What a lady... substack.com/@poemz/note/...

A FB friend of mine posted this about her aunt. I shared her quote here, there was more to her quote but I didn’t have room to fit it all in. It is now being reported by the media too. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Soybean Farmer: So now I've got a tariff war that's killing my market. I don't have any money from grain we're sending to other countries for USAID. I mean, I've got a compound problem. I don't know how you plan for next year because we don't know where we're at.

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

All I ask is that you watch and listen for 2 mins. youtu.be/AxZDE8PBhFk

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

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I missed this earlier today: the Washington Post's latest poll has Democrats leading in Virginia with a month to go. Spanberger is up 55-43 in the governor's race. Dems are also up 49/45 for LG & 51/45 for AG. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

World Leaders Laugh at Trump for Bragging About Fake Peace Deal newrepublic.com/post/201262/...

Trumpnomics: Get tariff money from US consumers on Chinese goods. Our farmers can’t sell their products because the Chinese refuse to pay our tariffs. China buys from farmers in Argentina instead. We send Argentina $20 billion. Then we pay our farmers to throw their crops away.

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Impressive to get this many judges: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

President Trump tells us exactly who is responsible for the shutdown, and we couldn't agree more.

Repeat after me... Republicans are in control of the government. The government shutdown is a MAGA shutdown. The REPUBLICANS are SHUTTING the government down.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

Same as it ever was.

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive: 2015: 332 2016: 383 2017: 347 2018: 335 2019: 414 2020: 611 2021: 689 2022: 644 2023: 659 2024: 503 So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days. We do not have to keep living like this.

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse. Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.

My general belief is that Dems need to spend more time thinking about what they believe and less about what they think some imaginary swing voters want them to believe. Political strategy will stem from an authentic set of beliefs.

Might I suggest a new and possibly easier cognitive test for Trump? Repeat the following list: Liar, felon, idiot, pedophile, dictator

“Now that President Donald Trump is perverting the Justice Department into an instrument of political persecution, jury nullification may be one of the only mechanisms that everyday Americans have to protect the rule of law,” Adam Serwer argues:

The former prosecutor speaking on MSNBC Deadline White House made a good point. The EDVA has a very politically informed population. If it goes to trial, jurors may be very skeptical of the Comey case.

Please repost this…. Thank you.

please repost www.pbs.org/kenburns/the...

BREAKING: Sinclair FOLDS and ends its preemption of Jimmy Kimmel Live! The show will return tonight on Sinclair's ABC affiliates.

The irony is that Trumpworld is obsessed with energy.

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!" Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!

Thanks RFK Jr. www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

The difference between chickenshit aquiescence and consequential resistance.

Months after the Department of Government Efficiency's attack on the federal government began, WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as DOGE tore through their offices.

Step 1: Start a dumbass trade war with China (and Brazil). Step 2: Lose Chinese soybean market to Brazil. Step 3: Bail out your nutty right wing buddy Javier Milei. Step 4: Lose soybean market to Milei, too. Steph 5: Make taxpayers pay for your stupidity.

HEP author Jonna Perrillo co-wrote an op-ed for @the74.bsky.social, which argues that we should "loosen the grip on standardization and let teachers recreate the sort of experiences with literature that once made us, and them, into readers."

“I think the only thing that moves the needle here… is some sort of national economic strike.” @profgalloway.com proposes using consumer power to push back against autocracy.

Every time I talk with @mclem.org about the economics of immigration, I come away a whole lot smarter. You can enjoy the same experience: He's written a fantastic primer on what the data reveals about the effect of slashing H-1B visas. It's a banger. Read it. www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

As the brother of an autistic American, as a person who worked on US scientific integrity policy at the White House, and as human being, I'm boiling at the RFK idiocy. And though I have little to offer beyond surpassing rage and national shame, I did smile at this statement from NYU's Arthur Caplan:

Disney paid $16 million to Trump to settle a bogus lawsuit involving George Stephanopoulos. Disney fired Terry Moran for calling Stephen Miller a “world-class hater.” Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel. That Disney has walked back one of those after immense public pressure doesn't change who they are.

I know everything is stupid, but a day later and I'm still impressed at the gleeful public willingness to scream out "WE DON'T CARE IF OUR SIDE IS CRIMINALLY CORRUPT!"

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PSA: Thinking this is wrong doesn’t make you a “radical” — thinking it isn’t does.

Neil Young opened with this at Farm Aid 2025 Bless him!

Judge Steven Merryday's dismissal of Trump’s lawsuit against the NYT may be my favorite literary review of the year: deadline.com/wp-content/u...

This is a really fun read even for non-lawyers. It’s four pages.