(cont'd) I like this quote from the decision (by a Reagan appointee, btw):

“We live in a society that accords its citizens enormous benefits. In return, states can, in a measured way, require certain exactions & accommodations to the broader social interest... WV's compulsory vaccination law does exactly that... a legitimate exercise of the state’s power"🛟😷🧭 health policy

MacKenzie Scott just gave an HBCU that was teetering on the edge of survival $42 million. In 2020, she gave them $15 million.

MAGA Catholics are the Pick Me Girls of White Christian Nationalism.

At least 2.5 million low-income people quickly lost help affording groceries under a Republican-passed law that added new requirements for the nation’s largest nutrition program and shifted hundreds of millions of dollars in costs from the federal government to states. By @fischler.bsky.social

Who benefits more from the U.S. & Iran cease-fire deal?

This is so vile.

The Trump administration threatened to kill the pope to the Vatican's ambassador and install a antipope in the US.

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

It's really striking, even for those of us who live here. The signs truly are all over *every single block*

I need to write about something that doesn’t destroy my will to live if anyone has any suggestions

(5) There were some good questions toward the end which received party-line answers. For example, decreasing the number of NOFOs was "streamlining the process" for investigators who could just read through the institute priorities on the parent announcements. 3/4

Just watched the NIH Strategic Planning input session... Some observations: (1) I am glad that NIH is doing this (although I do remain skeptical about how seriously they will take input which challenges their existing intentions). PEOPLE SHOULD STILL COMMENT! grants.nih.gov/news-events/... 1/4

New York, Cardi B is ready to judge your jingles. Submit your song about 2-K child care at nyc.gov/jingle by April 17 — only 9 days left!

I am getting a lot of questions about whether Trump's threats alone are illegal. The answer is yes. 1. First, Additional Protocol I states “Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” (also DOD LOW Manual §5.2.2) 1/

After Trump's latest genocidal utterances, I'm posting this again from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.” After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.

A Judge Mistakes the Claude Chatbot for a Person www.wsj.com/opinion/a-ju...

Cruz's DC number: 202-224-5922 Cornyn's DC number: 202-224-2934

If posting with barbaric fervor about launching a genocide doesn’t warrant removal from office, then what would? This moment demands invoking the 25th Amendment. If Vance and the Cabinet want any redemption from history, this is their chance. (1/2)

Over-the-counter medication abortion? These researchers say it would be safe. LFG!! www.npr.org/2026/04/06/n...

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

Remember when DHS agents had no choice but to shoot two Venezuelan men because the men had attacked them with a snow shovel and a broomstick? New video shows they were lying about that one, too. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

"The federal government had access to that video within hours of the shooting on Jan. 14, the Minneapolis police chief said. Yet prosecutors did not watch the footage, an official said, until nearly three weeks after they filed charges against the two men."

The Vice President’s parents-in-law came to the United States as foreign students, at the University of California.

At 11:37 they changed the story to include the full post with no explanation why it was deleted originally

@marisakabas.bsky.social is 100% right that this is just an online creative writing course for despot-smooching louses bsky.app/profile/mark...

It is quite objectively a news story that the most prestigious media outlet in the world is deleting the president’s statements to conceal his insanity in a war crime threat, and other news outlets can report that story very easily in a way that could both inform their audience and peel off readers

The media protecting the president by deleting his statements is the definition of state media bsky.app/profile/atru...

The NYT literally rewrote Trump saying “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in hell” as: “Mr. Trump issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz”

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

conversion therapy and crisis pregnancy centers both benefit from putting quackery and expertise on equal footing, except even that's not enough. CPCs got millions from HHS while they also tried to block Medicaid recipients from obtaining care at Planned Parenthood. Quackery REPLACES expertise.

If you were reading a history of the Gilded Age and encountered a tycoon who kept pushing insane conspiracy theories about declining white birth rates and who used his vast influence to kill off nearly a million people in Africa, you'd very easily conclude that person was a white supremacist.

White supremacy as the deliberate limitation of imagination.

Abortion with pills is safe ❤️

Pope Leo when he hears JD Vance is writing a book about the Catholic faith

American Protestantism is really something else. The Pope is like “God doesn’t want us to invoke his name when we kill people” and Franklin Graham is like “God loves it when our powerful leaders hulk smash the evildoers you woke fool.”

Pete Hegseth is recklessly firing some of our most dedicated military leaders. @crow.house.gov These are folks with hundreds of years of combined experience, being pushed out with no notice. Hegseth’s political purges are endangering our national security.

Let's pause and reflect on what this means. This is a White House FY27 *budget request* that should (and likely will) be rejected. But NSF "leaders" are going to dissolve SBE. On what grounds? SBE is funded this year & will be funded next year. Paging @lofgren.house.gov and House SST.

“They were going to come. It was going to be a big thing. We were going to go to the beach right after. All those plans had to go out the window because they said ICE would be here."

I have not found information about proposed budgets for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). But they are proposing a $441 billion increase (43.7%) for the Department of "War" (actually Defense). 8/9

The combined fiscal year 2026 budget for these ICs is approximately $1.2 billion so that leaves a $3.8 billion cut for the rest of NIH. 3/9

For NIH, it proposes a $5 billion cut to research program funding (~11% cut). It also proposes elimination of 1 institutes and 2 centers: National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health Fogarty International Center 2/9

We'll see y'all TONIGHT at Binski's for the meat raffle for abortion access! Each ticket is just $1 & raffles will be called every 20 minutes 🍴🤤

ICE inspectors in February found 49 violations to detention standards at Camp East Montana, including failure from staff to "accurately document required checks to prevent significant self-harm and suicide."

INBOX: All 497 employees at Stone Mountain Park, the birthplace of the second Klan and Georgia's most visited attraction, received notice that they would be laid off because Aramark, a company infamously accused of "modern-day slavery" by using unpaid prison labor, has taken over operations:

NEW: The Pentagon today invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics. www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.