Have not seen it pointed out enough that the Trump admin's targeting of the Smithsonian is being influenced by David Barton, the debunked amateur historian and Christian nationalist activist who has spent decades peddling claims that church-state separation is a myth.

"In a Heritage Foundation report that she co-wrote, there are proposals to give Americans financial incentives to marry by the age of 30 and a “large family bonus” for married parents with more than two children." It's ok to be on government assistance when you're a white Christian supremacist 👍

apnews.com/video/electi... “Election worker says ICE officers confronted her at polling place over social media post.” A post from January! And while she was working at a voting site last week! This is downright chilling.

🔥@RoKhanna campaigning for @AbdulElSayed: “The last people who have any right to lecture us about electability are the establishment who lost to Donald Trump twice. I don’t want to hear it. If you had anything to do with those campaigns, please sit down or exit stage left.”

Trump seems to have taken Melania's jacket slogan--"I really don't care, do you?"--as his motto for his second term. But in his case, he keeps announcing that he doesn't care without bothering to inquire whether we do.

Incredible. A+, 10/10, no notes

woah its almost like congress has the ability to influence the executive

🚨 THIS SHOULD SET OFF EVERY ALARM: Louisiana is about to pull the rug mid-election. Let’s be clear what’s happening. 📌Absentee ballots already out 📌Early voting starts May 2 📌Election day is May 16 And just days before voting begins, Gov Landry is planning to suspend the primary entirely.

I like how she had to toss in the thing about illegals lest she actually direct peoples irritation towards the correct source

Consistent, important, relentless message. Thank you, Fred Guttenberg.

The worst of the worst. Turns out that’s ICE.

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

Pamela Jo should be testifying under oath today before House Oversight about the Epstein Files, but she is intentionally ignoring her subpoena. I mean, as far back as Feb. 2025, Pamela Jo was hellbent on getting justice per the below Facebook post. Let’s get the contempt process started, shall we?

I had to play it twice, because my brain could not comprehend that this man thinks “females aged 15-19 not having enough babies” is a problem this country needs to fix. 😳

The Chirodectes jellyfish, seen only twice, is a rare marvel of the ocean. This footage captures its stunning speed and unique markings. A gem for marine research.

Someone sent me this.

The UN has officially adopted the resolution that slavery was the gravest crime against humanity. 178 countries voted. 123 voted for 52 abstained Only 3 countries voted against. You wanna guess who? Argentina, the United States, and Israel

This is as if Lt. Calley were president of the United States.

From the people currently pretending to be concerned about TSA funding.

Pregnancy Surveillance. Because Ohio lawmakers must've read the Handmaid's Tale and said, yeah, we can do that. Yikes.

This is stunning. @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social at one point looks like he’s thinking “it’s even worse than anyone could’ve expected.” Article I of the Constitution is not in effect.

The lie here is "Pluralism is a lie". IN 1900, the percent of Americans who were recent immigrants was only slightly lower than when Donald Trump began his 2nd term in office. Those immigrants, back in 1900, did not "destroy`" the country; they helped make America the 20th Century superpower.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Here’s something to make you smile. Don’t worry, be happy. #Pinks #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue youtube.com/shorts/Dnkaw...

Trump’s first-term Surgeon General speaks out against Trump’s current nominee for the job, Casey Means

Calling it SAVE Act helps MAGA. It’s the Voter Elimination Act. They name everything deliberately; repetition breeds familiarity, increases comfort & approval. We should not parrot their talking points (“Citizens United” “Alligator Alcatraz” “immigration enforcement”.)

It remains astounding how unfaithfully the media covers Trump’s ramblings day to day. We’re a decade into this — and his rambling gets worse — and yet the coverage continues to portray his public appearances as if they’re coherent.

@indivisiblegconc.bsky.social @wakencindivisible.bsky.social @indivistriangle.bsky.social @indivisiblechatham.bsky.social @indivisiblelh.bsky.social @camelcityunited.bsky.social

This is extremely similar to Grok with non-consensual images despite knowing the Take It Down act would come into effect within a few months - the point isn’t creating a feature that will exist for the long hall, just one that exists long enough to justify the product in the short term.

"In an authoritarian context, elections are not meant to be lost...When elections no longer pose any threat to the ruling regime—so thoroughly has it learned to control the process well before the actual voting day—their organization offers many advantages." politicsgeo.com/the-election...

Wow. What a calm, powerful message this man shares ~ ~

Oligarch buying up mainstream media was never about making money. Bezos running the Washington Post into the ground, Larry Ellison slicing up CBS, Soon-Shiong bleeding LAT is all about de-funding the few social institutions who could question power and report facts independently.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

2/2 Lolz. These suckers believed Trump & the fascist mission. Look what it got them... - One just learned he doesn't have the right to forcefully violate someone's 4A rights. - Another realized that his in-laws are not documented & it's pissing him off — it's holding him back.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Republican lawsuit challenging the U.S. Census Bureau’s statistical methods used for the 2020 Census. A big victory for my law firm's clients and everyone who cares about an accurate Census! www.democracydocket.com/cases/florid...

Listen to Jenny ~ ~ she knows of what she writes.

WSJ Ed Board states Trump is lying about Ice deportations. Analysis between 11/21/2025 and 1/7/2026, single-day ICE detentions were 11,296 but only 902 were convicted criminals. #ICEout www.wsj.com/opinion/mass...

The 40 million dollar bribe, aka the Melania movie, will premiere at the Kennedy Center because there is literally nothing else on the schedule until Spirit Halloween takes over in October. I wonder if they will pay Melania's appearance fee to have her show up. www.usmagazine.com/entertainmen...

The decision has been made to break an American city. It is an experiment. We must do all we can (legally) to help Minneapolis hold on.

Enjoy your Caturday morning, everyone! 🥱🛌

Excellent and persuasive work here from @asharangappa.bsky.social. Please read and share widely.

A few thoughts on this important NYT analysis: First, the officer who killed Good is shown running up the *passenger* side of the car seconds before he killed her. He shot her first from the front, then the driver's side. This means he *put himself* in the path of the vehicle when he shot her.

It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school

After ICE agents shot woman, a neighbor approached and said he was a doctor and wanted to help, witness tells @byaaroncdavis.bsky.social Instead, ICE agents kept him away from the scene, she says.

"Using their vehicles as weapons" She literally tried waving them through:

it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants

So, this happened today. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

DHS recruitment posts using racist and fascist imagery—Black people trapped in “crystals,” fashwave visuals, & Halo-inspired calls to “destroy the flood.” Neo-Nazis & Proud Boys are celebrating what they see as validation, a dangerous sign of how deeply extremism has seeped into official discourse.

man there’s just nothing you can be in the middle of when the feds kill you that’s innocent enough to dissuade this kind of spin is there. you can be halfway through the three point turn that would have driven you away from them when they murder you and they’ll still call it domestic terrorism