"When unqualified, morally bereft, white people occupy the highest positions in our government, y'all need to shut up about Black people and DEI."

That's it!! " ... little garlic and holy water will do the trick."

This is terrific!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Well done, Portland! "NO - Portland is not burning. Here’s live context and sourced fact checks."

So completely accurate. "... He is a smorgasbord of impulses and cravings - desiring wealth, power, adoration, grandiosity, and vengeance - a giant id. ..."

Pizza restaurant by the Seattle-Tacoma Airport in Seattle. I agree!

This! Yes, please.

Nails it. All of it. "If you can't treat someone with dignity and respect, then you need to get out."

"It's [just] not true ..."

Hats off to the Hawaii justices holding their own! "The Hawaii Constitution’s due process clause "offers safety to Hawaii’s people that exceeds the federal constitution’s suddenly fluid protections,” Eddins writes."

No wonder!! “The truth is, just underneath their masks lies an infinite abyss of total and complete darkness,” said Homan, adding that ICE officers concealed themselves not only for their own benefit, but also to protect others from seeing the hideous, unknowable horror beneath.

"They do not want racist cops or bullies or sociopaths or cops who view themselves as operators. They want cops who solve crimes, who arrest criminals & who keep their neighborhoods safe. They don't want fewer cops. They want better cops. And they generally feel the police department falls short."

No regrets on my part for 🚫 my NYT subscr months ago. I realize there are still good reprtrs/stories, but this garbage is outweighing them. "Second, the op-ed desk. Oh boy The NYT opinion section has no editorial standards when it comes to evidence, accuracy, contextuality, or public relevance"

"Former CBS Evening News [anchor] Dan... Rather and others are right that the Ellison duo taking over both CBS and CNN, as well as controlling a major social media network like TikTok, would be dangerous for democracy. And given their closeness to the Trump regime, that seems to be the point."

Beautiful, as always... "In that first letter where I warned of rising authoritarianism, I wrote:

Wow - an amazing collection of information that is laid out so succinctly. Money causes greed for more money & power. Greed for power causes many ugly behaviors - those less than the powerful are there only for their own use &/or pleasure. These are disgusting human beings.

What a month today has been

The latest excuse for Trump’s involvement with Jeffrey Epstein is by far the funniest. 🤣🤣

"As a rule, aspiring dictators do not mess with the health care system, or food aid... You want the population bored, apathetic, and quiescent—not losing income, if not starving outright. Food riots are a common spark for dictatorships being toppled, from the French Revolution to Tunisia in 2010."

Definitely seems quite plausible... "My best guess is that Johnson said this because Epstein was right and Trump did rat him out to the authorities. But as we said, this is not a good story for Trump, so why say it? Again, the best explanation is that it’s in those files the DOJ is sitting on. "

Sickening. ZUCKERBERG: "I wasn't sure what number you wanted to go with."

"The fact that some are picking this up without doing due diligence, it’s lazy and insulting to the firefighters,” she said. “It’s really affecting the morale of the workforce to hear those things being echoed in media outlets.”

FUN FACT: For those keeping score, in President Biden’s last full month, the U.S. economy added 323,000 jobs. ⬆️

"... how healthy Americans were in the 60’s ..."

"... everyone has a voice in all decisions, all are expected to be compassionate and inclusive, especially to the less fortunate..."

I've noticed this. Have you?!? "I wouldn’t normally be snarky about someone’s looks but let’s be clear: nobody is born with Mar-a-Lago face. These are not human faces, they are luxury meat-masks meant to signal wealth and in-group belonging.”

"The Trump system is impunity for friends and infinite scrutiny for adversaries. In the case of Lisa Cook it hardly matters if there's anything really wrong with one of her mortgages. But Pulte and Trump don't care about that. They want her seat on the Fed board. That's all that matters."

Horrifying. But here we are. "Just months short of the nation’s 250th birthday, Donald Trump is close to batting a thousand at speed-running the very abuses of power that led to the Founders to write the Declaration of Independence in the first place."

It's only a matter of time... "People suffered because politics and bureaucracy hindered action. The promise that followed was simple: never again would FEMA be stripped of its independence and mission focus. Never again would our disaster readiness take a back seat to politics. Yet here we are."

Donald Trump lies about EVERYTHING.

Positive & hope-creating read. “But these governors have the opportunity to actually run their states very differently from how the president is running the country.” It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession” open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

Very powerful, honest, accurate thread. "And as we look at those running for office, this should be the fundamental question—especially in the primaries: what will you do to strengthen our institutions and the voices of citizens in how it all works? "

Please share far & wide. This is likely going on, or will be going on, in other places. And it IS horrifying. "When ICE agents are indistinguishable from impersonators, predators exploit that climate of fear to terrorize, silence, and harm."

"You should not have to cross the street in downtown Atlanta to avoid a crazy person yelling at your family." Or perhaps to avoid ICE agents harassing &/or kidnapping regular citizens...?

Settled but no actual acknowledgment of the wrong-doing. “We stand by our coverage as fair, balanced, and conducted within professional standards of journalism.” 🙄🙄🙄 Losers.

"Trump fails to grasp that Putin isn’t transactional about Ukraine — he is messianic. He wants Ukraine for Russia, period." ~~~~~ "After all, agreements with Russia don’t live long. But the images of the U.S. military honor guards kneeling to roll out the red carpet for a murderer? Those will last."

"They couldn't answer what they were doing. This has nothing to with public safety."

"Because in Canada, we are a nation of inclusion, a nation that's multicultural, a nation that supports linguistic duality, a nation that is based on the lands that we live on, which belong to the indigenous people. In Canada, we will remain true, north, strong, and free."

Came across this Bible verse today. I'm struck by the guidance here compared to what we're seeing from those around the current regime who profess their Christian faith. Every single verse here speaks to what they're doing. James 3:13-18 NASB

"But to rip these people from their lives for a show… is awful."

This is a long, but easy & clear, read. Well worth the time. It's too often incorrectly attributed to Ron Howard, but was written in 2018 (during TFG 1.0) by novelist Lori Gallagher Witt. She absolutely nails it. (my apologies for no ALT text - it was too long & would have been truncated)

"What ties these events together is not just the violence — but the context that enables it."

He thinks & speaks like a child. He believes all he has to do is say the words & the world will bow to him. "stop all fighting forever" between 2 countries that have not sustained any prior brokered ceasefires/agreements?!? We shall see...

"The firing of Mr. Driscoll and other career agents is a shameful affront to the rule of law and typifies the Trump Administration's campaign to replace nonpartisan career law enforcement professionals with political loyalists and incompetent sycophants."

"The commissioner doesn't have any hand or any influence or any way of even knowing the data until they're completely done. That's true of the unemployment rate. That's true of the jobs numbers."

“Now finally settled, her story highlights the enduring harm caused by historical immigration injustice and the need for a more humane system.”

So much cleverness here. Thanks to all the artists! And... "If you save a cartoon, keep caption w/ artist's name & handle."

"After billions of mRNA doses, confirmed vaccine deaths are extraordinarily rare: ~1 per 100M+ doses." Read the whole thread for the actual facts, please.

Great explainer on the importance & status of bumblebees in our ecosystems. "Three ways to help bumblebees: • Plant native plants • Avoid pesticides • Embrace messy yards: As well as wildflowers, bumblebees need loose soil and duff for underground nesting and overwintering"

Wow. Just... wow. So much scary stuff in here. And it's repeating in our lifetime... We must fight back. "The economic situation in Germany was getting worse, unemployment was high, and political life was becoming more violent. 1/2

The E*pstein Files are sticky little buggers.