The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic. Don't be fooled. (Published June 2024)

Texans: After nearly three decades in charge, “we can fix it” sounds like a confession.

Rep. Moskowitz: "Trump's name appears more times in the Epstein files than God's name appears in the book about God, by the way, this is the Trump Bible." Bondi: "Nothing is funny about mocking the Bible and holding up a Trump Bible."

Pamela Jo is in a contest with Jim Jordan as to who can yell the loudest in an indoor room.

Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"

Abolish ICE is the floor, not the ceiling. You can't reform something which is completely broken and corrupt. You need to tear it down. Democrats not on board with this aren't your allies. They will betray you and your communities in the future.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Mike Johnson, John Thune, and guys like this should not be able to walk into the Capitol without being bombarded with media questions about why they are not fulfilling their oaths & why they are allowing the lawless authoritarianism to continue. And yet, every day, total 🦗🦗...

Being America first means sending money to Venezuela and Greenland instead of New York and supporting Iranian protesters, but not American ones.

This needs to happen, and the only way it happens is if we're prepared to treat as null and void the inevitable blanket pardons. A coherent account of how and why they're invalid, and the political will to do what it takes to make that stick.

The woman murdered by an ICE agent today is the *seventh* person shot by immigration officials since September, and the second killed.

Dear Military members, I know you know this already, but you are not supposed to follow illegal orders. Dear Pete Hegseth, Demote me.

Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

We gave Jay Bhattacharya an opportunity to clarify his vaccine stance: does he REALLY believe that the vaccine is worse than the disease? Instead, he launched into a defense of MAHA as the future of scientific inquiry, and never really gave us a straight answer... @repauchincloss.bsky.social

This morning the very evil President of the USA very predictably mocked the death of a good man. He did so to distract from his crimes, but also because he’s evil and can’t help rejoicing over the murder of his critics. Go ahead, Donold. Have your fun, when life is done, a nightmare waits for you.

Extremely cold air affects millions of people across the United States every winter. This Arctic air, together with brisk winds, can lead to dangerously cold wind chill values, which can cause your body to lose heat quickly. Learn more: weather.gov/safety/cold-wind-chill-chart

Only one person in today's Jeffrey Epstein photo dump is an adjudicated rapist who refused to give his DNA in that case and has over two dozen accusations of sexual assault including one from his first wife. It's also the same guy who bragged about sexual assault on a hot mic. It’s this pos👇🏼

🔥Rep. Bennie Thompson to Noem: “You have put your own interests ahead of the department and violated the law. You are making 🇺🇸 less safe. I call on you to resign— do a real service to the country. That is, if Trump doesn’t fire you first.”

Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

“OK, you can gerrymander to cheat in elections, but only if it hurts nonwhite voters.” - US Supreme Court

Trump was getting very, very sleepy at his Cabinet meeting

Megyn Kelly said she thinks “there’s a difference between a 5 year old and a 15 year old” when it comes to sexual abuse. Megyn Kelly has a 14 year old daughter. Megyn Kelly is going to Hell.

Time to tax the rich.....

This is the message of a failed, feckless, and leaderless party. We need a party with backbone, and the only path to it is through a cleansing primary season. If your Dem is up for reelection, and you aren't damn sure they're fighting the fascists with everything they've got, primary the bastard.

🤔🤔🤔🤔

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

I have a very bad feeling about this...

This is untenable. If you’re attacking people who think this is wrong, you’re doing the bidding of the ultra rich while they laugh at you behind your back.

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related. He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public" - Theodore Roosevelt

Here is the alt text version. Sorry I didn't post it the first time

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

#NoKings Miami!

One of the scariest features of the regime is the surveillance piece! Palantir et al. are geared to cross reference everything for loyalty in order to oppress dissent. Yesterday I found that the regime has joined bluesky! it would be fun to troll them but DON'T!! BLOCK THEM ASAP!! HERE THEY ARE!

The government has the right to post here, but remember when policy was announced with formal documents with punctuation marks bared of on Truth? And you have the right to block their lying propaganda from your feed. bsky.app/profile/rico...

To catch you up, Indiana University’s student newspaper reported: • It was told to print no news in its homecoming edition, set to come out Thursday. • It refused. • The director of student media was fired. • Hours later, IU cut all print editions of the paper, including Thursday’s issue.

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

Pete Hegseth has challenged JD Vance to shave his beard. Vance has challenged Hegseth to grow one. Will American masculinity ever be the same?

anonymous ‘agents’ embarrassing themselves

COLLINS: Why do you think Trump didn't mean that? He referred very specific cities MIKE TURNER: He doesn't mean it in the manner you said it COLLINS: I was just quoting him

The plan is everything good is going to be indie now. News. Video games. Comics. Movies. TV. Animation. All the real stuff is being made by a team of ten people or fewer. Half are dating each other and the other half are trying to be cool about it. Everyone is broke as a joke but has their soul.

Hakeem Jeffries is the Merrick Garland of Nancy Pelosis.

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.