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人生似叶，岁月如风 I would love to live/ like a river flows/ carried by the surprise/ of its own unfolding 行者常至，为者常成
The biggest mistake in American history was not dragging Trump off to prison within 24 hours of Jan 6th. We’ll all pay for that for the rest of our lives, if the MIDTERMS go south… Now, go VOTE! 😎✨
Umberto Eco’s checklist for signs of fascism. It makes for disturbing reading regarding our current national and international situation.
I loved drawing this Red-eyed Tree Frog (Litoria chloris), if you have any other Australian frog suggestions I'd be keen to hear them! rachelhollis.com/product/red-... #frog #wildlifeart #illustration
c) far-sighted Germans who saw this coming amended the constitution and constitutional court act two years ago to prevent the Constitutional Court from being captured as Germany lurches rightward, and that will be a brake on the worst possible outcomes.
In 1912 Japan gifted us the cherry trees in DC as a symbol of friendship. Dump has cut them down. Everything the maniacal narcissist touches, he destroys!
Young people deserve better than a policy built on panic. We're happy to see France's top court acknowledge this and strike down the country's legislation banning social media for under-15s. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
French Top Court Gets It Right, Strikes Down Social Media Ban For
In a welcome win for free expression, France’s top court has struck down the country’s legislation that banned social media use for people under 15 years old, which had been scheduled to take effect
eff.org
On Elliott Gould's birthday, watch THE LONG GOODBYE (1973) on the Criterion Channel! 🐈 🖤 Gould stars as private eye Philip Marlowe in Robert Altman's brilliantly idiosyncratic Raymond Chandler adaptation. Posters c/o Posteritati.
This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”
📌The so-called leadership of the Democratic Party are not fighters, they are appeasers, stunningly out of touch with their voters, and ignorant of world history. I suggest they google "Neville Chamberlain" to see what happens when you chum up violent, fascist regimes. This is really grotesque.
Much of what we call “convenience” is just the elimination of contact. Why ask when you can Google, why go somewhere to meet people when you can swipe, why call when you can click? The friction we’re engineering out of life is also where an enormous amount of life happens. What are we without it?
Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you want to be even more basic, tech that used to connect us is now trying to stop us from talking to other people. Taking gambling out of the sportsbook, taking dating out of the bars/clubs/gyms/wherever people meet, replacing friends with chatbots. It's solely transactional now.
Chief Justice Roberts has issued an “administrative” stay In the ballroom case—which effectively allows Trump to keep doing what he’s doing while the full Court decides whether to let him keep working indefinitely while the case moves forward (which it probably will, given this intervention).
It’s really impressive that anyone could watch the wars in Ukraine and Iran and determine that we… don’t need drone battalions. What are we even doing here?
In 1503 Columbus suffered major defeat in present-day Panama. After establishing Santa María de Belén and attempting to seize local wealth, Columbus clashed with the Ngäbe, led by cacique Quibián. Quibián escaped captivity, rallied warriors, attacked the settlement and forced Columbus to abandon it.
what is it with ex obama people and misreading the room lol? this whole thing sparked a news cycle and endless earned media, feels like a slam dunk to me
演出现场见! on.nyc.gov/broadway
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2mo agoPeople come to New York City from all over the world to experience Broadway. The kids who grow up here should be able to do the same. We’re partnering with TDF to give away over 2,000 free Broadway tickets to NYC High School students at on.nyc.gov/broadway. Break a leg, high schoolers!
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
January 6 was only 5 and a half years ago, and we’ve already cycled through investigation, indictment, conviction, pardon, and now gleeful promises to do it again only with actual hanging rather than just chants about it. Nice job GOP.
John Crowley was one of my favorite writers. Little, Big; Engine Summer; the Aegypt books; the short stories; the lesser-known works like The Translator---all so worth reading. what a loss, what a sad day.
Erin Kissane@kissane.myatproto.social · 2mo agoOh god, what absolutely wretched news. I had imagined another decade of Crowley. I’m so sorry, friends who knew him well.
The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again: the stock market is not the economy.
US stock market hits record highs as AI profits pile and oil prices ease
S&P 500 shot up 1.8% and the main measure of Wall Street’s health topped its prior all-time high set a few months ago
theguardian.com
Trump is desperate to get out, Iran knows this, so how is it a surprise that they are only going to agree to a deal that makes Trump surrender even more than he did in the MOU? And where is that in the article? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/world/middleeast/iran-us-oman-strait-of-hormuz.html
Iran Issues List of Demands, Dampening Hopes of Reopening Strait of Hormuz
The head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said that the waterway will remain closed until the United States met certain conditions.
nytimes.com
He cites users' ability to mute & block folks as a positive, which is good. It's also why right wing chuds thankfully can't get a foothold here - b/c they violate community norms & get nuclear blocked out of normal people's timelines. Bluesky isn't a *liberal* bubble - it's a *decency* bubble.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2mo agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
I’m confused, I was under the impression that almost nobody actually died of COVID (basically the common cold) and all the claims otherwise were made up to make Trump look bad
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoTUBERVILLE: Fauci killed 9 million people FOX BUSINESS: Yeah. We can't prove that, right? TUBERVILLE: We can
I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
stlpr.org
For a deep dive on the Kahanists -- and their resurrection in Israel and the US -- read this: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...
The No World Order
Meir Kahane, Netanyahu, Trump, and the war beyond Iran.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3mo agoSince Laura Loomer is being legitimized and mainstreamed, it’s worth knowing that she is a Kahanist.
