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Retired Indoctrinator of Youth. Union Thug. Radical Left Lunatic. Sometimes I just make awkward gestures. Swimming against the tide. Collage maker. Activist not Passivist. Homegrown. I do know how to tell you to care for others. Loudly.
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Climate activists spray Tesla showroom in Manhattan "No unelected homegrown fascists" and "F**k DOGE" in an Earth Day direct action. AND, they cleaned up afterwards

If I believed in God, it would be a god who was outraged by Trump's exploitation of religion to hurt people. It would be a vengeful god who would roast Trump's nuts in hell.

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You could do another version of @polphilpod.bsky.social’s excellent essay that’s dedicated to pundits whiffing horribly on climate change (and, to a lesser extent, whiffing on taking Al Gore seriously). www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...

small but scary story and of a piece with the whole ICE MO open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

In most free exercise cases they at least keep up the pretense of applying a neutral principle. This is extraordinarily different. It's outright asserting special privilege for SCOTUS-favored religions over others. Anti-LGBT beliefs are to be given a favoritism no others get or coherently could get.

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President Trump asserted on Tuesday that undocumented immigrants should not be entitled to trials, insisting that his administration should be able to deport them without appearing before a judge.

Lutnick to Trump: "All those factories that you're bringing in because of your trade policy -- we're gonna train people in tradecraft. Bring back tradecraft to America so that people can work in these factories with great paying jobs ... we're gonna remake the American dream."

Elon Musk had a WWE-style “screaming match” with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent feet from the Oval Office — which only ended when they were physically dragged apart. The fight last Thursday, which was over who should run the IRS, started in the Oval and the two took it outside to the hall.

Reports are that 80 year-old Jan Schakowsky, the Democratic House Rep. from the 9th Congressional District since 1999, will announce that she is not running for reelection. Thank you, Jan, for all you have done and knowing when it’s time to leave.

When does all the winning start?

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"It's inconvenient to give everyone due process, so we won't do it for certain people" is a sentence that's never been said by someone who believed in a free country.

Normally only a deeply stupid or deeply unwell or deeply deceitful person would speak these words, but Donald Trump is that rare exception in which it’s the trifecta

'We cannot give everyone a trial' ?!?! Yes you fucking can! That's what makes it a democracy.

Hey LA SoCal people, we need to show up and make sure Gaetz and company know they aren’t welcome. This Sunday in WeHo. See below WeHo Times article for time and location. Hate is not welcome in our State!!!!

MEMPHIS — Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social is holding a rally FRIDAY to push back on Elon Musk’s XAI supercomputer’s pollution of the already “F” quality air (with Greater Memphis Chamber’s blessing)

In court hearing today on Trump's orders targeting some law firms, Judge Beryl Howell questioned why the Administration so frequently targets and invokes "DEI" "I find it quite jarring and puzzling.... why does the administration view those words as so dirty?"

How the Hope Florida Foundation, backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife, received a $10m donation as part of a massive settlement with the state’s largest Medicaid managed care provider that had overcharged for prescription drugs. GOP lawmakers are investigating if that donation broke the law.

Registries for pregnant women and children with autism, but no registry for guns?

The Conservative party has turned into a bunch of men wearing makeup screeching about drag queens and trans people. It’s wild MAGA can’t see the irony.

Pete Hegseth is making sure he looks good for his next scandal

Well maybe they will get his sideburns straightened out. This is ridiculous.

Screeching Weasel-- Pegboy Shonen Knife Smoking Popes The Linda Lindas Dance Hall Crashers-- Yes OK

Donald Trump is big mad that President Zelenskyy won't recognize the occupation of Crimea. Donald claiming he has "nothing to do with Russia" is a farce. He is Putin's useful idiot.

Whoever at the CA bar was responsible for this should be fired immediately.

So thankful we have one small thing to celebrate.

New statement from Mohsen Mahdawi, dictated from ICE detention to his lawyers: "I am in prison but am not prisoned…Speaking of Palestine does not only qualify as freedom of speech but it is also about our humanity. Keep the hope alive. I will see you under the sun."

Aaaaaand this is why it’s important sometimes to get more information before hurling theories about, a lesson I will take myself as well.

Something I learned from interviewing survivors of abuse and institutional betrayal is that by being willing to identify a problem, you are often treated as the problem. The institution will try to get rid of you instead of the problem. To me, this also speaks to the way the left is treated broadly

I wonder who Trump is referring to?😂 PS: I left Perkins Coie in 2021. PPS: Perkins Coie is suing Trump, not the other way around. PPS: Perkins will win.

In 1913 we did not Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, the EITC, SNAP or much else of a social safety net. Life expectancy was about 52 years. If this is the era they want to go back to, lets hear about all of it.

SCOOP: Trump's Equal Opportunity office is investigating Barnard's employment practices. Professors received texts to their personal phones on Monday, linking to a survey asking if they were Jewish and if they had been subjected "unwelcome discussions" theintercept.com/2025/04/23/t...

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Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, the #2 top Dem, is retiring from Congress and will not seek reelection after his term ends. Thank you for all you've done, but thank you especially for finally stepping aside for new leadership after you voted for Donald Trump's disastrous government funding bill.

At the time, I concluded this was likely NOT a "slip-up." Right wingers do this ALL THE TIME (just ask people like @noupside.bsky.social & @ninajankowicz.com, or 51 former spooks). And, as @gregsargent.bsky.social noted, they DID redact the name of the cop prosecuted for misconduct subsequently.

Love this. MI Secretary of State has a booth at the airport to help residents get Real ID

Brilliant work. Plus, I just have to say, Phillip Levin has my hat off for his stylistic perfection. The guy writes like he's carving in stone. It's really beautiful prose. Trump Tried to Derail Our Work. We Banded Together and Moved Forward. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...

Larry David captures so much about this moment, and the fatal flaws of normalizing evil. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

Don’t wait for a better time.

Love Tim Walz.

This is NUTS. In this country, we do not let our leaders sign secret agreements with foreign dictators to deport people without oversight or transparency. That is illegal.