Shout out to the #librarians on National Library Workers Day!

This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.

Reading is magic What will happen in our second peasanthood

The future of literacy is extremely depressing
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Hey, if you're in the DC area, consider checking out Michael Cohen talk about Modern Political Campaigns at the Georgetown B&N. He has fascinating things to say about how campaigns today use technology, among other insights.

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Imagine self-selecting into this audience....

The disconnect further exemplified by Trump not knowing what a "corner store" is...

"You're just voluntarily complying with this whimsical cosplay" -- holy shit, Tim Kaine is *demolishing* Russ Vought

Hillary Clinton's Campaign Enlists 45 Top Designers To Create Buttons The Forty-Five Pin Project revives the century-old campaign tradition. Here are our favorites.

I remember this button campaign from HRC in 2016 but I don’t know if they paid the designers…

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For the record, not saying YOU are struggling

I’m not the kind of creative they’re calling for but I have a good number in my circle and I don’t love the idea of a major organization crowdsourcing creative work from peeps who might be struggling. They have money.

And the laugh he gets from the audience…

Interesting that Sharon Simmons, the Door Dasher from Arkansas at the White House, is also Sharon Simmons from Nevada that testified at a GOP Ways and Means field hearing about trumps ‘big beautiful bill’ in Nevada last year.

Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.

Is it worse to die by drowning or burned alive? Neither is great!

The depth of the Republican betrayal of the American people is that even as the GOP leadership sees the president becoming increasingly deranged and dangerous, they're still thinking only of their own petty, meaningless political careers.

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I guess the people who thought Trump was good for the country because he would tear things down -- sometimes things need a bit of shaking up, someone said to me once -- are getting exactly what they asked for. But we all pay the consequences of that incredibly poor judgment.

A New Geopolitical Reality Is Here America’s adversaries are uniting as its own coalition falls apart.

"The war has exposed the contradictions of the Trump admin’s geopolitical worldview. Under this president, the U.S. has rewarded Russia, ignored China, punished Europe, & abandoned its Asian allies & partners to an economic crisis that it helped set in motion."
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This week: Orbán blocks EU support for Ukraine.

New episode of Ten Minutes On… steps back from the news to explain the bigger picture: how the “Orbán model” works, why it’s lasted & if it’s starting to crack ahead of Hungary’s election. www.buzzsprout.com/2354388/epis...

#Hungary #EU #Politics

Trump State Dept. Accused of ‘Largest Fee Fraud in History’ of US Immigration System | Common Dreams An immigration researcher at the Cato Institute found that the Trump administration is "raking in billions of dollars in

According to the Cato Institute, The Trump administration is reportedly receiving millions of immigration applications, pocketing the hefty fees, and never processing the applications.

It’s collected over $1 billion in fees so far.

Where is the outcry over this fraud and abuse?

Just a reminder that in January of this year, Trump and Hegseth decommissioned EVERY US mine sweeper. Yep. Every. Last. One.

Evidently they could never imagine a scenario in which the US needed minesweepers.

In Trump's America, we are governed by idiots.

Things are not okay.

They’re happening in squares now. Next up: WW16

People on awards shows don't "make it political." The world is political. Our lives are political. Our choices are political. The only decision is whether to acknowledge it.

Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

HOLY SHIT.

A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.

Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

Secretary Marco Rubio claimed no one died as a result of cuts to USAID. That’s not what we found.

After Trump officials cut food aid to Kenya, children starved to death in an American-made hunger crisis.

(Published Dec. 2025)

De La Soul: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

Happy De La Soul Day to all those who celebrate…

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Opinion | The best education for future success might surprise you Career-focused programs mistakenly assume that what seems useful today will be useful tomorrow.

“There has never been a more powerful case for the liberal arts, a kind of education that cultivates human discernment.”

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Damn, I wish I’d filled up on gas on Saturday like I meant to!