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Unbelievable, and yet... Not surprising. Late stage capitalism is horrifying

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Charities cannot fill the gap left by the disruption in SNAP benefits!

The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me.

He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits…

…while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.

this is insane.

www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

THREE WAYS TO TAKE ACTION NOW

1. Donate to your local food bank.

2. Collect and distribute to your local community shelter. Check with your local organizations first to see what they need most.

3. Host a give-back drive in your community. Visit NoKings.org/alliance to learn more.

#SNAP

there is interesting reportage about Peter Thiel's hometown of Swakopmund South Africa and how the town enjoyed celebraring Hitler's 100th birthay in 1989:
www.flyingpenguin.com?p=70809

POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈

Video Description:
Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨

youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared

Love!!!

It’s so wholesome. I love this

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

I am tired of seeing Home Depot be a place of large immigration raids. This is not keeping our communities safe. Until Home Depot breaks its silence I will no longer be giving them my business! Join me in demanding they end their silence!

#BoycottHomeDepot

YouTube video by Reagan Library President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

Almost 60 and I still know mine! 😂

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

It is a beautiful thing. I really hope New Yorkers choose him in November.

You Have to See This Mamdani Ad I wasn't planning to post anything today. I dislike working and writing on weekends in general, but this was too important to ignore. You have to see this Zohran Mamdani campaign ad that came out this...

I’m still teary after watching that ad. Jesus. (from @katelynburns.com)

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Opinion Is Looking Sillier By the Day Kavanaugh said that immigration agents “promptly” release people after determining that they are legal U.S. residents. They don’t.

Kavanaugh's explanation of why racial profiling is Actually OK was obviously a crock of shit the day it was written but also, in light of the new lawsuit by a US citizen arrested by ICE twice in 2 weeks, and the horrible Chicago raids,

the shitpot is aging poorly
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

We are commodities in this capitalist system. Remembering our humanity and value in that is so hard. Sending love

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

Federal Wokers are rallying IN SUPPORT of a government shutdown and WE STAND WITH THEM!!

Follow 👉 @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social

#NoBusinessAsUsual #ShutItDown #FederalShutdown

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE

YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS

PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

Here’s a free version. It’s well worth reading.

Klein has an outsized opinion of himself if he thinks that he needed to write nonsense whitewashing Kirk’s legacy in order to sit in grief with people who mourned his loss. It’s absurd.

Coates makes Klein look feckless and uninformed.

Can we get some focus on the perfidy of Speaker Mike Johnson?

So much of Trump’s excesses are made possible because Johnson has disabled the House as a check on the President. He has handed Trump his gavel symbolically and in reality.

We need to focus on Trump’s enablers.

Workers at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust save an orphan elephant from drowning: #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/HumansBein...

So beautiful!

a man with a beard says oh really in front of him ALT: a man with a beard says oh really in front of him

White people: We have never seen the leaders of our country weaponize the levers of power to go after political enemies. This is unprecedented.

#AssataShakur #MLK #MalcolmX #RosaParks #MamieTill #MedgarEvers #BayardRustin #KathleenCleaver #BunchyCarter #JohnHuggins etc. #COINTELPRO

Black people:

It is such a great series!!! I love the political commentary wrapped in humor and lovable characters.