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It's time to rewatch Spike Lee's brilliant When the Levees Broke. Never forget.

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🎼Burn on, big river, burn on🎼 (gratia Randy Newman)

Can someone tell me why we even listen to him?

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scandal bar is very, very low if you are not named Trump.

A reminder: time to watch Spike Lee’s brilliant, melancholy requiem, When the Levees Broke. Friday, 8/29. HBO at 3:30 to 8 pm. Stay angry. Never forget.

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I might make it a habit to post this from time to time.

Can somebody explain to me where the 275,000+ workers laid off in March are going to find jobs? Thanks.

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

Now THAT’s a headline, no notes

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The world is watching. And convinced Americans can't be bothered. Too comfortable, too misinformed, too arrogant to realize what's actually happening to them, and through them, to all of us. You have proven yourselves too naive to stop this coup. Prove us wrong. We beg of you. #EconomicBlackout

Fealty to Donald Trump will not spare you from his cruelty. It's strength — not weakness — that curbs his baser instincts. Now is the time for us to be strong.

new column: wrote about the irony of the fact that the same administration that is asserting a radical expansion of executive power is also the one that has given the united states its first co-president.

I have to say it broke me a bit that these packets of lifesaving food assistance say on them: "From the American people"

I hope folks do it. I find bluesky info to be…not widely known

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

Sunday reading: Three questions to help us engage Trump’s dangerous outlandishness. We need to resist the temptation to constantly rage against Trump’s latest antics – while making sure the silliness and buffoonery of Trumpism doesn’t obscure how dangerous the situation is. This week’s piece:

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Second of twenty unforgettable books:

Favorite phrase from a famous novel: "All full of tears and flapdoodle." Name the book. . .

My daughter and grandson got to see a pair of cardinals hatch and fledge a baby last summer. What an incredible experience. Now I have just joined Cornell Lab's Feeder Watch. Adds even more fun to the pleasure of watching. Consider joining too!

Give me a break. Does anyone ever say that the right wing/MAGA echo chamber needs to listen to (not just attack) ideas from the left?