War-ravaged Portland

🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did. 🚨🚨🚨

They are literally canceling culture

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Join me in condemning this kind of statement and this kind of hate.

Perfect.

And it’s a fine one.

"You took an oath, not just to the Constitution, which Donald Trump is currently shredding, but also to do no harm. You are violating both those oaths....I think you are a particular brand of disgusting." @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social on The Secret Podcast (for members only):

Sky and Amanda Roberts, brother and sister-in-law of Virginia Giuffre, express their pride in her for keeping accountability for Jeffrey Epstein in the spotlight, and share the pride Virginia would have felt for her fellow survivors who spoke out today.

🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget! House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion. To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle. YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!

Learn to decipher the codespeak.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

@marcelias.bsky.social: We "need to tell Republicans that if they take 5 seats, we're going to put 30 seats on the table... When people say to me 'don't bring a knife to a gunfight,' I don't even want to bring a gun to a gunfight. I want to bring missiles to the gunfight."

Busted

Welcome to America; where our president is publicly saying nice things about, giving immunity to, and suggesting a possible pardon for a well-connected child sex trafficker. But I’m sure he’s got a good reason.

Translation: stupid people hate smart people; and I come from pro wrestling, where men smack each other in the face w/folding chairs.

Offense people!

Yeah, this is really not great

So grateful for the clear, unequivocal witness and voice of Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social who visited the horrifying detention camp in Florida. As he said, “I didn’t see any Russians who’ve overstayed their visas. Only Black & Latino men who look like me.” @maddow.msnbc.com

I’ll take “How to Blame Democrats for Literally Anything” for $500.

"He doesn't care about policy, he doesn't care about issues, he cares about power and keeping it, and that's why he has to keep the coliseum entertained." @radiofreetom.bsky.social

“Even a [funding] delay of a few weeks or a month can set us back years. And we don't have years. We have until Sallie is 30 or 40 to get our cure.” – Kirsten Beachy

We live in an America governed by Trump. But we do not have to accept that we live in Trump’s America. My latest for @theatlantic.com Daily: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

There are 50,000 undocumented Irish in the USA. There are no plans to move any of them into FLA concentration camps or El Salvador torture gulags. And everyone knows why.

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism" -George Washington Happy 4th

Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

When Donald Trump sued me and others for RICO, we didn't settle. We fought and won. Perhaps the legacy media should give that a try and stop debasing itself.

People are dying

Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock encourages Americans to speak out to their representatives in Congress about their opposition to the Republican budget bill. "They're trying to convince us that they've already won the fight. And if you believe that, you stop fighting."

“In the last week, more than 200 veterans have volunteered to attend immigration hearings with Afghans who worked with U.S. forces during the 20-year war in Afghanistan…”

Watch all of "Jen's Version" of today's White House briefing: youtu.be/xZBFH5duTwE?...

A cancer trial promised to reverse her daughter’s lymphoma by a decade. Trump’s cuts canceled it before it could begin.

Before the Senate votes on Trump’s Tax Scam, there will be a “vote-a-rama.” This is when senators can propose endless changes that their colleagues then need to vote on. You probably have some creative ideas for amendments. Submit them now to help keep vote-a-rama going for as long as possible. 👇

Louder for the people in the back!

Indeed. What a horrible thing for ICE to do to Lady Liberty for being so compassionate to immigrants.

AOC is quite on point with this.

"Trump's assault on the NIH is anti‑cure, anti‑job, and anti‑growth…American families will pay—in lost treatments, lost jobs, and higher health costs—long after the budget headlines fade." newsletter.ofthebrav...

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

5 months in: Less than 2 months after “Taco,” 2 weeks after the world’s richest man called him a pedophile… 1 week after his failed military birthday parade & the No Kings protests… 24 hrs after he was finally ordered to free Mahmoud Khalil… …he’s bombing Iran. That’s how scared they are.

Could someone generate an AI video of ICE agents checking a pitcher’s immigration papers after walking off the mound at Dodger Stadium? Thanks in advance.

Science!!

Ocean Beach per SFGate.com drone footage

Proud of Minnesotans

HONESTY. INTEGRITY. DECENCY. #June14th-ObamaAppreciationDay