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Poor Brad. He’s getting criticized & now he’s wining about it. What’s up with rich white dude politicians blaming poor people btw? And going after the good guys. Sounds like Trump.
24.10.2025 12:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We're at the point in the story where the FBI is showing up at a dude's house because he attended a protest. Without suspicion of a crime, agents ask important questions like who produced signs for the event.
And it had an impact--he decided not to go back to the streets to voice his opinions.
Tiny lichen (above brown spruce needles for scale) growing between the slats of a boardwalk.
Now, look down: even in the tiny spaces between the boardwalk slats, “life, uh, finds a way.”
(You were someone’s unexpected joy today, just like this Cladonia lichen was for me. Keep going.)
It’s not mysterious.
24.10.2025 01:42 — 👍 241 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 0I should note: by my count, this makes at least four clergy members *that I know of* who have been shot with pepper balls or rubber bullets fired by ICE/DHS agents in recent weeks — two Presbyterians, two Methodists and a UCCer.
23.10.2025 22:06 — 👍 1742 🔁 658 💬 28 📌 23Precisely. Racism is the gateway to Trump’s power grab.
24.10.2025 01:48 — 👍 760 🔁 160 💬 13 📌 3Trump wants to build himself a gaudy ballroom at the same time he is taking food away from children.
23.10.2025 03:37 — 👍 1101 🔁 240 💬 89 📌 10The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
each of my books took years of my life and indeed probably off of my life. culture warlords is even now training slop to destroy the internet and steal writing jobs. im incandescently furious about it. i worked so fucking hard on that book and they just stole it to profit from it. bastards.
23.10.2025 02:38 — 👍 379 🔁 15 💬 5 📌 0
Is the big tent approach to strengthening US democracy working? Yes! Check out how The Horizons Project approaches the task--in the latest Democracy Without Exception piece ⬇️
democracywithoutexception.substack.com/p/the-big-te...
The debate around Bad Bunny performing the Super Bowl halftime reflects decades of Latin artists — from José Feliciano to Ricky Martin — being treated with doubt, suspicion, and even outrage.
Commentary ↓
Apparently LinkedIn allows Nazis to run recruitment ads on their platform.
22.10.2025 17:21 — 👍 70 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 1I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
21.10.2025 23:40 — 👍 1088 🔁 106 💬 18 📌 1
I’m taking a class on social movements this semester and just last week we were talking about when a symbols are hijacked and used against their original meaning. “Woke” was the example I gave.
As a longtime RATM fan and lover of frogs this particular rehabilitation is giving me much needed joy.
#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.
Long live the PDX frog
05.10.2025 03:28 — 👍 219 🔁 57 💬 6 📌 0
Here it is, my answer for every time I get asked "why don't (most) Dems just...[message better, be bolder, sound authentic...etc]"
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
100% a thousand times
over and over again
repeat
The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.
04.10.2025 20:00 — 👍 2892 🔁 763 💬 41 📌 41history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."
04.10.2025 01:53 — 👍 13133 🔁 2479 💬 473 📌 312
Former VP Mike Pence is right: “We've got a longstanding policy, Posse Comitatus, that does not permit the use of the American military against the American people.”
03.10.2025 16:18 — 👍 188 🔁 73 💬 4 📌 6
Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
01.10.2025 16:30 — 👍 589 🔁 316 💬 8 📌 17
Trump’s #MassDeportation agenda just killed good-paying jobs for Tennessee. This is a company Gov. Bill Lee recruited! Are we great now, GUV?
tennesseelookout.com/2025/10/02/e...
ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
SCOOP: PA prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parent's address in Pennsylvania for years. Me with @marisakabas.bsky.social
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance.
"If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
