henry sholar

January 2017 — March 2020 every Tuesday, Eugene, OR (i need to make another sign)

just heartbreaking stuff Alex Pretti's mother calls out ICE and the Trump administration for killing her son and smearing his name, and calls for justice to be done.

Huh. So doubling down on a sleazy attack ad featuring a monstrous woman who chose a pedophile over her kids, all to highlight an opponent’s wrenching childhood trauma, isn’t a genius political strategy? Maybe “have you no decency, sir?” moments are still possible. 🤔

Mike Luckovich (@mluckovich.bsky.social) is the wind beneath my wings.

The El Paso firefighters are back in their 👠! Yesterday, they completed the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event to stand against violence toward women. What an amazing group of men, and they looked great doing it! 👏🏽 #SheShed

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NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

each day, closer and closer to election day, it becomes clearer and clearer that it's like a cosmic vote for or against evil.

tonight the Dame Time 30 for 30 continues

"That story is about more than a war. It’s a long, dark period in the state’s and nation’s history, not a Lost Cause. The history center’s job is to 'right the historical understanding' of events between 1838 and 1898..." #CivilWarMemory #publichistory 🗃️ www.theassemblync.com/news/culture...

If you only read the New York Times or watch CNN, you have no way of knowing this happened.

If you think a test for dementia is an IQ test, you have dementia. If you don't realize you have been given a test for dementia because your physician suspects you have dementia, you have dementia. If you think being able to tell a giraffe from a whale makes you a genius . . . you have dementia.

in honor of NBA opening day, I am going to do an NBA season preview where I break down every team's best player, a fun player, and whether or not the team is butt if you do not wish for a lot of basketball content in your feed (boo), go ahead and mute the thread

Vivek Ramaswamy, Ken Paxton, Mike Collins, Roger Marshall, on and on - everywhere you look the most despicable humans financed by a handful of billionaires and elevated by Trump want you to give them even more political power to serve their interests at your expense.

Trump puts RFK Jr (who abused his former wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy – driving her to suicide with his chronic infidelity, psychological bullying, gaslighting, and physical abuse) *in charge of women's health*. If Jeffrey Epstein were alive Trump would put him in charge of children's health.

i have said this before but “It is not permissible under the 14th Amendment for the state to alleviate racial inequality” is basically a version of Plessy v. Ferguson, which held that the 14th Amendment was not meant to equalize social relations. bsky.app/profile/mike...

"today's chuckle"

most of us are decent and are votin' -- following the process. if they resist being voted out, we'll move to the next step, tbd. the majority of the people in this country are decent and concerned and are going to stop this mess one way or another. historically been doing that, eventually.

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Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment "A splendid effort. But, sadly, the world we live in has certain … rules, you understand? To be frank, the problem here is not that you are women. As such, that is. But you persist in maintaining that you are. You see? We can’t have that."

People like Carville think we have a left wing party vs. a centrist party, when we actually have a center-right party vs. a far right party.

vote the straight Democratic ticket. the republican party wants to make our country an ally of russia. voting republican is fascist and treason.

I assume that people trust Republicans more on "crime" because Republicans will more reliably commit some.

here's to techbro billionaire arrogance looking a lot better with a lighter wallet, and maybe some jail time if they don't straighten up and abide the law.

THIS is the way. The grit. The determination. The gumption. A model for all of us. If ever there was a moment to use your right to speak up—and vote—it’s now.

This Day in Labor History: October 15, 1990. President George H.W. Bush signed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. This provided a path forward for compensation for Cold War uranium miners but still largely left out the Navajos, suffering and dying from their work for this nation's nukes!!

"We've pledged to use crack cocaine only in a way that protects and supports human creators."

Amazing pic my spouse just took with phone of NASA SpaceX CRS-35 launch. Distance is in the 100 mile range.

"about 6 in 10 U.S. adults believe he is either illegally profiting or doing something unethical but not illegal. Only about 2 in 10 think the Republican president is doing nothing wrong, while a similar share say they don't know enough to say."

NO KINGS is coming. Saturday Oct 17. Your voice matters. Your vote matters. www.nokings.org

Being and Fun Time

President Zelenskyy: Ukraine supports the ceasefire, and it is important that Russia supports it as well. "I just spoke with Mark Carney, Alex Stubb, and Mark Rutte. We discussed the energy ceasefire announced by President Trump.

Good call with Zelenskyy today. Fully supported his call for a ceasefire that would protect global food supplies and energy infrastructure in ukraine and Russia. The war has entered a new, grimmer phase. Russia is stalling on the battlefield and striking civilians far behind the front lines.

Poland‘s Prime Minister Tusk had a phone call with Ukrainian president Zelenskyy. He made the following statement afterwards:

Trump's head is so far up Putin's ass he can see Sarah Palin's front porch.

This Day in Labor History: October 11, 1979. OSHA fined the chemical company American Cyanamid $10,000 for coercing women workers into sterilization if they wanted to work in jobs where they would be exposed to lead and chemicals. Let's talk how companies forced women to be sterilized in the 70s!

impeach hegseth and trump and turn them over to The Hague.

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

Ossoff and El-Sayed took different tacks tonight vs their opponents—El-Sayed was more of a subtext of “you dumb fucking racist jackass” while Ossoff’s was more “if you fell down at a gas station I’d toss a lit match on you”—and I don’t think either of those is a bad choice tbh

Pass Medicare for All. Cradle to grave, it's there for you.