Everything’s legal when the cops are in your pocket, the judges look the other way, and the media profits from your exploits…

It’s also about shaming people for being disabled or having disabled children, so therefore, like so much of the GOP platform, it comes right back to eugenics.

Remote work is an easy, excellent accommodation for disabled workers, and removing it is pure spite and aggression. The article itself is very good and reminds us that there was a serious shooting at CDC headquarters recently! Like, damn, that’s a good reason not to go into the office.

Boy, if you had sum up 2025 in a photo, I'm not sure you could do better than masked thugs in military gear using chemical weapons on a priest at point-blank range.

I love how when Republicans need help they think they're so entitled to all the help in the world cuz they "really need it" yet disabled Americans need to just work harder due to republican achievement ethos. Disabled Americans don't fit into the narrow world view that you get what you work for.

"What do you expect Democrats to do!?!???'

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

the trajectory from circa 1999 Man Show-era women jumping on trampolines Jimmy Kimmel to 2025 free speech canary in the coal mine Jimmy Kimmel is really something

The Trump administration giving the largest grant in the history of the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) to the Tikvah Fund represents an attempt to construct a parallel infrastructure for the academic study of Judaism, explicitly allied with ethnonationalist, Christian nationalist forces.

I must admit I’m just finding the entire mainstream media annoying as fuck lately, with too few exceptions.

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Trump is posthumously awarding Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Vance flew his casket on Air Force 2. A memorial is happening at The Kennedy Center. State Dept and Pentagon are taking steps to prevent criticism of Kirk. This is NOT normal treatment for an extremist. It’s a message.

"How you die does not redeem how you lived. ... I can abhor the violence that took your life, but I don't have to celebrate how you chose to live your life"

OK folks. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is meeting on Friday to discuss Covid vaccines. If it is possible, I do recommend getting a Covid vaccine before then. I know due to out of pocket costs and prescription requirements in some states it is easier said then done.

The Emmy’s Boys and Girls Club countdown clock is terrible on every level. #EmmyAwards2025

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

3 months ago, today, Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered by a Trump supporter. They had kids, too.

In loving memory of Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their faithful furry companion, Gilbert. May they rest in peace. 🕯️🌹

This. But that's to be expected. They view themselves as being at war with us, and you do not mourn enemy casualties - although you certainly get very offended if your (perceived) enemies do not respect, if not mourn, your own honored dead.

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. ― James Baldwin Every single one of them. Goodnight 💚

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

.... well i wrote one book about weird right wing internet shit and one book about conservative american religion

This child was infected with measles before they were able to be vaccinated (under 12 months), likely from someone unvaccinated. They survived the infection but years later they’re dead. The risk of SSPE for an infant infected with measles is 1 in 600, & it’s 95% fatal. Your vaccine protects others

Not that this wasn’t already true before But it became MORE of a reality for people due to COVID & the removal of mask mandates in 2022 This prevented (and still prevents) disabled / #immunocompromised / chronically ill people from accessing spaces safely Tweeted by @spoonfulofhannah.bsky.social

More signs of fascism: getting fired for making an honest and rather bland statement that the oligarchs don’t want to hear.

Why wasn’t there this kind of media reaction when an anti-vaxxer shot upbthe CDC?

I'd defend him like the ACLU defending neo-Nazis marching in Skokie. It's very bad for him to have been murdered but I won't pretend he held the same values that lead me to defend him.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

At least 3 students are in critical condition after a shooting at Evergreen HS in Colorado. This is the 47th shooting that took place at a school in the US so far this year: 24 on college campuses, 23 on K-12 school grounds. This happened less than an hour after Charlie Kirk shooting in Utah.

No. They don't. I want people who advocate for irresponsible gun policies to live in a society with responsible gun policies. I want people who don't support good healthcare policies to have healthcare. I want people who don't support democracy to live in one. I want a better society for all.

What’s happening to CBS News is neither complicated nor subtle. www.mediamatters.org/cbs/how-cbs-...

With screaming rage, I dissent

it really seems to be that nobody in power in America actually cares about national security, they just have a preference for tough looking dudes

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

It’s also going to be used to push the idea that pregnant people are endangering the fetus (and therefore selfish bad people) any time they take *any* medication.

Once again, the GOP only cares about hypothetical children. Not the ones that are living and breathing.

Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.

I am honestly quite worried about Chicago, and begging the national press to report it as what it is: an invasion of a US city by the national guard of another state at the behest of a fascist president for purposes of terrorizing the people into submission. There is no legitimate debate about it.

Crime is down in Chicago, but it’s up 752% in the imaginary Chicago in their heads.

Gov. Pritzker on Trump administration: "They don't actually care if you're here and undocumented. They just care if your skin colour is a little off from theirs."

Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."

The Pritzker presser is what we should expect from government officials: a straightforward, clear message, calling out lies and racism, informed by laws, compassion, and common sense.

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

The CDC cuts include Eliminating funding for Firearm Injury and Mortality Prevention Research Eliminating funding for Tobacco Prevention and Control Eliminating funding for global TB. democrats-appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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