John McCormick

Judge Coughenour continued:

“Looking back at what happened in Germany, my good friend Judge Lasnik said, ‘Where were the judges? Where were the lawyers?’”

“We need a call to action in this country from our lawyers and our judges to say ‘not in our country, not on our watch,’” he said.

I keep seeing people say things like, “Well we’re not going to HAVE elections,” and with all due respect, I think this is both wildly pessimistic and also wildly naive.

We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.

WaPo: purchased and gutted to pump propaganda by an oligarch.

LA Times: purchased and gutted to pump propaganda by an oligarch.

CNN: gutted and pushing propaganda

MSNBC: being actively gutted and spun off

CBS News: being purchased by an oligarch's failson and set up to push propaganda.

- California Faculty Association We strongly condemn the abduction of California Faculty Association professor, member and activist Jonathan A. Caravello, Ph.D. and other community

One of my colleagues and a union comrade was abducted at the Camarillo action yesterday.

We still don't know where he is, who is holding them, or any other information about his status.

If you're in the area, please reach out to the folks listed in the press release and donate to the bail fund.

Should New York City Ditch Its Party Primaries in Favor of Open Races?

Ranked-choice voting in a Democratic primary led to victory by Mamdani. So now the #BrokenTimes asks whether primaries should be ditched, inspired by the awful Adams. #MamdaniVendetta
Should New York Ditch Its Party Primaries in Favor of Open Races? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/n...

Your silence will not save you.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July

Deerhoof is taking their music off of Spotify 💪 Their statement (in full below) says “Spotify is flushing itself down the toilet” after Daniel Ek’s announcement of his $700 million investment in AI weapons technology.

1,500+ at our Townhall in Wichita, Kansas this morning.

Working people across the nation are pissed off about this rigged economy, and they’re showing up. Wichita’s Congressman refuses to host a Townhall, so we pulled up instead.

Just sitting back watching @nytimes.com lose a whole generation or two of readers to be a far right laundry machine instead. It’s not the first time in its history.

I had my suspicions that the US health system, aside from the fact the "care" is outrageously expensive, was not actually all that good. The more I interact with the Portuguese healthcare system, the more ineffective & barbaric the US system reveals itself to be. Americans, you are being SCAMMED.

The Cut article from 2018: Cuomo halted investigation into Weinstein case after $25K donation from his former lawyer

holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign…

guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant

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NO KINGS, Melrose MA · Indivisible **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

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NO KINGS, Melrose MA · Indivisible **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

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NO KINGS, Melrose MA · Indivisible **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

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He Died Without Getting Mental Health Care He Sought. A New Lawsuit Says His Insurer’s Ghost Network Is to Blame. The mother of Ravi Coutinho, the subject of a recent ProPublica investigation, is suing Centene for publishing “misleading” information that gave her son a false impression about the kinds of mental h...

www.propublica.org/article/cent...

Our rigged system in a nutshell.

When the rich become richer, they can use their vast wealth to pour money into our democracy and rig the system to enrich themselves even more.

We must get Big Money out of politics.

While some of us may be protected due to our privilege, the great majority are not.

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Why the Power of Technology Rarely Goes to the People In a Q&A, Power and Progress authors Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson discuss the social impact of technological change.

sloanreview.mit.edu/article/why-...

@emollick.bsky.social In terms of danger, I'm concerned that we haven't learned lessons of the history of technology, particularly in periods in which little power accrues with the populations involved.

It remains darkly funny that Mueller essentially spelled out in vivid detail that Trump was guilty of absolutely grotesque obstruction of his investigation but he felt it was inappropriate to outright state it so the GOP just pretended it exonerated him and it worked

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me