I know we clown strongly worded statements but every medical professional in the US needs to issue one by tomorrow morning saying "we're not following the bullshit guidance of a lifelong antivax activist & his senile boss"

Go to every protest you reasonably make. Write to your senators and reps. Wear the damn paper clips! Resist any way you can! We can beat them. We can get our country back on a better path.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

Turns out if caving to fascists isn’t profitable companies might do less of it. Maybe there’s a lesson there somewhere, dunno www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

<sorry might want to mute me, my grad students are reading Thinking Fast and Slow" for class>: "This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution." 🫣

If you really believe the rapture is tomorrow, why not give away all your money? You won't need it. Holding onto it suggests lack of faith, which might be the reason you get left behind! Why take a chance?

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

4th deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean. As with the others: -in area US military operates freely -arrest low risk -no legal rationale -violates international law -no evidence of who US hit If really traffickers—very much an if—the move is interdiction. Would get evidence and intelligence.

A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19 What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us? www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

The United States also already has a major physician shortage, which is bad now and projected to worsen to pretty extreme levels as Boomers continue to age. Making H1-B visas dependent on a $100K bribe is going to cause thousands of medical students & residents to stop coming here every single year.

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

ICE is abandoning their facility in Broadview IL because of protests.

Democrats were obsessed with the Mueller investigation until Barr successfully stamped it out in a weekend. But the right never let it go because Trump never let it go. Russia, Russia, Russia has always been his cover for all the leverage Putin has on him that's now being cashed in.

A glaring contrast on the Senate floor between Republican and Democratic priorities: GOP Bill: Stand with Trump, keep the same lousy status quo, and cause the Trump Healthcare Shutdown Democratic Bill: Stand with the American people, protect their healthcare, and keep the government functioning

This is about paper clips.

If you live in California you now have one goal: Convince and encourage every family member, friend and neighbor that supporting the (eventual) redistricting referendum is the right thing to do. Do NOT automatically assume it will pass because just you’re in a blue state. WORK FOR IT!

If people want to protest, ffs don't *discourage* them. Even if it's not the way YOU would protest.

so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?

this is the second impeachable offense worse than watergate that we have read about *today*

Chapter 14 and I still don’t know who any of these fckin people are. Giving up on this one.

I tell you what, learn a little bit about cancer and people who think you can cure cancer with diet or supplements do look very silly. This is why cancer biologists have such a hard time not being snarky.

Every chance you get, say “fuck you” to authoritarian demands. One of the regime’s tools is making people believe resistance is futile—that acquiescence is the only option. But especially for those with power and privilege, the most basic, necessary act is to say: FUCK YOU.

Democrats need to seriously consider an impeachment inquiry into now-Judge Emil Bove if/when they take back the House. He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo. He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up. And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

NEW: In a rare public appearance, Jack Smith spoke at length this week issuing a dire warning about Trump's weaponization of the Department of Justice. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-jack-s...

1. BREAKING In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration.

By next spring, they'll be bragging about the passenger airliner they shot out of the sky because it was filled with "antifa commandos"

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

Marty Robbins, unless it's Christmastime, in which case, Bing Crosby.

Another day, another completely made up right-wing scandal

Backwards B-ing has a comically long history in the right. High percentage of their outrage circle jerks are manufacture or embellished. Not all certainly but many.

wrote about this last year and sure I wasn't in any way the only one but imo people voting for populist politics in the 21st century *is* a sign that they do just have too much faith in institutions, as opposed to not enough - they want to have their little tantrum but assume things will just hold

LMAO youtube.com/shorts/NANya...

#Pinks #ProudBlue We all have our days when we need to rest, which is fine. But then we stand up and fight … together! We are always #StrongerTogether Love wins over Hate! 🧡

Let’s recognize the good work that good legislators are trying to do.

Pumpkins 101: Thrown & Altered www.patreon.com/posts/pumpki...

BREAKING: Judge Stephen Merryday strikes Trump's complaint against the NYT for being hot garbage — that is, for making a mockery of the rules for concise and precise pleading in federal court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A federal judge has thrown out President Trump's lawsuit against The New York Times. The suit, he says, "stands unmistakably and inexcusably athwart the requirements" of federal court rules. It is "decidedly improper and impermissible." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It’s all coming together in Trump’s push to bring criminal charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James: the retribution, the denigration of the rule of law, the evisceration of the Justice Department, and the ultimate unbridled unitary executive. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Imagine weaponizing the Justice Department to chase phantom crimes against your political opponents… then punishing prosecutors for not making them up. That’s not America, that’s authoritarianism.

it's also really important to spread the "this is illegal" message as far as you can because the majority of people are not exposed to it! most people do not even know the government is doing the illegal thing it's doing, let alone that it's illegal. when they learn about it they get mad!

LET’S GET IT…… LET’S GO!!!!

What is to prevent Brendan Carr from canceling the licenses of affiliates who accurately report election results unfavorable to Trump? Or a scandal involving a Trump associate? Or bad economic numbers. Unbridled authoritarianism.

It really is crazy that as teenagers we were gifted a free education that included dire warnings about dystopian futures if we didn’t learn from the past. And yet here we are! 🫠

Republicans choose Trump over first amendment.

BREAKING: Trump is about to fire the US Attorney for the EDVA for refusing to indict NYAG Tish James for mortgage fraud for lack of evidence. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...

Because Putin is Trump’s authoritarian coach.

“The law doesn’t matter anymore” is obeying in advance.