tbh i'm deeply amused how we went from accusations of welfare queen stuff in the 70s/80s to this
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tbh i'm deeply amused how we went from accusations of welfare queen stuff in the 70s/80s to this
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣
Whatever he has to say today, it is designed to pull attention away from the Sept 3 press conference of 10 women who are victims of Epstein&co. He knows something bad is coming and it is killing him, and if anything, he'll hope playing feeble will garner sympathy, or use it as an out with the 25th.
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
I want to wake up to this tomorrow
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dox every memebr of ice. Dox every fascist you find. Make fascists fear being openly in your community.
Yesterday I posted my op-ed in the Inquirer (gift link: share.inquirer.com/M8nPzg) Today I want to highlight all the other excellent op-eds - anyone engaged with higher education should want to read these. If you go to any one article in the collection, you'll get this box with all of them:
“Across a three-page resolution, the IAGS presents a litany of actions undertaken by Israel throughout the 22-month-long war that it recognises as constituting genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
Bunch of plates in there!
Finally finished reading it. Felt like a scene from a Marx Brothers movie at times. Confusing and hilarious. Glad I read this one, thanks for the suggestion!
Please feel free to feed the birds! 😉
To party the night before a high peak... with few exceptions that is nuts. 15 mile hike and a doozy too. You hiked it at the right age!
Happy birthday Ward!
Love Grass!
In 2020 I had no snowblowers or weed whackers. By 2024 I have 2 of each. Thanks Biden, and also my wife who collects these for our garage #decluttering
Friends, I urge you to join a Workers Over Billionaires protest this Labor Day. Let’s honor the roots of this holiday by standing together to protest the exploitation and oppression of our tinpot dictator. bit.ly/4lMgKaR
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
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.
Twas amazing. The lead in was hilarious.
Great cover of Oasis last night by Lespecial.
happy labor day
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Join us in celebrating the people who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. Únase en celebrar a la gente que trabajan en los campos para poner comida en nuestras mesas. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay
Really strongly recommend everyone get off Substack. Not just for the Nazi stuff, but because they're going to lock you into the platform and then slowly bleed you dry
You know these shows are for & by Republicans because hosts don’t point out murders are up in red state cities like Fort Worth & Jacksonville & down in Trump targets LA, DC & Boston They just repeat Republican talking points back to them in the form of a question & then let them lie uninterrupted
He died. He died on the toilet but “not the way you think,” a White House spokesperson said in a brief statement before declining follow-up questions.
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
Careful, he'll fire them all
Wish I was @ Dick’s lot right now contemplating a rarity they would play tonight. On Dick’s Sundays, they have played a few, such as, Come Together & Guy Forget ‘11, Ride Capt Ride ‘12, Landlady ‘15, Buffalo Bill ‘17, Mellow Mood ‘18, Stray Dog ‘19, McGrupp ‘21, Icculus ‘22, Dog Log & Sabotage ‘24.
Everything we take for granted — weekends, paid vacations, sick leave, safer workplaces, health care — exists because of unions.
Yes, that’s fascism.
Some important information for folks who want to help protect migrants and asylum seekers. theintercept.com/2025/07/12/i...
Trump's contribution to our politics was exposing that conservatives don't care about any of the principles they've said are sacrosanct for 100 years, and all they wanted was to be openly evil instead of circuitously evil. The Democrats who win will be the ones who understand this and act like it
Heading up the Northway once again, this time for a full day of ADK Fest! Annie in the Water, bob. (Tribute to Dylan with Al Schnier and Charley Orlando), Lespecial, LaMP and Pigeons. Top notch weather on tap too!
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
Not a very long path from "Why wouldn't you want the regime to deploy federal troops in your city when it reduces carjackings?" to "Why would you be opposed to the erection of internment camps for deviants when it reduces crime?" And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
New plan: we get Obama to demand the death certificate
TONIGHT | 🍑 A.S.S. 10PM~1:30AM EST | SET 2: The Lost Dick('s) Set, a multiversal archive event using Dick's highlights from the past + other glorious peaks from '10-'12 with only 1 jam appearing from '25. @jempradio.com is the spot. @andymichels.bsky.social is on now. Come rage with us!
This is a good sign. Also AIPAC money today comes mostly from Republican billionaires. Double good.
Learned so much geography from this show.
Hiked 11 miles today, checked off Grace Peak. 31 down, 15 to go!
Israel is now denying US senators (aka their patrons) from even seeing what they have done to Gaza. But the genocide is made up.
Two friends got engaged on Monday. She's a Taylor Swift fan and it turns out that I was the one that broke the news about the engagement on Tuesday, which I guess makes me a Taylor Swift fan? Really smart work proposing Monday because proposing on Wednesday would have been overshadowed a little.
Here's my 2025 Hampton print. I'm dropping it here first. It's a 6 color screen print on 100lb recycled white paper. 19x12.5 - Limited edition of 70 prints. jiggslot.weebly.com/posters.html
she looks nothing like him
Agree with every word
@thediscobiscuits.bsky.social 1st night of a 3 night Pine Creek Lodge run was a very interesting one. Check out the all new @biptdbdotnet.bsky.social for the latest setlists, show reviews, ratings, & much more.
The thing about Ashli Babbitt that I kept saying is that, for most of history, most countries would have strung up a bunch of the J6 folks in the capitol steps as a sign. And for good reason. This is what happens when you don’t.
If we survive this, I hope I live long enough to find out what historians dub this period in US history. The Great Madness has a certain ring to it.
Excellent second set of moe. at ADK Fest: Meat>Timmy>The Other One>Puebla (something like that)
A strong statement supporting the impeachment and removal of a lawbreaking president would be a great first step in righting the ship, Senator Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com.
Might check out some @moeperiod.bsky.social before heading to an early am hike.
I was debating Hey check out my cucumber but ya know, wokism.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we don’t need to fight fairly against fascism. We just need to fight.
Check out the first cucumber from my garden!
We have this couch with an additional section in between. We love it, plenty of space for 2 humans and 2 dogs, recliners are a bonus.
Love thy neighbor.
I never liked Tex, he was shit in NY and got zero send-off when his contract finally ended. Never had a good vibe on him so this checks out entirely.
Never saw any of the show but loved Toby Jones, Marcia Gay Harden, William Sadler, the Sherminator, and the lead actor was great too.
So I thought this was The Fog with Shannon from LOST and 30 min in i realize oops wrong movie but damn thrilling. That ending though...
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You can come to my soccer practice today and tomorrow in New York and give Junior High kids red cards if that helps.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
NEW EPISODE! @themikeayers.bsky.social and I go deep on his new book "Sharing in the Groove," AND the beauty of The Went Gin! This is a conversation I've wanted to have my whole life, and I'm thrilled that Mike was game. Available below and wherever you get your podcasts! linktr.ee/attendancebias
Started watching The Mist just before midnight and boy that was a CHOICE. Great suspense and good lord the ending.
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
How do concentration camps close? The top five answers on the board. Survey says: 5. Defeat in War 4. Death of Cult Leader 3. External Pressure 2. Judicial Action 1. Citizen Action
This is what happens when you order delivery in DC right now.
PHOEBE BRIDGERS: it feels like you played a lot more two-high last year STEVE SPAGNUOLO: that's right, phoebe
they’re calling the most recent shooter in minnesota trans to ignore the fact that there has been an organized group of far-right suicidal school shooters and this person is very likely going to be linked to them as well
It’s pretty striking to me that by scrolling Bluesky’s “Popular With Friends” tab for a few minutes I can get up to speed quickly with the breaking news of the day but if I were to just scroll X’s “For You” page for the same amount of time (or more) I wouldn’t even know there was a school shooting
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
I may use this, this term. News consumption is part of the curriculum in one of the classes I teach & this might be a good companion to that requirement.
they want you sick, dumb, and poor. you’re a lot easier to control that way.
Something is wrong with a system where 76% of workers say they’re worried to make ends meet, while greedy corporate CEOs make 285x what the median worker does. Working people don’t have to accept this. A union contract is how we fight back.
Support yr local library by checking out Sharing in the Groove
Active Clubs are white supremacy’s new, dangerous frontier
Breakfast Club host Charlamagne says of Hakeem Jeffries: "I call him AIPAC Shakur." "I just don't think he stands for anything."
Feds fail to indict ham sandwich
I read this in Oasis-ese
Reminder for when the “thoughts and prayers” come—that Catholic teaching specifically calls for STRICTER gun control and regulation.
“Theory of the unitary executive” is one heck of a clunky euphemism for “I love dictatorship.”
That number means most Americans
idk what class this is, but if you can ask a question about Main Character Syndrome, see if he replies to it. Will be hilarious if he does, will be vindicating if he shuts up.
New BSky game just dropped - pick your date for the Fall of the American Republic.
We've speculated about the many ways the Trump era could end, but I'm not sure "Jonestown style mass suicide of cult leader and his Cabinet" has gotten enough attention. I think these spineless weasels will do whatever he says.
“The danger inherent in Palantir’s AI-powered super-database on all Americans is connected to the vast wealth and power of those associated with the corporation, and their apparent disdain for democratic institutions.” By Robert Reich, 6/30/25 … 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Spotify will do anything but pay artists
The only way the dems can maybe stop the institutional capitulation is promising to punish collaborators
I’m not hanging my hat on any of this but skipping Chicago after an inch of push back would be funny
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
can calculators get horny for big naturals? big tech wrestles with the “80085” question of our time
Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.
Many won’t understand the significance of this because it’s wonky and niche—but it’s unprecedented and authoritarian.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
