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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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Trump is wasting no time in getting back in Russia’s good graces. He lifted sanctions on the oligarchy; he’s taken Putin’s side in the war and said it was Ukraine’s fault; and he’s back to extorting Zelensky. I’m sure there will not be notes. #ProudBlue#Voices www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

submitted 2 days ago • 1246 comments

Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

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Dear third-party voters, you’ve been awfully quiet. What’s up? What’s the game plan for the next 3 years and 11 months? Asking for 75,017,626 friends who did the right thing because we wanted to avoid all of this shit!!!

submitted 3 days ago • 1404 comments

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

submitted 7 days ago • 386 comments

We got a Costco membership for the first time in our lives today. They asked why & I said because treat your workers well, you value diversity, & you didn’t cave in to authoritarian demands. He said: “We’ve been getting lots of folks saying that, thanks for joining.” Who needs a gallon of ketchup?

submitted 7 days ago • 2190 comments

Zelenskyy: "I will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine. Never."

submitted 7 days ago • 888 comments

Dear the rest of the world: You should absolutely not see the US as reliable for anything at this point, shit, none of us on the inside think we're reliable for anything right now either, you're definitely not alone

submitted 8 days ago • 624 comments

But plastic straws are back…

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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

submitted 11 days ago • 432 comments

House GOP wants $4 TRILLION dollar debt ceiling increase. You marks really thought the world’s richest man and the guy with the golden toilet seats were really going to “fight the elites” for you? Nah, they just want their tax breaks.

submitted 11 days ago • 783 comments

A mystery for the ages.

submitted 11 days ago • 152 comments

The CFPB has returned $21 billion to 205 million consumers who were scammed at the hands of predatory banks. You can root out waste, fraud, and abuse... or you can eliminate the CFPB. But you can't do both.

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substack.com/@socialcontr... Yeah… organize now.

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Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 605 comments

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

submitted 14 days ago • 3701 comments

I never understood the musicians playing music while the Titanic sank. Now I do.

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One of these days we're gonna have to reckon with the fact that "money that I spend which does not directly benefit me is a waste" is a popular sentiment. I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face. And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.

submitted 16 days ago • 91 comments

I love my public library. They whiz books all around the state and let me pick them up at the cute little branch walking distance from my place. They accept my purchase requests. They send me amazing unexpected recs. The thematic shelving is always interesting. And the librarians are hilarious. <3

submitted 17 days ago • 31 comments

This book pretty much epitomizes everything I love about reading Johm Edgar Wideman. His sentences can be like atom bombs. He's one of the great prose stylists and, except by the coterie of those of us who idolize him, is woefully unknown and underappreciated. #booksky

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Republicans will squat in the dark and shit on their shoes and call it freedom, just so long as the people they hate have it worse.

submitted 17 days ago • 24 comments

STEP 1: Donald does something stupid. STEP 2: Donald is surprised there are consequences. STEP 3: Donald backs down. STEP 4: Donald lies, claiming things already agreed to are new concessions he forced by the stupid thing he did. STOP 5: REPEAT

submitted 19 days ago • 235 comments

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: He choked. The market started to tank, and suddenly, he said, “Oh, didn’t you guys already have a plan to deal with the border back in December? I love that—I’ll take that.” This is Mr. Art of the Deal.

submitted 19 days ago • 932 comments

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

submitted 19 days ago • 2271 comments

considering Florida is projected to be short 60,000 nurses over the next decade, this seems like a smart play from Canada.

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

📌QUESTION: How can a private citizen, with zero govt. clearance be walking through the doors of OUR federal departments and the treasury, ransacking the places, stealing information, and NOBODY is stopping him? 📌And what the fuck is law enforcement doing right now? 📌THIS IS A COUP.

submitted 20 days ago • 759 comments

🖌 Jesse Duquette

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no order. No explanations or reviews. Just covers. (4/20) #20daybookchallenge #bookskychallenge #booksky

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

The silence of most Republican members of Congress on the Trump tariffs tells you two things: 1. They know it is a terrible idea. 2. They are so afraid of Trump that they won’t say anything even though they know how much it is going to hurt their constituents and the country.

submitted 21 days ago • 1082 comments

Trump just launched a trade war against Canada over fentanyl. The US seized - wait for it - 43 pounds at the US-Canada border last year. 43 pounds.

submitted 21 days ago • 914 comments

Thank you, Canada!

submitted 21 days ago • 799 comments

Happy Birthday James Joyce. "The soul has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets."

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When Congressman John Lewis was a child, he tried to get a library card. He was turned away & told “The Library is not for coloureds” 💔 He’s a civil rights icon, lover of books, recipient of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. “The Library IS for Everyone” 💚 #BlackHistoryMonth

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no order. No explanations or reviews. Just covers. (3/20) #20daybookchallenge #bookskychallenge #booksky

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Love, love, love paperbacks. Looking forward to Russell Banks' "American Spirits." #booksky

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"Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves." - Remembering Langston Hughes, born on this day in 1901. Drawing by Keith Henry Brown.

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We're on our third Great Pyrenees. Actually he's a mix of Great Pyrenees and Anatolian Shepherd, both livestock guardian dogs. The best dogs I've ever had. Loving and protective.

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Always had a soft spot in my heart for card catalogs. These can be found tucked away in corners of Central Library in downtown Portland, Oregon. 📚

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no order. No explanations or reviews. Just covers. (2/20) #20daybookchallenge #bookskychallenge #booksky

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Read your way through NYC. #booksky

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no order. No explanations or reviews. Just covers. (1/20) #20daybookchallenge #bookskychallenge #booksky

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But I thought, "Trade wars are good, and easy to win."

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett continues to be on 🔥 #ResistTrump

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I feel he has been somewhat forgotten, but if you were asked to name the finest Irish writer of the second half of the twentieth century, a strong case could be made for John McGahern. #booksky

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