“Leftists and centrists alike believe anti-Trump politics have failed, and should be jettisoned, in favor of economic appeals.” This infuriates me b/c it was Dems who made it true. Voters showed up in 2018 and 2020 then Dems did nothing about Trump. The BETRAYAL is why voters left, not the message.

There is a flock of 60 evening grosbeaks here for the last couple of days. I love them! 💛🤍🖤 #vt #birds

It's an extraordinary difference, and not the same as when competitors let loose in the exhibit performances after the pressure of competition. The freedom and relaxation radiate through her, unfettered by the ceaseless stress, weight, and exhaustion of abusive discipline.

I grew up in South Florida which is actually culturally northeast, but my first "real" job was in Gainesville, FL (approaching Deep South). I pass as white, but my white colleagues would turn on me because they don't like my politics. I heard racist slurs there I've never heard before or since.

Watching a genocide for 2 and a half years really changes you. I know there have been other genocides, and even concurrent genocides, but this one was right before our eyes in a completely new way. More than the images I've seen, it's the indifference from so many that has worn me down.

I personally very much suspect white folks of being evil enough to report their neighbors to ICE, that is not in conflict with anything I've known white folks to be my whole life as a Black southerner. They stab you the second you turn your back.

"Smallholder farmers produce 60% to 80% of coffee, but received just 0.36% of the funds needed to adapt to the impacts of the climate crisis in 2021... Without help, there is only so much they can do, Dadi said. “To safeguard coffee supplies, governments need to act on climate change

Any other Click and Clack lovers?

So how much of the effort to avoid the Epstein files had been about preventing the knowledge Epstein was President Vladimir Putin's wealth manager? + H/t @michaelianblack.bsky.social

It's an update on John Kenneth Galbraith's brilliant critique: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness"

Interesting how many things keep leading back to one very clever, diabolical man. Also relevant is Alexandra Chalupa's statement that Russia, a mafia state, "infiltrated Israel in 1989 with one million immigrants, including GRU, mafia, and fake Jews, making Israel a money laundering haven."¹

This is lovely! For anyone interested, R package surveygraph makes it easy to visualise survey data as a similarity network like this

MAGAs are the Russians of America, and we are under occupation.

You know when you start bouncing your leg and your foot scares the hell out of you because it has a sock on it it might be time for bed. Good night.

It's so much fun to catch The Staples Baddie's latest adventures before drifting off to sleep. But now I need those pens I just saw.

How does Khanna get away with being counted amount progressives? It's bizarre to see a capitalist with over $200M in trading activity with grotesque conflicts of interest, whose wife's portfolio includes oil & defense, horribly weak on Trump accountability, and on and on.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social are you listening, or are you just another Republican-Bigot In a DSA suit?

does anyone care that rightwing members of nyc city council follow twitter accounts circulating calls for people to bring dogs to times square to terrorize a ramadan prayer event does anyone care that doj civil rights assistant ag follows accounts telling people to spray bacon grease on worshippers

it’s hard these days to tell what’s helpful and newsworthy information vs what’s just going to make people upset by showing them more examples of terrible people endorsing terrible things

This is direct action and it’s not a bad thing.

"The deal’s opponents not only misjudged public opinion as a whole, but more astonishingly, they misjudged the state of American Jewish opinion in particular. ... American Jews support the [Iran] deal, 53 percent to 35 percent. ... 3/

Alternative ending: instead of stopping the man, passengers set up a meeting to vote on whether he should be able to fly on a smaller plane then planned their vacations while he continued crashing out and attacking the window, finally breaking it, resulting in explosive depressurization...

How have so many Democrats become brainwashed into thinking it's ok to defend politicians when they break the rules because they're (supposedly) on our side? That's what Trumpists do! You are supposed to challenge the people you vote for, not just say "my guy good, your guy bad! t.co/a89ir9BLAA

This is what happens when the leaders & multiple members of the opposition party are beholden to pro-Trump, Republican, & pro-Netanyahu donors: 42/

Does your version of "our" include LGBTQ people? bsky.app/profile/bmig...

Schumer is one of the worst, he's been in the Trump/Roy Cohn circle since the 1970s and he said that God appointed him to the Senate to guard Israel. Absolute lunacy: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bearing-wi...

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AIPAC Democrats are agents of Israel. Israel attacked our elections. AIPAC Democrats are enemy agents.

“When Sinema left office on Jan. 3, 2025, her campaign account had $4.2 million on hand. By Jan. 31, 2026, when she filed a termination report for her campaign committee, all of that money had been spent.”

Back in '06 or '07, I busted John Hagee's CUFI for using, as its logo, an image of Jerusalem from which the Al Aqsa Mosque had been airbrushed out. The ADL got involved in smoothing out the scandal - this was before I grasped how utterly corrupt they had become.

So much for that. The tools are there, but the officers are passing because the tools are being ignored. (Gosh I miss Representative Barbara Jordan. She was a fixture in our home [on tv] from early childhood, and watching her was mandated.)

"The framers confined in the congress the power if need be, to remove the president in order to strike a delicate balance between a president swollen with power and grown tyrannical, and preservation of the independence of the executive." 15/

Cannibals showing bite marks?

Good idea

“How can you be yelling at Vidkun Quisling when Adolf Hitler is the real problem!”

the point of a system is what it does

What's the point of a legal system that targets and punishes Black people at every possible turn and attacks victims instead of projecting them under the law?

This is what Americans will not do. Even though it has been the obvious solution the whole time. They’d rather trust the people who allowed an admirer of Vladimir Putin to seize the White House — twice. The people keeping him there, an American Yanukovych who murders innocents everywhere.

"I know how they want it to end and they're close to doing it. This site is useless for describing the future; ... No political imagination. So to be brief, watch for: 1) Technofascists/transhumanism 2) Those who seek an Iran War and to destroy Al Aqsa Mosque" -Sarah Kendzior, Jan 2026 -- Jan 2019:

Even knowing everything we know about Trump...this is not the sort of thing you are indecisive about.

Under its current leadership or one like it, key Democrats will continue to enable Trump and the Republicans. They share donors with Republicans. They have vested interests in legislation like the recent bill. They're influenced by Koch, Netanyahu, & scores of other bad actors. They're corrupt.

Amazing how like maybe three of them seem to feel anything for literal children dying of plague in concentration camps.

That's been their MO through Trump 1 and 2, and it certainly is amazing. The American public should be so disgusted by this that these corrupt, complicit officials never have a moment of peace to wallow in the spoils from their horrific betrayal.

Why would any reasoning individual believe that Democrats like Schumer are "opposed" to war with Iran while repeating the familiar MO of abdicating their congressional duty and aiding Trump for their warmongering donors? It's inconsistent, illogical, and out of character. Please.😬

The resurrection of the F-15 Eagle as a front-line fighter of the USAF has not made the headlines it deserved. ... Acquisition of F-15EX will allow Israel to consider and plan the third strike on a nuclear reactor108/ eurasiantimes.com/israel-vows-to…

Schumer's probably thrilled that they're going after Iran rn.

I just saw a skeet pop up about Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Inc (CREW), and it hit me that they should have uncovered the pro-Israel lobby's outsized influence ages ago. Why didn't they? CREW has been around since 2003. 33/

This is great and I hate being this guy but @projectsaltbox.bsky.social noted this last Friday. projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/nternal-ic...

The projection though, by use of the word "sycophancy" when the Democrats' MO for years has been to deliver for Trump and Republicans for (by all appearances) while only the most powerful appeared to have gained any sort of advantages.*