Charles O’Connor

Now is the time for Dems in congress to say to their gop colleagues “this is what’s coming for you”

Now is the time to threaten institutions that have capitulated to trump with what Dems will do to them when back in power

There are traces in how I told about my own experience of the stranger in rural Vermont

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I mean, they have one job

On the bright side, you’ll never have to hear “vote blue no matter who” again in your life without license to jump straight down that person’s throat

What are they even?

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On the news of Dick Cheney’s death, it’s helpful to remember that our current political hellscape is just one result of the Iraq war and the WoT (another being the deaths of millions)

"Growing up, I believed very much in international law," Adra said.

"I believe that the materials that I'm filming, the documentation, when they are seen abroad, somebody is going to do something."

I’m going to make a block list of people who maintain blocklists

Independent journalists could form a network? Hard to keep stable, but I’d be happy to pay $50/mo for access to a bunch.

It’s over now at Teen Vogue

YouTube video by halfsquirrel Cornershop "England's Dreaming"

We finally have to fight

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Sometimes I’ll message a pic to my family and wonder where the hell the alt text button is. (They all have normal vision)

U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

Unfortunately we live in a vastly different media environment where irrefutable evidence is a concept with diminished meaning and power

aliens, but it’s ok if it’s the jellyfish kind

The problem is Peter Welch shares more perspective with Josh Hawley than he does with any of us

If this is part of a plan (it’s not) to turn gop legislators against the trump project, this ain’t the way and hawley’s not your guy

The first No Kings rally was June 14. This is my Dem senator the day before talking about insurrectionist Josh Hawley

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The lack of urgent response was lack of a political response by the Dem party as a whole and it’s still happening

If you want to find mistakes, they were Biden’s terrible bet that the gop would come to their senses and the J6 committee letting Liz Cheney put all the focus on trump instead of his enablers in congress and elsewhere

The whole argument on both sides is swamped by the larger truth that if libs had done J6, the gop would have burned the Dem party to the ground, and we whiffed on that

That’s a politics problem

The system (It’s Meuller Time!) hasn’t and won’t save us

Temper your Epstein expectations accordingly

Playing an entirely different game

Remove focus from trump. Make miller the face of this admin

Remember hearing of research where they put up a poster on a campus for an event that hadn’t happened in the past

After some amount of time, not only did a significant %age report knowing someone who’d gone, a small % said they’d gone themselves

They used to be good for you

Betting it’s less which leg than how they’re put together. Miller and Vought are wielding power that derives from trump. Making either or both a liability for trump may be the quickest way to destabilize the system

And c’mon, making miller a liability should be easy

Almost everyone is degraded and diminished by proximity to trump. It’s true even for vance, despite his enthusiasm

Vought and miller feed off it. They’re empowered and energized for their own ends like no one else has managed

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Freelance copyeditor, video store clerk, mental health worker

When my family was on SNAP, I had 3 jobs

Now I pay thousands in income tax

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