To the dads who protected us, provided for us, showed up—and taught us how to stand ten toes down: we see you, we love you, we thank you. Happy Father’s Day.

El Cheeto Signed Order Targeting NPR And PBS Funding Last Night https://twp.ai/4im3QD

🧵 To clarify what Eric Swalwell & Jasmine Crockett said: House Judiciary Republicans voted down an amendment stating ICE CANNOT deport U.S. citizens. You read that right. They refused to make it illegal to exile Americans. Here's the proof → tinyurl.com/GOP-judiciary

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday evening seeking to prohibit federal funding for NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The order, which could be subject to legal challenge, called the broadcasters’ news coverage “biased and partisan.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

Y’all — OKLAHOMA is going to require their schools to lie to their kids that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud. popular.info/p/new-oklaho...

“This is taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious indoctrination. You’ve just got to call it what it is.”

ILLINOIS… Gov. Pritzker…

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A headline from Hell. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

A kid whose parents couldn't afford school fees is now an "icon" on Time magazine's 2025 list — recognizing her work as CEO of Camfed, a charity that gives millions of girls a chance for an education.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Recent flight back from Florida- treatment at the Center for Collaborative Research- NeuroImmune Clinic. Being treated for MECFS and Long Covid- repeat infections are dangerous. Persistent coughing on the flight home. CO2 readings at the start of the flight and the end= ☢️ #MaskUp #LongCovid

Shocking.

Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

BREAKING: ICE raids Pre-K and deports 2 and 3 year-old kids just for the fun of it. Did you vote for that???

Basically @reidhoffman.bsky.social is sane and the other guy not so much

Trump says he's considering ways to serve a third term as president apnews.com/article/trum...

Donald Trump's Pathways to a Third Term https://twp.ai/1ZEZdm

Hey NBC and Seth Meyers, y’all need to book the largest possible venue in D.C. on April 26th and do a competing fundraiser and comedy show that actually celebrates the First Amendment. Televise it. Make Amber Ruffin the central act. Send a message that free speech is non-negotiable.

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

Boycott any company that sponsors. Let make sure it’s just Balance of nature, my pillow and relief factor and whatever else Foxnews one

💥 BREAKING: Walt Disney Company shareholders voted today 99-1 percent to reject an anti-LGBTQ+ proposal, requesting that the company sever its relationship with the Human Rights Campaign and HRC's Corporate Equality Index. Disney Board recommended shareholders vote against the proposal.

Schoolchildren are routinely slaughtered by AR-15s. Hundreds die. [*crickets* "Thoughts and prayers" *crickets*] A couple unoccupied cars are set on fire. No one is hurt. ["THIS HORROR WILL NOT STAND!!! We MUST act to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN!!!!" We will pass new LAWS BANNING IT!!!]

My husband @robertcooper-us.bsky.social and I were the FIRST gay couple to adopt children in the US, way back in 1985. We went on to adopt five wonderful kids — all adopted at birth. They’ve grown so much! Here’s a pic from our wedding in 2000, and a recent one including their significant others. ❤️

"daddy, what did you do in the war" son, i archived all 6,793 videos from the Kennedy Center before they disappeared from the internet we all did our part

Congrats @meidastouch.com !!! www.newsweek.com/meidas-touch...

@stealthygeek.bsky.social: “Democrats should be running daily press briefings from a shadow White House pool of the legitimate news agencies which have been locked out by the Trump coup. Their audiences will get real news, Dems will regain some messaging control. Why is this not already happening?”

Do this. Say this. 👇🏻

Congrats to @bsky.app and all the users and team that make it unique ! 32m users is real !

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

Exactly right

Spineless, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, weak-kneed, pusillanimous chickenshits.

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They’re doing project 2025, just like we said they would

* TRUMP ADVISERS MULL FOLDING FDIC INTO TREASURY: WSJ @wsj.com

Judges are, in fact, able to block unconstitutional and illegal actions by the executive branch. What's even more pathetic is that JD Vance went to law school.

Republicans can't and shouldn't govern.

This is going to be EPIC: All your favorite Democratic creators (and a few huge surprise guests) are coming together for a MASSIVE zoom Tuesday. This is going to be one of the most important conversations of the Trump presidency. Will you repost and join us? 🧵