softtrade:

Wow I wonder if democrats have ever tried that before, and if so what the results were

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Every goddamn day. Every goddamn day. Every goddamn day. Every goddamn day.

Every goddamn day.

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historicaltimes:

Residents of West Berlin holding up their children to show their grandparents who lived on the eastern side of Berlin Wall

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pogphotoarchives:

Sculptor Howard Coluzzi with large bird and basket, New Mexico

Date: 1915?
Negative Number LS.0969

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A wheatfield in the heart of Manhattan, 1982

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Russian infantry in Chechnya, 1995

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historicaltimes:

A merchant mariner mocks Hitler as people in New York celebrate the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. May 7th, 1945

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bonniekristian:

[O]n Monday Trump announced his undoing of modest reforms President Obama made to a Pentagon program that distributes old military equipment to local police departments for use against civilians. This program allows weapons of war to be used in American streets — bayonets, grenades and track-propelled armored vehicles are among the items now allowed for distribution to police forces. While Obama’s reforms were mostly symbolic, Trump’s reversal — like the rally violence, the Sessions appointment, the police brutality speech and the Arpaio pardon — communicates a lot about what he means when he says “law and order.”

It communicates, as police misconduct expert Radley Balko wrote Monday, that “[u]nder this administration, there will be zero interest in discussion, oversight or prevention of police abuse,” and that as far as Trump is concerned, policing can’t be “too aggressive, too militaristic, too abusive [or] too biased.”

For Trump, “law” means government agents like Arpaio, and police officers more generally, are above the law, while the general public is subject to the sort of encroachments on personal liberty Sessions supports. And “order” means these onerous laws will be enforced violently, with tools of war and consequence-free targeting of people Trump dislikes.

“Millennials especially, who now make up a majority of DSA’s membership, might have fewer experiences with direct democracy than any other American generation in recent memory. Unions have been decimated, meaning today’s young people are far less likely than their parents to have participated in union elections or passed resolutions through their locals or internationals. As a result of labor’s decline, workplaces themselves are less democratic, too. The Democratic Party, meanwhile, has in many cases handed the keys for steering strategy and policy over to political consultants and corporate donors. Congress is notoriously dysfunctional, and regressive state governments are making it harder for voters to get to the polls.”
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npr:

Snailed it.   —Danny


Mon Dieu! Burgundy Snails Aren’t French Anymore

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