We’re about a week away from Trump calling Ghislaine Maxwell a hero just like he did with J6ers who beat up cops while storming the Capitol.

Marc Andreessen and the Billionaire Victims Club The gripes of this bigwig of the tech right don’t stand up to scrutiny.

Robert Moses destroyed a bunch of New York City and then resented the people for not thanking him. That's kind of what these billionaire "victims" are like, but with more money.

WXNA Plans Salute to Jim Ridley A variety of shows on the community radio station will celebrate the late, great Scene editor’s 60th birthday

Glad that WXNA is doing this. Jim and I spent a lot of late nights together in the old Scene office. One time that included eating cold pizza and kimchi.

I’ll be on the air Friday July 25 to talk about my friend and mentor. I miss him every day.

My daughter is one of the Teen Power Radio Hour DJs. She’s going to highlight songs from great teen movies during her set next week in honor of Jim.

one of the things that gets me about so many of the pundits who pontificate about "higher education" when they really mean a handful of elite private institutions is that most of them live within driving distance of either a community college or a non-selective public institution

The ‘Parasites’ and the ‘Good Immigrants’ Meet more of the worst people in the world.

You could say these folks are good well-meaning people whose mistake is seeing political issues as completely abstract and divorced from real life. Or you could see them as dangerous morons. JVL is making one of those cases:

Not his military The Fourth of July is a reminder America rejected kings

Trump is consolidating control over guys w/ guns. See: Nat Guard, Marines, ICE.

This is how authoritarians entrench power. And it risks unraveling the very republic the military was created to defend.

Remember why July 4 is the OG No Kings holiday. From me www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/not-his-mi...

Or a person who just doesn’t pay attention to the news.

Email the Bulwark. They give away subscriptions all the time to people who can’t afford them.

The Triad by @jvl.bsky.social is the one newsletter that I never skip. It alone is worth the price of a Bulwark+ subscription. This one makes me 🤢, but he’s not wrong.

Why aren’t Dems highlighting how radical and extreme the GOP has become?

"They took hospitals and health care away from you so they could build concentration camps for immigrants."

I keep thinking about how Trump, during his first term, talked about building an alligator-filled moat to use against immigrants, and few really took him seriously, and now he talks about sending Americans to CECOT and it gets brushed off the same way

So good!

I shared “Heaven and Hell” with my ex-husband the other day. He has excellent taste and vast musical knowledge, but had never heard that artist before. He loved it, as I did, and then mentioned how great some of the songs on the playlist were.

Once again I beg of people to pause and look around and realize that it's basically only because of the lawyers and the law that Trump has faced any meaningful opposition to his agenda.

Obviously "the law will not save us" but actually thanks to lawyers a TON of damage has been prevented.

University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration

This is naked authoritarianism. It is exactly what happened in Turkey. There is nothing to stop this regime from demanding that faculty be purged too. Everyone must stand up and push back.
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The difference between this and Nazi propaganda against Jews is that this is AI-generated.

*Biden tries to forgive student loans*
SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it.

*Trump revokes part of the constitution*
SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

A sitting Member of Congress calling for an American citizen to be stripped of his citizenship & deported, all because of that American citizen’s political views. This is fascism.👇

Mask-off racism and fascism from Pinocchiogles — if a New York congressman tried to meddle with local Tennessee politics like this he would lose his hypocritical mind

I love this idea.

Jimmi Pickles is the content I need right now for my mental health.

“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines”

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I love it so much!

I seriously think the Social Internet is 21st century cigarettes. Complete with secondary smoke causing a lot of harm in nonusers.

Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.

Can’t help but checking @radiofreetom.bsky.social page to let us know to panic or not. (Not sure I can panic or what good it would do)

An all-too appropriate bit.

This seems relevant …