt, film & broadcasting teacher. Politics & econ watcher, gardener & cat ❤️- Darth Kitty’s mine. If you don’t appreciate science, journalism & film, have a sense of humor I'm not your thing. Eclectic who knows politics isn't a spectator sport.
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The story behind, Qi Hong, the man who just pulled off an incredible act of protest in China is amazing and inspiring and we should all be asking why aren't we being as brave now, while the repercussions are less than they will be. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Jeff Danziger
Mood in Hungary "is palpably different" than a year ago, with people "more comfortable criticizing Orbán in public.…Public figures speak about the 'Orbán regime' instead of the 'Orbán government.'… "In response, the rhetoric from the regime…has become more threatening, violent, and openly fascist."
Gwen is right, this has to a part of any platform.
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And yet some (Warner has started to turn his own ship around) still think that we can make it to the midterms much less 2028 without a far larger and tougher movement to resist, in Congress and everywhere.
Khanna: It’s going to be a bombshell press conference tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. The American people will hear directly from survivors of the Epstein abuse. And they’re not just going to talk about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s abuse — they’re going to talk about rich and powerful men…
the us secretary of energy is one of those dudes whose response to climate change is "the weather looks pretty good to me today!"
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.
Me too, Pritzker is a good guy he actually cares about people & he does pull his punches. I thought Tim Walz was a great pick but I’m not going to lie, Pritzker was on my short list.
A judge temporarily halted DHS flights filled with 600 Guatemalan children that were to be deported without due process or adult supervision. Sounds like human trafficking to me! Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Trump having some minor difficulty departing
strange. fabric doesn't normally fall like that across an arm.
RIP the ham sandwich saw.
when you’re upset at the cool kids for not inviting you to their lunch table
It’s okay, so did the Pharaohs, things just tended to speed up towards the end. But admittedly, his taste has always been ghastly.
Heads up @piperformissouri.bsky.social
Heard this via @sazeracla.bsky.social's excellent radio show on mixcloud. youtu.be/OjGHf7OvglM
batten the hatches for full Trumpworld diversions
So declared intention to break a judge’s order Ok You do you boo
Trump: "We've taken in almost $17 trillion of investment." (That would be more than half the entire US GDP, so no.)
Trump claims a video showing people throwing bags out a White House window is "probably AI generated." Doocy then plays the clip for him. Trump still insists it's AI.
I wish my guild were a bit more labor union-y and a bit less country club-y To me that would mean fighting as hard for creative rights of A listers as for working class members’ needs and aligning in solidarity with other unions as much as possible
Spoiler alert everything he's doing is speeding up the process.
Now that tips are no longer taxable. He seems to have hired a better makeup person.
Should be totally fine and not create any consequences whatsoever That’s how these things tend to go, right?
When someone tells you both parties are the same…
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Pritzker: "We have reason to believe that the Trump administration has already begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois."
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
Here's a dumb rule that SF could eliminate. It's harder and more expensive to get solar installed than pretty much anywhere, and now they've added some kind of fire department inspection for stuff that in Europe you can install in one day. www.motherjones.com/environment/...
Is World War III Already Underway? open.substack.com/pub/thenextm...
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." ~ Oscar Wilde #QuoteOfTheDay
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...
Has no one checked the ketchup supply?
You realize that as Pharaohs recognized that they were mortal and eventually going to pass, one of the first things they started doing was gilding their mausoleums....
The spray-painted gold ornamentation is spreading like a cancer
Could someone please explain that this is not his ticket into heaven?
Retired teacher here, this is a really bad idea! And I promise you teachers who do NOT want this to happen.
The one where a national reporter finds out what I’ve said all along about Dems focusing on Epstein— voters are not focused on the files. Every group I’ve spoken to is concerned about Medicaid cuts and grocery prices and high rent. I hope Democrats will listen. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Perhaps someone should point out that it is “easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle then it is for a rich man to get into heaven”?
Bcc Chicago.
Good point!
Gotta wag the dog. I still think he’s going to announce crushing tariffs, within two weeks 🙄, against Russia, China & India in a bit of pique because he was excluded from the Burning Man for Dictators Gathering. Hell hath no fury like an autocrat scorned.
Is it bad of me to wish all of these people, the opportunity to get sunk, ala Titanic, by the collapsing Atlantic current?
#ColorADay #BlueTue This is from my recent trip to #Greenland. This was as dark as it got. Can you see the moon on the horizon? It was the only time I saw it. Shot taken from the balcony of my cabin on the Endurance in the Nat Geo Expedition Fleet. August 11, 2025. #EastCoastKin #Photography
The Trump administration claiming mortgage fraud is really rich! I’m old enough to remember when, Trump and his companies were found liable to pay $354.8 million over ill-gotten gains stemming from financial fraud including MORTGAGE FRAUD! ag.ny.gov/sites/defaul...
It certainly is if they are a Democrat!
Federal takeovers may have just gotten a lot harder for Trump to pull off www.huffpost.com/entry/donald... via @brandibuchman.bsky.social
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New in PN: RFK Jr gives Republicans a chance to defy Trump on easy mode "What’s really notable is the extent to which GOP leaders have remained supine even in the face of a radical assault on their grandchildren by a transparent death-dealing fraud who wasn’t even a member of the party a year ago."
A pre-dog-walk 🧵 on the pandemic. To me, the lesson of the pandemic is a very familiar one, although as far as I can tell, no one is talking about it or learning it (which is also familiar). It's about the contrast between America's two political parties.
Like many a Pharaoh he thinks he can take it with him so he guilds his mausoleum.
I’m telling you, 3I/ATLAS Katie.
White House reporters have all seen Trumps bruised hands. It’s an active choice not to make an issue of it while these same people spent years freaking out about Biden.
this is beautiful
NEW YORK (AP) — Kraft Heinz to split and become separate companies 10 years after their packaged-food megamerger.
“In 2017, O’Hanlon was captured at Trump’s first inauguration festivities in DC decked out in his full Eagle Scouts uniform. The photographer who took the photo wrote on his personal website of ‘the Boy Scout kid that looked like a Brownshirt.’”
You realize this is straight out of Attwood’s novel right?
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Yet once upon a time over in the X-Twitter space Noem said this 🙄
Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, what’s the timeline for the book on how the President went missing like a week after he had weird bruising on his hands?
I’m old enough to be one of the three!
Just imagine what is being saved for the book this week.
If you’re a Democrat and you sneeze (Hillary Clinton), or stumble over a name or word (Joe Biden), it’s front page news for weeks & Tapper writes an opus, but if you’re a Republican (Trump), you can have blown IVs, look like death warmed over, ramble incoherently & vanish for days & it’s “crickets!”
“LIKE A BROKEN RECORD” Now that the @nytimes is reporting Modi and Trump had a falling out over Trump’s lie that he deserves credit for the India-Pakistan ceasefire, we re-submit to you this clip of an Indian anchor calling him out months ago — even as 🇺🇸 media wouldn’t.
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This tracks.
Thank you on this labor day!!
My guess is a massive tariff aimed at Russia, China and India for excluding him from the Dictators Club for Men. Hell hath no fury like an authoritarian scorned!
Unless they are Sean O'Brien .
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.
Congressman Jerry Nadler would more than likely have been reelected to an 18th full term in Congress. He's long had the support and confidence of NYC voters. Instead, he's passing the torch and doing his part to center and strengthen the next generation of Democratic leadership. (thread)
One of my Supreme Court reform takes is they should be completely barred from taking any outside income (incl. publishing deals) and it should be particularly frowned upon, normatively, to be writing books. Memoirs are for writing after you retire, not five years into a lifetime appointment.
Good Grief! What is Bartlett smoking?
Today’s political palette cleanser comes from a dog and a cat!
Same!
These lame weasel words seem designed to avoid saying the obvious: This wannabe dictator has been gleefully shredding the Constitution; he is Framers’ worst nightmare and the sort of autocratic figure “conservatives” used to denounce open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Here’s the full segment with clips from Rep James “hot air” Comer — GOP House Oversight Committee is funky, so always listen to what Garcia says. youtu.be/bk3GZ8mFI7U?...
Yes. But @robertgarcia.bsky.social and other @oversightdemocrats.house.gov Dems will be there as well. bsky.app/profile/plai...
Hmmm The Hindustan Times, speculates Trump’s resigning because he’s in poor health right after Putin met with Modi…. And all this time I thought it was so he could spend more time with his family!
Incoming ALL CAPS TWEET somewhere around 3 a.m. My guess is a massive tariff aimed at Russia, China and India for excluding him from the Dictators Club for Men. Hell hath no fury like an authoritarian scorned! Either that or Atlas31 is an alien spacecraft in which case all bets are off.
Member when everyone was worried about Biden’s health so he went bike riding? PLEASE gods of comedy let the Chaos Monster try to ride a bike tomorrow 🙏
Check it out - the first Webb Space Telescope images of the new interstellar comet 31/Atlas! 🧪🔭 science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iatla...
Could be anything from: we're invading Canada to, I'm pissed off and dropping another ginormous tariff on China, Russia and India for the excluding me from the dictators Club, to I'm resigning to spend more time with my family. In any case All Caps Tweet incoming!
joycevance.substack.com/p/forgetting...
Together with the labor movement of Maine, together with Bernie Sanders — We will defeat the oligarchy, and we will defeat Susan Collins.
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Shocker
I don’t care if it’s satire, I’m going to choose to enjoy it!
The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says. There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.
I don’t know if you all remember, but Sharice Davids was reelected in Kansas even after the GOP gerrymandered her district…
Vaccine sceptic RFK Jr has called for the retraction of a Danish study that found no link between aluminium in vaccines and chronic diseases in children — a rare move... “Kennedy has demonstrated that he wants the scientific literature to bend to his will”, says Oransky. Scientific American
Political pallet cleanser, part two because it’s been a long day!