Name a protest movement, anywhere or at any time, that has achieved its goals without being annoying and obstructive.
People like this enjoy the freedoms our political ancestors gained for them, while attacking the means by which they were achieved.

Added Dimensions shredding as usual at their record release show at Gallery 5 in RVA on Sat.

We at The Steady State have studied the indicators of authoritarianism for decades — usually dry words in intelligence reports. But sometimes, a single photograph says it all.

Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive all at once. It creeps in under cover of “order,” cloaked in uniforms, justified by fear.

The incredible Nape Neck at Gallery 5 in Richmond, VA tonight!

PR in marathon today!

Besta Quadrada, by Besta Quadrada 10 track album

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Bandcamp Friday. Get some. I got this one.

Inside Congress
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THE BUCK STOPS HERE:

Portland’s Antifa headquarters.

here’s korean protesters throwing their shoes at a likeness of netanyahu

Monarch on Joe Pye Weed in my wild garden.

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed The world’s oceans have failed a key planetary health check for the first time, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels, a report has shown. In its latest annual assessment, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said ocean acidity had crossed a critical threshold for marine life. Continue reading...

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life

ANTIFA = ANTI + FAscism

I am ANTIFA! 🌊💙

Tee Vee Repairmann keeps it rockin’ at @blackcatdc.bsky.social on 9/9/2025.

@superchunk.bsky.social at black cat on Tuesday night (9/9/2025). “My Gap Feels Weird”

Merciless Accelerating Rhythms - Artists United for a Free Palestine - Vol II, by Merciless Accelerating Rhythms 64 track album

It’s Bandcamp Friday. In case you forgot.

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Don’t think I’ve seen Mac headbang before now.

The problem is sociopathic corporate greed. 🧐

It should be obvious by now that Netanyahu won't stop until every Palestinian in #Gaza (and perhaps the West Bank) has been murdered, maimed or expelled. He wants it all. Governments like ours should cut off all military equipment, diplomatic support and other relations until the genocide ends.

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars - defector.com/neither-elon...

The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn’t bother Trump – and I know why | George Monbiot He is surrounded by people who have plans and dreams beyond our planet. Vengeful nihilism is a big part of the Maga project, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Could it be that the destruction of the habitable planet is not just an accidental outcome of Trump's policies, but is in fact the policy?
My column this week asks another question that most people, I think, would rather not face.
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

https://propub.li/43487Tj

1. A common mistake is to look for ideological consistency on the far right, and to become confused when some of the things it claims to stand for sound positive and even progressive. Here’s a thread on how to understand this. 🧵

There is no automatic reversion to "normal" in politics. Nor will the timid business-as-usual which got us into this mess get us out of it.
We'll achieve a better society after Trump and similar tyrants only through massive and focused movement-building. It has to start right now.

Musk's fascist salutes are a signal, showing how far he intends to go. They point to the destruction of democracy he seeks, the impunity, the violent pursuit of power.
They point to the empire he wants to build, and to the degradation of all our lives as he sets out to crush our humanity.

A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, report shows

A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump and Musk have launched a new class war. In the UK, we must prepare to defend ourselves | George Monbiot Across the world, societies are reverting to oligarchies. How to resist? Fight for democracy with all we’ve got, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"This is the great discovery of the conflict entrepreneurs: what counts in politics is not how well people are doing, but how well they are doing in relation to designated out-groups." So people support a class war against themselves.
This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘A small act of patriotism’: Canada’s anti-Maga hats go viral Ontario premier’s ‘Canada is not for sale’ cap emerges as an unlikely expression of unity amid Trumpian threats Few items of clothing have come to exemplify American far-right nationalism in the 21st century as much as the red “Make America Great Again”…

‘A small act of patriotism’: Canada’s anti-Maga hats go viral