Marsha Coupé
@marshacoupe.bsky.social
Feminist
Socialist
Activist
Enthusiast
www.marshacoupe.com
Socialist
Activist
Enthusiast
www.marshacoupe.com
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Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
Delightful
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Delightful
We'll be seeing a lot more of this.
#OnThisDay, 10 Nov 1917, 41 suffragists are arrested outside the White House in Washington DC.
This was the largest number of women arrested on the same day.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory 🗃️
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This was the largest number of women arrested on the same day.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory 🗃️
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November 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
We'll be seeing a lot more of this.
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Not all heroes wear capes. What a brave and compassionate human being. The war in Sudan has killed 150,000 people and displaced 12 million. This orthopedic surgeon has not fled but continued to provide medical assistance under impossible conditions.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Doctor in Sudan wins $1 million prize for his extraordinary courage: 'It is my duty'
Dr. Jamal Eltaeb of Sudan has been awarded the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity. He says, "Every day we work in the impossible conditions with barely enough to keep people alive."
www.npr.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Not all heroes wear capes. What a brave and compassionate human being. The war in Sudan has killed 150,000 people and displaced 12 million. This orthopedic surgeon has not fled but continued to provide medical assistance under impossible conditions.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Probably been up on the website a good while now, but here's the first official link I've seen to this weekend's offering from the most excellent Stewart Lee.
Ah. That sounds like I might be diminishing other Stewart Lees I don't know. This is not my intent, despite my poorly chosen words.
Ah. That sounds like I might be diminishing other Stewart Lees I don't know. This is not my intent, despite my poorly chosen words.
Elon Musk’s AI service Grok is so drunkenly, transparently biased that it would be funny – if it weren’t a mortal threat to democracy
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Probably been up on the website a good while now, but here's the first official link I've seen to this weekend's offering from the most excellent Stewart Lee.
Ah. That sounds like I might be diminishing other Stewart Lees I don't know. This is not my intent, despite my poorly chosen words.
Ah. That sounds like I might be diminishing other Stewart Lees I don't know. This is not my intent, despite my poorly chosen words.
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Cross-posted at the Guardian.
A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit
Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Cross-posted at the Guardian.
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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The fact that none of the 8 Dems are up for re-election in 2026 is a pretty good sign @schumer.senate.gov engineered the surrender
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The fact that none of the 8 Dems are up for re-election in 2026 is a pretty good sign @schumer.senate.gov engineered the surrender
Homelessness is a global epidemic.
In our Northern California community, the fastest growing homeless population is people over the age of 60.
Our local government's response is to issue homeless elders permits to sleep in their cars.
In our Northern California community, the fastest growing homeless population is people over the age of 60.
Our local government's response is to issue homeless elders permits to sleep in their cars.
England homelessness grown by a fifth since 2022, now 300,000.
Successive govts cut local authority funding in real terms, cut real wages/benefits, no curbs on profiteering, lack of social housing.
Cheaper to build social housing than using temporary accommodation.
Misery is a political choice.
Successive govts cut local authority funding in real terms, cut real wages/benefits, no curbs on profiteering, lack of social housing.
Cheaper to build social housing than using temporary accommodation.
Misery is a political choice.
Homelessness figures higher than data suggests, research shows
Official data for England underestimates the scale of the problem, according to research for charity Crisis says.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Homelessness is a global epidemic.
In our Northern California community, the fastest growing homeless population is people over the age of 60.
Our local government's response is to issue homeless elders permits to sleep in their cars.
In our Northern California community, the fastest growing homeless population is people over the age of 60.
Our local government's response is to issue homeless elders permits to sleep in their cars.
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California's governor, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social speaking out on behalf of over 5-million Californians, at serious risk of losing healthcare, after eight Democrats caved to Republicans tonight.
Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
California's governor, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social speaking out on behalf of over 5-million Californians, at serious risk of losing healthcare, after eight Democrats caved to Republicans tonight.
Tens of millions of Americans who lose their healthcare.
Many will die because the Democrats caved tonight rather than fight for us.
Many will die because the Democrats caved tonight rather than fight for us.
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Tens of millions of Americans who lose their healthcare.
Many will die because the Democrats caved tonight rather than fight for us.
Many will die because the Democrats caved tonight rather than fight for us.
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lubię Glasgow nocą
November 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
lubię Glasgow nocą
'Austerity is a political choice.'
'There are truckloads of money available.'
'Wealth seems to scramble certain cognitive functions, particularly those related to empathy and perspective.'
George Monbiot's latest essay.
The most enlightening read of the week, every week.
'There are truckloads of money available.'
'Wealth seems to scramble certain cognitive functions, particularly those related to empathy and perspective.'
George Monbiot's latest essay.
The most enlightening read of the week, every week.
This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
'Austerity is a political choice.'
'There are truckloads of money available.'
'Wealth seems to scramble certain cognitive functions, particularly those related to empathy and perspective.'
George Monbiot's latest essay.
The most enlightening read of the week, every week.
'There are truckloads of money available.'
'Wealth seems to scramble certain cognitive functions, particularly those related to empathy and perspective.'
George Monbiot's latest essay.
The most enlightening read of the week, every week.
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By halting SNAP benefits for 40+ million low-income Americans and freezing paychecks for 1.4 million federal employees, the Trump administration has effectively imposed a starvation siege on the nation.
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
By halting SNAP benefits for 40+ million low-income Americans and freezing paychecks for 1.4 million federal employees, the Trump administration has effectively imposed a starvation siege on the nation.
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Qataris would feed hungry Americans for an airbase in Idaho if we asked them nicely
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Qataris would feed hungry Americans for an airbase in Idaho if we asked them nicely
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"Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people."
Van Gogh's moving letters to his brother www.themarginalian.org/2014/05/07/v...
Van Gogh's moving letters to his brother www.themarginalian.org/2014/05/07/v...
November 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people."
Van Gogh's moving letters to his brother www.themarginalian.org/2014/05/07/v...
Van Gogh's moving letters to his brother www.themarginalian.org/2014/05/07/v...
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My advice, treat men like guns — always assume they could go off and kill you 💁🏻♀️
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
My advice, treat men like guns — always assume they could go off and kill you 💁🏻♀️
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November 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Precious few of us will ever know true freedom. BUT we must fight for the little freedom we have.
We’re forced to sell our lives to survive, working just to afford rent, food, or an endless mortgage.
There’s nothing free about the “free market.” The system is working as intended.
There’s nothing free about the “free market.” The system is working as intended.
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Precious few of us will ever know true freedom. BUT we must fight for the little freedom we have.
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"Attention without feeling... is only a report."
Mary Oliver on what attention really means – a gorgeous meditation nested into her gorgeous elegy for her soul-mate www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/20/m...
Mary Oliver on what attention really means – a gorgeous meditation nested into her gorgeous elegy for her soul-mate www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/20/m...
November 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
"Attention without feeling... is only a report."
Mary Oliver on what attention really means – a gorgeous meditation nested into her gorgeous elegy for her soul-mate www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/20/m...
Mary Oliver on what attention really means – a gorgeous meditation nested into her gorgeous elegy for her soul-mate www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/20/m...
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7. When a ruling faction looks dead, is cold to the touch, is shut down and disconnected from the world in which living people exist, that probably means it is dead. Schumer, Jeffries and the whole zombie Democrat establishment need to stop haunting the living beings who want to take their place.
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Absolutely
Essential
Reading
'The freedoms we enjoy today are highly contingent and unusual.'
Essential
Reading
'The freedoms we enjoy today are highly contingent and unusual.'
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Absolutely
Essential
Reading
'The freedoms we enjoy today are highly contingent and unusual.'
Essential
Reading
'The freedoms we enjoy today are highly contingent and unusual.'
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Here’s to naming and shaming the decision-makers bsky.app/profile/medi...
The individuals who are the “deciders” of “what is (is not) fit to print”: AGSulzberger, Kahn, Ryan, Lacey, Healy, Kingsbury+ escape much-warranted criticism behind the institutional mantle.
We think NYT leadership needs to be named & shamed for their “product”.
From democracywashing fascism to 👇
We think NYT leadership needs to be named & shamed for their “product”.
From democracywashing fascism to 👇
November 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Here’s to naming and shaming the decision-makers bsky.app/profile/medi...