This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Trump and the Republicans are denying you healthcare while they supply Kristi Noem with two luxury Gulfstream private jets for $172,000,000. Facts.

Yup.

NYPD announces that zero arrests were made at the massive No Kings protests today after Republicans spent days claiming the protestors are violent terrorists.

No Kings, San Diego H/T @paleofuture.bsky.social

No Kings-Los Angeles, CA

Fuckin criminal.

Excellent turn out for No Kings in Eau Claire WI!

In Connecticut, the health care advocate office — whose services are free — has been able to resolve or overturn insurance denials in the patient’s favor about 80% of the time. Check to see if your state has a similar consumer assistance program:

If you’ve never been to a protest like “No Kings” and worry it will be a downer or a bore, I’m here to tell you it’s fun and inspiring. It will make you feel better about people, and we need that after seeing all those MAGA thugs and liars on the news. You are not alone. Get your ass out there!

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The war zone in Portland is out of control.

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton. I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days. They have worked 12 days in 3 months. Epstein Shutdown.

When Ceasefire Finally Arrived Here in Gaza, What Poured Out of Me Was Grief

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

The Founders counted on Congress being interested in protecting its own powers vis a vis the executive. They certainly didn't foresee a speaker like Mike Johnson. www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mi...

Such bullshit.

I’m pretty sure they don’t even let you *run* for Congress as a Republican unless you’ve got at least one (1) restraining order from a former girlfriend half your age.

A 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts was detained by local police on Thursday. When his mother arrived to pick him up, she learned that her son had instead been taken into ICE custody and later transferred to a juvenile facility in Virginia, more than 500 miles away.

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

I feel bad for the ordinary person who looks to purportedly respectable scientific figures for insight into the wonders of the universe, only to be met by absurd speculations that an interstellar comet is alien technology. (It is not.) No better than anti-vax nonsense. imgur.com/gallery/theo...

You mean that giant mega-corporations are lying?

Harvard and Peking University scientists have built new tools that can edit the DNA inside mitochondria, long unreachable by CRISPR This could soon allow treatments for at least 150 diseases linked to faulty mitochondria, from blindness to heart failure www.nature.com/articles/d41...

PROFOLUS: The Center for Strategic and International Studies found that right-wing extremists were responsible for approximately 67 percent of extremist-related terrorist plots and attacks between 2015 and 2020. #ICYMI

Yes, color me shocked.

Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action. #climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

Senate is back in session today. 1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown. You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

So much good news here!

As global temperatures climb, scientists warn of crossing “tipping points” that could trigger irreversible shifts, from melting ice sheets to Amazon die-offs. But understanding how these thresholds work shows there’s still room for hope and action 🌎🌱 buff.ly/pIdGe57

🚨After being tased and beaten by ICE, a man dies in a Chicago hospital. Date and location in following post. These are the horrors of 2025 and we cannot look away. 1/2

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time. There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

All it takes is one racist asshole like this one to set equal rights and human rights back 200+ years

Wild, wacky, and sometimes downright contradictory: Come celebrate a century of quantum mechanics with SciFri. 🎉 ⚛️

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

I know I’m repeating myself, but Trump is a fucking idiot.

Yup, institutions are only as good as the people that run them.

Make sure everyone knows: these mass firings are NOT because of the shutdown. Trump doesn’t have to fire any of these people—he’s choosing to do it as an intimidation tactic. Difficult to overstate how stupid and reckless this is.

ICYMI: my cheat sheet to November elections has dozens of local elections that are critical for local power on all sorts of issues. one thing to spotlight: conservative majorities on school boards are on the line, again, with key hotspots in CO, TX, and PA. see here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Of course he is.

Trump and Russ Vought don’t have to lay off federal workers. They’re choosing to because they want to “inflict maximum pain” on the American people. It’s time for Republicans to come to the table and end this chaos. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

This bullshit needs to stop!

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize

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Ten years, more than ten-tupled.