You do not have to give people “due process” before you choose not to vote for them. You can just be like “oh word the guy who wrote rape apologia and had allegations just got another serious allegation? Guess he doesn’t need to be my senator.”

"His wife has said that he relied on an inhaler for asthma, but ICE agents rejected her attempt to give them the device when he was taken into custody."

We've seen this over and over again. Why don't women negotiate more? Because they're punished when they do. Why don't they network with more people? Because they're punished for it. Women don't need to change the way they act. They're acting rationally based on the way the world reacts to them. +

Believe Women is an epistemological stance. It doesn't mean you assume that every single woman is telling the truth and women never lie. It means you understand that in the system that we exist in, there's much more risk and pain for women coming forward about abuse than there is anything to gain.

data visualization is my passion.

We’ve entered the period of the evening when I can’t tell whether the “it’s all over now” vagueposts are about Platner, the USMNT or McConnell.

Thinking of Anita Hill & Christine Blasey Ford & every woman who tried to warn the world.

Hey y’all, we have one week left to submit comments about The Regime implementing political review of grants, which would harm us all. For more information about submitting a comment or writing to your elected officials, Defend Public Health has a step by step guide for you right here.

On this day in 2016, 32-year-old Philando Castile was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop for a broken taillight in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.

Imagine if there were some kind of rule that if you're in Congress, you need to show up for work & be reachable when you're not at work, and if you're not, you need to explain why and where you are and when you'll be back. You know, kind of like a real job.

Coming up next is Super Mario Odyssey (All Story Moons) with vector virtuoso @cheesejay.bsky.social - enjoy the tunes and tricks! #SGDQ2026

I love @gamesdonequick.com so much. A balm for my soul to see so many gamers come together to do good. Remembering the fun in Pittsburgh earlier this year.

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

Happy #SGDQ2026 gamers Be loud Be proud & be fast 🙌🏻🌈🎮

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My guess: July4 fiasco on Mall will grate on DJT like last year's "Birthday Parade." Huge corrupt expenses; enormous civic damage to nation's capital; shown even on Fox as let-down. My hope: Joyous patriotism of all *other* celebrations (NY BOS etc) will stand as spontaneous 'real America' moment.

Gov. Beshear should demand proof of life. If his state has lost a senator, its people deserve to know and deserve a replacement. The seat doesn‘t belong to the Republican Party.

Second closure this week foxbaltimore.com/news/local/i...

Only one person on this train is brave enough to show face.

We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,600 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients. Explore the database:

8:35 pm: Rain increasing downtown DC next half hour. No severe weather in showers with some rumbles headed in. Activity weakening -- could be some light to moderate rain as it does so over the next 1-2 hours. Occasional moderate gusts. Cooler than it was with most temperatures in the 80s...

DC is about to get very, very wet.

And the same for authors and books

Both Vance and Lindsey Graham saw what Trump was a decade ago...and decided in the end to embrace him.

Ha ha I hate it here

Hi hello I was going to do a full thread on the Great American State Fair later but it seems I'm starting early: why in the fuck are PragerU, Patriot Academy, and other far right groups the ENTIRETY of the Department of Education booth

Why are we here, you ask? This. This is why we are here. Everyone knew. And they all had their price.

This is Mariner. He was born completely deaf, which means he gets to enjoy fireworks with all the sparkle and none of the boom. 13/10 (IG: real_marinertheseapuppy)

I love America because it is a place where a young couple paid a penny to cross the US-Mexico border, worked in sugar factories and the fields of California. And then, thanks to hard work, Pell Grants and community college, their great grandson could work covering politics at the White House.

The temperature just dropped by 20 degrees in the span of minutes.

6:56 pm: DC surrounded by storms. Outflow from earlier activity south pushed some decent winds through. Gust 49 mph at Reagan National recently. Unless something pops overhead looks like main area to watch in DC is a few hours SW. capitalweather.com or the Capital Weather app.

There is still one adorable Pikadumpling available...

the f-35c is great and all but we can't afford health care. or food.

I will uplift the good folks at Free DC who can always use more people and resources: freedcproject.org

Good morning! How are you holding up? What are you up to today? Please enjoy nature's fireworks for July 4th. I hate so much about what is going on in the US, but the only way out is through! Trying to foster a country I can be proud of....

The Coast Guard just removed the Clearwater from the tall ship parade in NYC for having "Save the Clean Water Act" and "Indigenous Rights, Racial Justice, Climate Solutions” banners. They were escorted out by the Coast Guard, US Navy, and NYPD. www.instagram.com/p/DaYOP8OlIq...

Transit content⤵️ "The nonprofit, founded by legendary folk artist & activist Pete Seeger in the 1960s, has a long history of activism. Seeger famously built the organization’s single-mast sailboat...in 1968, believing...if people went out on the river, they would care more about keeping it clean."

Happy Independence Day

Fireworks are the perfect metaphor for America. It’s something that could be beautiful and cool and communal that is absolutely ruined by selfish individual assholes who want to feel powerful.

There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour. —Frederick Douglass

Trump turning America's 250th anniversary into his own vanity project? If this playbook feels familiar, it should. Authoritarian leaders have long understood that controlling the landscape, literally what people see when they look up at a building, is itself a form of power.

"In the squares of the city, in the shadow of the steeple, By the relief office I seen my people; As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking Is this land made for you and me?"

Watching the YouTube video of Walter Isaacson and David Brooks in conversation at the New Orleans Book Festival. This is my geeky way of observing the day. A nerdy discussion of The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.

It is so hot outside the interstate near my house has buckled. wtop.com/anne-arundel...

I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes

This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I was trying to make this case to folks the other night. What a gift to see every team with a diasporic rooting section.

Ot is 94 degrees at 9 pm. Ugh.