Michael Stipe
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Today is the 11 year anniversary of the day the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in America. President Obama's words that day should be shared everywhere.
Figuring out arrangement and where to place the breath
I'll tell you this. If we want nice things, we can have them. But we will not get them from the corporations who wrote the rules to rig the system against us. We will not get them by voting for corporate-backed politicians.
Long before this regime turned “wokeness” into a political punching bag, Black women used the term as a call to vigilance—a reminder to stay awake to the systems designed to undermine our safety & humanity.―Stacey Abrams staceyabrams.substack.com/p/democracy-... @staceyabrams.com #PINKS
It’s called The Default Body and it’s the project I’ve been building toward my entire career. Throughout medical school, now residency, and with my work as the ‘Medical Mythbuster,’ I kept running into the same question: Whose body was medicine actually built for? Joel Bervell, MD
Ladies & "gentlemen" this could be your daughter! She had a miscarriage and they arrested her for murder. Vote blue!
You can see the uptick in uses of "Christian nationalism" in the 1930s/40s on Google ngram, then a decline in the 1950s, a steady rise in the 1980s, before an explosion in the 2010s.
The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.
On a serious note — Pope Leo is asking you to call your Members of Congress Capitol switchboard ☎️ 202-224-3121
Remembering Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren Vivienne Westwood April 8, 1941 - December 29, 2022 Malcolm McLaren January 22, 1946 - April 8, 2010 #punk #punks #punkrock #punkfashion #sex #VivienneWestwood #malcolmclaren #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Profoundly influential and we were there as babies opening for them in the early 80’s, Go4 return with this banger 💪✊👊
R.E.M. love Gang of 4 @michaelstipe.bsky.social
45 years ago Solid Gold is the second album by British post-punk band Gang of Four, released in March 1981. #punk #punks #punkrock #postpunk #postpunkmusic #solidgold #GangOfFour #history #punkrockhistory
Joe Kent is the Director of National Counterterrorism Center in the Trump Administration HE JUST RESIGNED IRAN POSED NO IMMINENT THREAT It is clear that we (trump) started this Read his statement below I hope other Republicans will be inspired to do the right thing and follow your lead
Democrats: We want to fund housing, a living wage, education & healthcare for the American people. Republicans: Shut up losers, We don’t have the money. Also Republicans: 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
This is the time that we opened for The Cramps, Danceteria, on Halloween as “it crawled from the south” and we only played songs about death. I wore a pink gingham bunny suit complete with bunny ears mitts and footies. The sweatshirt came off after the first song. Photo by Laura Levine. 1982? ‘83?
Well, you can see why the GOP was afraid to depose Hillary Clinton in public www.tiktok.com/t/ZTh7rGJFa/
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told lawmakers she had no knowledge of the crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein or his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell as she sat for a deposition last Th...
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Glenwood Springs Co. July 1984. photo by Mark Williams. I was apparently working on a song that became Maps & Legends. Thanks Mark!!
This is important and a scarily prescient warning
Nine months out from the midterm elections, we face a coordinated effort by Trump, his administration, congressional Republicans and MAGA leaders to normalize a federal takeover of elections, enforced by ICE and federal agents. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/one-...
We've left the cesspool of right-wing radicalization behind. Will you join us? @danielbiss.bsky.social @laurafine4congress.bsky.social @bushraamiwala.bsky.social @mikesimmonsil.bsky.social @philandrew-il9.bsky.social @votejustinford.bsky.social @jeffcohen4congress.bsky.social @nickpyati.bsky.social
Gift rhymes with GRIFT. Ask an Army brat lyricist
If you know anyone in the military, please share this with them. The Convicted FElon's $1776 bonus check for military is coming from their monthly housing allowance. So they will get less money for housing. Also the bonus check will be taxable income. They are getting screw. youtu.be/HbUkGtu25Ik?...
@Rep_Walkinshaw (D-VA) represents my brother and dad who live in VA and boy did they elect a good one. Watch👇 as he asks Michael Glasheen if the FBI still designates the Proud Boys as an extremist organization. Glasheen nervous as hell, refuses to answer. Bravo Congressman!!