“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
04.02.2026 15:45 — 👍 6697 🔁 2465 💬 59 📌 235
To see this as a headline in @nytimes.com is truly quite something. This is a gift link. You might want to read it and pass it on.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
Some Field Notes from our Texan dose of real winter, with edgeland Ents, spectral coyotes, cold light, and the passage of a canine companion: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/ice-dogs
01.02.2026 13:17 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 3
Waves crashing against the cliffs of Inis Meáin, Ireland 🇮🇪 ☺️💙☘️
[📹 Damien Marshall / damiensdoodles]
Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.
02.10.2025 21:00 — 👍 14078 🔁 2668 💬 266 📌 102I’m doing this too, as I build trees for others in the small cemeteries where my people are. Thanks for the inspiration to look for more than obits
01.10.2025 12:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump is going to keep saying unhinged things.
But here's what he and Democrats are really fighting about: whether millions of people are going to lose their health care and millions more are going to have their premiums double.
Every American should know this.
Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
Add more depth to your #OnePlaceStudies by asking a native to give you a walking or driving tour of places significant to them. I've learned a lot about areas I thought I knew well. Fun to see old places with new eyes! Family homes, schools, workplaces, churches, favorite haunts.
22.09.2025 21:53 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Fifteen years after Citizens United opened the floodgates of corporate and dark political money, the Center for American Progress has figured out how to slam them back shut.
CAP published its groundbreaking how-to report today: "The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant."
Fire this guy
04.09.2025 15:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
They can’t disappear the tax cuts for billionaires (lower rates than plumbers) and huge corporations (some zero tax)—big political donors.
04.09.2025 15:16 — 👍 215 🔁 59 💬 14 📌 5
Signed before flood relief. Before flood warning sirens. Before any other bill on his desk.
The governor's no. 1 priority was always the racist, rigged maps.
#txlege
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-25-.... JB is not playing along
27.08.2025 13:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I wrote about the manifestly illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook 1/
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/in-the-mat...
Good advice from Jay Kuo. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
26.08.2025 01:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There is wisdom in his words.
24.08.2025 18:23 — 👍 600 🔁 122 💬 34 📌 7
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
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Holy shit. This legit gave me chills.
Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote.
WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.
Maybe this is why. letterkenny.substack.com/p/boycotting...
10.08.2025 10:48 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It amazes me that they thought they could steal all those billions of words so painstakingly produced and get away with it. But questions for publishers who have clearly colluded without remunerating authors. I've belatedly been asked to sign an agreement for use of work already in use by AI bots..
10.08.2025 07:31 — 👍 27 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses & variants.
RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.
Fantastic piece by @jamellebouie.net on the VRA and the long arc of the American Republic(s)
(gift link)
Pure Americana.
05.08.2025 04:20 — 👍 2972 🔁 813 💬 84 📌 47
Ken,
TX Constitution, Article 3, Sec. 14:
PRIVILEGE FROM ARREST DURING LEGISLATIVE SESSION. Senators and Representatives shall, except in cases of treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during the session of the Legislature, and in going to and returning from the same.
Graph of maternal mortality rate against year for the UK. Rate bounces until and down around 500 deaths per 100,000 births until about 1940, when it falls sharply. It’s been very low (~1–3 per 100,000) ever since.
This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.
28.09.2024 18:34 — 👍 9198 🔁 3088 💬 214 📌 189
Continuing my study of 1800s migrants from Oberpullendorf district of Hungary (now Austria) to Kansas, identifying connections among the 48 Hungarian passengers of the Bark Johannes in April 1866 and reading up on the looming war that they escaped.
#OnePlaceStudies
A picture of the Missouri governor with the line Missouri voters approved, guaranteed sickleave. Their Republican governor repealed it.
My friend, David Pepper of Ohio, wrote a book called Laboratories of Autocracy . This is what he was talking about.
Our states have been run as authoritarian proving grounds for decades. What they’ve done to us, they plan to do to the entire country.
