Nell Lancaster

I'm voting Sparky until a candidate starts adopting his platform planks, and thank him & you for setting a pole. It makes me very sad that no one else is coming close to meeting the moment.

This is important y’all. This is our chance to save the stars.

Thankfully just a dusting, but with strong winds & freezing temps. Nothing like last time, though. I feel for NYC/NJ/Philly.

Spanberger not gonna fix anything

!!!!ne --> immune

The only redeeming feature of the story getting out is that it busts up the RFK effort to paint the disease as no big deal. (The i!!INE wipe out it causes in some substantial % of cases (half?) is also an important counterargument, but is nowhere near as lethal or dramatic. Pretty pernicious though

Rip Roaring R & R

#OtD 20 Feb 1990 US miners won a 10-month strike and occupation of Pittston Coal plant in Virginia. Sit-ins, sabotage and the actions of thousands of strike supporters and women played a key role in its success stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9264...

An unvaccinated seven-year-old. Jesus.

James Tate on X: "South Carolina parents living in the state’s measles epicenter tell of their devastation after their unvaccinated 7-year-old son, Ethan, developed encephalitis, a complication from the virus that causes swelling and inflammation in the brain. https://t.co/RSrUMufBQh https://t.co/McdQo7g5hh" / X South Carolina parents living in the state’s measles epicenter tell of their devastation after their unvaccinated 7-year-old son, Ethan, developed encephalitis, a complication from the virus that causes swelling and inflammation in the brain. https://t.co/RSrUMufBQh https://t.co/McdQo7g5hh

Prayers unanswered. An unvaccinated child (infant? I can't bear to read closely) in SC, where the outbreak is big enough to make an encephalitis case almost inevitable, has been diagnosed with it. x.com/JamesTate121...

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Meh.

Feb. 19, 1942: Executive Order 9066 #tdih On Feb. 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066 was issued by President Roosevelt that authorized the incarceration (internment) of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent. This history has a chilling relevanc...

#tdih 1942 Executive Order 9066

President Roosevelt authorized WWII incarceration (internment) of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent.

About 122,000 people sent to prison camps.

Many of their homes, businesses, and farms were confiscated.

#TeachTruth ⬇️
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YouTube video by The Michael Parenti Library Michael Parenti "The Struggle For Democracy" 10.23.92

One of the major points of this excellent talk by Michael Parenti - how the struggle for procedural/formal democratic freedoms is intimately intertwined with substantive/material advances: m.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Mk...

Memorial planned for site of now-removed Fredericksburg slave auction block - WTOP News A new memorial in downtown Fredericksburg at the site of the city’s historic slave auction block will provide historical context to what happened there 175 years ago.

Pretty cool new monument going up in Fburg to honor the people sold at the auction block before the civil war.

“We have found the names of about 100 of those individuals.”

Memorial planned for site of now-removed Fredericksburg slave auction block

That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.

US-led Board of Peace a 'colonialist operation,' Cardinal Pizzaballa says Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, strongly criticized the U.S.-led Board of Peace, an international body chaired by President Donald Trump to oversee the governance and r...

Via NCR - Trump’s US-led Board of Peace a 'colonialist operation,' Cardinal Pizzaballa says. ‘Others deciding for the Palestinians.’
#Trump #Palestine #Gaza #Catholic #boardofpeace
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I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

This is awesome. University of California employees — Your retirement is invested with the private equity firm that owns ICE’s charter airline for Africa and Asia deportations. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

God's --> * Gov's *

Thanks for this

I can never imagine what Rs like that are thinking, walking right into it with outright lies. (Will add that healthy majorities in the legislature enable the God's correct response)

Ew. Sympathies; one whacko supervisor can really bog down county work & make civic participation (going to supv. mtgs) deeply unpleasant.

Thanks for this info. Best wishes for success! I'm in VA; we have no such legislation on the horizon afaik, & session is so short it requires massive pre-planning. I could swear that reporting a year ago about the horrors in the Balto federal center holding area asserted that as a reason/excuse.

I think they have understood that Bovino is toxically bad PR, so will keep him out of the limelight, but it's not good news they're renting offices across L.A. county.

Just yday read they're planning to intensify the assault on greater L.A., including a focus in the valley on the supposed "Armenian crime rings". So Oz may swoop in for more showy ethnic hostility.

I learned this from the film Fred made about his father in 1983, which I watched with his brother Larry at a showing in Chicago. It brought the red scare home to me in a way that few other accounts could have. It also made me want to see a Gayle Sondergaard movie, which I haven't managed.

The father of Fred Marx, of Hoop Dreams film, was a schoolteacher called before HUAC on the same day as Sondergaard. Because of all the press coverage, his presence was way more publicized than it would have been otherwise, causing crisis w/his job & family. He died of a heart attack at 40.