after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

What will poor Eric Adams do for work? That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!

When E. Jean Carroll comes up with a good idea, we should all pay attention. And she has one here! open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Timeline cleanse. My oldest hand feeding an injured gulf fritillary butterfly. I'm not posting video, but he's talking to it to try to coax it to keep eating.

Can someone please find a way to peacefully get that LFC tie away from Patel? Maybe the club could make some sort of statement that would prompt him to "cancel" them and stop wearing it on his own. #YNWA

My Redford touchstones are Jeremiah Johnson, The Sting, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has rejected President Donald Trump’s bid to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Civility matters, but the elite desire to raise it to the highest virtue is sublimated classism and status quo bias.

Seeing parallels to the US south rediscovering/deploying a confederate battle flag during the civil rights movement.

Much like Musk’s entire fortune being built on taxpayers’ largess, the help only seems to piss them off.

But she’s still Black which is the real reason they went after her

If you're feeling down this is a great reminder that so many good things are happening/developing/improving

A thread of people replaced during the Trump 2.0 administration. #ReplacedBy47

GOOD NEWS: Despite RFK Jr saying he would cancel $500 million in mRNA research, the House Committee on Appropriations has passed a spending package, that includes $1.1 billion for “advanced research and development” at BARDA, which includes research on mRNA vaccines.

Timeline cleanse

Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.

I don't know if other ADHDers have noticed this but it's something my husband pointed out and boy is it true for us: stimulants don't work when your sick. Even the smallest cold renders them completely useless.

Sara Jacobs: "Filler is gender affirming care. Boob jobs is gender affirming care. Botox is gender affirming care. Lots of my colleagues have received gender affirming care and let me be clear, I think everyone should have access to the gender affirming care they need." Nancy Mace: *screams*

Took a few paragraphs to get there but the parents say "This is all a misunderstanding." The guns were all over the house, but they're still deciding whether to charge the parents.

Bigger story here is lower courts are doing heroic work in assembling fact sets exposing the deep rot of bad faith at the core of Trump's pretexts for many of his illegal acts. The Pulte scam is a case in point. citing @sifill.bsky.social & @leahlitman.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2002...

Yeah, we're cooked. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8S8pVQq/

In five years. After the revolution. When it's safe to say they were against this.

Stephen Miller pulling FBI agents away from investigating crimes so he can see more immigrant children cry.

/6 I decline to give SCOTUS -- or the academic and cultural institutions and people who have made it what it is now -- any benefit of doubt or of cleverly constructed arguments in these matters.

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

@montanaquilter.bsky.social here you go!

Reports suggest this wasn’t about “undocumented” workers. At worst, it was visa infractions—the wrong paperwork, the wrong classification. Instead of sorting it out, we humiliated our allies and hauled their workers off in shackles. 3.

Ya'll, I *wept.* Watch this, what a moment. #FreeDC

I know the US is in crisis, but I will still enjoy the hell out of my husband's cooking. That's homemade Vidalia onion and bacon chutney peaking out over the cheese.

"You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem" is such a good line. Policy matters, but how you communicate stuff matters more right now.

It's not nothing that he keeps losing in (lower) courts.

Every senator and representative who does not move to impeach and convict Trump immediately will have the blood of this mass murder of Americans on their hands forever.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

NEW: (Gift) Follow the Money: Miami Herald, NYT seek to unseal Jeffrey Epstein estate records www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

Trump may seem near invincible at the moment but so has every other two bit tyrant who eventually ended in ignominy. There will come a day when his power ends. People who are doing immoral and illegal acts for him need to be constantly reminded. There will eventually be consequences.

Just beautiful

My husband perfectly described the Coke Freestyle machine as drinking "cosprifanterale from the fancy robot's cloaca".

News organizations should take note of NPR's wording here: import taxes. More if this!

Ossoff on RFK Jr: "Absolutely he should resign. And he never should've been confirmed to begin with... in any normal Senate, he never would've gotten so much as a hearing. This is someone who throughout his public life has embraced just about every piece of quackery & pseudoscience he's come across"

In any event, if he does try this dumb stunt, an obvious and correct response would be for governors among others to ignore anything purporting to be from a "Department of War" or "Secretary of War" on the objectively true grounds that neither of those things exist.

But it's always like this. Democrats try to do the right thing. They fall short, like humans do. Everyone teams up to shit on them. Republicans don't even bother pretending. They lie, they smear, they destroy lives, they get people killed, & they face NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT.

In case this is relevant for others, Sling offers a $4.99 one-day pass. We've been using YouTube TV for college football season the last few years, but it's frustrating to pay that much for one game, once a week. Thank you to Sling for giving us the perfect option.

Useful frame for understanding Trumpism from @aselrod.bsky.social: "It’s not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists. Trump/MAGA have turned the country over to the cruelest, most rapacious, and least honorable among us." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...

I'm so ready for our #10ThingsIWantToDoBeforeITurn40 men. I need their sweet goodness, even though it looks like rough waters for them tomorrow.

This is why we can't throw our hands up and say "Whatever. Who's going to stop him?" We will. Someone will. Sometimes it won't work. But sometimes it will, and those times are worth it.

The CDC is one of Atlanta’s crown jewels. Dedicated public servants who are tireless advocates for public health. They deserve better than this administration’s disregard for science. We deserve much more from our government than conspiracy theories and indifference towards individuals’ well-being.

They never grapple with *why* most Americans see crime as a major problem in large cities when that is just not factually true. And that’s because it would point back to the press.

The destruction and misogyny know no end. @jessicacalarco.com have you seen this? STAT Health News: share.google/86bUuc2HEBC0...

Cash assistance again for the win.

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.