WTAF??? What juvenile retribution is involved with this? ithacavoice.org/2025/11/feds...

Ro Khanna suggested that the Epstein victims who have worked so hard to get the files released should be at the signing of the bill. The image that came to mind was a sort of political seppuku scene with victims as ceremonial witnesses.

Happy Monday! Almost as good as a three shot cappuccino to start the week… www.youtube.com/watch

For some reason reflecting back forty years or so in seeing NYC Ballet perform Jacques d’Amboise’s setting of Stravinsky’s “Pastorale.” It’s when I finally began to understand how full the spaces between the notes can be. m.youtube.com/watch

I’m with you!

Teenagers are “too young” to make decisions on gender affirming care. They’re “too young to vote”. They’re too young to drink. But they’re not too young to be sex trafficked and raped by Epstein and all his rich pals? Be serious please.

it's the story of an utterly amoral, ambitious person who scented an easy opportunity to climb the ladder of power by attaching herself to a guy likely to get power under Trump II

The difficult choices one faces when you play by the rules.

Stumbled across this today, and found it a delightful respite from the madness we are enduring… m.youtube.com

It is telling that when an older Democratic leader retires (or, sadly, dies), a competitive primary with lots and lots of interesting candidates emerges -- the gerontocracy's selfish belief that ~they alone can lead~ is immediately proven false!

It will take generations to undo the damage this administration has done. Generations of accumulated trust flushed down a gold toilet.

This holiday season, we’re saying it loud and clear: We Ain’t Buying It. For too long, corporations have profited off of us. From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re taking action with our wallets to demand accountability. Visit weaintbuyingit.com for more information. #weaintbuyingit

William S. Burroughs’ work has always been problematic for me. But even a monster can speak a truth that rises above its origins. And so, a few words of thanks to the spineless who brought us last night’s decision on the CR in the run-up to Thanksgiving: m.youtube.com

The bare minimum in selecting a new generation of Democratic candidates is identifying ethical people with a proven track record of moral strength and effective communication skills. And it must be accomplished before primary season.

I’m trying to figure out something… what is the “center” between moral and amoral? Seems to me that the ”center” must be immoral. At least that is where tonight’s actions have led my thoughts.

I love this!!!

We co-opted Pepe the Frog. Now it’s time to co-opt MAHA. “You want to make America healthy again? Restore Medicaid and the ACA!” Or maybe “You want MAHA? Impeach Trump.” Redefine what MAHA means and plant it everywhere.

Abby Disney makes a brilliant point: let the ultra-rich fly commercial. It’s astonishing to watch this government self-immolate in real time - as if no one at the top grasps how their war on everyone who is not ultra-rich will play out.

Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin. How times change.

In corporate world, dollars are ballots. Don’t use your dollars to “vote” for their behaviors. Boycott. Divest. If all they understand is principal, not principles, then let your dollars speak. It is the only language they understand.

I remember watching an interview with a computer scientist the day the first computer virus hit the fledgling Internet. He had tears in his eyes. He couldn’t imagine someone using the Internet for malicious purposes. I remember marveling at his naivety.

We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

Heronkind aren't known as songbirds #kkraaaaaack But they each live with a song in their head which to them is the most beautiful song ever sung. They think Humans may too. Those who wish to Sing always find a song. 💙🎶

Take the pledge…

It is now a top/bottom battle. There will be no place for left/right battles when it gets to the point where you are using all your resources in the struggle to provide for the basic needs of you and your family.

If the SC’s conservatives say he can withhold funds even if it’s deemed illegal by lower courts because nothing a President does is illegal, the only way Republicans will be able to save themselves from responsibility for starving children will be to impeach Trump. 1/3

I think a good campaign argument would be something like, “He taught rural America to hate urban America, when it is urban Americans who have funded the programs that have aided rural America for a generation.

We used to have a very different notion of the “common man” and what they aspired to. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9O...

I came across this just today. A truly important read for those whose upbringing did not include lessons taught by parents who suffered under fascists. open.substack.com/pub/frederic...

Look what movie is opening November 7… considering the development and production time of a major motion picture, someone was very prescient. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurembe...

I needed this this morning.., m.youtube.com/watch

More of this please. Flood social media with messages like this one. It looks like it was modeled after the coded messages that the BBC broadcast into Europe during WW II to communicate with spies and insurgents. Let them burn resources trying to figure what the code is and who it is for

Money quote: “Rulers, by contrast, tend to jealously guard their dignity. But not Trump.”

If you become dependent upon AI to do your work, you are in fact becoming dependent on the people who control AI and the access to it. And if your needs and their desires ever diverge, you are in danger of being cut off and your work ended. Stay smart. Stay independent. Keep doing your work.

“Mr. Speaker; do you realize there is an actual term to describe habitual posting demeaning comments on social media? It’s called shit-posting.”

Sharing this 102 year old WW2 Vet who is fighting fascism a second time.

I keep saying this. Ya’ll are being protected by us minding our biz.

If you were one of the millions of people at No Kings who has a subscription to the NYT that diminishes your number to thousands. Now would be a good time to cancel your subscription

Nothing that any elected Democrat has ever said about Republican voters is ever as crass or as cruel as what Trump says about Democratic constituencies every single day, and the media just treats it as background noise.

Block list for Trump regime government accounts. How to Dismantle a Dictatorship, Step 4: Block validation. #3E bsky.app/profile/did:...

Ithaca, NY… haven’t heard anything official… about 4,000 folks?

Lots of nussy signs today. I love you, America 😂😂

Today’s placard:

Joy in the morning is blocking the verified White House Bluesky account over a cup of coffee.

…and then you won’t have to answer awkward questions by your grandchildren.

Everything I have ever read or listened to about “how we know what we know” or how we discern what is true, depends on the emotion that comes with the discovery of how some new idea or piece of information fits in with our existing knowledge. It is the restoration of calm after that conflict.