Goodnight everyone, and if you accidentally got an extremely recognizable Nazi symbol tattoo years ago and keep forgetting to get it covered up, maybe do that tomorrow and don’t spend any more extra years with an extremely recognizable Nazi symbol tattooed on your body

Seriously, why are you insulting people's intelligence like this. There is very obviously a massive excluded middle between "bland Ivy League corporate automaton" and "still has large Nazi tattoo." There's nothing wrong with having found him appealing. He was! But it's over and this is silly

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

I knew that we’d have to grapple with the millennial “I communicate exclusively in Family Guy quotes” straight guy demographic getting into politics eventually, but I draw the line on supporting that kind of raw embarrassment on *my* side

So while we could never know what was in the mind of a drunken marine in Croatia, I can ask myself “what would I do if I found out I had an accidental Nazi tattoo.” What would teshuvah look like? That’s the only conversation I care about. Those actions matter. And Platner’s failing. (/4)

Look, folks, he's the *Speaker* of the House, not the Listener of the House or the Watcher of the House. You can't expect him to be aware of major events that are unfolding right before him.

My signal is annabower.24 if any other United States Attorneys want to text me!

It’s clear at pretty much every turn that none of these people have any experience with anything they’re doing and are just playacting what they’ve seen in movies. It’s a government run by people whose experience amounts to the “I’m not a doctor but I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night” ads.

It's also worth pointing out that we don't have JUST billionaires. We have UBER-Billionaires, people with HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS. They're massive money sinks at the top of the economy and just hoard INSANE, POINTLESS levels of personal wealth that is artificially cut off from other people

Julia, as usual, fucking nailing it to the wall. www.thegauntlet.news/p/beyond-all...

This. None of us actually expect that we’re going to see society wide masking anymore. Masking in medical facilities should be the bare minimum. A few more people choosing to mask up might save a life. Every infection is a dice roll with disability and some of us are too sick to take the risk

When we say “everyone should mask” we don’t actually expect people will. We know how selfish people are. But we say it because: 1) it’s factually true 2) if even a few people listen to us that’s a few more lives saved and, as the Talmud says, every life is a universe.

You heard him, my fellow disabled and high risk folk, just avoid going in public forever. Sheesh. Stop asking for things like access to society or not being killed by your neighbors.

I remember a short form video from early on, out of Italy, that was just a person turning the pages of the obituary section. And it was just page after page after page.

we are in a self-awareness crisis

It's also annoying because there were, in fact, a few international protests and marches in solidarity. And promoting this fake bullshit detracts from the real people who actually joined in an important moment.

Is this anything: Old McDonald had a farm. A-U-N-E-O and on that farm he had some cows. A-U-N-E-O And all those cows became some steaks. A-U-N-E-O RBIS piled up at the plate. A-U-N-E-O. (Eugenio Suarez is pronounced a little like A-U-N-E-O)

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

relieved to see uva declined to play the role of quisling in the administration’s attempted takeover of higher ed

More money for teachers, librarians and public health. More money for affordable housing, food assistance, education, child care and clean air and water. Less money for war, ICE, corporate tax cuts and the billionaire class. It is possible.

AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

Had an affair with her source and all she got was a book deal, a cushy Vanity Fair editing gig and a year off. Real tough to be “exiled” these days

Six people had their visas revoked due to their social media posts. Six people are being deported because of what they said online. Six people have had their freedom of speech suspended. It won’t stop with these six people. Either we all have freedom of speech or none of us do.

Over 700,000 southern Arizonans still don’t have representation in Congress, more than three weeks after we elected @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social. Democracy means honoring the will of the people. Speaker Johnson must do the right thing and swear her in so she can get to work.

Yes your taxes should support disabled people. They should support homeless people. They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly. This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

Once you have called disabled people a burden, you have facilitated the devaluation, dehumanization and death of disabled people.

i'd much rather my taxes suppprt those listed than be used to buy bombs to kill Black and brown children around the globe.

Keira Knightley cares so little about trans people that she couldn't even be bothered to prep an answer about working w/ Rowling & just seemed very angry to be asked. And no, I don't believe that she didn't know. Come on. www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/co...

For me, this is one of the worst outrages to emerge so far from the Trump regime's coup. You simply cannot threaten to shoot medical workers engaged in delivering emergency care.

27 years ago Matthew Shepard was murdered in a violent hate crime. His family couldn’t give him a final resting place due to fears it would be vandalized. Mariann Budde, the Bishop who stood up to Trump, gave Matthew a spot in the Washington National Cathedral. We need more people like her.

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

I really wouldn’t be shining lasers at helicopters if I were you. It’s illegal and could cause an aircraft to crash - and that could kill a LOT of people, in the air and on the ground. And the ICE goons appear to be *salivating* at the chance to claim people that they arrest were doing this:

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

Extra bonus for US people: A little added protection from the increasing use of facial identification software amidst an increasingly authoritarian federal government and police force.

The mass firings at the CDC tonight drive home the fact that no one is coming to save us But we can save each other Wear a mask. Ideally a respirator like an N95 Even if you’re vaccinated. Even if you’re “not worried” It protects you but it also protects everyone else Bonus? Less colds & flus!

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood. I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

A federal judge has ordered that ICE cannot use rubber bullets or other “less lethal ammo” directly on protesters at the Broadview ICE facility. Good. Now arrest and charge the agents who shot the priest in the head and the woman in her car. Stop letting them get away with it.

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

JFC.

The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…

I put my lactaid in a Pez dispenser, thanks someone on Insta's idea. It makes it fun and I am always excited to take the lactaid so I remember to take it.

Just split screen this nonsense with a live feed from the streets of Portland

Miller “slips” on CNN and says Trump has plenary power. Trump says “we took the freedom of speech away”. Bondi says “we’re going to do to Antifa the same thing we did to the cartels”. These are not people interested in Democracy. They’re not looking for another term. They want unchecked power

I can’t believe my life is being affected by the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Look, the President clearly has some form of dementia, and I STILL have to plan my own meals for the week? This sucks.