This makes me furious and sad beyond words. I’ve been fortunate to witness naturalization ceremonies at Faneuil Hall and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and I’ll never forget them. Their oath, their pride in their new home, made me proud to be an American. Tonight I’ll cry different tears.

The dual state is two-faced twice over: it is characterized by a bifurcation in the law, but also by the facade of normalcy, obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state. Life in the early months of Trump’s second presidency hews to this framework in important respects.

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

The United States could have great things like this. But we like to spend our money on kidnapping people and trafficking them to concentration camps instead. #Priorities

One of the biggest problems with the world is that fools are always so sure and certain about everything and intelligent people are so full of doubts and uncertainties.

A teacher breaks down after ICE causes multiple schools to lockdown during graduation ceremonies and parents to flee for their lives. Only the soulless aren’t hurting from what is happening in our country. This is affecting all of us.

March Madness v. C-Span live vote

This Administration is turning its back on science. If you never had the measles or polio, thank science. If you use a smartphone as easily as a computer, thank science. If you want to know if it will be raining tomorrow, thank science. A total disaster is coming. apnews.com/article/trum...

been thinking a lot about this quote lately “There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

The U.S. had a pretty good run as the leader of the free world. It will be missed.

Worried about a fascist takeover? This sheet-pan paella will make you feel like you’re in 1930s Spain.

when i have been at the very bottom of the suicidal barrel the things that have kept me alive are: 1) there are people that love you and you would be hurting them 2) you cannot let the motherfuckers who abused you win. equal parts love and spite. it’s a good recipe

The city of Paris quits X in a very Parisian way