John Saunders

It's been a few years, but I will not step across the threshold of a starbucks until their workers are organized and negotiated into working conditions they accept.

no joke. The USDOJ kept the operator of the most prolific publishing house of White Identity Extremism materials as a confidential informant for like, a decade+, to the tune of $$$$$$. While he participated in planning terrorism, iirc

The Tea Party never reached the magnitude of No Kings. Yet it was covered as if it represented “real America,” just like MAGA today. Those are not empirical assessments, but articles of faith – ideological claims about the world that are widely shared in the American mainstream discourse.

no one wants to make jews stateless. we want israelis to stop making palestinians stateless.

And swift.

you ever have a shitty time and then a small compliment or interaction from a stranger completely turns your day around? you can be that stranger for others. i just think that’s Neat

Dems took multiple votes in 2021-2022 on the Freedom to Vote Act, which would ban partisan gerrymandering, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which would (re-)ban racial gerrymandering. Republicans blocked them every time.

No one has forgot how Rudy Colludy provided first responders with defective radios that didn't work when people tried to contact them before the towers fell.

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One simple, powerful and often overlooked thing you can do to resist fascism?

Wear a mask, ideally an N95!

Covid is not over

Masking sends a powerful message that you value your health & the health of your community

That you don’t think disabled lives are expendable

It’s radical community care

Again, when you are presented with choices by our political system, you should question why those are the choices you are given.

"Democrats say 'Release the files' vs. Republicans say 'Not release the files'."

Didn't the Democrats have these files in 2021 with full control of the government?

Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back Scholar Joshua Clark Jackson will discuss his new book Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back. This session is part of the Zinn Educat...

We know about police violence during CRM, but there was also COINTELPRO type surveillance by local dep'ts.

And resistance by CORE & SNCC who confronted police abuses head-on, with sit-ins at precincts, blocking streets to protest officer abuse, & more.

Join us Monday to learn more. Free class ⬇️

On a related tangent, I think many people mistakenly think, “If COVID were still truly dangerous, then the government (meaning either party) and media would warn us.” What happened instead was they normalized repeated infections as the trade-off for going about your life as you did in 2019.

Risk...is what’s left...after you think you’ve planned for everything. Of course...you never have. That’s why nothing matters more than the skill of staying calm...clear...and collected...especially when life throws the punch you didn’t see coming...and it always does. To recover quickly...is magic.

BREAKING 🚨: Commercial Real Estate

Office CMBS Delinquency Rate jumps to 11.7%, the highest level in history 🤯

How did Georgia pull off their first statewide win in non-federal races in 19 years—and so convincingly?

Turnout, turnout, turnout.

The state's 10 largest blue counties made up more than 52% of the total electorate. That compares to 44.6% last year, and 45.3% in the 2022 Senate runoff.

White Man Jump Scare: Evola’s Theology of Cope The election wasn’t just a loss—it was a narcissistic injury, and the panic is the tell.

That wasn’t an election, it was a jump scare for white guys.

When Musk warns about “suicidal empathy,” he’s just projecting Julius Evola’s theology of cope—the conviction that DEI for white men isn’t a privilege, it’s providence.
www.mind-war.com/p/white-man-...

i say thank you to the bus driver when i get on and yell thank you when i get off every day i ride the bus, and i take two buses to and from work, being nice and friendly costs you nothing and should be your default expectation for yourself because it improves your day and everyone else’s day

I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it.

So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

Attention has (justly) gone to the abuses in Chicago but the assaults in Los Angeles never ended. The military left but they were guarding building. DHS paramilitaries remain active in L.A. it's bad.

Negotiations are very basic. Demand things and that's the starting point.

They demanded ACA subsidies preserved and so they are at best going to get some of those preserved. They demand something else, they can get something else. Republicans will not do their work for them.

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Wow, huge credit to Katie and the rest of the nutrition team at @centeronbudget.bsky.social. USDA has now issued revised numbers because CBPP caught them either accidentally or intentionally making huge errors that would severely underfund SNAP, in direct violation of court orders.

been having a chuckle about this. looking on that subreddit, the mods are constantly running searches for and deleting posts that mention mamdani. the posters have been saying things like "the frontrunner for mayor" and so on to evade getting banned lol

I'm not sure there's anyone on the planet who deserved to celebrate the defeat of Andrew Cuomo more than Lindsey, who had unimaginable amounts of courage in coming forward and continuing to push until he suffered actual consequences for sexual harassment

thrilled for her

Gore Vidal said “It’s not enough that I succeed, others must fail.” That’s how I feel about the disgraceful gutter-bigot campaign run against Mamdani and the do-you-need-to-borrow-an-Ativan freakout about him. These people spectacularly undignified.

BREAKING: 600 doctors, physicians’ assistants and nurse practitioners with Doctors Council are holding the largest 1-Day ULP strike of its kind today in Minnesota. We’re fighting for our patients, primary care, and respect at Allina Health. Let’s get corporate greed out of our care!

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"Democracy ... [is] being systematically hollowed out and replaced.

The question now is whether democratic societies can recognize this formation for what it is—and build alternatives before the infrastructure of control becomes too deeply embedded to dislodge."

Exactly this.

What OpenAI is asking to do is outsource its risk to the US public while keeping its potential profit privatized.