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Rose Bowl Parade with only ambient audio and bands (no commentators) https://ktla.com/news/rose-parade/watch-the-rose-parade-band-cam-streaming-live/ #rosebowl #parade

Important to recognize the regime's fascist desires and limited capacity to carry it out. Because it's core to what they believe, and they've have done awful actions in that direction, which must be opposed. And because hyperbole, lies, and fear are weapons for them, which no one should fall for.

Happy New Year to those who celebrate 🥂

"The reason it is important to identify the Court as corrupt is because it is in fact corrupt." Essential commentary from Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo, one of the news sites that is doing the journalism we need right now […]

Important New Year Tip: 2026 is not going to be good. There is a lot of trouble ahead. Keep an eye on credit card and mortgage delinquencies. Every collapse begins with credit. Auto loans are already showing signs of collapse.

Perfect description of the current corruption of Supreme Court. It is no longer a court, just an edict-issuing body. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-latest-defenses-of-scotuss-corruption-only-make-the-case-against-it

Billionaire Tom Steyer: “Bernie was right. Boy was I wrong. We don’t have a choice. We need single-payer.” #MedicareForAllNOW

Weather right now can best be described as "Santa Ana winds combined with incoming rain and sprinkling" 😬 (ie really strange) 64F, 24% humidity, 4mph winds #venturacounty #windy #cawx

“Self-deport” is a whitewashed way to describe “fleeing the country under the threat of state violence.” I agree with Maria here — it’s important to call that exactly what it is.

Lol. Bondi deleted that post crediting the Trump admin for ending overdose deaths after @tedlieu.bsky.social pointed out that the chart's data ended during the Biden admin, showing the decrease was under Biden.

Last special election of the year. This is a D+17 seat according to @the-downballot.com. The Democrat just won by 43 points. That’s a 26 point overperformance.

#Ukraine sharply increased strikes on #russia#ukraineenergy infrastructure in December, carrying out at least 24 attacks — the highest monthly total since the war began — targeting refineries, pipelines, tankers, ports and offshore fields. Source: Bloomberg

Reported as an attack on a Russian oil depot in Rovenky, occupied Luhansk region. #aurefreepress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #zelensky #War #Breaking #breakingnews

How Jesuits Are Supporting Immigrants in San Diego with Fr. Scott Santarosa, SJ - Jesuits.org https://www.jesuits.org/stories/how-jesuits-are-supporting-immigrants-in-san-diego-with-fr-scott-santarosa-sj/

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

“43 women in Argentina say they were lured to Opus Dei schools as children and teenagers under promises of receiving an education. Instead, they say they were forced into working up to 12-hour days, cooking and cleaning for the elite male members…left without money, clothes or qualifications” […]

RE: https://mastodon.world/@BrianJopek/115803796452053651 Puppet Puppet Puppet Just like Hillary said

That was a helluva game

Niners win! Yeah this was the real Super Bowl.

4 seconds to win it

Cardiac Bears!

it is fairly clear that in dealing with zelenskyy, trump is essentially putin’s agent and this is the least of his offenses we really need to get him the fuck out of office🔥🔥🔥

What? A punt????

Cruelty isn’t strength and silence isn’t safety. In fragile times, our community must stay informed, engaged, and united. Check out my latest article: Is This the New America? www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-am... via LinkedIn #Democracy #LGBTQ

Yeah this Bears Niners game is the real Super Bowl this season

Niners just dancing down the field

I mean you’ve really gotta wonder why the Trump DOJ was collecting travel information about a reporter who helped blow the lid off the Epstein coverup in Florida. Or maybe we don’t have to wonder at all.

This Bears Niners game may be the real Super Bowl

* Asked to send a vibe coded project out for peer review. * Refused because the code was unreviewable, giving a handful of reasons why. * one reason: The first test I read tests nothing and its description makes no sense - description says "test input x is scored as y and not z". Test […]

#Trump does not understand he is a migrant also The local pub in our town is older then the whole of the United States lol

ICYMI — “Jared’s the INVESTOR here” J.D. Vance referred to Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner as “the investor” in Gaza, as he and Witkoff cook up a scheme to enrich their families on the backs of the horrors there And the Hunter hunters are silent🤔

How nice of the BMW dealership in town to send me a fancy Christmas card with a coupon for $300 off repairs off my new BMW. (Narrator: the man did not own a new BMW). 🤔

Repainting our bathrooms in a peachy/pink color and the brush still has a bit of blue in it from when I did my office/bedroom so the brush is now trans.

From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history How effective is protesting❓ According to historians and political scientists: ⭐️VERY ⭐️ […]

WATCH — @rokhanna.bsky.social : “Over 1200 survivors raped or abused, and you have rich and powerful men doing this - and this country did nothing.” (H/T @cwebbonline.com )

THE GOAT IS DOWN, I REPEAT THE GOAT IS DOWN. #GävleGoat

BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Massive retaliatory drone attack underway on Moscow: "The number of UAVs in Russia today is simply off the charts" — Russian media #aurefreepress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #zelensky #War #Breaking #breakingnews

Was just in the bookstore and saw the book I just started reading has a seventh book in the series that's like three inches thick and I just went, "nah, I'm stopping after the first one". I mean dude, get an editor already. I'm already pretty much skimming the first one. Plus unreliable […]

271,000 people have lost their jobs and federal spending has ctually increased. So people get less services, while we added debt paying for private jets for Kristi Noem, bulletproof cars for Kash Patel. This is what the rust belt voters demanded.

the most vicious observation: "I don't know a single person using facebook threads. Nobody's even _complaining_ about it."

You're Not Preparing. You Should Be. What to do when waiting becomes the worst option #fascism #resistance https://thepeoplescommunity.substack.com/p/youre-not-preparing-you-should-be

Democratic US Rep. Joyce Beatty has filed a lawsuit seeking to remove Trump's name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Beatty is one of several Democratic lawmakers designated as members of the board by US law. She claimed in her lawsuit that the renaming was illegal because […]

What was Iraq’s ”crime”? Selling oil in Euro. What was Libya’s ”crime”? Attempt to create a gold-backed pan-African currency to sell oil in. What’s Venezuela’s ”crime”? … Whatever other currency Maduro was planning to use, the pattern is clear: Sell your oil in any other currency than the […]

#Climate #climateemergency

Fascists “are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words.” -Sartre