really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

ICE *literally* treading all over the place and they’re being awfully quiet 🤐

“Oligarchy! it’s so hot right now” - the right Love this Judah Friedlander joke

This isn’t border policy, it’s cruelty. It’s mass detention without trial and often no criminal records, and a growing prison-industrial complex that profits off human suffering. And paid for by giving up our healthcare coverage in this latest bill 💸

When billionaires write the rules democracy doesn’t stand a chance. We’re seeing it right now with the Big Beautiful Bill in the Senate, which may come to a vote as early as Thursday. Call your senators! 🔈

the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

🛶 > 🛥️

It’s like Trump used the dinner fork instead of the salad fork.

If you can’t handle me at my Dance Yourself Clean 0:00-3:05 you don’t deserve me at my Dance Yourself Clean 3:06-8:56

We are failing Palestine 🇵🇸

The government is rounding up people of legal residence, with no criminal record and sending them to a prison in El Salvador known for starvation and torture. They don’t get a trial. They don’t see a judge. They don’t get to contact a lawyer or their family. They just disappear.

What do you do for fun on the weekends? Oh I write out our civil liberties on an iPad bc I worry they’re being utterly forgotten. How about you?? 😅😬😭

Tips for staying sane (while civically engaged)? 😅

Free speech applies to people like Mahmoud Khalil. And defending his right to speak up is defending everyone’s right.

The TV station that made Mr Roger’s work possible is in trouble; PBS, and NPR and education in general :/ Wish the people in charge understood that decency and compassion are not purely selfless acts. Our freedom and prosperity is deeply interconnected with the well-being of everyone.

No notes on this headline @forbes . I encourage you to read this article and if you can’t get behind the paywall they have a podcast version you can listen to. 🧛‍♂️

the way to stop people doing nazi shit is to create an environment where doing nazi shit immediately gets you jumped by six guys, do not pass go, ass kicking first and ask questions later. every goth & punk bar on god's gay earth already figured this out in the 90s

The polls are precipitously dropping, especially among Gen Z, and the message is clear, Americans don’t want unelected billionaires making policy decisions. #nokingsday

Good morning to everyone except trickledown economists ☀️

The road to hell is paved with executive orders. Stay sane out there! 🔥✌️🫠 This was originally a thread by @jenniferionello

Hint: it’s the billionaires ✨

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

Feeling a mix of panic, some good old fashioned disassociation, and a lot of How-TF-did-this-happen over the upcoming “broligarchy”. But we’re here, a couple days away from the inauguration. Choosing to focus on the things in front of me that bring joy. No feeling is final so keep going.

Hopefully your day was merry and bright 🌟

In America it’s "Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor".

All jokes aside it's really fucked up to see so many people on here celebrating murder. No one here is the judge of who deserves to live or die. That's the job of the AI algorithm the insurance company designed to maximise profits on your health and no one else

And we’re not going anywhere! This was originally a tweet from 🖊️ MareofEarth

“We are all more blind to what we have than what we have not.”—audre lorde

The goal appears to be not to prevent the deaths caused by abortion bans, but to conceal them.

Especially online. Does it ever convince anyone? Your time and mental energy would be better spent doing a sheet mask or talking to the dog or touching some grass 🌾

Republicans: why do you guys focus so much on Donald Trump? We don’t idolize him or anything… Democrats: <insert painting that auctioned for $100k at his Bedminster club last night >

This Graham Lutz quote made me laugh on Tiktok and I had to letter it. Everything is very absurd but I’m still happy to be here ✌️😄

We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few but we can’t have both. —Chief Justice Louis Brandeis