America didn’t turn ugly because he became President. No. He became President because America was already this ugly. That’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to admit.

Supreme Court Holds, 6-3, That Black People Voting Violates Rights Of White Voters

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

How it’s going How it’s going to go

It's amazing how quickly White politicians in the South rushed to PROVE exactly why we needed the Voting Rights Act!

Sen. Mark Kelly: "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 that's more un-American."

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social burns a confederate flag in the rotunda after the House passed 9-0 maps stripping Memphis of representation… #Memphis #JimCrow @MarshaBlackburn @GovBillLee

If that flag was white , he could wear it as his dress uniform 😡

NEWS: The Epstein files are now bound into 3,437 physical volumes in a new exhibition space in Tribeca. Millions of pages. Two stories tall. And yet only two people have ever faced accountability. Katie Phang discusses the rage she felt walking through the space.

Yes.

So does this make Blanche the acting head of the G#%^*p%?

It's a ceasefire Jim. But not as we know it.

Im going to save people a lot of breathless debating. Was the ceasefire violated? Did one or both parties launch missiles, drones, or otherwise attack the other party? If yes, the ceasefire was violated. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

My thought on the moment is that he’s just a useful idiot being kept around, his information carefully curated, his health and cognitive decline managed by teams of professionals, in order to make obscene amounts of money for the world’s worst people, the human consequences be damned.

When the republicans in the Alabama State Legislature talk about their “intent”, they are just afraid to say “blatant racism” out loud

Rep. Jamie Raskin: "We need a sweeping de-Trumpification of the DOJ."

Women don’t need mental health help, we need Epstein prosecutions and men to stop trying to control us.

The Fifth Circuit just told millions of women that three judges know better than the FDA, their doctors, and 25 years of evidence. They don't. This restriction on medication abortion is a nationwide abortion restriction, full stop. I have no intention of letting this stand.

Louisiana should not be our role model for laws or anything

Remember that old children’s song about Miss Lucy’s sick baby and the Lady with the Alligator Purse? “Mumps” said the doctor. “Measles” said the nurse. “Nothing” said the lady with the alligator purse. We are at the point where The Lady with the Alligator Purse is running HHS.

Takes one to know one I guess

Strange how Kash Patel and Todd Blanche can look at seashells on a beach and decided to dig further but see emails with grown men discussing raping kids and decided that there's nothing there.

Absolute truth from Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich. We warned you. You did it anyway. At that one moment, all you had to do was check the right box for a thriving, peaceful and successful life. And now every decent American is under complete, life-threatening assault.

Can you imagine going back to 1776 and telling the Founding Fathers that in 250 years, the King of England would be standing in the United States Capitol lecturing American lawmakers about the importance of democratic norms?

Two people who know way more than we do about what’s in the Epstein files

Notice how a book can make you gay, a vaccine can make you autistic, a mask can make you sicker, and a poster of the Ten Commandments can make you moral, but guns don’t kill people.

"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." Edward R. Murrow, who died on this day in 1965

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If the WH new ball room is critical for future security of POTUS, maybe he should cancel all future rallies, golf games, Mar-a-lardo stays etc and just hunker down in his bunker. I for one would enjoy the break.

If you haven’t served in the military this is a really big deal. Feeding service members decent meals is a controllable. It may be the only good thing in their day. We had a supply officer screw up and order the same T-ration for every hot meal for a 3 week field rotation. We almost hung him.

New photos from the USS Abraham Lincoln show service members receiving minimal food portions as reports grow that some troops have lost significant weight and aren’t receiving care packages—while the Pentagon denies any shortages. (Newsweek)

The only reason Trump/Republicans are talking about a pardon for Maxwell is because she has given them a choice: -Let me out and I'll testify that Trump is innocent, or, -Keep me locked up and I'll testify that he was involved. A president subject to blackmail is a national security problem.

A female reporter loses a job and a NFL coach gets counseling. Speaks volumes on the inequity of how males and females are treated in this country.

NEW: A republican judge has blocked the redistricting effort in Virginia, invalidating yesterday's vote. But it's a pause, not a defeat. Read more here: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

Can you get peered as SECDEF? Asking for 15,000 men

Because we’ve NEVER had disease spread rapidly among soldiers

I know at least two women he harassed while a battalion commander. He’s despicable.

Dudes. As a society we taught young women to walk with keys between their fingers in dark parking lots and to carry pepper spray in their purse. So yes. I’m asking you to be responsible for the actions of other men. After all, that’s what you’ve asked of women for centuries. It’s your turn.

Mood

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The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.

They carried torches to defend free speech and helped spur young people to vote: The Wide Awakes

Patriots coach Mike Vrabel still has his job. Two female reporters have been fired as a result of his alleged affair with one of those reporters. This is the USA work place women have always had to navigate.

NEW: Pete Hegseth has used the Pentagon war briefing to attack the press again. In a week of endless religious fanaticism, Hegseth just compared journalists to the Pharisees who attacked Jesus. The US is being run by a collective cult of religious fundamentalists. Government by mental illness.

BREAKING: Senate Republicans blocked my War Powers Resolution that would have ended Trump's unnecessary, unjustified war against Iran. These cowards have had four chances to stop this chaos in the Middle East. And they put Trump's ego before America. Every damn time.

Someone needs to show him that Ricky Bobby prayer so he can crib that too

AOC: Whether it’s people in the Epstein files still roaming free, or the president, a known rapist, continuing to occupy the White House, all of this has contributed to the normalization and the idea that incidents of harassment shouldn’t matter. And I think today was an important turning point