Elle A. Sickandtired 💪🏼🧡✨

You cannot serve God
and wealth.

-Matthew 6

The right wing will continue to manufacture culture wars and throw "controversies" at the wall to see which sticks in the hope it will distract people from Epstein.

"Phantom Lib Syndrome" is what @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social calls it. He's exactly right.

Reactionary beliefs lost in the "marketplace of ideas" decades ago. Science proved the Bible's creation, Babel, & flood stories were fables.

This is why the right loves to argue against imaginary liberals.

There were a few people offering nuanced takes about beauty standards and racialized aesthetics and a very small number of outraged people. But there was no mass rage at American Eagle or Sweeney.

But inventing liberal outrage is what Republican media do best.

How the Right Shaped the Debate Over the Sydney Sweeney Ads

As the New York Times just reported, the actual numbers show that almost no one was criticizing Sydney Sweeney for her American Eagle ad.

But Libs of TikTok decided to pretend that lefties were angry. A story about supposed leftist outrage was concocted out of thin air by liars.

In reality, most progressives weren’t worked up much at all. Criticism of the ad campaign had come almost entirely from a smattering of accounts with relatively few followers, according to an analysis of social media data by The New York Times. Conversation about the ad did not escalate online or in traditional media until days later, after right-leaning influencers, broadcasters and politicians began criticizing what they described as a wave of progressive outrage.

🧵 Right-wing extremists like Libs of Tiktok and Charlie Kirk totally concocted the Sydney Sweeney "outrage."

The supposed left-wing outrage at Sweeney essentially never happened. Republicans made it up.

And as a former GOP media consultant, I know the "one weird trick."

BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit against ICE for denying people access to lawyers and subjecting them to inhumane conditions at 26 Federal Plaza in New York.

ICE is illegally holding people here for weeks, often without adequate access to medical care, food, or legal counsel.

For anyone who missed our lengthy investigative story on Luke Farritor and DOGE and is interested in reading it here's another 🎁 link

www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Street greening transformation before and after in Paris

New forest in front of Paris city hall

New “school street” with greening in central Paris

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.

Just the start.

Common sense.

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Why did the art thief's getaway vehicle run out of fuel?

He had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh.

“One DHS agent accused a protester of shoving an officer, when footage appeared to show the opposite: the officer forcefully pushed the protester.”

“All the demonstrators who won dismissals spent time in jail before the government’s cases against them fell apart.”

Because it's a toxic shithole

Can We Stop Supporting Sociopathic Leaders? A Saturday Prompt

"Not only did over 77 million Americans choose to let Trump retake the levers of power, nearly every Republican senator rubber-stamped Trump’s sociopathic selections for key leadership positions." Can we fix this broken reality?
www.americaamerica.news/p/can-we-sto...

Watergate kicked off a multi-decade project by the right wing to insulate Republican leaders from accountability.

Opinion | A growing disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street over tariffs More chaos is a safe bet, as Trump makes handshake deals and negotiations continue.

Watching administration officials boast about raising taxes on Americans is surreal, but that’s what they’re doing. On Monday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt celebrated the collection of $29 billion in tariff revenue during July. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Hegseth reposts video on social media featuring pastors saying women shouldn't be allowed to vote The man who oversees the nation’s military has reposted a video on X, formerly Twitter, about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to v...

The man in charge of our military wants to roll back a century of progress for women.

The women who deploy, lead troops, and lay down their lives for this country’s democracy and their right to vote deserve better.

a man sitting at a desk with a jacket that says 1000 % false Alt: a man sitting at a desk with a jacket that says 1000 % false

Let’s talk about HIPAA. Well, the Privacy Rule mostly(HPR) and simplify/break it down a little.

People tend to think the HPR offers universal protection of your health information. No one can have it without you knowing or consenting, outside of catastrophic events.

This is immensely false.

Accurate

Seattle Renews Its Unique Approach to Public Campaign Financing The democracy vouchers program hands residents $100 to donate to local candidates and it’s credited with broadening civic involvement. Voters on Tuesday extended it by 10 years.

big news on campaign finance reform, if that's your jam (it should be!):

Seattle voters chose to continue their experiment with public campaign financing, renewing DEMOCRACY VOUCHERS for another decade

this is a program that hands residents $100 to give to candidates to try to democratize giving:

Media in all its forms has killed the town square. They couldn’t segregate people so they segregated truth. When you find memes that resonate like a punch you in the gut - share them but go to your favorite print store and make stickers to put everywhere. 1/…

From chilli-spiked watermelon to a DIY Aperol spritz bar: what top chefs bring to a barbecue Tom Kerridge, Yotam Ottolenghi, Rachel Roddy and others reveal how they get the barbie started (with not a charred burger in sight)

From chilli-spiked watermelon to a DIY Aperol spritz bar: what top chefs bring to a barbecue

Curtis Yarvin crap in the New York Times.

Not an op-ed with the built-in "useful to hear a variety of voices" defense, but the news section, using the language without explanation, as if it's a thing that makes sense.

There is nothing normal about this. We refuse to allow this to be the norm.

We will not stick our heads in the sand because it’s comfortable.

Today we need to rest and recover, but we will never stop fighting for what is right.

A firehose of doom Expansion of the military's immigration work! Election denialism as official DOJ policy! The FBI chasing down Democratic politicians! All this and more in this week's unraveling!

Six months into Trump's presidency, democracy continues to falter under the weight of constant authoritarian pressure.

The most alarming developments in recent weeks include the DOJ's new role as the official government arm of the election denial movement.
www.american-doom.com/p/a-firehose...