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"Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings." ~ Nelson Mandela

Fund SNAP. Reverse the Medicaid cuts. Restore USAID.

(image cia @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social)

It’s far from the most important thing, morally right now, or in terms of the human stakes, but the ballroom thing is really breaking my brain.

The Tech Right Gets Its Own Phyllis Schlafly

Another enemy of freedom for your radar
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Jeffrey Epstein ‘threatened to destroy’ Sarah Ferguson before her apology Sarah Ferguson’s then spokesperson recalls disgraced financier’s ‘Hannibal Lecter-style’ phone call after she disowned him

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

#OtD 18 Oct 1976 74-year-old anarchist and militant anti-fascist Laureano Cerrada, who had once plotted to assassinate Franco and Hitler together, was murdered by a fascist in Paris. The fascist fled to Canada stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9049...

"Successes of the second revolution"
Evidence for the trials that will someday hold these traitors accountable. Hubris proceeds the fall

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

I once wrote that modern Russia is like a cancer tumor.
We all know the stages of reaction: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

With Russia, we need to quickly move to the treatment protocol stage, not get stuck in the denial and bargaining stage.

Parliament burning

Protestors in Nepal overthrew the government in less than 48 hours due to corruption. They refused a curfew, spread protests across all cities, fought police in roaming street battles, burnt down politicians' houses, stole military weapons, stormed the parliament & burnt it, forced the PM to resign.

Fascism? No!
We want to live free
Fascists, go!
Leave our community

resistance through art

I'd like to lay on my stomach, a hole in the table to let the ladies hang for imaging

Infographic: What’s the problem with content ratings

I received a request for my infographic about content ratings. Other folks might want it, too. Here ya go. drive.google.com/file/d/1mzi-...

When will we chase these ghouls back into the woodwork?

The landlord gutting America’s hospitals Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.

One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Does the JD stand for Judas Demokratia?

I'm not avoiding people, I'm "sheltering in place" which is more than reasonable given the state of things.

Early summer recess
Time to proceed
Soft coup?

👀 The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has just published an article by A3P Sr. Counsel Josh Hammer, Timon Cline, & Yoram Hazony. It calls on SCOTUS to reverse the 1947 Everson case, which held that the Establishment Clause applies to the states & requires a separation of church & state. 1/

As I wrote for MSNBC earlier this year, the bipartisan consensus on disability rights (always partial, always contested, always insufficient, yes yes I know!) is dead. I don't know what comes next, but the ADA era of bipartisanship is dead.

Göring, Hess, Goebbels and Himmler did the same thing in the orbit of Hitler — squabbling amongst each other.

Let’s see how it ended: one went mad and was captured and died in captivity, and three suicides.

Looking forward to Bondi, Bongino and Patel taking the only known cure for fascism.

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.

Will we listen to his words today?

Sounds like a solid business plan

Community benefit society, this resonates.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

You know what works better than thoughts and prayers? A functioning government.

“In this country, we have no ‘other people.’ We are American people, all of is.” This 1940s film warning against bigotry and fascism is more relevant now than ever. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKwuvvdhP-R/