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Wishing all our US followers a joyful #Thanksgiving!
"The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.
The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it has been since creation, and it will go on."
from Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo
"The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.
The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it has been since creation, and it will go on."
from Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Wishing all our US followers a joyful #Thanksgiving!
"The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.
The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it has been since creation, and it will go on."
from Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo
"The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.
The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it has been since creation, and it will go on."
from Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo
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California Dreamin’ of No Kings in San Diego.
October 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
California Dreamin’ of No Kings in San Diego.
No Kings San Diego
October 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
No Kings San Diego
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Meanwhile in San Diego....
October 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Meanwhile in San Diego....
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He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
It's official: Speaker Johnson just cancelled all votes in the House next week.
The next scheduled voting day is 10/27; the last time the House was in session was 9/19.
The next scheduled voting day is 10/27; the last time the House was in session was 9/19.
October 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
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I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.
But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.
But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.
October 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.
But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.
But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.
This seems accurate.
The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it
trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...
September 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This seems accurate.
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“Stop the Count: Domestic Violence version”
Trump claims crime is down to "virtually nothing" in DC & adds the crimes that are happening are "much lesser things. Things that take place in the home they call crime. You know, they'll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight w/the wife they say 'this is a crime. See?'"
September 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“Stop the Count: Domestic Violence version”
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Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced.
Trump administration blocks groups from voter registration at naturalization events
Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced.
n.pr
September 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced.
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So hard to predict that Trump would be a bad president based on nothing more than his entire life and also that time he was already president for four years and it went horribly and ended in a recession and a pandemic where a million Americans died.
July 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
So hard to predict that Trump would be a bad president based on nothing more than his entire life and also that time he was already president for four years and it went horribly and ended in a recession and a pandemic where a million Americans died.
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There's a whole ass ARMY in San Diego protesting our insurrectionist mutt of a president, lowercase p.
Way to go, guys! You're the real deal!!
#NoKingsDay #NoKings #FDT #Resist
Way to go, guys! You're the real deal!!
#NoKingsDay #NoKings #FDT #Resist
June 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
There's a whole ass ARMY in San Diego protesting our insurrectionist mutt of a president, lowercase p.
Way to go, guys! You're the real deal!!
#NoKingsDay #NoKings #FDT #Resist
Way to go, guys! You're the real deal!!
#NoKingsDay #NoKings #FDT #Resist
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holy. shit.
Thanks San Diego. That's a hell of a sight. Give the fascists the finger for me. For everyone who can't come out and help, but wants to.
Thanks San Diego. That's a hell of a sight. Give the fascists the finger for me. For everyone who can't come out and help, but wants to.
NEW: Absolutely incredible images coming out of San Diego.
The streets are filled with tens of thousands of anti-Trump protestors.
This is what resistance looks like 👏
#NoKings #50501Movement
(📸 Scott Dworkin)
The streets are filled with tens of thousands of anti-Trump protestors.
This is what resistance looks like 👏
#NoKings #50501Movement
(📸 Scott Dworkin)
June 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
holy. shit.
Thanks San Diego. That's a hell of a sight. Give the fascists the finger for me. For everyone who can't come out and help, but wants to.
Thanks San Diego. That's a hell of a sight. Give the fascists the finger for me. For everyone who can't come out and help, but wants to.
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Why are Republicans betraying America's 170 million women and girls? To pad the pockets of just 900 billionaires.
June 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Why are Republicans betraying America's 170 million women and girls? To pad the pockets of just 900 billionaires.
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Why another protest? What is it going to accomplish? Shouldn’t we be [insert alternate tactic] instead?
These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. So let’s take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings.
These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. So let’s take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings.
The Strategic Logic of the No Kings Protests
By Leah Greenberg, Indivisible Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director
indivisibleteam.medium.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Why another protest? What is it going to accomplish? Shouldn’t we be [insert alternate tactic] instead?
These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. So let’s take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings.
These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. So let’s take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings.
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I am on the other side of the world from Los Angeles and I just heard a news grab on our national radio station of Maxine Waters telling a cop "Are you gonna shoot an elected representative? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight" and she remains one of the best to ever do it
June 9, 2025 at 5:06 AM
I am on the other side of the world from Los Angeles and I just heard a news grab on our national radio station of Maxine Waters telling a cop "Are you gonna shoot an elected representative? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight" and she remains one of the best to ever do it
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I told my wife about the accommodations national guardsmen are getting in LA and she said it’s like the Fyre Festival of troop deployments
June 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I told my wife about the accommodations national guardsmen are getting in LA and she said it’s like the Fyre Festival of troop deployments
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The guiding forces in today’s GOP are nihilism, narcissism, and sadism.
We need a new term for what is happening under Trump and with the Republican Party. They are mindlessly blowing up government and government services not to save money but to destroy. It’s nihilism mixed with autocracy. Call it nihilocracy.
June 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The guiding forces in today’s GOP are nihilism, narcissism, and sadism.
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The bill is both a policy disaster and a moral monstrosity. It adds trillions to the deficit, defunds Planned Parenthood, guts Medicaid, slashes food stamps, raises costs on millions of families, and gives the richest Americans a massive tax cut.
open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
Did Republicans Just Lose the Majority?
The GOP passes one of the most unpopular pieces of legislation in history
open.substack.com
May 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The bill is both a policy disaster and a moral monstrosity. It adds trillions to the deficit, defunds Planned Parenthood, guts Medicaid, slashes food stamps, raises costs on millions of families, and gives the richest Americans a massive tax cut.
open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
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It's weird to me that so many of my neighbors voted to take away their own healthcare to give me a tax cut. They need their health care. I don't need a tax cut. Neither does anyone who makes more than me, either.
May 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It's weird to me that so many of my neighbors voted to take away their own healthcare to give me a tax cut. They need their health care. I don't need a tax cut. Neither does anyone who makes more than me, either.
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This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
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I wrote about the pluses, minuses, and theoretical best practices for having a conversation with a liar on TV. defector.com/talking-to-t...
Talking To The President | Defector
It is only sort of true to say that you know what you’re going to get when Donald Trump sits for a television interview. It is true in the sense that, after a decade spent alternately threatening and ...
defector.com
May 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I wrote about the pluses, minuses, and theoretical best practices for having a conversation with a liar on TV. defector.com/talking-to-t...