If you're keeping score at home that makes - Tik Tok - Facebook - Instagram - Twitter - Washington Post - CBS owned and operated by people explicitly tied to Trump as allies.

Post a concert photo you took

If we take it down we are destroying history

Hours of daylight throughout the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

Just make sure you know which stations are affiliates. In Minnesota, it's just the CW. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Disney has backed down, but there's no evidence that Sinclair or Nexstar have learned their lesson. If you haven't already done so, check the links in the thread below for stations in your area. Find the advertisers and let them know you're boycotting them until they remove ads from these stations.

One of my favorite fun facts is why the TMNT are named after artists (it’s because the type of turtle they are is a “painted turtle”). I told my nephew about this and he immediately replied that there should be a Bob Ross turtle. So rather than explain the renaissance movement to him, I-

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As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

In an abusive relationship, the perpetrator makes the biggest power grabs when he feels his control over the victim is slipping. I’m keeping that in mind whenever we see massive escalations from Trump. It’s all still very dangerous. But these moments are a sign of weakness, not strength.

The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.

The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

I find this extremely chilling: I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x

FYI MSP - CW23 Indy - CBS4 and Fox59

Watch this video. Mimi is a constituent of mine. She testified at a shadow hearing today about caring for four U.S. citizen children who were detained and torn from their parents.

Can't imagine why this image makes me think of Trump's social media presence.

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

STOP DOOMCASTING, PEOPLE. It's fair to acknowledge the seriousness of the situation, but it is another thing entirely to treat the situation as hopeless. And it is even worse if you take that hopelessness into other people's replies. DON'T SPREAD DESPAIR. IT ONLY HELPS THE BAD PEOPLE.

LIVE: I'm holding a Shadow Hearing on Trump's assault on families and communities through his unconstitutional and cruel immigration policies, kidnappings, and deportations. Tune in now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m47G...

Russia moved to amplify online conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk’s killing just hours after it happened, seeding social media with the frightening claim that America is slipping into civil war.

Pertient repost. Might've been from you.

From Twitter/X to FB to TikTok to Washington Post to CBS. Any opposition to this fascist project needs to focus, in part, on building and/or securing information infrastructure to ensure channels of dissent exist & remain available. The Dems have taken this infrastructure for granted. It’s gone.

The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it

They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale. But they want us to think they do.

Missouri Republicans today passed a new gerrymander that would break apart the Democratic district in Kansas City, which would flip a seat to the GOP. (The governor is expected to sign it.) www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

As a colleague mentioned yesterday, Gamergate is one of the five most significant developments in US politics since the Cold War

You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate. It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.

100% I frequently think about how I spend money as a vote for what I want to continue to exist, and my curated collection of media subscriptions is part of that.

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers

You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.

Question: Why are many people under the impression that Trump and the awful things he’s doing are popular, even though they’re not? Answer: America is still a mostly free country where dissent against Trump’s dictatorial ambitions is widespread, but media keeps making it appear as if it’s not.

We couldn’t possibly be in a worse information environment for what’s happening. Which is probably, in part, why it’s happening.

the limbic system is the deep, animal part of your brain that processes fear I talk about it in writing classes because once it’s been activated, it overcomes all rational thought & you are vulnerable do me a favor today: go through your profile and count the ratio of positive to negative posts

An underappreciated CPTSD recovery hack is to create. Create anything. Art, music, food. It doesn't have to be objectively "good," or objectively anything-- just create. Make. Generate. Creativity oils every aspect of our recovery work. It literally reanimates our brain & heart.

My big problem with the phrase “granola fascism” is that granola is delicious as hell, granola does not deserve to be catching strays like this. “Raw milk fascism” is more appropriate. Thank you.

Along with resident godzillas, my neighborhood has origami butterflies on most corners, pretty sunsets, and a yard dinosaur that enjoys dressing up.

Happy first Wednesday at 1 for those who celebrate

When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...

I'm going to need to sit with this one a bit to figure out what that means for my approach.

The sigh of relief when you see that the Church sex scandal wasn't another molestation case but was a priest filming porn with two adult dominatrices on the altar and -- hilariously -- blaming it on "COVID-era loneliness" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO.

If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:

So much freedom! Also, interesting prioritization of law enforcement resources. They're not going to be able to maintain that, and it won't scale.

replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.