Bohemian Peasant

Inslee: If you need more energy, the dumbest thing you can do is disallow access to wind, solar, and advanced batteries—three of the most productive ways of producing new energy. And yet, that’s exactly what he’s done.

The vicious cycle of monopolization:

1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market.
2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers.
3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations.
4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement.
5) Repeat.

“Sell your possessions, and give alms; provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” 🔥 🔥 🔥

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Hey Supreme Court -why is it OK with you guys that we have concentration camps in America???

Why?

Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

Israel has assassinated the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza, Netanyahu's government carried out the assassination after the team of journalists spent months reporting on Israeli war crimes, collecting daily evidence of ongoing atrocities.

I want to urge you to make waves. I want to urge you to rock the boat. I want to urge you to get off your duff. I want vou to speak out at whatever cost if it comes from your heart. You're going to build this country in which my six grandchildren will grow up. And when you see what you have done, I hope that you are proud of it. Ann Richards

I agree, Carmen!

When Ann Richards was governor, we were a Blue State.

Lets swing Texas Blue 2026!

Where are the hard-working Americans who screamed, “They’re stealing our jobs”?

You’re getting your wish. Immigrant workers aren’t showing up, and farm owners are hiring.

D.C. is not a dangerous city.

Nor is L.A.

The only danger is the Trump regime and its secret police force—ICE.

They are committing crimes.
They are terrorizing communities.
They are tearing families apart.
They are kidnapping people.

They are the problem.

And we the people are done with them.

This is Ohio’s democracy in action.

On Aug. 9, thousands lined 8 miles of High Street, hand in hand — for Medicaid, immigrants, truth, and justice. Against corruption, cruelty, and lies.

Ohio doesn’t sit down.
We link up.
We fight back.
And we’re just getting started.

“Earned”?
Did Nazi Germany “earn” Poland and France back in the day Mr. Whitaker?

Before the election, my focus group of Trump voters said their top priorities were lowering prices and releasing the Epstein files. Now the same respondents say their top priorities are building a gold ballroom for the White House and putting tariffs on Ford and GM.

From workout clothes to beer cans, Trump’s sweeping tariffs threaten to raise prices on our ‘Betty’ Betty, our fictional working mother living in the real American economy, is facing rising prices in every corner of her life – from new cars to laundry detergent and athletic clothes. She may want to make her purchases sooner rather than later, but Investopedia’s Caleb Silver says the economic uncertainty of Trump’s tariff policy “paralyzes people.”

Trump’s tariffs are finally in place, with an average tariff rate of 17%, which will force costs of consumer goods to rise as “uncertainty paralyzes people” from making investments or big purchases, says @calebsilver.bsky.social of @investopedia.com. "Tariffs are inflationary - full stop."

Victims are not faceless. Journalist Zofia Posmysz was deported to Auschwitz on May 30, 1942. As Russian troops advanced, she was evacuated to Ravensbrück and liberated in Neustadt-Glewe. The Auschwitz survivor died at 98.

Trump's Attacks on Press Freedom Escalate: NPR, PBS Funding Cuts Explained | ACLU From funding cuts and executive orders to billion-dollar lawsuits, the Trump administration is mounting a historic assault on independent journalism and press freedom.

President Trump has launched an all-out attack on press freedom — but the First Amendment doesn't give him the power to target news outlets just because he disagrees with their coverage.

It is only natural that a nation which has fought so honourably, resisting an enemy far superior in men and arms and defending almost every inch of its land, now says it is not ready to gift that land to Russia. Sooner or later, compromises may be part of a path to peace.

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

YouTube video by The Eastern Border 2. Building bridges and looking into the night sky with John Michael Godier

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This artist turns war-shattered glass into healing mosaics in Kharkiv.

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Trump seems to be using "invasion" agitprop to recreate the national trauma that reigned after 9/11, to hyper-militarize the homeland.

As one scholar tells me, this "could create a kind of domestic ‘Forever War,’ but one that is uniquely dangerous."

newrepublic.com/article/1987...

Strikingly, the memo says straightforwardly that what happened in Los Angeles is the sort of operation that may be necessary "for years to come."

As one expert told me: "They see Los Angeles as a model to be replicated."

newrepublic.com/article/1987...

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
newrepublic.com/article/1987...

11 years ago, 🇺🇦 Olena Kulish & Volodymyr Alyokhin got executed mafia-style in #Donbas. “Guilty” of supplying 🇺🇦 soldiers with food.

He was in IT. She was a popular radio host & animal rights activist. Russians killed her 6 dogs too. Just for the fun of it.

#RussianWarCrimes

The Trump team is out there trying to normalize an utterly immoral sellout of UKR

❗️Everyone sees that there is no real step by the Russian Federation towards peace, – Zelensky.

If the Russian Federation does not want to stop the war, then it is necessary to stop its economy. Sanctions are needed, pressure is needed.

ICE detains up to 12 people in Kansas City area raids at Mexican restaurants, advocates say An immigration advocacy group says the raids were carried out by Homeland Security Investigation agents about midday on Wednesday at El Toro Loco restaurants in Lenexa and Kansas City, Kansas.

Mexican restaurant with two locations, greater Kansas City. Per an immigrant advocacy group, “federal agents left the Lenexa restaurant unlocked and open after the raid, and even left burners on at some cooking stations.” /2, end for now

Emiliano's: Agents left behind 'trail of destruction' | 16 people detained by ICE The restaurant posted on their social media platforms that federal agents "stormed our restaurant in a show of force that went far beyond anything reasonable or humane.

Emiliano’s restaurant posted that federal agents "stormed our restaurant…tore through our spaces, & left behind a trail of fear, confusion & destruction. Our kitchens were flipped. Our walk-ins emptied. Food trashed. Doors broken. Lives shattered."

www.wtae.com/article/emil...

Rule 1: Resist. Then adapt Hungary teaches us how to change tactics to get ahead of shifting attacks

Looking for ways to safeguard our democratic freedoms? Here’s what we can learn from the Hungarian pro-democracy coalition's efforts to push back against Viktor Orbán’s autocratic impulses. Join us to discover the role you can play in shaping our history. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/rule-1-res...

'This is terror' — Russian bombs hit bus station, university in Zaporizhzhia, injuring at least 20 Emergency workers are still searching for more victims who may be buried under the rubble. "The Russians terrorize our people and all of Ukraine every day," Zaporizhzhia Oblast Governor Ivan Fedorov s...

⚡️Number of injured in Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia bus station rises to 20.

The number of victims may rise as emergency workers continue to search for people trapped under the rubble after two Russian guided bombs hit a bus station and a university clinic in the city.