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i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

They just played along didn’t stop him because they are cowards. In a few days they will learn the price of their culpability. Italians have a saying: “Il silenzio vi rende complici.” I doubt any translation is required #USDemocracy

True dedication.

New Orleans looking at you.🤨

Why is helping Israel called aid but helping Americans is called socialism.

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

P.S. I spent the month of September walking everywhere I could. The question of what is walkable really is determined by how much you walk.

This Day in Labor History: October 10, 1947. African workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway in modern Senegal went on strike with the demand that they be treated equal to French workers. This is a hugely important moment in both African labor history and the anticolonial struggle in west Africa!!!

9. It seems to me there's now a pattern in which the more Donald Trump lies, the more voters distrust him, and the more voters distrust him, the more Donald Trump lies.

First Lady Natalie Harp is on stage at the Trump rally! Trump calls her "this perfect person"

Donald Trump’s political toxicity, rampant illegality, and utter incompetence should not obscure a bigger worry: namely, that he is stone-cold nuts.

It seems like the values involved in profiteering share few attributes with the values involved in the process of archiving.

I’ve been on this train for a minute now but I truly think the only way to prevent another Trump from happening is to destroy the right wing information ecosystem. They have built a monster from the ground up through talk radio, Fox News, and now X and far-right influencers. It needs to burn

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RFK Jr was my top for impeachment, but it’s a close call. He’s damaging the health of the entire nation. Hegseth is weakening our military & damaging our national security. Vought is damaging our all gov’t structures. I know the won’t end up removed by the Senate, but let’s fight chaos with chaos.

There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.

The New York Times has a choice of whether to cover Trumpism as A) an amusing and colorful example of the oddity of American politics, or B) an existential threat to the future of everyone you know and love. Over and over, they choose A. They trivialize themselves.

I am beginning to think that the hardest work will not be voting the bums out(the rage will probably handle that) but making sure we have the conviction to truly reform. It is long past time for "boys will be boys" to be immolated and die a profound death.

Just a reminder that the Secretary of Defense is a dangerous idiot

Wow, step away for a few hours and come back to find the potus and the secdef both making the most hateful, racist, everything phobic speeches ever.

Massively important story. We’ll see how this goes, but Talarico isn’t within striking range because of some kind of heterodox move to the right. He’s making a strong, clear case for ideas that work better than plainly horrific Republican ones.

I swear I will vote for any person who runs on revenge and court reform. That’s it. Those are the two planks of your campaign? You got my vote

Jack Smith: “We had proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump committed serious crimes”

More for the “we live in interesting times” file.

Beloved FUUNO Friends & Family, Please join us October 4 in remembering Mary Jo Day, who gave so much time, energy, and, most of all, Love to our congregation. We’ll laugh, we’ll cry, we’ll fais do do—Sunday, October 4 at 1PM, 3900 St Charles Avenue. #uuSky #UnitarianUniversalist

But of course. The FBI doing what it does.

My man looks like the inspiration for the FBI’s relaxed stance on bestiality

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"The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.” Robert Penn Warren, who died on this day in 1989

In other states, habeas cases can last weeks, but in Louisiana, they can often take many months. Those delays mean some immigrants never see relief. Some get deported before a judge can rule, and others have died in ICE custody waiting for a ruling.

I’m just sayin’, @kevinmkruse.bsky.social ‘s “My man…” series helps make life in this timeline bearable. Gawd bless someone who can take a trope and run the hell with it.

“Trump has always had a problem with the truth. Now that he’s increasingly detached from reality and completely surrounded by sycophants, his lies have gotten downright bizarre.”

Ingathering / Water Ceremony September 13, 10:30AM Join us for our annual beloved Water Ceremony ritual, where we reflect on how our own lives mirror the different forms of water and celebrate the start of our church year. Wear water colors if you feel so moved. #uuSunday #WaterCommunion

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