There’s just a culture of learned helplessness when it comes to democratic communication. A total disinterest in talking about issues as a way to spark media coverage framed in the party’s narrative.

The spouse of Trump's Sec of Labor (who is under investigation for having a sexual relationship with an employee and spending taxpayer funds on strip clubs) has been banned from visiting her office on account of alleged sexual misconduct. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...

Homan: "We don't racially profile.” Reality: It’s all ICE does. (From @atrupar.com )

"...The 74 revealed that police nationwide routinely tapped into school district Flock cameras to assist President Donald Trump’s mass immigration crackdown, which has also led to public outcry and protest over the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s unprecedented surveillance tactics."

You thought your unvaccinated daughter had a cold. It could be a week before she's diagnosed with measles. By then, the virus “has multiplied and descended upon her lungs, kidneys, tonsils, and spleen, down to the marrow of her bones.” Elizabeth Bruenig writes about how a child dies of measles:

It kinda seems like if you use ai in your job you’re just training ai to do your job

@alsobrooks.senate.gov speaks to Rolling Stone about RFK Jr. “His leadership has been absolutely disastrous, and it has almost single-handedly worked to dismantle the public health system in our country and many of the gains that we’ve made in research, science, and medicine.”

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.

Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵: -The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc

🚨🚨IT IS BASEBALL SEASON

It’s time to RESTORE MASCULINITY by being afraid of the singer on TV

judge a quarterback by whether or not he defrauds millions of dollars from poor people

“She’s rolling out her proprietary A.I. writing program, which can generate a book based on an outline in less than an hour, and costs between $80 and $250 a month.” Everything in America is grift.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

My heart is so full, reading this. This is exactly what we want this book to do, as it makes its way into the world. 💜 substack.com/@canweread/n...

It's about hierarchy. "Beauty" is subjective, the idea of a black woman portraying the most beautiful woman in the world offends them because white people are supposed to be the most beautiful and it is therefore offensive, it's so straightforwardly racist bsky.app/profile/radl...

This race was such a massive swing blowout that Democrat Taylor Rehmet literally won a city called White Settlement

Love seeing such great work by @traceybaptiste.bsky.social and @kylelukoff.bsky.social among the top 10!

In case you felt the need to watch a #documentary about a #firstlady this weekend

Ugh. Fml. Fine.

And yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion. Still don't think American capitalism is off the rails?

The Boss stands in solidarity with #Minneapolis 💜 open.spotify.com/track/6AtgHx...

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Team Trump about to give Kristi Noem the Kristi Noem’s dog treatment

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

In this time, it’s never been more important to celebrate kids’ books. 3 minutes until the #ALAyma ceremony starts!

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This is all I want to see Democrats doing from now on.

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Alex Pretti wasn’t a part of “engineered chaos.” He was a nurse who cared about people. An individual. What is “engineered chaos” is what this admin is doing in blue cities to justify invocation of the insurrection act.

Believe Haliburton is the first NBA player to speak out since the start of the federal occupation of Minneapolis. For the most part, American athletes in all major sports have been shockingly silent.

He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.

If you want this - REALLY want this - then YOU, Mr. Senate Minority Leader, better whip those NO votes from BOTH sides of the aisle to shut down the appropriations bill that just passed the House and gives more funding to ICE. This is THE ONLY way. cc: @durbin.senate.gov & @duckworth.senate.gov

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Man, if people thought I was obnoxious about Minnesota before…

It’s posts like this that make Canada and other countries want to do deals with China and leave the United States all alone. This is the language of an abusive ex.

The students who will begin college in the fall were in 8th grade when rampant book banning began in the USA. A look at the generational impact of book bans on teenagers–one of the most impacted groups by this First Amendment violation. bookriot.com/the-generati...

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Tom Suozzi represents the NY-3 district on northwestern Long Island. If there's any mayor or town council member in Syosset or Great Neck or wherever who wants to make their move, this is the time. Denounce this vote, promise you'd stand up to the goons, and you'd raise a million in a week.

While ICE is killing innocent people, teargassing babies and pastors, and kidnapping our neighbors to ship them off to foreign torture prisons, seven House Democrats just voted with the GOP to give the regime’s secret police even more funding.

I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow

Well, Sarasota's school board, helmed by a former founder of Moms for Liberty, voted to cooperate with ICE. This isn't about the kids. It's not about immigration. It's not about whatever lie they concoct. It's about erasure, removal, and white supremacy. www.fox13news.com/news/sarasot...

Texas parents voice anger after school district cancels visit by Chris Barton, whose nonfiction book about the history of glitter and plastic was deemed too radical under Texas’s anti-DEI law | San Antonio Current buff.ly/gPXk80x

Never has been.