This is why Gen X is different. We are the Sesame Street, Schoolhouse Rocks generation. I was feral and had good TV.

Who is going to primary Chuck Schumer? Cowardice can no longer be rewarded. His comfort is always more important than ours.

Is the Epstein thing not actually a sex thing but a Putin thing? Didn’t Epstein introduce Trump to Melanie? And blackmail is both Putin’s favorite and Epstein’s funding source.

Also, the left excels at chanting. No contest. And the extreme right chose violence. They did not use their words.

Turns out the civil war is within the right over who is further right. Makes sense since they’ve got all the guns. On the left, we march and have stern words for things. Then we try to fix the problem. Sigh.

This is not the time. This is about 9/11. Shame on you for making this about you. As always.

Pete Hegseth is a piece of garage. And Trump has no prepared speech. This is not honorable.

It would be far too much for them to read the source material for the popular culture. Heart of Darkness is not what he thinks it is either.

@morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social - read the complaints in the Declaration of Independence and you see Donald Trump in a white wig and a crown.

Conservatives are afraid of everything and everyone. They’re afraid they’ll “turn” gay. They’re afraid when they see poverty. They’re afraid of cities. They’re afraid of women. They’re afraid of black people. They build walls and fences and carry guns. Babies.

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. #declarationofindependence #2026

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. #declaration

I declare: Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. #250 1/

@podsaveamerica.crooked.com The bicentennial happened when I was in middle school. I became so patriotic listening to our story of independence. King George III is in the White House now. Please lead up to the July 4, 2026 Revolution to launch the midterms. PLEASE!! Save the Revolution

What Gives Me Hope Read more here.

Hope is what we do when the odds are long and the options limited. It is the stubborn act of trying when despair feels easier. Rather than a passive optimism, hope is the commitment of those who believe they can make a difference, however small. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...

Hey Netflix, now might be a good time to add Roots (1977 miniseries) to the livestream library. A dose of Kunta Kinte is what America needs right now. #history #remember #museum

Dear @schumer.senate.gov - you’re going to lose the left to the democratic socialists and they’re going to win. Your party’s version of the tea party is actually grassroots and smart. Support Mamdani or lose the left. Also. It really is time to retire.

Does this mean a lot of other states have just given over their records? Thank you for fighting the fascists.

I’m exhausted with democrats and I’m a high-information committed democrat. Look at how they’re treating Mamdani! If every politician over 70 retired, imagine where the party would be.

White men fear reprisals. They exact reprisals, so they fear them from women and people of color. They fail to understand women or people of color so they assume we will act as they do. So instead of learning, they act like big scared babies and they lash out and they temper tantrum.

@nicollewallace.bsky.social - I look forward to when @gavinnewsom.bsky.social starts diagnosing people with #newsomderangementsyndrome

Two long cons have been played against America and both have used the big orange dupe. right wing wants to end democracy to create a theocracy. Putin wants to end democracy so he can win. They have both found the perfect vessel who only wants fancy houses, plans, and fake adoration. #resistance

It looks like a suck up cabinet meeting. Around the table, everyone must go and everyone must thank him. It looks so gross but the Europeans are like resistance spies sleeping with Nazis to get what the cause needs. #laresistance

And now the Europeans have played him. Security guarantees! It cost the Europeans very little. They kiss up and Trump dances as they want. I’m glad they are seeing him second. Putin embarrassed him, the Europeans are kissing his ass.

Not enough because he keeps losing at the district and appellate courts. Just like this one. #thankgod

At what point are they sanctioned for filing frivolous charges?

New York Times headline: "SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes. Elon Musk’s rocket company relies on federal contracts, but years of losses have most likely let it avoid paying federal income taxes, according to internal company documents."

What if we vilified billionaires and their corporations the way the poor have long been stigmatized: as the "parasite class"—Musk's own favored term—trapped in an "endless cycle of dependency."

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...

That press conference yesterday sure looked like Putin got the Epstein files. That smirk was telling!

@theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social - Is anyone connecting the hack at the department of justice with this meeting? Feels like Pee Tape Volume 2 put that smirk on Putin’s face and made Trump’s face literally sag.