Don Baldwin, Everyday Anti-fascist

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

In good news, the air defense systems we sold to Kuwait work really well.

A photo of a light-colored cat with a gray face and ears and wide blue eyes. Unknown forces are holding up to the cat’s ear the handset of a beige antique-type touch tone phone. A rectangular speech bubble with a jagged tail has been drawn on the photo to indicate it is the sound coming out of the handset. Words inside the bubble read, ‘Maybe it will happen today…’

THE BLACK BYLINE: Portland Police Union Insults Our Intelligence An attempt by Portland Police to recolor the thin blue line to green was gently swatted down this week by a Multnomah County judge. The Coalition of Communities of Color mounted a legal challenge agai...

In my latest essay, I ask the question: why are the cops trying to take money from the environment? Latest installment of The Black Byline below:

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Pretty stunning fumble for governor Kotek. Keep this in mind now that she's forming committees to study "universal" preschool for the state while remaining an avowed foe of taxing the rich who routinely attacks the one program in the state that is on track to be universal without means-testing...

Two coffee mugs with a vector drawing of Dan Ryan and text that reads "Friends Don't Let Friends Vote for Dan Ryan.

Much respect to my wife, who gave me these custom mugs as a birthday present two weeks before the Mercury published its Brian Owendoff story.

To me this translates as, "Lindsey Heaps still has the biggest say and we all know what her politics are."

If you're not going to call for any kind of action by your members in Congress in response to this illegal war you can miss me with all the campaign donations for this election cycle. I'll be donating to anyone with a spine that is willing to stand up to this authoritarian bullshit.

Need this guy as the new manager.

The real story is that foreign governments try to interfere with elections in the U.S. all the time. In 2020 and 2024, the U.S. had private and public infrastructure in place to catch them, call them out, and mitigate the damage. Now, those mechanisms are gone, intentionally undermined and dismantled by the Trump administration. Instead of securing our elections, it seems that the current administration would prefer to exploit the spectre of “foreign interference” to justify its own *federal interference* in the upcoming midterm election.

Yesterday, Trump tried to justify the attack on Iran with rehashed claims of "election interference" from 2020 and 2024. Here's my 2 cents on what that was all about:
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a large tree in the middle of a forest has fallen ALT: a large tree in the middle of a forest has fallen

#ARSCHE

"What day is today?" asked Pooh "It's Saint Totteringham's Day!" said Piglet "My favourite day." said Pooh

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¡Saliba!

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

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OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

The pipe-and-drape SCIF at Mar-a-Lago.

Merch idea for @nopityoriginals.com for fans to wear.

An outline of a body is painted on the pavement with a big erect bollard in the genitalia area…

Grow up.
#WorldBollardAssociation

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things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Resign. You are clearly not capable of meeting this moment.

The passage reads: One of the people I interviewed for the story was Rev. Robert Seymour, who had been Smith's pastor at the Binkley Baptist Church since 1958, when he first arrived in Chapel Hill. Seymour told me a story about how upset Smith was to learn that Chapel Hill's restaurants were still segregated. He and Seymour came up with an idea: Smith would walk into a restaurant with a black member of the church. "You have to remember," Reverend Seymour said. "Back then, he wasn't Dean Smith. He was an assistant coach. Nothing more." Smith agreed and went to a restaurant where management knew him. He and his companion sat down and were served. That was the beginning of desegregation in Chapel Hill.

The passage reads: When I circled back to Smith and asked him to tell me more about that night, he shot me an angry look. "Who told you about that?" he asked. "Reverend Seymour," I said. "I wish he hadn't done that." "Why? You should be proud of doing something like that." He leaned forward in his chair and in a very quiet voice said something I've never forgotten: "You should never be proud of doing what's right. You should just do what's right."

“You should never be proud of doing what’s right. You should just do what’s right.”

When Dean Smith comes up, this story is always the first thing I think of.

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Iran? You haven’t even finished Venezuela.

How can you have any Iran if you don’t finish your Venezuela!