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God give me strength.

Donald Trump shut down the government because he doesn't want you to have healthcare. But this isn’t just on him. Democrats MUST use their leverage to protect our rights, but it can’t end there. Schumer and Jeffries can’t just go on TV or write letters, they need clear demands. We need action now.

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

DOL employees got the same email in yet another Hatch Act violation. We encourage every federal employee who was told to blame Democrats in their OOO message to submit a complaint to the Office of Special Counsel. Here's how ⬇️

Oof.

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Oh, hey--I could do that, too.

Oh my god

Sadly, pretty much on the nose.

I can't get over how the right-wing doesn't understand modern militaries, with the majority serving non-combat roles. You think the best IT security & logistics personnel spends two hours in the gym every day to look like the cast of 300? They're at furry conventions and model train shows.

Joni Ernst’s lifelong legacy for women serving in the military from her time in the Senate is Pete Hegseth. Every woman denied promotion, denied a job specialty, sexually harassed, or forced out for bs reasons, owes it all to Ernst and the Republican Party.

Lordy--the silence when he expected pumped-up "Ooorahs!"

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

Man, it would be pretty cool if cities could just be “complicated places where a lot of people live” and not “overstuffed signifiers that exist primarily to be yelled at by culture warriors desperate to squeeze just a little more juice from their most chicken-hearted supporters”

Okay, I've watched this way more times than I probably should have done.

“If you see Jeffrey Epstein’s name and your immediate thought process is, ‘Oh, this might offend the president,’ that's not the problem of people making a joke. It's the problem of a broken and insanely failing society.”

I thought maybe it was time for a judge story. This is a story of the time a federal judge made fun of me, repeatedly, for passing out during a cross-examination. /1

Obama photographer Pete Souza posted this pic of Obama on that UN escalator… www.instagram.com/p/DO9GFjUEZi...

If we’re going through the federal budget in search of areas to cut, I would maybe cut the budget line where we pay Tom Homan $50,000 in cash, consequence-free, to demonstrate that he is susceptible to bribes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Giving a bully your lunch money is only a temporary downpayment for future bullying. We ALL need to step up for the first amendment. By-the-way, for the record, this ex-Disney employee finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny. mh

if I were a member of the current Trump administration I would not be excited about the concept of “illegal pardons”

This is worth your time haha youtu.be/7vRX-BQAjeE

Today’s show talks Jimmy Kimmel & yet another Trump appointee on the federal bench who has had it with being lied to in court over the administration’s deportation policies. With @lizdye.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Before the election, my MAGA focus group said their top priorities were lowering prices and releasing the Epstein files. Now the same group says their top priorities are canceling late night comedians and prolonging the Ukraine and Gaza wars.

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

Drumpf's finished!

Le Gorafi (a French iteration of The Onion) reports that: "An American university has launched an investigation of a professor of archeology suspected of being a member of 'antifa' "

*also taps sign*

Proud to be Antifa

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'The counterpoint, I suppose, is “what if these rights are not allowed in the future?” but my friends, that’s not a counterpoint at all. It is but one more reason to do those things now.'

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

Home again. Long days this week. My look when I realized it’s only Wednesday.

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Just so everyone is clear, this right here is what an actual violation of the First Amendment looks like. When the head of the FCC says a company needs to do something about someone who displeased the administration or lose its license, that’s no joke unconstitutional

The council wasn’t hiring a municipal walker, but she took the job anyway. Once a month since September 2022, artist Lian Bell has done a full circuit of the North and South Circular Roads, observing these 14km through the seasons.

Illinois State Sen. Karina Villa confronted ICE GOONS in a Chicago suburb, accusing them of targeting Latino families and shouting at residents to stay inside as more than a dozen were taken into custody.

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

This is clearly not Finny's first time here.

Oh, outSTANDING!

Just to be clear: Brian Kilmeade *did not* endorse euthanizing homeless people. He advocated MURDERING over 700,000 of them. And on a network that has been *beside itself* over the murder of just one man this week.

Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.

The Nazi extermination programs didn’t begin with Jews. It began in September 1939 with the involuntary euthanasia of people with disabilities and the mentally ill under the Aktion T4 program. That’s how they developed their techniques of mass extermination.