Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders rally Democrats
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-rally-democrats-rcna197296

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders rally Democrats
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-rally-democrats-rcna197296
Local news nothing online. Social media for largest news AZ Central shared good video on Threads but I won’t link here to Threads. We picked up estimate 15k capacity in stadium, 5k capacity overflow area AND thousands outside who never made it in. Bernie and AOC came all the way outside to speak afterwards to remaining crowd. I am still betting all local news will downplay it and those videos on Threads won’t be published online tomorrow. I am sure my guess was pretty good - 15k to 20k or more.
#Tempe #Arizona #Resist #Bernie #AOC
“American manufacturer of food for malnourished babies lays off staff amid USAID funding upheaval.”
I wish we could make some citizen’s arrests. Letting children starve is abominable.
#USAID #HumanitarianAid #Malnutrition #MalnourishedChildren #Starvation #Hunger #FoodScarcity #GOPDeathCult #Trump #Musk #DOGE #Rubio #Resist #USPol https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-manufacturer-of-food-for-malnourished-babies-lays-off-staff-amid-usaid-funding-upheaval/
Tempe AZ right now with Bernie and AOC at stadium!
We never made it to parking! There must be 20,000 people there! Doors opened 2 hours ago and we think maybe 10,000 still outside in the longest lines I’ve ever seen! This better make the news! Bernie and AOC must be on fire!
“The Trump administration is threatening to all but shut down the Social Security Administration in response to a judge’s ruling blocking activities by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency — an action that could delay payments to millions"
#Injustice #Coup #SocialSecurity #Courts #DOGE #Musk #Trump #Resist #USPol
“Be what scares them. Live lives in colors their eyes can’t even see. Cook food they want to deport. Test the fire code with your parties. Form a scene that meets every Wednesday. Call someone you haven’t in a while. Fight with a smile. Fail and come back. Be weird. Be welcoming. Kiss converts. Refuse despair. Be disobedient. Laugh loudly. Hide someone. Call out. Root down.”
#OrangeCounty #California is having daily protests against #Trump, #Musk, and their #Republican Congress critter, who of course will not hold a town hall.
Interview "America’s Constitutional Crisis"
"They're using immigration laws now to come after protesters or people" criticising the Trump administration who are not US citizens.
"They'll come next for us, the US citizens, with the criminal law,”
~Katherine Franke, Columbia faculty
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/americas-constitutional-crisis-w
chatting with 2 Canadian tourists on the cable car, I apologized for the country and told them I was trying to buy as many Canadian goods as possible.
The wife says people have been apologizing to us everywhere today, people in this city are lovely.
The husband says, there's really nothing you can do.
I say, as soon as there is something I can do, I will do it
#resist #USA #Canada #SanFrancisco #CableCar
Analysis: Crackdown on Campus Speech Widens
"Badar Khan Suri was detained by DHS agents after a public campaign against him and his wife by pro-Israel groups."
The agents, who wore face coverings, "detained him near his home in Arlington, Virginia, informed him that the U.S. government had revoked his J-1 visa—a non-immigrant visa for foreign nationals participating in educational and cultural exchange programs."
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/georgetown-postdoc-the-latest-to
I don’t know this place anymore…this evil administration is attempting to dismantle anything left, that acknowledges the accomplishments of anyone who isn’t a white, straight male…but I remember, we remember and we shall never let them forget…and now public education…you know what you are when you’re not allowed to learn? You’re a slave… - Paula West
#resist #DepartmentofEducation
"A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled."
-J Rauch
What the #TrumpMusk regime is doing to people in this country, esp. the vulnerable, is unconscionable & pure evil. Trump, & his conspirators are akin to the most notorious genocidal leaders in history.
Urge Congress to Save IMLS! A recent Executive Order would gut the only federal agency dedicated to America’s museums. The Institute of Museum & Library Services makes up only 0.0046% of the federal budget. Take action now:
https://www.congressweb.com/aam/95/
Philharmonik is the winner of the NPR Tiny Desk Contest. A full band with a funky vibe.
I recommend the last song “Pay Me” (starts at 16:15).
Note: There are about 500 F-bombs dropped here. Not the casual, filler-type, but earnest F-bomb missiles.
Great sound, great message, great F-bombs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKHswNFsRww&t=98s&pp=2AFikAIB
In all seriousness, I think about the power of jokes, in particular, the power of a *type* of joke. I'm thinking maybe billionaire jokes could be a subversive way to unite people across political divides, to remind us of who our common enemy is, and stigmatize awful folls who put a lot of money into making themselves seem cool. I'm finding that regardless of political stance (and while some may have fond feelings for a *specific* billionaire), it's getting hard to find folks who will defend billionaires as a class.
I think to my childhood in the 70s & 80s, when we had blonde jokes, "Pollock" jokes, various categories of ableist jokes, even the stray racist joke, which by my time had mostly fallen out of favor in polite company but I still heard them. Lawyer jokes were a thing for bit, and self-deprecating Redneck jokes (ala Jeff Foxworthy). Mormon jokes, of course, which were popular among Mormons..except for the mean ones.
These jokes had the power to redirect our mocking ire away from those who truly deserved it based on their behavior, away from those who really were after our way of life, our money and our wellbeing, our freedoms and our happiness. I suggest we return to the purpose of folly throughout history to direct criticism at those in power set inside the memetic disguise of humor.
So it's with this intent I write these jokes, and send them out into the world, including those you make up yourself or adapt from jokes you may have heard towards people who don't deserve it, point them back upward with a fresh punch.
Like the one-liners of old, this thread is public domain. I may consider publishing them in a local paper if they'll have them, but not for money, and not in a possessive sense. Tell them to people in person, like we used to do. Let them crack the wall that billionaires have built between us all, and open the door to more serious discussion of what we're going to do about this.
@DemocracyMattersALot “Suckers and losers.” #DonaldTheDeplorable feels the same way about the #WorkingClass as he does about #American #Veterans.
@bicmay #DonaldTheDeplorable and his #MAGA stooges are hell-bent on killing #Americans and the #American economy because #Putin has told them to.
@gemelliz Sue them mercilessly and continuously. You stop this #Qanon (Putin) shit NOW, or suffer the shame and pain that #Americans have been going through ever since #WashingtonHasFallen.