How long will we continue to murder brown skinned people in little boats because they are in the wrong place in an ocean 1,000 miles from the U.S.?

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

My friend Dr Marmon @lmarmon.bsky.social has started a free to join grassroots online community focused on protecting human rights and battling climate change. Please consider joining us. It costs nothing and could make a real difference. www.advanceesg.org

Vaccine-preventable diseases are unimpressed with your consumption of beef tallow and peptides and supplements in lieu of vaccines. You’re the antelope and the lion is going to track you down.

Kelly: "My family has suffered from political violence. My wife, Gabby, was nearly assassinated, shot in the head at a political event. Even the president -- 2 assassination attempts -- he should understand his words have significant weight and people react to things that he says."

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Now THAT’S a Project I can support!! 👊

Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California. I urge anyone in the state to vote yes. This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-should-do-when-red

I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy

Hammer on nail... this man is going viral.

Think about what the GOP is revealing with their attempt to suddenly change the Congressional maps: they know their agenda is so unpopular that they're going to lose unless something changes. Of course, what they should be changing is their policies, not the maps.

The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force has been the go to resource for evidence based recommendations on screening and interventions to prevent disease and prolong life. RFK shredding it will make all of us less healthy. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/topic...

Seems to me that if they gave a shit about Epstein's victims, they'd be talking to them. Not waving immunity options in front of his convicted grooming partner.

“Fraud, waste and abuse.” “Crap.” “Things that don’t matter.” This is what the Trump administration calls the life-saving aid the Republican Congress just cut. But let’s call it what it is: cruelty. op: @huffpost.com

Are we great yet?

And... they misspelled "AUSCHWITZ."

🚨 MEASLES OUTBREAK IN U.S.: WORST YEAR SINCE DISEASE WAS ERADICATED A disease once eliminated in the U.S. is now roaring back. And we just hit a chilling milestone. 1/

Exactly. And for fuck sake, stop calling it Alligator Alcatraz. The inhabitants of Alcatraz were all afforded due process in a court of law. Call it what it is, a concentration camp, more like Alligator Auschwitz.

The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill" is generally terrible for families. But women and babies who live in areas that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump are likely to suffer some of its most sweeping and damaging effects.

nyt op-ed: we cannot normalize the left’s brazen attempt to win voters by talking to them

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

➡️ WE DO NOT FORGET: *a Trump-loving MAGA assassin murdered Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman, her husband, Mark, and shot others *ICE agents are kidnapping and disappearing immigrants off of the streets of America *Trump/the GOP are destroying working American families to benefit the ultra-rich

I’m old to remember this being the start of an 11 year war. Those who failed to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

Secretary Hegseth is good at playing tough guy until he has to answer a simple question about national security. Our military is meant to protect Americans from foreign threats, not occupy American cities.

Juneteenth went uncelebrated by the White House. That alone says everything you need to know about this regime.

🗣️9 YEAR OLD: “What Trump is doing is frightening — unlike some people we know the meaning of the Declaration of Independence.”

If this doesn’t bring a tear to your eye, you need to have your pulse checked.

Let me remind you: we don't have kings in America — and I won't bend the knee to one. Never stop speaking out and showing up, Illinois. This is what democracy in action looks like.

Our governor does a pretty good job of telling it like it is. www.youtube.com/live/0n77NFj...

My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:

Just try getting homeowners insurance in California.

Regardless of one’s position on abortion, this is legally correct.

Apparently states’ rights stop the moment women board a plane with autonomy in their carry-on.

Have seen a lot of Harvard commencements. Usually the Harvard prez is greeted by brief pro-forma applause. Or nothing. Or in my era, waves of protests and boos. Never heard of *anything* like the sustained standing ovation Alan Garber got today. Deserved. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiT0...

Facts. 💯

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

There was one thing RFK Junior said today that made a lot of sense so I’m gonna share it:

Republicans have just proposed defunding Planned Parenthood nationwide. In doing so, they are telling women and people across the country that our healthcare doesn’t matter and that we are undeserving of care. It’s time to stop this bill in its tracks.

Trump becomes the first American president to lose a Canadian election

Breaking News: Canada’s Liberal Party is projected to win, electing Mark Carney, who ran on an anti-Trump platform, as prime minister. nyti.ms/4308UmS

So Trump said today he was “joking” when he said he was going to end the war in 24 hours? Does he sound like he’s joking here?

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.