Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat.

Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.

When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.

I'll say it again, and again, and again: The Senate Democrats have 23 Yes votes ready to go on funding public transit across our commonwealth. Let's get it done.

It seems like parking enforcement is just optional, especially downtown. They need to start heavily enforcing no parking zones around the bus stops more. It's getting ridiculous.

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.

Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

Image of library book display labeled:

“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”

Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World

~TAiLS of a Bookworm

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

“Don’t use academic language” I’m not an academic. Academic prose is nothing like what I write. This anti-intellectual insistence on oversimplifying everything is what makes everything seem shallow. People long for a “real” that’s been trivialized away from our lives by everything being superficial.

Been thinking about this Zappa quote a lot lately.

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

GOP PLAYBOOK

First, they create the mess

Then, they complain everything is a mess

Then, they blame others for mess they created

Then, they do everything possible to prevent others from fixing mess

Then, propose the same policies that created the mess in the first place as a way to fix the mess

Education is the foe of ignorance. It's no great surprise that a party which thrives on ignorance wishes to abolish the government agency which enforces education standards. They want to make it easier to replace quality education w/their whitewashed version of history & self aggrandizing propaganda

Fast food workers work hard.
Retail workers work hard.
Gig workers work hard.

Everyone deserves a living wage.

The Pirates are having the kind of offseason a team has when it’s in Year 2 of a deep rebuild

I can't wait to check out our new Airport Terminal once it is completed!

Twitter is still the default app for many outlets and regular people to post in real time about breaking news. Also, I feel we need to be checking in on those crazies periodically to see what they are plotting.

I deleted my Twitter account I had been using since 2011 & have replaced it with essentially a burner account. I don't engage with anyone on it and keep it to follow those stray accounts that haven't made it to Bluesky or Threads.

It’s an American Obsession. It’s Based on a Total Lie. We Have to Stop Before It’s Too Late. The truth about what's happening on America's roads—and how we can stop it.

“The kicker is that, contrary to the promises of state transportation depts, new & expanded highways consistently fail to reduce congestion. Instead of smoothing traffic flows, the added asphalt compels more people to drive until gridlock is as thick as before.” Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in Slate

CONFIRMED: Libs got custody of the NFL in the national divorce.

Futility

Demonstrators

Demonstrators

Demonstrators

Demonstrators

Some photos from across the country for the 50 States 50 State Capitols march today Feb 5 2025:
I will add more photos from more cities as I come across them.
(sorry, not able to credit photographers)

Lansing MI
Austin TX
Denver CO
Harrisburg PA

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

An unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government.

DOGE is not a real government agency.
DOGE has no authority to make spending decisions.
DOGE has no authority to shut programs down or to ignore federal law.
DOGE’s conduct cannot be allowed to stand.

RFK Jr. and his family stand to profit off lawsuits against vaccines. An HHS Secretary shouldn't have a financial interest in making our country sicker. I’m demanding RFK Jr. recuse himself from any work on vaccine policy while he has a financial interest in the outcome.

No. One. Voted. For. Elon. Musk.

He is shameless