Boasberg further found that the Trump administration and the FTC had pursued the organizations based on "extensive evidence of animus" and "wafer-thin justifications" for their demands." #transrightsarehumanrights 🏳️‍⚧️

This is a good time to remind people that the US has some of the highest covid mortality rates in the world. The “best they can” got millions killed and many more disabled. They’ve gutted the CDC. Put an anti-vaxxer in charge of HHS. Stoked eugenicist rhetoric. Hope is not a strategy.

Last week, @democrats.org were on the ground in East Las Vegas, co-hosting a bilingual Know Your Rights event with community partners and leaders. Our staff brought together folks to learn about voter protection resources and opportunities to lead ahead of the midterms.

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

This clip is chilling. The Andes strain of the Hantavirus is airborne and appears to spread more easily between humans than previously suggested. Might be time to restart social distancing and break out the N95 masks.

“If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they’re going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can’t think of anything more un-American.” -Sen. Mark Kelly

I guess it wouldn’t be an attempt to return to Jim Crow without some abuse of state authority against uppity negroes.

This week, GOP unveiled a legislative package to funnel billions of dollars to immigration enforcement and the President’s deeply unpopular 90,000 square foot ballroom. Here's a breakdown & timeline: webuildprogress.org/unrig-the-ru...

Gaza has been governed by Hamas since 2007. If you want to talk about responsibility for Palestinian suffering there, that is where the conversation begins.

Lessons in history books will see this moment as the failed experiment in unmitigated capitalism that the US has deformed into, the same way they see Soviet collapse as the failed experiment in state communism. The federal cavalry is not coming. We are the cavalry, and we have some building to do.

GOODBYE SAFE and ACCESSIBLE ABORTIONS Remember when they said, "Leave it to the states to decide"? The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Louisiana just decided for all of us.

If Congress doesn't push back now, we can just write this whole experiment in democracy off. 🤬

#SCOTUS legalizes racial discrimination again. VRA got the Roe v. Wade treatment, just like John Roberts always wanted. Why do we even have a high court anymore? It’s just a wing of the Heritage Foundation.

It is worth, I think, emphasizing that in trampling congressional attempts to protect the rights of Black people, the Court is basically doing what it has always done, with the exception of a couple decades in the mid-20th century when it often worked with Congress to protect the rights of Black ppl

More horror and cruelty from the regime... In a time not long past we would have found this to be literally unbelievable. The details are what makes this one particularly notable. 💔

Because it's not embarrassing enough being American.

"America—and, I would dare wager, the world—believes that civil dissent in the United States moves in haphazard waves rather than as a steady stream. There’s just one problem: that picture is wrong."

The silence about this case is incredible.

An already unacceptably right-leaning press corps is gearing up to go further right because a bad thing almost happened near them; they were in that position to begin with because they decided access to fascism is more important that accurately describing it

While one president was shot in a theater, the current president makes theater of being shot.

Cruelty and greed are never a good combination.

Anybody see contempt charges? Anyone sitting in jail for violating court orders?

‘Worth a thousand words’: Trump photo obscuring women’s tennis team sparks backlash #misogynyisreal

WHOA. In less than 12 hours, tens of thousands of Americans have helped launch GTFOice.org. People don’t want warehouse prison camps in their communities. Amazing to see the outpouring of defiance.

Neville Chamberlain Democrats are bad. Winston Churchill* Democrats are better. * Hopefully this time without the colonialism or Gallipoli.

🎯"Times could have fundamentally changed the way Trump has been covered.... It could have stopped using soft, empty language and false equivalence, and made it crystal clear to the public that if elected Trump would turn America into a racist, authoritarian regime where facts don’t matter."

Pete Hegseth just fired Navy Secretary John Phelan during an active U.S. blockade of Iran. This is the 34th military firing under Hegseth’s watch, and we’re only 13 months into his tenure.

So what can the justices do on their own to repair their relationships? “They need to spend some quality time together. They need to have some beers or go skeet shooting or kayaking together.” I’d also recommend group therapy for the nine justices.

Same vibe. #RFKJr #AOC

I love how AOC goes to bat for us. America needs her in higher office.

AOC Renews Call to Oust Trump After Report on His Exclusion From Situation Room truthout.org/articles/aoc...

Seriously, this country has become the world's biggest *ssh*le. If there's a way to be petty, cruel, mean, or brutal, just look to the current US regime. 🤬🤬🤬

"Until I see one single man in Trump’s cabinet lose his job for being equally ill-behaved and dysfunctional as the women being thrown under the bus left and right, then this is just more rank misogyny dressed up as an administration having standards." Boom from @lebassett.bsky.social

The ruling also permanently enjoins any “materially similar policy,” meaning the administration cannot simply rename the Declaration and try again. Hospitals that refuse care will face state or local nondiscrimination laws that explicitly protect transgender people. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The Director of National Intelligence has been compartmented from the war Trump is running and instead spends her time inventing conspiracy theories about what happened years ago.

A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It's not only the regime using deportation as a weapon. Individuals are doing the same, as an easy way to get rid of people who inconvenience them.

He's such an idiot.

Would be cool if there were consequences for intentionally lying to Congress! The state does not force anyone to immunize. Parents already refuse vaccines bc of misinfo like this. The HepB vaccine is one of the most-tested & studied therapeutics of all time. It’s safer than most of your daily life

In this regime, a formerly incarcerated trans immigrant has three targets on their back, and the power of the federal government aimed at them. A combination of anti-trans, anti-immigrant and tough-on-crime messaging by the White House depicts a country under siege. #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

Beshear: He said, “I thought that I was being depicted as a doctor.” If I was ever in an operating room and somebody walked in in Jesus robes with orbs in his hand, I would have thought that it did not go well for me that day.

Part of the problem is that in the American justice system, it is extremely difficult to obtain any reimbursement for fees or expenses incurred in defending yourself from a frivolous civil claim. It’s just another way our courts favor wealthy people Trump know this, and uses it to his advantage

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far - POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church?? POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

The USDA is going to use Elon Musk’s Grok for a myriad of functions, including “scientific research”. I can’t see any potential drawbacks to using a bigot-coded AI that is fed and watered by scientific misinformation at the joint that oversees food safety. /s

Since Viktor Orbán’s approach to governance in Hungary was cited by the Heritage Foundation as their blueprint for #Project2025 (kettering.org/the-global-d...) it seems like a good time to re-up this piece in Aug '24 piece in @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2024/08/proj...

FYI, Seattle.

This brilliant essay is by Mo Husseini, who explores the Israel/Palestine situation from an exceptionally thoughtful and fact based perspective. It's worth reading regardless of the "side" you come down on (or if you do)

Huh. Well, that's...something?

Anti-science and anti-doctor state baffled by shortage of doctors. News at 11.

"Should I get a cat? Or kill my neighbor?" open.substack.com/pub/defiance...