Why not? He’s doing a bangup job😒

#IDontLikeBeingRudeBut having to deal with a utility company’s automated phone system brings out the worst in me.

Let’s see how many followers 60 Minutes and all the other CBS accounts can lose in a day.

ICE’s Delaney Hall is being slammed with lawsuits. The state of New Jersey is suing GEO Group, the company that operates it, seeking a court order for full access by health inspectors, who since Wednesday have lacked it.

NJ politicians are sending in cops and imposing curfews while ignoring protesters' concerns and a hunger strike that DHS claims doesn't exist.

Ask local businesses and workplaces to become Fourth Amendment workplaces that keep your community safe from ICE. Check out this toolkit from Siembra NC to get started canvassing in your town.

The EPA proposes two rules re: PFAS in drinking water. One will rescind Biden-era regulations for PFHxS, PFNA, HFPO-DA, & Hazard Index mixtures. The other will extend compliance deadlines for PFOA & PFOS Max Contaminant Levels til 2031. Comment period closes 7/20. www.regulations.gov/document/EPA...

After all, it’s the American (business) way😒 www.newstribune.com/news/2026/ma...

Imagine if a woman president drooled over Coast Guard graduates and praised their muscles.

“Millions of Americans are dropping their health insurance this year, and millions more are expected to lose their coverage in the years to come.” The turmoil is entirely a matter of Republican policy choices. “Now, millions of Americans will pay the price.” www.vox.com/good-medicin...

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵

“Trump is threatening to exile hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants.” www.vox.com/politics/490...

#TypesOfVehiclesInASongOrMovie Jane Honda

Photo: Members of the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia protest outside the White House in 1924. (Library of Congress) boundarystones.weta.org/2020/08/21/v...

“The last director of the National Park Service…agreed that the Trump administration seems to have it in for the Park Service and worried that the guardrails that used to prevent the executive branch from doing whatever it wants with park land are disappearing.” www.newstribune.com/news/2026/ma...

“No democracy can survive if tens of millions of its citizens refuse to fight to protect it because they ‘don’t do politics’.… Now is the time to engage.“ open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Activism works! missouriindependent.com/2026/05/29/r...

Keep this handy. truthout.org/audio/ice-ca...

“At-will employment and the subminimum wage for tipped workers are both rooted in the employer backlash to Emancipation.” www.nelp.org/reversing-la...

“When we say this is the worst America has ever been, we inadvertantly erase the people who survived worse with fewer rights, fewer tools, fewer witnesses, fewer protections,….and we also rob young folks of….proof that people have fought monsters before.” open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

“Johnson’s effort to distance himself from this Republican dirty tricks operation is rapidly losing credibility. We have uncovered links between two more sham PACs and the treasurer of Johnson’s campaign committee.” open.substack.com/pub/populari...

“…an unregulated online casino that, according to state gambling regulators, is operating illegally.” open.substack.com/pub/populari...

My gosh. theintercept.com/2026/05/21/i...

#WhatNeedsMaintenanceIs democracy.

Fascism is obsessed with exclusion and purity. After an initial outbreak, where adherents unleash pent-up resentment against the designated out-group scapegoat, fascist movements are prone to shrink and devolve into infighting and paranoia, as unorthodoxy is purged and zealots jockey for position.

Write your congressional representative! rs.bot/2PjQ3s

#WhenTheresTooMuch, I take a little road trip to get rejuvenated.

This Day in Labor History: May 21, 1968. The Poor People’s Campaign began setting up its encampment in Washington, D.C., called Resurrection City. This was Martin Luther King's last campaign. It did not succeed without his leadership, but would have been difficult to pull off anyway. Let's chat!

Cole County Missouri is so proud of their “baby box” where under resourced women can drop off their babies. And then, this. kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...

This 2026 ballot will be the most complex & confusing Missouri ballot of my >50 yrs voting lifetime. There are also Initiative Petitions/referendums awaiting signature verification/certification by Hoskins, Secretary of State, that will make the list in this reporting longer.

“The same poisonous ideology that built the Confederacy, sabotaged Reconstruction, and instituted Jim Crow is slithering its way through Republican states to suffocate representative democracy.” ~ Ezra Levin, Co-Executive Director, Indivisible

Hooray for women prosecutors! apnews.com/article/minn...

“…The Missouri House hasn’t functioned with an actual supermajority for some time. …Kehoe never called special elections for a number of vacant House seats. That prevented Republicans from…trying to eliminate the majority-minority 1st Congressional District. www.stlpr.org/government-p...

“It takes a special kind of cruelty to meddle in end of life care for political reasons.” ~ @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social missouriindependent.com/2026/05/18/m...