The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) stated that Orem “is a safe place. Not the kind of place where you expect something like this to happen. It’s truly tragic.” This is true of the sites of most school shootings, but apparently he doesn't care about those.

Once again, it's all about cruelty. How can they live with themselves?

Oh, so just #blamethemessenger

What a weasel Mike Johnson is! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

Wrote a thing: ...at the heart of it is another Trumpian Big Lie, that immigrants are a burden and menace. We need to fight the false story with a true one: this country needs its immigrants and they are a blessing and an enrichment of what this country is and in many ways its heart and soul.

American historian Dr Heather Cox Richardson reminds us.

My act of kindness and anarchy today is sharing this way of bypassing most paywalls. archive.ph

Secretary Kristi Noem: "DHS will continue to sustain and increase our presence in this city. We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialist and burdensome leadership that this governor and this mayor have imposed." #FDT #FKN

Wanted to abolish the IRS. Never wrote a tax bill. Not an accountant or any kind of organization manager. In fact, he's an auctioneer so he knows about fast talking. “You shouldn’t be within a thousand miles of the directorship of the IRS.” • Senator Elizabeth Warren

LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said that his agency had not been formally notified that the Marines would arrive in Los Angeles. (To me this implies that Mayor Bass hasn't been told either.)

A brief, very true Substack post from @katiephang.bsky.social

The Supreme Court holds that fascism is bad. Thomas and Alito dissent.

Grateful that *some* judges understand the Constitution. #DueProcess

Thank you Greyhound!

Maybe someone who doesn't use Signal or a personal cellphone for work. Work that might mean people living or dying.

Tim Snyder's powerful article reminded me of George Orwell's "Newspeak" (new speak) in his dystopian novel 1984. snyder.substack.com/p/state-terr...

This is what is happening to children. #F*ckTr*mp

Live on YouTube now.

"Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma. Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

WOW — Heather Cox Richardson and Jasmine Crockett together?!🔥 Trump started implementing Project 2025 on his first day back in office. I can't imagine two more informed and empowering women to show us how to fight it. I just signed up — join me!

Glee Violet posts on FB. Needs to be urged to crosspost (@grannyglee.bsky.social) on Bsky. Footnotes on FB.

Once upon a time many years ago I worked in Corporate America. I was not management but somehow I got added to their email list. I told our admin, then just ignored all messages. But it was nothing like this. What if this journalist was unscrupulous? (gift article)

Martin O'Malley (@martinomalley.bsky.social), former Social Security commissioner, says he believes the Trump administration has already taken 90% of the actions necessary to crater Social Security.

Hands Off! a National Day of Action on April 5th. If there isn't an event near you, organize one. Toolkit on the website.

Another horrid choice, "giving DOGE direct authority over an agency that it has worked to dismantle." Also, although not arrested, he and his wife were photographed at the Jan 6 insurrection so he's no stranger to lawbreaking.

Segregated facilities are no longer banned in federal contracts. No public hearings, no wait time, takes place immediately. Includes work areas, restaurants, drinking fountains, transportation, housing and more.

Here's a very good, very extensive post on how to get started on Bluesky, and how to use the platform effectively.

I just went to lunch with a dear friend. The restaurant is in the middle of a very conservative town by Southern California standards. I was eavesdropping on a couple of conversations that surprised me. Strong outward anti-Trmp, anti-fElon expressions by ~80-ish white ppl.

Oh, look! @schumer.senate.gov "postponed" his book tour because of all the pushback. It's time for new leadership.

This made me cry. #RealAmerica

We'll be there. I hope that the meeting is packed!

To personalize this article, "Go ahead and stay silent, Sonnie. Let my fears rule me. Watch injustice happen. Just don’t act like I did not know and accept that I am the latest in a long line of cowards who learned nothing from the past." If I do this I've yielded my humanity.

Words from the "woke" Farewell Address of the "Father of our Country."

"Make no mistake: The starving of Social Security’s administrative resources, which is currently taking place under the guise of ferreting out fraud and waste, is no accident. It’s part of a decades-long Republican project aimed at undermining public confidence in the program."

Commerce Secretary Lutnick blames Biden, of course but he also calls that guy in the White House "my President." Ugh!

I'm not watching. I just couldn't. But this.

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

#HuntingtonBeach is the worst! I have a dear lifelong friend who lives there but I'll meet up with her elsewhere. Not only will I never spend a dime there, I don't even want to breathe the same air as those horrid MAGAts. #Fascists

I don't know why my post was deleted so I'll try this instead.

@cisneros.house.gov When are you going to have a Town Hall meeting? At your local swearing-in on Feb 15th you said "soon" and probably on Zoom. Tick-tock. Time is slipping away quickly as is our democracy. #DOSOMETHING

He's a pile of crap and so are his products. #fElon #Muskrat

They're Nazis.

Wm Shakespeare - The Tempest

I said it often when he occupied the White House the first time. #PeopleWillDie - and they did. Now he's causing even more deaths. This is not America. Except that it is.

Also on today's Deadline White House @repjasmine.bsky.social.

Senator Elissa Slotkin (@slotkin.senate.gov) was on Deadline White House today. She was eloquent, passionate, sensible, and strong, setting out a plan for herself -- and all of us. She started by saying "Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his grave." I love the Democratic women from Michigan!