True already this year, we'll see more of it next year: you can (wrongly) disparage impeachment as useless because it'll fail in the Senate or maybe not even pass the House, but if Congress literally has nothing else to do because all of their powers are useless, might as well do more impeachments.

Personally don't recommend these. As the article notes, these properties are typically achieved through PFAS, which can shed carcinogens in your home (which you then inhale) or come out in the wash (polluting waterways for decades). Will try to do a thread on how to treat stains in the wash.

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

What if we just cleared Congress of all the abusers and sex pests this week what is stopping us who cares what party they are in

When I practiced ER medicine during my residency and as an attending physician I probably collected over 100 + rape kits. At no time, not once, did I ever believe or have any evidence that the woman who presented to my ER was faking it. 1/

we should treat these pardons as null and void as far as i am concerned www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

On this day, 1865: the last Confederate flag, a white dish towel.

Oman is the only neutral Middle Eastern country. They are majority Ibadi Muslim, which values tolerance and doesn't take sides in the Sunni/Shia split. Since 1970 they have carefully cultivated friendships with literally everyone I think Iran is attempting to change that

I keep seeing stories about prominent Trump supporters criticizing him, and I'm not not mad about it, but like... let me know if they ever start questioning the bigotry that made them embrace this extremely obvious horseshit in the first place. That's something I would be interested in.

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

Mush-brained centrists will whine, "you just don't know how the government works" whenever someone urges an elected official to do something. The same mush-brained centrists carefully avoid presenting any evidence the government is working *at all*. Power derives from people, not the government.

One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire. One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.

Watching the GOP stand by this madness and hearing finance people talk about whether genocide would be good or bad for the market just makes apparent the sickness that’s festered beneath the veneer of America for so long. We can’t look away anymore. We have to shut this shit down.

It's been done. This is what the House adopted just *three days* after Johnson illegally fired Edwin Stanton, and then they later filled it in with the more detailed articles. "Resolved, that Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors."

I hate the too-cool-for-school attitude of dismissing this with a "but they won't." That is surrendering in advance. The pressure should be put on them, the message should be unrelenting that this is what must be done and they're the ones refusing to do it. Don't act like they don't have agency.

The earth is full of light, which means the stars are hard to see. But they were there long before we were born, and will be there long after we die So too the oceans So too so many beautiful things

2026: when every day is the final dinner scene from “Don’t Look Up”

Nuremberg was an important symbol of German nationhood so I say with 100% sincerity that this is a job for Philadelphia

They all chose to ignore Amendment 14.3 and now they act shocked that an insurrectionist is also a genocidal maniac.

1. This is what America looks like with a President who is both a sociopath AND losing his mind. 2. It’s a good time to remind every member of the U.S. military they swore an oath to the Constitution, not an individual, and they have a duty/they are legally obligated to disobey illegal orders.

How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email

Remember all this nonsense about the supposed inferiority of “third world” immigration? They really believed that and applied their theory to international relations and it failed. Racism makes you stupid.

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

We need more of them to express an understanding of what's required to put the republic back online. First to void every action, every pardon, every nomination, every bill issued from the usurper as constitutionally illegitimate. If they make this clear, and win, they can claim a mandate to do it.

This is going to get people killed and when it does the CEOs that pushed this and oversaw it should face the highest possible penalties for systematically killing people for profit.

Let us assume that ai is 100% accurate and reliable This is still a bad idea. AI can help students do work. That's a very different thing than helping them learn Suppose a kid comes to me with a reference question. My job is not to tell them the answer...

PCEF funds are not a slush fund. PCEF funds are for climate action. They are for environmental justice – for helping the communities I represent in East Portland. We should not be bending the rules to fund projects that were never part of that promise, or we risk losing the public’s trust.

If I was the Portland Clean Energy Fund, I would be aggressively programming and communicating about how we are going to speed the clean energy transition during this energy crisis and help to ease the burden on Portlanders who are getting annihilated right now.

Chaco Canyon is sacred. As the Trump Admin rushes to push through oil and gas leasing in the greater Chaco Landscape—they announced yesterday that they will give only ONE WEEK for public comment on removing protections for this sacred place. Make your voice heard! NO to drilling in Chaco Canyon! ⬇️

It looks as glass. And it is as fragile. We're allowing it to be destroyed by the insatiable greed of a few withered old men and their hate-filled sycophants. We don't have to allow that. We are not bound by the inanimate systems that fraudulently empower them. We can stop them. We can choose.

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. #USForestService

Every decade or two, conservatives manage to take the presidency (by means legitimate or otherwise; they don't really care how they do it) and steal the next generation's future. They give their donors tax cuts and everyone else the trillion-dollar bill for a wasteful, stupid war.

My thinking on this case is that Clarence Thomas should have been removed from office immediately when we found out his wife had plotted to overthrow our constitutional republic

The thing about all these history will not be kind takes is that I do not want to wait for history goddammit. I want these lawless motherfuckers to go down in a spectacular display of law and big jail time. I want consequences NOW.

Conservatives hate everything trans, but they've successfully transitioned the Strait of Hormuz to its new identity as an Iranian-owned toll passage.

I don't know what SCOTUS will do on birthright citizenship case, it's anybody's guess. But if they endorse Trump's diktat, the only response is defiance. Outright, open defiance by the states. A decision not just erroneous but illegitimate, beyond their power, null and void from the day it's issued.

Important context missing from all the media coverage about citizenship: The corrupt clown court lacks the authority (and the legitimacy) to "end" birthright citizenship. The 14th amendment is plain and unambiguous. There is no plausible dispute and nothing to "interpret."

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

I'm not going to *ask* Iranians to hack the credit card companies and zero out everyone's balance. I'm just saying if they did, spontaneously, of their own volition, very few people would mind.

If you have the space and the resources to start stocking up on supplies, you should already be doing that.

Considering his crimes and the crimes of his best friend of many years, it might have been more appropriate to put his signature on the $2 note next to that other rapist pedophile slaver. But here we are, and now we'll have another fine mess to clean up when this is over.

This is a legitimately great idea. Turn every ICE concentration camp into a museum of their crimes and the people who fought against them.

Turns out that when every Somali case I have in court suddenly got expedited and reassigned to a new judge, it wasn't just me! The DOJ has officially denied that there is an expedited "Somali Docket," but now the public data refutes their denial. Here are the highlights: 🧵 bklg.org/blog/somali-...

2. Oddly, the NYT does not mention that earlier this year the Saudi government financed a $7 billion development with the Trump Organization. These licensing deals are essentially all profit for Trump. It's putting money right in his pocket.

This is genuinely a bombshell. All courthouse arrests should cease immediately. There should be a Congressional investigation & civil rights actions for every illegal abduction of immigrants trying to follow the rules and appear in court. (2/2)

Consequence or Permission By Tony Pentimalli Voting is not the end. It is how you win the power to impose consequences. Too many still talk about elections as if winning is enough. It is not.

CA could, right now, re-legalize write-ins in general elections by statute. Two thirds needed to take immediate effect, which Dems have. There's also a bill filing deadline already past, but bills approved by the Speaker or Senate Rules Cmte are excepted. It's nuts they haven't done this already.

The Iran war seems contradictory and incoherent because it is both contradictory and incoherent Four factions with overlapping yet incompatible goals are pushing this war forward. They range from merely bad to genuinely psychotic