Hawaii Democrats are showing us how to get money out of politics.

Easily duplicated. Keep talking about Health care Affordable housing Real wages Education Child care Stop corporate greed

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 5h ago

Last night, 41-year-old Dr. Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for US Senate in Michigan. What he overcame is not just politically significant. It is historic. And we must understand why so we can duplicate it nationwide. My latest: www.qasimrashid.com/p/dr-abdul-e...

If you want to be friends, you have to stop expelling and terrorizing and harming and killing my friends. That's just a rule I have about friends. www.the-reframe.com/if-you-want-...

If You Want To Be Friends, Then Why Aren’t You Friendly?

A look at one of the most alarming and pressing problems of our age: the much-lamented fact that "the left" won't be friends with "the right," over "political views."

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Everywhere should be a hostile place for Republicans. They should not be able to find a friend anywhere. They should lose all their professional and familial relationships. They should be blocked from signing up to social media platforms, clubs, and yard sales. They should be ejected from fairs.

Many say this leaves no path to redemption; I will note that paths to redemption exist, but they are for the offender to walk, not for others to deem it walked on their behalf. And a Nazi isn't walking a path of redemption if they remain in the Nazi party. Nothing stopping them. Path open.

Really great piece by @muellershewrote.com: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.

Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.

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As Ed Elson & @justinwolfers.bsky.social point out on @profgalloway.com's Prof G Markets... ...disordered psychological thinking underpins the failures of both the tariffs & the Iran war. As I wrote on page 128 of @bandylee.bsky.social's, "The MUCH more dangerous case of Donald Trump"... 1/

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · last wk.

“If they make more, we must be making less. If they export more, we must be losing.” ⁣ ⁣ That’s the zero-sum story in a nutshell. It’s also not how trade works.⁣ ⁣ https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/the-lawyers-theory-of-trade

Here is the link for my brand new standup special The Darkest Hour. Album version out 8/14. It is not for everyone but it is extremely for who it’s for. I hope that is you. I’m quite proud of it. Please give it a watch and share etc. youtu.be/_er-hJ8nZh0?...

Nato Green - The Darkest Hour | Full Comedy Special

YouTube video by Blonde Medicine

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“The EPA is now routinely determining that the benefits of reducing air pollution—that is, life-saving health benefits for Americans—are too uncertain to quantify or value at all in regulatory decisionmaking. The administration is doing this without any analysis or citation to scientific studies.”

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 3d ago

These people love death

Love to spend half a million bucks to join a golf club that's constantly being cited for health code violations, and have to lose all the tournaments to the owner who then posts about how all the members suck at golf.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”

Shouldn’t be shocked at any lie RFK Jr tells, but he whined to Dana Bash that businesses were shut down during the pandemic “with no just compensation.” There was an almost trillion dollar PPP loan program, and his organization got millions from it, none of it paid back, to make payroll.

Cheryl Reeve’s shirt today:

A conspiracy theorist, not me, of course, but, a conspiracy theorist would say the timing of this whole Google Earth thing just before Trump planned to increase bombing runs in Iran is odd

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4d ago

The U.S. struck a family home on Iran’s Qeshm Island overnight on Thursday with a large-scale bomb, according to an analysis of videos, photos and satellite imagery by weapons experts and The New York Times. Iranian officials said the strike killed a boy and his parents.

This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors

JK Rowling centre says Amnesty apology does not solve ‘reputational damage’ — The Independent

Beira’s Place was among organisations labelled ‘anti-rights’ in a briefing document.

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30 in the last couple of hours that I counted, and he's still going. He just posted a photo of himself as Elvis with the white jumpsuit open to the navel. Do not go to Truth Social.

He's now on one of his insane posting sprees - several about how young he looks, a doctored photo of Springsteen to make him look old (such dignified presidential behavior), posts about his dumb monuments, several posts showing him as George Washington or with an alien, and a threat to Greenland.

lol he's posted this twice now plus videos of people reaching into the water claiming it's evidence of knives being used to cut the pool.

The President of the United States says the US Attorney for DC lied in court papers.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Trump: “I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM, that included the grass, which had a big 86 47 emblazoned …There may have been some contractor difficulty, but major damage was caused by VANDALS!”

bookmark this one, it's going in the hall of fame of regrettable historical quotations

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Stephen Miller: "There has never in history been a more total asymmetric one-sided annihilation of the enemy than what is unfolding right now in Iran"

This is the best response so far, in my opinion. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 6d ago

what is “this ain’t it, chief”

@zgoldberg.bsky.social The jeopardy third place winner is jumping in on your transphobia by liking this post too. Rip Jeopardy 🪦

what is “this ain’t it, chief”

big miss on this one, man

we all want to believe we're not participating in systems of oppression. and to some extent it's not possible to NOT participate in those systems. but that doesn't mean you can just do whatever and its all gravy because you stand with trans people "in your heart" (if you even do, i dont know you)

man, I understand the impulse to get defensive about something like this but being snarky at trans people for asking you to be better and clear the lowest conceivable bar to allyship ("not playing a video") is so deeply fucked up. ESPECIALLY in this historical moment. Truly shameful behavior, Ken.

it’s all just jokes to the cishet white guy who only perceives trans struggles as hypothetical at best

Oh FFS come on man. This is so nasty and mean. There are so many ways you could have handled this and you picked the most heinous, hurtful one. Making fun of a marginalized person telling you that your actions hurt them is…..yeah.