A few things are blooming but still can't wait for full blown Spring!

Cool cat shelves!

The disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil, a person with permanent legal status in the US, should be a red line that everyone should recognize. They knocked on his door and vanished him into an authoritarian system without a trace. Your door could be next. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/so-it-begi...

When Trump effectively shuts down the NLRB, corporate bosses can illegally fire workers who are trying to form a union and flagrantly violate labor laws. Today, I am reintroducing the PRO Act to strengthen unions, and restore power and legal rights to workers.

This is the first time in US history that a state has repealed statutory protections for a specific group.

RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Just another day in AmeriKKKa. Time to start collecting some Nazi scalps.

This is how to be an ally to the trans community. Also, this isn't just an ex NFL player, he's the first punter ever inducted into the hall of fame.

glad someone is finally saying it lol

Cobra Kai Never Dies!

With both RFK Jr and Gabbard confirmed, two people who rose to prominence spreading conspiracy theories about public health and national intelligence will now run the U.S. government agencies in charge of those areas. For someone studying these conspiracy theories for a decade... this is nauseating.

ICE Protests Brutal Conditions Of Being Forced To Stand Outside Homes Of Immigrants For Hours theonion.com/ice-pro...

Whole Foods, which is owned by notorious union-buster Amazon, is arguing that Trump's dismantling of the NLRB means the company doesn't have to recognize a newly unionized store in Philadelphia. Looks like Jeff Bezos' investment in Trump is paying off.

Hospitalists and palliative care physicians at the Portland hospital have been on strike since Jan. 10.

Wow, this is just. Wow. First of all, Jewish activists have been literally leading the movement to end the Genocide in Gaza. Saying that supporting Palestinians amounts to antisemitism is totally asinine. Secondly, anyone who thinks Trump gives a shit about anti-semitism is lying to themselves.

About an hour later, an all-agency email was sent out reminding EEOC employees that all-department emails must be "reviewed and approved by the sender's office director before it can be distributed by the sender."

Finally some good news. It's probably a good time to go ahead and force all those federal NASA Employees to resign what with their "science" and "competence". Then get a bunch of totally random and unqualified lackies to replace them.

Portland politician skewers Oregon Democrat Janelle Bynum over Laken Riley Act vote www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

The only good thing about Trump's 2nd presidential term is that we can recycle memes from the last shitshow.

When you feel accomplished because you finally finished listening to all 150 something hours of the Dark Tower...just to find out there is actually one more book and it sends you back to the middle of the story. God damn it, Stephen King... Ka is a wheel.

JUST IN: Meta agreed to pay President Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 federal lawsuit alleging First Amendment violations after his suspension from Facebook and Instagram in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack.

Trump's spending freeze was unconstitutional and a violation of the Impoundment Control Act. But the public uproar yesterday should serve as a reminder that Trump's plans to gut federal programs are deeply unpopular. Keep fighting. Keep up the pressure. Don't tune out. www.cnn.com/2025/01/29/p...

BREAKING NEWS: The development follows a federal judge's order Tuesday that temporarily blocked the effort to pause federal payments for grants and other programs.

For the last four years, Jennifer Abruzzo vigorously defended workers' rights and cracked down on union-busters as General Counsel at the National Labor Relations Board. She was one of the strongest pro-worker voices in the federal government. Trump just fired her.

Trump fired the NLRB's pro-worker general counsel and its acting chair. He's effectively gutted the agency tasked with defending the rights of workers to organize. Guess who has recently filed lawsuits aimed at invalidating the agency altogether? Amazon and SpaceX.

Trans women who are forced to live in men’s prison facilities face disproportionate risk of sexual assault and violence.

NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.

The long trek home by Palestinians comes as mediators helped end twin crises over ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon.

As President Donald Trump tightens the nation’s immigration policies, lawmakers in Democratic-led states are proposing new measures that could erect legal obstacles for federal immigration officials and help immigrants lacking legal status avoid deportation.

If it looks like a Nazi, and talks like a Nazi, and other Nazis think it's a Nazi... Then it's probably a Nazi.

it’s so insane to me that people work for ICE like did you watch star wars and think man i want to be like the guys in the plastic white suits who can’t aim for shit

Sometimes it's not so bad to live on planet Earth.

Don't be fooled by his cuteness. This cat is an asshole.

Costco's unionized workers vote to authorize nationwide strike The company was rightly praised for standing firm on the importance of DEI, but how it bargains with/treats its unionized workers is important too

Elon Musk just did a full-blown Nazi salute at the inauguration

“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism. The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power”. —King to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) board on March 30, 1967

Vaseline-Covered Trump Reverses TikTok Stance After Getting Into Skincare

The Tik Tok ban may feel relatively miminal in the scope of everything else going on. But banning a social media platform that HALF of Americans use is an unapologetic step towards full fledged facism. The ban is a clear attempt to limit leftist organizing and visibility of the genocide in Gaza.