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Living, playing and working as a grateful settler in the unceded territory of the shíshálh people.🇨🇦
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I want you to imagine a time, perhaps 10 years from now, when perhaps the rest of us have come to believe this moment is an aberration, a blip in American history, not who we really are, and remember this boy. He will never forget who we really are.
#blocked
“I don’t worry about what I will find on the other side of eternal sleep,” J. D. Vance writes in his new book, Communion. “Even as a child, I never feared hell.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
“far-right rioters torching cars, buses, and even the homes of immigrants—Musk egged it on. Using X—the platform he acquired precisely for moments like these—he posted locations for groups of rioters to congregate.”
Ross and Rebecca Tobiassen own a small auto repair shop in NC
Their insurance premiums jumped from $130/month to $550, following the passage of the GOP health care bill
They, along with 213,000 other North Carolinians dropped their unaffordable coverage (22% decrease)
This is today's GOP
A publishing friend wrote me
Dignity, grace, and intellect speak for themselves. Resorts to petty, outdated insults only show a lack of class and respect. True strength doesn't need to tear others down to elevate itself.
#SheShed
#Leadership
#UFC
Wow! Performers I’ve heard of….
“the United States would be wise to mend alliances in Europe, the Middle East and Asia that have been frayed by the war’s military and economic effects. The Pentagon will also need to modernize and prepare for the wars of the future.
Neither is likely to happen under President Trump.”
Conservative group sues Trump successfully on tariffs, sees its corporate donations dry up.
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After congressional Republicans let expanded subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans expire at the end of last year, some families have decided the price is too great of a financial burden and cancele...
Elon Musk's incitement of pogroms in Belfast reveals he'll use his immense wealth and influence to foment untold fascist violence in the future. Only a global movement can break his power.
New piece from @polphilpod.bsky.social and me. Threading highlights below. 1/
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The Liberty Justice Center lost donors because it successfully challenged the president’s global tariffs, while the companies who benefited have declined to donate.
"Trump made a terrible mistake starting this war. He prosecuted it recklessly and in open defiance of the law. The United States is emerging weaker — militarily, diplomatically and economically — and will pay strategic costs for years to come"
No kidding!
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...
Courant: The suit described Martinez’s son as “once a bubbly child” but who now struggles to sleep. In school, he frequently interrupts class with uncontrollable crying. He once sat down outside a classroom, told his teacher that he missed his mom & stayed on the ground crying for almost 20 minutes.
The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.
The US is bombing schools, stealing millions of barrels of oil, disappearing and murdering Americans on their own streets, abducting heads of state, and supporting a genocide, but this cunt is appalled at the logistics of a fucking book deal. Pathetic.
