“I am treasonable enough not to believe in the liberty of a man or a group to exploit, torment, or slaughter other men or groups. I believe in the despotism of human life and happiness against the liberty of money and possessions.”

- John Steinbeck

Just me and my son, hanging out on a rainy day.

#politics
“The same forces demonizing immigrants are also attacking low-wage workers,” “The same politicians denying living wages are also suppressing the vote; the same people who want less of us to vote are also denying the evidence of the climate crisis and refusing to act now; the same people who are willing to destroy the Earth are willing to deny tens of millions of Americans access to health care.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/21/us/william-barber-christian-nationalism-blake-cec/index.html

#CoSoMusic Now here's something you're not going to hear everyday. "Romantic Prelude for Hurdy-Gurdy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16ZBIiXocpE&ab_channel=AndreyVinogradov

Playing For Change.....The Real Revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxizlpl5U64&ab_channel=PlayingForChange

#Cosomusic Dead&Co Playing In the Sand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oZ16SCBAr8

#politics Sarah McBride (D-DE-elect) is a much better, more decent person than Nancy Mace or the other naysayers

#cosohumor Justt saying

#politics Hacking detaiils on Gaetz doc https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/us/politics/matt-gaetz-hack-testimony.html

#politics #climate https://apnews.com/article/climate-indigenous-people-photo-gallery-cop29-2366c65144234b5712903a99ea61961b

#cosohumor I was today years old when someone pointed out that the banana is no longer the food that most closely resembles the telephone. You know what is? The Pop-Tart!

#politics When you have to check the URL 3X just to make sure you aren't reading a parody article https://www.reuters.com/world/us/muslims-who-voted-trump-upset-by-his-pro-israel-cabinet-picks-2024-11-15/

#politics There are five key areas that authoritarians want to control when they attempt to decapitate a democratic state, authoritarian expert and author Timothy Snyder writes: health, law, administration, defense and intelligence.
And in each of these arenas, the goal is to consolidate power, create chaos — and yes, even death. Authoritarians with power over these areas, Snyder says, “can make America impossible to sustain.” https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/11/is-trump-trying-to-kill-us-authoritarian-expert-says-yes.html

#politics This is what we live with. This is why the voters want anti-establishment/outsider candidates. This is why the Dems, perceived/labeled as insider elites lost, in spite of all the good that the Biden administration achieved. Now, the GOP somehow operating simultaneously as flunkies of the oligarchs yet positioning themselves as outsiders is a psy-op that would have made any KGB or CIA spook jealous.

#politics Jon Stewart and Heather Cox Richardson on how to keep the Democratic Party from learning all the wrong lessons from this election https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7cKOaBdFWo

#beerme treated myself tonight. Will be opening one shortly

Damn, upside down

Talking about how class and struggle inform identity, every bit as much as gender, race and religion

#politics Jon Stewart and Sarah Smarsh, on how the Democratic Party has lost/surrendered the working class to the GOP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC-VkbEpac4