The first time Trump was elected by our disgraceful pro-slave state Electoral College, when Hillary Clinton had the most votes, it was clear to me our constitution needed a complete overhaul. I'm ashamed of this non-democratic country that makes women second class citizens. 

@durbin.senate.gov DO SOMETHING, SENATOR! YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE NOW!!!!!

BadJohnBrown@badjohnbrown.bsky.social · yesterday

Because Durbin is so pathetic and weak they know they can lie to his face and he wont do shit. He will still vote Trump nominees into lifetime positions.

Because Durbin is so pathetic and weak they know they can lie to his face and he wont do shit. He will still vote Trump nominees into lifetime positions.

John Mitchell went to prison for protecting Nixon, Toddy Boy Blanche should be held to the same standard.

Now this asshole is selling early access to his posts on Truth Social? When is somebody gonna arrest this sonovabitch? We’ve got a freakin’ criminal monetizing the White House! HELLOOOOOO!!!!! IS ANYBODY THERE? Why aren’t Democrats screaming? What the Hell? Is anyone alive? I must be dreaming.

This Film often has the piss taken out of it for being a rather sedentary piece about 2 people just talking a lot — BUT — it has one of the most brilliantly prescient monologues in the history of Movies imho. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981) Have a listen.

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Erik Loomis@erikloomis.bsky.social · 3d ago

This Day in Labor History: August 3, 1931. The Unemployed Council in Chicago led black residents in protecting the furniture of a 72 year old resident of South Side being evicted from her home The cops responded by firing into the crowd, killing 3 people. Let's talk organizing around black tenancy!

Important to underscore that private prisons have long been centrally important to the deportation state. That is why Illinois banned them entirely.

Aman Batheja@amanbatheja.bsky.social · 2d ago

New: ICE recently spent over a billion dollars buying two private prisons that they were already using as detention centers. Officials with the two biggest private prison companies say they expect more such deals are coming.

While Blanche claims the settlement is dead, Trump spent the weekend making it clear it's totally alive. He's fighting for it in court and on social media. And Blanche's document only rescinds the order officially setting up the fund. It doesn't change the settlement itself.

Techdirt@techdirt.com · 2d ago

Trump Spends The Weekend Fighting For The $1.776 Billion Slush Fund His Chosen Attorney General Swears Is Dead Sometimes it helps to just write out... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/03/trump-spends-the-weekend-fighting-for-the-1-776-billion-slush-fund-his-chosen-attorney-general-swears-is-dead/

These were legal Haitians before their papers were ripped in half. Now they put monitors on them while a felon, rapist, billionaire pedophile protector, and most corrupt person to sits in the White House.

Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.

The logical consequence of Trump's war of aggression in Iran is that your hard-earned wealth is seized and redistributed to Big Oil executives and their employees. That's the whole point all along

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 2d ago

Chevron will award employees a special bonus for operational results so far this year, following the U.S. oil producer's record earnings report on Friday that was boosted by high oil prices from the ongoing war in Iran.

We invented solar panels @ Bell Labs in NJ in 1954? Who knew! @camanpour.bsky.social

My kids have measles, I can't breathe the air, I can't afford gas, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite RFK Jr. ordered the CDC to stop monitoring. But at least now the Saudis have a nuclear program.

Heads up: Taylor Farms lettuce is sold under these brand names: Marketside (sold at Walmart) Earthbound Farm (owned by Taylor Farms) Cross Valley Farms (owned by US Foods) Private labels for Target, Whole Foods (365), and Amazon Fresh. AVOID ALL OF THEM

BREAKING NYT: Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states "based solely" on whether they backed Trump in the 2024 election.

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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David Brouillette, the ICE goon who murdered a man in Maine, told a judge he couldn’t pay child support because of health problems and a revoked driver’s license. Maine confirmed his license was not revoked. The judge found him not credible. Then ICE hired him. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

If you want to know what kind of people kept their newspaper jobs in Nazi Germany, look at who’s attending tonight’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.” — Thornton Wilder

Yes, Karma can be a real bitch. 😂😂

This is me on Beale Street tonight in Memphis. The Memphis Safe Task Force isn't disclosing what they know about the Tyrin Johnson killing. Perhaps one of the National Guard will speak privately to me about what happened.

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

Chicago's hazardous air quality should put to rest sanguine notion that Midwest will be insulated from the effects of climate change and repopulated by climate refugees. Bad air not livable. Midwest must do the work of adapting housing/transportation/energy/etc. to lessen climate impacts too.

Chicago AQ@chicagoaq.bsky.social · 3w ago

At 6 AM the AQI was 417 , the dominant pollutant was PM2.5 and the air quality is hazardous PM2.5 = 417 or 254.42 µg/m³ PM10 = 218 or 366.7 µg/m³ NO₂ = 13 or 14 ppb SO₂ = 1 or 0.7 ppb O₃ = 48 or 52.08 ppb CO = 2 or 0.2 ppb

Walking in our farm's rainforest with the melting heat of these days, I am filled with such inexpressible anger at what is being done to our once stable climate. The richest 1% are actively, knowingly, and uncaringly sabotaging the future for all of us, and for the rest of the planet's life.

“This has nothing to do with immigration. This is all about fascism,” said Walker. “ICE is a paramilitary force they have chosen to build to come after each and every one of us.”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Amid ICE killings, more than 100 clergy from across the US stage protest at Delaney Hall.” “’I am sick and tired of waking up every morning to see another loved one is dead,’ said Charlene Walker, head of Faith in New Jersey”: religionnews.com/2026/07/14/m...

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Shooti@bambooshooti.bsky.social · 3w ago

Guthrie realized you couldn’t fix farm labor without addressing the entire corporate and political machine. The bankers, the corporate growers, the landlords, the fascists and Nazis were all the same entity. They were tyrants who used power and wealth to crush the dignity of common human beings. /8

We're so far beyond enough, you can't even see it from where we are now. With no end in sight.