Game master, adventure designer, community radio DJ, prematurely anti-fascist, movie enthusiast, atheist, and consultant as a day job. Lives in Indianapolis, votes Democratic.
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Of the many reasons this is a bad answer — the kind of answer I would delight to get in cross-examination because it makes the speaker look shifty and untrustworthy - is that “maintain or rebuild institutions” is not particularly less abstract than “democracy under threat.” It’s just less direct.
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.
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
“people that I find personally annoying are the reason the other side wins elections” is the laziest possible form of political analysis
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.
A 1970s Texas Instruments calculator could’ve nailed this one.
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Thank you on this labor day!!
Legit.... But they are worth it!
Good question, feckless answer
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hey anyone know where the button is for me to post the smell of this bread??
As Trump attacks unions and occupies our city, we’re called to remember how we got here. Labor Day would not exist without the workers who fought and died at the Haymarket Massacre and the Pullman Strike in Chicago. It’s not a coincidence he’s targeting Chicago:
It’s really sad that America is descending into fascism, but it’s nice that Trump has had to experience multiple news cycles in which the entire nation speculates on whether he’s a pedophile and/or dead.
September, from Maurice Sendak's Chicken Soup With Rice, 1962 In September for a while I will ride a crocodile down the chicken soupy Nile.
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Meet Mary Katharine Goddard, the first woman postmaster in colonial America! #GirlPower #RadicalWomen
Happy Labor Day! Solidarity forever!
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
I'm sure the contents will be good and also LOOK AT THAT DESIGN Y'ALL
It’s not box wine, it’s cardboardeaux.
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Holographic images of Trump have gone up in Los Angeles and it’s pretty cool.
Splendid! 🐶🤩
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
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Ordering Pickett's Charge was a blunder of the highest order. Lee should have known better than to charge uphill against an entrenched position. A competent general would have.
I waited hours for this cloud to come near the lake #lightning strike reflection.
Your Prestige Press, ladies and gentlemen
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
This is why we are not discussing the ongoing airborne pandemic. It's "divisive." No it's not, you don't want to discuss reality. Public health doesn't report cases accurately, is that divisive or a denial of reality?
The Republicans give us the venomous power-hungry racism but you need to go a Libertarian to get “the government suggesting I shouldn’t eat raw chicken is as tyrannical as the age of consent”
Orthodox libertarianism doesn't work if externalities, negative or positive, exist, hence their simple denial that they do.
I want a politics that widens the circle to include everyone, not one that shrinks the circle by throwing *undesirables* under the bus. I think this is basic. I am interested in a politics that is rooted at the sources of people's suffering. I am interested in a politics that attends to basic needs.
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You don't get to ask for my free labor and then get mad at how I give it to you!!
Not ascribing a lot of agency to the kids, is he?
normal guy at a party: hey man how’s it going Charlie Kirk: I will outbreed you
the right wing view of covid is, basically: it is very bad the evil chinese manufactured this bioweapon to kill us all, but also we should've let it kill more people
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Obviously the failures of mainstream journalistic organizations pale in comparison to the open, gleeful acts of evil being done by the administration, but let us be clear that these are failures.
Alleyway in the Centro Histórico, Arequipa, Peru, June 2025. 📷 Canon Sure Shot Supreme 🎞️ Kodak Gold 200 📷 📲 Plustek 8200iAI #filmphotography #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #EastCoastKin #photography #travel
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
Two things: *She is in infectious disease scientist who was asked by a vaccine crank to support an anti-vax policy not backed by evidence *She was told to resign or be fired bsky.app/profile/ddia...
We know you invoke prayer as a substitute for action because you send thoughts and prayers every time there's a mass shooting and you never do anything about it. You are not allowed to play the victim because the emptiness of your convictions is a national cliche.
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Baby Goats Moonwalking... 👀😊 #bluesky #animals #babygoats
A progressive Democrat flipped a staunchly Republican seat in *Iowa*— won it by 10 points, in fact— by running *As A Progressive* focusing on issues of education, and making housing, child care, and health care affordable. Stop running to the right. Stay left, and fight.
ㅤ The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself — Marguerite Yourcenar img: Portraits en fil de fer réalisés par Jean Cocteau [Wire portraits by Jean Cocteau] — Man Ray, 1928 ㅤ
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
Meanwhile, every time a shooting happens the right insists we should not "politicize" the wide availability of guns.
Anyone who looks at America in 2025 and thinks, "maybe we can fix this by throwing trans people under the bus" 1) doesn't have the brains to understand what's going on or how we got here 2) doesn't have the stomach for any of the fights ahead and 3) is vice signaling to their MAGA friends.
This fucking rules. Incredibly proud of all of my friends at IGN for taking this very brave stance.
🚨WE HAVE A FLIP TO REPORT🚨 Democrat Catelin Drey has FLIPPED Iowa State Senate Seat 1 tonight! And in doing so, Democrats have ended the GOP Supermajority in the Iowa State Legislature! This was a Trump +11 district, and the Democrat is ahead by 9 points! A 20 point swing!
And the media never actually say any conservative commentary is crazy or radical, while letting Republicans call the most anodyne New Deal Democrats the same things.
This has always been what Republicans meant when they said government should be run like a business.
music.apple.com/us/album/sun... cowboy junkies
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Meanwhile Republicans are less unpopular than their "transfer the other half of the nation's wealth to the top 1%" agenda becauae the media constanly rephrases and obscures it for them.
This is why I have no patience with the “but you don’t understand, this tech can automate coding tasks!” sigh-ers. If there are any circumstances under which your technology can operate *specifically* to encourage a teenager to take his own life, it ought to be pulled until you fix it.
So the DOGE crew copied the list of all social security numbers ever issued to an unsecured cloud server? 🧐 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
🧵PSA from a comms professional You do. not. concede the autocrat's premise. If your response focuses on crime—AS IF THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ABOUT—you've conceded Trump's premise & undermined your own message. If you ever *have* to repeat an opponent's premise, do it briefly & MOVE ON TO YOUR MESSAGE.
".. unless Pulte somehow had particular knowledge about issues with Cook's application, which is unlikely, then one has conclude that Pulte handed Fannie and Freddie a list of political enemies and asked for their loan files for review."
Two grand jury no bills on the same charge is a bar to any future prosecution for that same offense in Georgia. I tend to think that's a good thing. Prosecutors Fail 3 Times to Charge Woman With Felony Assault of F.B.I. Agent in D.C. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the 7th episode of Dirty Pair, "愛こそすべて命賭けます逃避行!!" or "Love Is Everything, Betting Their Lives on Elopement", one of the most overtly trans-positive episodes of anime of its era. This was the future they predicted for us in 1985. We can still get there.
oh im gonna get some mileage out of this one
This is the way
It appears this Aakash Singh worked for Sen. Tillis and is a 2017 law grad. He needs to be infamous.
They know party line votes will prevent any consequences to bad actions.
Everything the rich have ever wanted is being delivered, a further weakened labor movement, a gutted regulatory regime, a public sector being strangled in a puddle. The rest was hokum invented by academic scribblers searching for a logical rationale for the rich to be more dominant.
there's something Orwellian about the way that we saw Bezos say he was devoting the Washington Post OpEd page to "personal liberties and free markets" and we all immediately knew that he was going to turn it to support for the regime
It's Takashi Miike's birthday...and honestly, I can't think of a filmmaker whose staggering output has such range. Among his work, HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS remains a personal favorite, because I enjoy cinema that leaves an unhinged impression (complimentary) long after the credits have rolled.
One crucial front in the war against fascism will be the right to photograph police. The cops have always hated that right and they and their various lickspittles will push back at it at every turn.
"I" gave the Governor of Maryland money? I'm pretty sure those were taxpayer dollars. Your money. My money. Not King Trump's money.
Whatever you think about Mamdani on policy, his approach to campaigning is new and different in interesting ways
Name one.
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I am an elderly hippie and I approve the actions of my cohort.
No matter what you think about Mr. Abrego Garcia, if you believe in due process you should be infuriated by this. The Trump admin is threatening to dump him in Africa as punishment for not pleading guilty to criminal charges they brought to avoid complying with a court order.
We’ll be talking about this on Monday on Morning Edition @wbez.org
"Democrats should be doing press conferences every day" or "we should bring back fireside chats" - Dems already do these things. The media doesn't cover them, social media doesn't amplify them (unless a Dem says something stupid) and no one watches or listens to them.
Trump is Putin's puppet.
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
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I always want to ask these people what they expected to happen when they voted in these monsters?
Friends...today is World Goat Day. So I drew you a goat. Because you deserve it.
Colorado needs to tell him to pound sand. It will be fun to watch him argue in court that the state should be penalized for prosecuting a woman who tampered with voting machines to rig an election.
Oooh, thank you, Amber!
The maddest someone has ever gotten at me was when I talked about the child sized manacles Jefferson had at Monticello for 9 year old children. They could not cope with the idea that a child the same age as their child had been enslaved. And it made them angry that I made them know facts
reminder that when we say "respect" we mean "treat as a human" and when they say it they mean "treat as an authority" "you're disrespecting me" is such a HUGE red flag in the context of relationships is because it can mean "you need to shut up and obey me and the fact that you're not is a problem"
Allyship, baby
Calling disenfranchisement “a political issue” is also John Roberts’ go-to move and these people really think it’s clever but they seem not to have thought much about the things people end up doing to address “political issues” when they can’t effectively vote
Fair!
New euphemism for "corrupt authoritarian abuses of power" just dropped
FWIW it wasn't so labeled when I saw it.