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This is just a scare tactic. Fuck him.

YouTube video by 6Cats4aDomino Lofi #FogBrewGramophone #ColdSilenceFugue

🌀 Vernon Drops: The Cold Silence
Part IX: The Lofi Resistance Drop “Cold Silence Fugue — a lofi track for posting through the chill. Espresso brewed. Dispatches ready.”

#LofiResistanceDrop #ColdSilenceFugue #EspressoBrewed

I consider myself fairly well-versed in American history, but certainly not an expert, so I still love following historians who relate it to what's going on today. I've really appreciated @tadstoermer.bsky.social resistance history. Who have you been listening to?
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They do around this time every year. 💚

Trump administration orders Florida schools to end courses for Latino teens A roundup of Florida education news from around the state

President Convicted Felon orders #Florida schools to end Latinos in Action courses, aimed at helping Latino teens complete high school, because those poor English-speaking white kids don't get the same help. www.tampabay.com/news/educati... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social

Ooooh, fuck. Yeah, familiar with the telegram link, but hadn't heard it called what it truly is. Thanks.
Question: Do you know any good encrypted organizing platforms that are also not hosting dangerous, hate-filled terrorist groups? 🤔

"Terrorgram?" 🤔

"I need you to turn down the temperature and part of that is to stop pointing out how i cranked it way up"

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
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There’s a lot in Bari Weiss’ 2023 FedSoc speech that merits scrutiny but I think the Times did a disservice by closing with this quote — given what she says immediately after. fedsoc.org/commentary/f...

“I have been criticized for my conservative allies”

“Holy shit you got criticized for your allies wanting lower taxes?”

“LOL no...no not those allies”

“So....deregulation?”

“Haha no not those allies either”

“Which allies, exactly?”

“Oh, you know the ones”

America is hopeless; this is what gives me hope.

Open up my first print paper here in London to learn that Nigel Farage’s Stephen Miller, “Posh George” Cottrell, is under tax investigation and also working on a book called “How To Launder Money.” Points for candor!

For independent voters, it’s not Project 2025. It's Puppet 2025 Make them see the old man isn’t in charge anymore.

31. The more pain and chaos they feel, the more they might be open to the argument that the pain itself is proof that the democratically elected president isn’t in charge.

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Hey, graphic designers! (Not AI, please.) Time to design new protest posters showing who's really working the stage magic: Miller, Vought, and their stage hands, Vance, Thiel, Musk, etc.

The cuts, which represented the largest federal defunding of police operations in New York in decades, were made by the Department of Homeland Security, without explanation and without the approval of President Trump, White House officials said. Indeed, President Trump was blindsided by the decision to defund the police, not learning of the cuts until Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York called him on Sunday to protest the change after the fact, according to three people with knowledge of the call.

2. But Donald Trump didn’t change his mind. Not really. He just wants us to think so. Fact is, he wasn’t part of the decision to (illegally) cut off the money. Someone in the regime decided for him. Here’s the Times:

#MorningVibe

Who knew that Halloween decor could be so realistically frightening?!?

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Gulliver’s Travels meets skeleton culture. Genius!

Mama mia. That’s a spicy meatball.

This Is Not a Drill: Bravery as Strategy in the Face of American Tragedy | Common Dreams In recent memory, the prospect of a president preventing congressional elections from taking effect has been unimaginable. But today, it is not at all hard to imagine that this could happen.

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Tropical fruit tree seedlings! Buy 4 get one free!

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Every time #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous or CFO Blaise Ingoglia claim local govt is wasting tax money, throw this absurd $83M payoff for a campaign contributor in their faces & watch them squirm.

Lake Jesup floodplain bursts with native ‘swamp sunflower’ bloom Every fall, the North Shore of Lake Jesup transforms into a stunning sea of yellow as the “swamp sunflower” blooms in expansive shallow water marshes.

Today's Moment of #Florida Zen: a field of blooming swamp sunflowers. www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2...

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

#SouthPark DVDs Seasons 1-4 $19.99
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Alas if only our media would follow the law, too, we wouldn't have this performative bs

Pan-African Dreams, Post-Colonial Realities Two new books, on Kwame Nkrumah’s promise and Idi Amin’s tyranny, capture the soaring hopes and bitter aftermath of Africa’s age of independence.

The New Yorker reviews my new book, The Second Emancipation (about Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism), along with Mahmood Mamdani's Slow Poison (about Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni). www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

American legal scholars cannot justify Trump’s orders to destroy fast boats in the Caribbean, even one who wrote the Guantanamo “torture memo”. Trump may not pay the price, but Hegseth and Naval officers may soon be prosecuted in foreign jurrisdictions.

#NationalSecurity #Venezuela #SOSVenezuela

Summary executions on the high seas in violation of international law subject all involved to criminal prosecution.