We don’t need more promises - we need ACTUAL ACTION. We have too many DINO and Centrist politicians and business owners that don’t step up for anything or anyone but their bottom line$ and/or benefactor$.
Pepperball guns, tasers and tear gas are among the weapons recently deployed against protesters in the US. In a new guide, @easybakeovensz.bsky.social details some of the “less-lethal” equipment federal agents have carried during the current immigration raids. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
When we started executing random citizens as a trial run for a police state, we failed to speak of the victims with appropriate respect and sensitivity. And for that we apologize
I have a love/hate relationship with medical diagnosis. It always seems no matter the case, I’m diagnosed with something worse than what I came in to have treated.
People who think of themselves as liberal are gonna have to come to the realization that the The Chud Industrial Complex is a bipartisan project.
Every time I hear @edzitron.com say “Pichai” I think he’s saying “piss shite”, and it becomes like the “meow” scene from Super Troopers
Never thought I’d root so much for dementia 🤷
😆 no, aphantasia - can’t picture anything in my mind
#OtD 28 Oct 1967 Black Panther Huey Newton was stopped by police. A shootout began leaving Newton and two cops wounded, one fatally. Newton was handcuffed to his hospital bed, beaten and later jailed but freed on appeal after a massive campaign shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
There should be a mandatory retirement age for people in public office.
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
I have aphantasia. Good luck getting me to describe a person’s appearance after I can no longer look directly at them. 🤷
Thou shalt not shoot pastors in the head with smoke bombs. I shouldn’t have to say this.
New in PN: Dems are winning the shutdown
"If Republicans are on board with Trump’s effort to become a dictator, there’s not much point in negotiating. You might as well force them to own their priorities, including hugely increasing healthcare costs, then use it against them on the campaign trail."
Gov Pritzker reports that Trump is demanding he activate the National Guard in Illinois, or Trump will.
To recap:
•IL violent crime rate is 310/100K
•USA violent crime rate is 374/100K
•Red states have a 40% higher murder rate than do blue states
This isn't national security—it's fascist autocracy
Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
This is fascism.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.
Another fun thing about Fallon is that most people seem to have memory-holed that he was named in the allegations in this pretty recent & very yikes civil lawsuit! (I go into the very upsetting details of that lawsuit in my book fwiw.) www.avclub.com/horatio-sanz...
They cry “free speech” when it’s hate, violence, and lies. But the second we tell the truth or call them out, suddenly we’ve gone too far. That, my friends, is what you call selective outrage.
My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.
I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.
Many 9/11 records should be automatically declassified next year.
But a broken classification system practically ensures this won't happen.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Investing in a centralized and automated solution could free 9/11 records, and many more.
Padilla: “We will hold this administration accountable”
Arrests have begun against MAGA supporters making online threats. Our team is monitoring local news post and taking screenshots of violent comments, we’ll make sure they reach the proper authorities. If you see something, say something.
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