What they are doing with immigrants is absolutely unconscionable. When are we going to stop it? This is all at Stephen Miller's feet. He's both unelected and unconfirmed. Not to mention how much money all of this is costing.

It boggles the mind that people could support making opposition to fascism against the law, particularly when Antifa has never planted bombs, or taken credit for any violent act. Of course, an Executive Order is not law. We need to remember that all the time.

So now they've pulled Jimmy Kimmel! WTF is going on??? Are we really going to let our democracy be killed as a result of an assassination? Nothing like this happened in the 60s or as a result of any other political killing. Guess I was right about the Reichstag Fire. I didn't want to be.

Charlie Kirk's assassination=Reichstag fire?

An Executive Order is not a law, just in case anyone wasn't clear on that. We do need better training in civics and government, but not for the reasons the hard right thinks we do.

The administration's push to make our public history all flowers and rainbows (oops! not rainbows--okay flowers and puppy dogs) is silly. Without acknowledging the dark, we can't celebrate the light. Without understanding where we went wrong, we can't take pride in righting it.

Cracker Barrel rolls out a new logo and drops like a stone on the stock market. What is wrong with us? Are we that afraid of change if it involves doing away with "olde timey" images? It's a logo for goodness sake!

The University of Georgia has removed sexual orientation, gender identity and pregnancy from its non-discrimination protected classes. This sort of over-compliance makes me suspect that some never wanted to protect these people in the first place. Why are we so eagerly running backwards?

Apparently Trump used his trade "negotiations" with Vietnam to get a sweet deal for his family company to build a golf course. Where is the outrage that should be on every single news channel and in every single paper? Why do some decent people still support him? This is an actual "crime family."

Insisting on splashing gold all over the "people's house" is in direct opposition to the founding vision, as anyone who knows anything about the Early Republic is aware of. Wake up folks! He is not the torch bearer of liberty and his American roots are exceedingly shallow.

I feel as though I'm screaming into the void. The Trump administration has overstepped (again) in its demand to review college admissions data for evidence of continued DEI. How do you determine this? It will encourage prejudicial data reading by folks who're looking to limit minority enrollment.

I had forgotten that today is the sixth anniversary of the Walmart shooting in El Paso. Sadly, as a nation, we don't seem to be honoring the 23 dead by reducing the hatred and fear of the "other." I guess we may have become numb to it. Perhaps because we no longer have a sense of shared community.

I don't know who's listening but we have clearly landed on the wrong side of history this time. No amount of previous suffering can justify this treatment of others. I cannot believe that those who died in the Holocaust would approve of the Israeli leadership's current behavior.

The Democrats may be doing poorly in the polls, but they remain the party behind much of what Trump is destroying--support for the arts, care for veterans, more accessible healthcare, Social Security, SNAP (so that people can have sufficient food), and, most importantly, true civil rights.

In an example of a world truly turned upside down, the current administration apparently believes that if you hire anyone who's not a White male, then you're in violation of the Civil Rights act. WTF??

Here's a link to sign up to participate in the Good Trouble demonstrations in honor of Congressman John Lewis. www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-a...

Every day we're inundated with examples of government by Trump, for Trump, and of Trump and those who like him. It's embarrassing and should not be treated with the dignity the media insists on giving it.

SIGN: We will continue to resist ICE in our churches act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/ice-rai...

There are major floods in Texas, New Mexico and North Carolina (again). Yet our administration insists that we don't really need FEMA and that climate change is a hoax or exaggerated. Why is the National Guard not where we clearly need it?

If what ICE agents are doing is so legal, valuable, and patriotic, they should be proud to show their faces. Also, if they're in such danger of being "doxed" why don't other law enforcement agents have the same "privilege" of covering their faces?

So now UVA's president has resigned even though the administration has no power over him. Before that, it was the Director of the National Portrait Gallery. Why do these people keep doing what he wants?? I don't understand.

Just FYI, yes, I do have TDS. How could anyone with half a brain, empathy and patriotism not have TDS. That doesn't mean I oppose his actions unthinkingly. It means that when i think about them, they all seem to come from a place of id (and ironically, ego). This is not leadership.

Excellent article from the Chronicle of Higher Ed pushing back on the narrative about the "harms" of DEI. www.chronicle.com/article/what...

A tyrant is only as successful as those he orders allow him to be.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/ke...

I read an article arguing that the arrest of David Huerta would ignite the unions and another laying out a good argument for why Trumpism would ultimately fail without Trump. Then I read about what was happening in So.Cal and now I'm scared and depressed again. No violence from protestors. Please!

Just had to repost this!

Hell hath no fury...and, of course, the lies just tumble out. That said, he may just find out what the downside is of using private contractors for work central to the functioning of government.

Every single one of those who support Trump but consider themselves Christians needs to read "The Grand Inquisitor."

It almost literally makes my blood boil (were that a possibility) when I hear "civil rights" used to support white folks and, particularly, white men. It's a perversion of all that people fought and sometimes died for in the Civil Rights movement.

I wish the progressives/lefties/democrats would stop flagellating themselves about their current situation and how we got there. The right is hard enough on us, we don't need to punish ourselves. We need to focus on the real and present danger ahead. Unite and fight.

The quote referenced was Vought's desire to put civil servants "in trauma." It seems to be succeeding. Why would anyone want to do that to another person?

Asked to comment on Vought’s quote, the White House sent a statement: “What about the January 6 defendants and political prisoners who suffered real trauma and committed suicide over the harassment, bullying and imprisonment by bureaucrats who weaponized the government against them?” So very mature.

Just too good.

We may, quite literally, not have a country anymore if we no longer have a national weather service. There seems to be no depth to the ignorance (or is it just greed?) of the current administration.

Just a random thought. Trump keeps saying that "you won't have a country anymore" if the border isn't tightly sealed or if he can't deport all his "criminals." I wonder if we can really say we have a country if we have no national support for the arts, museums, scientific research, or open spaces.

From an article by Thom Hartman about deportations to Libya: "When we build systems of unchecked power and cruelty for use against the most vulnerable, history tells us those systems rarely remain confined to their original targets." Trump said "The homegrowns are next..."

I don't think Trump understands what the music in Le Mis is about, "Master of the House"=celebration of criminality, "Can you Hear the People Sing?"=revolt against a ruler and plutocratic government, "Empty Chairs and Empty Tables=lament for rebels killed by tyrannical forces. He likes the bombast.

Another frightening outrage brings me back to Bluesky. This business of "offshoring" migrants to Libya absolutely reeks. I didn't realize the administration was willing to work with the warlords in Libya. Even if they really were sending "the worst" it's still incredibly unAmerican. Just stop.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

I just read a story about someone who was born in the U.S. but grew up in Mexico before moving back here. He was recently detained by ICE. My take is that this is tied to ending birthright citizenship and that the Trump administration wants to make it retroactive.

Another day, another blatant disregard for the law from the Trump administration. What will it take to get our other two branches to stand up and be counted? Do they really have so little regard for our governmental system? He and his minions will take it all down.

It occurred to me today that those of us that support trans folk actually understand the difference between women and men better than those who oppose them. We know that being male or female isn't confined to your physical genitalia. As they like to say, that's just the way it is (and has been).

For Trump, all foreign policy (and policy in general) is personal. He truly thinks he is the United States. If anyone disses him, they've dissed the U.S. if anyone refuses him, they've refused the U.S. If anyone admires him, they're a friend of the U.S. He is NOT the U.S. unless we allow it.

Update: all of the staff at the Institute of Museum and Library Services have been put on leave by DOGE. The carnage continues despite strong opposition...

"The age of persuasion has ended. We've entered the age of coercion." Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

If the government is going to strip our cultural and humanitarian institutions of their funding, perhaps we should put ActBlue on steroids. We could create a means of funding those institutions via small donations using a searchable list. It might be challenging to implement, but great rewards.

Wisdom is always embedded in admitting that we don't know. Joy is found in kindness, compassion, sharing, family-biological or chosen (most of the time), defending the vulnerable, appreciating the beauty of nature and being able to laugh at ourselves. Nothing else brings true joy.

This is horrific. Just horrific. And Trump thinks it's just great. It should make anyone with any conscience at all think twice about what he's doing in our name.