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YouTube video by Chris Cillizza There's a Republican nightmare forming in Texas 😱 | Chris Cillizza

GOP Congressman Wesley Hunt officially jumped into the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate in Texas. Why does that matter? Because Hunt’s entry makes a runoff much more likely — and that could completely change the race.

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

In Portland, Oregon, a West Coast version of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign is playing out. Socialist city councilors, who say the city has been “run by the rich” for too long, have promised sweeping changes.

View is looking west in late afternoon. iPhone photo.
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The Shutdown Made Sara Nelson Into America’s Most Powerful Flight Attendant (Published 2019)

Government Shutdown 2019
"As aviation unions met behind closed doors, Ms. Nelson advocated for an aggressive response... a general strike, an idea so radical that it has scarcely been invoked in public by the head of a national union in generations".

How two blond suburban moms gave Democrats an answer to the rightwing media ecosystem Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan’s podcast I’ve Had It has risen up the charts and created a community with ‘a brand of fuck-you politics’

Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan’s podcast 'I’ve Had It' has risen up the charts and created a community with ‘a brand of fuck-you politics’

Most of the people I know who are oblivious, voted for Trump.

For 29 days? So they don't get paid?

Read the caption under the photo.

Cory Doctorow Says the AI Industry Is About to Collapse Famed sci-fi author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow has a spectacularly grim warning about the coming AI-fueled economic disaster.

"So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?"

Robert Reich is stating the truth.

#USDemocracy

Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since. – Lester Bangs

@bsky.photo would be better.

Dallas, Texas. No Kings Protest

“Healthcare for illegal aliens” is the new “they’re eating the cats and dogs in Springfield.”

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YouTube video by The Cars - Topic Think It Over

THE CARS (1981)

YouTube video by rsibal20 Chaka Khan - I Feel For You -

CHAKA KHAN (1984)
stevie wonder, harmonica

YouTube video by Cult College JD will help break parts of the cult that Trump can’t as long as he stays and I welcome it! #cult

"He's just a wet sock trying to pretend he's a Nike or something..."

Gee, how will the millionaire GOP reps get by?

"Please clap."

YouTube video by The Daily Show Carole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily Show

“I think what is happening in America is they are building a techno-authoritarian surveillance state.”

YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury Rep. Stansbury: Government Shutdown Update

From canceling votes, to refusing to negotiate, to threats of mass firings—here’s how the GOP is pushing towards a shutdown and what it means. ⬆️

... and her lousy campaign.

Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.

VIVIAN MAIER, photographer; Self-portrait, Chicago, 1957
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