Today's Today

Your lights don't go on, and your car doesn't run, and your phone doesn't work without the willing participation of people who do the actual work.

Without billionaires, and multi-millionaire CEOs, the lights come on, and the car goes, and the phone rings.

Labor first - then capital.

What, you've never watched Shark Tank?

Creative people - the ones who have done the thinking and the planning and the working - go into a room to offer billionaires a chance to invest some of "their" money in a product that they had no hand in creating - they're invited to invest some the money they've stolen from other working people they've never met, and they'd never allow to be in their exclusive little club.

Overheard

Idolizing a politician is like

convincing yourself

the stripper is really into you.

Wanna Talk About it?

Trump and MAGA are always going on about "left wing violence" - the reason they're always talking about it is how we know the opposite is true.

...beacause

Every accusation is a confession.

The man arrested after allegedly pushing through a crowd toward Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton at the Canfield Fair has been identified as 38-year-old Patrick Havas. Authorities say he knocked two people to the ground and was carrying two handguns and brass knuckles, though investigators say the weapons were never drawn.

Havas is the brother of Andrew Havas, a Republican operative who resigned from Sen. Jon Husted’s campaign after scrutiny of a past criminal case involving a 15-year-old, according to local reporting.

Patrick Havas was taken into custody and faces two assault charges and a disorderly conduct charge. Acton was not injured.

A Christian Nation

... would never have done some of the things we've done.

THIS 👇🏽👇🏽 TRUTH 🔥🔥

I’ll join HIS CHURCH ASAP!! pic.twitter.com/98nP8RC7Pp

— Sheree’ Woke AF (@ShereeWokeAF) September 7, 2026

Surprise

It's very expensive to be poor in USAmerica, Inc.

Overheard

It took decades for Germany to regain its international standing after World War II.

It will take decades to rehabilitate the United States.

The world is boycotting US goods, and many countries will never buy anything from the US again.

And it's not just Trump. It's every Republican who failed to call him out.

It's the ICE agents who killed immigrants they labeled "illegal", and innocent American citizens who did nothing but stand up to protest authoritarian rule.

It's the contractors who built and operated concentration camps.

It's a nation that stayed quiet as Trump sided with the despots of Russia and North Korea against Ukraine and Japan.

It's watching service members come home in flag-draped coffins from an illegal war as their commander-in-chief called the whole thing "small potatoes".

It's not just Trump.

We have a lot to atone for, which is going to take a lot of work, and a lot of time.

When He's Gone

Erika Jordan

On the long history of how the rich and powerful are always fucking over the people who do the work.

On The Wrong Side

It's very interesting that groups of people are moving to disrupt the MAGA "juggernaut" - like the Tea Party dorks did in 2010.

But this may actually be grass roots and not astroturf.

We'll see.

Yippee Ki Yay