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Following a tip from a zine I just posted about, I found valuable information at Project Gutenberg — which can be distributed as widely as you like. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

If you're feeling overwhelmed, depressed, and/or needing direction in the face of the current Bad Shit, I urge you strongly to read this trilogy of zines. They're 24 pages each. If you're in a hurry, just read the first. They're all totally oriented toward practical action, and they waste no time.

All I knew about Charlie Kirk before his death was that he was a right-wing personality. I'd never heard him speak until I saw the video from seconds before he was shot. During which time, I thought: "Oh, he's Rush Limbaugh. Doing the 'entertaining blowhard' schtick. And that's... the whole story."

This proves five things: 1. The protests in LA were peaceful 2. The National Guard and Marines were unnecessary 3. ICE officers lie 4. DHS stats on ICE agent assaults are overblown 5. You can not, in fact, indict a ham sandwich if you have no case www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists. This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.

Trump and Miller are intent on building an unaccountable domestic secret police force that would be the world's third-biggest security force by funding levels, after the US and China's *militaries*. That kind of funding dwarfs its stated purpose, which tells you what its real purpose will be.

Part 3: "Or do you believe that Franco was really good for the Spanish, or Mussolini for the Italians, or Hitler for the (‘Aryan’) Germans? You might also recall the important role played by the Ku Klux Klan in keeping the mass of white Southerners impoverished.”

Part 2: “If you know any history at all, you know that, when nationalism approaches or reaches the level of fascism--not to mention genocidal fascism, as with Netanyahu's people--it tends to be very bad news for the people whom the nationalists claim to represent and exalt.”

Here’s Part 1 of a public post by a friend of mine on FB: “As a Jew, I feel far more threatened by the government of Israel than by the government of Iran--or, for that matter, by any other government on the face of the earth.This is just obvious common sense.”

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I’ve been baffled by Trump’s obliteration of US science, education, medicine, etc. But the tariffs clarify things: He’s taking stuff away so that he can preferentially give it back. It’s the “Muad’dib” theory of dictatorship: create a scarcity crisis to which his favor only is the solution.

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

Between the lawyer Rachel Cohen and various university presidents, I'm feeling that if the professional class (lawyers, teachers, doctors, scientists, etc.) is able to get its collective act together, Trump is toast. Otherwise the professions themselves are toast.

Schumer snatches defeat from the jaws of victory: the special skill of establishment Democrats. And all in the name of… themselves, basically. Certainly not us. Meanwhile, progressives like Sanders and AOC fight on, plainly and straightforwardly on our side.

People are saying that Russia is winning, and Putin is now on the inside.

Very good dot connecting between regulation of fElon's companies and the agencies he's destroying.

Anakin and Palpatine. Pretty clear who the Jedi are in this scenario. (We need to start calling them the Fedi. They’re certainly heroes.)

Pretty clear who the Jedi are in this scenario.

First they came for the immigrants And I did not speak out Because I was not an immigrant. Then they came for the trans people And I did not speak out Because I was not trans.

It’d be fun if politicians in Mexico, in response to the renaming of the Gulf, temporarily renamed their country America. And since its current full name is the United Mexican States, it could become the United American States. Trumpers won’t know where they live anymore. (Not that they ever did.)

Enjoyable and clarifying populist-style discussion of recent economic history. m.youtube.com/watch?v=sFa4...

Hear me out: Trump is after Greenland because he's promised to cede Alaska to Putin and figures this will balance things out for the American public.

I’ve long felt universal public healthcare would help heal divisions in the US by affirming a common commitment and destiny for all Americans. The Mangione murder and the mass response to it is the “negative” expression of this. We ALL know private insurance is preying on us. Time for common action.

My backyard, a few days ago. Amazingly rich and dramatic morning fog.

Prompt: “Post a pic that YOU took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.”

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