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Vote for Dr Amy Acton for governor of Ohio not for the scumbag she’s running against

Democrats in the big tent - center, left, and right- need to lock in and make a plan to vote.

Update: This is from someone who voted for Abdul in the primary. Amazing, isn’t it?

I can walk to my polling place and do so several days per week so that is super convenient. Just checked my registration since I have moved

I've always been captivated by the "Freedom" sculpture on Vine St., of a figure breaking free of a wall in 4 stages, with the final figure on the sidewalk, arms outstretched and faced lifted. I think it makes our city more interesting, which is the most any of us who love Philly can hope to do. 🧵1/3

Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet

Here is a photo of why the world is messed up,

Bought one of these because I feel it's my duty as a new Philadelphia resident, but I can't really get into this whole tomato pie thing. Without cheese it feels like something to eat when there's nothing else to eat. Not my pic

Tucker Carlson told NPR that he usually doesn’t vote and Graham Platner should still be the candidate 🙄

Something funny is that apparently my doggie nosework trial will be in the noreaster and has not yet been canceled. I feel like I don't need to go this extreme with the dog sports enthusiasm

Very glad they protested the right person

Last winter I lived in Rhode Island and had oil heat and let me tell ya I am SO glad I don't have to pay for that this year. I'll sit here in Philly with five sweaters on and a blanket wrapped around my dog

We're so close to that midterm election, guys. SO CLOSE. I'm choosing to remain hopeful

Trying to influence my maga relatives in Florida to vote for David Jolly and Angie Nixon is an exercise in futility but hey why not try

There is a plus side to this: A large WPA-style jobs program hiring people to undo all this shit.

heartstopping Google News check

I’ll never really leave that other site but boy do I need a break from the negativity plus the algorithm it has recently bestowed upon me

this hurts www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

here I am a looky loo

If you read just a few comments on any article about Graham Platner it should become crystal clear why victims don’t come forward earlier. The level of cruelty people direct at victims is gutting

Update: it sounds like he did not have control of the robot while it was docked. Why he was allowed to manipulate it with a patient’s chest exposed while anesthetized, I don’t know. Unless the pt consented to his presence, they should probably get a lawyer.

First impression: This is regime change, lots of ways for it to go wrong, a few it could go right, but at huge risk: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

@radiofreetom.bsky.social there’s a patriot front recruitment poster at purgatory and aquidneck at the light. Normally I’d rip it down myself but was driving by on a deadline. I posted about it in two groups so someone gets it off there. If it’s still there Sunday I’ll rip it down. So mad

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

“God bless America”… and then naming every country in the continent. Fuck yeah.

what a shot

And I want to be clear, this isn't just about age. Louise Lucas here is 82 and meeting the moment pretty damn well in word and deed.

Hey #RhodeIsland! Let's let Hegseth know what we think of his visit next week. www.mobilize.us/westbaybluew...

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

Streets of Minneapolis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

This is accurate. Trump has not changed course. He is trying to contain political damage. That's it. There is not pivot. There is no shift at this point. Past experience shows the "new tone," if you can call it that, will be temporary. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

Minnesotans getting ready for Tom Homan

The only difference between Homan and Bovino is that Homan understands that you keep the human rights violations out of public sight so people have plausible deniability to say “they didn’t know” later

Oh God

Ha. I am glad I shoveled a path earlier yesterday so he only had to trudge through the six inches or so that fell after that.

A nurse. A researcher. A helper.

AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."

ICE Agent seen clapping after his colleagues just murdered a man for filming them. Y’all Ain’t Angry Enough.

This weird plate has been hanging up in my grandmother's house since the late 60s and I think it is so funny

Ha. Once I caused a major feud between Susan Sarandon and Debra Messing and my mentions were a mess in every way