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Saw them with Brandi a few years back locally at Blossom. So good.

Yes, like a certified organic label for Epstein-zero orgs and individuals.

Democrats Need to Get Serious About Stopping Trump From Rigging the Midterms Here’s one idea for a coordinated response to Trump’s coordinated attacks.

Trump and the Republicans are trying to rig the election. That's not being a "doomer," that's acknowledging reality.
Democrats need a coordinated, national response to these coordinated, national attacks. We need an "Elections Czar"
My latest solution in @thenation.com

Cato Study: Immigrants Reduced Deficits by $14.5 Trillion Since 1994 The best way to balance the budget is to reduce spending—particularly on wealthy retirees—but rather than hinder our efforts to control deficits, immigrants are helping.

Immigrants are carrying this country on their backs while the right screams into the void.

Here’s the Cato Institute report:
www.cato.org/blog/cato-st...

The justices claim their papers belong to them, not the government or the public, and generally arrange to have them locked away until long after their deaths. The court releases no visitor logs to reveal who meets with the justices.

like this is absurd, get over yourselves

Easy, Affordable & Healthy Vegan Recipes Discover delectable vegan recipes curated by a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist to enhance your healthspan. Easy, healthy, budget-friendly.

cookingforpeanuts.com
^ this site, by nutritionist Nisha Melvani, specializes in nutrient dense vegan food. I found her book with recipes and meal plans called Cooking for Longevity at our local library. Try some dips and soups & maybe a version of the bean salad for snacking. You got this!

Home - Oodi Oodi is Helsinki’s new Central Library and a living meeting place. It will function as a living room for residents, located right at the heart of Helsinki.

Literally conceptualized as a “living room for residents” tons of free supplies for art and crafts projects free courses free places to host things just incredible and huge

oodihelsinki.fi/en/

CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.

There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.

This is my favorite guide.

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

It’s not a sequence: the Nazi threat IS the climate threat.

So long as we keep using fossil fuels, the petroauthoritarians will have the world by the balls.

Trump's Davos speech is an embarrassing ramble. America, humiliated.

Overnight in Davos, Switzerland, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered what may be recorded in future history text books as an era defining speech:

"It’s a pleasure – and a duty – to be with you at this turning point for Canada and for the world.

www.project2025.observer/en

One year in, the Project 2025 folx are 51% on their way to completing 320 objectives across 34 federal agencies.

The result they seek is Christian Nationalism, for whites by whites.

Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)

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We are collecting information on terminated SAMHSA grants at Grant Witness: grant-witness.us/submit-samhs...

If you worked on one of these programs, please let us know at the link! And please share with your colleagues. We need a comprehensive record of these terminations to fight back!

Every time I see someone yammering about abolish ICE / policing and how DEEPLY UNPOPULAR it is, I want to remind them that the GOP abolished Roe v. Wade and that was also deeply, deeply unpopular, and here they are, in charge of everything still.

Your Cheat Sheet on Complicity in the Epstein Saga Who knew complicity could be so...complicated?

I wrote the guide you didn’t know you needed: Your cheat sheet on complicity for the people involved with Epstein (and the non-release of his files) open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

+Veteran Bryan Stern, founder of “nonprofit” Grey Bull Rescue Foundation, was interviewed about his role in extracting Machado out of Venezuela. He appeared to have been familiar with a follow-up operation to the one he had been tasked with.

Who paid him? Why did he know more than Congress?

Drumpf et all can't run America, but now will run Venezuela & grab its oil. New threats against Columbia's President.

In your name, paid for with your tax dollars.

Call every Senator you can. (List below) You are Democracy

Or use
5calls.org
@resist.bot

#Voices4victory
#USDemocracy

Vibe coding regime change, by convicted felons for convicted felons.

@jayapal.house.gov
@aoc.bsky.social
@gallego.senate.gov
@salinas.house.gov
@repgwenmoore.bsky.social
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@democrats-judiciary.house.gov

FORCE A PRIVILEGED VOTE ON IMPEACHMENT

New York Times story from 2013: In a nutshell, Mr. Srinivasan, a computer scientist and co-founder of the genomics company Counsyl, told a group of young entrepreneurs that the United States had become “the Microsoft of nations”: outdated and obsolescent. When technology companies calcify, Mr. Srinivasan said, you don’t reform them. You exit and launch your own. Why not do so with America? In practice, this vision calls for building actual communities that would be beyond the reach of the state that Silicon Valley’s libertarians despise. But in the near term, Mr. Srinivasan noted, there are piecemeal ways to opt out of the society — like spending unregulated digital currency, sleeping in unregulated hotels and manufacturing unregulated guns. What Mr. Srinivasan called “Silicon Valley’s ultimate exit,” he explained, “basically means build an opt-in society, ultimately outside the United States, run by technology.” The speech won roars from the audience at Y Combinator, a leading start-up incubator. It earned hearty praise online as well — even as it worried others.

The Network State cult was conceived at Y Combinator.

Balaji Srinivasan gave his big anti-USA speech there in 2013. From the New York Times:

In 2026, we're decentering men. Completely.

Inspired by the book “What to Wear and Why: Your Guilt-Free Guide to Sustainable Fashion” by Tiffanie Darke… in short five new things a year does not include shoes, essentials or accessories.

Make it your own!

HNY

White supremacy is making up a story about fraud at a Somali run daycare then shutting off funding based on that lie, but ignoring the trillions in missing dollars at the Pentagon which relentlessly bombs Somalia and other Black and brown majority nations.

ban crypto completely. shut down fox. sanction the oligarchs. tax assets over 1B at 100%. treat AIs like yellowcake. regulate social media algos. prosecute disinfo.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

I have an inspiring friend who has a goal of buying 5 clothing items per year …. even just as a thought exercise it becomes easier to discern “deals” from marketing or email lists.

Happy All the Things!

How the US right wing is taking over news media and choking press freedom Takeover of broadcast companies by Donald Trump’s allies is harbinger of media capitulation to authoritarian leanings

Rich people own media. Rich people who get big tax cuts from Republicans. Rich people who want to depict the acquisition of enormous wealth as a noble crusade. Look at the Murdochs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, the Sinclair TV chain and the Ellisons acquiring CBS and trying to grab CNN too. 2/10 🧵

Someone asked me once what white people could do right now to help.

I said make a group of white folks that have the sole purpose of clearing every Black, Brown and Native mutual aid effort they see.

Never heard from them again.