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"world's greatest economy"? For whom? Not homeless people. Not the people drowning in medical debt and student loan debt. Not minimum wage workers with 3 part-time jobs and no meaningful access to healthcare.
Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries was born on this date in 1971.
Happy birthday to Buddy Miller.
Happy birthday to Roger Waters of Pink Floyd.
Oh my god, Trump actually got the NRA to come out to defend trans people owning a gun.
"If Trump can order people shot by calling them a drug trafficker or terrorist and declaring war, then none of us is safe. Criminal suspects must be arrested and prosecuted. Lethal force is allowed only as a last resort to meet an imminent lethal threat." -K. Roth, former head of Human Rights Watch
Of course, Obama normalized extra-judicial assassinations. Trump is taking it even further.
Under international law Trump’s military strike on a boat off the coast of Venezuela (which posed no threat to the US or US military vessels) was an act of terrorism. Such a strike is prohibited under US law, too. Trump = lawless.
Insane and frightening how normalized open racism has suddenly become around the world.
Happy birthday to Loudon Wainwright III.
Freddie Mercury of Queen was born on this date in 1946.
Happy birthday to Al Stewart.
Confederates were not bad because they lost. They were, and are, bad because they're white supremacists.
Happy birthday to George Hurley, drummer for The Minutemen and fIREHOSE.
Happy birthday to Gene Parsons of The Byrds.
Happy birthday to Kim Thayil of Soundgarden.
Happy birthday to Lydia Loveless.
“following rumors of his death donald trump held a press conference announcing extrajudicial killings of civilians and plans for a military invasion of an american city” is a perfectly factual headline that could be used to describe what we saw yesterday
Black Sabbath has many songs that are way better than their best-known songs (Iron Man, Paranoid, NIB). I hate it when Ozzy's vocal melody just follows the guitar riff.
Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.
Happy birthday to Al Jardine of The Beach Boys.
Freddie King was born on this date in 1934.
Tompall Glaser was born on this date in 1933.
Hank Thompson was born on this date in 1925.
JD Pritzker is one of like five Democrats who knows what time it is and no Newsom is not one of those five. Newsom is attempting to become the Trump of the center-right. Pritzker is ready to go to war
also, what do you think people conclude when they hear you say Donald Trump is a "wannabe king" who is "attacking the American people" (both true things Jeffries has said) and also that you want to find common ground with him? Probably that your criticisms are insincere or that you're weak or both
journalist: (helping preserve democracy) sir they're saying obama is better at dying than you ??
Eventually, at least.
Billy Preston was born on this date in 1946.
Take a moment today to reflect upon the contributions of the people in the labor movement-- some of which are illustrated in the artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales. May we take inspiration from their achievements to tackle the work that still needs to be done!
Happy birthday to Grant-Lee Phillips.
Happy birthday to Barry Gibb of The Bee Gees.
Happy birthday to Archie Bell (c).
Conway Twitty (Harold Jenkins) was born on this date in 1933.
The idea that billionaires are “job creators” is just billionaire propaganda. Workers create value. Communities create demand. Billionaires just hoard the profits and scare us with lies so we don’t tax them. #socialistsunday #marxistmonday
Instead of criminalizing homelessness, as both Rs and Ds want to do, we should be finding ways to make housing more accessible.
"Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen." Woody Guthrie
Happy birthday to Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze.
Happy birthday to Van Morrison.
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
Why not? Most of everything he does is illegal.
John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas was born on this date in 1935.
Kitty Wells was born on this date in 1919.
Michael Jackson was born on this date in 1958.
Charlie Parker was born on this date in 1920.
I say "Thank you for your service" all the time, but never because someone's served in the military. I say it to people protesting injustice, etc. or sometimes just to people serving the community.
He may be a horrible person, but his appearance is not part of what makes him horrible. He'll probably never see your criticism, but cool people who share physical characteristics with him probably will, and they'll then know you think they're ugly.
Capitalism has not always existed and, like monarchy or slavery, people will look back at it and ask how such madness was ever allowed to dominate
Happy birthday to Glen Matlock of The Sex Pistols.
Happy birthday to Alex Lifeson of Rush.
J.D. Crowe was born on this date in 1937.
Lester Young was born on this date in 1909.
"Blue Lives Matter" flags are not US flags. They do not conform to the US Flag Code, and are therefore not covered by Trump's executive order. You know what to do.
Attention people who know nothing about trans people: Please stop getting all your information about trans people from people who hate trans people.
“You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.” -- Wendell Berry
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Happy birthday to Cedric Burnside.
Happy birthday to Shirley Manson of Garbage.
Happy birthday to Branford Marsalis.
Leon Redbone was born on this date in 1949.
Not talking about it on social media, natch.
Where are the Second Amendment absolutists?
Sweeps of homeless encampments are cruel on a scale comparable to anything Trump's done. I will never vote for any candidate who's participated in one and is unapologetic about it. #GavinNewsom
I wish people would stop talking about everything Trump does as a "distraction" from some other thing(s) he does. It's all important. It all deserves our attention. It's all part of his fascist agenda.
Everyone deserves due process of law, whether you like them or not, whether they're a good person or not.
KILMAR IN BALTIMORE: “Never lose hope. Promise me you’ll continue fight for freedom — not just for me, for everybody.” He was just taken into ICE custody.
The news from the past few days is a stunning example of what happens when the state decides it wants to crush just one guy
Reporting outside the Baltimore ICE field office for @statesnewsroom.com where hundreds are gathered to protest the potential deportation of Kilmer Abrego Garcia to Uganda.
Happy birthday to Jeff Tweedy of Wilco.
Happy birthday to Elvis Costello.
Happy birthday to Rob Halford of Judas Priest.
Because Democrats support it.
Trump's Presidencies have so far involved numerous Saturday Night Massacres, dozens of Watergates, and a never ending parade of Tea Pot Dome scandals. I worry that we're about to enter the "dozens of Kent State's" portion of the story.
Language has power. Using the language of your oppressors gives them power. Stop it.
The Pentagon is reportedly planning to send troops to Chicago. How will Americans respond to military occupation of their cities? I’m not much a fan of the second amendment, but my impression is that it was written with this scenario in mind.
You don't stop this by peacefully waiting to vote, I'm sorry to say.
Trump warned about armed gangs terrorizing cities, but most didn't expect it would be armed gangs terrorizing cities *under his orders*.
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
I had that radio as a teen! I wonder what happened to it...
These are the actions of a government that is planning atrocity and grotesque violence at an unimaginable scale
Well they gave it to Obama simply because he wasn't George W. Bush. He went on to be President Drone.
Centrism is a huge failure of imagination. All they want to talk about is how what's good enough isn't possible & you have to concede before you even start. It's like what if we could allow the possibility for more in our minds, & take one small step that could lead to more?
Happy birthday to Kaki King.
Wynonie Harris was born on this date in 1915.
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup was born on this date in 1905.
I am going to say this again is clearly as I can. For well over a decade both in public and in private, the Republicans have said that their goal is to take over blue cities and states as they see them as enemy territory to be conquered by force. The Republicans are waging war against the country.
This post seems to suggest that Trump is the *cause of* our problems when in reality he's a *symptom*.
Under Trump the US is becoming a more intense version of itself. The circle of people who are its victims is expanding. So for people who have lived relatively privileged lives it feels like something new.
Happy birthday to Julian Casablancas (r) of The Strokes.
#DNC, this is why we can't have nice things. We repeatedly tell you what we want. You refuse to listen.
Keith Moon of The Who was born on this date in 1946.
Make lemonade (regardless of whether life gives you lemons or not).
Layne Staley of Alice In Chains was born on this date in 1967.
Dale Hawkins was born on this date in 1938.
John Lee Hooker was born on this date, but nobody knows the year for sure.
Federal troops in the streets of US cities is fundamentally unacceptable. I don't understand how there are people who are OK with it.