When a bully grabs power, lecturing them about the rules isn't a strategy. New episode of The Professional Left — "The Vice of the People" — digs into where authority really comes from, and what history tells us about how to actually fight back. www.buzzsprout.com/229/episodes...
⚡️ The Nordic Swimming Federation, comprising Denmark, Estonia, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Lithuania, Norway, Iceland, Sweden, and Latvia, announced they will refuse to host international competitions involving Russian or Belarusian athletes after World Aquatics lifted bans.
“Superpower Suicide” is a concept to help understand the approach of the Trump regime to the rest of the world. We are fighting a war for no reason we can name, losing it, and covering our defeat with genocidal and apocalyptic propaganda.
snyder.substack.com/p/superpower...
Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.
For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.
We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.
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SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”
Absolutely.
"These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that."
That's a pretty simple and effective message.
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice is demanding that Wayne County, Michigan turn over its ballots from the 2024 election to investigate voter fraud claims. Michigan’s attorney general and secretary of state have responded saying that’s not going to happen. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Two nights ago, Russia sent nearly 700 drones and dozens of missiles at Ukrainian civilians. In the fifth year of the war, aerial attacks on Ukrainian civilians have become even more intense and more frequent. Please join me in this campaign for air defense equipment. You can help protect lives.
Russian losses per 18/04/26 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff.
+1080 men
+6 tanks
+10 ACVs
+82 (!) artillery
+4 MLRS
+2104 UAVs
Baking set to opera. Found this weirdly satisfying.
ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”
This belongs in my library.
DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states.
DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand.
My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases.
DOJ is now 0-5.
My firm is 5-0.
Lesson: When we fight we win.
From a friend’s Facebook page. Perfect. 👌
A Ukrainian farming tycoon has helped turn a tiny volunteer unit into one of Ukraine's most effective fighting corps.
Pope Leo XIV condemns "tyrants" fueling war with billions. His calls for global peace during his Africa trip come amid rising tensions with President Trump. n.pr/3QgbFgX
Russians are increasingly starting to admit the problems with Russian economy:
The Russian economy is "heading for trouble," and everything the USSR was building was lost by Russia, Robert Nigmatulin, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said.
Take a moment and watch this until the end.
Leake Street Graffiti Tunnel #streetart
"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter." 🎬
New episode of The Professional Left Podcast breaks down what "normalizing" actually means — and why the people yelling loudest about it are the last ones who should be lecturing. Give it a listen. www.buzzsprout.com/229/episodes... #ProLeft
After being plundered by Orban for decades, Hungary may not have money or weapons to send to Ukraine, but incoming Prime Minister Peter Magyar is the rising hero of Europe who will undoubtedly do everything in his power to help Ukraine defeat the Russian fascists.
Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”
This is NUTS
www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...
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Maddow: "Amid all of this insanity it may be a good time to remember that this kind of desperation from the White House and from the president is palpably driven by fear."
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
~Maya Angelou
#clouds #cottoncandyskies #nature #watercolor #art
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.
The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world. Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere.
