⚠️ Sitting US senators and representatives are publicly communicating to the members of the US military and intelligence communities that they should not obey illegal orders:

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

“If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we're cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America's long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

head of medical ethics at NYU Med: "The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recycling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies and dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science." whew lordt

something to keep in mind is that everything the right is currently doing to trans people is just what they have wanted for decades to do to gay people; they just can’t get away with doing the latter right now

Please read and then call your senators.

OK so I promised I would revisit how to protect your personal information in light of the news today that the DOGEbags uploaded a ton of people’s information to a cloud server that could be hacked, thanks to an SSA whistleblower. Here’s my original thread from like February, but I have some updates.

The Beatles release “Hey Jude” 57 years ago today. McCartney said when he first played it for Lennon — and got to the lyric “the movement you need is on your shoulder” — “I turned around to John. ‘Don’t worry. I’ll change that.’ He looked at me, ‘You won’t, you know — it’s a bloody great line!’”

I was a spy catcher. Our numbers are dwindling under this administration: www.notus.org/trump-white-...

STOP conceding that Trump can legitimately expand grab by deploying baseless claims of “emergency.” There was NO EMERGENCY to justify tariffs. There was NO “INVASION” to justify this migrant crackdown. And there is NO “EMERGENCY” that justifies military takeover of local law enforcement in D.C.

It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

Wow!

Worth your time. What lots of us are feeling but put into well thought out words.

Excellent thread re racism and education.

NEW from me — I wrote about FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson, who has been completely silent and out of view since deadly floods devastated Texas last week, and spoke to staffers about what it's like to respond to a disaster with no leader. Read here:

I can’t stop thinking about Texas… youtube.com/shorts/ZK2gB...

Bondi has some explaining to do. Maybe Hannity will have her back on.

This puts it so well.

Unforgivable.

Also another letter from another group of orgs in comments.

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

This should be bigger news.

1A - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

This is how it’s done! FRIDAY: South Park, San Diego, neighbors weren’t having it. When ICE rolled up on an Italian restaurant in unmarked cars and started grabbing workers, the community hit the streets. (Sound up)

Great one by @kateshaw.bsky.social Whatever you think of unitary exec theory, SCOTUS' shadow docket order quietly keeping some firings in place while litigation proceeds - despite the firings violating statutes & precedent - emboldens Trump to keep violating the law. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/o...

Please do everything you can to not let this happen… youtube.com/shorts/W7nu-...

This is the only way www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...

“I’m doing good things,” I tell myself as I delete the military service of a dead woman. “I’m still a good person.”

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

A senior IRS HR staffer said in a sworn affidavit that her office “did not review or consider” any probationary employees’ job performance or conduct. Nor did the Treasury Department. “I know this because this fact was discussed openly in meetings.” New, @propublica.org @andykroll.bsky.social

I had to compose myself before posting—because this breaks a part of my soul. If you’re a contractor with a segregation policy, say it loud—so non-white dollars don’t fund your business. It won’t go how you think. And if anyone uncovers businesses doing this, put them on blast. #NAACP #BlackSky

Ask yourself: Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this? Why would any decent human being do this?

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

What a different world we could have.

5 former Secretaries of Defense call on Congress to exercise oversight responsibility on Trump-Hegseth firing of senior military leaders: The "dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration’s desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President’s power."

@maddow.msnbc.com watching your show as always. The thing they’re very good at is causing trauma among the federal workforce. Saddest thing I’ve ever seen. But-bravo to federal workers showing up in senators offices to put on the pressure. The rest of us need to make our calls & insist this stop.

What Trump has wrought. Thousands of people ‘in trauma’ as Russ Voight puts it. And to what end? For a tax cut for the wealthy? So it’s all easier to plunder?

@marshallg0402.bsky.social Hi there. Gonsalves is my maiden name and not a name you see often so I wanted to say hi. Family is from Cleveland OH.

“Now is the moment to recognize the scale of the seismic change unfolding, and to find new ways to live in the world that a very different kind of America is beginning to create” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘pro-life’ party hard at work taking away support for children and families.

Billionaire co-founder of AirBnB Joe Gebbia has joined Elon Musk’s DOGE team, so let’s spread awareness and make sure nobody books a goddamn thing through AirBnB ever again, shall we?

Yes, this. I’m sad beyond words.

Excellent thread of damage done in just a few weeks.