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Gonna use this to start a thread of my personal soundtrack for the revolution (in no particular order).

Elizabeth Holmes is not the face of motherhood for incarcerated women. Diana Sanchez screamed in agony for hours in a Denver jail as staff ignored her. She gave birth all alone to a baby boy next to a dirty toilet and in a pool of blood. The entire ordeal was captured on video

This entire idea that "women are legally not punished as hard as men" is abhorrent, when you look at what women are often punished for & how they are treated in the prison system in the US. #history #usa #prisonindustrialsystem

Not too early to start thinking about how grassroots pressure on a Dem House could help produce better results -->

I think the lesson from Lula is not never talk about the opposition; it's articulate a positive vision that's basically, We Can Just Do Things. That's why Mamdani-ism is so popular - voters have an intrinsic sense that their electeds have agency they're not using

So the mayor... used a secure CITY OWNED facility... to play bball... and y'all are mad? Am I getting this right? The mayor who deals with racist death threats? Used a court they certainly weren't using to enjoy some recreation? At no cost to the taxpayers? #mamdani #nyc #politico

the president literally tore down a wing of the white house

We published this story late Friday afternoon amid an avalanche of news so I’m reposting it now because Kohen Wiley’s life mattered more than a box of diapers.

I think it’s a good thing to point out to people that attacks on trans rights are part-and-parcel of the far right program to make everyone’s rights negotiable and subject to revision at a moment’s notice.

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

"Under Brazilian federal law, all legislators have immunity...To run for President, Bolsonaro decided not to run for his Senate seat. Now, after losing the Presidential election, he no longer has legislative immunity when his Senate term expires in January 2027." Very Special Episode of no amnesty

Y this man look like a thumb

The political media is visibly chafing at the current situation, where Republicans are glaringly awful, fucking everything up, running deviant candidates everyone hates, and Dems are just being normal & winning. The force is out of balance. They are viscerally eager to go after Dems about something.

For the last month, I've been posting examples of Trump's authoritarianism that I call "Dictator Move of the Day." If you search that phrase, you'll see that the fascist president is constantly trying to undermine our democracy. I'm going to keep doing these posts. We've got to stop him.

Per a new report from House Democrats, Trump's DOJ is withholding evidence of his ties to Epstein and slow-walking the complete release of the Epstein files. It's time to end the cover-up and expose the truth. Remember this when you cast your ballot. www.ms.now/news/house-j...

Erika Hilton & Lula

conservatives in washington state want freedom and small government in the form of state-mandated genital exams for high school students: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

That’s also why Vivek isn’t exactly lying when he says he didn’t mean to say Acton lied about being raped as a child. He doesn’t think she lied; he thinks that being raped disqualifies her from office, because she belongs to the class of people power is wielded against, not the class that wields it.

#cat

RIP to a real one

Bolsonaro is not inevitable. AI is not inevitable. Now, people from the US, what do you need form us to help you win the midterms? A tip: interview André Janones. All left wing YouTube channels should interview him.

Me storming out of the faculty meeting.

If you ask me about my wife and I's children, I won't shut up about them. If you can't come up with three (!!!) things to tell your child why they are special, that's a major you problem.

In practice, “they go low we go high” has meant “they get to do whatever they want and it would be rude of us to stop them”

wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something? www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...

The phrasing of posts like this frustrates the fuck out of me at times. "Bottom 60?" What a bullshit statement.

just a few more years and i will be recruiting for my 19th century village within a walled off compound in the woods

This. And if most Americans weren't aware of this in 2019, I'd guess they're even less so now. Public university students were paying for a third of the cost of their education in 2009, and it was up to half by 2019. 2009 wasn't great compared to the 60s-70s, either. www.pbs.org/newshour/edu...

Across Texas, union members are working to elect pro-worker candidates who will fight to: 👉 Raise worker wages 👉 Lower healthcare costs 👉 Fully-fund public schools 👉 Protect Social Security We’re done settling for crumbs from corrupt politicians. Join us & make a plan to vote ➡️ texasaflcio.org/vote

companies to employees a few months ago: you better use AI companies now: wait, wait, just $29 a month on claude pls www.404media.co/accenture-te...

“If Abdul El-Sayed wins, it will be a reminder that the left can win in a swing state like Michigan.”

Officials said they wanted to search the phone of Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, for child abuse material. It was actually because he was suspected of “terrorist activities.” www.404media.co/dhs-said-the...

Things that are now left-coded in the US: - looking out for your neighbors - knowing about sports - drinking beer - THE US MARINES