My sentiments exactly.
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My sentiments exactly.
"Today, September 1, 2025, more than 250 media outlets around the world are participating in a unique global protest against the unlawful killing of journalists in Gaza." broligarchy.substack.com/p/no-headline
UK Labour is as clueless and useless as US Democrats. Neither country has any leadership; no opposition. Those elected to represent us have failed miserably. It is up to us, we the people living in leaderless countries, to change the story - while we still can.
You're very sweet, Steve. Thank you. It's as close to a socialist holiday as America can handle. It beats all those bland 'bank holiday Monday' breaks in the UK. I'll never understand not having them stand for something specific, particularly in a land so rich with history, culture, science, etc.
Today @carolecadwalla.bsky.social writes about why we must hold mainstream media accountable for the hundreds of journalists deliberately murdered in Gaza. There's a 24 hour news blackout to call attention to Israel targeting and killing journalists. broligarchy.substack.com/p/no-headlin...
Labor Day in America. (and yes, it would look better as 'Labour Day'. I like the 'U' in there - but most Americans can't spell properly)
Happy Workers’ Labor Day from America’s unions! Today, we celebrate the workers who make America run and make our labor movement unstoppable. We’ll keep fighting so ALL working people get the freedom, fairness and security they need and deserve. Join us: WorkersLaborDay.org
The opposite of America, including California. - We shoot everyone - Our police bully everyone, especially people of colour - We are a seriously divided nation
We live in 'ranty' times, my friend. I get it. Occasional a good rant is what it takes.
I'm also not a watcher. Much prefer reading, followed by listening. I cannot bear to listen to a single word out those nazis mouths. Nothing they say is true or even grounded in any kind of reality.
Impressive, Paul. And a good story.
I always check timelines, as well as 'replies' to others, RB, thoroughly before engaging. Differences can be interesting - but ideally I enjoy intelligent, creative, thoughtful, passionate, bookish people - not obsessed with accumulating followers. You have an engaging timeline. #1 for me.
Wonderful, my friend. She sounds like our kind of person for sure. I adore word savvy people.
Agree. Thank you for being such a polite, thoughtful person here on BlueSky.
I do indeed differentiate between the two, RB. Unfortunately, the gunman who recently killed and seriously injured children at the Catholic school he attended, is being referred to as 'her' by the NYT. He claimed he was a woman, so the NYT is referring to him as such.
I also love that place. We used to go every year.
Weirdly, I never liked Scrabble, or crosswords - but I have played Spelling Bee to 'Genius' level daily for many years. I am addicted. Also to 'NYT Connections'. Our friend plays it to 'Queen Bee' level nearly every day. Queen Bee is very tough for me to achieve. I'm not in that league.
Why are do you feel entitled to ask me to explain myself? Move along.
I've read every word she has written on the topic and find her to be thoughtful, generous, kind, tolerant, and witty - unlike those who vilify her.
As with all extremism these days, mainstream media has a lot to answer for. They pander to extremism giving massive platforms to the nazis in the White House, as well as to men claiming to be women. The media normalizes the crude, cruel and outrageous.
And I respect that. There's plenty of room for more than female and male. Only those lacking imagination think otherwise.
Aaaah, got it. Too heartbreaking to contemplate.
Magnificent! What talent, ambition, thoughtfulness, and vision invested in this masterpiece, Steve.
'Build institutions of working-class power at the grassroots level, independent of the state...'
Steve, Do you play @nytimes.com Spelling Bee? This is the finest player in all the land. She is truly amazingly gifted at word games. I don't know anyone who plays The Bee better. And she has delightful food cravings/binges she sometimes shares. We 'met' long ago on Twitter playing the Bee.
That could indeed end tragically, though I don't imagine many book shops were custom built. When I returned to Northern California from England, the hardest thing to leave behind, besides my precious friends, was my late husband's natural history library. Moving books abroad costs a fortune.
And what a grand and glorious adventure it is.
Cool. Real cool.
Love it. I'm trying to remember where I saw such a game. It might have been in a film. Indeed. It is in the film Wicked? Did you see it? The library scene is similar to the one you're suggesting. Highly recommend the film and theatrical version. They're very different.
Certainly checks all my boxes. I've always wanted to live in one of the world's great libraries. Have recently started collecting library cards. California has nearly 1,200 public libraries. Any California resident can get a library card from any California public library.
I like the way you and our well-read friend think, Steve. Or perhaps we could each choose one of the world's greatest libraries and move in for a spell, as long as don't mind sharing it with hoards of book lovers. I'll take Dublin's Trinity College Library.
Indeed they are not - BUT there are many limits on getting these vaccines that were not there before T. To make sure one can easily get these vaccines, a prescription will help ease the way, required or not.
GIFT ARTICLE 📚💙
Keep dreaming and dreaming and dreaming.
50 Senators put an Anchorman in charge of the Pentagon because they were afraid a Game Show Host would yell at them
Unions make a world of difference to people's lives. We need them more than ever.
August 30, 2025
What makes great art – a forgotten philosopher's superb century-old insight into the single most important element in creative work www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/08/a...
The United States is held together only by oaths of office. It was always vulnerable to bad actors—by design. It’s beautiful in that it relies on ideals, good faith and shared intent—and deeply flawed and fragile for the same reason. It was always ours to lose.
If you live in America and want a flu and/or Covid vaccine heading into autumn, do as @boghuma.bsky.social suggests, get an actual prescription for it from your healthcare provider.
Tough one today. Well done.
I gave a talk this morning at Upaya Zen Center. Here's the essay about disaster and human nature it was based on. It look back to Hurricane Katrina and forward to the present moment. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/we-were-made...
They are so delusional, Dave, I don't think they can begin to comprehend the disdain we feel for them. Challengers are showing up, fortunately, more and more. Mostly younger people who get it and are as fed up with the old guard as we are.
Could be an alarm that goes off if an angry commuter tries to break, or even open the window.
What a fabulous idea, Steve.
Proud lifelong socialist here as well.
Unfortunately, they're not going to do it. Most of them have been feeding at the corporate trough too long, Dave. Their greedy snouts are stuck-in. We are the only ones who can save us, my friend, much as I admire Robert Reich.
Excellent point. Social media is not where the Revolution is taking place. Social media is largely performance.
One can (and does) say the same thing about @nytimes.com -and 95% of mainstream US/UK media. The nazis were handed the White House by mainstream US media. The BBC is following this playbook with far right extremists in the UK. The BBC and the New York Times are not our friends.
This, by @jasonhickel.bsky.social, is the clearest explanation I have yet read of why the US and UK governments continue to support the Israeli government, regardless of its great crimes against humanity. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-does-t...
Well said, my friend. Exactly right.
You're such a massive reader. I'm never surprised to hear about all the authors you're familiar with and all the books you have read - and read today. Your library must love you.
Impressive, Barb. And a very visual description.
I'm surprised to learn this about Canada, my friend. Fox hunting was outlawed in the UK, save for Northern Ireland, as I understand it. So called 'game bird' hunting is hugely popular in the UK and US. Including, as I just learned in our supposedly compassionate community, dove hunting.
@nytimes.com had the audacity to call the murderer 'she' because HE started calling himself HER at some point.
A good many humans deserve our disdain, my friend. I have always preferred dogs to human. Much more trustworthy and entertaining.
As well you should, my friend. You ARE a superhero 🦸🏿♀️
Electric bikes are hugely popular in our flat, cycle loving community. Nearly everyone seems to be choosing the super comfy, upright electric bikes, with big seats and roomy basket for shopping. I see people of all ages and sizes riding them, well into their 80's.
As long as America is owned by corporations, we can never be free; never be safe; never trust the place we live.
Naturally, people who are cruel to animals, mammals, birds, nature, are also cruel to humans.
People willing to kill for sport are sadistic sociopaths. Shocked to discover our local nature foundation allows DOVE HUNTING the first two weeks of September. In this week's column @georgemonbiot.bsky.social talks about a 'festival of cruelty' in Cornwall, where bluefin is hunted for sport.
Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
Saffron is making a big comeback in 2025. I've spotted several cars decked out in saffron of late.
I bet it's fun at your house (writing tapping my toe) I'm going to create a David C Playlist on Apple Music. I'll take a screenshot when finished.
That is hysterical. I recall you lived in Kent. I was in Westerham, on the Kent Surrey border. You could see Surrey from our garden. Beautiful part of the world, but I prefer to live near the sea.
I noticed and greatly appreciate that, Paul.
Obama failed to do a good many things tens of millions are paying for now. He is a great orator - but was not a great president, or even leader.
Paying attention to people on the ground, who actually know this stuff.
Robert Reich is 79. He says the same about the US and UK.
'the strength of feeling about this' Seriously?
The things one learns on BlueSky.
I'm smiling (-:
Thank you, my friend. Lovely to see you as well.
I attended numerous town meetings when I lived in Kent. They were hosted by the Sevenoaks County Council (Tory) Agree our so-called civil servants rarely listen. They mostly have their own agenda. Rewarding those who got them into power.
I went on Ezra Klein's podcast to discuss how Trump is building his own paramilitary force. Grim as this discussion is, we recorded it *before* Trump's executive order directing Hegseth to set up rapid deployment units within the National Guard. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
Listening to this podcast now. No doubt. America is a Police State.
We’re being governed by monsters. Just absolute monsters.
'If as journalists we can’t even defend journalism, what are we even here for? And, what can I, one lone journalist, even start to do about it?’ Carol, you give voice to millions of us. You say what needs to be said clearly and concisely, day-in-day-out. You are an invaluable resource. Thank You.
Naomi Kline is one of our most important voices speaking out against the genocide in Gaza.
Extraordinary piece from @simonerzim.bsky.social - searching, tough, honest and with all the receipts. Please share it with anyone you think is ready for a reckoning. The genocide is not only ongoing but accelerating and expanding, this is urgent.
THIS Sunday, August 31st, Rebecca Solnit talks about HOPE, online and in person. Don't miss this.
I'm grateful to Carole for many, many reasons, including our friendship, Steve. It was fighting for Carole's honour with the Guardian, you and I met here on BlueSky - and joined forces.
'Those who seek to defend the world from climate disaster find themselves confronting a ruthless and deadly force. ' George Monbiot's latest, must-read-essay.
The Israeli government has adopted the double-strike tactic used by Bashar al-Assad in Syria: target a hospital or heavily populated area, then hit it again when rescue workers, reporters and medics turn up, to kill or maim them too. Hideous war crimes piled one upon another.
I ask again. There are, rightly, repeated calls for a "just transition" for people who might lose their jobs through technological or economic change in primary (and sometimes secondary) industries. So why not for people in any other sectors, who can just go hang? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The media cannot get enough of these villains.
Exactly as they did (and continue to do with Trump) The media cannot get enough of these villains. They will lead 85% of their stories with them and ignore everything else.
Exactly the same in America. The media mostly ignore the tens-of-thousands of us protesting the nazis in the White House every day, while covering every stroke of T's golf game.
This is stunningly true. And yet so many Americans seem to have no idea how untrustworthy and downright evil the BBC has become. They still cite it with pride.
Not familiar with that one, Sharon. This one is from 1956. I'll check out Black Oak Arkansas. Thank You.
I just paid for a subscription to her Substack for $70 for the next 12 months, Steve. Her work is utterly invaluable. I also sent a complimentary free month to her Substack to six people I think will also become paid subscribers. I really want to support her work in every way possible.
Carole, I am endlessly grateful for you. You're one of the three most important journalists of our time. You called everything happening a decade ago. You're my go-to-source for the truth. I appreciate you tremendously. It is an honour to help financially support your work from Northern California.
One of the Top Ten to follow on BlueSky.
We'll be seeing more of this insanity. Violent males claiming to be women - while doing what violent males do.
Well said. 1% of the population gets 25% of the attention and resources.
Could not love these book benches more.
Carole is the single most important voice of this moment. If I could only support one journalist in the world, my choice is Carole. Appreciate you feel the same. Steve.
'Discipline allows creative freedom'.
Ironic and appropriate that the world's women and dogs share the same honourable day.
This is such a fun song.