If Alan Moore did not exist, you probably couldn’t invent him. Here he is describing how he came up with V for Vendetta ceeeej-blog.tumblr.com/post/1240411...

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!’

He makes great points for new borns to have the birth-dose Hepatitis B vaccine. #7- You lock your doors even if you live in a nice neighborhood. Low risk, does not mean no risk. If you are wrong about not getting the vaccine for your baby, it could lead to a life long infection or death.

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Meiselas: The official Trump U.S. National Security Strategy document has been released. The document says a top priority of the U.S. is "cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory." In other words, to destroy the European Union.

Under Trump, America is committing war crimes. But under Biden, there were irritating student protests at a college I did not attend. I have never felt more politically homeless.

I’ve been lucky enough to see the pilot. It’s great

Everything here. And let me add as someone who lived outside the US for several years, many countries that pride themselves on being better than the US simply choose a different target for the same bigoted laws. See the way Roma & Travellers are treated

By the way, we’re gonna need to do this fast. Everybody in Silicon Valley with a clearance needs to piss in a cup within 48 hours of the new Democratic administration taking office.

Anne Boyer's "What Resembles The Grave But Isn't" is tattooed across my soul. "This is not your grave, get out of this hole." billmoyers.com/story/poetry...

It’s not just every employee They’re required to pre-fund 75 years of pensions, which technically includes employees not yet hired and employees NOT YET BORN

Yep. Without the full prepaid vested retirement accounts for every employee, the USPS is super profitable. And it scares the billionaires.

Also, aren’t the losses partly an accounting gimmick about funding pensions that the GOP made law so they could show extreme losses at the post office to use as an excuse for privatization.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

27-year-old Honduran man with end-stage renal failure denied dialysis until he signed a voluntary deportation order. Abolish DHS completely. Arrest most of its leaders.

🧵Implications of the US goal to "reestablish strategic stability with Russia". That's a phrase that has been bothering me in the US National Security Strategy document released this week. It suggests some likely policy choices and logical errors in US understanding of Russia.

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one more night in the tidepools tonight & I had a blast seeing who fluoresces! just about every crustacean I found fluoresced including eelgrass isopods (couldn't get a good pic unfortunately) 🌊🌿🦀🐙🦑

Tonight, the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has issued a G3 (STRONG) watch for December 9 and a G1 (minor) watch for December 10 due to a coronal mass ejection (CME) that is directed at Earth. Auroras may be seen further equator ward than usual Monday night.

Omg hurry up and be gone already

A lot of conservative local politics is ridiculously unpopular. That's why they focus on off year elections and hide behind closed doors. You gotta show up and force the doors open.

Nothing sends terror into the souls of local MAGA and Moms for liberty like normies showing up for local politics. When they say things like "Trans witches from Satan's bedroom are going to feast on your children's dreams" and normies say "Haha, no." local politicians side with normies regularly.

When you bury me can you leave one leg out of the casket so I don't get hot?

which is why the reconstruction and rebuilding has to be bigger than you are presently imagining

It could take decades to recover from where we are.

Drag him.

All across Europe, as well as in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, US allies are reading Trump's national security strategy and realizing that it was authored by people who view them as enemies while idolizing Vladimir Putin and plagiarizing from his recent speeches.

Freddie Freeman traumatizes sick children. #SMH www.instagram.com/p/DR4lwk1Dr6u/

Tom Nichols: “This ongoing game show of ‘strike a boat every day’ […] is making us into worse people — every one of us, whether we’re in uniform or just ordinary citizens. It is spiritually and morally corrosive on every level.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social

anyway my answer to every single person who wants armed conflict is no you don’t sometimes it is the only option but it it sure worth exploring everything else before you get there because it is always, always bad

DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol Posed As Humans Hiring Day Laborers As A Ruse to Kidnap Them Border Patrol raided five Home Depots, chased a man into a bus, and a flower vendor into a gas station, who were among at least 13 people kidnapped around the Southland. Full Report: lataco.com/daily-memo-d...

DAILY MEMO: Over 20 Kidnapped by ICE and CBP, Including Another U.S. Citizen, Amid Escalating Southern California Raids

This is New York, friends.

So Grand Jury said no to a Tish James indictment and now, a Judge disables a future Comey indictment. Speaks volumes about how overtly retributive ( and wholly without merit) these cases were ..

For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B. I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.

I will be attending my meeting via Zoom on Wednesday night. Most people don't know that the boards exist or what they do.

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

The boards also distort politics on "safety" issues. It's rare to see people under 40 at most meetings.

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

Cannot *wait* to see this list

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud. Just unspeakable assholery.

How it works is, The Onion writes it, a few years later America exceeds the satirical exaggeration as lived truth. Been this way since January 2001 theonion.com/bush-our-lon...

Note: this is yet another variation on the story. First, they said they killed them in the second strike because they were trying to continue the smuggling. Or possibly signalling to allies. But now the story is they killed them because their names were on a target list.

Ut oh. Both Trump and Vance are in trouble.

We will make this again. We will build this, and more, and better.

what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.