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Americans did not declare independence from a king only to submit to the supremacy of a different court. @daphnarenan.bsky.social and I are in today’s Globe. Gift link:

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

34-year-old son of privilege says what?

Democratic candidates need to focus like a laser on this issue in their priorities, because if this doesn't get done, nothing else on their agenda will either. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"I know you are, but what am I?"

"The Democratic Party has a deep structural problem. It is standing in the shadow of a past it yearns for and a future it has not yet built, and, at the moment, the progressive wing appears to be the only side that realizes it."

New poll: Americans believe the U.S. should arrest Benjamin Netanyahu by a +22 margin Total: 49-27 Black: 53-13 Hispanic: 52-15 Ages 18-29: 58-17 Harris voters: 74-10 Independents: 55-20 23% of Trump voters agree as well Economist/YouGov:

Painting myself red and standing astride a puddle doesn't make me the Golden Gate Bridge

Ro Khanna: “I saw the arrogance in the eyes of the Settlers. 21 & 22 year olds with guns, laughing that they’d detained us. The arrogance of those IDF soldiers... It is the arrogance of power. Of a power that has had no accountability. Total impunity. And it’s created a toxic culture of oppression.”

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

Happy 82nd D-Day Anniversary to ANTIFA! The fight is not over! #DDay #Normandy

the thing that’s been painfully obvious for years is that unchecked capital accumulation paired with gutting the social safety net and public goods was going to lead to commerce without customers. an economy built on consumption when no one has money to consume.

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

I’m so furious about how stupid everything is

Palestinian Christian delegation warns EU of growing threat to Christians in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-christian-body-warns-eu-they-are-under-existential-threat

if ai ever works as it’s been sold to us, the most easily replaced employee of every company would be ceo and as far as i can tell theres never been a single article written about that

before the internet was a corporate hellscape it was built by ordinary people! the slop was wacky and homemade just like mom (and David) used to make. alas the good old days are over but I can't believe how lucky we are to have @archive.org to remember them :') web.archive.org/web/20080803...

8. So while I don't think Callais is *apocalyptic* for Democrats, it's still a hideous perversion of the Constitution that will undermine democracy and racial equality for years. The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead. The 15th Amendment has been repurposed to greenlight racism. It's a dark day.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

We should be learning from other countries...

Every single time they take office, Republicans prove this country has the money for whatever it wants. So let’s stop lying that we’re the only country that just can’t do it. Bullshit. Take the money from the Pentagon the same way Elon stole all that government data. Walk in and take it.

Presidents since Reagan have been promising a tool like Direct File. Elon Musk even proposed an IRS app for taxpayers. IRS actually built it! Users loved it, but then DOGE killed it after a meeting with the private tax preparation industry. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

New, from me: American taxpayers will spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars — not to pay their taxes, but to report them to the government. Thank Trump, who killed Direct File, a free tax high-quality reporting tool that IRS had built. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

Piss on my leg and tell me that it's raining ...

Happy to be accused of motivated cognition but if we're reading Magyar's victory as road map for what to do to bring down an authoritarian regime, I'll take this road to FAFO:

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

A friendly reminder that the United States simply will not recover from this administration unless the people who participated in its crimes go to fucking jail. Any Democrat who, when the time comes, pushes back against enforcing consequences is not my ally.

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

It feels outrageous that this needs to be said, but: I do not believe any one person or group owns their political office, nor is it ever any particular person or group’s “turn” to hold office. Politicians need to (1) get elected and then (2) serve their constituents.

I'm not a political consultant but i feel like dems could probably get a lot of leverage out of pushing for green technologies that would wean the us off being dependent on oil in this particular moment

Just since reelection, folks. But it's not dick pics on a laptop, so @nytimes.com et. al. are not very concerned.

Fallingwater. Made such an impression on my young mind. It didn't hurt to have been reading Tolkien at the same time.

republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

Pretty much gives the game away

These people need to be understood as Brown Shirts because that is Trump’s intent

Tax billionaires out of existence.

This guy gets it.

The Roberts Court has a clear set of guidelines: the president can do anything he pleases, so long as it does not violate the rights of the owning class.