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No clowns
No hate
That's the way
We legislate

"Nuggets de pollo" taxes the brain, apparently.

AGAIN: The pharmaceutical industry possesses massive lobbying & advertising resources! Yet it (and the larger medical industry) will not mount a defense against Trump's broad war upon public health.

They have money and influence but lack courage -- or, indeed, simple conviction in their own work.

But not your *darkest* thought. 😐

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The @inquirer.com is a great American paper and I get to read the print edition every day now.

After Vance's outrageous provocations last year, the bar to clear for"conciliatory" was setmere millimeters from the floor.

The pharmaceutical industry has massive lobbying and advertising resources. Yet they - and the larger medical industry - have refused to engage in the broad war being waged by the Trump administration against public health. Crickets.

How any progressive in Maine can vote to put John Fetterman II into the US Senate simply beggars belief. GP will do a 180 on those who put him in office when he is invested with that power. Absolutely clear.

Style Council, MY EVER CHANGING MOODS (1984) (US version of Café Bleu)

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19.

Richard Byrne, BEAUTY DOESN'T REACH ME (We Heard You Like Books, 2026)

"Why make a death mask of Ernst Toller? The object’s existence lingered with me long after [my play HOTEL MAYFLOWER] was finished. At that time, no one knew who had made it — or why."

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Let's add to this that it never works. See 1864: when a commander in chief held an election in wartime and defeated a (hindsight tells us inexplicably) popular former general.

Dachau started as a concentration camp where people were killed. Only later did it become a death camp.

Richard Byrne, BEAUTY DOESN'T REACH ME (We Heard You Like Books, 2026)

"Why make a death mask of Ernst Toller? The object’s existence lingered with me long after [my play HOTEL MAYFLOWER] was finished. At that time, no one knew who had made it — or why."

Pre-order my new book - BEAUTY DOESN'T REACH ME:

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I have the best union siblings 🥹😭

Minneapolis / Photo: Leila Navidi

No way to know if ICE in Minneapolis/St. Paul is over yet. The government besieging the city has lied so many times about almost everything.

If it is, history will note that its citizens showed us the way. Toughness. Resilience. Intelligence. Commitment to nonviolence. Community. Radical empathy.

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

BEAUTY BOOK | richardbyrne Excavating the history behind antifascist playwright Ernst Toller's death mask.

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YouTube video by Guardian News Glastonbury crowd chant 'Oh, Jeremy Corbyn' at silent disco

We can break out the "Oh! Jere-ah-mee-COR-bin" chant again.

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My MLB At Bat subscription got a rebrand and added new content I will never use.

And it doubled in price. Nope. Gimme that ol' time radio. #cancel

It will take decades to extricate or isolate them.

In Memoirs of a Revolutionary, Victor Serge quotes Dutch radical Henk Sneevliet on the helplessness of individuals and societies as the world approached war in the late 1930s:

"Is it necessary for us to pass through bloodbaths and utter darkness? What can one do?"

Extraordinary. This photo -- and the photo of victims standing up behind her.

Clockwise from left: Kelly Hogan (Anne Royall); Kent Rose (Adam Huntsman); Nora O'Connor (Mrs. Ball); Jon Langford (Lead Whig); Dean Schlabowske (Co-writer / Lead Dem); Robbie Fulks (Davy Crockett)

Davy Crockett's Almanac, 1845

Our CONGRESSMAN DAVY cast so far is amazing: Kelly Hogan; Kent Rose; Nora O'Connor; Jon Langford; Dean Schlabowske; Robbie Fulks. More announcements soon!

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Four days ago, the President posted a video of the Obamas as apes.

Mainstream media has just moved on.

They always just move on.

Drivel. And dangerous.

"Have you left NO sense of decency?"

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