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After literal decades of jerking our chain, it should be plainly obvious to everyone that the Democratic Party has NO plan to competently address fascism other than to competently plan their stock portfolios around it and send fundraising emails that turn OUR crises into profit-making opportunities.

Our galaxy is so good

These statements appear in different formations, to different groups, in controlled, coordinated, targeted, highly effective, prompting message campaigns - these agitprop systems that don't refer to counterarguments at all.

no more '70s response to a 21st-century problems

Diane Keaton audiobook recommendation: her narration of Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem is 10/10. Perfect meeting of reader and writer.

Screenshot of text from the interview: You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still? I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe. [I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

When will these "lying" comments be replaced with some meager understanding of how social media works?

Lies DO NOT MATTER as a platform shapes you.

Pointing out lies - DOES NOTHING.

Point out how algorithms demolish will

If some group of laid off *good* journalists launched a news group that only covered immigration related news, I would subscribe for sure.

I'm a huge fan of the musician Thao Nguyen, so it's amazing that I'll have the chance to share the stage with her at Litquake. She'll perform a new song written just for the occasion, inspired by my book TO SAVE AND TO DESTROY: WRITING AS AN OTHER. How cool is that?

Atrocity Alert No. 451: Sudan, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Central Sahel - Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect Atrocity Alert is a weekly publication by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect highlighting situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes. AT LEAST ...

Sadly Sudan's community kitchens didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize in the end but, they have definitely won our hearts. As has world kitchen in Gaza and their medical teams and the Sudanese Red Crescent society. Not some politician asking dictators for help or a racist shitbag president.

US lawyer John Yoo wrote a series of memos for the Bush administration in order to create a legal cover for torture.

He suffered no negative consequences. He later was made Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.

YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies The Dictator’s Speech (Clip) | The Great Dictator (1940) | TCM

I watch this periodically to remind me that at one point in time people actually realized that fascists were the bad guys.

youtu.be/k0CzXi9e66M?...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

[disclaimer: i'm just talkin, these are normative statements, idk and am not commenting on what infrastructure exists irl]

there has to be a way to absorb some of these people into state health departments..or set up an interstate body to keep tryna do this work..we just cant lose all this capacity

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

It's interesting how easy it is for people to look at someone *wildly* succeeding at a horrific goal, and continue acting as if they are failing at a very different goal which they have repeatedly and loudly declared they do not have.

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

Not so fun fact: Murrow was only free to do that because CIABS (CBS was the CIA's most valuable outlet) was upset at McCarthy going after a few of their operatives.

Carl Bernstein explained in 1977: www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-...

I have done so little For you. And you have do little For me. That we have good reason Never to agree. I, however, Have such meagre power, Clutching at a Moment, While you control An hour. But your hour is A stone. My moment is A flower. -Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

Dozens

YouTube video by barnonerecords The Langley Schools Music Project - God Only Knows (Official)

anyway, im so full of emotions i think i’ll drown in it. fear, anticipatory and ancient grief, helplessness, hope, rollercoaster drop excitement, a mariana trench of love.

music and sleep.

Women! The patriarchy lied to us again. Women’s eggs don’t degrade over time to cause infertility. The sperm from men over 35 is the defect that leads to miscarriages, birth defects, basically everything they blamed our uterus for
We’ve been played

The Administration

- raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill

- is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built

- is raising prices on materials with tariffs

- all while AI is spiking electricity demand

They are stopping supply while demand goes up

It’s a crisis

Lol mockery in the face of the enemy is resistance I love

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

And more! Because to reimagine democracy we need to partner with artists.

www.visionandjusticenow.com

your call is deeply unimportant to us in fact we'd love to take your money and never talk to you at all so please stay on the line and wait an hour for one of our criminally under-resourced customer service reps to assist you as long as it's one of the 3 things we've given them authority to resolve

This is important.