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You’ve made my day ❤️

Thank you!

Two years ago today, True West came out! It feels like a 100. If you want to understand how we got to where we are, give it a read. I look at the collision of militia, MAGA, MAHA, cowboy mythology, billionaires, & fractures in urban/rural communities. It’s about healing, & fighting the bad guys…

DC J6: 1.500 arrests
DC No Kings: zero

Tell me again which side is violent?

#nokings St. Augustine, Florida. I joined thousands and thousands. ❤️🇺🇸

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

No notes, this is a perfectly reasonable summary

Read this thread from a great Portland reporter! The New York Times running this story today is absolutely calculated. It has been positioning Portland for years as a progressive villain. Also: why send a reporter from the Bay when the NYT has at least two reporters who actually live in Portland.

I'll miss you Dr. Jane Goodall. An inspiration from the time I was a girl until I passed the mid-century mark. The world is dimmer with you gone.

So excited to sit down with my brilliant pal, Leah! What a great book and a great person!!!!

It’s awful!

I did!

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Walmart spent $35.3B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024, enough to give each of its 2.2M employees annual bonuses of $2,719.

Last year, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay of just $29,469.

Textbook corporate greed.

There are only two ways to stop Netanyahu destroying Gaza The Israeli government has repeatedly said the release of all remaining hostages and disarmament of Hamas would end the war, but in reality, Netanyahu’s military objectives in Gaza City come first, so...

"The only way to save the lives of the remaining Palestinian civilians, as well as the hostages and captives held by Hamas militants, is an immediate ceasefire. Followed by unfettered access to massive amounts of aid." www.the-independent.com/news/world/m... Gaza Palestine Middle East

YES! Go @ejeancarroll.bsky.social

August 31, 2025 Almost one hundred and forty-three years ago, on September 5, 1882, workers in New York City celebrated the first Labor Day holiday with a parade.

August 31, 2025

MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

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RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns “The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

If what we hope will happen ever happens, we'll watch as many, many people in the world of politics, overnight, go on to pretend they were always against what preceded it. This era has been a highly effective acid test for character. Take notes now, so that you don't forget in the future.

For decades gun-lovers argued they had to have guns because the 2nd Amendment says people need guns to fight tyrannical government (it doesn’t)

Then, when a tyrannical government shows up, they’re eager to shoot people protesting it

It was always a lie

America’s leading physician groups are now openly defying RFK Jr. US vaccine consensus has officially shattered.

"In 2025, less than 70 percent of Americans still believe that childhood vaccinations are “very important.” This year, the US saw its worst measles outbreak since the early 1990s"
The scale of damage to trust in public health in < 6months driven my RFK Jr is staggering.
www.vox.com/health/45922...

No lies told here.

Judge orders Alligator Alcatraz shut down in 60 days, says no more new detainees A federal judge on Thursday barred the DeSantis and Trump administrations from bringing new detainees to Alligator Alcatraz and demanded the state close out operations at the immigration detention fac...

A federal judge ordered that Alligator Alcatraz must be shut down in 60 days.

Time to find out if the Supreme Court approves of concentration camps.

Good. Cody Roberts deserves fines and jail time.

Good.

Do I think Gavin Newsom is a good presidential candidate? Nope. Do I think this is hilarious? Yes. H/t campcallout.bsky

Rep. Nicole Collier is a Goddamn warrior. This is a woman who is demonstrating grit, resolve, tenacity and the refusal to bow…rather than just yapping about it.

Not surprised!