ed lorah
@edlorah.bsky.social
Student of history, retired social worker, far-left lunatic.
"You poor take courage, you rich take care".
"You poor take courage, you rich take care".
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More than a year in this has mostly gone as I feared, and in some ways has been worse. But there have been two contrasting surprises:
-- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation
-- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people
Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.
-- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation
-- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people
Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.
January 29, 2026 at 3:09 PM
More than a year in this has mostly gone as I feared, and in some ways has been worse. But there have been two contrasting surprises:
-- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation
-- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people
Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.
-- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation
-- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people
Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.
Saying the quiet part out loud.
January 29, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Saying the quiet part out loud.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=36oY...
RIP Bob Weir. I was always kind of ambivalent about the Dead, but this version of "The Eleven" is thrilling.
RIP Bob Weir. I was always kind of ambivalent about the Dead, but this version of "The Eleven" is thrilling.
The Eleven (Live at the Fillmore West, February 28, 1969)
YouTube video by Grateful Dead - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 11, 2026 at 1:48 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=36oY...
RIP Bob Weir. I was always kind of ambivalent about the Dead, but this version of "The Eleven" is thrilling.
RIP Bob Weir. I was always kind of ambivalent about the Dead, but this version of "The Eleven" is thrilling.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
CBS News is dead.. Murdered by money.
Ed Murrow and Walter Cronkite must be spinning in their graves.
CBS News is dead.. Murdered by money.
Ed Murrow and Walter Cronkite must be spinning in their graves.
Bari Weiss to moderate CBS News town hall with Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk
Exclusive: event, scheduled to air on 13 December, will focus on ‘grief, faith, politics, and more’, according to internal files
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
CBS News is dead.. Murdered by money.
Ed Murrow and Walter Cronkite must be spinning in their graves.
CBS News is dead.. Murdered by money.
Ed Murrow and Walter Cronkite must be spinning in their graves.
Pete Hegseth gave an order to "kill them all". Was that because they were "narco-terrorists" or because he didn't't want to leave any witnesses alive.
Especially if they were just fishermen.
Especially if they were just fishermen.
Pete Hegseth sure is proud of committing murder.
This is what the so-called "Secretary of War" is tweeting amid reports that his department ordered a second strike to make sure they killed survivors of a boat they attacked that they allege with no proof carries drugs (which doesn't justify bombing them even it were true)
December 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Pete Hegseth gave an order to "kill them all". Was that because they were "narco-terrorists" or because he didn't't want to leave any witnesses alive.
Especially if they were just fishermen.
Especially if they were just fishermen.
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Zohran Mamdani's win is "an incredible proof of concept of how to fight fascism," says @naomiaklein.bsky.social.
"Fascists want everybody to be the same. They celebrate conformity, uniformity, sameness, hierarchy. … The entire [Mamdani] campaign was a love letter to the diversity."
"Fascists want everybody to be the same. They celebrate conformity, uniformity, sameness, hierarchy. … The entire [Mamdani] campaign was a love letter to the diversity."
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Zohran Mamdani's win is "an incredible proof of concept of how to fight fascism," says @naomiaklein.bsky.social.
"Fascists want everybody to be the same. They celebrate conformity, uniformity, sameness, hierarchy. … The entire [Mamdani] campaign was a love letter to the diversity."
"Fascists want everybody to be the same. They celebrate conformity, uniformity, sameness, hierarchy. … The entire [Mamdani] campaign was a love letter to the diversity."
Lord, I was born a Ramblin' Man ...
Trump: "The UN was interesting bc as you know, a few days ago they introduced me, 'ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States.' I'm looking at my teleprompter and that thing was dead, stone cold dead...I actually got good marks. Do you think Biden could've done that? I don't think so."
September 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Lord, I was born a Ramblin' Man ...
Seattle!
SEATTLE! The Disney protest was a smashing success with 350-400 people (many in costume), some great press coverage, and off-the-charts energy to continue the fight for our First Amendment rights.
Thanks to everyone who joined in! To stay in the loop, join us at DefundMusk.com/join
Thanks to everyone who joined in! To stay in the loop, join us at DefundMusk.com/join
September 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Seattle!
Public comments close on September 19th.
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Scrapping the Roadless Rule will harm the PCT - Pacific Crest Trail Association
The Trump Administration this week formally announced its intention to roll back longstanding protections for Inventoried Roadless Areas in National Forests, potentially compromising 231 miles of the ...
www.pcta.org
September 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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How the fuck does this guy get to keep his job?
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 15, 2025 at 4:59 AM
How the fuck does this guy get to keep his job?
Mealy-mouthed, back-pedaling DNC Chair Ken Martin was so evasive in his PBS News interview tonight that even veteran interviewer Anna Nawaz appeared like, “WTF?”
July 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Mealy-mouthed, back-pedaling DNC Chair Ken Martin was so evasive in his PBS News interview tonight that even veteran interviewer Anna Nawaz appeared like, “WTF?”
What a dope.
Trump to the President of Liberia: "Such good English. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?"
English is the official language of Liberia...
English is the official language of Liberia...
July 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
What a dope.
Don't forget a couple billion for transforming ICE into the SS.
What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken legislature?
Our corrupt SCOTUS?
Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken legislature?
Our corrupt SCOTUS?
Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
July 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Don't forget a couple billion for transforming ICE into the SS.
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OMG!
June 1, 2025 at 5:50 AM
OMG!
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May 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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“We ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism, and let freedom ring," Springsteen said.
I hope it inspires other artists to use their voices in this urgent time.
www.americaamerica.news/p/must-artis...
I hope it inspires other artists to use their voices in this urgent time.
www.americaamerica.news/p/must-artis...
Must Artists Help Turn the Tide?
A Saturday Prompt
www.americaamerica.news
May 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“We ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism, and let freedom ring," Springsteen said.
I hope it inspires other artists to use their voices in this urgent time.
www.americaamerica.news/p/must-artis...
I hope it inspires other artists to use their voices in this urgent time.
www.americaamerica.news/p/must-artis...
A compelling argument for fully funding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Stevie Wonder on Sesame Street.
The time Stevie Wonder lit up Sesame Street with his single, Superstition.
Happy 75th Birthday Stevie!
Happy 75th Birthday Stevie!
May 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
A compelling argument for fully funding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Stevie Wonder on Sesame Street.
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What is happening in Gaza will be a permanent stain on the world's collective conscience.
History will never forget how our government was complicit in enabling and sustaining this ongoing humanitarian disaster.
We must end funding for the Netanyahu war machine.
History will never forget how our government was complicit in enabling and sustaining this ongoing humanitarian disaster.
We must end funding for the Netanyahu war machine.
May 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
What is happening in Gaza will be a permanent stain on the world's collective conscience.
History will never forget how our government was complicit in enabling and sustaining this ongoing humanitarian disaster.
We must end funding for the Netanyahu war machine.
History will never forget how our government was complicit in enabling and sustaining this ongoing humanitarian disaster.
We must end funding for the Netanyahu war machine.
49 fresh horses for the Proud Boys ...
Trump administration offers refugee status to 49 white South Africans
Group, including families and small children, departed for US after Trump order created relocation program
www.theguardian.com
May 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
49 fresh horses for the Proud Boys ...
Travel Guru and World’s Most Decent Human Being, Rick Steves, unloads on the Trump regime at in his hometown Edmonds, WA during today’s “Hands Off” rally.
April 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Travel Guru and World’s Most Decent Human Being, Rick Steves, unloads on the Trump regime at in his hometown Edmonds, WA during today’s “Hands Off” rally.
These people, with their performative crosses around their necks, are rapidly turning the long-standing symbol of Christianity into something as reviled as the swastika.
Bondi grotesquely claims that Abrego Garcia's wife and child are better off with him gone
April 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
These people, with their performative crosses around their necks, are rapidly turning the long-standing symbol of Christianity into something as reviled as the swastika.