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I SAID I’M FINE
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I’m not reading all that and neither should you. Yes on 50. Protect our democracy.
August 28, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I’m not reading all that and neither should you. Yes on 50. Protect our democracy.
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Correction: the new head of US labor statistics recorded a podcast promoting Project 2025 IN FRONT OF AN IMAGE OF A NAZI WARSHIP. Compare the pictures. Who would put the Bismarck on their wall? Can we finally talk about the actual Nazis in our government? (Flagged by @fitch64.bsky.social) 1/
August 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Correction: the new head of US labor statistics recorded a podcast promoting Project 2025 IN FRONT OF AN IMAGE OF A NAZI WARSHIP. Compare the pictures. Who would put the Bismarck on their wall? Can we finally talk about the actual Nazis in our government? (Flagged by @fitch64.bsky.social) 1/
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This repost by Robert Reich of a translated Haaretz article on Gaza by Orit Kamir needs to be distributed far and wide. Please click through, read, and repost on your own feed!
Occasionally I come across an article in the foreign press that’s strikes me as so important that I want to share it with you. The following was originally written by an Israeli professor of law named Orit Kamir. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-betrayal-of-the-victims-of-the
July 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This repost by Robert Reich of a translated Haaretz article on Gaza by Orit Kamir needs to be distributed far and wide. Please click through, read, and repost on your own feed!
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The vast majority of Americans voters understand Barack Obama to be “liberal” and Bernie Sanders to be “very liberal,” this attempt to import a meaningful left-liberal distinction into American politics is an annoying affectation by people for whom politics exists entirely on their phones
Oh u think the Democratic socialist is liberal I’m sorry for your accident
July 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The vast majority of Americans voters understand Barack Obama to be “liberal” and Bernie Sanders to be “very liberal,” this attempt to import a meaningful left-liberal distinction into American politics is an annoying affectation by people for whom politics exists entirely on their phones
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NEW: Our team @immcouncil.org just released a major new report on Trump’s first six months. We look at three big immigration questions:
- Who are we allowing into the US and who are we excluding?
- How are we treating the immigrants here?
- Who are we forcing to leave, and how?
- Who are we allowing into the US and who are we excluding?
- How are we treating the immigrants here?
- Who are we forcing to leave, and how?
July 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
NEW: Our team @immcouncil.org just released a major new report on Trump’s first six months. We look at three big immigration questions:
- Who are we allowing into the US and who are we excluding?
- How are we treating the immigrants here?
- Who are we forcing to leave, and how?
- Who are we allowing into the US and who are we excluding?
- How are we treating the immigrants here?
- Who are we forcing to leave, and how?
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Yep. We’ve been predicting this since the beginning.
A dynamic we've seen in polling even before Trump re-took office: support for deportation tends to erode when pollsters specify that people without criminal records or longtime residents will be among those affected. Now, support is dropping as people see what that looks like in practice.
July 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Yep. We’ve been predicting this since the beginning.
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In areas hit by Texas floods, officials were sent over $5 million in federal ARPA funds in 2021.
They didn't want to spend it on flood warning systems due to their disdain for Biden - and didn't send it BACK because it might go to a blue state, and "values that we in Kerr county don't agree with."
They didn't want to spend it on flood warning systems due to their disdain for Biden - and didn't send it BACK because it might go to a blue state, and "values that we in Kerr county don't agree with."
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July 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In areas hit by Texas floods, officials were sent over $5 million in federal ARPA funds in 2021.
They didn't want to spend it on flood warning systems due to their disdain for Biden - and didn't send it BACK because it might go to a blue state, and "values that we in Kerr county don't agree with."
They didn't want to spend it on flood warning systems due to their disdain for Biden - and didn't send it BACK because it might go to a blue state, and "values that we in Kerr county don't agree with."
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Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander, what a true progressive coalition looks like.
June 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander, what a true progressive coalition looks like.
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His parade was a flop so he had to get his narcissistic injury healed by dropping bombs on Iran.
June 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
His parade was a flop so he had to get his narcissistic injury healed by dropping bombs on Iran.
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just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.
June 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.
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If Stuart wants, I know of several individuals in Com and 764 that share the same video as McGee did, though they have much kess of a following... Only challenge is they are in jail now,for sharing that video, but Stuart can write a sympathetic piece about them next week as a part 2.
I've spent years following a right-wing influencer who's made a career out of outrage. I wanted to understand why he does it. What does his career look like, his income? Here's what I found. GIFT LINK www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/t...
He’s a Master of Outrage on X. He’s Also Broke.
www.nytimes.com
June 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
If Stuart wants, I know of several individuals in Com and 764 that share the same video as McGee did, though they have much kess of a following... Only challenge is they are in jail now,for sharing that video, but Stuart can write a sympathetic piece about them next week as a part 2.
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🎪 🤡 MUST-WATCH: Jim Jordan interrupted at a Republican lawyers conference by someone playing 🎵 “Send In the Clowns” 🎵 and circus music and 🎵 “You Ain’t Nothin’ But A Liar” 🎵 on the ballroom speakers
Incredible stuff.
Incredible stuff.
May 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🎪 🤡 MUST-WATCH: Jim Jordan interrupted at a Republican lawyers conference by someone playing 🎵 “Send In the Clowns” 🎵 and circus music and 🎵 “You Ain’t Nothin’ But A Liar” 🎵 on the ballroom speakers
Incredible stuff.
Incredible stuff.
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ICYMI: "Red MAGA hats replacing little red books." A thoughtful essay from Michael Berry, Director of Chinese Studies at UCLA who sees echos of Maoism in the US:
Cautioning His Students to Stay Quiet, A Scholar of China Hears Echoes of Its Past in America's Present
For several generations now, the overriding philosophy of life for many Chinese intellectuals and average citizens has been “mingzhe baoshen,” (明哲保身) which dictionaries define as “a wise man looks aft...
www.chinafile.com
May 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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DEI efforts, done properly and on a large scale, *of course* also include some action towards lifting up those white folk who are on the margins and left out.
Racists never, ever believe this, and don't actually CARE about those people to begin with.
Racists never, ever believe this, and don't actually CARE about those people to begin with.
Just amazing: Trump grew angry over a Biden-era program with the word "equity" in its name, so he ended it. But a key part of the program was sending money to red states to expand internet access in rural/MAGA country. Now they might not get it.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1950...
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1950...
Angry Trump Kills “Woke” Program—and Accidentally Screws MAGA Voters
It’s called the Digital Equity Act. That word—“equity”—caught the White House’s attention. So now Trump is moving to nix funding—but it could cut off millions destined for red America.
newrepublic.com
May 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
DEI efforts, done properly and on a large scale, *of course* also include some action towards lifting up those white folk who are on the margins and left out.
Racists never, ever believe this, and don't actually CARE about those people to begin with.
Racists never, ever believe this, and don't actually CARE about those people to begin with.
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Complements of @abbij1961.bsky.social.
tRump's echo, Stephen Miller, is his puppet master and the architect of project 2025. Defeat him with ridicule. Here's how:
open.substack.com/pub/critical...
tRump's echo, Stephen Miller, is his puppet master and the architect of project 2025. Defeat him with ridicule. Here's how:
open.substack.com/pub/critical...
The Strategist No One Voted For: How to Dismantle Stephen Miller’s Influence
He built power in silence. This guide shows you how to take it apart systematically, publicly, and on your terms.
open.substack.com
May 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Complements of @abbij1961.bsky.social.
tRump's echo, Stephen Miller, is his puppet master and the architect of project 2025. Defeat him with ridicule. Here's how:
open.substack.com/pub/critical...
tRump's echo, Stephen Miller, is his puppet master and the architect of project 2025. Defeat him with ridicule. Here's how:
open.substack.com/pub/critical...
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And notice how the rhetoric has shifted from deporting criminals to deporting all migrants. They use the claim of MS-13 to bash liberals in the prominent cases, but quickly shift to the "millions" of migrants in this country who have not committed any crimes who must be deported.
Over on The Hellsite, JD Vance has now functionally called for an end to due process for migrants. His argument is riddled with deceptions, bad faith, and embarrassingly awful logic. I think it needs a real response, so here's what I put up over there.
First, his 20 million number is fiction. 1/
First, his 20 million number is fiction. 1/
April 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
And notice how the rhetoric has shifted from deporting criminals to deporting all migrants. They use the claim of MS-13 to bash liberals in the prominent cases, but quickly shift to the "millions" of migrants in this country who have not committed any crimes who must be deported.
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Trump Has Added Risk to the Surest Bet in Global Finance www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...
Trump Has Added Risk to the Surest Bet in Global Finance
Shocked by Trump’s trade war, foreign investors are selling U.S. government bonds, long the world’s safe haven.
www.nytimes.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Trump Has Added Risk to the Surest Bet in Global Finance www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...
The current economic and political situation in two sentences.
The President has chosen to intentionally crash the U.S. economy and financial system by doing things which have been ridiculed in every intro macroeconomics class for the past 80+ years. Those with the power to stop him refuse to do so because they hate minorities.
April 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The current economic and political situation in two sentences.
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Wondering why all the administrators got fired yesterday?
It's so there will be nobody to issue awards or negotiate contracts to undermine Congressional authority to appropriate funds for research.
The federal government are illegally impounding the NIH budget & this serves that effort.
It's so there will be nobody to issue awards or negotiate contracts to undermine Congressional authority to appropriate funds for research.
The federal government are illegally impounding the NIH budget & this serves that effort.
Trump and Musk are trying to block all NIH spending.
Trump and Musk are trying to block all NIH spending.
(Legal aside: so they’re admitting that regulations matter. That’s good.)
Trump and Musk are trying to block all NIH spending.
(Legal aside: so they’re admitting that regulations matter. That’s good.)
April 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Wondering why all the administrators got fired yesterday?
It's so there will be nobody to issue awards or negotiate contracts to undermine Congressional authority to appropriate funds for research.
The federal government are illegally impounding the NIH budget & this serves that effort.
It's so there will be nobody to issue awards or negotiate contracts to undermine Congressional authority to appropriate funds for research.
The federal government are illegally impounding the NIH budget & this serves that effort.
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Strom's segregationist filibuster record beaten by Senator Cory Booker
Another Confederate falls...
🎶There goes the James Strom Thurmond 🎶
Another Confederate falls...
🎶There goes the James Strom Thurmond 🎶
There Goes The Robert E. Lee Statue Leaving Charlottesville VA
YouTube video by dneilmusic14
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April 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Strom's segregationist filibuster record beaten by Senator Cory Booker
Another Confederate falls...
🎶There goes the James Strom Thurmond 🎶
Another Confederate falls...
🎶There goes the James Strom Thurmond 🎶
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Americans are rightfully furious about the Trump administration making it harder for them to access their earned Social Security benefits.
The White House needs to roll back all of these senseless burdens!
The White House needs to roll back all of these senseless burdens!
March 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Americans are rightfully furious about the Trump administration making it harder for them to access their earned Social Security benefits.
The White House needs to roll back all of these senseless burdens!
The White House needs to roll back all of these senseless burdens!
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Last night, Elon Musk announced the plan to ELIMINATE Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
How do we stop him? MASSIVE PUBLIC OUTRAGE.
Share this with everyone you know!
Last night, Elon Musk announced the plan to ELIMINATE Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
How do we stop him? MASSIVE PUBLIC OUTRAGE.
Share this with everyone you know!
March 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Last night, Elon Musk announced the plan to ELIMINATE Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
How do we stop him? MASSIVE PUBLIC OUTRAGE.
Share this with everyone you know!
Last night, Elon Musk announced the plan to ELIMINATE Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
How do we stop him? MASSIVE PUBLIC OUTRAGE.
Share this with everyone you know!
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What horseshit from DOD that they "mistakenly" deleted pages on the Navajo Code Talkers, black Medal of Honor recipients, Jackie Robinson, and more. They labeled them DEI and deleted them and then got caught and now they're scrambling. Nobody changes a URL by mistake. Constant lies.
March 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
What horseshit from DOD that they "mistakenly" deleted pages on the Navajo Code Talkers, black Medal of Honor recipients, Jackie Robinson, and more. They labeled them DEI and deleted them and then got caught and now they're scrambling. Nobody changes a URL by mistake. Constant lies.