The cultural landscape of Anthropocene
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The cultural landscape of Anthropocene
Commemorating the Battle of DC...
Look at this
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
NEW: Massie tells CNN that there is significant pressure from the White House to BLOCK the release of the Epstein files.
Tuesday's final light over the Chicago Lakefront.
In 2007, Ghislaine Maxwell became a licensed helicopter pilot. Epstein bought her a helicopter so she could transport people without commercial pilots knowing who was being taken, ensuring secrecy and privacy. She called her helicopter Air Ghislaine 2.
Always good to see our Senator! Let's get him to the 14th soon!
Democrats "have to give up on the idea that they're a governing party. They have to give up on the idea that the Republican party is a traditional political party of which you can have some sort of meeting of the minds." @stuartpstevens.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social:
Right where he’s always been...
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COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.
What group ran the boat & is it formally designated? What proof links those killed to that group? Why strike instead of interdiction? Was this international waters or another states EEZ? Under what legal authority was this attack ordered? Why the FUCK isn’t the media asking real questions?!
It was the biggest armed uprising since the Civil War. Both sides used Gatling guns and machine guns. Private planes were hired to drop homemade bombs on the miners, using a combination of poison gas and explosive bombs left over from WWI. /8
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"I believe we've turned a corner in the war against leaves."
Weeks after a gunman opened fire on the CDC, House GOP 2026 budget proposes a ban on federally-funded research aimed at developing policies to prevent gun violence. The research resumed in 2020 after a two-decade freeze.
We are watching, in real time, the destruction of the CDC. Our kids' and families' health is going to be put at risk because Trump and RFK Jr. are running a money-making conspiracy racket instead of a public health agency. Another result of Trump's corruption machine.
Wild scene in Denver, where the benches cleared after Rafael Devers admired his two-run shot off left-hander Kyle Freeland in the first inning
Right??!!!
“The terror and cruelty are the point.” Illinois Gov. Pritzker says WH Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller chose a potential federal takeover in Chicago during the month of Mexican Independence Day.
FOX BUSINESS: “My goodness. $5 BILLION. Eye-popping numbers… crypto-friendly legislation coming from the president who is in turn cashing in on crypto. A conflict of interest.” Even Fox sees how insanely corrupt Trump’s crypto grift is. (H/T @ab21.bsky.social )
Love Chicago!! youtu.be/EHV0zs0kVGg?...
Yeah that was cool...
So the U.S. military just blew up 11 people on the open sea in an extrajudicial massacre, saying they were dangerous drug traffickers but offering no court prior evidence to claim such. And other military units are patrolling U.S. cities with guns and no training in criminal procedure. Cool, cool.
Trump: "We've taken in almost $17 trillion of investment." (That would be more than half the entire US GDP, so no.)
30,000 files released and nothing new to report? This administration is nothing but smoke and mirrors. Smoke and mirrors protecting child predators. SMH. youtu.be/UagsB3U-goo
Do us all a favor…
Breaking News: Google must hand over its search results to rival companies, a federal judge ruled in a landmark decision to resolve the company's monopoly in search. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
Ditto
Hella rhymin'...
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Been thinking a lot about Fort Sheridan, north of Chicago. It was built on land donated by Chicago's wealthy elite to have a nearby army base so troops would be around to break strikes and respond to labor unrest. Sheridan Road existed in large part to transport troops to Chicago's south side.
Epstein survivors are currently behind closed doors with the House Oversight Committee today. For decades, their voices were silenced. Tomorrow, survivors step forward publicly at the Capitol.
Frederick Douglass on John Brown, 1881
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Horace Silver was born in Norwalk, Connecticut on this day in 1928 📸 Alan Nahigian, 1997
Convicted felon has thoughts about other people being "born to be criminals".
I’d like to believe Rudy’s story about the car crash, but I remember Shop Rite 2022.
September 2, 1972 Rod Stewart was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'You Wear It Well', the singers second UK No.1 was taken from his album Never A Dull Moment. #ClassicRock #RockNRoll #ClassicVinyl #MusicSky youtu.be/hQqNUwNNkTo?...
Jeffrey Epstein survivors say they haven't had any contact with the DOJ
No doubt about this one from Nathaniel Lowe!
This Labor Day is one for the history books!!! 💥💥💥
🎶Ray Charles & Buck Owens🎶 #art #artist #band #group #music #nowplaying #photography #singer #songwriter #us
R.I.P....the most wonderful Graham Greene has gone forth shining.🌟 (free article) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/m...
To the quiche? Most do
Altho most of those alleged pizzas are technically quiche.... Just sayin'...
Get it myself from a mountain stream... youtu.be/S8P-atJqodo?...
The city of thick necks will endure...
WTFF
Trump’s move to send National Guard to Chicago reads as retribution for Illinois protecting Texas lawmakers. This is personalist rule. Federal force becomes a punishment tool, shrinking state sovereignty & turning public safety into a venue for executive vengeance.
Los Angeles - Black mayor D.C. - Black mayor Chicago - Black mayor Baltimore - Black mayor San Francisco - Just lost a Black mayor Seattle - Black/Japanese mayor New York - Black mayor (technically) and Letitia James We gotta stop with the "Democratic Run cities" bullshit and see what it is
People drown and people surf Don't be mad if your just desserts are only light years to go...
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump is preparing to deploy National Guard troops in the state over the governor’s repeated objections. Pritzker also warned Trump will soon launch large-scale immigration raids in Chicago. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The relocation of U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama is retribution for Colorado’s defense of mail-in voting & refusal to enable electoral manipulation. It exemplifies authoritarian use of military infrastructure to punish dissent & enforce partisan obedience.
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
In a landmark decision that will shape the future of the internet, a US federal judge opted against forcing Google to spin off its Chrome browser but barred it from striking exclusive agreements to promote its search engine, writes @viacristiano.bsky.social:
Say what now ...
You misspelled wholly complicit...
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
www.politicususa.com/p/alarm-grow...
Broad. Fucking. Daylight.
This American carnage...
Trump certainly wasn't going to tell us this was happening. Where is the media frenzy? @pkuper.bsky.social
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LAPD lying? That's a first...
From the latest proof of life video released by the White House, Trump is caked with make up, reporters kept at a distance, voice is weak, and the podium is acting as a walker to help him stand up. It's not looking good health wise.
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
“I refuse to accept this is normal.” - JB Pritzker. Amen, governor. Amen.
Tell me what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like. Detroit ✊
Peak. Vonnegut.
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
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Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
No lies detected...
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Just another day
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Mass arrests in Georgia are pushing protestors towards the edge "We have nothing left to lose, so everything begins now!" #3E (📸 @True_Georgian )
Trump on moving Space Force base from Colorado: "The problem I have with Colorado -- they do mail in voting. They went to all mail in voting, so they have automatically crooked elections. And we can't have that."
9/1/25 Boise, Idaho ✊
Cartoon by Rob Rogers. Bron: MPR News share.google/QERYYnJFMjlU...
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Chile is one of the safest places for LGBTQ+ to reside. They have some of the worlds strongest anti discrimination laws. Green Day plays Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen right before they hit the stage. Here are 50,000 Chileans losing their shit this past weekend. #HumanRights #Chile #MusicSky
T-minus 13 hours.
This shit is getting wild.. 😂🤣 #SheShed
Here we go. Massie discharge petition with help from Ro Khanna, filed.
It wasn't about politics. It was about military readiness. It didn't make sense to put Space Force headquarters in any state other than Colorado when the only priority should be quick and effective communication in a nuclear crisis and there was already an infrastructure.