Bailey

part cyborg, full antifascist

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This is the dumb trick the Dem Party has been using on their followers for years now.

When something they pretend to oppose "must pass" (like the NDAA), they ensure there are just enough Dem votes for it to pass, even if it's just by one vote.

Then they tell all other Dems: feel free to vote NO so our followers think we really oppose it, and we almost sunk it!

If these 6 hadn't voted YES, Jeffries would have easily had 6 other House Dems to vote YES.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

James Cameron: “In STAR WARS the good guys are the rebels, they’re using asymmetric warfare against a highly organized empire. I think we call those guys terrorists today.”

George Lucas: “When I did it they were Viet Cong. That was the whole point.”

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

I don’t think mainstream Dems understand just how incredibly enraged normie liberal voters are by the My Good Republican Colleagues bit and how central it is to their alienation. It’s another substanceless thing the establishment is willing to burn tons of political capital on.

[Louise Jensen Duffy (also Ernest Jensen) @LouiseWeebe]

You’re listening to Sisyphus FM, the home of non-stop rock.

[mr Mathieu 🐋 | SNW4, TVL @maythewindbl0w]

computa how do i acquire this gender quickest route no freeways

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

>spends entire adult life focused on going to war with Iran
>gives up all dignity to pursue it
>finally gets war with Iran
>watches Iran win
>dies

[anti-zionist dog 🇵🇸 @puppydog_gaming]

i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

you’re laughing? lindsey graham was just reincarnated as ben shapiro’s fifth child and you’re laughing?

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

just got off the phone with mitch mcconnell. we had phone sex.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I spoke to McConnell for about 20 minutes this morning.

He said we should end the war with Iran, quit giving aid to Israel, stop spying on Americans without a warrant, and he’s really sorry about how my primary turned out.

[Mac @GoodPoliticGuy]

Just got off the phone with Mitch McConnell, he told me aahhh shit it’s hot fuck there’s so much fire oh god reagans here too fuckkkk

[Matt @stealth_riot]

A trans flag that transitions we’ve been brutually outwoked by the da vinki twins

[Melat Kiros for Congress, CO-1 @MelatKirosCO]

Just the beginning.

[Justice Democrats @justicedems]

Congrats to Justice Democrat @MelatKirosCO on defeating a 30-year incumbent in #CO01 tonight!

Melat built a movement that inspired Denverites to remember they have the power to transform what kind of Party they want to be represented by.

They chose one for & by the people.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

Nilatpal Basu posted this on FB:

At the #WorldCup on Tuesday — a man in a red suit stood completely still for 90 minutes in the stands. Then he covered his mouth and pointed a gun to his head.
FIFA’s cameras cut away immediately.
His name is Michel Kuka Mboladinga — known as “Lumumba Vea,” which means “Lumumba Lives.” For more than a decade he has stood motionless at every DR Congo match — suit and tie, arm raised — as a living tribute to Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of an independent Congo.
Patrice Lumumba gave a stunning Independence Day speech on June 30, 1960 — standing before King Baudouin of Belgium — excoriating Belgian colonialism. Malcolm X called him “the greatest Black man who ever walked the African continent.”
Six months after independence, Belgian officers and soldiers captured Lumumba, tortured him, and executed him by firing squad. His body was dismembered and dissolved in acid. The only known remnant was a gold tooth kept by the Belgian officer responsible for 39 years until his death.
That is what Lumumba Vea stands in tribute to. Every single match. In a suit. Motionless. For 90 minutes.
On Tuesday against Colombia — he added something new. He covered his mouth and mimicked a gun to his head. A silent, devastating protest against the world’s silence over eastern DR Congo — one of the globe’s most severe yet least-covered humanitarian crises, which has displaced millions and claimed countless lives through violence and massacres.
Lumumba Vea went viral this week — covered by USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, CNN and the BBC. Every outlet explained the Patrice Lumumba connection. Not one mentioned the link between Lumumba’s CIA-backed assassination, the Western strategy to destabilize an independent Congo, and the current humanitarian catastrophe in eastern DRC today.
That connection is not a footnote. It is the entire story.
The same Western powers that assassinated Lumumba in 1961 — because he wanted Congo’s mineral wealth to benefit Congolese people — have spent 65 years ensuring the DRC remains destabilized, its cobalt and coltan flowing to Western technology companies while its people are massacred in the east.
FIFA cut the cameras. The mainstream media covered the gesture without the history. And a man in a red suit stood in the stands and said — without words — what the world refuses to hear.

Lumumba Lives.

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters.

Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events.

90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

[Soleil @soleiljolina]

Microdosing hell by being aware and literate

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I’m trying to imagine any Republican governor in America doing the equivalent of what Jared Polis just did.

This is why Democrats lose.

[Ibraheem Abioye @DrAbioye]

The idea is to find a group of people most people regard as terrible examples, use them to make revoking passports a more acceptable form of punishment, then expand it from there.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Our daughter, Rachel Corrie, was killed in 2003 in Gaza, while trying to protect a Palestinian home facing illegal destruction by the Israeli military. She was 23 years old. The massive, armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer that crushed her was operated by two Israeli soldiers and manufactured in the United States. It was the same type of militarized bulldozer that US presidents from George W. Bush through to Donald Trump have delivered to Israel.
Today, as the destruction of Palestinian homes has only become more commonplace, not to mention the horror of Israel’s genocide, Senator Bernie Sanders will force a vote in the Senate to try to end this cycle of death by banning the transfer of D-9 bulldozers to Israel. We hope he will not take this stand alone.
No policy can bring back those taken from us by these actions—children and other loved ones. But the Senate now has an opportunity to honor the memories of our daughter, other Americans, and thousands of Palestinian civilians killed, and to show that their deaths, and all the destruction, will no longer be condoned and funded. We hope those elected to represent us, the American people, understand the message that voting to block these D-9 bulldozers will send. This will not be a symbolic gesture, but a concrete step toward the protection of human life.

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