"As the Church, we are holding the line together and that line is under real pressure. What we do, in our sanctuaries, on our railings, in our communities, is a proclamation that LGBTQIA+ people are beloved of God. And that love is undefeatable." bluevirginia.us/2026/06/thur...

I was an GW scholarship student in 1971 when this opened, w/a job as the PBX switchboard night relief operator at my dorm. A tiny part of my taxes helped pay for it. I was proud to contribute. I’ll gladly bring lighter fluid and matches to help burn all the Trump defaced stationery to ash.

Kennedy Center Tells Staff to Immediately Remove Trump’s Name From Documents www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/a...

Melinda French Gates: Women, We Deserve Better: Women aren’t treated as equals, as partners, or even as humans. Just as disposable things. We will never receive better as long as misogyny reigns supreme, substituting for actual competence, and abuse continues not just unfettered, but celebrated.

Whoa!

Mad Magazine had Trump’s number Long before he waddled down that fake gold elevator. Narcissists fear humor worse than a vampire does sunlight. Circulate widely.

Early on in the administration @markwarner.bsky.social and @kaine.senate.gov played disgusting footsie with the Trump administration. I believe they have FINALLY read the room and seen the error of their ways. Incidentally, each voted NO on Tulsi.

Why and WHAT is Tom Kean Jr in hiding? No one has seen or heard from him (face to face/voice, not email) in months. I don’t think it’s a physical illness; that generates sympathy, and support. Something else is going on. Something he (or his handlers) think would be disqualifyng with the voters.

Remember this the next time you're putting gas in your vehicle or buying groceries. Fucker is spending your money on his entertainment like it's growing on trees👇

A string of stinging, high-profile losses for Trump in court today The slush fund is especially endangered Here’s a comprehensive rundown ====> youtu.be/PHHU4oJnrBQ?...

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Trump’shad planned for a Camp David cabinet meeting with the remains of his staff is cancelled. Nothing is going well, so I was expecting a disgusting, and puerile display of slobbering adoration—something he demands—in the mountains.

“It’s just burning. I just wanted to try to keep people safe.” ICE fired pepper spray at Senator Andy Kim and protesters outside a detention facility in New Jersey. Not another penny should go to these out-of-control agencies — and when we regain power, we will hold all of these thugs accountable.

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Vietnam Vets Crashed Trump’s Coast Guard Speech, Marine Calls Out His Slush Fund, and Republicans Ran From The Iran War Powers Vote open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/...

Buttigieg brings the fire 🔥 Don't forget to subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe

Trump cancelled everything to stay at the White House and then there’s a bunch of gunfire? 🙄 Cue the ballroom talk. Again.

Exactly. #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass

Ditto.

The citizens of Festus, Missouri, population approximately 14,000, just voted out every single city council member who secretly approved a gigantic data center. A recall petition is also being circulated to remove the mayor and council members who were not on the ballot.

Joyous. And not just the dismissal, or the charges of prosecutorial misconduct,which may cost the AUSA his law license. Keep reading. All charges dismissed against "Broadview Six," defense says grand jury transcript revealed "gross misconduct" - CBS Chicago.

Really.

No, #BrokenPost, what is profane is not his language, it is his bigotry, his cruelty, his ignorance, his violence, his disregard for--his reveling in--human suffering, his destruction of democracy. Profanity is a hallmark of Trump’s second term www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

you probably know this already, but its a take on this one that got rejected and made her resign WaPo

Dear God: Apparently the Trumpers think that since Ebola is found in Africa, only black people can e infected. I know you don’t deal in retribution, but there should be a special place in hell waiting for all of them.

What’s up? Tried to sign in here last night and was confronted with just a blue box (both the app and trying to connect with a browser.). This morning #Bluesky made me actually sign in? Anyone have information, or even a guess? Inquiring minds (this one anyway) would like to know?

Big deal, not the lede “L'objectif est notamment d'identifier ceux qui auraient pu lui permettre de faciliter ses crimes en France. “The point of the inquiries is to identify Epstein’s facilitators” In America, our government is protecting the pedos.

From today’s @NYTimes: “The Hondius and most of its passengers eventually sailed to Tenerife in the Canary Islands, where local leaders did all they could to stop them from coming, including suggesting that rats might swim ashore and bring the virus with them.” This is my nightmare scenario.

I went out on foot to do my chores (recycle glass, hardware store and grocery store) and saw the American flag at half staff. I didn't read the news this morning and thought "could it be the fat bastard is dead?" No such luck.

I think. I was an analyst all my life. And I absolutely hate it when something like this pops into my head. What happens if Andes virus (against we have virtually no protection) jumps to American rats?

New essay: The Rats We Don’t See — are we even maintaining the systems meant to catch what slips through? Just because a pest is vanquished doesn’t mean it will remain so without active human intervention. And those interventions are being dangerously gutted, in the name of efficiency.

The Andes hantavirus response is part of a longer pattern: Nebraska is one of the places the U.S. turns to when something unusual and high-risk appears. Nebraska might seem like an odd destination for Andes hantavirus patients and exposed cruise passengers,

Who or what is ShinyHunters, and what is their goal or manifesto. Sometimes all hackers want to do is steal and resell our information (Google “Doge+Incels+Social Security” for deets) but AFAIK ShinyHunters haven’t issued a demand. archive.ph/Eeuun

Fascinating summary from Greg Olear on Substack. Worth your effort to read the article, particularly if you like history. This is the takeaway on Trump’s war of choice

WOTD: dipsomaniac. Short form “dipso”, any person who has an uncontrollable and recurring urge to drink alcohol. Synonyms: drunk, Kash, Hegseth.

Every suspected hantavirus case took a commercial flight to get home. They were in crowded airports and on airplanes. They weren’t isolated. They weren’t instructed to mask. No precautions were taken. The lack of precautionary principle is maddening. If you’re traveling, wear an N95.

to be even more clear, since folks aren't getting it: civil servants typically step down like this when they find themselves unable to fulfill their duties because of political interference from above

No export markets. No SNAP or food aid to soak up surpluses. Farms, supply, processing, truckers & more will go broke. Many voted for Trump and deserve it; they have to go broke to make Trump great again. But a lot of people didn’t and are getting hurt, too.

Virginia's crown jewel. L. Louise Lucas Quiet piggy, Louise Lucas is speaking.

Christine Cooper is asking all the right questions. I have 3more: how much are the centers getting in tax abatements/avoidance? How much did they contribute to any political campaigns of the approving authorities? And who will pay to build to build the additional power generating facilities?

Good morning world!

Indiana’s primary is May 5. Trump put a LOT of pressure on the state legislature to further gerrymander the state, because he “deserved” more votes. To many Hoosiers, he could do no wrong. No racism, rape, pedo protection, gutting of the social net, is too much. Until now. Vote accordingly

VA Sen. Louise Lucas - "Update: It appears they don’t like it." LOL bluevirginia.us/2026/04/the-...

See Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for deets. The clearest treatment is in The Gulag Archipelago, where he describes the Soviet practice of declaring politically inconvenient people “insane” and confining them to psychiatric hospitals. Brought to America by Donald Trump and his pedo protecting acolytes.

So my rum and raisin cake is gluten free. It’s also raisin free. And cake free. OK it’s just rum.

And the grift goes on. American soldiers are going with inadequate food, the war is being lost at enormous courts, but one group continues to profit: the grift goes on. read on for the disgusting details.

In 2024, the US economy grew 2.8% and created 2M new jobs. In 2025, the US economy grew 2.1% and created 116,000 new jobs. There’s no reason for a 25% growth reduction and non-existent job growth from 2024 to 2025 other than changing out a normal president for a deranged sociopath like Dear Leader

We told you so. But nobody, including a lot of women, wanted to believe how little their so-called rights meant, or how quickly they could be removed.

Wise move on the part of the Chinese, and dazzlingly more intelligent and sensible—and useful for corporate self preservation—than what is happening in corporate America. MORE