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Some rich assholes do actually leave (Ken Griffin left Chicago for Florida because JB Pritzker tried to pass a graduated state income tax). While there may be some initial pain, good riddance.

He also has a multi-million dollar pad in NYC, so, they never truly leave blue states.

As someone who grew up Canadian-adjacent, I concur wholeheartedly.

Your regular reminder to pay attention to, and vote in, the upcoming Democratic primaries.

Also, some candidates, sensing the mood, will put on a show about how they're "fighters". Don't believe them without verifying. Don't give a pass to crappy candidates.

i spent a literal decade being told that i was overreacting and that no way no how Roe was going to be overturned.

I'm getting the same reaction when I tell people that Obergefell v. Hodges (same sex marriage case) will be overturned sooner rather than later.

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The rich have been threatening to leave New York because of taxes all my life. Some of them do go to Florida or Texas, but then they discover that Florida and Texas are Florida and Texas.

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More of this, please.

Never give a sucker an even break.

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

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Trump Will Slow, but May Not Stop, the Rise of Electric Vehicles

EVs are quieter, simpler, less expensive to run, and more fun to drive than equivalent combustion cars. They’re where world auto markets are going, so why handicap US auto companies competing in those markets? All to pay off fossil fuel donors.
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A 10-day hunger
strike persists at
Florida's Alligator Alcatraz detention facility for undocumented immigrants, according to NBC. Stories of Multiple detainees are refusing food, following Governor Ron DeSantis' disclosure inhumane living
conditions

Hi from Greenland everyone ✌️!
I’m a bit busy guiding our red sails tours here these days so I don’t post much, but I thought I’d share a little glimpse from yesterday night sailing ⛵️🧊.
That’s shot around 12pm…

How much do I loathe this smiling generic GOP normie—ex Fed/Treasury technocrat, b-school economics teacher, Bush-McCain-Romney minion—who’s agreed to be Trump’s designated liar/propagandist trying to delegitimize government statistics? Like Dr. Faustus, Dr. Hassett is hellbound.

Large symmetrical church of buff brick. The Chicago Historical Resources survey calls this style Romanesque Revival. The entrance projects out from the center of the church in the form of a brick archway leading to the door. The top of the archway is a checkerboard brick pattern of bluff and cream tiles with a stone border. Above the entrance is a large round wheel window decorated with stone tracery. And above that is more checkerboard tile, stone carvings of religious symbols, and a stone cross at the very top. One either side of the main entrance are two other doors set in arched openings.

It's Sunday. Here's a church. Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii, 1224 W. Lexington, Chicago. Built 1923-24, Worthmann & Steinbach, architects.

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well we all remember the apocryphal saying, when fascism comes to america it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross and also in the guise of the stupidest most vile child raping piece of shit who ever lived

Bass: We just heard that the administration’s experiment failed. The raids that were happening in Los Angeles—the random pulling and snatching of people off the streets based on the language they spoke, their appearance, where they work—the court has said that can no longer happen.

Honor Virginia Guiffre - And Every Survivor If you haven’t already, listen to Virginia Guiffre’s surviving brothers and sisters-in-law speak about justice for their sister and the wishes she expressed to them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae...

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Today would be a good day to release the Epstein Files.

Unredacted.

In their entirety.

More on Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith:

➡️ He said that the descendants of slaves should pay reparations to the descendants of slave owners

➡️ He urged Congress to make J6 a national holiday

➡️ He called for Trump’s birthday to be made a national holiday (“MAGA Day”)

This guy.

Good.

The courts continue to affirm what should be obvious, these lawless raids — grabbing people off the street based on little more than how they look — have got to stop.

Listen to organizers not pundits.

the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.

I'm well aware that this may put me in a minority by now, but I don't WANT there to be a Dem Stephen Miller. I don't want a psychopath who will run roughshod over every law and right people have in pursuit of a goal and then go on TV and say "how DARE these far-right lunatics obstruct justice 🥺"

Illinois AG joins lawsuit challenging Trump’s threats to transgender youth care - Windy City Times Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is suing the Trump administration over its efforts to ban gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary youth. Raoul filed the lawsuit Aug. 1 with Californi...

Four major hospitals in Chicago have suspended gender-affirming care for trans youth. Now, Illinois AG Kwame Raoul is joining an national lawsuit challenging Trump's threats to providers.

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Scotland approves world's 'biggest offshore windfarm' project - days after Donald Trump pressured First Minister to scrap renewables During his state visit, Donald Trump branded wind turbines a "con-job" and raised the issue during talks with Scottish First Minister John Swinney.

Just mere days after Taco urged Scotland and the EU to scrap windmills because he doesn't know how they work, Scotland approved the largest ever offshore windmill project ever.

Real world leaders give him and his advice the respect that they deserve- none whatsoever.

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