I’m celebrating Cinco de Mayo by reposting Reuters calling it the Gulf of Mexico

Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.

It is time we bring down the cost of housing, healthcare, and child care. I'm proud to co-lead the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s New Affordability Agenda, so we can put money back in the pockets of Americans and uphold our promises to working families.

I'm going on Master Chef, looking Gordon Ramsay dead in the eye while I pop this in the microwave, then staring at him unblinking for two minutes until it's ready.

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

"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." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

It's very painful to me to see so many people speaking ill of Rudy Giuliani. Don't they know they're jinxing it?

We went from "armed gunman mere seconds away from shooting the president is killed by Secret Service" to "guy with a shotgun falls down on a different floor well outside the entrance of the ballroom and we can't find the bullets because that just happens sometimes" awfully fast.

I hate morning dread. Like I know if I can just get up and drink a little water and take my meds and splash some water on my face I’ll be fine. But my unregulated brain in those first minutes of semi consciousness is soooooooo mean it’s a bitch to get past every time.

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

Do Texans know about Paxton's views about child abusers? “Initially charged with Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child, Attorney General Ken Paxton offered a plea deal to Hoffman lowering a felony and life in prison to ... misdemeanors and 30 days in county jail. " www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Yep. It isn’t 2023. Telemedicine abortion remains broadly available everywhere: •Domestic providers can switch to a miso-only regime; slightly less effective but still extremely safe •International providers will still mail mifepristone uninterrupted The field has been planning for this moment.

And that, kids, is why we don’t bet sports no matter what Draft Kings and AppleTV tell you the odds are.

New motion filed by the Sandy Hook families shows Alex Jones's little video outside of his studio claiming he was locked out by the state-appointed receiver isn't even true. Still banging the fake persecution drum even as he moves around his assets.

Emma Darwin was born 218 years ago today. Here is the story of how her unstinting self-sacrifice in managing Charles's chronic illnesses as well as those of their family made his evolutionary publications possible. tinyurl.com/47ffzhkd #WomenInSTEM #HiddenHelper #BioSky #Evolution

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Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

“Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz,” says Bill McKibben.

what the hell, sure #OFMD #OFMDfanart

Ronald Reagan was shot outside the Washington Hilton in 1981, and he still returned to the same hotel for later events. He did not need a new ballroom.

clear goal of republicans in these states is to, in the words of carter glass, “eliminate every Negro voter who can be gotten rid of, legally, without materially impairing the numerical strength of the white electorate.”

Omeprazole, non-drowsy allergy meds, and Flonase are the primary things making my forties bearable. By which I mean, no matter how great my life might be otherwise I would be miserable without them. I know this because they weren’t available generic over the counter to my parents and they were.

“Since its creation in 2003, ICE has only grown in both numbers and funding. ICE is now the highest-funded U.S. law enforcement agency, with an $85 billion budget thanks to Trump, a stark increase from the less than $6 billion budget 10 years ago.”

I assume “pitohui” is the sound predators make when they spit them out with a numb mouth.

Nothing will ever be as good as it was because we will never again be at an age where everything felt new and light and simpler. Get over it and go find the amazing new things people are making. Go to a local film festival. Try a TV show you haven’t heard of before. Check out an indie bookstore.

landlords, and airbnb hosts most of all, operate under the incredible delusion that they are entitled to infinite, guaranteed profit. all reward, no risk.

Me, sighing: I think I’m bad at rimming. Spouse: WHAT. Me, gestures: The margarita glasses. With salt. Spouse: Stop. Me, shrugging: I just don’t get much practice! Spouse: You have to stop. Me: I’m just saying, it take nuance! Spouse: *chugs tequila directly from bottle*

Not a fan of insomnia but having a puppy who will follow you anywhere in the house and curl up neatly behind your legs under the blanket is some compensation.

Not a word of this is true. The administration spouts propaganda and the media report it verbatim.

Recently did the math and realized I’ve only been single for a total of about 18 months since I was 16, all when I was under twenty. I’ve only lived alone as an adult for three months! I have no regrets about my current relationship but I do wish I’d lived alone as an adult for a real time span.

If the far right actually cared about turning the US into a manufacturing economy again (lol) they would have invested early in green energy long ago. Now we're actually paying people to NOT install green energy like wind farms and China is making a fortune supplying the wold with solar panels

I just would really like to revert to a gelatinous state for a little while.

My name is Ken I'm from Seattle. My mom worked at a church my Dad drove a beer truck for the union. They raised seven kids in a 7 bedroom house by Greenlake on a truck driver's salary. None of that is even remotely possible now. We have to make the working class high priority in the country again.

“Be Gay, Do Crimes”.

“Each of us here has a story of generational struggle. Amazon is trying to erase that.” Warehouse workers, delivery drivers, and software engineers are organizing against America’s deportation machine.

Tonight we grilled, had a fire, and drank cocktails with the chickens and dogs and shared little bits of burger… and then the little dog and a chicken got in a screaming bitch fight over a baby carrot and the German Shepherd tried to climb a chain link fence to get at a cat and we went back inside.

Rita Ora’s Agent Scores Singer Another Prime Crossword Puzzle Placement https://theonion.com/rita-oras-agent-scores-singer-another-prime-crossword-puzzle-placement/

🚨BREAKING: A new lawsuit is challenging Louisiana’s decision to suspend congressional primaries already underway — arguing the state is illegally nullifying votes and plunging an active election into chaos following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the VRA. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The thing that’s really wrong with the Roberts majority is not that they are “lawless,” or “activist,” or “legislators in robes” (though there is *some* merit to those claims). It’s that their decisions are just wrong and unjust. This is where I probably depart from a lot of my progressive friends.

Allowing an exception for rotisserie chicken and rotisserie chicken only really drives home the cynicism at the heart of all this.

DOGE and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services created a new national directory of health care providers and exposed a bunch of social security numbers that weren’t taken down until the Washington Post told them about it.

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

Tomorrow I will not be working (I don’t work Fridays as it happens but I would take off if I did), shopping, streaming, or using social media. I’m not able to make the local protests but I’ll be making calls to my representatives. maydaystrong.org

This redistricting madness has to stop but it has to be mutually agreed disarmament in the form of legislation regarding fair district boundaries. It is NOT on the Democrats to show restraint while Republicans run mad.

Seal population around St. Paul Island, Alaska, U.S.A has declined by over 70% in last 50 years as trawlers steal their pollock food and leave them to starve and US Govt does nothing to stop it Conservation group sues over Alaska pollock trawling www.seafoodsource.com/news/environ...

“.. by a 2-to-1 margin ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

DeSantis’ attempt to remove childhood vaccine requirements for school entry has been defeated in Florida…by Republicans, of all things. I think polls showing that most Americans do, in fact, support vaccination and will, in fact, vote against people who are anti-vax are starting to sink in.

Woke up and am still fucking livid at the Alex Jones shit. Yes, we all know the rich and powerful have their own rules, but usually it’s with a veneer of our shared reality. This is just pulling legal proceedings out of thin air. All so *Alex Jones* never has to face a consequence.

John Roberts really really hates the very idea of Black people voting. He speaks his racism with a constipated smile instead of slurs, but it's honestly worse that way. He has no interest in the Constitution, just in harming the vulnerable.

Hot rotisserie chickens for some, starvation for others. Great.