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@Ryan_Ken_Acts My best friend said: “I can’t believe we used to just like raw dog it on the subway maskless. I still feel bad about that Uber driver who drove me to a minute clinic when I had the flu at the end of 2019. That poor man.”

Musk's claim that just 10% of US aid reaches recipients is absurd. @cgdev lays out the facts: - US gov costs are just 10% - Rest reaches recipients mostly thru US corps/nonprofits + multilateral agencies - ~10% goes thru foreign organizations cgdev.org/blog/no-90-per…

Graffiti spotted downtown: “The mayor & city council cutting $23 million from LA fire department to give LAPD a $138 raise is CLASS WAR”

Steve Bannon confirming Trump’s dictatorship plan …”you’re witnessing right now a political realignment like 1932” “I believe that we will destroy the Democratic party as a national institution” “We will govern for 100 years” x.com/RonFilipkowski…

This is one of the most insane pieces of data I've ever seen. Why on Earth would you not want a person whose whole job it is to know about a thing weighing in on that thing?

Black Widow, a group of dancers hailing from the Urban Theory school in Vallecrosia, Italy, performs kaleidoscope-like synchronized movements. [📹 blackwidow_official] x.com/i/status/18572…

Someone posted: “There is nothing the remotest bit natural about capitalism. The bees are not stockpiling honey to sell at a profit. The trees are not charging the bees to build their hive. The soil is not leasing itself to the flowers. (Cont.)

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing. The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

That was a cataclysm. Electoral map wipeout. Senate D practical ceiling is now 52 seats. R's is 62. Time to rebuild the left. We are out of touch with the crisis of meaning/purpose fueling MAGA. We refuse to pick big fights. Our tent is too small. 1/ Some early thoughts:

Watch this man BRILLIANTLY explain why Donald Trump's tariffs plan will be a complete DISASTER for hard-working Americans. 🚨This is EXCELLENT. twitter.com/CartuneNetwerk…

Where did Trump voters get their news? 📰 Yes, there's social and partisan sites, but there is another influential strategy that isn't getting enough attention: Manipulated, pay-to-play and all out fake news sites I've been covering a mix of those for years. Here's a primer 🧵

Many people emailed me to ask how to manage potential financial uncertainties in 2025. I wrote up a brief two page summary; this is not financial advice, but it offers a summary of the risks and how, potentially, to respond. docs.google.com/document/d/1iw…

White blood cell wandering between red blood cells and checking for harmful organisms

LETS GET SOMETHING STRAIGHT. The American People voted to absolutely make sure LOADS of people would die at Trumps hands. - Their daughters, their wives, children & their fellow citizens will die from school shootings, pregnancy & easily cured diseases. -It’s free hunting season for blacks with immunity for white cops. - Muslims & Latinos will DEFINITELY die in mass deportation roundups/camps. - Gaza will be bulldozed if not ethnically cleansed. - Iranians who want democracy will die. - Ukrainians are dying in droves already. If you think your family is immune from Trumps dementia & chaos that is coming? Did you forget about Covid?

In 2020 I was one of 7 dems that won a district that Trump won, so I held a series of listening sessions with people who voted for Trump and voted for me to understand their actions. I reread the transcripts yesterday and much of it felt like it could have been said today. THREAD

The challenge, after a loss, is to learn something *new.* Most people aren't doing that right now. They're taking in information and trying to fit that within their prevailing world view. The NEW thing I'm learning is: People do not and will not vote for harm mitigation...

If Dems and other officials do not hold the perperators of past admin crimes accountable *and* tackle the structural issues that made the US vulnerable to mafia state rule, all the Biden admin will be is a brief interlude between aspiring autocracy and entrenched autocracy.

Reposting this graphic of when the red mirage dissipated in 2020. Take a deep breath, everyone, and hunker down.

@dceiver @chrisgeidner A friend and her husband voting in Michigan just received their absentee ballots *today*. Nothing they can do. Our system is so f-ed.

give it up for Lexi, folks