“When the power of love beats the love of power the world knows peace.” Man on wire. @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Two people unfold banner atop Empire State Building in apparent marriage proposal stunt

Sign displaying message of peace was seen on the New York landmark after two people climbed to top of the skyscraper

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Latest desk coffee spill: Magically missed keyboard.

I have been waiting for this book for years. So glad to have it in hand. @mollycrabapple.bsky.social’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country. Once in a while we get the book we need, when we need it most.

I am very much looking forward to this new book by Molly Crabapple.

Margaret Killjoy@margaret.bsky.social · 6mo ago

holy fuck, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's new book is fire. I'm interviewing her about it for Cool People, but seriously, I read history books about this exact time period for a living and I don't know that I've seen an author pull off "this is how this history matters today" quite so well.

I laid out the details of the Epstein/Maxwell transnational organized crime operation, including the names of the main perpetrators, in HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) and THEY KNEW (2022).

It’s that time of year when I come in from doing chores in my own barn to get some dinner and watch other farmers’ videos of using heat guns to thaw their water lines.

We’ve been robbed of our freedom. Who will stand with us? I am wicked grateful right from the (hard)core of my busted punk rock heart. Thank you @dropkickmurphys.com for this well-timed album. Thank you for holding on to the ethics and the fight. Buy it, humans, and listen.

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"Everything we've been doing for the past 30 years was a kind of warm-up for the moment we're in." Jeffrey Goldberg interviews the Dropkick Murphys front man Ken Casey about punk, politics, and Donald Trump:

Bill Moyers leaves us a legacy well worth trying to do justice.

Our Kids Poetry Studio in Odesa is in second year and kids, many of whom are refugees of war, are writing poems. If you read Ukrainian, here is the article: vo.od.ua/rubrics/kult... If you read English, here is a link: poemsnotbombs.org. Please consider support this work.

Headline from The New York Times in 2020. "US deaths near 100,000, an incalculable loss." #covid As of today, that "incalculable loss" is 1.2 million Americans. And RFK Jr is taking away our vaccines.

This is how you do it. The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact". The moral imperative may be to fight... but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone: www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...

UMass faculty calls on land grant universities to join in fight against Trump administration; McGovern, AG also weigh in

AMHERST — Faculty at the University of Massachusetts are calling on Chancellor Javier Reyes and President Martin Meehan to form a compact with the 250 land grant and public universities across the cou...

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What if tech bros had held their nerve? What if ABC had told Trump they’d see him in court? What if Ivy League Universities had defended Columbia? What if big law firms had sued Trump? Cowardice is contagious. Welcome to the Great Grovel www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

Since Trump came to power cowardice has become contagious

From the tech bros to the leaders of Ivy League universities, the great grovel to Donald Trump is well underway. What America needs now more than ever...

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Portrait of Louise Bourgeois, 1997 by photographer Annie Leibovitz #womensart

Take heart. There is no shortage of courage.

Shock Doctrine. I paced in my living room reading the book by @naomiaklein.bsky.social And not long after I quit the newspaper where I worked because they installed a political operative on the editorial board and flipped out when asked about it. Now that guy is one of the authors of Project 2025.

Great point listening to a talk by @timothysnyder.bsky.social: U.S. is making itself and its allies less powerful, which increases Russia’s relative power and influence, and brings about the multipolar world that it wants

There is new interest in Missouri as a bellwether of American decline -- a model of what the regime wants. I wrote and warned on this extensively in my 2020 book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. Some excerpts:

scoop: Eugene Robinson is leaving The Washington Post, per an email he sent to the staff this morning

Damn, that's a fantastic video for a campaign launch.

Mallory McMorrow@mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · last yr.

We need new leaders in Washington. I’m running for Senate to be one. Let’s go.

The Angelus bells O’er the Liffey swells youtu.be/keWnPZOd2cw?...

The Foggy Dew - Sinéad O’Connor & The Chieftains, 1995

YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults

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Absolutely fantastic conversation between my friend @rushkoff.com and writer/artist @mollycrabapple.bsky.social. We have reasons to be frustrated and angry, but must remember to find fun, happiness, and purpose in some aspect in our life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Md...

Molly Crabapple | Team Human Podcast w/ Douglas Rushkoff ep. #312

YouTube video by Douglas Rushkoff

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In Hungary. In Tel Aviv. In Gaza. In Georgia. In Turkey. In Serbia. And growing around the US. Mass movements are happening around the world as people are demanding their freedoms back. As people begin to reclaim what these authoritarians have taken from us. Something’s growing worldwide.

Tata Tedoradze🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺@tatatedoradze.bsky.social · last yr.

Tbilisi, 31 March #GeorgiaProtests #TerrorInGeorgia

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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From HCR’s letter this morning: “As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls,” Crawford said in her victory speech, “I never could have imagined that I’d be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.”

"Denmark has given four times as much aid per capita to Ukraine as the US....In Greenland, what we saw was American imperialism with no clothes. Naked and vain." Must read by @timothysnyder.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous | Timothy Snyder

Thanks to Trump’s administration, the US could soon have to fight wars to get things that, just a few weeks ago, were there for the asking, says professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University

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I'm watching the Cory Booker speech on the Senate Floor right now. #BigMessyAmerica www.npr.org/2025/04/01/n...

Cory Booker's anti-Trump speech on the Senate floor has lasted 15 hours and counting

The New Jersey Democrat has been criticizing the Trump administration's policies on immigration, education, the economy and more since 7 p.m. Monday. Here's what to know about his marathon speech.

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Right now, Booker is still at it. And you can watch: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

Jennifer C@thejenniwren.teamlh.social · last yr.

Listen to Sen Cory Booker rip into anyone who voted for the CR! He’s pledged to hold the floor tonight for as long as possible. Let’s lift him up and show him support as he gets in good trouble! @booker.senate.gov @corybooker.com