Deven Ostman

I always recommend reading Arthur Miller's "Before Air-Conditioning" to remind people how absolutely awful summer heat waves were before AC, and just how miserable everyone was. www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...

Things were fine, the economy was strong. They created chaos and turmoil, so now supposedly they alone can fix it.

Props for avoiding some of the obvious references.

The Public Is Resisting Trump. The Elites Aren’t. The president is encountering little resistance as he remakes our society. And yet polling is clear that voters aren’t with him.

“You know what would help a lot? Some elite disapproval—publicly and boldly expressed. While a successful democracy depends on some degree of reasonableness from voters, a successful liberal democracy also depends on responsibility and even courage from elites.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-public...

Oooh oooh! I know which ones they mean!

Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!

Yeah, Democracy was rough. Not having neighbors rounded up & sent to concentration camps, not wasting $200 mn on a futile bombing raid, not forcing the military to put on a parade for his birthday, not kicking millions off healthcare so oligarchs could pay less tax, not killing cancer research ..

They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission.

They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.

And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

Have a peaceful good trouble march today Rebels! 💙

Near, far, wherever Russian strategic bombers are
Ukraine's drones will go on and on

What a fucking sell-out. What's the point of bitching after the fact like this? It's done and over. Period. And clearly, the current administration is working hard AF to undo everything 'Sleepy Joe' did in the first place. His state of mind in the end won't matter in the least.

Dear Humans,

Here’s how it’s going to play out:

1. Republicans are going to attack Joe Biden until his last day and giddily celebrate his passing.

2. Then when Donald Trump inevitably passes away, and the world celebrates, these same people will feign outrage until the end of time.

They suck.

In today’s “Wait A Damn Minute” we expose the truth about Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”:

Trump is pulling a reverse Robin Hood - he’s taking from the poor to give to the ultra-rich.

I’m your Shadow Press Secretary and here are the facts.

@thepersistnetwork.bsky.social #WADM

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:

1. Break up corporate monopolies

2. Continue building union power

3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics

Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

They're the ones who dish it out and can't take it. Honesty isn't always nice, folks.

I always wish the Cubs the best. Even as a Seattle fan. Y'all got heart!

🚨Stop Everything🚨….not sure if this is making the rounds here yet but this is University of Cincinnati music theater student Erin Morton and she’s blowing up over on TikTok for her stunning rendition of Radiohead’s "Creep"🔥….full tears going 🥹

Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst.

Every dictator in history has lied.

Donald Trump is no different.

The freight guys have really started freaking out over the past 48-72 hours:

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'...

"Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..."

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

If you're being kidnapped, you have a right to defend yourself.

If someone approaches you and tries to throw you in a van and they present no ID and no warrant, you're being abducted.

In many states, you can respond with lethal force. Understand the law.

Must be black like a photo negative.

🧵There’s a lot of people out there saying that measles is being brought to the US by immigrants, specifically undocumented immigrants crossing the southern border. Let’s talk about measles and migration. ✈️

TL:DR: Measles in the US comes from outbreaks started by unvaccinated traveling Americans.

Looney Tunes decider app.

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:

Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000

There’s a lesson there.

And there it is! That’s exactly how it was meant to work…

Not one......

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