Hi everyone, hope you are all well. I used to be there, but I took a break and now I’m here. So far, it’s much better and I hope it stays that way.
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Not Dan Hartman’s first time on the charts; a little over a decade earlier his song “Free Ride” hit #14 with the Edgar Winter Group, he also played on another EWG #1 hit “Frankenstein” in 1973. He also co-wrote & produced James Brown’s hit "Living in America", which went to No. 4 on March 1, 1986.
Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.
Read the book not long after it was published, hopefully it translates into a movie worthy of the story it was taken from.
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
"Husband wins Ohio lottery scratch-off, plans to cover wife's cancer treatment" The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and should provide universal healthcare. No one should have to win the lottery to afford cancer treatment. www.freep.com/story/money/...
Gov. Pritzker: I'm aware that Trump likes to go on television and beg me to call and ask him for troops. When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything?
Facts.
Host: A new poll from the Wall Street Journal shows 56% of people have a negative view of the economy, and 59% say they don't have confidence that the country's leaders can fix it. The American dream is now seen as elusive
Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Over the long weekend, the Trump administration quietly tried to deport 76 unaccompanied children to Guatemala – ignoring laws protecting such minors from speedy deportations. Thankfully, a federal judge blocked the effort. The cruelty of this regime knows no bounds.
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie has filed a discharge petition to force the disclosure of Justice Department investigative files related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Gov. Pritzker: Crime is down in Chicago. Murders are down by almost 50% in the last four years. Shootings are down 57%. Robberies down 34%. One violent crime is too many, and we have more work to do. We have made important progress on safety. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
That was a wild ride, you learn something new every day.
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso
Multiple people this weekend arrested outside the Pulse memorial for *checks notes Chalk.
It has been a bedrock principle since our nation's founding that America's military must not be used to police our own communities. This opinion affirms that Donald Trump's use of the Marines and California National Guard in L.A. was unlawful and unjustified.
Host: More than 85 veteran climate scientists are pushing back against a Trump administration report that downplays the severity of climate change. In a 400 page rebuttal to the Energy Department, researchers say the report, "makes a mockery of science"
Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
Beef prices have hit record highs this Labor Day Weekend — in part thanks to Trump's tariffs. Remember when Trump said he would bring down the cost of groceries? https://youtu.be/9EXi6xyOXSk?feature=shared
Trump’s foreign aid cuts have a surprising opponent: Evangelical Christians.
You have to go pretty far down the list to get to Chicago according to Trump’s FBI and their report on crime in the USA. There are lot more cities that are worse than Chicago: www.newsweek.com/major-cities...
To me “content creator” sounds like something or someone taking up space, or in this context someone who is producing something that isn’t particularly significant or noteworthy.
Good morning and happy Tuesday to everyone. Many people are saying that Grab-Ass Grandpa’s announcement from the Oval Office at 2 p.m. today is a distraction from Wednesday’s press conference with 10 of Epstein’s victims. Well, duh. Thank you for your inattention on this matter.
The Trump family's crypto fortune has now reached $5 billion.
More than 445,000 federal employees saw their union protections disappear in August, as agencies moved to comply with the illegal executive order Trump signed that calls for ignoring collective bargaining contracts with nearly one million federal workers. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Trump working hard to lower prices this morning
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
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.
When our working families are strong, Minnesota is strong. That’s why we’ve established paid leave, expanded the right to collectively bargain, and why we’re investing in the projects creating the union jobs of the future. Happy Labor Day, Minnesota.
Happy Labor Day, Illinois!
What is going on here?
Introverts don’t recharge with sleep, we recharge by being left completely alone for 3–5 business days
Congress is back — and a laundry list of thorny issues threatens to complicate the funding fight.
Oh look, two new graphics after I made a bad typo on the first one. These are meant to be cropped, printed and dropped to get the attention of the general public who might not know a) how incoming bills may affect them too and b) the power of art. USE PHYSICAL MEDIA AS A TOOL, NOW.
1,000+ "Workers Over Billionaires" Protests: Images From All 50 States and DC
Our country's founders put in place numerous checks on a potential future President if they were to act like an unhinged authoritarian, so they were ready for a monster like Trump. But what they did not predict was a compliant and subservient Congress that would let him do anything he wanted.
COCO IS MISSING IN MIDTOWN: last seen near 9th and 32nd, she's chipped: 956000018256863. If you've seen or found her please call 800-252-7894 and PLEASE RT COCO!
Susan Collins should actually be *concerned*. I'm not sure if Maine wants this, but I've been waiting to hear someone tell everyone who Collins is for more than a decade.
Better working conditions, overtime pay, minimum wage, health care, and so much more. Thank you to our labor unions and every hardworking American who helped pave the way for a better livelihood for all of us. Happy Labor Day, Colorado.
Trump Teases Tariff Rebate Checks, Ties Idea to Donations Another sketchy fundraising email from the Trump campaign meidasnews.com/news/trump-t...
We did this to ourselves www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
Back when Donald was a failure in real estate, he was famous for not paying his contractors. He would come up with fictional fault in their work as an excuse not to pay them. Now, this unscrupulous cretin is short-changing the National Guard. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
When "owning the libs" goes bad.
The parking situation at Stockholm city hall
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
Here’s another pic of Trump golfing this weekend. These trips add up costing taxpayers millions. Why doesn’t the GOP cut these instead of Meals on Wheels?
Great state to work in? ✔️ Oxfam America says Illinois is one of the best states to work in, and #5 for rights of workers to organize. See the stats www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issu...
Surviving Jeffery Epstein: This week we hear from Jess Michaels, a survivor of Epstein's abuse, who exposes both the monster himself and the wider system that affected so many. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFqeOt_rNFM
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.
Science: Trump supporters are assholes.
DOGE isn't fighting fraud — it's potentially exposing Americans to more of it. And now a Social Security Administration whistleblower is resigning after apparently being punished for trying to warn the public. Nothing about this fake government agency is "efficient."
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
Reuters poll: 57% of Americans fear that American democracy is in danger — including 4 in 10 Republicans.
We did not put John Bolton’s name in the headline for a reason. It’s not about him, per se; it’s about the numerous people who Trump wants the government to destroy because they hurt Trump’s feelings www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The year 2025, and the only real crimes are desperately trying to become an American taxpayer, sandwich tossing, and annoying Donald Trump.
The craziest thing about this Cracker Barrel story is that Donald Trump was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein for decades and publicly admitted to trafficking young women to him out of Maralago.
👀 NEWS: IRS documents show conservative propaganda machine PragerU spent $650,000 on a gala at Mar-A-Lago - and soon after Trump targeted PBS for elimination, setting up PragerU to fill the educational void in schools across the country America. www.levernews.com/prageru-is-m...
John Deere announced that it will lay off over 200 workers, citing the economic uncertainty created by Trump's tariffs. Workers aren't just paying more for everyday goods now because of tariffs, their jobs are also on the line. It's a recipe for a bigger economic disaster.
What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
Donald Trump is already plotting to steal the 2026 midterms. Here are some tactics to stop him. robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plo...
“It’s only gonna get worse if we don’t do something to stop it… it scares the crap out of me…” - Bolton neighbor in a “Trump is a national disgrace” t-shirt
Sounds like b•llsh•t to me.
“My budget has become double for food shopping”
Slavery, by @deAdder open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...
Of course they did, No surprises here…
In today's least-shocking news that we all knew before, Fox staff and producers all along the election wasn't stolen in 2020 and lied for ratings. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fac...
Is she really that short or just drunk again?
“The degree to which Russia has milked Trump’s grievances to destroy US capabilities against it is one of the reasons I view the 2016 operation as the most successful intelligence operation of recent history.”
Senator Warnock toured Evans Memorial Hospital in Claxton and praised “the folks in this building who do heroic work every single day. And often they are doing it against great odds, and sadly, those odds have been increased by the GOP bill that was recently passed." #TaxJustice
Rep. Nick LaLota won’t speak with his constituents about the cancer cuts he supports. So I did. We are flipping NY-1 — Nick LaLota will be Nick LaLoser.
During the 1970s, an arson wave ravaged poor communities across the US. Some lost 80% of their housing. Residents were blamed. In reality, landlords—paid by insurers and enabled by the state—drove this arson-for-profit epidemic. I reviewed @benchansfield.bsky.social's revelatory BORN IN FLAMES:
Trump attacks mail-in/absentee voting. Reminding you the concept was started to support military serving far from home. Millions of Americans are unable to go to polls. Disenfranchising them is anti-American. I produced this ad in 2020 with @markhamillofficial.bsky.social at @lincolnproject.us.
“School police and officers from several municipal forces will patrol near some 100 schools, setting up “safe zones” in heavily Latino neighborhoods, with a special concentration at high schools where older Latino students are walking to campus.”
Trump’s disrespect for veterans and their families, which began long ago with his trash-talking John McCain, continues with this rampage of union-busting and deception. Congress must stop Trump’s attack on VA workers, many of them vets and all of them serving veterans.
Think about this for a second. It’s grotesque and dangerous. White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...
Republicans Booed, Protested, and Called Out—Everywhere.
We all know it's coming
This former model, with no background in history, has been put in charge of curating what is "appropriate" at the National Museum of African American History.
Meanwhile, copious amounts of horse droppings continue to pile up in our nation’s capital…
Little Orange Boots has yet to miss a single golf event, however…
“.. The monthly budget deficit came in at $291 billion, or 10% more than the same month a year before ..” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement. The President does not run the Smithsonian. The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law. Release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Of course he is…
Pam Bondi is SOULLESS now...She saw the evil and decided it wasn't a DEALBREAKER.....
Trump and his family have made approximately $3.4 billion thanks to his two terms as president. This includes profits from crypto, MAGA merchandise, Mar-a-Lago and more. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
An audit has found 139 VA medical centers are facing "severe" staffing shortages due to mass layoffs and funding cuts.
Megadonors are dominating election spending like never before, using their special access and outsized influence to warp policy in their favor. Here’s what can be done about it: bit.ly/4mcMsPL