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LIVE: PUPPY AND KITTEN INAUGURATION
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ICFiwn3-SOA
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"So what are we going to do about it?
First, we have to understand the nature of the fight. As hard as Musk and others may be pushing for robots to take over the workforce, the fortune of these men is, for now, dependent on the labor of human beings. That makes organized labor (which had spectacular wins under Biden), more important than ever."
While @Devilstower paints a bleak picture, be sure to read the light at the end of his tale.
We've been waging the wrong war
https://www.unchartedblue.com/weve-been-waging-the-wrong-war/
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"It’s as if the Confederates’ descendants have captured the government of the United States."
It is the intellectual descendants of the Confederacy who have captured our federal government and we have to fight the war to #ProtectOurFreedoms all over again.
January 14, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-14-2025
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"Wikipedia is now one of the few remaining outlets that is widely trusted. It's also one of the few that has the reach and the funds to back the collection of facts, correct mistakes, and fight against deliberate disinformation.
This is, of course, why Heritage, Musk, and other right-wing powers are coming for them."
Darkness falls: propaganda, punditry, and the Disinformation Age
https://www.unchartedblue.com/darkness-falls-propaganda-punditry-and-the-disinformation-age/
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It isn't democracy when elected officials pick their voters. It isn't democracy when courts ignore the law to favor their political party.
The MAGA dominated Supreme Court has abandoned the rule of law to perpetuate this minority rule.
It's going to be hard and take a long time to fix this.
Step 1; at every opportunity tell the story of who is responsible for creating the problem, wealthy regressive-right elites.
January 12, 2025 - by Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-12-2025
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This is probably a good thing in the end. The people in Chinatown where the new stadium was to be built were dead set against it and they should have had something approaching a veto in the first place.
I also have to wonder if this isn't what 76ers management was after in the first place.
The 76ers have struck a deal with Comcast Spectacor to stay in South Philly and abandon plans for a Center City arena
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/sixers-arena-south-philly-center-city-20250112.html
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"That's an aspect of this that I haven't heard many people mention: moving your company to Texas in 2024 and 2025 is a pretty brazenly misogynistic move, in that you're demanding the women of your company move to a state in which their lives will be put at greater risk in comparison to the company's men."
Zuckerberg's plan to move Meta employees to Texas isn't just toadying—he's also a vapid, misogynistic creep
https://www.unchartedblue.com/zuckerbergs-plan-to-move-meta-employees-to-texas-isnt-just-toadying-hes-also-a-vapid-misogynistic-creep/
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As I am not facile with github, does anyone know if there is a request logged to add an embed option to the drop down list of options for managing/sharing a toot?
Not being able to easily embed toots limits (eliminates?) the use of Mastodon as a source for stories on media websites like DailyKos.com.
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If there is a more sure bet than this, I don't know what it is.
Bet that not a single word of the eulogies of the most honest, sincere, and caring President America has had and is likely ever to have will make a dent in the sociopathic narcissism of the incoming president.
January 9, 2025 - by Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-9-2025
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"Now, here’s how we know that Trump/MAGA didn’t get more popular:
https://www.threads.net/@podhorzer/post/DEabgBtyKi2?xmt=AQGzaznr2hw3kNFRosAMFHl9jmA5ePMkumUVMJyaeFCHHg
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Missed this one when it came out, but really important to highlight the opportunity year round, on-the-ground organizing presents.
Guaranteed the majority of No on 2 voters have no idea they are very much aligned with the AFT and NEA and the great majority of Democrats on this issue and many others.
With regular in-person conversations, they can find out.
The Most Anti-School Voucher County in Kentucky (And It Voted 80-20 for Trump)
https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/the-most-anti-school-voucher-county
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"call out Republicans because, from Trump on down, they campaigned and won by touting fake populism and pretending to care deeply for the working folk. The endgame ... [i]s to make sure the billionaires, millionaires and corporate captains in Trump’s circle don’t have to endure tax audits or even nudges to pay up."
We need to hammer this theme home, over and over and over again.
Republicans’ Assault on IRS Resources Gives Away Their Fake Populist Game
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/republican-irs-resources-funding-taxes-80-billion
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is to use the race-class-gender narrative framework upon which the Freedom Over Fascism toolkit, https://bit.ly/FreedomOverFascism, is built.
If you're not already familiar with the race-class-gender narrative framework, please take a look at the material I link to in my pinned toots.
This is the way for us to build a durable majority and a stable multicultural democracy.
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to smooth over the fight between MAGA and the billionaires. But it is possible that the rumbling anger that flashed to the surface over the killing of an insurance CEO will reinforce the MAGA wing and keep class, rather than culture, uppermost."
It's our job to hammer on this wedge between Billionaire MAGA and working families every single day, in the process building solidarity across race, place and gender identity to eject the oligarchs from power.
By far the best way I know to do this ...
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"The abrupt elevation of culture wars echoes the formula Republicans have used for the past forty years to distract from the reality that between 1981 and 2021 their embrace of so-called supply-side economics moved $50 trillion from the bottom 90% to the top 1%."
"For decades now, Republicans have been able to keep class tensions at bay by hammering constantly on culture wars, and they appear to be trying that again ...
January 2, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-2-2024-555
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Those of us working in IT in the years leading up to 2000, even if not directly involved in the work (and studiously avoiding getting sucked into the vortex of Y2K projects), were very well aware of the intense work being done by many 1000s of our colleagues.
It was a truly massive effort by a lot of conscientious and very hard working people facing an unmovable deadline.
January 1, 2025 - by Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-1-2025
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Perhaps the best newsletter from David Pepper I can remember reading.
"... it starts with each of us dedicating ourselves to “Living Within the Truth.” Using our voices and our actions and our involvement in everyday (non-political life) to uplift the truth—exposing through that commitment and clarity the falsehoods before they can take hold."
"Living Within the Truth" - by David Pepper
https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/living-within-the-truth
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@drvolts did a podcast on this with Audrey Schulman & Zeyneb Magavi way back in April, 2022 (https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-audrey-schulman-and).
Very nice to see the pilot project progressing to completion and acceptance of the underlying gambit spreading across not just America, but the world.
We really do have a lot of what we need to make the transition now.
How an Unlikely Coalition of Climate Activists and a Gas Utility Are Weaning a Boston Suburb Off Fossil Fuels - Inside Climate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21122024/boston-suburb-taps-geothermal-energy/
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The Criminal and "alleged leader of the realignment of populist Republicans, scuttled a spending bill primarily to shield the richest man in the world’s investments in China and the profits of UnitedHealth Group, owners of the second-largest pharmacy benefit manager."
Every Rocketman Tweet about the scuttled bill was a lie. It was all about his personal profits & screwing everyday Americans.
The Government Is Shutting Down Because Elon Musk Has Factories in China
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-12-20-government-shutting-down-elon-musk-factories-china/
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I think the piece below is for our Democratic House and Senate Caucus members.
Now is the time for them to hold fast and insist that your colleagues on the other side of the isle decide, right now, if they serve the tyranny of an unelected, mercurial, self-dealing billionaire or the American people who elected them.
If you are represented by a Democratic Member of Congress, please send it to them.
December 19, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-19-2024
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