Claudia Friedlander

I am concerned that some of these groups will only be satisfied by the release of the Epstein Files, while others will be content with the release of "the Epstein Files"

FIU Board Chair's Company Is an Alligator Alcatraz Contractor In December 2024, DeSantis appointed Carlos Duart to the FIU Board of Trustees and Tina Vidal-Duart to the FAU Board of Trustees.

When I shared how the chair of Florida Grand Opera's board earns her wealth building concentration camps like Alligator Alcatraz, I received admonishments about how we can't afford to be partisan about where opera funding and leadership come from.

Her day job: www.miaminewtimes.com/news/fiu-boa...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but opera as a genre will survive without the financial backing of fascists.

If opera can't survive without the financial backing of fascists, let it die.

But it can. Kick the fascists out and build a new, fascism-free infrastructure.

#opera #classicalmusic

"An anti-trans Substacker used a eugenicist Substacker to launder information from a neoNazi & smuggled it into the most powerful paper in the country in an attempt to smear a mayoral candidate of color whose leftist politics they all oppose… this an example of their platform functioning by design."

I see no reason at this point to imagine that there is a realistic electoral solution.

Exactly.

Meanwhile, the politicians currently in charge break every law that they find inconvenient. We need a solution for that, and I wish the Dems could imagine solutions beyond applying the laws that the fascists are intentionally breaking, while continually weakening the judicial branch.

It drives me bonkers watching Warren, Schumer, and a handful of other Dem senators stand up, describe and condemn the situation, and imagine that will effect change.

We need them to actually *do* something. Or tell *us* what actions we can take that will have a shot at success. Voting won't cut it.

And she is exhibiting her own courage exactly how?

This image appears as it does in an actual Equinox ad, with the text COMMIT TO SOMETHING overlaid. I do not know what we are actually looking at, but it appears to be a cis woman enduring numerous beauty treatments and plastic surgeries simultaneously while on an illuminated bed of nails.

RESISTANCE, PART 1: GRAVITY
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Resistance training is a dance with gravity. Practiced mindfully, it can enhance the quality, power, range and expressive potential of all our movements.

Photos are from Equinox's current Commit to Something marketing campaign.

Then the progressives go "WE have vision, WE have imagination!" and they're all NOOOOOOOOOOOO what we need is Blue Himmler

well there ya go, one way to solve the school lunch problem

By contrast, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them consider doing away with child labor laws.

If there’s no school, there’s no discussion about free school lunches.

Which is a backwards way of saying I agree with you. I agree with you.

"we're dying for lack of health insurance, but at least we don't have to look at any non-white humans or suffer the anguish of having too many options"

I have noticed that conservative elected officials who discriminate and seek to criminalize homosexuality are very frequently caught soliciting gay sex.

My working assumption is that the ones who warn of pedophiles lurking around every corner are themselves the pedophiles. Trump included of course.

Simply put, if you are using AI art in the name of "advocacy", you are doing advocacy wrong.

Or you are advocating for something other than the thing you think you are advocating for.

At this rate, Burger King is gonna change their jingle to "BK, have it your way, whites rule!" by September

If we're still asking "which white cis male Democrat is the least intolerable to the GOP", we've already lost.

"Electable" in this sense means you've sold your soul while somehow convincing yourself that you are still for equity and democracy. While making scapegoats out of the trans community.

I agree. If you're willing to legislate the dehumanization of one marginalized population, you are willing to legislate dehumanization, period.

Liberty and justice for all means *all*. Not "everyone except the trans people".

42. The ADA was built for capitalism. It allows private entities to claim ‘undue hardship’ if an accommodation costs too much—because profit is always the highest law. The reactive model ensures universal design and accessibility never happens.

The unfortunate reality is that MAGA *wants* to be gaslit.

They passionately seek confirmation bias.

Eventually Trump will find a way to feed them a sufficient quantity of it.

Training for functional strength is one thing, training for size & definition without concern for function is something else.

I have heard stories of competition-winning bodybuilders who lack the range of motion sufficient to wipe their own asses and need someone else to do it for them.

I've been a fitness trainer for 20+ year. "No pain, no pain" is counterproductive.

Go for a *mild* discomfort that's sustainable throughout your sets and reps while maintaining good form & well-modulated breathing throughout the workout.

Max discomfort/pain leads to rigidity and reduced ROM.

GOP: we are the party of dehumanizing everyone who is not a straight cis white dude, vote for us

DEMs: we are the party of dehumanization lite, just the trans people and the migrants who don't make meaningful contributions to our economy for low pay, vote for us

Money can't buy you love
#worldsoldestprofession
#worldssecondoldestprofession

how about having our actions be informed by humanitarian concerns all of the time, I see no downside

Oh it's less profitable that way? got it, those are your priorities

Anything we can learn from how the first Gilded Age ended?

So "fraud, waste, and abuse" is code for "money invested for the common good rather than siphoned off for the oligarchs".

They regard any spending that doesn't end up in the oligarchs' pockets as wasteful.

Oh I have been waiting on this one.

It's all good until you find yourself in a situation where grabbing the next ring no longer depends upon deftly following the rules, but rather indiscriminately riding roughshod over the rules