Shame was apparently the load bearing wall beneath our entire democratic experiment and the "has cancel culture gone to far" people blew it up. It turns out you can have democracy or say slurs but actually not both. And they chose the slurs.

The Justice Department (DOJ) raised eyebrows Saturday with its response to allegations that the Trump administration was "impeding" an active investigation into Jeffrey Epstein – a response that some critics said appeared to be a startling admission.

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

AI slop writing has taken over the internet, particularly LinkedIn and X

Todd Blanche fired the DOJ pardon attorney for refusing to restore gun rights to convicted domestic abuser Mel Gibson…as a favor for a friend of Trump Then he sent US Marshals to her home to intimidate her into silence This man cannot be AG Full story @contrariannews.org 👇 -TN

New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman brushed off Trump's twin tirades on Truth Social by boosting the sold-out book he scolded.

hahaha we're international crime bosses now USA USA USA AMERICA FUCK YEAH

My kids have measles, I lost my job, and a parasite that the CDC no longer monitors has given me explosive diarrhea. But at least now there’s no plaques honoring Black scientists at the Smithsonian.

One thing I keep butting up against is how to undo what the captured courts have done, we don’t just need court reform or expansion, we need something that looks a lot more like radicalism; revisiting recent decisions absent a case or controversy and saying they are corrupt and void.

Once again… There’s too many folks that don’t realize something broke in 2024 & there’s a lot of us (especially BW) that are sick of y’all’s bs. I’m glad the CBC is not backing down to any of the people making excuses for racist bs. You want progress? Talk about THIS👇🏿 That’s the root of it all

When someone tells you it has always been this bad, the correct response is to point out that the Voting Rights Act passed with 98 votes in the Senate in 2006 and its main sponsor was a Republican who worked with the ACLU to build a comprehensive record in defense of its most “controversial” parts

I for one do not want explosive diarrhea and would like a government who regulates for a society against it.

someone could bring down this administration by getting trump and rfk jr in the same interview and asking if they agree they’re “pretty much in the same shape”

Memphis is under siege from the federal government. This is hideous.

If SCOTUS expansion actually happens, the first full term damn well better grant cert on 300 cases, 290 of them trial cases hastily thrown up just to set up the reversal. The majorities can be legalistic. The concurrences damn well better be scathing.

🎯 @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social : “Any senator who votes to confirm Todd Blanche should know — you’re now part of the cover-up. You’re complicit in the cover-up if you vote to confirm the Todd Blanche for attorney general, who has led the cover-up of the Epstein Files.”

abolish the stock market

He had children with three different women. Cheated on all of them.

This is definitely a man in touch with how much the American people are suffering, the only way he could be more in touch would be if his personal lifelong mentor where Peter Thiel, a South African who hates American democracy and believes about half of all humankind (the poorer half) should die off

The Guggenheim Museum was among a number of Manhattan buildings that recently tested positive for the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease amid the city's latest outbreak.

In Minnesota, girls sell lemonade on the street to help their sisters arrested by ICE. Stephen Miller’s goons are very much still here. Sign reads, “Please help us raise money for my sisters because they were arrested by ICE” & this has been confirmed by trusted community members.

You simply cannot "individual responsibility" yourself into 300 million individual-scale Centers for Disease Control

This shit needs to stop. truthout.org/articles/40-...

Jennings’ account of a cheerful McConnell phone call is drawing scrutiny after CNN refused to vouch for his claims.

Trumpism wouldn’t have been possible without an economy where only like 10% has to do with real things in the real world, but as a member of that 10%, being known for making sure the stuff gets where it needs to go when it’s needed gives you a blank check, because the managers have no idea.

I mean, obviously what drives them nuts in this specific case is the idea that a black woman could be so beautiful that wars would be fought over it. This infuriates them for basically the same reason a black man being president for eight years made them deranged.

Reminder: Memphis is still “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Task force members have reportedly killed at least two people in four days.

people confound me

Yes, it is chef’s kiss cosmic screenwriting that the “deportation fleet” has thus far only repatriated Americans. gillianbrockell.com/whats-missin...

It's official. My provision banning private equity from mass purchasing homes is now law. This is an INCREDIBLE victory for Georgia and the country.

Everytime I hear someone say “well I couldn’t vote for Kamala because of Gaza,” What I hear is “I didn’t give a shit what happens to Black people in America because of Gaza.” Also “I don’t give a shit what happens to the disabled, trans people, the poor, immigrants, women, seniors, climate….”

I ❤️ NY

OpenMandriva claims disgruntled admin trashed repos after community bust-up

well, this is a thing about massive, networked surveillance assemblages. See also Israel hacking Iran's traffic & surveillance cameras to track, surveil, & target the Ayatollah, & others, in USA-Israel war on Iran: www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

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victory lapping on this one

This post is mainly for white folks to consider. I want to share something that may help you understand the reaction from Black folks who immediately looked at the Nolan Wells story and thought, “Something is foul here.” This isn’t proof that foul play occurred. It’s context. 🧵

HOOCOODANODE

Multiple things are simultaneously true: Iran’s attacks on third country commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz are illegal. US retaliatory strikes on Iran (as with Trump’s entire war) are also illegal.

I’m totally baffled by US media. The whole focus of US Strikes now is stopping the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Which Trump caused through his incompetence. Billions expended in munitions, the military weakened, lives lost for nothing. And no one is saying anything.

Everyone who’s sick should get to poop on Bobby

If Jared Kushner paid €110m to buy an island in Albania that has no fresh water from a guy who did not own it, it would help explain why his negotiations with Iran on behalf of the US have not been entirely successful

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Gutting the CDC so Americans get diarrhea from eating healthy is quite the tactic for winning voters over. I don't really think conservatives will mind, they don't eat vegetables and they all have diarrhea all the time anyway

I’ll add that there are indeed a lot of “culture wars” in China, they just usually aren’t spoken in English like you see in the West or India. China is probably not as bad as SK in terms of gender politics, but it’s getting there. And there are Han ethnic anxieties as stupid as white American ones.

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