Pete Hegseth and other "Christian Nationalists" want to see women as mere passive bearers of children. But females provide just over half of the genetic input to their sons -- since dads' Y's are smaller than moms' X's -- and exactly half that of their two-X daughters. Sounds significant to me.

The IAEA thinks Iran had nearly 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium. We don't know where it is now. Some in the media have wondered whether it was destroyed. But YOU CAN'T DESYROY IT, short of exploding it in a nuclear bomb. If you burn it, for example, the U-235 is still U-235. It's somewhere.

Donald Trump "didn't turn people into people who they weren't already, potentially, but he kind of gave people permission to be their worst selves." I hope you'll listen to my conversation with @sethcotlar.bsky.social and Trump & MAGA: @heartlandsignal.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2Hl5...

Tragically, two young Israelis were just murdered in Washington DC. Horribly, about 1,450 Israelis were killed or captured by Hamas on 10/7/2023. But since then, about 53,000 Gazans have died in Israeli attacks. Many more are facing starvation now. Don’t we owe them some horror and some support?

The penny is being phased out. It became the lowest denomination U.S. coin in 1857. At that time, its purchasing power was about that of 36 present-day cents. So we could reasonably also get rid of the nickel and the dime now. Dollar coins would make a great deal more sense than paper ones, too.

Should mental health counseling be offered to billionaires who believe that they need and deserve tax cuts? Might their pathologies parallel those of people who are compelled to keep eating long after their nutritional needs are satisfied? Might drugs analogous to the GLP-1 diet series be effective?

About 1,450 Israelis were killed or captured by Hamas on 10/7/23. Since then, about 53,000 Gazan Palestinians, mostly noncombatants, have died in Israeli attacks. Is it anti-Semitic to wonder whether this nonproportional response might someday result in a vast new round of anti-Israel vengeance?

Harvard is not in business to be profitable and pay dividends. Elon Musk's Tesla IS in business with those goals. If Trump can revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status because he doesn't like it, can he decree Tesla tax-exempt because he DOES like it? Heck: with a dictator, who needs laws?

Save the penguins and stop Trump’s tariffs: indivisible.org/tariffs

"Cruel and unusual punishment" must remain unconstitutional when our government contracts with El Salvador (and pays them) to impose it - in exactly the same way that you are still guilty of murder when you hire a contract killer to commit it for you.

WOKE BEATS BROKE!

As markets approach their Trump-tariff bottom, WACH OUT. First, the Pres and his buddies (e.g. Elon) will buy up equities at fire sale prices. Next, he'll decree that the tariffs have done their job – and cancel them. Then, the very people who created the disaster will benefit most from the rebound.

A second child has now died in the West Texas measles outbreak. Parents presumably made conscious decisions to deny these children the safe, effective MMR vaccine. If this was because of religious convictions, is it fair to call the deaths human / child sacrifice?

Something morbid - and maybe permanent - has happened to the souls of congressional Republicans. They can no longer wash away the stench of the Trumpian cesspool in which they have wallowed for ten years. Their noses no longer register the smell.

Knowledgeable people are saying that Trump’s trade war will lead to "recession AND inflation." The likeliest explanation is that THIS IS HIS GOAL." We should all be asking, "Why? Who wins?"

Trump aide Peter Navarro says tariffs could bring in $6 trillion over a decade, offsetting other tax cuts. But tariffs are regressive sales taxes. Substituting these for progressive income taxes shifts the burden away from the wealthy onto the backs of the poor and working classes. Not an accident!

After Trump’s tariffs send car prices through the roof and trigger a depression, after he chops Medicaid to cut billionaires' taxes, and after DOGE wrecks Social Security, Trump could no longer win an election. So, his only path to an unconstitutional third term would be to have no more elections.

Trump’s 25% tariffs on auto imports and the ensuing trade war will likely cause a global depression. Losers will be nations that trade a lot, like the USA, Canada, Mexico, the EU, China, Japan, S. Korea. Winners will be those that don’t trade so much: Russia, Iran, N. Korea. This must be the plan.

Local Indivisible member was abducted by ICE in Washington. If you're in the state, please elevate this thread to your electeds and ask for their help in getting his release.

Trump must have been saving the “Proof of Citizenship to Vote” EO to distract us from a scandal like today's “War Plans Chat on Signal.” The ACLU can sue about the EO in good time; but let’s keep the heat on the scandal!

Christians: Please pray for Donald Trump and Elon Musk. If they didn’t feel so miserable and unloved, they might not be so mean. Please pray also for the millions of people they’re hurting every day.

This chart offers the most straightforward explanation for why Trump is going after higher education.

A web search for “mRNA Vaccine Plasmodium falciparum” finds promising early work to develop messenger RNA malaria vaccines. Multiple clinical trials of mRNA cancer therapies show great promise. BUT researchers are cautioned NOT to say “mRNA” in grant applications: RFK Jr. doesn’t like it. I’m sick.

Say to GOP legislators: “I know you don’t dare oppose Trump now. But when his tariffs tank the economy and Musk wrecks Medicaid/Medicare/Social Security, you can unite with your colleagues to call him out. Talk to them quietly NOW – so you’re ready when the moment comes. You may save the republic!”

In 2015, Trump called immigrants criminals and rapists. Fact: Immigrants commit fewer crimes per capita than citizens. He keeps repeating -- without evidence -- that immigrants come from prisons and asylums. So, absent a trial, why would we accept that the deported Venezuelans were gang members?

I just won the Majestic Intergalactic Woman of the Year Award. The awards dinner is on Pluto. I want to thank all the other nominees who lost. Can't wait for the flyover from Space Force. Super rockin' times!

Slippery slope: 1. Let's grab hundreds of unnamed people, hold no trials, call them Venezuelans, fly them to El Salvadoran prisons. 2. Let’s do the same with really annoying US citizens. 3. Let’s just “disappear” them out of the planes into the Atlantic. It worked for Argentina!

Co-Presidents Trump and Musk ignore court orders. Courts can enforce nothing. So, T&M can do whatever they want – unless about 3 GOP Representatives and 20 GOP Senators join Democrats to impeach and convict. Not at all likely, but our only hope. After 249 years, our Republic is probably over.

While fighting the authoritarian takeover as best we can, my friends talk about what to do if it succeeds. Keep our mouths shut and our heads down, or emigrate? But where? Would Canada take us? Is it at risk of becoming Trump’s Ukraine? Germany or Japan? A scary conversation, with no good answers.

Ups and downs… NASA: Last year’s rate of average global sea level rise was 0.23 inches / year. Survey released March 7: Since December, consumer sentiment has tumbled 22% – 11% just in March.

Co-Presidents Trump and Musk have fired numerous FBI investigators and DOJ prosecutors, along with legions of doctors and scientists at VA, NIH, CDC, NOAA, NWS, and NASA. Explanation: These professionals are loyal to truth, fact, and law – and are therefore dangerous to dictator wannabes.

RFK Jr., copied/pasted from Fox News: "It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles.’" How did we get here? Where are we going? Their goal is to destroy the country!

Tell GOP legislators: “President Trump has embraced a murderous Russian dictator, threatened NATO Article 5, and started a trade war with Canada. Co-President Musk has cut VA, NIH, IRS, FAA, and Social Security. Their goal is to destroy America. Join with other Republicans to demand that this STOP!”

Dumb question: Could Trump’s tariff/trade war schtick be the biggest grift of all? After markets are deep in bear territory, might he and his pals buy equities hand-over-fist -- and then scrap the tariffs, saying that they had succeeded? Better than a meme coin!

President Trump is yammering again about annexing Canada. As things get crazier here in the USA, it might make more sense for the northern tier of states to consider becoming Canadian provinces.

By law, the president may impose tariffs only in case of national emergencies. Someone should explain to him that this means RESPONDING to emergencies -- not CREATING them.

We don’t know why Trump chose Hegseth, Patel, Gabbard, RFK Jr.; why he favors Russia; why he cut medical research, national parks, the FAA, Veterans Affairs. But on-and-off tariffs, a trade war, and a threatened recession should be no surprise. The intended effect is the same: to weaken America.

When Trump mouths his lies and nonsense, it’s news. Democrats struggle to be noticed: their megaphone is tiny. What if a small, variable group of Democrats scheduled daily, well-scripted press conferences to call out Trump’s lies, threats, and policy failures? Might they be better heard?

I joke that cryptocurrencies are backed by “the full faith and credit of Sam Bankman-Fried.” Today, the NY Times says SBF's allies are trying to get him a Trumpian pardon. That makes me feel MUCH better about crypto!

Messrs. Trump and Musk are not happy people. Happy people don’t seek more wealth than they can ever spend, or demand constant flattery. Only miserable people are needlessly cruel. This explains, but does not excuse, their behavior; it makes them easy to pity, but still difficult to forgive.

It is beyond doubt: Trump’s domestic strategy is to sabotage America. His international strategy is to align the USA with Putin’s Russia. We may not know why; but we must confront reality.

Send to your Republican senators: "President Trump thinks all games are zero-sum: for every winner, there must be a loser. But international trade can be a positive-sum game, where everyone wins. A trade/tariff war is always a negative-sum game, where everyone loses. YOU KNOW THIS. PLEASE SPEAK UP!"

President Trump thinks all games are zero-sum: for every winner, there must be a loser. But properly managed international trade is a positive-sum game: everyone wins. And a trade/tariff war is a negative-sum game: everyone loses. We don't know why, but he is determined now to prove this.

Trump’s world has three spheres of influence: Putin’s Europe, Xi’s Asia, Trump’s Americas. Only this explains Trump’s attitude toward Ukraine, his threats toward Greenland / Panama / Canada, his silence on Taiwan. But when two of these nice men want the same chunk of dirt, it’s called World War III.

The recent House budget resolution guts Medicaid to fund tax cuts for billionaires. If enacted, this budget would close hospitals and drive out doctors in rural red states. Enraging MAGA voters like this makes sense only if no further elections are planned.

The only reason for Hegseth (i.e. Trump) to fire, without cause, the JAGs (Judge Advocate Generals) of the Army, Navy, and Air Force is to facilitate our armed forces obeying illegal orders – most likely here in the U.S. (“Can’t you shoot those immigrants / demonstrators in the legs?”)

Tell your Republican legislators: “Now you can say TRUMP HAS CROSSED THE LINE. He sided with Russia against Ukraine, Europe, and NATO. Call out his lie: Putin – not Ukraine – started the war! Demand that the USA reassert leadership of the Free World. Do it today!”

Tell your Democratic legislators: “Every Democrat must shout ‘NO!’ to the GOP. NO budget; NO continuing resolution; NO debt ceiling increase – until the lawbreaking stops. What earthly good is a budget if Congress cedes the power of the purse to Elon Musk?”