Clear-eyed, fact-based, and written to explain to normies. No “both sidesing.” No “Trump officials disagree.” No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true. This is journalism. Well done, @people.com

Cornelius Eady. poets.org/poem/renee-n...

Please understand what it means when journalists are evacuating their family members out of town. In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

Know your rights

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Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

Fuck you, Rep Williams.

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end

As an aside, sometimes a bowl of canned chicken & stars soup hits perfect.

Walz: "I saw an individual at the scene identify themselves as medical personnel and ask to provide aid, and an ICE agent said 'I do not care.' That lack of humanity was chilling to me."

Masked government agents are killing people in the streets, abducting people from their homes in the middle of the night, and arresting those who speak out. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

Trump withdrew from the IUCN?! That man doesn’t give a shit about trafficking of any kind. Not ppl, not drugs, not wildlife.

Every year that the retirement age is raised translates to a 7% cut in lifetime Social Security benefits. We will NOT be made to work until we die!

Fuck this guy. No one is invading America. It is not ok for ANY LE to murder ppl.

How much longer until ICE/BP shows up in a neighborhood and are met by a group of law-abiding citizens legally open-carrying firearms with questions about how their neighbors are being treated…

This is not a healthcare plan by any definition whatsoever

Comer is lying

For a @motherjones.com article, I am looking to speak to caregivers of disabled individuals who are 14 and older who are on Medicaid re Medicaid work requirement exemptions. My email to reach out is [email protected] and reposts are appreciated.

I know this feels impossible now, but I swear, on January 6 itself, there was a pretty broad bipartisan consensus that storming the Capitol to find and kill lawmakers was bad, and that Trump was responsible for inciting his followers to try it

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

Noticing that CNN is calling Jan. 6 a “riot,” not an “insurrection.” PSA: It was an insurrection.

Funny how some melted cheeses are yummy and easy to eat and others are lava that causes immediate blisters in your mouth.

It’s been 5 years since over 140 Capitol police were violently assaulted by Trump’s mob. Republicans dismissed it as political discourse. The assailants were all pardoned by Trump. Many of them went on to commit more crimes. It will remain one of the most shameful days in American history.

Your occasional reminder that Trump is the most unpopular president in modern (post-WWII) times. He's underwater in 40 states with the remaining ten representing only 59 of the total 538 electoral votes (!) If only media would preface and frame their POTUS coverage with these telling data.

As more Holocaust survivors pass away, & as more ppl seem to be “forgetting” it happened, I’m increasingly tempted to have my family’s numbers tattooed on my arm. Is that weird? It’s weird, right? Too morbid? 🤔 (I currently have no tats.)

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands Accepting applications until Feb 15th blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/19...

And not a single one of’m offered to help preserve the Corporation for Public Broadcasting after Congress & the Cheeto rescinded their funding.

Remember if they can do this to Senator Mark Kelly, they can do it your loved ones who serve and have served.

Ban stock trading by lawmakers in Congress. Full stop.

Here are some choice quotes from Jack Smith’s testimony about the conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “..the evidence made clear that President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy.”

Up since 4a. Migraine has now entered the chat. I had almost caught up on my sleep. Every time I think maybe we can do this, a slap of reality. No idea how I can manage three more years of this level of care (until my retirement when at least I could theoretically nap)…

When oil and tech CEOs are in the loop about his plans to invade a sovereign nation and Congress isn’t, that’s all you need to know about the legitimacy of his actions.

The thing about snow removal is that you have to be thoughtful about where you put it. If it freezes, or gf, thaws and freezes, you are stuck with it wherever it is for as long as winter says so.

Sometimes I think about 100 Bullets (by Brian Azzarello) and what would I do given the...opportunity. 🤔

Fairly accurate.

Government services aren't businesses. Delivering mail to citizens is something we pay for. But if these are businesses, you won't believe how much money the military loses.

So you’re telling me that when your country welcomes talented people from around the globe, and brings them together in world-class universities, they make discoveries that save lives? Interesting. UM researchers make breakthrough to treat form of leukemia www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

It’s a nice evening to sing along to a movie about a family who escaped Nazis. 🎶

You know how many people and maybe you were afraid to speak freely about Charlie Kirk when he died. That's our 'media' with the Trump regime.

This is fantastic news, a triumph of medicine! And the overall cervical cancer rate in Oz is dropping, too, almost certainly due to HPV vaccinations. And exactly the sort of progress RFK Jr. is trying to kill. Along with killing our citizens.

Having a hard time finding caregivers who will work “on the books”. Everyone is saying cash only which is problematic for a few reasons. Super frustrating.

“NIH is in crisis, grants are being terminated, labs are closing….but they found $1.6 million for an unsolicited proposal to study whether we should delay a vaccine we’ve been safely giving for 40 years, in a country where infants are at high risk of infection” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

This announcement alone is going to kill people and we need to prepare for that

The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

There are now 2,900 billionaires, and they hold $15.8 trillion. The wealth of the bottom 50% of the global population, over 4 billion people, is estimated at $3.7 trillion.

It’s gorgeous out tonight. Bright full moon reflecting off a fresh snow. Clear, crispy, and cold. The stars are twinkling and bright. I’m so blessed to be alive on this planet. What an incredible gift. ❄️

Remember the two brothers, 8 & 11 years old, that Israel killed? This is how Israeli news reported it: "The Air Force eliminated two suspects this morning in southern Gaza Strip who crossed the yellow line, carried out suspicious activities on the ground, and approached the forces."