Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

She means slave catchers. Y'all get that, right?

WSJ says ICE is lying. Read that again…. The Wall Street Journal is calling out the lies

I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth: “ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king. This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”

A nurse. A researcher. A helper.

Yeah, man. Marketability is directly affected by our biases. Especially racism/colorism/featurism. We gotta be honest about these things even when a higher potential salary isn't tied to it. The fact that a higher salary is tied to it isn't great. That 2020 work folks were supposed to do, get to it.

This ball kicks up sand at least 3x as it skips toward Cantore who gives it a wicked lovely backheel flick into goal for Washington Spirit. Sandy Audi @heyspirits.bsky.social

wow

Yesterday was a dream and BTW:

While we're all waiting for the Epstein files to be released, here's the five volume bipartisan set of the Russian interference and collusion reports. We should probably call them the Marco Rubio files. www.intelligence.senate.gov/2020/08/18/p...

Wait! FEMA has money to build concentration camps but doesn’t have money to help communities rebuild from floods, hurricanes, and wildfires?

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

These people think they’re at the end of a story — that they ARE the end of a story — and they are wrong. More than that: the story is changing around us all the time, in the ways that people who think they will always have the power to write it cannot even begin to anticipate.

The GOP’s tax scheme strips health care coverage from millions of Americans, including at least 245,000 Marylanders. I’m voting ‘hell no.’

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

We live in a rogue and dangerous country. Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.

The attacks we’re seeing on science — especially those studying vaccines, public health, and misinformation — are a direct extension of the Trump team’s Big Lie (about 2020) and their efforts to deny the reality of Covid 19 and deflect blame onto everyone except the Trump administration.

Circling back on this…

It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!

Are you an HHS employee struggling with your 5 bullets? We applaud the hero that created this site, where you can input your occupation (title or job series both work) and it generates 5 bullets for you. www.opmreply.com

Let me speak to the DOGE audit language. Many people who work in both the Treasury and specifically the IRS are CPAs. Most audit firms hire CPAs. A 19yo coder has absolutely no idea how to accurately identify waste or fraud. Calling what DOGE is doing as a audit, is a flat out lie.

“These stories should concern all Americans because they are our family members, neighbors and friends. No American can be proud of a government that carries out change in this way.” The American Bar Association speaks out. Please read and share. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Ron Howard FTW 🎯

🚨 Call your senators and tell them NO on RFK Jr! (202) 224-3121 CALL. THEM. ALL. Flood the switchboard. 🚨

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

People find comfort in the belief that Trump & his motley band of toadies will be gone in 4 years. But I fear he wont leave. I fear he will try to change the Constitution- or ignore it- or start a war maybe w China in the belief that wartime will grant him a third term.

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

Imagine if a CEO came into a new business and immediately suspended all payments to all suppliers and service providers, canceled contracts with clients and fired half the staff. Those aren’t the actions of a company steward they’re the actions of a corporate raider stripping the company for parts.

Read, share, act.

Why the fuck is a single Senate Democrat playing “everything is normal” by voting to confirm the Cabinet picks of a fucking dictator? Do. Not. Comply. You have ALL spent the last how many years calling him Hitler and now you’re like, ‘I’m a yes on Goebbels and here’s why…” Fuck that. Stop it. Now.

Just hit me why AOC is so good and brilliant at being the adult in the room with all the trashy losers making terrible choices around her. She used to be a bartender.

I pointed out that most of the lefty pundits complaining NOW abt the Jack Smith reports are clueless about the disclosures of premeditated violence Jack Smith successfully fought to make available before the election. www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/07/l...

Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever. Make it go viral but make sure she benefits. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Now that attacking birthright citizenship has become a Day 1 project for the incoming Trump admin, I dug out this rather comprehensive piece I wrote in 2011. It includes the source of Sen. Lindsay Graham’s emergence as the pitch man on this issue. politicalresearch.org/2011/03/01/c...