Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

First numbers in from Mecklenburg Co. These are absentee-by-mail votes. Transit Tax: For 63% Against 37% #ncpol

This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

Charlotte #NoKings from this morning

Look at this turnout in Charlotte! #NoKings (via Marco Foster/Threads)

Charlotte #NoKings

Important 🧵, North Carolina, please share 🙏 👨🏽‍⚕️⚕️Former NC Gov. Roy Cooper unveiled a first-of-its-kind program in 2024 that, as of today, has wiped out $6.5 billion in medical debt, state leaders say. Keep reading the thread to find out what to know. 👇

I drew this cartoon in 2005. Two thousand freaking five. Twenty years ago.

This is some real unhinged, Nazi shit. And this is supposed to be a memorial service?!

Hello! I am trying something new! In addition to the newsletter, I also made a YouTube video about the lawyer who brought a bag of weed to the North Carolina Supreme Court. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVfj...

Political violence and threats are not the answer. This is a watershed moment — we can choose to stay silent and live in fear, or we can choose to be loud for peace and compassion. We must work together to stop this crisis, and it should start from the top with the President.

They’ve done it before and were 1 or 2 votes short (Manchin (+ Sinema)) the last two times they were in power. This is the dumbest circular firing squad.

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

Just tried watching Ezra Klein’s latest NYT podcast episode on how the U.S. got to this point where vaccines are so politicized. It’s pretty clear that Klein and his guests—David Wallace Wells and Rachael Bedard—really do not understand why/how the political right turned on vaccines.

In most of the U.S., formaldehyde contributes more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant. Look up your address to see risks from the chemical on your block and where it comes from: (Published Dec. 2024)

In case you needed more reasons to side-eye Chris Pratt uk.news.yahoo.com/chris-pratt-...

“Democrats are refusing to perform their duties in a manner that amounts to abandonment of office,” [Paxton] said in a statement announcing his intention to seek court intervention. “If you don’t show up to work, you get fired.” This is rich considering the House GOP is playing hooky bc Epstein.

I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh

1/ I represent 5 anti-zionist students and faculty challenging the outrageous claim that the Palestine Solidarity Encampment was a "Jew exclusion zone". UCLA refused to defend. Today they agreed to pay millions instead. I can't overstate how dangerous this is. 🧵 www.latimes.com/california/s...

What a disappointment. With bonus xenophobia / racism points

Rachel Maddow reports what is known as of the top of this hour about the shooting in New York City:

And you better be pronouncing it in your head as REE-SEE’s PEE-SEEs

look, it’s just a fired prosecutor and an inexplicable tape gap. since when has that ever indicated anything

The Abrego Garcia fiasco keeps getting worse. The way Trump and the WH are bringing the full weight of their propaganda and legal machines to destroying this one day laborer is an extraordinary abuse of power. I try to take stock of that larger story here: newrepublic.com/article/1977...

Man if only someone had told him that before his vote…. Is this guy aiming for a gig at the Bulwark after his term? Tillis Suggests He Regrets Vote to Confirm Hegseth, Calling Him ‘Out of His Depth’ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...

A thread well worth reading

more than 100 dead now from the flooding in Texas. an outrageous body count given the technology and infrastructure that should've been available to mitigate this.

we're living through a major, civilization-altering technological revolution and it has nothing to do with AI

For the last few days, online content farms on X, Facebook and Instagram have taken our original fact-based reporting and turned it into viral content without attribution. A thread on why that sucks and why it matters for small independent media organizations.

It's in an hour 45. Anyone want the ticket?

6/21, Los Angeles: A neighborhood volunteer documenting ICE was stopped by agents in an unmarked car, surrounded, and threatened by masked agents while they filmed him on their phones.

Day 70. 🇺🇸

My speech at the Skrmetti rally in DC yesterday.

This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing. I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom. Dark, dark stuff.

This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.

3 helicopters fly overhead Columbia as NYC Mayor Eric Adams announces NYPD is on its way to campus

Chair of House Veteran Affairs Committee angrily denies Trump Admin’s proposed 83,000 VA job cuts after disabled U.S. Army veteran confronts him. #VANotForSale

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

I was certainly no threat. I asked my congressperson what his red line was to finally, vocally oppose the lawless administration and he didn’t answer the question, so I called out for him to answer it and he had me removed. This is what the ISA has come to. The constitution is in shreds.

New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...

🧵Heidy Sánchez was in the process of getting her green card, married to a U.S. citizen, raising a baby girl. ICE snatched her at a check-in and deported her to Cuba—alone. Her 17-month-old U.S.-citizen daughter, who suffers seizures, was left behind sobbing for her mother. tinyurl.com/Latina-mom

…& TM Signal is a 3rd party signal capture app whiuch seems like it's a workaround to both have Signal's e2ee but *also* keep a regulatorily compliant archive? At which point, I mean… just use the defense department's literally millions-if-not-billions of dollars of secure communications systems. …

Just incredible

Dear god let this man cook.

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