Metalhead, Esq.

Metalhead, Esq.

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Sheila Jackson Lee led the first rewrite of the Violence Against Women Act to include protections for Native American, transgender and immigrant women and was outspokenly against the Iraq War from the start. Last time she was arrested for engaging in civil disobedience for voting rights was 2021

Breaking news: Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat who during three decades in the U.S. House of Representatives became one of the most prominent Black members of Congress and a ubiquitous champion of African American and women’s rights, died July 19 at a hospital in Houston. She was 74.

Sheila Jackson Lee, outspoken Texas congresswoman, dies at 74www.washingtonpost.com The long-serving Democrat, a champion of African American and women’s rights, announced in June that she had pancreatic cancer.

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I’m sorry. This is so horrible to read. But it’s in fucking Politico which isn’t exactly Marxist News Monthly so if you have a friend or relative who you need to reach, they should read this www.politico.com/news/magazin...

We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable.www.politico.com American surgeons who witnessed the civilian carnage of the Israel-Hamas war.

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Nancy Pelosi seemingly trying to get a makeup-call for blowing her actual chance to save Democracy, when she let Members of Congress go home the night of Jan 6 instead of immediately impeaching Trump and/or expelling the insurrection participants.

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What a sentence. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

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Yeah to my point the other day about all of them pickling their brains, they’re all very into this: we read widely! We’re interested in heterodox ideas outside your stultifying consensus! Lots of them involve calipers and different kinds of salutes!

Ross Douthat, just casually linking to Curtis Yarvin, a racist opponent of democracy who adds a third rate intellectual patina to populist conspiracy theories.

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Cleansing your timeline with the Golden Girls in golden outfits ✨

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whenever anyone says "freedom of religion" or "religious liberty" it means "the government will impose far-right christian values on everyone"

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I can feel myself overdosing on The Discourse, and yet still just binging it.

Excellent analysis from @anandwrites.bsky.social

Against unitythe.ink The attack on Trump didn’t just fall out of a coconut tree. Why can't Democratic leaders rightly deplore violence without erasing what is making it ever likelier?

As fine an exemplar as any of why you should subscribe to @swordsjew.bsky.social's The Sword & The Sandwich.

Notable Sandwiches #101: Khao Jee Pâtébuttondown.email Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where I drag my long-suffering editor David Swanson through the bizarro, shifting sands of Wikipedia’s List of...

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ITS WHAT HE WOULD’VE WANTED

Italian officials are trying to identify a young woman who was filmed kissing, humping, and grinding against a statue of Bacchus, the God of wine and sensuality, in Florence over the weekend.

Italian officials slam tourist who ‘mimicked sex acts’ on a statue of Bacchus in Florence | CNNwww.cnn.com Italian officials are trying to identify a young woman who was filmed kissing, humping, and grinding against a statue of Bacchus, the God of wine and sensuality, in Florence over the weekend.

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Public attention to the horrifying war crimes being committed against the Palestinians of Gaza is waning. The past week has seen unspeakable atrocities against civilians as Netanyahu sabotages efforts at a ceasefire and Ben Gvir continues to engage in acts of blatant incitement.

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And if you need some context here: California is the 5th largest economy in the world. Its electrical grid seems to be on a very short path to being 100% renewable. If they can do it—adding grid stability also!—others can too. If you're a climate doomer, let this brighten your sky today, just a bit

This news is incredible. 100 days this year CA's used 100% renewables to power the entire grid, & through a heat wave, there's been no significant disruption (cough *Texas*). Energy analysts are seeing a "phase-change" of the grid with the addition of 5 nuclear plants worth of battery storage, wow

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I don’t much like pushing paid subs for my metal newsletter, but man, I could really do so much more with it if it made just a little more money. Lemme get an arts grant for lefty extreme metal journalism salvo.ghost.io

Salvosalvo.ghost.io Salvo: a heavy metal publication

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Also, if trolls are trying to pit different marginalized groups against each other on this platform, let’s work together to root those fuckers out. I have to believe that at the end of the day we all chose to use this app because we want better for ourselves and each other.

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/2 I’ve generally been an institutionalist. Lawyers kind of have to be or else being a lawyer is basically playing Dungeons & Dragons in uncomfortable clothing and without snacks. But there’s a line where courts no longer suffice as an institution to stop totalitarianism….

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It was a common euphemism for Jews who marched with MLK and others

The official 2024 GOP platform makes a reference to "Christian-hating Communists" who the Republicans will keep from entering the country. Back in the early days of the America First movement, "Christian-hating Communists" would have just been a longer way of saying "Jews."

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As a person who has visited Paris twice, here’s my expert opinion on the French elections (1/64)

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When the France election results are good

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Read this, share this widely

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

Blackbraid is so fucking good, I can't even... Horns up to @kimkelly.bsky.social for turning me on to him a few years ago 🤘🤘

BlackBraid - Moss Covered Bones on the Altar of the Moon live @Copenhell, Denmark 2023youtu.be

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There is a human being who choses which stories get BREAKING NEWS push notifications. There is a human being who lays out the front page of the newspaper. These are all choices of what to cover and emphasize and what not to cover and emphasize.

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Me looking at these UK exit polls.

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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.

Reports: Brazil police have indicted Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association

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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸

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I came to my 14 year old with a concern about social media. He literally took his glasses off, rubbed his temples, and asked: “what have the moms on the internet said now?” 😯🫤😆