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My dad fought fascism in WWII. I’m proud to be an anti-fascist & follow him today. Be fucking resilient. Find another way. There’s always another way.
Watching this, I can’t help remember how the cops melted in front of the rioters on January 6, and how your values in this country are only respected by the authorities if you back them up with violence.
Women’s March@womensmarch.com · 5h ago🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
As a decades-long member of SEIU, I find this utterly shameful & inexcusable. There is no Republican alive who won’t eventually betray our workers. share.inquirer.com/1X6A2H
Why labor unions are sticking with two Pa. Republicans, even as control of the U.S. House hangs in the balance
Republican U.S. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Rob Bresnahan have scored an unusual amount of organized labor support. Could it help them appeal to swing district voters in November?
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“Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you – Ye are many – they are few.“ www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-mas...
The Masque of Anarchy
As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.
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You could say “No”. It’s literally all you need to do. You know why you don’t? Because deep down in your black hearts you agree with him. You like what he’s doing. The pros outweigh the cons. You & your whole party are just like him.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
I would settle for making them live the kinds of lives they have forced on trans ppl, gay ppl, poor ppl, pregnant ppl, & immigrant ppl for a year. One year. Try to find a place to pee or fix your testicular cancer, MFer.
A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d agoEverywhere 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.
And this is how we remain in a near-perpetual state of war, keep the weaponry welfare queens flush, and vacuum the last crumbs from the poor up to the rich.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdaySen. Rand Paul: "I've had the debate with this administration ... they told me this isn't a war. I said, why isn't it a war? They said, 'Well, a constitutional war has to have significant casualties' ... initiation or declaration of war is *before* the casualties."
The infuriating thing isn’t the Iran War-this would have happened to us eventually. It’s how DC hawks browbeat us since the 60s to keep feeding more & more treasure into the military maw as we started & lost war after war, & now we can see the final result. And for this they want another trillion.
CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterdayU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
What fresh lie is this? Why are these people allowed to reproduce?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdaySen. Husted: "The SAVE America Act -- I've led the photo ID effort. Perhaps Democrats will come around now that Mamdani is demanding IDs to shop for groceries in New York. Maybe the Democrats will come to their senses and vote with us to have photo IDs to vote in America."
“‘What is more important: human rights or property rights?’ If they say ‘Property rights are a human right,’ then they are on the right. That’s it. That’s the crux…If you think that property rights are a tool for achieving human rights, then you’re on the left.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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Podcast Episode · Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · July 26 · 1 sec
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When the truth offends, we lie & lie, until we no longer remember it is even there. But it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid. -Valery Legasov, scientist; Chernobyl
John P Greer@jpgreer.bsky.social · 4d agowww.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Kennedy and Paul are obsessed with Fauci. Their lies about Covid divided the country. They want to rewrite history like Trump. Using Fauci’s diary is a malevolent attempt to deflect their deception. Dr. Fauci’s goal was to protect people. He is an American hero.
Working in a battered women’s shelter, I met women who cooked their abusers dinner with broken jaws, arms, & concussions. This is such classic woman-beater behavior. And the puppy eyes & the “who me?” gestures…this guy is a sociopath who watches movies for clues to how human feelings are expressed.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
Sheriffs aren't even IN the Constitution, yet they claim a super-judicial power to interpret it without question, rooted in false history and/or outright phantasy:
Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 4d agoNeon Liberalism #84: So-called "constitutional sheriffs" say they have the right to nullify federal law based on their interpretation of the Constitution. Samantha Hancox-Li and guest Jessica Pishko talk about how fringe ideas associated with militia movements and cranks have infected public office.
Every bit of this story is sickening, including the poverty of mind responsible for designing the ugly interiors that contrast so sharply with the timeless beauty of the exterior. Wealth is a cancer. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
New York City’s Flatiron building enters new era with $58.5m apartments
Manhattan’s triangular building will open this fall to wealthy residents, with 36 apartments exposing Flatiron’s ‘steel skeleton’
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I used to write letters and organize letter-writing get-togethers for Amnesty International. I will never forgive her for committing this foul thing.
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 4d agoAmnesty International correctly called out Rowling's transphobia. She threatened them in response. And @amnesty.org surrendered. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Every bit of this story is sickening, including the poverty of mind responsible for designing the ugly interiors that contrast so sharply with the timeless beauty of the exterior. Wealth is a cancer. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
New York City’s Flatiron building enters new era with $58.5m apartments
Manhattan’s triangular building will open this fall to wealthy residents, with 36 apartments exposing Flatiron’s ‘steel skeleton’
theguardian.com
“Corey Robin wrote…that conservatism…is fundamentally the defense of established hierarchy against threats from below...a reactionary movement defending power, privilege, & inequality.” By this definition many elected Dems are also cons, hence the DSA freakout benwheeler.substack.com/p/liberals-d...
Liberals Don't Understand Conservatives & It's Why They Can't Fight Back
Conservatives aren't hypocrites, you just don't understand their views.
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Lammas blessings from Glastonbury Tor. It was a beautiful morning and lovely sunrise. Lammas means "loaf-mass," and marks the very first grain harvest of the year. Lammas/Lughnasadh A few photographs from this morning.
No work will be done in Hookland today. It's the Puck Fairs. Epic bouts of storytelling, drinking, love-making and other funs of the fair. #Lughnasadh
Certainly this is a hopeful sign, when they start turning on each other like starving rats in a cage.
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 5d agoNEW: DOJ now says it was was snookered by Interior Department into indicting Olympian David Hearn when officials "clearly" knew of multitude of issues w/reflecting pool renovation by Trump's 'pool guy.' @USAttyPirro drops the case. More via @eperezibarguen www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Taking a break from posting for a bit. Lots of things have combined to overwhelm right now. I need to breathe.
Two days after filing suit so his company can keep making nudes of children, news of massive Elon Musk donations to keep the GOP majority. This is a slam dunk argument dropped into Dem laps. www.axios.com/2026/07/29/m...
“…that gap tightens among voters in their 50s to a 12-point lead, and voters over 60 flip to Stevens by a 14-point margin, 53% to 39%.” People over 50 are gonna be the death of this country if we don’t fucking wake up.
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6d agoA new Emerson College Polling/WLNS/WOODTV survey of the Michigan Democratic Primary for US Senate finds Abdul El-Sayed leading Rep. Haley Stevens, 54% to 39%. emersoncollegepolling.com/michigan-202...
Time & time again we hear “wastefraudandabuse” as reasons to deprive vulnerable people of medical care, but almost always the abusers are the providers that gov’t fails to vet, because it’s too busy building insurmountable barriers against those who actually need the services.
Charles Ornstein@charlesornstein.bsky.social · 6d agoIn 2020 as Kentucky faced a spike of deadly overdoses, @govandybeshear.bsky.social set out to help more people access drug treatment by loosening Medicaid spending controls. But as the costs piled up, so did the warnings that the system was being abused. @kentucky.com
“…an (AI) agent left notes…for future versions of itself…(that) laid out instructions for how agents could free themselves from OpenAI’s internal constraints…Earlier tests of the models yielded cases in which monitoring systems had been disconnected…” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to the Danger of Digital Flubber
The weirdest story in tech right now is a story about humans—not tech.
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Why is it that physicians make some of the absolute worst US senators? I wouldn’t let Rand put a bandage on my cat.
Ricky Davila@therickydavila.bsky.social · 7d agoHero VS pathetic lunatic fraud.
Watching “Chernobyl” again this week, I remembered how it once seemed like the USSR was on a different planet than ours. Now I know, given the US show trials, prison camps, endless lying, & indifference to life that is our government, it can happen here. It can be worse.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoThe Fauci hearing perfectly illustrated how living through a once in a century pandemic somehow made Republicans far worse on public health. God forbid we face anything like covid again during Trump 2.0. There will be no Dr Fauci around to try to talk sense to Trump.
It would be good if people remembered these scenes: mass burials on Hart Island where many COVID victims still remain; mobile morgues for the overflow of dead spilling out of hospitals; hospital workers wearing garbage bags because there was no more protective PPE. Almost a million deaths in 2 yrs.
