The UK fired their ambassador to the US over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Meanwhile, Epstein’s best friend remains the President of the United States.

According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.

As expected. Noted antivaxxer Geier, who has had many retractions in the lit and was fined for practicing medicine without a license, is who Kennedy hired to "find the cause of autism."

The idiocy of this memo. Thank goodness IL Gov Pritzker has consistently raised his voice against Trump’s authoritarian moves and the direction it is moving the nation. Dems can listen to him for free, vs Blue Rose.

@jamestalarico.bsky.social on a California gerrymander to counteract Texas' gerrymander: "You can't lay down. We've seen that appeasement doesn't work, especially when you're facing fascism."

@raskin.house.gov: "The grand jury files relate ONLY to the prosecution of Epstein himself for what HE did and Maxwell for what SHE did, but it doesn't include the whole universe of other people that we're interested in... it's a complete distraction."

“May the odds be ever in our favor.” The National Weather Service is now predicting an 85% chance of rain and thunderstorms during Trump’s Vanity Parade in DC.

@coko.bsky.social @gwenie.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @sassysister27.bsky.social @filosia.bsky.social @resist4harris.bsky.social @halostarmusic.bsky.social @terriresists.bsky.social

Don't let them lie to you about Senator Padilla. DHS is claiming the agents DID NOT KNOW he was a senator. He CLEARLY says (BEFORE he is tackled and cuffed) "I am Senator Alex Padilla and I have a question for the secretary."

What Moran reported was demonstrable fact. Indisputable fact. Yet they suspend him. This is the advantage that Trump and his ilk have. They are so beyond the moral pale, so beyond normality, that it is considered impolite, impolitic, or intemperate to describe them as they are.

House GOP is holding a hearing on their tax bill at 1:00 AM because they don't want us to know about their scheme to strip 13.7 million people of health coverage & they think no one will stay awake for it. I’ll be there, testifying & offering amendments to protect our families.

Important. Do not be scammed

Even 5% as much would be a huge improvement

Under 65 years old? No Novovax COVID vaccine for you this year. As expected, the Republicans have enabled RFK Jr. and his coterie of antivax grifters to take away your right to make your own medical decisions in consultation with your doctor. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/h...

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

The content needs broad circulation The data won’t be shown in Fox News, that’s for sure.

The dangerous gutting of HHS continues. Now it is the Administration for Strategic Preparedness & Response. Included under ASPR is BARDA, which develops medical countermeasures against a range of public health threats from pandemics to chemical, biological, radiological and more. We are less safe.

Yet again Andreessen conflates being censored with being called an asshole.

If you kidnap and disappear a 4-year-old with stage 4 cancer, you should at a minimum spend the rest of your life behind bars. If you do it as part of an ethnic cleansing program, you should do your hard time at the Hague.

Pete Buttigieg calls out the GOP’s plan to slash Medicaid and gut the VA: “They don’t have an answer. Their answer is: burn it all down.” Yes, there are problems. But cutting care for poor people and Veterans isn’t a fix—it’s a failure. “We can do better than that.”

Thank you @JamelleBouie for today’s NYT op-ed. It is on target and inspiring! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o...

“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco

Auchincloss: "This issue about the Maryland man is not about border security or immigration. It's about freedom. Freedom in the US means that if your feet are on American soil, you get to stand in front of a judge on an equal basis to the awesome power of the state and put forward the facts."

And many are outright geniuses, and engage in more productive activity in an hour than RFK Jr. will in his entire life.

Students attending DoD schools across the world just walked out of class in a brave protest against the Trump Administration's Orwellian censorship regime. Instead of removing books from the shelves about America’s history and constitutional values, Secretary Hegseth should try reading them.

RFK Jr. just said that his response to the measles outbreak in Texas should be a “model for the world”. I agree. It’s a perfect model of what not to do in a measles outbreak, how not to behave as a human being, and as a cautionary tale of arrogance, ignorance and privilege.

Attention White House: Thou shalt not joke about how you sent an innocent father of 3 to a gulag while his autistic son smells his shirts to remember him.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

Ron Johnson hasn't been holding town halls. So @indivisible.org Madison held one for him. Friday night. 500+ people. I'm about to ask them to help get out the vote for Susan Crawford.

This country is broken.

Judge Boasberg: "The government has not been forthcoming with information, but I will get to the bottom of whether they violated my order and what the consequences will be."

Now that I am finished screaming into the void about schooling for kids with disabilities being assigned to RFK: understand what this means. He’s lumping accommodations into HHS, meaning those needs are now considered medicalized. Different from everyday education. This is eugenics.

Unconfirmed report from "ruskiytroll"

DOGE's approach's to identifying fraud at the Social Security Administration "is tantamount to hitting a fly with a sledgehammer," a federal judge said Thursday in a 157-page ruling, blocking DOGE's unlimited access to sensitive agency data. Full ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Are you worried?” That is always the first question. “Of course I am worried,” I respond. “The president of the United States considers me an enemy and has promised retribution. I would be an idiot not to be worried. But I am not going to give in. I will continue to fight.”

It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul Weiss, didn't just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession.

Collectively, we have more power than we realize...

The decisive test of our society in my lifetime was the 2024 election and our failure was spectacular and total. I will never again have any faith in the American electorate to do the obviously right thing.

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

This would be a good time for an historian to write an article on how university presidents dealt with McCarthyism in the 1950s - who stood up, who succumbed, and what does it show us about the current moment.

NEW: The public acknowledgement that DOGE’s “administrator” Amy Gleason has been working a second job at HHS since February raises new questions about what the Trump admin has been saying — and telling courts — about who is in charge. w/ @meganmesserly www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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.

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I worked there way back when. I remember “loyal opposition”. Civility was honorable. Lawmakers would fiercely disagree about policy, but not the validity of the Constitution. I remember when Newt arrived, injecting poison that killed comity dead. Then the Tea Party,Trump…can’t unring that bell.