BREAKING: We've lost two more service members in Trump's deranged, illegal, and unnecessary war in Iran.

call me Odysseus because when I want to go home, I’m about to make it everybody’s problem

Fascism is here. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. “Left-wing political terrorism” will mean those who oppose the regime — while actual right-wing extremism is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.

I'll let others comment on most aspects of the AP story, which clearly depicts the ICE agent David Brouillette as a psychopath, but I just want to refute this one section. Regardless of what Brouillette's family believes about his military service, this isn't true. 🧵

I’m gonna need a bigger eyeroll. are we really doing the red scare again?

Sam Neill insisting on changing the Australian flag in Event Horizon, and the reasoning behind it, speaks to his character so well. For those who don't know, the reason the flag on Weir's costume has the Aboriginal flag, not the Union flag, is because Sam said he hoped by 2047 we'd have changed it.

could really go for a little consensus reality right about now

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.

Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.

"You don’t pressure witnesses to a shooting to self-deport if your goal is to get to the bottom of what happened." In the same way that the government did not investigate the Minnesota shootings, they will not investigate these shootings.

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

All the Very Serious People who told you Trump can't cancel elections were technically correct. Unfortunately, they left out the part about how he will aggressively move to hinder voting, create chaos around the election and ultimately use his executive power to swing it.

this is outright political retaliation. is the VFW a perfect org? absolutely not. will the veteran community be poorer without their advocacy? bet your bottom dollar on it. this also sets the stage that they can and will go after anyone who lobbies or otherwise opposes legislation

Once again : What women on the left already knew before the Epstein files + Platner is that men can imagine a world of class consciousness (Chomsky), a universe more expansive than ever before known (Hawking), a world where you can live forever (Attia) but not a world where women are fully human.

he still hasn’t fucked off yet, huh?

Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights.

ICE is a for-profit scam Private Prison Companies’ Enormous Windfall: Who Stands to Gain as ICE Expands For years private prison companies have been an important partner for ICE as the government carries out its immigration agenda. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

“This is not ok. We cannot normalize the National Guard killing American citizens. They shouldn’t be in Memphis at all. The family deserves answers.” Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social reacts to the news 2 National Guard troops shot and killed Tyrin Johnson in MEMPHIS.

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

The U.S. military shot and killed an American on U.S. soil this morning

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

Tough read. interc.pt/4fcc6Tr

Don’t be disheartened America, it’s actually fine having a system that gives effectively unlimited executive power to the head of government. You just have to make sure you only ever elect good chaps to head your government! You did remember to only ever elect good chaps, right

To be crystal clear here -- the nun was **wearing her habit** and walking to Sunday mass when ICE arrested her and hauled her off: apnews.com/article/nun-...

ms. frizzle was fired and charged with child endangerment after driving a school bus while unlicensed and under the influence of mushrooms

Friends, they’re not even trying to hide their voter suppression. ⬇️

My latest: Secretary Collins' Quixotic War on "Woke" Hurts Veterans open.substack.com/pub/kaylawil...

Widow’s Bay (2026)

Scary facts.

We have a literal network of virtually unaccountable, law-breaking, often for-profit concentration camps in operation across the USA. We are almost all *severely* under-reacting to that fact.

remember when you used to be a rascal?

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.

Wonderful focal case for illustrating the multi-dimensional political-economic failure of our society. "Elon Musk? The world's greatest living mass murderer due to his illegal & unconstitutional annihilation of USAID? That guy?"

spencer knocked right out of the race? call that a pratt fall.

thank you! it’s not by accident. the devaluing of women’s lives and stripping of our autonomy are a features, not bugs, of patriarchal control. if republicans can’t dominate women’s bodies and lives, they *want* us dead.

for shame

For many years, there were allegations that ICE would “release” critically ill people in hospitals so that their deaths wouldn’t be recorded as in ICE custody. To fix this, in 2021 the Biden admin required ICE to report deaths occurring up to 30 days after release. Now that rule has been dropped.

We must acknowledge that systemic racism and sexism will always be a part of these decisions. Everyone sitting on those boards brings their bias into the room. SECDEF is just admitting his out loud and allowing it to shape the careers of others with whom he couldn’t compete on his best day.

Family values. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

honoring PTSD awareness month by being so hypervigilant that I can’t sleep until the sun comes up

this is a pride flag made from real nasa imagery happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈✨

last night, I left out a pamplemousse lacroix for the babadook, and shortly after midnight, on the brink of sleep, i heard the pop of the top of the can and the fizz of tiny bubbles followed by a creaking whisper of a message that i share now with you: “ba ba ba dook dook dook” (“happy pride”)

misogyny is inherently violent. it asserts hierarchy with the threat (implicit or explicit) of domination. benevolent misogyny, rape, legislation and policy affecting women's bodies and financial independence, sexual harassment, sexual assault, "locker room talk," stalking, IPV, femicide. all of it.

new?!?! 1 in 3 women experience physical, sexual, or psychological violence. marital rape was legal across the country until the 70s and in in North Carolina until 1993. the president is an adjudicated rapist. this “new” targeting of women is backlash for us getting basic-ass rights back.

Oh you don’t sayyyyyyyyyy

what am I up to? not much. just thinking about how Betty Gilpin is a national treasure. you know, the usual.