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We cannot afford a divided and weak opposition party when an authoritarian is invading our cities, terrorizing our communities, and corruptly self-enriching at the expense of the rest of us. We want to celebrate a Democratic Party that fights back. But after this latest surrender, the next step is primaries and new leadership. We get the party we demand, and we intend to demand one that fights.

If I were a professional writer, I cannot think of any single thing a person could suggest that would upset me more than to say you should replace me with AI when I'm dead. Wtf.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

A tweet from Elon Musk saying "Can't recommend The Iliad enough!" with a link to The Odyssey.

I think about this post a lot

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

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This year, we’ve seen three of the largest protests in American history, with Hands Off! in April, No Kings in June, and No Kings 2 in October.

Today, we saw a fourth mass pro-democracy moment of 2025 that demonstrated beyond a doubt: When people organize together, we win.

TRANS RIGHTS ARE A WINNING POLITICAL ISSUE

Every single centrist claiming we must all compromise our bodily autonomy for their personal comfort is a traitor to American democracy & rational human decency.

They have no place in a modern Democratic Party, toss them out. Total liberation for all.

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

Teen Vogue Is Folding Into Vogue.com According to Condé Nast’s announcement, the outlet will keep its “unique editorial identity and mission.”

Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section.

www.thecut.com/article/teen...

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

ICE is out of control and beyond repair This agency needs to be stripped down to the studs. Dems should start preparing now.

ICE needs to be stripped down to the studs. Democrats should start working on the project now, and they can look to the GOP's years-long campaign to destroy the IRS as a (partial) model.

My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/abolish-ice

It’s not only sports (it never is!)

“This ruling sends a clear and powerful message: transgender people have a right to enjoy public spaces in Minnesota like sporting events, restaurants, and movie theaters, free from targeted discrimination,” says Gender Justice legal director Jess Braverman

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained.

These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

I pretty much only do audiobooks lately and am extremely influenced by the narrator. I've stopped many books for bad narration! And I've become big fans of some narrators and bought other books just because of them. The narration for your book was so good and engaging and joyful!

The akinator genie correctly guessing that I was thinking of Harrowhark 'Harrow' Nonagesimus from the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir.

It only took a couple more than 20 questions and very few of them seemed helpful to me but he still got it. Honestly blows my mind every time!

nothing chatgpt has done is as impressive as akinator, the mind-reading internet genie from 2007

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’ Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.

Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

He Was Convicted Entirely On Clashing Eyewitness Testimony. Alabama Plans to Execute Him Next Week. - Bolts No physical evidence connected Anthony Boyd to a 1993 murder. He was sent to death row on the word of a co-defendant who testified under the threat of capital punishment.

NEW: Alabama is executing a man next week, Anthony Boyd, who was convicted entirely based on contradictory eyewitness testimony, including from a co-defendant who says he was pressured to testify under the threat he'd get death himself.

@laurengill.bsky.social breaks down the case with days to go:

I dunno. The point being I guess that I'm slowly learning that when I feel that "god I'm embarrassed for them" kind of instinctual annoyance it's a cue for me to stop and ask myself if I'm really annoyed or if I'm afraid for them.

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

I keep seeing AI-generated videos of kittens and it's like ... you stupid motherfucker why would you fake a kitten, what is the point of you, there is no light in your eyes

The impossibly dumb reason for Trump's invasion of Portland It'd be hilarious if he wasn't the commander in chief.

Seems he's looking at footage from 2020 www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-port...

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Gang Databases: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

This excellent deep dive from John Oliver on gang databases seems relevant here:

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