Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva — because her vote could force the House to release the Epstein files. The GOP is doing everything it can to keep Trump’s Epstein cover-up going.

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

Start calling the “Big Beautiful Bill” what it is Billionaire welfare. I’m so sick of the idea it’s fine to give rich businesses & rich people welfare but providing Americans with a safety net is somehow anathema. Stop giving our money to people who don’t need it.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles AND #ReleaseTheHomanFiles !

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires. shame. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

@repdelbene.bsky.social I am disappointed you voted yes to “Honor the life of Charlie Kirk”. He was a man who sowed division and hate in this country and did not make it a better place. His death, like others who’ve died of gun violence, was a tragedy, but his life does not deserve special acclaim.

Pissed about ABC’s censorship? This article provides ideas for how to fight back in addition to boycotting ABC/Disney/Hulu. File an FCC complaint about the Nexstar merger. #ABC open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

Still hanging around from Turtle Tuesday

RIP 🙏🏼 Andrea Gibson The author of seven poetry books and one of the subjects of the documentary "Come See Me in the Good Light," which won the Festival Favorite Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival — Gibson was know as a Poet of Love.

I didn't do it, but I wish I had.

On the courts, I am equally mad at Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, at both the left and liberal wings, of the Democratic Party. Neither of them ever took the judiciary, or court appointments and reform, seriously while GOP & Federalist Society packed the courts with headbangers.

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The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems.

Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms.  But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately. Remember this.

Where’s the powerful big pharma & medical lobby that stymied Democrats from reforming health care my whole life now when we need them? Surely messing with vaccines and limiting mRNA research can’t be in their best interests.

@kenmartin.bsky.social It is increasingly hard for me to want to support Democrats. As a third generation Dem this is hard to say. Congressmen should not serve until their dying gasp. There’s no clear succession plan, just a tenacious grip on power. We need young tech savvy options with vigor.

In 1722, Reverend Edmund Massey preached against vaccination, saying "Life itself may not always be a blessing". In 2025, Senator Joni Ernst justified cuts to Medicaid, saying "We all are going to die". The opposite of public health has always been public death.

What if he decided to be like some European countries and rollback chickenpox vaccine? Your PTO days will be spent at home caring for a miserable kid. What if he decides that Black people don't need certain vaccines or need a greatly reduced schedule? ACIP protects us. Call your representatives.

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

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This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

Here's the FDA's public comment portal. There's still time to provide feedback on their plan to restrict those under 65 from receiving the COVID-19 booster. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

The RFK Jr. version of health, where health creates health and healthy people don't get sick and the thing that keeps you healthy is /living the right way/ is very seductive to a lot of people. It also places the burden of illness back on the ill, which decreases the value of human life.

No. Trump is an inveterate liar. His statements should never be put in headlines. News outlets must find out what actually occurred, put that in the headline, and then put Trump statements, with fact checks, at the end of the article. apple.news/AGkI8kRVEQC6...

I'm going to start publicly calling out campaigns that text me because they bought my number from a list. Not just because I've run out of patience, but because if *I* am this annoyed, then I can't even imagine what it's doing to Democrats' reputation among casual voters.

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

Almost nobody is ok with it. But was it on your local news today? If not, nobody is going to know about it in order to not be OK with it. Ppl oppose almost everything this administration is doing, when they’re told what those things are. But most people aren’t!

Trump appears to be saying that he alone can determine what our colleges can teach and what students can learn. This is a fundamental attack on free expression and free enterprise. It is a war on knowledge, and we will fight it. www.aft.org/press-releas...

We need to fight the treat arm-in-arm.But we need leadership w/discernment. If you misdiagnosed this threat, you should not take a front seat in analyzing the current moment or providing the strategy for how we confront what we are facing w/o admitting how badly you misjudged the threat. And LISTEN.

I miss Tim Russert. My dad, who died not long after him, loved watching “Timmy” interrogate politicians & the way he forced them confront inconsistencies & illogical premises. We could use more of that these days.

I ♥️♥️♥️♥️ Brian Tyree Henry Hot and wicked talented

Ben Franklin on vaccination. (via Mic: www.mic.com/articles/109...)

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

The cat mafia letting me know it’s time for dinner. #Caturday

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

Why does this echidna look like he’s about to drop the hottest jazz piano album OF THE YEAR

Quick point. Congress can use the spending fight in September (remember Chuck Schumer surrendered till then) to prevent a single dollar from being used to house prisoners in El Salvador.

If Harvard & Columbia are being required to have more conservative voices, shouldn’t Oral Roberts University be required to have diverse viewpoints in faculty too? Something tells me liberals are pretty rare on campus.