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Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X
As we begin another week, my law firm is litigation 52 voting and election cases in 25 states. We are preparing another half dozen. The fight for free and fair elections is the fight of our time and I am proud that my firm is helping to lead this fight in court.
currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter
You need to watch this NOW. I promise you will feel much better. I promise you will experience hope. And joy. #ChooseLove
And that doesn’t mean you can’t do what you think is necessary at the time, you just better be prepared to face the consequences of wielding that power. ACAB, as Sir Samuel Vimes knows better than most.
Mmmm. Gooey ass...
Dudes rock
A man caged by ICE was found dead in his cell inside a Long Island jail 18 hours after arriving there.
I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.
Knights of Guinevere PILOT youtu.be/MCAdbUaMlAE
Accountability is hard, it can be misused, AND accountability is one billion percent necessary for a people to survive. Accountability keeps us from getting consumed by the worst impulses of our possible actions
We must belong to a community of peers. We must experience being a member of something greater than our own immediate self-interest. A person doesn't become a person in isolation. Isolation is inherently dehumanizing. We need one another. We are born to be part of an intentional, Beloved Community
Some people want to discriminate. They want to discriminate without restrictions or accountability. To those people, their access to discriminate on their terms is what they consider "freedom." Any limit or accountability on their ability to discriminate feels bad, excessive, or extreme to them
The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.
This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.
There are no right or wrong feelings to have. Feelings just arrive and depart as they will. There are right and wrong actions to take. We bear accountability for our actions
this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers
ICE killed a Chicago area man last week. His name was Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez. He wasn't "the worst of the worst." He was a cook. ICE hopes we'll forget about him. We won't.
Why do we call them the hands of a clock and not the arms?
This morning in East Somerville, MA masked agents who told bystanders they were from Homeland Security abducted a man who lives in the neighborhood while he was on his way to do laundry. Video shared directly with me of the moments after he was detained and put in an unmarked vehicle:
Safe travels!
Give Victor, not Charlie Kirk, a medal.
Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
Brazil's Supreme Court held its country's former president accountable for committing crimes. Meanwhile, our country's Supreme Court gave our former president immunity from prosecution for committing even more crimes. So guess which country is more broken and shamelessly corrupt.
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While Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., dismantles the federal institutions that set vaccine policy, states like Colorado are changing laws and regulations in an effort to preserve access to vaccines.
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🎉🎉🎉Shout out to Kaiser Permanente - they recently updated their website to say that they WILL be covering COVID-19 vaccines all of their members 6 months old and up!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thank you KP - let's hope their announcement kicks off more like it kp.org/covidvaccine
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
JUST IN: All job sectors except healthcare are down. We are in a “no hire” economy. And unemployment for young people just hit 10%. - Bureau of Labor Statistics
Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.
Empathy alone is incomplete. Empathy opens awareness of another being. Second, we need compassion. Conpassion is the will to ease the suffering of another being. And to round out the set, we need kindness. Kindness is the action we take in the world to ease the suffering of others. We need all three
Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
The people wondering "how could anyone who isn't a professional escape after a high profile daylight assassination" are forgetting two things: 1. Cops are bad at their jobs 2. The FBI used to be somewhat better at their jobs and were recently gutted by political layoffs
hi bluesky! I like to paint spookies. I would love to work on a metal album cover one day or get my art on a magic card before I die 🫡 #portfolioday #art
The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.
The system isn't broken; the system is rigged.
Gun violence is bad, yes? If only we do something at a policy level to limit it.
🤍☀️ Good morning y’all 🌿🍃✨️ Happy hump day
You know what would be good FBI experience for identifying violent criminals in a large crowd? The agents who investigated January 6. Who have been/are being fired.
RIP Charlie Kirk. May all who mourn find solace in knowing that he believed gun deaths were “worth it,” “prudent,” and “rational.”
you might THINK you know true happiness but have you ever been in a voice call with friends and 3 separate people's cats all start meowing at the same time and you can hear it? cause that's good shit
So twice they've now claimed they caught the shooter only to backtrack and say they had the wrong person? Twice? Really inspiring confidence.
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
Hi, if your 5-letter crossword clue is "you might judge a book by this" and you go with TITLE instead of COVER, you're a terrible person.
The White House Press Secretary, the official spokesperson for the Trump administration, told reporters in an official briefing that the president wants to invade "every Democrat-run city" with troops. Any media still pretending that this is about "crime" is making a conscious choice to lie to you.
I got my flu shot last week and heard the same news about covid vaccine availability. They estimated it might be October before we had supply.
One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys. Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman. There is no justification for this. None.
Any rich, influential person who spent more than 1 minute with Epstein knew and loved his crimes. We don’t have to pretend otherwise! Our elites are boat dealership-owning Caligulas.
We must stop funding oppression. We must stop enabling oppression in any way. We must put real policy in place to stop the resupply of those committing oppressive, murderous evil
The Supreme Court just ruled that ICE can target people based on their race. Can we get a “Fuck ICE” in the chat?
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
Thank God the Supreme Court gave the president's secret police the right to profile and detain anyone based on any immutable characteristic today, knowing the president himself will never reveal himself to be writing Zodiackian poems and pervert kiddie sketches to a world-historic pedophile.
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
The iceberg, known as A23a, has been on a journey following the current into warmer waters for months. Now, it has begun the predicted and natural process of breaking apart, and eventually melting.
🥲 nevar forget
Where are all the “don’t tread on me” people? Just so you know, this is how it always starts. With a marginalized group… www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Noooo! Not Piss Jugs! NOT PISS JUGS!
The firearms ownership ban for trans people is patently unconstitutional, and I'm willing to risk sounding naive in saying the courts will immediately reject it, including SCOTUS. But meanwhile, this signals where the Trump admin is moving on trans people. And it's terrifying.
Republicans are panicking. This case will be dismissed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Oh, how is old Piss Jugs doing?
Happy September. Flu vaccine acquired.
We rarely collapse so bad that we actually do nothing, but we can often collapse where we lose the capacity to actively choose what we are doing. We must rebuild our capacity to actively choose our actions
I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
They say money does not buy happiness. But money DOES buy accessibility, home modifications, mobility aids, assistive technology, and countless things that make the lives of disabled people exponentially better.
The only real liberation is mutual liberation. The other path, liberation for some, will leave us with a new order of domination and forever arrested flourishing of life
Not merely ignorance, but false beliefs are putting everyone's lives at risk. We attack shadows and ignore real danger. Diseases are preventable, or we can mitigate them if we dont get caught in false beliefs. Vaccines save lives
What we can best plan, organize, and manage are the actions we take.
I drew some sort of demon tiger 👀 #artpost
At least four major scientists out at the CDC today. Kennedy's assault on our public health just keeps escalating..... insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
Cracker Barrel gave in. They’re going back to the old logo. They should also release the Epstein files
The last few days, the thought I can't shake; the CDC being all but shut down. FEMA being gutted. The proposal to get rid of COVID vaccines. The US government has gone full nihilistic "survival of the fittest*" eugenicist.
Make me big
27 UNIHTED stands with Katrina Declaration signers. Link to sign the Katrina Declaration in our bio
Some wholesome Trek content to start the week right #startrek #tng #voyager #ds9
WASHINGTON — You could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, the saying goes, but, in Washington, a federal grand jury just declined to indict a man for throwing a salami sub. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Cannibalism
Love for our fellow beings, our will to extend ourselves to nourish each other's wholeness, empowers us to advance all of our liberation beyond any systems of dominance and control. True liberation must be mutual and inclusive
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We have been following the rumors of the COVID vax being entirely banned. We think this rumor is very likely true.
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Oh that's fine, Cisco isn't important, hardly anything relies on its technology working correctly at all times without fail cuz only a very small percentage of 85% of the whole internet runs on its systems, it's literally fine, stop panicking and go learn to code
Timeline cleanse: The Boogie Woogie Twins - Dr. John & Jools Holland's legendary duet from NBC's Night Music show, 1988. (It's now on Jools Holland's album Pianola: Piano & Friends)
I celebrate every victory for voting rights, but this one is particularly special. No issue has been more hotly contested or more important to PA voters than this one. The DSCC and DCCC fought hard and it is great to see them prevail. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The first thing you gotta realize about me is that I'm literally a cartoon character in real life. The second thing you gotta realize that you are standing on the big red X. There are things beyond that but you will realize them naturally from this point
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
Take this clip and a camera onto the streets of Dublin or Edinburgh and you'd quickly assemble a feature-length documentary of the most withering insults known to man.
The military is not a police force, and should never be deployed in American communities against their will. That the President doesn't understand this (or simply doesn't care) shows just how grossly unfit for office he is.
Lawyers know a million ways to say no
If we don't build liberation for all, then we will endlessly trade one kind of domination for another
What you missed overnight night.🥳 Utah's gerrymandered congressional map was struck down. The judge reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...