Poly Styrene with X Ray Spex on April 30 1978, Rock Against Racism Carnival at Victoria Park in London

#homelessness #housingcrisis #freehousing #policestate #latestagecapitalism

#socialism #democraticsocialism

Mitch McConnell is in his quantum era.

#MitchMcConnell
#Schrodinger

Hmm.

Been searching for a concrete update on Mitch McConnell. There is none to be found.

It raises the question, do we actually need any if our senators if they can just disappear, with no proof of life, for weeks at a time, after a medical technically dead onset to the disappearance?

#MitchMcConnell

From a #Milwaukee #Wisconsin artist who goes only by "meep." It really is all downhill from here for these two.

#art #Trump #MitchMcConnell

I am going to call my Congresspeople tomorrow and ask/demand that they find out if Mitch McConnell is dead. Anyone else up to do that?

#USPol
#Democracy
#MitchMcConnell

People power works: evil Thiel’s Ireland retreat cancelled after campaign

In a sign of how hollow power can be once confronted, a Wicklow hotel has cancelled a Peter Thiel led event after a relatively brief campaign from Irish activists.

A collection of the world’s most despicable ruling class parasites were set to infest the Powerscourt Hotel as part of a conference run by a secretive group called Dialog. Co-founded by tyranny advocate and genocide backer Thiel in 2006, Dialog were set to use the meeting just south of Dublin to discuss topics entitled Navigating WWIII, Battlefield Technologies and Build-a-Cult.
4 July 2026

https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/07/04/peter-thiel-ireland/

#SilentSunday #Chile #StraitOfMagellan

I firmly believe if you get married and have to prepare for divorce beforehand, you ain't livin' the kinda life anyone needs to be sharing in.

That's some selfish-ass spoiled baby bullshit, playing adult.

This July 4th reminds me that I only learned a few years ago that the Statue of Liberty is an anti-slavery monument created by a French abolitionist back in 1865 to celebrate emancipation, so I tell my little cousins about the broken chains at her feet any chance I get.

https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/abolition.htm

"Earth governments in moments of stress are not famous for being reasonable."

#literature

Here's a link to Greg Olear's article on Goya's "black" paintings. I couldn't put it down.

I want to jump on a plane to Madrid right now!

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/sunday-pages-the-black-paintings

#Goya
#Article
#Travel

Okay. So. My sister wins. Her smug emoji is crêpe suzettes with butter, brandy, and orange juice. Which she makes.

#SmugEmoji

I just read a line in a book that has me all over in smugness:
"But that would be almost too good, like pancakes with real butter and Real maple syrup."

My pancakes/ waffles are Always with real butter and Real maple syrup. Smug emoji.

#SmugEmoji

Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference

Link: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/07/03/wicklow-hotel-cancels-secretive-peter-thiel-conference/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787987

Ten years ago today, JD Vance published an essay calling Donald Trump “cultural heroin” and “an opioid of the masses.”

Now, he’s the #1 pusher of Trump’s poison. This July 4, let’s remember the words of a man who sold his soul to sell out his nation.

gift link:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/opioid-of-the-masses/489911/?gift=Kjaw0NITl7f2TdiJgnhQhe6MH1ddptWw0Ljf3dq-wnI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

For decades, the KKK marched and protested wearing masks, and Dem lawmakers said, "It's free speech! We have to let them talk!"

Then for a few summers, some Black kids said, "We need a ceasefire in Palestine." And Dem lawmakers passed laws against masked protest.🤡

Now those Dems are quiet again.🤷🏿‍♂️

[Photo credit also in the Alt text:
"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"]

I don't care what the GOP thinks of masked protests.

And I don't care if the Dems say masks are allowed because free speech, or not allowed because masked protests are scary.

All I'm asking is that the answer not depend on the Blackness of the protesters.

Next they'll ask for Black voter turnout🤷🏿‍♂️

Really getting pulled into Field of Dreams right now. Not because I love baseball. Because disappearing into a corn field is deeply appealing.