"Anyone who would denigrate the service of our NATO allies clearly never spent a day in uniform" from Admiral Bill McRaven www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 350 branded medications — including vaccines against COVID, RSV and shingles, and the blockbuster cancer treatment Ibrance. That’s up from the same point last year, when drugmakers unveiled plans for raises on more than 250 drugs.

This is a lot of words to say that DOJ is in violation of the statutory deadline and will take even longer to produce records that were due last week.

Next time you’re applying for a job, any job, be sure to mention you were able to pick out a giraffe during a regular dementia test. Let’s see how it plays out.

Gender — and restrictive gender roles — are core to authoritarian projects. Society uses concepts of gender to sort people. Data both reflects and imposes these social definitions. Some notes from a speech about this last week: buttondown.com/stetdele/arc...

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When armed officers wield government power in public, you have the right to observe, record, and ask questions. Refusing to ID yourself isn’t a crime in most states, and cops not showing their badge isn’t “standard procedure”—it’s a tactic, not a rule. #KnowYourRights #CopWatch

“”What exactly is “conservative” about threatening your own citizens? What is “patriotic” about turning Americans into targets? What is “law-and-order” about stripping legitimacy from whole segments of the population?””

At this point, is anyone surprised at this? Everything happening now is to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted. ”The $12 billion the administration is set to dole out will likely once again flow to the largest and wealthiest farm operations in the country” www.ewg.org/news-insight...

#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #ONEV1 #DV1 Yes, there are many “That just ain't right.” moments. Extending the uber-rich tax cut, while refusing to extend the ACA tax credit, tops the list. 🙏watch where your representatives stand & vote to right the wrong in the Midterm.

The DOJ is doing everything it can to rig the election for Trump and the Republicans because they can’t win a free and fair election. Read todays summary of the authoritarian moves against our democracy @DemocracyDocket #DV1 #ProudBlue newsletters.democracydocket.com/in-major-escal…

Look at this bullshit.

Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!

Humiliation.

I hope it is clearer that he never had a mandate

Trump “on the ballot” in 2026? That’s not the flex Susie Wiles thinks it is. With his approval ratings sinking and GOP losses still fresh, making him the face of the midterms sounds less like a strategy and more like a warning label! #2026Midterms #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/ANA4lwMvOQS-...

The Venezuela boat murders are meant to be a gateway drug to domestic murders. The “you can’t let this MAGA regime out of power now because you military are going to jail if we leave” is a powerful cooption technique but not atypical for authoritarian regimes

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So try not be pissed off because somebody’s questioning the election results of a guy who cheated at every fucking thing he ever did in his whole life. People are so damn certain that nothing nefarious happened, even though there was no forensic auditing going on.🤷🏼‍♀️What were DOGE boys doing in 2024🧐?

This is the latest escalation of the Trump administration’s xenophobic agenda. Families who have followed every rule are now being thrown into chaos because this administration has chosen to target entire immigrant communities. It’s cruel and fundamentally un-American.

"if you think of unregulated social media as dangerous drugs, as you should, then we’ve become a nation in which drug lords control much of government policy. " paulkrugman.substack.com/p/america-ha...

And you voted for him Cassidy. Fucker!

Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map

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8/ Our assessment warns that the Executive is engaging in “weaponization of the state,” using unilateral authority to “consolidate control” while sidelining institutional expertise. Overturning a major narcotrafficking conviction at the urging of personal allies exemplifies that overreach.

The Secretary of Defense taking extrajudicial killing requests from podcast hosts