Released 60 years ago today, The Beatles launch Revolver in Los Angeles.
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BlueSky User #15,349,228. Into numbers too much. Writer and photographer. All pix w/ALT are my own. In "On Tyranny" Timothy Snyder says Resist the dictator early, disrupt his rise. timothysnyder.bsky.social Trying to read more...
“What they all add up to is a desire to avoid any accountability to the voters in the midterm elections — to ensure, to preordain the outcome of a midterm that he thinks is going to go badly for him,” Vicuña told AlterNet. www.alternet.org/trump-voter-...
Bush appointee issues Trump his 19th straight loss in push for voter rolls
President Donald Trump just lost his 19th straight judicial case in an attempt to obtain state voter roles, continuing his failed track record of being rejected by courts when attempting to suppress v...
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The Ellison Bullshit machine CBS had to shovel their crap back from their LIES about Mamdani THEIR STENCH IS STRONG popular.info/p/update-cbs...
UPDATE: CBS News reverses course, airs story on 9/11 families supporting Mamdani
Last week, CBS News New York falsely reported that “thousands of 9/11 victims’ families are asking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this year’s solemn remembrance ceremony.” The articl...
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Golden Peak Sunrise above the clouds in the Northern Alps. Bavaria, Germany #landscapephotography #landschaftsfotografie #fog
States with the lowest literacy rates shouldn’t be banning books, they should be reading them
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🌎"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." - Neil Armstrong. Remembering Neil Armstrong on his birthday. 💐💐💐
Former challenger Mallory McMorrow: “Congratulations to Abdul El-Sayed for winning the Democratic primary to become our nominee to be Michigan’s next US Senator. I’m proud to give Abdul my full endorsement and support as we head to November together as a unified party”
This is a man who has a hard time looking in the mirror
New Ad: Gina Hinojosa, Dem TX Gov. candidate promising to rein in GOP leaders "who forgot who they serve." She plans to take on the corporate interests she says have been controlling the Texas GOP for far too long.
Remembering the legendary & incomparable Louis Armstrong, Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter and singer on his 125th birthday. He was #BOTD on 8/4/1901 and passed away at 69 on 7/6/1971.
Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.
NEW: After James Talarico accused Ken Paxton of committing voter fraud, ProPublica and @texastribune.org found that the Democratic Senate candidate may have voted in up to five elections using an address where he no longer lived.
James Talarico Accused Ken Paxton of Voter Fraud. His Own Voter Registration Is Raising Questions.
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune’s review of the Democratic Senate candidate’s residency records found that he may have voted in up to five elections using an address where he no longer lived.
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ICYMI last night, DHS is currently being fined every day for contempt of court until it coughs up the cell phone records of officers involved in immigration stops in L.A. last year that looked like racial profiling rather than reasonable cause. short thread -->
Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 18h agoFed. judge holds DHS in civil contempt of court for refusing "intentionally and not in good faith" to provide plaintiffs with phone images they intend to use to prove DHS was racially profiling people arrested in Los Angeles without reasonable suspicion. Order from July 28, unsealed today.
El-Sayed: There is so much more that unites us, however much we might disagree with our democratic opponent, there is so much more that unites us than divides us. And so to all of our supporters here tonight watching on TV—tomorrow, we begin to mend fences.
Texans, including former State Rep. Lon Burnam, were arrested for defending our voting rights. Tarrant County leaders tried to slash 𝟭𝟰𝟬 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆. That’s nearly HALF of the election day polling locations! Texans showed up, fought back, and forced them to back down—for now.
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Honestly is anyone surprised? I'm not. This is what you get when you elect a criminal who wants to be king to be President. Project 2025 told us exactly what was going to happen. And here we are.
🚨BREAKING: Missouri voters have rejected a ballot measure to limit their own ability to pass amendments to the state constitution — a proposal that fueled extraordinarily high voter turnout in Tuesday’s election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Missouri voters reject ballot measure limiting their power to amend state constitution
Notably, the proposed amendment would not have affected constitutional amendments that the legislature put on the ballot. State lawmakers only wanted to make it harder to pass a voter-led measure, not...
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as corrupt as they come, Blanche should be behind bars not pretending to dispense justice www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...
Trump Live Updates: Blanche’s Confirmation Faces New Opposition (Gift Article)
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NEW from me: I think this is the perfect time to use Rachel Maddow’s oft-repeated phrase - ‘watch what they do- not what they say.’ Ignore Ellison's PR pitch, but look at what's happening at CBS News including directing reporters to add “facts” that did not exist. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
David Ellison can’t be trusted with CNN
We've already seen how Ellison has wrecked CBS. Don't fall for his PR push on CNN.
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If you voted today, you're in the game. If you didn't, you're in the bleachers. This November, join the team. We're going to need you on the field.
Putin doesn’t take Europe seriously. Who can blame him? Russia is already at war with the West. That’s what our leaders must realise to avoid having to fight the Kremlin’s troops on our streets archive.ph/anTP8
So now the next step is to find out what Capital One's months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience discovered about Trump's 300+ accounts...
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 23h agoPhang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."
