Rising Sine

Except you explicitly did, either through incompetence or malevolence. You're failing the moment. Step down.

Hate Frenzy
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#bobtheangryflower

Schumer needs to step down. His capitulation is craven and transparent.

Meme; two men standing around a smaller man. Smaller man: I swear, you guys rip on me 13 or 14 more times, I'm outta here.

Schumer:

Axios being deeply unserious and failing the moment.

It's like they never cared about the deficits in the first place or something!

The Pentagon has never passed an audit. Money isn't real.

Slipping a $10 bill into your pocket after stealing a $100 bill from your wallet is not a kindness. It is still theft.

Step down. You are betraying the American people with your shenanigans. And it's *extremely obvious* that it's you caving.

"Whoops, I almost did something progressive and popular! Can't have people thinking things could be better!"

Christ...

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

Better yet, ban them entirely. FLOCK and similar tools are not needed.

"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy." --Elon musk "The death of empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." --Hannah Arendt

It's incredible that we let billionaires bloviate about their policy views without throwing tomatoes at them. We know what they want, they want policies that work for a few dozen people and immiserate the other 300 million. Not interested!

I'm struck by how many Chicagoans have seemingly felt compelled to write and share reflections on "this is what it feels like in Chicago right now". We know we're going through something awful together and we want the world to understand it.

Threading several of these pieces below.

An image of a whistle meant to alert unauthorized immigrants of ICE patrols with the pamphlet “Form a crowd, stay loud” and “Protect each other” in English and Spanish

An image of a whistle meant to alert unauthorized immigrants of ICE patrols in the area

Activists pounding pavement today in Olympia handing these out: whistles to alert unauthorized immigrants of ICE patrols in the area.

Sign of the times.

Excellent. Should be plenty to rebuild and fund the programs that he unlawfully cut with DOGE.

I'm hearing these SNAP benefit updates:
-100% Washington state
-100% Michigan
-100% California
-Partial Illinois
-Partial North Carolina
-1/2 Vermont

(Note that not everyone in these states received money today because their typical day of the month for benefits may not have passed yet)

If they respond
(and they will respond)
to the mask on your face
by telling you
that humanity has survived
plagues and pandemics
without everyone masking,
tell them they are right,
but also tell them
you are not wearing a mask
so that humanity survives
but so that you will.

People get confused by these terms, so let’s clear it up. I’m a big proponent of Dr. Alice’s ( @calirunnerdoc ) framing that COVID damages the entire vasculature .. the body’s vast network of blood vessels.. and that this damage is in part or fully mediated long-term by immune dysfunction. Another way to say that: COVID causes vasculopathy.

Another 🎯🧵 by @drseanmullen.bsky.social on Twitter (didn't see it here yet):

"... framing that COVID damages the entire vasculature .. the body’s vast network of blood vessels.. and that this damage is in part or fully mediated long-term by immune dysfunction..."
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A mock poster for a 'Star Trek O'Brien' series. "More than a hero… a union man."

I haven't shared this in a while, but it seems on topic right now.

Keep at it Patty! Don't give them an inch!

My nana hat won't let me say what I'm really thinking, but here's what you miserable crooks need to hear:

Get serious. Negotiate with Democrats. Reopen the government. Pay federal workers. Save health care.

On top of refusing to fully fund SNAP during the shutdown, the Trump regime has:

-Cut $1 billion from USDA programs supporting food banks
-Enacted tariffs that have caused food prices to rise
-Made the largest cut to SNAP in history
-Canceled the annual food security survey

Shameful.

It’s been 6 weeks since Adelita Grijalva won her election.

Mike Johnson won’t swear her in & is dragging out the longest shutdown in history.

Congress is being paid.

They’re getting top of the line healthcare.

They’re not going hungry.

Yet they refuse to do their job.

Swear her in now.

We domesticated wolves into dogs thousands and thousands of years before we'd even invented peanut butter, imagine how fast it would go now. Anyway, raccoons

Can we tax him out of existence? He's a blight on humanity and clearly has no idea about what to do with his money except cause more human suffering.

📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.

➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS

Nah, he wants Canada as a territory. No representation that way.

So (according to Google) the average American household's net worth is just over $1 million. Seem crazy and far from your lived experience? Same here. But mathmatically it makes sense WHEN YOU INCLUDE SO MANY BILLIONAIRES. Even if you hate math, try to understand it.