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Border czar Tom Homan went on TV Monday, bumbling and sweating like a madman to keep his feud going with AOC. AOC responded with this fire: “This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing.” More here:

I miss taxis.

As long as there is human life there will be conflict. As long as there is conflict there will be art. As long as there is art there will be Longo… @milwaukeeart.bsky.social

Was Elon on the ballot in your state?

“Why aren’t Americans rioting in the streets? It’s a dictatorship over there!” So wonders my friend in Barcelona, speaking for many puzzled anti-fascists in the EU, no doubt. “Bread and circuses,” I told him. “That translates to Big Macs and The Voice in America.” Alas…

He's taken the prize of "Most Dangerous Immigrant In History" from Rupert Murdoch.

Making Americans Crash Again. And Again.

The United States is sunk…or is about to be. A rather fitting, floating metaphor given the timing… www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

A new era of Trump’s “dumb-fuck cruelty” which sums up the man’s “logic” rather eloquently:: nymag.com/intelligence...

I don’t know. We need one. Desperately.

Has the counter revolution started? If yes, count me in.

Keith Richards makes it quite clear that there is nobody alive who deserves a standing ovation, definitely not Adam Sandler on guitar. …

Does anybody know what happens to all the pre-made championship merch for teams that didn’t win the championship in their respective sport? I mean there MUST be a clearing house somewhere with all the custom caps and tees that designated the KC Chiefs as the winner of Super Bowl LIX, and others…

This is Munich the last time we let far-right ideas go way too far in Europe. Let's not cross the point of no return once more. 📹British Pathé

How about this Satanic irony:: coming down on immigration while holding hands with his wife…whose parents are immigrants from India…

Can calling your congressman stop a coup? Asking for a congressman.

RFK Jr. will not make America healthy again. But his ignorance may make people sick again. Deprive them of the treatment they need again. Cause hospitals to close again. We have to vote like our lives depend on it. Because for many Americans – it will.

Not leaning left or right. Just leaning human.

All day long…night, too.

Would he be a better man if he had been more and better loved…?

When social media exposes traditional media’s deceit, it’s time for independent journalists to investigate why the press is backing a president who undermines free press—and is it coordinated?

Situationists at work in Chicago…sharing their own commentary on the wages of late capitalism through traditional advertising…

Have we NO American Navalny?

I have been waiting for these guys to step up::

THE CHIEFS CAN STILL WIN IF MIKE PENCE HAS THE COURAGE

Is the United States ready for self-government…?

Be the reason…

Imagine spaces where Black people self-actualize “not in reaction to systemic oppression, but through expressions of values, traditions, and aspirations” This is Lauren Hood’s concept of Blackualization and the animating idea of The Institute of AfroUrbanism www.madamearchitect.org/interviews/2...

I just realized Mr Snuffleupagus is Greek…

Cheese on Armitage in Chicago 2024-2025…. with curator statements. @jerrysaltz.bsky.social @centrepompidou.bsky.social

“Drain the swamp”…then make a new swamp…of donut shop owners::

Is this a reorganization? No, sire. It’s a coup… open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Elon goes Mr Robot:: www.readtpa.com/p/the-media-...

Between slow death and fast death pro life MAGA is giving Americans a slow death:: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We were promised that this time around, the fascism would be far more competent! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill today to shield the identities of doctors who prescribe abortion medications. This comes after a New York doctor was charged with prescribing an abortion pill in Louisiana. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Elon Musk claims it’s a crime to publish the names of the young engineers who work for him who have access to systems they shouldn’t. Here they are: Akash Bobba Edward Coristine Luke Farrito Gautier Cole Killian Gavin Kliger Ethan Shaotran

@rdays.com

NEW: WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk’s DOGE project. By @telliotter.bsky.social

"No one ever thought this would happen" is dishonest and journalists not pointing that out are doing you all a disservice. Many people said word for word this would happen. You just didn't respect those people. And you need to be honest instead of the feigned surprise for sympathy.

RIP Marianne Faithful… www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just saw The Double Life of Veronique on @tcmtv.bsky.social… its meaning is open to interpretation. There are no clear answers. All we know is what the characters do—we do not know why. And we cannot ask them. Consider it a lovely invitation to wonder, not to solve… www.imdb.com/title/tt0101...

Who will MAGA blame? Hillary’s emails? Hunter’s laptop? Other?

If the Dems want to oppose Trump they are going to need to become more vile and more villainous than him because, right now, America is in love with bad guys. REALLY bad guys. Stupid, too… www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

Governor JB Pritzker signs order banning January 6 convicts from State Government Employment.

Faith feels like an unfair advantage in dark times…and these are the darkest of days for America and American democracy that I have lived through…