Susann Gerstein

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Steve Brodner

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"

BREAKING: MSNBC coverage of huge Tesla Takedown @teslatakedown.com protest at NYC/Manhattan dealerships/showrooms.

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

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Asking all my NY family and friends - and everyone who visits NY- to call Kathy Hochul’s office to tell her not to ban masks in New York State
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Stand Your Ground. Plant Some Flowers On It Too You know who's doing great organizing for us right now? Elon Musk and Donald Trump, that's who. By attacking and alienating more and more swathes of the American public, they're handing us the possibi...

“The history of this country is full of people who led what were seen as radical campaigns in their day--to abolish slavery, to secure votes for women, to defend and expand human rights, to protect the environment and the climate.” www.meditationsinanemergency.com/stand-your-g...

Clay Bennett
March 18, 2025

Ides of March

Buttigieg gives the clearest signal yet that he's eyeing a presidential run in 2028 The former Transportation secretary is eyeing something bigger than the Senate.

Exclusive: Pete Buttigieg won't run for Senate next year and has his eyes on a bigger prize: The White House.

Trump may put hundreds of federal buildings up for sale, including FBI, USDA, DOJ • Ohio Capital Journal In Ohio, the Trump administration is looking to sell the Anthony J. Celebrezze building in Cleveland, the John W. Bricker building in Columbus, Dayton's Dayton Warehouse 4, the Donald J. Pease…

In Ohio, the Trump administration is looking to sell Cleveland's Celebrezze federal building, Columbus' John W. Bricker building, Dayton's Warehouse 4, Medina's Donald J. Pease building, Cincinnati's John Weld Peck building, and Youngstown's Nathaniel R. Jones building.

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Barry Blitt

Come on media. Come. On

Rebecca Solnit on Facebook: I spent much of the last almost 24 hours not doing my usual job--the one I do for a living, which is at present writing my current book (plus answer endless emails)--to do the job the legacy media and major news outlets were not doing: reporting on the impact and illegality of the latest coup attempt by the Trump team. If we had the press I wish we did, I might've urged you here and there to contact your representatives or commented a little but I would not have been scouring for informed and expert opinions and interpretations on what was happening and posting them madly, because you would've been reading and listening to them in that mainstream media. Most of what I shared did not come from them because they were pretty useless and behind the curve, these institutions valued in the hundreds of millions with immense salaried staffs. It came from legal scholars and experts, independent journalists--including Marisa Kabas, an independent journalist at The Handbasket who was the first to report the leaked order to cut off all that funding. The New York Times, the Washington Post, etc. didn't get the scoop. She did, and even the next morning a lazy, lackluster underreporting and playing down of what happened. Really you can blame the outcome of the November election in part on that kind of sanewashing and normalizing and softening up of all their Trump coverage and the consequences of what he has done and threatened to do--and is doing now.

wow, many thanks to the amazing @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for the kind words. and i share in your frustration.

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How Much Does Our Language Shape Our Thinking? English continues to expand into diverse regions around the world. The question is whether humanity will be homogenized as a result.

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Commerce Nominee Lutnick Is Backer of Outlaws’ Favorite Cryptocurrency Cantor Fitzgerald holds assets for Tether, the stablecoin used by drug traffickers, terrorists and scammers to move money around the world.

Cantor Fitzgerald is the linchpin of the go-to digital currency of the criminal world. Its CEO is poised to become Commerce secretary.