Yes She Can!

A sweet and hopeful song from Will.i.Am.

https://youtu.be/lR1rxxIYa-w?si=0KhPB1BTuHOtmpON

“Look... If you had... one shot... or one opportunity...
To seize everything you ever wanted... one moment...
Would you capture it? Or just let it slip?”

To hope that the traditional media saves democracy is to ignore the fact that traditional media has suffered the same debilitation as every other democratic institution.

The reason our news media is facilitating, rather than fighting, the rise of American fascism is a result of their irrelevance.

@evan It’s probably too late for both or either to alter course (or the future.) But, yes, if Trump wins, which is likely, and Israel moves forward with annexation of the West Bank (and expulsion), it will be a sad footnote that protest voting in Michigan was a cause.

On loop for next 18 days

RE: https://www.threads.net/@acynig/post/DBPXyFjOB6b

@pwnallthethings.bsky.social It just kills me that American Jewish institutional leadership is so tight with Bibi that they've decided the Christian right are trustworthy allies.

There’s a positive possible future in which Jack Smith is remembered as a patriot.

Wapo: “Trump often speaks in a digressive, extemporaneous style that thrills his fans at large-scale rallies. But Tuesday’s event, in front of almost entirely reporters, was especially scattered and hard to follow…”
“Trump spoke slowly and appeared tired. It was his second stop of the day, and he has picked up the pace of campaigning in recent weeks.”

The reason why the NYT (for example) won't trumpet the comprehensive evidence for Trump's treason presented by Jack Smith in the same way (for example) they did the bizarre statement from James Comey is that they don't believe doing so will impact the election. In this way, the GOP and independent voters' believed indifference to Trump's crimes effectively drives their editorial decision-making.

Pretty wild reading why we need to force regime change in Iran from all the people who told us we needed to force regime change in Iraq.

This is a wonderful sports story: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/41331747/shohei-ohtani-first-50-50-player-major-league-history

Blog post for Mastodon 4.3 is prepared. There's going to be another beta and then a release candidate next week but then we're good to go. I'm looking forward to concluding that work stream.

#silentsunday

https://www.newsweek.com/older-voters-donald-trump-2024-election-polls-1911778 this should be true

The most important question of our time.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@joshgad/post/C8Fy_vmRGKB

Wow from sports talk blowhard Colin Cowherd:

“If everybody in your social circle is a felon, I don’t think it’s rigged. I don’t think the world’s against you. And to get people to agree on anything, 34 counts? 0 for 34? That’s a batting slump even the New York Mets could be impressed with…. When you’re constantly trying to sell me on an America that I don’t see… Trump’s entire gameplan is ‘The country is in a free fall.’ Maybe in the Trump-centric neighborhoods it is.”

https://awfulannouncing.com/politics/colin-cowherd-donald-trump-hush-money-trial-guilty.html

@maskedscheduler yep

@passantino what a douche

@alchemistmuffin no way I’m watching after the last time :(

@wearenew_public Feels like a high-risk strategy for Tiktok to use its political power to counter an argument that is grounded in the 'threat' of TikTok's political power.