Dear World, We are so, so sorry. And so embarrassed. We promise to vote like hell next year! Warmly, Most Americans

As the horrors of Epstein’s child sex trafficking continue to unfold, a learning moment: “grooming” is not something a trans person does by existing; it’s what Ghislaine Maxwell did to prepare girls to be lured away so people like Trump could rape them. open.substack.com/pub/thedange...

Thank you, @billmckibben.bsky.social, for a big, glowing burst of the best kind of good news.

Even the #sandiego PD says we topped 60,000 at the #NoKings march, and they always undercount us. I have about that many friends who were there who I didn't run into. What an awesome, determined, utterly peaceful crowd!

Crucial point based on what Noem said right before Sen. Padilla was assaulted: They are creating chaos to set up a military coup. If you see violent or destructive protesters on Saturday, they are probably plants paid by the federal regime. #NoKings youtu.be/dJrTQvMYRTM?...

The Trump administration falsely claims the protesters in Los Angeles are violent people but if you are on the ground in Los Angeles, you will see people from every walk of life. They are protesting the treatment of people being illegally detained by ICE.

While we're distracted by his spat with Musk, Trump finds another stupid way to cost us more money and destroy the planet: ordering unneeded gas and coal plants to stay open, at customer expense.

Those of us @thirdactorg.bsky.social are old enough to remember the generation-long global fight against apartheid. That we’re now welcoming its practitioners—and rejecting every other refugee—is sick www.northjersey.com/story/news/2...

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So weird that nobody knew about a genocide in South Africa until now. All the reporters and everyone else who’s been there forgot to mention mass killings of white people? So it took Eely Muskrat to ferret it out? Poll: Is this the most infuriating shit yet?

Just FYI because evidently Fox or OAN or whatever is pushing the lie that America accepted the Statue of Liberty and that’s equivalent to the plane. Congress VOTED to approve receiving the statue. So congress should vote on the jet

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

Sanders: What the ruling class of this country does… is essentially tell you that you are powerless. They say, ‘Ain’t nothing you can do — because we, the oligarchs, got all the money, we own the Congress’ Well, we’re here this evening to tell them: hey guys, you got it wrong.

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

Absolutely, they must get Abrego Garcia home before Congress does another minute of normal business. #ResistFascism

First, they said they’ll send undocumented immigrants with no due process to a foreign prison camp. Next, they said any immigrant — documented or not. Now, they say it’s citizens. And that once they send you even on accident, they can’t bring you back.

Upwards of 15,000 of us marched thru #sandiego today to say #HandsOff! and other choice messages for the felon-in-chief. It was fun, peaceful, inspiring, and the start of something huge! #PeoplePower

Sure, his stamina was impressive. But it was the truth and passion of his words that drew me to my feet to stand with him, crying for our country, for the last hour or so. ✊ @booker.senate.gov

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All y’all in Florida and Wisconsin have to tear yourselves away from Sen. Cory @booker.senate.gov and go VOTE!

Must-watch: @booker.senate.gov is past 22 hours holding the floor. He's on fire, speaking the plain truth. As are other Dem Senators helping him out by asking long questions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK...

This is our country, doing this in our names. 🤬 and shame.

Exactly.

NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence."   The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."

And here we are: On. The. Spot.

How many Signal chats with sensitive information about military operations are ongoing within the Pentagon right now? Where else are war plans being shared with such abject disregard for our national security? We need answers. Right now.

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

"The country has invested in, and innovated through, this scientific public service for over a century, not for selling it to the highest bidder, but for the common good. Dismantling NOAA and the National Weather Service is a presidential grift that we must oppose."

If there were an agency dedicated to finding corruption, fraud and waste in the federal government, it would start right here.

We're all being forced to pay for this mind-boggling corruption and for a guy whose trucks fall apart to play with sending people to Mars. Let's get some people into Congress who'll stop payment on this shit.

We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.

So, wait. Teslas are held together with glue?? Are they a 4th-grade project?

The end goal is to make education a privilege for children born into wealth while destroying the meritocracy that is at the center of the American dream.

Schoolchildren are routinely slaughtered by AR-15s. Hundreds die. [*crickets* "Thoughts and prayers" *crickets*] A couple unoccupied cars are set on fire. No one is hurt. ["THIS HORROR WILL NOT STAND!!! We MUST act to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN!!!!" We will pass new LAWS BANNING IT!!!]

WTF

Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.

This is the challenge the news media face now. They have to rise to it, create journalism for the crisis we’re in, and do like Steve Liesman. @cnbc.com

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

If you're wildly making shit up and you get caught, watcha gonna do? Depends how evil you are. Keep digging at it, @nytimes.com!

In today's episode of The Worst of The Worst Are Thriving in Trumpland.

So what if Trump fired 16 inspector generals? Just listen to these guys. #corruption #fraud #waste

Of all sectors in our society, universities know better than anyone that appeasement has never led to the defeat of fascism. As a unified body, they need to publicly and loudly state the obvious: Hell No! If this leads to defunding, so be it. Maybe we all work on the barter system for a while.

Corruption rules.

No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

Hundreds of San Diegans made noise at Cabrillo park for the #ResistanceRangers protest today. With no organizers in sight, people made up chants and started them down the line. Here's a video of Parks, Not Oligarchs. #protectourparks #worthfightingfor #sandiego #SaveOurParks

Rally for your national parks and park rangers today. Use FindYourPark.com to find the closest national park. Take signs and post pics. #ProtectOurParks #RehireParkRangers @resistancerangers.bsky.social