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i'm a people-person and a hermit

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Mike Young says hi.

10.03.2026 21:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Looking for immigration attorneys who have had clients detained at the Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana.

10.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe @us-gov-funding.bsky.social, run by opensecrets.org

08.03.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Wayne Mereau - 02/27/2026 - Maple Leaf Bar Live
Wayne Mereau - 02/27/2026 - Maple Leaf Bar Live YouTube video by Maple Leaf Bar

Waiting for Mereau

28.02.2026 01:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dunno. Could be both; I saw posts saying at least one of the riders was throwing like that for several blocks.

16.02.2026 13:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
16.02.2026 12:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've seen a little bit of leopards-face talk about this. The county has always been reliably Democrat. Every councilman is a Democrat. Republicans don't usually even field candidates for council seats. Senator-slash-economic-development-chief Williams is also a Democrat.

13.02.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Rural S.C. County Quietly Approved a $2B Data Center During the Winter Storm Data centers are the nation's fastest-growing energy demand driver, but developers are using nondisclosure agreements to keep projects hidden.

The good news is that there's local organizing going on in the wake of this. My bad news is that apparently I'll have to spend time on Facebook to find out who's saying what.

12.02.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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White House takes down racist meme of Obamas posted on Trump social media | Alabama Reflector South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott said the president should remove the racist meme depicting the former president and first lady as monkeys.

If the entire WH staff burned a cross on Tim Scott's lawn, he would ask them to remove it. If pressed, he would say it was regrettable but only an isolated incident.

06.02.2026 19:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Tribute to Bob & Ray - Groundhog Day
Tribute to Bob & Ray - Groundhog Day YouTube video by khd2005

Here ya go. (Coincidentally, Bob Elliott passed away on 2 February 2016.)

03.02.2026 03:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Those are the years of Grammy eligibility, not the release years. I think.

02.02.2026 13:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The consultant/strategist who got big mad about her having a boyfriend is now ridiculing her for making an ad that goes on for too many seconds.

30.01.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Doug Belote Project - 12/13/2025 - Maple Leaf Bar Live
Doug Belote Project - 12/13/2025 - Maple Leaf Bar Live YouTube video by Maple Leaf Bar

Late last year, my friend(ly acquaintance) Doug Belote put together a killerl four-piece, and this performance has bigly helped me make it through the winter.

Here's the JBs' "Shake Everything You've Got".

30.01.2026 15:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Dem Who Voted To Fund DHS Posts Bizarre Video About ICE 'Reforms'
Dem Who Voted To Fund DHS Posts Bizarre Video About ICE 'Reforms' YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder

the cult-speak bubbles out as pained, painful gibberish. For the good of the country and of herself, she should remove herself from the ballot and find good therapy.

For now, she's in the "we're not the baddies, I just know it!" phase of "are we the baddies?" And she's in the U.S. Congress.

30.01.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We're leaderless coz rank & file have been recruited and groomed for willingness to accept DNC "leadership," which always puts party over country. This one falsely believes she's a smart, patriotic strategist in her own right and the cognitive dissonance is starting to eat her, so

30.01.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Mixed in with this round of it, I saw a Dem consultant post that marginal gestapo reforms would be a good way for the Party to trigger abolitionist tears.

28.01.2026 19:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Jim Clyburn is so old that you can't even say "ok, Boomer" to him, and his only job for the last many years has been to help the DNC's preferred POTUS candidate carry the SC primary.

28.01.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Filmmakers for the Prosecution – Official Trailer
Filmmakers for the Prosecution – Official Trailer YouTube video by Kino Lorber

Fifteen minutes turned out to be my horror limit tonight, but I'll be coming back to this fascinating doc, the story of Budd and Stuart .Schulberg, whose work has shaped our visual memory of the Shoah.

28.01.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think Ed Markey has done a lot of good over his fifty years in Congress, but fifty years is enough. I hope Massachusetts will seriously consider whether they want an octogenarian, Schumer-supporting Senator for the next six years.

27.01.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Dan Scavino, the Weyland [sic] Smithers of neofascism"

27.01.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm glad it doesn't seem to be working now, but it's been deployed in evangelical churches for years to gaslight kids abused in those churches, to deny them care, to deny them justice. I don't know the history well enough to be sure, but I suspect that's the main reason it was embraced so widely.

26.01.2026 17:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Five concerts you've seen with women lead singers

Kristin Diable
Concrete Blonde
Marva Wright
10,000 Maniacs
Myshkin (with Mike West)

25.01.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dunno if it's significant, but in my fb "friends" feed, there's no bootlicking happening, whereas after the murder of RenΓ©e Good there was quite a bit of it.

25.01.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That doesn't sound like the same Biden who let Orban into the country knowing that he planned to fire up a gathering of "perfectly fine people" at CPAC in Dallas. Or does it?

23.01.2026 23:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm glad she gets it now. Now is the 3rd best time to pry the Democrat Party out of the clutches of corrupt neolibs, and we've maybe got one shot at doing it with elections. (The 2nd and 1st best times were the two terms of the Obama admin. It was part the change I hoped I was voting for in 2008.)

22.01.2026 21:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Come on man, if the answer to all these questions weren't "apparently so" then this thread wouldn't exist.

22.01.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
two Chris Hayes posts from yesterday:

People are waving around 50/50 polling on abolish ICE and in the same poll Trump’s is like 30 points under water on affordability. It’s not at all crazy for professional politicians to think there’s a bigger advantage in talking about the latter!

What ICE and CBP are doing is monstrous and public opinion is (thankfully) moving to reflect that, but it’s also true that in the same polls everyone is citing there are like 5-10 other issues he’s doing worse on.

two Chris Hayes posts from yesterday: People are waving around 50/50 polling on abolish ICE and in the same poll Trump’s is like 30 points under water on affordability. It’s not at all crazy for professional politicians to think there’s a bigger advantage in talking about the latter! What ICE and CBP are doing is monstrous and public opinion is (thankfully) moving to reflect that, but it’s also true that in the same polls everyone is citing there are like 5-10 other issues he’s doing worse on.

"It's the economy, stupid" forever, because politics as usual is never crazy.

21.01.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Josette Simon as Servalan.

19.01.2026 19:32 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

s/mad/horny/

19.01.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Their people have floated "leadership have complicated constituencies" as an explanation of all the possum-playing. I think that's right, as long as "complicated constituencies" is taken to mean Big Money donors who hope to ride out fascism for as long as it lasts.

19.01.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0