quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

We are called to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Someday they will write the history of this time and they will not be able to say I was silent. open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

No. The only way to stop this madness is motivated citizens standing up, protecting their neighbors, and refusing to comply with fascism. If we still get to have elections, and the D can produce more candidates like Mamdani, the votes will come AFTER. Elections will not save anyone.

I mean... of course he lied. How do I know he lied? His mouth was moving. Put him in the cell next to 🧠🪱 who also lied.

Mockery is a high form of art when done well.

Lawyer shit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdpS...

There is no excuse for the regime to hold journalists in indefinite detention - and threaten them with deportation - solely on account of their efforts to report the truth. bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...

Streisand the shit out of that story.

Entirely normal for government agents to terrorize a five-year-old in order to get to that child's parent. Are we great again, yet? www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/23/i...

Fix the minimum wage in your state: rootsaction.org/create-a-15-...

Thanks to @parkermolloy.com for returning my attention to this prescient Tiktok from @jamellebouie.net www.tiktok.com/@jamelleboui...

Am I the only one who feels like Kirk's murder is this moment's Gulf of Tonkin?

Tell Your Democratic Senator(s) to Make Sure Schumer Doesn't Hand Trump a Blank Check act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74.

The Post's motto should be "The truth dies in a billionaire's checkbook".

Mainstream media are silent. Where is the coverage of this protest? I know WaPo has been infected by Stage 4 billionairism. Where are The Guardian, The BBC, Der Spiegel, Al Jazeera? We need your help to publicize this.

RFK Jr. Must Go: rootsaction.org/tell-congres...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Every journalist should be taking notes from Ms. Donegan's unflinching willingness to state truth and avoid both-sides-ism.

This is correct behavior from GMU and should be applauded. Don't cave, don't cower, don't throw minoritized people under the fascist bus. Continue doing what you excel at - providing a quality education to every student - and maybe throw a bit of shade at those weak-kneed Ivies.

And while I'm sending memos, here's another one: do _not_ fuck with Missouri. Red-state people are not stupid and they will put up with shit for only so long.

Dear @democrats.senate.gov are you fucking listening? "[Y]ou cannot defeat the fascists with a strategy that starts with message-testing. To defeat the fascists you must start with a strategy aimed at defeating the fascists. Then, you figure out the messages that help land that strategy" Ezra Levin

the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech

I've just been made aware of this and all I have to say is "can we please get some Maori people into our government? Like, now?" Because this is 100% the correct response when your supposed government is pushing through horrible crap and your supposed leaders won't do anything to stop it.

AFAICT, RFK Jr is angling for a shot at "biggest mass murderer in US history" as his legacy. His body count is (currently) directly small, and indirectly growing. Now he's going to pad his numbers, mostly at the expense of children, the sick, and the elderly.

A thing I have been pondering: what makes something "a technology?" Someone - might have been Alan Kay - said that a technology is anything invented after you were born. That has a certain elegance to it and speaks to generational change and why we take some things for granted that were >>

@safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team Reinstate Jessie's account. That is all. Just do it.

@warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov are you paying attention? What's stopping you from doing any or all of these things? open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Anyone who reports on this utterance by That Guy and does not state the facts as @marcelias.bsky.social has done is a traitor and a coward. In America, the law is king.

OK fam. I get a lot of people in my circles reposting other people in my circles so I'm seeing the same things four or five times. Help! Who is posting interesting original content here?

This would be why we stopped shopping at Amazon pretty much every time, dumped our Prime memberships, and moved everything off the Amazon credit card we had. The company is shit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewbW...

This. Just... this. truah.org/resources/jo...

THEY LITERALLY DID THE ONION HEADLINE

Thoughtful, in-depth examination of the intersections of many Jewish ways of being. open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps. It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.

They want to rule by fear. We will respond with power, people, and purpose. On July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities are coming together. Because #GoodTroubleLivesOn

Charlotte Clymer does "no dancing on the shore of the Red Sea" in detail, with numbers and personal story. *deep bow of respect*

If you are somehow not reading The Reframe, now is a good time to start. www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-...

As some celebrate the 4th, remember that our nation began as a colony, built by enslaved peoples on stolen land, it came into being by Revolution fought in opposition to tyrannical taxes; thereby a new country was established explicitly as a state not beholden to a king or any one religion.

If you have somehow never read @kenwhite.bsky.social 's story that he (re)tells each July 4th, the 2025 edition seems especially worth reading: www.popehat.com/p/the-fourth...

Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you spread the word?

I wrote about how Trump is freeing actual criminals to make politically inconvenient people into criminals.

Let's be clear that we're not talking abstractions here. These are our children, our siblings, our cousins, our schoolmates, our neighbors. The transgender "issue" is about how we treat real people in our communities. Stop playing with abstractions and realize you're playing with people's lives.

If one of these people is your senator, it is incredibly important that you call them today. Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.

This is what you can do when you focus your reporting on the needs of actual humans and not blindly repeating the bloviations of the regime's spokesdemons.

USMC Ret. Lt. Colonel Joe Plenzler deployed with the same Marine battalion now heading to Los Angeles. Marines training for war are now being deployed against American citizens. This crosses a dangerous line. Brothers, remember your ethos, #RememberYourOath.

TACO, meet MACO.

The ADL has been many things in its history. "Sock puppet for fascists" is not one of the better things. Student protesters are my and your and others' children. They need love and support and space to learn and grow, not condemnation from rigid hateful elders.

Can someone please rush order a Rap Battles of History? Elmo vs TACO should be one for the ages.

if you represent or work for a hospital who gets investigated by the FBI, i want to talk to you. my signal is in my bio.

This is what I'm talking about. I haven't read this proposal; I don't know how much I agree with. But it's an attempt to build a different positive vision of the future of America. So yeah, hate the TACO all the time. But hate is exhausting. Put your energy into building, if you are at all able.