Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

Fact-checkers working hard to keep up…

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Good on you ladies.

Washington Post reporter Joe Heim confirms this Trump-Epstein “Friendship Month” statue has been placed on the National Mall

There is only one way to resolve this. RELEASE THE HOMAN TAPES!!!

No matter how many times he says it, it doesn’t make it true. More: www.snopes.com/news/2025/08...

Trump’s UN speech in 22 seconds: “I’ve been right about everything… I’m really good at this stuff… your countries are going to hell… I have the highest poll numbers I’ve ever had (not true)…”

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🤔 @MarshaBlackburn: Trump is “draining the swamp” — she wants to make us “#1”? We are #1, Marsha! In: medical bankruptcies, disenfranchised black folks, rural hospital closures… bottom in infant/maternal mortality, poverty, violent crime, per pupil💰… She’ll make it worse

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I will say, my visceral reaction to the Demon Slayer movie is pushing me to tighten up foundational things in my own writing this morning.

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I'm sorry Demon Slayer fans. I'm out. Ufotable does AMAZING visual work, but pacing and overtelling issues in the narrative have just taken me out of the joy. Also the 3 movies being released to milk more money out of the series is just shitty business practice and exacerbate the pacing issues.

ICYMI — after following up his Islamophobia towards Zohran with some racism towards Jeffries (no TN media will ask him about), Pinocchiogles wrote a letter pushing for Trump to be added to Mt Rushmore… presumably for having the FBI investigation into him dropped?

👇🏽The Tennessee hospitals @RepTimBurchett just put at risk by backing a cruel bill that cuts $1 TRILLION from Medicaid. Should they “get off their ass and get a job” too, #BumblinBurchett? Most people on Medicaid have jobs (that don’t pay them enough): www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

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“He’s a citizen… they’re not going after hard criminals, they’re going after anyone that looks a certain way.” Unconstitutional, state-sanctioned Racism. Plain and simple. (“this is what I voted for” is a confession)

REUTERS is reporting Netanyahu is impatient with Trump’s “two weeks” — and wants to “drag 🇺🇸 into war”, according to JD Vance More: www.reuters.com/world/middle...

CATO: “New nonpublic data from ICE indicates the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind… 93% had no violent convictions… 65% no criminal record at all…” @MarshaBlackburn www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

JUST NOW: Bernie tells the crowd about Trump attacking Iran, the crowd erupts into “NO MORE WAR!” chants Bernie calls the attack “grossly unconstitutional”

“We eat this sand. We have no food. We have no flour. Have mercy on us.” Videos of starving people in Gaza have been all over social media for months. Now on CNN. As Israel blocks aid humanitarian orgs want to facilitate. Hundreds have been shot and killed trying to get aid.

KTLA: “I have no doubt it’s racially motivated.” A US citizen in the parking lot of a Home Depot was tackled to the ground, detained, locked up for 24 hours for filming ICE smashing a man’s window. He plans to sue. (From @keithboykin)

Rachel Maddow: “If Trump wasn’t getting the intelligence that Iran is on the verge of a nuclear weapon from the intelligence community… who is he getting it from? Israel?” The right question. And pretty obviously the right answer.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @adamzyglis.bsky.social )

Happy pride :3

Meant to mention this last week, but if you have a young person in your life who’s into history or graphic novels or just good books, buy them George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy.” My oldest couldn’t put it down.

AOC: “grounds for impeachment” Jeffries: “Trump needs to explain”

Let’s not mince words on exactly what the MAGA movement is.

Serious question: Members of Congress have to file financial disclosures, right? So why is it ok that @RepMarkGreen won’t say what “private sector opportunity” he’s resigning for… as he sticks around to get the budget passed? Obviously unethical. Maybe unlawful?

Tennessee headlines just from today

“How convenient, @GovBillLee & Tre Hargett.” Eric points out Tennessee *coincidentally* shut down voter registration the same weekend as the massive #NoKingsDay turnout. TN Republicans stay making Voter suppression an art form. Video: www.instagram.com/reel/DK560dq...

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

I'm so conflicted this pride month. I want to be out and present and loud. But I'm so scared of an idiot with a gun. How my injury or death would affect my family, blood and queer both. But I hate being quiet in my safe little house when there's so much wrong with our country. #queerusa

Whether honoring decades of struggle, protecting their families, or simply claiming space, WorldPride attendees spoke to The Post about resilience, resistance, and a commitment to being seen and heard with this year's celebration of the LGBTQ+ community.

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ICYMI — ICE DIRECTOR: “These are real people with real families you’re hurting.” He says this not about immigrants… but about ICE agents. A record-setting lack of self-awareness.

Imagine that. www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

They don’t have the right to dictate my life.

Keep in mind - the far right has said there’s a ‘white genocide’ happening in 🇺🇸 also This is not new. What’s new is the President of the United States mainstreaming fringe theories in the Oval Office, even as a head of state sits next to him refuting it.

TENNESSEE PASTOR: “These cuts (in the Republican budget) strike at the heart of our shared moral commitment as people of faith.” @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social : “The biggest transfer of wealth from the working poor to billionaires in our history… My generation already expects we'll never be able to afford a home, get out of debt, retire— Trump and the Republicans are making it worse.” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

The only free speech they’re for is their own

So you’re telling us the radical transparency people are against… transparency? www.politico.com/news/2025/05...