Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Everyone should show up to protests wearing black t-shirts with tattered American flags, mesh baseball caps, reflective sunglasses … it would really confuse and confound the visuals in a mischievous and helpful way.
Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Huh. And if that’s what she’s hearing from her donor base and constituents — or at least they are giving her enough leash on this — maybe they’re not as hard-core as we think and they would like to pretend?
What if we were able to entice her and people like her to our side over this? The key is to treat people like the Prodigal Son and get them to go further. That is not how social media works, because everyone is too busy *ahem* polishing their own bona fides
Congressional Democrats like my Rep @whipkclark.bsky.social need this memo too. Their fight is vs authoritarianism as well. Their language is dull and “safe”, which is not safe. Little attention will be paid.
I kept thinking how she wrote about feeling unsafe on the NYC subway — and pre-emptively blaming Mamdani for it. Like, he’s not mayor yet! You’ll have to blame someone else! So weird.
#Chicago is a splendid American city. Maybe the best. A city of bold, unpretentious excellence and badassery in a million different aspects. Brimming with creative, compassionate people committed to the good civic life. Go visit.
Stephen Miller is portraying opposition to Donald Trump in any form, including by judges issuing legal rulings, as an illegal rebellion, Jonathan Chait argues:
At what point do we blame the consumers of media instead of “the media”? Like, we have media that may be good bad or indifferent, but eg Fox News has long been the most-watched “news” network.
The legacy/mainstream media couldn’t save us if they tried. That’s not where your delta is.
Arrived in Prague and sat down to sort through my ballot
Me: these are the worst elections I remember…
My mother: the worst elections are when there is a one party system and you can’t vote for anything else, but you have to turn up and vote anyway, because they surveil you
Guys: He was always terrible. Back to 2009 he was terrible - a bunch of Hunter-Thompson-esque bluster, covering extremely shallow thinking and knowledge of history.
