Urgent message for whoever is in charge of the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS George W. Bush: youtube.com/shorts/Fk9Gh...

Four of the five kittens are playing in the "nest"... where's the fifth (Zephyr)? Why, he's eating, of course. I wonder if Calliope knew when she moved the kittens how soon she was going to have to share her food!

Black affirming families are raising queer, trans, and nonbinary kids all across the South. And they deserve joy! Thicker Than Water. July 18, 11–5, Cleopas Johnson Park, ATL. Bring your coolers, blankets & chairs. Food while supplies last. Come find joy & connection. rsvp: genderlib.org/cookout

US Preventive Services’ recommendations shape when millions of Americans are screened for the diseases most likely to shorten their lives. Undermine that independence, and you undermine one of the country’s most trusted safeguards against preventable illness.

F–– a duck, y'all. This situation with American cities being subject to violent occupation to satisfy Republicans' id and bloodlust is intolerable. Intolerable.

As the Kennedy Center prepares for major renovations, former project managers there have sent Congress internal documents that they say show how the institution bypassed government contracting norms in work carried out under President Trump.

So hundreds of billions spent and thousands of lives lost and a global economic calamity all to…dig a hole and then fill it back up again? Great work, Marco. You definitely should be our next president.

This is promising. And it is, again, a reminder of how important local DA elections are. Houston and Minneapolis voted for reformers, Chicago and LA voted theirs out. There's a reason Tende is reaching out to Minneapolis, not Chicago or LA.

RIP. An early-'70s crush with one of the all-time great names in TV. And yes, it was real. His actual name was Randy Mantooth, which is...just...impossible. I wonder if he ever got my fan letter. www.tvinsider.com/1274911/rand...

We are thrilled to partner with Chicago Sky to extend the impact of @wnba.com All-Star Weekend far beyond the court. We love our sports in Chicago and are proud to welcome influential voices from sports, business, media, technology and community at the Obama Presidential Center.

Donald Trump cannot cancel elections but he can try to make it harder for people to vote and easier for the GOP to cheat. That includes misuse of the federal government and inciting his MAGA mob of election vigilantes. We need to be ready to send up and protect elections.

DC statehood is the minimum

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

“Scant” is doing some heavy lifting

1 in 3 Americans skip getting care because they can't afford it. Not because they aren't sick. Not because they don't want care. But because the system chose to put profits over people. That ends with the Primary and Behavioral Health Care Access Act.

We've long said that when the government claims it needs to investigate journalists to protect national security, it really means its own reputational security. This is as clear an example as you can get.

Reporting on the security problems with Trump's Qatari vanity plane, despite hundreds of millions in taxpayer-funded renovations, show "exactly why we need to protect journalists and whistleblowers – without them, we’d never know about this kind of waste and incompetence,” we told @cnn.com

3/ The immediacy with which Black people always have to question whether an incident was racially motivated, isn't us doing what white people love to accuse us of..."playing the race card"...an expression I despise. In a country where race and racism have been weaponized from the get-go by

Masked government paramilitaries are killing people on the streets in cold blood. No one is held accountable and a third of Americans are fine with it. Hard to believe, but here we are.

Everything they hate is DEI. States' and cities' rights only apply to policies they like. Meanwhile, countries like the Netherlands and Denmark have integrated biking forever. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

This is horrifying; with all respect to the Times journalists who actually reported it out, it’s also comically ridiculous to treat this as a national security issue because you need zero sources to tell you the bribe plane wasn’t reduced to atoms and rebuilt, which is what securing it would require

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to obtain an unredacted copy of New York's statewide voter registration list. A big victory for Elias Law Group and our Client the NAACP. DOJ is now 0-12 in these cases. ELG is undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-yo...

literally political prisoners

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The kittens are OUT of the crate... but don't be too impressed. Calliope moved them, one by one, from the crate to the opposite corner of the room in the middle of the night. I guess she was tired of waiting for them to come out, too!

First kitten out of the crate - but not for long! Came out, said "What a dump!" and stomped back in.

The great Arthur Ashe, civil rights activist, tennis legend, and STILL the only Black man to win singles championships at Wimbledon, the Australian Open, and the US Open was born 83 years ago today. A few months after his death, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom

A Coloradan named Kyle Clark got a thousand comments from strangers on his family's birth announcement on Facebook. My apologies.

“Today, we mourn Jaime Alanis Garcia, who was killed as a result of the raid one year ago. We grieve with every family that remains separated by detention or deportation as a result of the raid on Glass House Farms. We will keep fighting for the human rights of immigrant workers.”

Today, the federal government finalized a major change to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to remove vital habitat protections for endangered species.

🚨 Meta is rolling out new AI image generator that allows anyone to create AI images with your photos TURN IT OFF: Open IG - tap 3 lines on top right corner to open settings Select Sharing and Reuse In section "Allow people to use your content on Instagram and …" turn off "Posts" & "Reels."

just an evil fuck

We already had a deal with Canada, in which it paid to build the bridge and would recoup the tolls until they were made whole. Now Trump is holding up the bridge opening as leverage to coerce more. Mob boss move. No wonder the world hates us. www.freep.com/story/news/p...

The "Jackson" in Jackson Women's Health v Dobbs refers to Jackson, Mississippi. The states that make up the former Confederacy are the same states that have the most draconian abortion bans and highest maternal mortality rates. This is Fannie Lou Hamer's America, still turning a deaf ear to her.

"....much of the staff responsible for developing and distributing information to the public about food borne illnesses was terminated this month as part of the Trump administration's sweeping effort to shrink the federal government." The effects are officially here now folks

The stated idea of this proposal is to make it easier to close Lafayette Square when necessary while still leaving it accessible to the public most of the time. I think that’s BS as they’re also looking to permanently fence in Pennsylvania Avenue. Restricting access to the people’s house.

Today, @cookpolitical.com moved Arizona's governor race from 'toss-up' to 'lean Democratic.' A reminder: the GOP primary is still in 10 days, and it's been quite the odd one, in large part cause of Trump. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

I think about this entrance at least once a week.

The family of Nolan Wells deserves answers. Every single one of us should demand they get them.

ICE killed a man without wearing body cameras all because someone in his van “resembled the target” though it wasn’t them.   Now we’ve learned that the agents lied about what happened, mocked the man they shot as he was dying, and stripped his ID from him when they brought him to the hospital.

Pure evil.

Reminder that we are still sending out anti-ICE whistles to anyone who needs them! Any quantity from 100-3000. Free. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

One of the neighbor families we supported through the winter/spring fed occupation just had 2 more family members taken by ICE on Tuesday. They're working to raise $ to try to get them out and their sweet 7yo is selling lemonade on the sidewalk right now. 💔 If you want to donate, DM me.

If this isn't about Willy and a gang of pissed off orcas sinking billionaire yachts, I don't want it.

Black leaders across the South have expressed a visceral shock in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision gutting the Voting Rights Act. But as the surprise wears off, a sense of isolation has begun to set in among some. 🔗 politi.co/4vSW46T

After a months-long occupation, Minnesota is still recovering from a retribution campaign waged by the federal government. Now, Minnesota stands with Houston in demanding accountability for the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. This bloodshed cannot be normalized.

NEW: The DOJ threatened top election officials with criminal prosecution over possible noncitizen voting, citing election security. But Nevada SoS Francisco Aguilar (D) said the move is about intimidating election workers, chilling voter participation and undermining state authority over elections.

Every one of Trump's vanity projects gets retconned as a matter of national security Including antifa seeding the Reflecting Pool with algae.