Yes, this is certainly appropriately ghastly. It's like he's slowly breaking the surface of an ocean of paupers' blood.

There's colors on the street
Red, white, and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
There's a warning sign on the road ahead
There's a lot of people saying we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them
So I try to forget it any way I can

We're heading off to the Supreme Court in Canberra for the sentencing decision on military whistleblower David McBride David McBride. Updates will be on this thread.

WHOA -- NYT POLL: 70% of voters want to radically change or topple the existing system.

Consortium News Damn it. Very good chance I fall asleep. If I do, let’s hope I wake up to amazing news.

Free McBride. Protect Whistleblowers.

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THE TRUTH

America is not a democracy. It is a mass surveillance police state, a duopoly dictatorship where free speech is an illusion and corporate media delivers state propaganda to keep the people asleep.

I’m a tenured, Black, queer, disabled professor at UW-Madison. I support my students’ right to protest & I will always put my body on the line to protect them if needed. Today it was needed. Shame on this university, the chancellor & every cop involved in this mess.

CW: Police violence

I’m home. I’m significantly bruised, in a lot of pain & my shoulder is sprained. I’ve been told to return to the hospital if certain things happen which might be signs of internal damage, esp from the strangulation which you can see briefly in the video here

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When UC campuses were becoming hubs of activism in the 60s, then Governor Ronald Reagan’s aid advised him to “Make them pay. Put them in debt. They’ll quiet down.” He obliged. Tuition hikes and the student debt crisis were spurred intentionally as tools of political repression.

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“On May 4, 1970 my sister Allison Krause was killed by the Ohio National Guard on the campus of Kent State University as she protested against the Vietnam War and Cambodian invasion.

I urge President Shafik, and other University administrators across the country to hear the

The Politics of Heroin is crazy because every page has stuff that makes me put the book down and just think for a minute

up today, the good ol’ grateful deadcast gets symphonic about “unbroken chain.” @cocktailheroes & i get into the life of lyricist bobby petersen, welcome Animal Collective's Avey Tare, go through the multitracks and... dead.net/deadcast/mars-… /1

I had 2 patients today faced with going home and not being able to care for themselves, or signing their house over. Both are risking it and going home. I don't blame them, but this will likely cause them more health and disability issues.