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This is a very good report with some excellent suggestions

I really wish we’d fought the Bartell-Rite Aid merger harder. This is a disaster.

Exceptional piece from @rtraister.bsky.social on Cuomo. Covers his terrible governance, his selfishness, his lying, his harassment. There is nothing in this man that anyone should want near power. 1/2

the takeaway from this is that, for all practical purposes, stephen miller is the acting president of the united states. trump is just play-acting as the boss, as he did on the Apprentice. (gift link) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Yeah, he’s the problem, lol. (Guess the source)

Something I’d note is that while there is criminal immunity for “official acts” for the president, no such immunity exists for the deputy chief of staff.

Watching ICE chase, tackle, and (usually) whisk into a van anyone who looks a certain way is the most literal and visceral reminder possible that policing in the United States has its roots in runaway slave patrols.

I wrote something about #Cascadia 's economy and an ancient Indigenous trade money known as "hy'kwa": cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadias-ec...

Lighting taxpayer money on fire to own the libs.

Without making any endorsements, it does seem like in a city of 8.5 million residents, it’s not too much to ask for the mayor to actually live in New York City.

If we are ever in a military standoff with Russia or China and the president off-the-cuff tweets "Moscow must be evacuated immediately!!" there's a reasonable chance it sparks an unintentional retaliatory nuclear attack

Trump's ICE regime forces and BPD kidnapped yet again another US citizen. They snatched Job Garcia based on the color of his skin outside Home Depot in Hollywood. In addition the regime thugs destroyed his property and asked each other "how many bodies have you caught today?"

If TX and Ohio want to redistrict Dems out of their seats, blue states must immediately get rid of “independent redistricting committees” and gerrymander the hell out of Republicans No mercy We have the population advantage Watch how fast they stand down! (We should’ve already done this)

Dolly Parton Joins Mötley Crüe On 40th Anniversary Version Of “Home Sweet Home” ino.to/DammUI7

Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Happy Summer Solstice 🌞 While the druids and Instagrammers head for Stonehenge, you’ll find us in…Milton Keynes! The astrologically inclined post-war new town has was reputedly designed “under a fog of marijuana smoke and Pink Floyd records”.

This is the most important thing I have written recently that you probably haven't read. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

The pope posted this this morning and I’m thinking a lot about it

Democratic consolidation behind Cuomo really ought to underscore just how far away from the levers of political influence within the party the median liberal still is.

I, for one, think it's great that you can save so much time when red flags announce themselves as loudly as this

Tonight’s movie: HEAT, Michael Mann’s crime thriller masterpiece. I’ve been on a Los Angeles kick lately and this movie captures the city perfectly.

Republicans turn fake threats into real stories they motivate their base with and use to justify policy. This is a real threat and Democrats need to do as much if not more to stop it.

How much space you devote to pedestrians is a political, not funding question

Apropos of nothing, these signs often have unlocked control boxes with their passwords clearly marked inside. It’s very easy to reprogram them, not that I have ever done such a thing 😇.

The Right has to lie, because the truth is never on their side.

Approaching a priest and seeking absolution in the bathroom cuz you feel bad about doing a fascism is wild

"ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a 'secret police,' with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...

@theneedling.com ain't pulling ANY punches with this one. It's obscene that so much of Washington state government relies on prison labor.

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

Moral authority and the power of shame are legitimate weapons, and using them - in addition to courts, legislatures, and mass protests - is absolutely essential to winning this fight.

a guy who voluntarily calls himself catturd is mad that a robot reads him for filth

Mahmoud Khalil has been released from federal immigration detention after 104 days in custody.

NEW: Pope Leo’s newly appointed Bishop, Michael Pham, outside the court in San Diego: “We need to speak up for the voiceless in our society - and we will.” The video then shows masked ICE agents leaving without snatching anyone today. More of this resistance nationwide! 👏 (🎥 PSL San Diego)

don't worry grok he'll give you a pony when it's all over

For a second time, President Donald Trump has denied Washington state’s request for major-disaster aid following a bomb cyclone storm that hit in November.

there used to be ostensibly left-of-center people who would argue with you if you tried to point out that the world's richest man is very clearly also one of its dumbest

Mahmoud Khalil is free. May his release lead to the release of all who are detained and incarcerated from the US to Palestine, in ICE facilities and in prisons. And may his courage inspire us to remain steadfast in fighting for Palestinian liberation.

I'm being flooded with messages from friends that work at the VA after SecVa held what's been described as an "angry" all hands call where he railed about the media, dismissed 'suicide prevention' efforts as a waste of money, and mocked his own employees! Looking for the recording!