James Gordon

For the 4th of July maybe watch some classic feel-good but still relevant and timely movies from back in the good old days that focus on the core values of our Republic ? I'm thinking "Soylent Green" and the original Carradine "Death Race 2000," then maybe "Rollerball."

Trump and Musk’s feud blows up again with threats of Doge and deportation Reignited quarrel centers around Musk’s opposition to the president’s signature tax bill as it moves through Congress

I'm not a Trump fan, but I think we need to be clear here. Musk is mad at him for not screwing average Americans over ENOUGH in favor of billionaires. It's two crocs arguging, and Musk is the croc that wants to eat us completely not just rip off our legs.
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‘We did nothing wrong’: Greta Thunberg accuses Israel of kidnapping yacht crew Swedish activist says ‘12 peaceful volunteers’ did not break laws during attempt to bring symbolic aid shipment to Gaza

“I think the world needs many more young angry women, to be honest,” said Thunberg. “Especially with everything going on right now. That’s the thing we need the most of.”

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Los Angeles responds with roaring backlash to Trump’s dramatic escalation The president vowed to crush opposition to his immigration raids – but his attempted show of force may have awoken something else

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Stop bending the knee to Trump: it’s time for anticipatory noncompliance | David Kirp US institutions have been doing Trump’s bidding before he even comes after them. Here’s the counterstrategy

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2) I'm not young and I feel like the average level of sensibility in the DNC is twenty years older than ME! Until the DNC recognizes it's not an incumbency protecting machine, my money will go to people creating change.

1) I've been donating to Sanders and AOC. I'll donate to the party again when we don't hear Ken Martin sniveling in public about credibility and recognize that David Hogg represents the future and that we SHOULD be primary testing our tired, over-the-hill, candidates. #democrats #dnc

Ken Martin privately expressed doubt about ability to lead DNC, blaming David Hogg Martin expressed frustration and self-doubt in an internal meeting with other party leaders, according to a two-minute recording obtained by POLITICO.

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Good. Democrats need new Leadership. Full Stop.

Los Angeles protests live: First troops arrive in LA after Trump signs order to send 2,000 National Guardsmen California officials, including Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass, have described the move as

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"Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?"

Yes there haven't been any shootings, yet...but there's no question of the intent in this case.

Uruguay's José Mujica, world's 'poorest president', dies The former guerrilla who governed Uruguay from 2010 to 2015 earned his nickname because of his modest lifestyle.

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“I will not yield because it was a terribly disrespectful comment, and I will not yield to disrespectful men,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Glad to see from this morning's email that the big boys are getting traction on their efforts to keep everyone well prepared in our changing work environment.

When we present on this "calm" and "silence" are things that come up a lot in terms of what underlying yearnings drive fantasies along these lines, particularly for people who are never entirely at peace. To be fair, that kind of captures the original beating heart of the "goth" aesthetic as well.

I was taught to have great respect for people who pay their debts and don't renege on bets.

I haven't gotten into town in a while, but I suspect the current crowd are a real class act...not necessarily related but I can't help thinking it increases the odds of running into somebody with such a sophisticated standard of conduct.

Growing up or even living for long in the Washington DC Metro area leaves one with a permanent disadvantage in communicating what is "realistic" in terms of outcome and consequence to people who live elsewhere on the planet. I try to be fashionable and refer to it as "being jaded."

"I've got a little list - I've got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground
Who never would be missed...."

On point terrifying dystopian novels aren't selling like hotcakes these days...just my personal experience. I think most people assume ours is about "the bad things that have already happened" not "the much worse things that are coming."

They were pretty upset to learn that Doug Neidermeyer was dead, and also fictional, but are looking for someone with similar professional qualifications.

I've never met a person who used "alpha" to describe people, particularly themselves, who wasn't some variety of asshole. Also the Venn diagram overlap of people who use that term aggressively and people who don't know where it comes from, is very large.

I'm convinced that much of the power of J. R. R. Tolkien's writing is that his Catholic repression combined with Merton College compelled a great deal more psychosexuality into his work than is generally credited.

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David Hogg-run group announces $20M initiative to support primary challengers to House Democrats Leaders We Deserve, a group led by David Hogg, announced it will spend $20 million to help younger candidates and primary challengers to House Democrats

If you don't know how hard the DNC has made it for primary challengers...they have. And it explains a lot about having geriatric leadership that lost to Trump.
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Ocasio-Cortez raised $9.6 million in 3 months, smashing her own record It’s a massive haul for the progressive lawmaker who has been barnstorming the country with Bernie Sanders.

www.politico.com/news/2025/04... “The people are sending Democrats a message about the direction they would like to see,” Sanders adviser Faiz Shakir said in a post on X.

www.politico.com/news/2025/04... “They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re doing is smashing everything,” If you wanted to make sure the US lost its edge in international conflicts, there would be no better way to go about it.

The 2028 Republican Primary Will Be Over Economic Nationalism Ted Cruz fired the first broadside over Trump’s tariffs. But he’s not alone in positioning himself for the next GOP nomination fight.

TL:DR - War with Iran - "the Wall Street Journal editorial board, possessed by the Trump frenemy Rupert Murdoch (who is also pushing war with Iran behind the scenes, one prominent Trump interlocutor told me recently). "- Curt Mills editor of the Am. Conservative.

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‘Political poison’: Enten explains why independent voters are turning on Trump | CNN Politics CNN’s Harry Enten says that President Donald Trump has lost the approval of many independent voters in the United States because of his economic agenda.

In Today's good-ish news. People are learning that "eating faces" was not a metaphor. I mean it is regrettable more people don't care about the threat to send American Citizens to concentration camps in other countries, but you know a pfennig is a pfennig. www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/p...

Bernie Sanders rally in LA draws thousands to protest Trump: ‘We can’t just let this happen’ US Vermont senator’s tour with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes has been drawing record-breaking crowds since February

Just a reminder this is happening!
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We've always had the "Bunny Dip" and "Bunny Perch," but I think I like the "Bunny Crouch" even better. Always being since 1960, and my history books don't go back beyond that.

British man's tattoo wrongly linked to Venezuelan gang in US government document A tattoo belonging to a man from Derbyshire has appeared in a US government document used to identify members of Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan gang, despite the man having no connection to th...

...not that it's surprising they just make shit up. But this probably isn't *new* www.bbc.com/news/article...