Jon Frater

I'm a law guy, not a politics knower, but "Trump illegally taxed/stole $175 billion from Americans" seems like good messaging.

BREAKING: Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s Tariffs in 6-3 Vote The Supreme Court blocked the ‘emergency’ tariffs Trump had imposed, breaking with its track record of greenlighting his overreaching claims to power.

BREAKING: Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s Tariffs in 6-3 Vote
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I talked to @ilanaglazer.com about what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.

It's horrific - but we have to talk about it.

Call me naive, but I refuse to believe there's no third way to either being "ALL AIPAC" or "FULL NAZI." Maybe something like "Palestinians are People." Just my 2 cents.

Trump Can’t Steal the Midterms The case for being vigilant without panicking.

The TL;DR: we should be "vigilant but realistic" about the dangers. Do not give these bastards one iota of more credit than they deserve. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-cant...

Meet the Gorgeous Winner of Japan's Capybara Bath Contest A capybara with a truly iconic name was crowned the champion of Japan's adorable capybara bath contest. Can you guess how long her bath was?

Behold the glory!
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First Draft: AOC Under (Unfair?) Attack Prem on how reporters and Republicans want to undermine Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's big foreign policy event, Jesse Jackson's death, and more fallout from the Epstein files.

“it’s always a choice when journalists decide to clean up quotes – or not. It’s always revealing which politicians have “uh” or “um” removed...For instance, how often does the mainstream media let Donald Trump’s words speak for themselves?"

Today’s First Draft email, on the media's coverage of AOC:

Jamie Raskin accuses DoJ of cover-up after viewing unredacted Epstein files Ranking member of House judiciary panel said ‘mysterious redactions’ in files obscured names of abusers

Listen to Rep. Raskin. We deserve better than Trump’s coverup.
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Storytelling, World Building, and Establishing a Better United States · Indivisible For a long time people told tales about going to the moon, then we in the US decided to **GO!** Our National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) was established on July 29, 1958. On July 20, 1969 the ...

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Storytelling, World Building, and Establishing a Better United States” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Auspicious Omens and Excellent Insubordination I started this out as a letter to a friend who's feeling down about where we as a nation are at in this moment, and I am still learning how this newsletter thing works so thought I could use the newsl...

I haven't been keeping up with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. That was my mistake; always share Solnit: www.meditationsinanemergency.com/auspicious-o...

A good win for Hizzoner!

Having watched this INSANE film on Tubi recently I'm wondering if there isn't a white paper to be written about the overlap between the techno-1950s setting in Fallout compared to this film. This film could easily be a Vault experiment...

YouTube video by Horror Words Podcast s1e19 Chuck Wendig & Caitlin Burns

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Donald Trump just called Lauren Boebert to ask her to remove her name from the petition to release the Epstein files.

She does not plan to do so.

Q: In the interests of transparency, why not just go ahead and release the full Epstein files?

LEAVITT: This administration has done more with respect to Epstein transparency than any administration ever

He might actually be that guy...

Possibly wrong but officially NOT GUILTY

Renegade Imperium - Complete Trilogy: A Space Opera Adventure (Cadicle Universe) Renegade Imperium - Complete Trilogy: A Space Opera Adventure (Cadicle Universe) - Kindle edition by Frater, Jon, DuBoff, A.K.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Renegade Imperium - Complete Trilogy: A Space Opera Adventure (Cadicle Universe).

If you're into space opera incl. space pirates, double- and triple-crosses, space battles, and betrayal, The #RenegadeImperium boxes set is still priced to move: $2.99 for the whole set! But it won't last much longer so take the plunge now!
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Mamdani Adds Lina Khan to Team of Women Leaders After Election Win Zohran Mamdani has named his transition team—and it’s amazing.

Better and better...
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I live to serve

Seriously, I need this on my inspiration wall

Freudian slips are a helluva thang

Best goddam NY Post front page I have ever seen in my 58 years as a NYCer:

Heh, it's all fun and games until someone loses an election

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

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Democrats flip two seats in deep red Mississippi, break GOP supermajority The outcome in Mississippi adds to a national pattern in which Democrats are making legislative gains in red states.

Even fucking Mississippi... www.newsweek.com/democrats-mi...

“Every race. It’s basically been every race. Governors. Mayors. Long-held [Republican] dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three [Republican] Uber drivers. Just everything.”
HCR

If you're going to wallow in this type of nonsense, just watch Capricorn One on Tubi. It's free and it's a fun movie but it still doesn't make any real sense...

Le sigh...

We Brought Kimmel Back in 6 Days. Now Let’s Destroy Sinclair’s Censorship Machine. We won this round. What do the next steps look like?

It's a simple rule of #capitalism that I've been talking about for 3 decades: you want a #corporaton to change its tune, you kick it in the #revenues: medium.com/@carmitage/w...