Apologies for hawking merch on here, but all sales do include a donation to World Central Kitchen, feeding people in Ukraine and Gaza, and, srsly, $12.50 for a tee is pretty good....(and a tee pays more than 1K streams...welcome to the biz these dayz) Labor Day Merch Sale is live at theislen.threadless.com
Texas AG Paxton raids Latino Democrats' homes, including those of LULAC members https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-raids-latino-democrats-lulac-homes/ "Lidia Martinez, an 87-year-old who.. works to expand voter registration among seniors and veterans in South Texas. She said that last Tuesday, there was a knock on her door in the morning, and she was greeted by nine officers in tactical gear and firearms who said they were executing a search warrant. Martinez was questioned for over three hours about her voter registration efforts in Texas."
Man, the right is bad this internet thing. The "Never Walz" group didn't think about securing the domain....
chef's kiss to:
https://www.neverwalz.com/
A little weekend melancholy๐
New song demo now public on the Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/posts/silenced-109866005
Apparently The Atlantic is angling to be the next media outlet purchased by the #broligarchy...
@InvaderGzim @VictoriaLandis1 @CanisPundit
We need an army of lawyers in #Texas because it is where cheating is going on. AG Paxton bragged about preventing 2 million votes.
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-ag-says-trump-wouldve-lost-state-if-it-hadnt-blocked-mail-ballots-applications-being-1597909
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Association has received millions from Koch Industries, fossil fuel lobby and fund linked to billionaire Leonard Leo
#climate #oligarchs #DarkMoney
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/21/republican-ag-climate-dark-money
Jason's song choice last night really points to the emphasis on (re)claiming connection with the working class - which can't be what the $$ people people who forced Biden out had in mind...
(I've covered that one a few times, and it's hard, because the guy in that song so strongly represents people I know...)
1980 was my second Presidential election as a voter. I remember friends saying they would vote for Reagan because of his optimism, or that Carter seemed inept (yah, seems the press had already begun to crater).
Two years later most of them wouldn't own up (but he still won again in '84, mounting scandals notwithstanding, partly because, well, the press, which is how GHWB came away unscathed...)
Won't shut up and sing, play, write, teach.