Here Vox's explainer for just what is going on at the Department of Education which includes me saying I don't have faith in financial aid disbursement next year and, oh yea, I think we're in a constitutional crisis www.vox.com/policy/40233...

Vile language and weaponization of gender norms are deeply unethical. Doctors swear an oath to do no harm. A doctor who doesn’t want to provide gender-affirming care can find another specialty. It’s that simple. If you can’t bear to use a patient’s pronouns, you need to reflect on why that is.

This is just unacceptable. They get tax exemption for helping the public and the trade off is that their electioneering is limited. And THIS only allows religious orgs to do so. What about the 1.8 million other nonprofit organizations? Afraid food banks are not going to go Republican?

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

So everyone brown goes first, but they’re already laying the foundations for the elderly and disabled. The poor are an obvious target, but trans people and the rest of the rainbow will be sandwiched somewhere in there. My family needs to decide when to get out. Protect yourselves.

God, is EVERYONE CAVING TO THIS MONSTER? This is heartbreaking. Just abusing trans people to humor their hate.

Anti-facial recognition make-up and how it works

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

Silence will not save us. SPEAK. UP. Loudly.

Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

This isn't a stalled gender revolution. It's a gender counter-revolution. And the most troubling part is that it's younger men and boys the leading charge. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked. But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths. research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...

Just WOW.

I’ve had two miscarriages: one while living in NC, one in IN. I would have been arrested given my circumstances.

Massively good news: The provision that would have let the trump administration strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit organization they wanted simply by declaring them to be a "terrorist supporting organization" has been removed from the budget bill. Pushing back against these people works.

Is it too much to ask for an IRS Commissioner who understands the law?

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

Shoutout to the pundits who insisted Trump wouldn’t actually jail his political opponents, when less than six months in he’s now arrested a sitting judge, the mayor of New Jersey’s largest city, and a member of Congress.

If you encounter what seems like an implausible survey finding, ask: 1. Were survey respondents selected randomly or was this an opt-in poll? 2. Could the results, especially for young adults, be driven by bogus respondents? Keep this post in mind: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

@cignahealthcare.bsky.social - do the right thing! Please cover this man's lung transplant and medical treatment. Reverse your decision. Do not deny his coverage. This is life or death! #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #HealthcareForAll abc7chicago.com/post/cigna-l...

I want to remind you that yesterday, Trump's Secretary of Transportation went on Fox to say he can't get in touch with Trump's Pentagon to prevent plane crashes.

Ever wonder about how much power philanthropic foundations have? Check out my new integrative literature written with Dr. Laurie Paarlberg and Imoleayo Adeyeri on just that. There is hope in modern philanthropy! #NVSQ #nonprofitsky doi.org/10.1177/0899...

It's always a pleasure to work with my friend and colleague @laurendula.bsky.social - so when @candiddotorg.bsky.social invited us to write about how impulse giving at the checkout - aka checkout charity - can help support #nonprofits we jumped at the idea! blog.candid.org/post/what-is...

Not sure they can do this—Congress grants tax emotion through law. They decide the terms. The IRS just enforces and manages applications and fiscal paperwork. Just seems like something they can just do without grounds.

Cody Balmer told cops he planned to beat Ben Shapiro with a hammer. Same weapon used on Paul Pelosi—remember how Trump and MAGA crowds laughed at that? Now Trump’s “monitoring” Balmer’s case,possibly weighing a pardon. Violence isn’t a glitch in MAGA—it’s the core feature. #TrumpWatch #MAGAterrorism

This is a horrible precedent. There’s no good reason to stop adult care.

Trying to enjoy getting my tenure and promotion letter while reading the news is impossible. This country is now authoritarian. Firing squads, self dealing, disappearing people considered a threat, taking away women’s rights, attacking critics, pushing the legal system. It’s NOW. We need help.

WTF SUPREME COURT--WE SHOULD NOT DEPORT U.S. CITIZENS. END OF STORY.

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

I love these protests, I love seeing the passion and energy but…now what? Go home and be angry again? What’s the ask? What do we do next?

😂😂

WAPO headline. Surprise, surprise.

"Loyalty" is a dangerous concept, and Trump is firing those disloyal to him already. We need to make the sycophants sycophantier.

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

30 years ago a professor explained tariffs to me as “economic sanctions a country puts on itself” and that stuck with me.

I’ll take the pronouns, please.

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression

Reminder that Congress can stop this shitshow anytime they want.

Attacking little kids and arresting them for doing basic things like riding their bikes. Violence against children.

One-off protests don’t win anything. MLK Jr on general protesting: “The mistake I made [in Albany, GA] was to protest against segregation generally rather than against a single facet of it. Our protest was so vague that we got nothing…”

Every time I went to @booker.senate.gov ‘s speech, he was passionate in sharing a better vision for our country than what is happening now. No reading “The Cat in the Hat.” No filler. That takes talent and I honor his work these past 25 hours.

Let’s get in good trouble. Thank you @booker.senate.gov

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

Cory Booker. 👇👇👇