Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.
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Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.
Thank you on this labor day!!
NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
In case you were looking for this tonight … How The 25th Amendment Actually Works — And What Nobody's Ever Figured Out www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chri...
Congressman Jerry Nadler would more than likely have been reelected to an 18th full term in Congress. He's long had the support and confidence of NYC voters. Instead, he's passing the torch and doing his part to center and strengthen the next generation of Democratic leadership. (thread)
Love this
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Demolition is fun and easy, evidently
Very annoyed by this brainworm, heroin narrative that RFK is some kind of incompetent. He may very well be mentally ill, I'm not a doctor, but it's kind of beside the point. He's calculating; he has said he wanted to do all these things for years, and now he's doing them. 🤷🏻
I mean, Paris Olympics was pretty recent and celebrated their world wide colonial past on frikenTV?
I love it!
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...
FORCED BIRTH Wealth transfer to the rich Inequality Authoritarianism Voter Suppression CUT MEDICARE Terrorism Insurrection GUN VIOLENCE END SOCIAL SECURITY Dirty Air and Water Destroying Planet Pandemics RACISM Misogyny War Theocracy NO PLATFORM ..DEAD PARTY...GOPDead
India & China to back Russia in its invasion of Europe, will increase trade and manufacturing to make up for current losses. Together they’ll make sanctions obsolete and provide equipment / resources needed by Russian forces. Unknown the level of intelligence & manpower either country will provide.
Gosh. What does that remind me of?
Britain has been multicultural for the last 2000 years. That's why we have the Roman alphabet, a Middle East religion, Arabic numerals, a Syrian patron saint, an aristocracy with French ancestry and a German royal family.
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He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
lolsob
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
I really appreciate the combination of these extremely pained, serious comments about the government trying to deport unaccompanied children in the wee hours of a holiday weekend…and the name Judge Sparkle Sooknanan
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
They’re radicalizing us all now.
I’m absolutely begging reporters to stop suggesting that Lisa Cook stated that she would use both properties as a principal residence on her mortgage APPLICATIONS Mortgage APPLICATIONS and mortgage AGREEMENTS are not the same thing We have no idea what she represented on the APPLICATIONS
In the pouring rain I found a wasp on the road with a raindrop between its wings. I offered it my finger. It climbed onto me & I put it in a dry, sheltered place in a wall. First it shook, then it dried itself, then it flew away, hopefully home. Have you done something like this?
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
" Secretary Kennedy is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. Secretary Kennedy must resign."
“theorists in the 60s used term social factory to describe the relationship between capital+labor in the postwar era. Today we inhabit a social manor. Society isn’t oriented toward the production of workers+commodities. It’s now an order of personalized service privilege hierarchy+fealty.” Jodi Dean
What is MCM, May I ask? We’re having a holiday weekend in the US, Labor Day
Writing a list of things to try and cram into MCM weekend… including possibly the cinema, various restaurants&bars and now potentially karaoke?? London has SO much to do!!! At least needing wheelchair access reduces the options 🤣 less overwhelming this way!!
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum. IG tatterbluelibrary
Vorta in DS9 is the role Iggy Pop was born to play
There's a Bob Dylan song for every occasion
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
I will delete this, but can somebody tell me why everybody thinks he croaked? Is it just the many days off and the weird playlist on the lawn earlier today, plus the references to heaven and the hand bruising that we already knew about? Or is there something else?
I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town
Worth noting that the courts were able to close a concentration camp last week, at least for now. We can still slow them down and prevent them from moving forward. Or age gracefully, trying.
“Well, Bob, it’s been a long road from Melbourne to Tokyo, but as they say in the movies, this is the payoff.” General Douglas MacArthur lands in Japan on this day in 1945. War correspondent Richard Tregaskis was close behind. rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2023/08/glor...
We want to apologize if it feels like we’ve been venting a lot lately. It’s just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.
ICYMI — JUDGE: “This case represents the consequences of a decades long drumbeat of anti-immigrant sentiment and misinformation being broadcast & broadcast & broadcast…” 2 immigrants shot in Washington, gunman sentenced in June. Barely even a story. 🤷🏻♂️ www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/g...
I cook for unhoused folks in town & this is what they say: “I haven’t had access to a kitchen and a home-cooked meal in such a long time. This is so nice.” “This tastes like something my mom used to make when I was little.” Anything you can do helps & helping might make you happy. Pass it on.
@LePapillonBlu2 Maya We are living in the dumbest timeline in human history. 😳
Of course the Queen was Remain. You don’t sustain a hereditary monarchy by randomly pulling pins out of grenades for the lols at the urging of a cluster of snake oil chancers.
“SEATTLE (AP) — Lawyers are demanding the release of a longtime Oregon resident arrested by Border Patrol while fighting a Washington state wildfire, saying Friday that the firefighter was already on track for legal status” — apnews.com/article/immi...
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
Aw!
Stephen Manning, this guy’s lawyer, is one of the best in the country. It’s very good news that he’s taken this case.
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Yes
You might be idling in bed or up and about. You might be waiting for something. As you’re here, you might want to read something about elections, local politics (no flag nonsense or hate campaigns) and London, featuring a classic ‘do you know who I am?’ moment. www.onlondon.co.uk/lewis-baston...
It’s time to take serious action at the State Capitol to address gun violence.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Detroit has a pretty nice airport with a fun red train
Philadelphia’s District Attorney Larry Krasner has suggested an effective playbook— We should arrest rogue ICE agents at the state level, which would shield them from a presidential pardon. This is the kind of hardline approach we need from our Democratic leaders.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?
when it happens... I will be online ALL day. cancel my appointments. hold my calls. "what were you doing when you found out?" my grandchildren will ask. "the posts, children, I was reading the posts!!" I'll say, and we'll all crowd around my scrapbook containing the best ones
@captmarkkelly.bsky.social Please sign and share our petition to remove RFK Jr. www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...
I’ve never seen a more “tax the rich” sign in my life.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
CHICAGO…
Why the Texas AG is trying to lock me up and what we're doing to fight back and win. open.substack.com/pub/betoorou...
Psaki: Comer was a little slow to move forward with the subpoenas, at least in my view. Moskowitz: That’s actually his regular speed. He’s just a little slow in general.
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.
They don’t care if you have papers or not. What they care about is whether you look like an immigrant from south of the border.
Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
This is the enduring lesson of Weimar: extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable it—because of their ambition, because of their fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal #Florida crash involving its self-driving function. Then a hacker found it while sipping a Venti-size hot chocolate at Starbucks. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... via @washingtonpost.com
CAP ECON: “We obviously have no particular insight into whether the Supreme Court will uphold .. If it did, “Treasury would .. need to return most of the now-close to $100bn in additional customs duties .. and there is a danger .. other countries would back-track on any preliminary agreements.”
NEW: Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed into law a new, deeply gerrymandered congressional map that disenfranchises voters of color for political gain. All voters deserve to be heard. This is an affront to our democracy.
Neil Young quits Facebook and Instagram over Meta's use of chatbots with children 'Meta's use of chatbots with children is unconscionable,' Young's team shared in a statement. www.cbc.ca/music/neil-y...
Yes! Thank you
The penguin with the sandwich will never comply.
Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice FACTS YOU WON'T SEE ON FOX Alabama has a homicide rate 290% higher than California’s, but Fox News is choosing to ignore that. Mississippi’s homicide rate is 380% California’s, yet FOX NEWS refuses to cover it!
this site is bad! it's going to fail! its user base has plateaued! it's not making any money! nobody here is smart except for me! everybody here is stupid! nobody is having any good discussions! i don't like being here! ok that's it for now. be back in 90 minutes
she slayed www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/b...
Well, we all are going to have our political careers die
Today’s update from Weirdo HQ.
Dear White People, It is okay to just say Native American. You don't have to do that weird pause thing or say it as if you're using air quotes. If you are feeling a little unsure, it is okay to ask us what term is preferable or even what tribe specifically.
Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.
