On this day in 1987, U2 released "Where the Streets Have No Name" - the third single from the band’s fifth studio album “The Joshua Tree”
Ever closer; MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS; Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley; Appeasement is feeding the crocodile hoping it will eat you last - Churchill; Burn Down The Mission - Elton John/Bernie Taupin
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On this day in 1987, U2 released "Where the Streets Have No Name" - the third single from the band’s fifth studio album “The Joshua Tree”
Oh look, he came up for air long enough to tell us all he is still …… well you know the rest
Some personal news: My Son is officially canceling his second coming until y’all are actually ready to listen to Him.
One for the wife, one for Laura Olson and one for when he gets tired
the mystery of Schrödinger's Psychopath has been solved
Coke labs don’t count?
MAGA LOVES poverty, ignorance and hate?
Here is my theory - Humpercouchdinky opens any orifice to blow flatulence, and the KC Chiefs owner is just smart enough not to say anything that would disconnect his best advertising ever
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Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION Starbucks worker pay: $15,000 Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000 CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker. In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more. The system is rigged.
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Facts are stubborn things… Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas…. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? — He isn’t focused on crime & violence. It’s about an expression of authoritarianism.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.
For those asking, this is an ammosexual.
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
Republicans have time to pettily paint over a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting because they can’t hate gay people enough, but they can’t be bothered to stop school shootings because they don’t love children enough. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
And Pinocchio has a short nose
Try showing up and telling the truth @nytimes.com @cnn.com @nypost.com
Be There! Support the Victims! 👍💙
#gop we mulch while kids get murdered at church school
BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey after Annunciation Catholic School shooting: “Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying!” Stop paying for a f-cking minute and demand action by people and not just God.
@nytimes.com is the @nypost.com now - gossip and innuendo, little truth
Ostapenko and Medvedev need help
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚
#taos
Think New Mexico isn’t fighting for patients, they’re fighting for private equity. There’s a doctor shortage because Wall Street buys up community hospitals, guts staff, and turns ERs into cash cows. Patients wait 16 hours for care while profits soar. Private equity is strip-mining hospitals.
We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
@carlquintanilla.bsky.social how is this ok?
If Cracker Barrel sets them off, imagine how they’ll react when they hear I went woke in the New Testament — turning the other cheek, feeding the poor, all that radical stuff.
Google Laura Olson, Ken Paxton’s mistress/sidepiece.
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
After DEA GOONS begin to harass and question a man sitting in Starburst Plaza in NE Washington DC, local neighbors remind him of his rights and stand with him until the GOONS give up on their harassment.
Clots, no prayers. The obits have quickly become my fav reading material.
In 2020, when I told people that I was building a pro-democracy media outlet, people thought I was kidding. When I told them that the fight for democracy was the fight of our time, they thought I was being overly dramatic. Well...here we are. Subscribe to Democracy Docket now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
Jen and I are heartbroken and praying for the children, teachers, and families devastated by the senseless and heinous attack at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. We stand with the victims, their loved ones, and the entire community in this time of grief.
“There are thousands of people who are starving because the Israelis decide to use hunger as a weapon.”
🚨 Yesterday, Arlington, TX (heart of the DFW metropolitan area) had an AMAZING turnout for their ICE recruitment event. ✊🏼
Water (life) returning to a dried river bed after a good rain.
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
#youtubetv just say no to 🦊🐂💩
That one person in the zombie movie who doesn't tell the rest of the group they got bitten.
@thehill.com Well?
Who among you have had enough of this shit? 🖐🤚
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
The memoir will be released just months after Giuffre’s death.
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
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.
A ‘boathouse’ is a type of house. A ‘houseboat’ is a type of boat. This is a common pattern in English. The first noun MODIFIES the second word. The second noun is what it IS. 🧵⬇️
THANK YOU FOR WATCHING THE LYING LIARS & NEWS STINKERS OF FOX "NEWS" SO WE DON'T HAVE TO! IT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED BY THOSE OF US WHO VALUE HONESTY, INTEGRITY & DECENCY WHILE ALLOWING US TO CONSUME ACTUAL FACTS WITHOUT THEIR BRAINWASHING TECHNIQUES & ABILITY TO TRIGGER BOUTS OF VIOLENT NAUSEA. 🤮
That got us wondering: How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states were ordered onto their streets, perhaps to patrol one of the 53 cities in those states with a higher murder rate than Washington’s? So, we asked them. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
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Georgia O'Keeffe : Blue Flower, 1918 Pastel on paper, 20 x 16 inches Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Way to go, San Francisco!! 👏👏
This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
I honestly don't know what I did to deserve this incredible tribute. I can only say I'm honored, flattered, and humbled—and, of course, deeply grateful to everyone who made this accolade possible. I pledge to do my utmost to live up to it. 🙏🏼🤗
If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.
🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
santos rebeldes
I am not sure if what I am feeling is a patriot crush or what… but there are some feelings. ✊🏼
It’s my opinion that humanitarian and musical genius Dolly Parton (as well as Chef José Andrés) deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. tucson.com/life-enterta...
I promised Texas would be sued. And I don't bluff. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Some call us shortsighted if we focus on retaking Congress in the midterms rather than on what comes next. No! That’s like calling shortsighted those on the Titanic who focused on avoiding the iceberg rather than on the rest of the voyage. There’s no “rest of the voyage” if we hit the damn iceberg!
Tim Cook gets South Park’d. @wutangforchildren.bsky.social $AAPL @stevekovach.bsky.social
He slept with a female child legally considered RAPE in the state in which it happened
👇🇺🇸 #SouthPark
When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.
The clearest picture of corporate greed in this country is CEO-to-worker pay ratios. At the 100 lowest-paying major US companies, CEO pay averaged $17.2M in 2024. Median worker pay at these companies was just $35,570. That’s a ratio of 632 to 1. How can anyone defend this?
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I just signed the Election Rigging Response Act to put Proposition 50 up for a vote on November 4th. The people of California will have the power to push back against Texas and any other state that obeys Donald Trump's demand to rig the next election.
This is Tuffy. He is the only example of taking up the whole sidewalk that is not only justifiable, but encouraged. 14/10 (IG: mypittuffy)
Newsom: We got here because the President is struggling. We got here because the President is one of the most unpopular presidents in U.S. history. We got here because he recognizes that he will lose the election.
This is Watson. She doesn’t support testing cosmetics on animals unless it’s like this. 12/10 (TT: x.larajane)
Awh, too hot in the mud slinging kitchen? 💧boo hoo
🚨BREAKING: The Texas House voted Wednesday to move forward with a new congressional map – as Democrats continued to seek ways to resist. As soon as this is signed into law,Texas will be sued. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
@netflix.com what she said #dotherightthing not the white thing
Says the 7000 year old never dead very white person pumpkin huncher
Aug. 10th Jaimen Hudson "Somewhere over the rainbow 🙌🏻 I filmed this last Friday while out on my regular morning Cruise. I had to wait for awhile to get this shot but it was definitely worth it!"
Offset this criminality @governor.ca.gov
Rep. Vince Perez: Under this map, a Hispanic Texan's vote counts about one-third, and a Black Texan's just one-fifth, compared to a white Texan's.
"To be patriotic is to understand that a truly great nation can openly acknowledge its wrongs and be better for it"- @kenlburns.bsky.social #BlueCrew #ProudBlue #Thisiswhywefight #Resist #TruthWarriors #StrongerTogether #NoKings #DemocracyMatters #DefendDemocracy #StayWoke #ProtectOurRights
Sunshine, MPH 🛸🔬☣️ 
Reverend Gonzo 