This is the dude in the post below - fyi.

Given the level of Republican graft and corruption at this point, they can tear down the entire White House and the Capitol with it for all I fucking care. SNAP benefits end Nov 1. The REAL question is, how are we as Americans going to help feed our fellow citizens for the next three years?

A perfect way to end a day. Schnitzel and spinach. Simple. Elegant. Satisfying. 🍽️🍷

Safe AND protected 💅🏼 🔪

“I have hope, faith, that America will defeat and overcome this fascist menace, this authoritarian mania, this MAGA cult, & save our freedoms.” Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's remarks at the ‘No Kings’ rally in DC where he called out Trump for destroying democracy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylbr...

I paid my annual dues to ANTIFA earlier today. Given present circumstances, I opted to upgrade two levels to the “They Can’t Be Fucking Serious” tier. I adore the ANTIFA book bag I'll get as a thank you tchotchke.

What are you protecting?

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

Abolish ICE. Pass it on.

64 years ago today, the Dick Van Dyke Show premiered. Did you know the theme song had lyrics written for it? The time Dick Van Dyke sang them for all of you to hear.

"F*ck that, that's not a strategy....If your strategy for stopping fascism is to hope that a few Republicans in Congress find a conscience or a spine, then get the hell out of here." Me on the useless Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. Full discussion: zeteo.com/p/the-suspec...

Johnson was known as being hard-nosed SOB. I guess it’s the difference between an actual tough guy and a thin-skinned snowflake trying to act tough.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Respectful debates

Evergreen cartoon

This exactly.

The moral arc of the universe bends toward justice, but only if we fight to bend it. -- Erin Reed

Hazard

That’s exactly what this feels like!

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." - William Faulkner

“People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou

Every step of the way we've been told we're too loud. Every step of the way we've been told we ask for too much. Every step of the way we've been told we're selfish. Every step of the way we've been told we need to compromise. Every step of the way we've been told we're not human anyway.

It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.

. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .

Wouldn't be the first time a state has charged federal officials with crimes for overstepping their legal authority. www.loc.gov/resource/lls...

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"I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. we are." -JB Pritzker youtu.be/WN1c6mCitIk?...

History teaches us that the way to stand up to a dictator is to fight back against him, not capitulate to him. Surrendering to tyranny invites more of it. This moment we're in should not be met with a "moderate" response. Luckily, some Democrats starting to understand this.

A little long-winded, but thorough and summed up elegantly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLYl...

United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero - Two years ago, we invited all 100 senators to work in the fields. Only two of them accepted: Alex Padilla and Cory Booker.

White House Evacuated After Trans Alarm Goes Off

Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

That'll preach

One of my favorite annual @democracynow.org traditions is that we always play this video of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.