Post a banger that’s not in English youtu.be/hppSIHl2tp0

Fiona Hill: "The United States is on a path toward full-on state repression."

mastodon.social/@paspro/1145... #USpol

WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT is unironically one of the best popular narratives about the way privatization of public services destroys local community

$79 TRILLION 🇺🇸 : “Analysis from the nonpartisan RAND Corporation: since 1975, $79 trillion in wealth has been transferred from the bottom 90% of earners to the top 1%… most extreme levels of income inequality in U.S. history…” www.nationofchange.org/2025/03/05/s... #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw

The Mansfield ISD salutatorian used her platform and time wisely. She gave a terrific speech calling out book bans and vouchers. Bravo!

The extra-extreme members of the House Budget Committee voted "present" tonight so that the Medicaid-cuts-to-fund-tax-giveaways-for-the-rich bill could pass out of committee 17-16. Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity. 202-224-3121.

Yep, it’s an old photo, but their affiliation and intent are still the same—and now far worse!

I was reading up on the history of diphtheria and ran across this interesting fact.

Pretty much admitting it now

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1963: Bob Dylan, then unknown, was set to perform “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues” on the “Ed Sullivan Show.” Dylan walked off the set after network censors told him during dress rehearsal that he could not perform the song. /1

Carl Hiaasen’s novels made him synonymous with “Florida Weird,” @amyweissmeyer.bsky.social writes. Now it seems like we’re all living in one of his books. https://theatln.tc/Br7uYfWp

When are we going to decide that horse racing is animal abuse. My investigation: youtu.be/08q3rx5ChEQ?...

And this bsky.app/profile/no2t...

Glory!

Has anyone had a chance to watch @titusnation.bsky.social new two part YouTube weekly Armageddon Update? If not. Here's the link. They brought receipts and experts to read the receipts. #SheShed #Voices4Victory youtu.be/UgIay64Obcs?...

Sticker for 1932 Detroit #MayDay parade. Printed 5 years before the @uaw.org formed and in the aftermath of the Ford Hunger March massacre, it speaks to the violence autoworkers endured to unionize their industry. From the Joe Brown Papers at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Today on the podcast, the complicated link between mental health and chronic pain—and a new psychotherapy treatment showing promise in eliminating back pain. Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284/epi...

My god.

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

We need to not only talk about it, but work to alleviate it...and the misery of those who are marginalized. The poor are no different from you and me except they're poor. #poverty #inequality

New Plain History: The most infamous policy failure of the last century: a bone-headed effort to protect a declining industry leads to a tariff that accelerates an economic crisis in the '20s. I'm talking, of course, about farming, the 1920s, and Smoot- Hawley. open.spotify.com/episode/4Sm5...

Raskin: He destroyed more than $10 trillion in American wealth in a single week. And then he went golfing and bragged to America about winning the tournament at his own golf course. That's like bragging about being endorsed by your own campaign manager. So much winning

DOGE is like the anti-Peace Corps. Peace Corps sent a bunch of 20somethings to try to help people around the world as ambassadors for good. DOGE is a bunch of same age incel douchebags doing hack-a-thons to gut services for people in the US and around the world in the name of "efficiency."

#MichaelLewis does it again. This is a great read. #Booksky #ReadingIsDelicious #books #read

Unless it's measles. Or COVID. Or syphilis.

You must listen to Derek Thompson push back against gullible CNBC anchors @dkthomp.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...

Elizabeth school district ordered to return banned books to library shelves — again https://www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2025/04/04/elizabethschool-district-must-return-banned-books-to-library-shelves/

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One way to think of what’s going on is that Trump & his gang are trust fund kids spending down the reservoir of U.S. power & influence without understanding or caring where the balance in that account came from. They treat it as just a fact of nature that there will always plenty there.

Perfect. They’re just using what Agamben called “state of exception”. We never learn from history.

What is currently happening in the US is that the legal standards of the ungoverned spaces of US imperialism and the war on terror are suddenly (and predictably) being deployed within continental US borders. The colonial boomerang striking again. Never forget: fascism is colonialism turned inward

Hey, can you pls remind people to join the April 5th protests nationwide this Saturday? We need to show we're standing with Cory Booker and are ready to be counted. HandsOff2025.com has thousands of protest locations!

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

A fascinating interview on Trump's infatuation with Putin, with Fiona Hill -- someone who has witnessed it up close. Really worth listening to.

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB