I'm posting this for the late-night crowd. It's not here to tell you to do anything. It's here to show you that if you sit on the sidelines, you ain't going to get anything because we will win in the end. Those who work now, those who educate now, and those who organize now will reap the benefits.

“We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250” This is the right attitude. Fuck all the trauma holding us back. Let's set things right moving forward. Whatever that costs, let's deal with it.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 12h ago

El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250

Wow. The corporate Dems took a licking tonight. Progressives took 3 to corporate/AIPAC 1. How's that chasing polls working for you now James Carville?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h ago

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DDHQ Race Update (est. 70% in): Michigan US Senate Democratic Primary Abdul El-Sayed (D): 540,702 (49.6%) Haley Stevens (D): 507,513 (46.5%) Mallory McMorrow (D): 42,970 (3.9%) Follow more results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/283906

This is going to be a close election in the Michigan Senate Democratic Primary. It coming to Detroit deciding this.

The two biggest military embarrassments for US in the last 50 years are both connected to Iran. Operation Eagle Claw 1980 Operation Epstein(Epic Fury) 2026 Maybe we should leave. Just saying.

They are calling us the Dem Insurgency in the news. 😂 I like it.

If Abdul El-Said wins the Michigan Democratic primary, this is going to be a landmark, watershed election. The establishment, the centrist fascists, the right fascists, AIPAC, and everyone with money threw everything at him and yet he's crushing her. Fingers crossed.

MI UPDATE: Abdul El-Sayed is currently surpassing expectations across the board in the Michigan Democratic Senate Primary.

This is the type of excitement good candidates elicit.

Late 90s Delta kit was peak operator. You didn't know if it was Peter Jennings coming to interview you or a kill squad coming to disappear you. There is something to be said for this type of Banana Republic camouflage. They were not trying to be seen in any environment. Very different from today.

I don't want to shame one of our young fighters, so this is going here. Recently, in a comment, someone said, ‘We need a law that provides legal services for free.’ Well, here's the thing: we have that in the US; it is commonly called Legal Aid. This is why Inposted for 4 weeks about Civics. We

Homepage | LSC - Legal Services Corporation: America's Partner for Equal Justice

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A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks

Stop using the suffering of others to hide from your own inability to control your own government. Your own lack of civic knowledge. Ukrainians and Palestinians don't need your fake sympathy, they need your civic actions so our governments can help them fight evil forces. They need real support.

Coebalte(He/Any)@coebalte.bsky.social · 7d ago

I can say that because I can analyze history and see that humanity strives to come together, and is only kept apart by ruling bodies with selfish desires. I'm pretty sure the Palestinian in Gaza or the Ukrainian on the front lines is feeling pretty similarly right now too.

I snarkyly said this in a comment but it is true. Stop complaining about the courts and start using them. Being angry on social media isn’t going to change anything. You have to bankrupt them and destroy their support. Isolate them culturally and isolate them socially.

'Thought I Was Going to Die': Black Musician Attacked While Recording White Nationalist Group Marching In Boston Receives $2.7M Judgment, Critics Say It's Tactic to 'Bankrupt the Group'

The white nationalist group Patriot Front and its leader, Thomas Rousseau, have been hit where it hurts most in a civil rights violation ruling. On Jan.

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My condolences to Mitch McConnell on his death tomorrow.

Something I heard a couple of minutes ago: the speaker is right; we are not losing a cultural war but abdicating a cultural war because many can't control their emotions on the Center-Left. We are not fighting adults on the right; they are all 14 y. o. boys. Yet we let them get under our skin.

The group needs to hire this guy. "I'm done pretending this is a government" needs to be a campaign slogan. It's crazy that no one wants to actually fix the real problem with our government. People are only all for heritage and fear of change. —Julian Cross

The US is not providing interceptors to Ukraine because the US has run out of them. Not because Trump is a Russian asset. Ukraine will adjust like a boxer to Euro and home-grown systems. The scary part is the Arsenal of Freedom is broken.

The Patriot Runs Out: Ukraine's Air-Defence Pivot

Why the US Patriot pipeline has structurally broken, what Europe is building to replace it, and the mosaic air-defence stack Ukraine will field in 2027.

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After watching the festival marches over the weekend, the US has lost Iraq too.

Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...

Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming

A Massachusetts farm is integrating solar panels above berry fields. This agrivoltaics project generates electricity while shading the crops. The elevated panels create a cooler microclimate, retain...

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Battleground assessment of Ukraine: the long strike campaign has been going on for several months now. It hasn't caused big shock yet so still be patient. Again the group's assessment was that nothing would start happening until sometime around September and possibly into October.

The Russian Situation May Get Worse From Here

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The New InfoWars is amazing

It’s political cicada season. All the usual suspects are coming out of the woodworks.

This closes the week the same way everything else has: naming the mechanism and pointing the same toolkit at it. Four tools, four direct applications to the economy actually squeezing you.

Every civic tool you already learned points directly at this fight too. Precinct seats decide what your party's housing platform actually says. Records requests expose the exact subsidy a hospital promised and never delivered. None of this needed a new toolkit. It needed a new target.

Add him to the board. They lost another one.

Scott Lucas@scottlucas.bsky.social · 4d ago

3+ killed and 15 injured in an explosion near a café on #Moscow 's Kudrinskaya Square #Russia media and bloggers are claiming that Aleksandr Chaiko, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces, was celebrating his birthday at an upscale restaurant in the Russian capital #Ukraine

You already learned who built survival infrastructure under governments that wanted them gone. This week showed you the specific mechanisms doing the squeezing right now. Put those together and the instructions are obvious. Build it here, on purpose, before you need it.

The National Apartment Association says on its own website that it opposes rent control in all forms. That is not a hidden hand. That is a named trade group lobbying a named state legislature to keep your city powerless. Why does that group get more say than your council?

This week: wages flat since the 1970s, rent laws blocked by your own state, medical debt sold as inevitable, wage theft barely punished. Four different sentences, same structure. Every single one was a vote, not a law of nature. Nothing about the squeeze was ever automatic.