Lydia Wilkes

Feed the people.

This is brutal.

And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.

In the literature, we call rallies like this "image events" because they help **focus media attention** on a major strain of ideological resistance that is big enough for lots of people to feel comfortable. They create IMAGES that FOCUS our ATTENTION and AFFECT to mobilize frequently.

The frogs (and unicorns and dinosaurs) will be defining ideographs of this period of struggle.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

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#indigenouspeoplesday #alaska #aide

Sesame Street honors Indigenous Peoples Day as Zach McClarnon discusses his family culture and traditions.

Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it.

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign.

"If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."

I don’t live near a Sinclair station I can catalog ads on to contact advertisers about my boycotting of them. Anyone know who’s advertising on the Birmingham, AL, station that isn’t carrying Kimmel? That’s the closest one to me.

Two automatic rifles, some rifle magazines, and a backpack on the floor of a CVS

One rifle and many shell casings on the ground near an outdoor staircase

Magazines and shell casings resting on the steps of outdoor staircase

First the terrorist tried to enter campus in a car filled with guns. When he wasn’t allowed past the gates, he started firing from a CVS drugstore across the street. From a semi-automatic weapon, 500 shots is a lot. He was at it for a long time.

Here are the weapons & shell casings he left behind.

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

The deportations are about to turn into detentions.

There isn’t money in deporting folks, but there is in detaining them…

“Under the Microscope”: Activists Opposing a Nevada Lithium Mine Were Surveilled for Years, Records Show Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have collaborated with private security to surveil largely peaceful protesters opposed to the Thacker Pass mine, according to a ProPublica review of thousa...

NEW: Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show.

“They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.

Some good news amid all the bad.

Yet another Nazi tactic: call your enemies vermin, then call for their extermination. Build concentration camps to exterminate them. 100% what the Nazis did.

Disgusting:

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

I keep saying this... both operationally and in research, the situation is still much worse than most people seem to realize or want to accept.

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top.

#HandsOff2025

Lots of speculation about why this catastrophic tariff plan is being enacted. I think it's just motivated by contempt (for immigrants, poor people, experts, etc.). Contempt is a sticky political feeling and its hard to dislodge. But it's *the* motivating political feeling of the administration.

How many eggs can you send? U.S. asks countries to help lower soaring prices The United States has reached out to Denmark and other European nations asking if they can export eggs as Americans face surging egg prices, the Nordic country's egg association said on Friday.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh, so now you’d like friends and allies after starting nonsensical trade wars? Send nothing, Europe. Please.

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote.

There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP

Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

New:

DOGE's spending has been secret.

No longer.

My colleagues have uncovered it.

www.propublica.org/article/doge...

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

Whoops, just west of Gulfport, not east.

Cool! My sister lives just east of Gulfport in Diamondhead. Hope you’ve been enjoying the gulf coast!