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Innovation makes useful things smaller and smaller. Overconsumption makes things bigger and bigger (and more dangerous with bigger costs & consequences). Bigger vehicles and larger homes for fewer people is not progress. HT @fietsprofessor for graphic
And yet enlisted troops and veterans overwhelmingly support Trump. Disrespectful over and over, firing leadership, hollowing out the VA, turning against our Afghan allies, and yet…
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...
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
Twin Cities Weekly Protests/Rallies/Bridge Brigades Get up! Stand up! Stand up for your rights!
The Plot to Enslave America:
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
16) Born This Way - Lady Gaga 17) Peace, Love, and Understanding - Elvis Costello 18) I Won’t Back Down - Tom Petty (Fin)
9) What’s Goin’ On - Marvin Gaye 10) We the People - A Tribe Called Quest 11) Fight Song - Rachel Platten 12) We Shall Be Free - Lead Belly 13) All You Fascists - Billy Bragg 14) Born in the USA - Springsteen 15) For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield (Con’t)
1) Fight the Power - Public Enemy 2) Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley 3) This Land is your Land - Woody Guthrie 4) You and Who’s Army - Radiohead 5) I Give You Power - Arcade Fire 6) Talkin’ About a Revolution - Tracy Chapman 7) Fortunate Son - CCR 8) Freedom - Beyoncé (Con’t)
Diaper defenestration.
Dirty diapers.
Lower courts.
We share this graph as often as we can. #UnionStrong
Literally.
Ban the pill and ladies will revert to their true maga selves
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
Share this with your red state friends and family. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Yep a good-faith critique of learning loss would lead to proposals for a massive, New Deal-scale investment in public education. The people pushing the narrative are doing precisely the opposite.
Unfortunately, unlike other European countries, Norway continues to buy Teslas. Someone should encourage them to shop elsewhere. @teslatakedown.com
Troops hanging out in the DC metro today, displaying assault rifles, doing absolutely nothing
The US sends messages everyday that it is unfriendly, unstable, and ultimately, unsafe. There are troops on the streets in some places! No regional ad campaign is any match for the chaos coming from the White House
Trump’s treatment of Appalachia’s coal miners exemplifies his approach to labor in general: Kneecap unions whenever possible, prop up industry profits at all costs, and if a few workers die in the process, pretend it never happened. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
Thanks for sharing this. I was unaware of this strike. My grandfather was with the Teamsters in NYC and there was a lot of violence around strikes and organizing in the 1930’s and 40’s.
"The union had essentially shut down the industrial area in what is now known as Minneapolis’s North Loop. ...The conflict came to a head on July 20, 1934. Police opened fire on protesters near the corner of 7th Avenue and 3rd Street North." #LaborDay #Protest #Union www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
#ChalkCrime #ChalkCrimeDC
Massive crowd at today’s Workers Over Billionaires Rally at MSP Airport. We’re ready to stand up union rights today and every day.
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
Nobel Prize worthy 🔥👏🏽🙌🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DOC7KBw...
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
“A suspected Russian interference attack targeting Ursula von der Leyen disabled GPS navigation services at a Bulgarian airport and forced the European Commission president’s plane to land using paper maps.”
A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-texas...
1.2M immigrants are gone from the U.S. labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
Liberals: “We could try to DO some things to reduce gun violence; ‘thoughts and prayers’ isn’t enough.” Republicans: “Outrage! Disgrace! They’re attacking prayer.” There’s no need to be polite or defensive in response to this. Invoking faith as an excuse to shun responsibility deserves no respect.
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I’ve heard wall streeters are buying up the tariff refund rights from importers as speculative investments.
Id heard that Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm formerly run by Commerce Secy Lutnick and now run by his sons is one of the big buyers of these refund rights. Turns out it’s already public back in July when they were buying them at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit.
AP: “Florida could be on the hook for $218 million… Alligator Alcatraz may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely…” apnews.com/article/flor...
FAFO… Blue states that sued kept most CDC grants, while red states feel brunt of Trump clawbacks… www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Weapons of the rebel alliance.
We agree, @robhuebel — seems Dems should be talking about this: “State Dept denied Trump intervened on Alexandrovich’s behalf, but that appears implausible. Trump, Israel, pedophilia, corruption… a gift unicorn grazing in Dems’ backyard — And yet?” zeteo.com/p/why-arent-...
after all these decades of claiming to be a constitutional warrior, Dersh wants to close out his public career by overturning core press protections
It's important to think about what you will do if a border agent asks for your personal devices well before you head to the airport.
“How extremely profitable all of this precarity has become.” Author Brian Goldstone on working and homelessness in today’s America.
Oh yes, I saw this insanity yesterday.
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
The DeSantis regime will do more to protect sidewalks from chalk than children from bullets.
Guess sidewalk chalk is subversive (and woke?) now?
When an elected official says I’m not a politician, there should be a follow up question, “What are you then?”
Flights to international destinations and in premium classes are still selling out, while domestic and main-cabin sales softened across airlines...United Airlines said premium cabin revenue in the most recent quarter increased 5.6% “while the economy cabin was negative.” www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
Exclusive: President Trump and international partners are discussing plans to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” on the rubble of Gaza. One plan would establish U.S. control and pay all of Gaza’s more than 2 million population to leave.
In addition to being morally abhorrent, this plan relies on trendy magical technology. It’s one step away from relocating Gazans to the blockchain. Gift link: wapo.st/4g2eATo
GORKA: Instead of blaming an inanimate object, which is the weapon, how about addressing the human being instead? KEILAR: DHS cut funding in July to the Minnesota Dept of Safety and the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office in July that is the kind of funding used to assess mass violence threats
They like Trump and want to help him
The plan is completely illegal; it’s openly in violation of black letter law. Nevertheless, the Trump admin is trying to claim that the budget bill effectively amended the law; even though it was a budget bill, and cannot by definition amend the law.
This is not legal, unconstitutional. Only time Missouri Legislature is allowed to do redisticting is after a decennial Census, not mid-decade. See: redistricting.lls.edu/state/missou...
These people are in a cult and live inside a batshit alternate reality and are trying to get as many Americans as possible to join them inside it.
WASH POST: “A postwar plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump administration would turn it into a trusteeship administered by 🇺🇸 while it is transformed into a gleaming tourism resort… temporary relocation of Gaza’s more than 2 million population…” 🤔 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
KEILAR: Of 172 mass attacks between 2016 & 2020, 96% were non-trans men. Are you missing bigger picture? GORKA: No. When you look at shootings at Christian schools the data is different K: Of 32 school shootings since 2020, only 3 were trans shooters G: Forgive me if I don't go with CNN's stats
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump said in a weekend social media post he plans to issue an executive order to impose voter ID requirements. And he reiterated his desire to ban mail voting. The president lacks the authority to take either step. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The most frightening and persuasive commentary on America that I've read in a long time from an utter expert, Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social); truly essential reading whether or not one lives in the US. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...)
"...it’s still important to point out when they’re lying. And everything they’re claiming in justification of the deployment of National Guard troops to DC is a lie." This piece by @radleybalko.bsky.social is chock full of much needed fact checks & context: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“Republicans are going to paint Democrats as far-left extremists no matter what positions they take. So you might as well defend the positions you believe to be principled, moral, and correct.” @radleybalko.bsky.social is always a must-read.
Donald Trump’s rumored death raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
FYI www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
Why Isn't Donald Trump's Declining Health Being Covered by Corporate Media? Where are the op-eds & news programs calling for Trump's resignation due to his declining health, impaired abilities, & march towards fascism? Oh, yeah, "both sides" corporate journalism. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
The Trump administration is undertaking an unprecedented strategy to try to undermine our elections. They are doing so by rewriting election rules, targeting election officials, supporting election deniers, and retreating from protecting voting rights. bit.ly/4l1lUPP
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
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It's a legit news site but reads like an article from The Onion. www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/mil...
ICE detain man who is legally in U.S.—son of a decorated military veteran. "As a granddaughter of a Master Sergeant veteran," she said. "I never believed my home would be at risk in the country my family fought for." He is living in U.S. legally—and has never commit a crime. Dallas, Texas.
Americans are begging for Democratic leadership to get off the mat and back into the fight. If you’re a political leader in this country and are not prepared to fight with both hands, not prepared to make “good trouble”, then perhaps you should step aside and make space for those who will. #Velshi.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
The new Pulte-Trump crackdown on mortgage occupancy fraud is nothing if not selective.
The problem: Mortgages signed by the Paxtons contained inaccurate statements declaring that each of those three houses was their primary residence, enabling the now-estranged couple to improperly lock in low interest rates, according to an Associated Press review of public records.
This was, sorry, prescient: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“For the second time in less than a month, the Justice Department abruptly dropped charges against a client represented by Brad Bondi, the brother of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.” Must be nice! abcnews.go.com/US/doj-drops...
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Is eating in public illegal?
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If you want to read a useful overview and assessment, read this very insightful post by @donmoyn.bsky.social
they like trump and want to help him and critical reporting about his health - to say nothing of the type of incessant drumbeat coverage they gave biden - wouldn't help him so they don't do it.
This Labor Day weekend, we are not resting. The oligarchs are snatching away our healthcare, our livelihoods, and our rights. Now is the time to act. Read our op-ed in @commondreams.org: www.commondreams.org/opinion/work...
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