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We too often feel helpless and hopeless. That’s what they want, they thrive in chaos. But here is a reminder: 250 years of America, and our generation will not be the one that fails her. Period. And in the rear view, it will seem worth it.

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Exclusive: Operation Excalibur in Los Angeles Was Show of Force Leaks from military's LA deployment reveal Coca Cola vs. Pepsi rivalry, sweaty guardsmen, and abject failure

the media may have already forgotten about "operation excalibur," but its stain on the military's reputation will live on in perpetuity

operationexcalibur.com now redirects to @kenklippenstein.bsky.social's reporting

I’m running a test to measure engagement on different platforms, so today you can listen to the news for science! Click here for team BlueSky, and thanks for your help :) link.chtbl.com/TheDailyBeans

What ever tactics you choose, it can't be done alone.
#CollectiveAction is required

This Is Not a Drill: When the FBI Hunts Lawmakers for Political Resistance...You’re in a Coup The coup isn’t coming. It’s underway. And unless we treat it like a five-alarm fire, we lose everything.

They’re not arresting criminals. They’re arresting resistance. And if that doesn’t shake you, read this twice.👇

www.jackhopkinsnow.com

We should start calling them the #TrumpFiles.

Not everyone you meet is going to be "your people."

No worries here.
China and India both have robust molecular medicine programs.

We will be able to buy vaccines from the Serum Institute of India.
www.seruminstitute.com
or Sinovac
www.sinovac.com/en-us

The right is trying to deploy its usual terror tactics against Texas Democrats and the state of Illinois. It won’t work.

With millions of people’s voting rights on the line, the stakes couldn’t be higher. This is the type of bravery and fight we need from Democrats:

“We’re watching the worst president in history manipulate the worst White House press corps in history every day,” says MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.
And to that I say amen.
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

Disgusting.
www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

I see the documentary series is going well.

#SouthPark

At a time in history when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, democracy, and decency, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction — fawning over the most dangerous authoritarian America has ever witnessed.

If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.

Rev. Sharpton on the continued fight, 60 years after Voting Rights Act

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

The Republicans have not finished, yet.
How much more will it take before we are in the streets?

VA Just Terminated Most Federal Union Contracts, National Nurses United Included The VA has terminated union contracts for over 360,000 healthcare workers, including nurses—raising urgent concerns about staffing, patient safety, and veteran care nationwide.

NEW: The Department of Veterans Affairs just terminated union contracts including AFL-CIO (AFGE), NAGE, NFFE, SEIU, and nursing unions NNOC and NNU. nurse.org/news/va-term...

I hereby authorize progressives to buy body army and masks and legal weapons and go around acting like they have authority when they do not to arrest people. Just don’t actually identify yourself as a LEO because that is in fact a crime ♥️🤍💙

Alabama immigration advocate detained by ICE in traffic stop, family says: ‘Just heartbreaking and discouraging’ "Her detainment is not only legally questionable — it is morally wrong," a petition demanding her release reads.

In Alabama, another horrible ICE detention story— pulled over for going 1 mile over the speed limit and then put into detention, a woman who earned a masters degree and has become a beloved community advocate. Not a criminal. Someone who contributes to America. www.al.com/news/2025/08...

#BlueStateCompact

They Are Running Out Of Sick Minded Recruits…. Now they’ll take on anyone! SMDH🤨🤨

“Are you abandoning your jobs?”

🔥 🔥 TEXAS DEM REP. ANN JOHNSON: “Yeah no — abandoning your job is going to Cancun in the middle of a deadly freeze…”

A+ answer from Rep. Johnson here. @texasdemocrats.bsky.social

The craziest part about my mugshot is that they THOUGHT they’d use to to end our campaign and our movement

Well, that backfired

Instead it’s become symbol. They went after me because it’s what they want to do to all of YOU!

A fuse has been lit

Now we take OUR country BACK!

This morning, ICE rolled into a Home Depot parking lot using a moving truck loaded w/agents, like a Trojan horse, to snatch up Latino workers. Whoever they could find. No idea if they were undocumented or not.

That’s not enforcement. That’s racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.

Robert Hawks' analysis describes at crisis that has been developing since 1965.
We have ignored it, swept it under the rug, dismissed it and now it is biting us in the butt.
Bipartisan government is a luxury we can no longer afford.
The Republican wolf is at the door.

Robert Hawks “Technical State of Civil War” Let’s dispense with the pleasantries. We are at war. Not a shooting war. Not yet. But something worse in its own quiet, choking way—a technical state of civil war. The kind of war that makes cowards of rules and turns procedure into shrapnel. And in Texas, Greg Abbott is lighting the fuse. On August 4th, Governor Abbott announced—proudly, defiantly—that any Democratic legislator who fails to appear for a surprise session of the Texas state legislature by August 5th will see their seat declared vacant. This, in a bald attempt to force a quorum for an unscheduled redistricting effort that would gerrymander at least five new Republican congressional seats into existence. Five seats. Bought not with votes, but with ink and knives. Five seats to hold the U.S. House hostage after a 2026 election that, by all current indicators, will be a biblical catastrophe for the Republican Party. This is not about state politics. This is not about Texas. This is about power. This is about permanently tipping the balance of national representation using the architecture of a dying republic to rig the new one being born behind its back. It is a dagger aimed at the heart of the Constitution itself—and it is being sheathed in plain sight. Governor Gavin Newsom of California has responded in kind. So have the governors of Illinois, Washington, New York. They’ve declared their own intent to redraw maps, to counterbalance Abbott’s theft with a theft of their own.And just like that, the pretense is gone. The guardrails are being sawed off by both sides. The game is rigged, the referees have joined the teams, and the field is splitting down the middle. We are not drifting toward civil war. We are being carried there—on gurneys, on motorcades, in armored trucks painted red, white, and blue and driven by men with no conscience and nothing left to lose. Donald Trump—the increasingly frail, increasingly unhinged re-occupant of the Oval Office—ha…

return. That’s how we arrive at a technical state of civil war. Not with cannon fire. Not with a shot at Fort Sumter. But with deadlines and district lines, and governors signing paperwork like generals drawing battle maps. And yes, it leads—eventually, inevitably—to the real thing. Because what happens when blue states stop sending taxes to a red federal government? What happens when governors of California, New York, and Illinois say, flat out, “We no longer recognize the authority of a president elected by gerrymandered fiat”? What happens when National Guard units are federalized and told to act against their own citizens? We’ve already seen it. Federal troops in Portland. Federal agents in unmarked vans in Minneapolis. And now, a sitting U.S. president selecting military leadership based not on strategy, but on loyalty. This is what a soft coup looks like. This is how republics become dictatorships—one signed order, one packed court, one nullified election at a time. We are standing on the edge. And I want to be clear: I’m not even opposed to the collapse in principle. Because unlike the Abbott crowd, I’ve thought this through. If the United States breaks apart—and God knows, we are dangling over that edge like Wile E. Coyote holding a stick of TNT—here is what happens next: California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada—the spine of the West—will form a new nation. They will be joined by Illinois, Michigan, New York, Massachusetts, and most of the northeastern corridor. The population, economy, and military of this new Union will be vastly superior to anything the southern rump states can cobble together. And yes, you can wave your little Wyoming flags, but the brutal math is this: once the U.S. Constitution is abandoned, so too is the notion that two Dakotas matter more than one California. In the new post-America, power will come from population, productivity, and force projection. Which means: the south is screwed. The GOP’s strongholds—Mississippi, Alabam…

No more. Because now, if we do not fight, we die. If we play fair, we lose. If we tell ourselves it can’t happen here, we will wake up in the ash of what once was. Greg Abbott is trying to fire on Fort Sumter with a fountain pen and a smirk. If we don’t match him force for force—not violence for violence, but action for action, map for map, court for court, and yes, goddamnit, declaration for declaration—then the next fight won’t be about democracy. It will be about which side gets the tanks. And you know what? I say let it come. Because I promise you: the right has not thought this through. They think blue states are weak. That liberal means soft. That cities can’t fight. But I’ve seen New Yorkers when the train’s late. I’ve seen Californians during wildfires. I’ve seen drag queens in Texas standing alone against armed mobs and not blinking. You want to go to war with those people? Be my guest. Just don’t be surprised when they’re still standing and you’re neck-deep in the mud, wondering why the federal aid convoy never came. Let me say it again: this is a technical civil war. The only question left is whether it becomes a real one. Whether maps give way to bullets. Whether executive orders become execution orders. And if that day comes, the outcome is not assured. But the blame will be. It will rest on the heads of men like Trump, like Abbott, like the perjured judges and the cowardly Senators and the hollow-eyed billionaires who looked at democracy and said, “That’s too risky—let’s buy it instead.” But history has long arms. And the schoolchildren they’re so terrified of? The ones they think will be traumatized by learning about slavery? Those kids will write the textbooks. And they will tell the truth. They will say that the Republican Party, faced with the loss of cultural hegemony, chose to burn the country down rather than share it. That the right feared democracy more than death. That in the end, they didn’t win. They ended. Because power isn’t loyalty…

A long, depressing read, which is nevertheless accurate in where we are as a nation and a people, and where we're headed.

What makes it more probable is this simple fact:

"Half the country still thinks the Democrats are overreacting."

Are YOU ready for what's coming?

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Chump and RepubliKKKans eliminated Way Too Many Public
Servants jobs,so Wealthy Tax Cheats could keep Cheating Us.....

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