Seniors on fixed incomes face impossible costs under the SAVE Act. Birth certificates from seventy years ago cost money to replace. Passports cost $165. They built this country. Republicans want to charge them for the right to participate in it. #SaveActIsPayToVote

“Andy Ogles actually represents a lot of Muslim voters. Nashville is home to the largest Kurdish population in 🇺🇸— if I could use any word to sum up how they feel it would be ‘FEAR’.” Read lauren Egan’s story on Ogles’ Islamophobic hate: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-lifes...

If passed, Trump's Save Act would force MILLIONS OF AMERICANS to buy passports and birth certificates. Why? The Real ID doesn't have citizenship information and won't be good enough for anyone to use for voting, if Republicans pass it. #SaveActIsPayToVote

Things are not okay.

CONAN: “For the first time since 2012 no British people are nominated for Best actor or best Actress… a British spokesperson commented, ‘Yeah, well, at least we arrest our pedophiles.’" #Oscars

The way our nation turned its back on those who helped us at great risk to themselves and their families is an unforgivable national shame. We owed Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal. Instead, ICE arrested him in front of his children and he died in their custody. We failed him and his family.

Q: “So, hundreds of millions of dollars in grants were terminated from the NEH. The deficit didn’t change much. And you were paid $150,000 to do that job of reducing the deficit. Do you feel like the $150,000 paid to you was wasteful spending?” A: *Laughs, frowns….long pause*

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

Family members who are concerned about an autistic person as a safety risk might want to call an ambulance rather than law enforcement, because even with "autism training," officers can misinterpret autistic behavior—with possibly awful consequences. www.ehextra.com/news/when-sl... #autism #safety

Seven years ago today, a white supremacist stormed two mosques in Christchurch, NZ and murdered 51 people. Because he believed in the malignant fantasy of the so-called “great replacement”. May this day live in shame and infamy, a reminder of the civic poisons of Islamophobia and white supremacy.

So he wrote Mein Kampf into a bill. The Nazis called this Umsiedlung.

Horrific. Georgia police charged a woman with murder after she allegedly used misoprostol. Hospital may have reported her. @pregnancyjust.bsky.social calls it “an unprecedented murder charge for an alleged abortion, even though no law in the state of Georgia permits such a charge." bit.ly/46W2Ezb

I wrote about how the conservative Supreme Court and federal judiciary are constructing a dual state for trans people. A system that enables arbitrary and unchecked power to push trans people out of society. www.thedissident.news/the-normativ...

If any news outlets are covering this and want to talk to a trans Genomics PhD who specialized in human genetics and the evolution of sex, please reach out to me This is complete nonsense scientifically. It's fascist eugenics, not biology Setting a horrifying precedent for genocide

“The government is holding many children well beyond the 20-day limit set by longstanding court order.” "ICE booked more than 3,800 children into detention during the first nine months of the new Trump administration …” www.timesleader.com/news/1734201...

“‘We’ve started to use 100 days as a benchmark for prioritizing cases because so many children are exceeding 20 days,’ said Leecia Welch … who visits Dilley regularly to ensure compliance. In a visit this month, Welch said she counted more than 30 children who had been held for over 100 days.”

Hegseth ignored military officials when he slashed offices that limit risk to civilians

This heartbreaking story, about the after effects of family separation, was written by our very own @tinavasquez.bsky.social. We recommend that you read it:

Florida has the country’s third-highest count of measles infections—but, whereas other states have been vocal in addressing their outbreaks, Florida’s health department has been mostly silent, Katie Wu reports. She spoke with the doctors left in the dark:

What I find interesting about this line is that it’s an admission in order for this to happen, they need you to lose your ordinary intelligence that you already have. This is why they want to get into schools. They want kids to lose basic capacity so that they have to rent it forever.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

The military reported spending $5 billion on munitions alone over the first weekend of the war.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty” - Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

This story suggests that Witkoff and Kushner bungled the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand nuclear technology www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

The presence of ICE agents in and around medical settings is keeping some US immigrants—both documented and undocumented—away, disrupting care and putting their health at risk. ja.ma/4rt8qjl

There's also the fact that Rowling has been fairly explicit that the money she earns through Harry Potter she's putting into anti-trans lobbying efforts. There's a difference, IMHO, between an artist with a shitty private life, and an artist using their money to fund regressive social change.

I think they know that and that’s why they are getting worse . They want Trump gone but love the inequality he has set up and think if they instead make it seem that they are turning on the targets and justify it with “pragmatism”they’ll be absolved they do it socially and interpersonally

We found that 11 of Trump’s DOT appointees disclosed between $12 million and $52 million in stock holdings and other financial interests in airlines, railroads, oil and gas corporations, transportation technology firms and other related businesses. (Published Nov. 2025)

Trump is wearing some of the merch he sells on his website for the dignified transfer of soldiers killed in his war. To make matters worse, Fox News covered it up by running different footage.

In 2024, my "Cop City" reporting for @thexylom.com won me an Atlanta Press Club Award. Now, @wabe.org confirms what we knew all along: DeKalb County's parkland swap and open contempt of a judge's order to reopen said park has led to no new park but one emboldened Republican now running for Congress

The full WSJ article getting passed around is bewildering. They cut gay elements from Elio because "We're making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy," and it lost $100 million. Inside Out 2, which is a movie about a teen girl's feelings, was their biggest hit at $1.7 billion.

SEN. MURPHY: “If you support the troops you should be voting AGAINST funding this war.” 🎯 @chrismurphyct.bsky.social rejects @jaketapper.bsky.social’s framing that voting against $50 BILLION more to attack Iran (why?) would be seen as voting against the troops. (H/T @atrupar.com )

If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.

Am I surprised that a man who was able to thrive at a company where women weren't allowed in the same room as the boss, because he'd grope them, appears to have no ethical backbone? Not even a little.

Remember, this is the same paper whose Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty undeservedly won a Pulitzer for his sanitized reporting of Stalin's plans in Ukraine (a genocidal famine, the Holodomor). Watch Mr. Jones, a film by @andreachalupa.bsky.social www.npr.org/2022/05/08/1...

Far right election deniers lobbying Trump to declare national emergency so he can: -seize voting machines -outlaw mail voting for most Americans -force every American to re-register before midterms & every subsequent election Insane wannabe dictator fever dream www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August. He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA. The grift continues.

Not only can I not think of a time when a sitting Secretary of Defense was ever the guest of honor at a political fundraiser, but I definitely can't think of a time when he did so weeks after starting a massive, unnecessary war

For the first year of their life, humpback whale calves share a close bond with their mothers. Calves will nurse, grow, learn and play by their mothers’ side as they develop the behaviours and strength needed for their first migration. 🎥: Sebastian Staines

Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post offering “financial runway." This month it gutted its newsroom—more than 300 layoffs. Whatever you think of legacy news, the hard data shows us that newspaper closures hurt Americans. Here's how: 🧵

A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.

So very emblematic of the sainted New York Times!! (And THIS deliberate fatuity is what loyal NYT subscribers keep subsidizing with their subscription money.)

No words can ever describe how massive the collective 2016 media’s failure of imagination was.

Remember when serious and sober voices assured us that Bari Weiss was not, in fact, an incompetent partisan clown?

Just remember what this is all for…. Distracting from the Epstein files

The mantle of the Gomer-man as the dumbest Congressperson is safe, I see, within their party.

Remember when Secretary Clinton warned everyone about her, without ever saying her name.

she’s such a willing propagandist it’s disgusting

If you are an elected official that opposes military strikes on Iran, the head of CBS News will clap back at you. Will be interesting to see if she does this for other objectors, or just Muslim politicians, but it does raise the question how much her views of the Middle East shape the news.

Cornyn on Trump's strikes on Iran: "I don't know what the-- what's, uh -- I'm learning like you are as the news unfolds exactly what's happening"