Feeling a little patriotic about my state. Here's an unofficial anthem using our official state motto. "A bully with a microphone threatens and annoys..." Our official anthem is still terrible although the legislature recently improved the lyrics. m.youtube.com/watch?v=bN6h...

I'm saddened by this horrible tragedy. We don't know the shooter's motivations. I defer to the Boomtown Rats' response to a mass shooting in 1979: And he can see no reasons 'Cause there are no reasons What reason do you need to be shown? But at least 1 GUN is always involved. It's the guns.

Excellent essay: why shame and stigmatization of bigots and fascists are essential to our ability to live together.

You are not alone.

We must end the scourge of gun violence in America. We also need to have honest conversations about the ways internet platforms profit from fear, hatred, and division. Both are vital to the future of this country.

When you devote your life to the message that empathy is evil and gun deaths are an acceptable price to pay for gun rights, you shape the world with your words. Maybe Charlie Kirk didn’t expect to be a victim of his own worldbuilding, but his death is consistent with the world he helped create.

This makes sense. They raided a HS football game too. It makes sense if you see it as an assault on joy, community, or the virtue of being a good person. Trump isn’t a good person, and never will be, and he is still threatened by all the positivity and goodness he doesn’t understand and never will.

Great thread. Principles and morality are NOT losing propositions. "With firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in."

This week’s edition Marriott properties allowing detainees to be locked in rooms? An honorable discharge Veteran disappeared by ICE? And, a LONG list of special elections on the horizon with 3 crucial ones Tomorrow 8/26! Are you or someone you know in one of the districts? bit.ly/478aJSi

This letter is as meaningless as the tweeted allegations against Cook. The only things it proves is trump is a racist white nationalist who neither knows nor cares about the constitutional limits of the office he currently defiles.

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough." — FDR, 1940

Maybe the most infuriating thing about “it puts the Newsom on its skin or else it gets the Trump again” discourse is that it assumes a constitutional amendment or military coup. For a bunch of people so fond of quoting “don’t obey in advance,” they’re awfully eager to make sure we do.

I put a lot of work into this. I would be so happy if you would read and share: Why moving to the center won't save democrats: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/moderation...

Because we can trust people to do the right, responsible thing, not abuse it, no need to regulate them. The Supreme Court, the election, gun ownership, oil companies, Elon Musk's space x, cybertruck, social media, billionaires, Saudi king, Israel, Russia, Trump, a.i. all proved that

Incredibly disgusting that an official account for a department of the US government is posting white supremacist crap like this.

Wow. Wondering what other written, negotiated contracts courts are going to declare null and void.

Trump lost any credibility when it comes to stopping violent crime on Jan 6 2021

The Civil War never ended. And like a virus held in permafrost, Trump thawed the MAGA white nationalists and freed them from their hibernation. We are at war. Act accordingly. Freedom requires persistent vigilance. Defend our people, all people, our Constitution, and our democracy. Fight!

Uncap the House.

#ICE isn't "deporting" immigrants, it is kidnapping them. #DOGE isn't "fixing" the government, it is dismantling it. #Trump isn't "helping" Americans, he is retaliating against them. #PamBondi isn't "upholding" the Constitution, she is ignoring it. #FuckTrump #Resist #Felon47

Such a talented comic.

🧵2/4 Blue State Government Has Never Been More Important States have POWER in our federal system & if you haven't cared about your state politics before, you really need to now. Here are 3 eg's of opposition: 1) MA Taxes Millionaires. Now It'll Help Offset Federal Cuts:

Yet AGAIN @bynum.house.gov disappoints the Democratic constituency who sent her to DC. Her social media page doesn't even offer an explanation about her latest round of voting with Republicans. But that might be for the best since it would probably be laughable, transparent bullshit anyway.

Is it weird that my favorite romantic pair is Deacon and Sheila? #boldandthebeautiful

I used to be against this, but not I'd go lower.

Just heard about Elmo account being hacked. Elmo, when you sit down at a table that has 9 Nazis seated at it, there are now 10 Nazis at the table. Move from X.

The Blackbird of Annoyance has replaced the Bluebird of Happiness in my life

I read a review that made the Superman movie sound campy & silly. My friend said he wanted to see it because MAGA hated it. So, of course we went. I'm so glad. It *is* sometimes silly but it has so much heart. Storyline relevant to our times. Great performances. I'm a cat person but loved the dog.

Vance and this whole political movement under Trump is flat out anti-American. America was founded on the idea that there are no strata of citizenship—we are all on the same level. Our long roiling history is a fight to make it so. It's not that Vance doesn't get it. He doesn't like it.

We have to demand they all be returned. Vivos los llevaron, vivos los queremos.

I'm seeing a lot of What can Democrats do? discourse again from "Majority Rules" civics scolds. Reminder: Congress, especially the Senate, gives a minority a number of tools that can be thrown into the law-making machinery. susanrogan.substack.com/p/procedural...

I suggest it be sooner rather than later.

In more WTF news:

ARREST ICE, NOW! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

WTF?! I'm guessing either the DOGE boys don't want accurate sea ice measures or they want to sell off the data to some company so NOAA would have to buy it back. Or both.

Really appreciated @chrislhayes.bsky.social doing a story tonight on All In about some of the disappeared still detained in CECOT. Vivos los llevaron, vivos los queremos.

Worth remembering. We want a world of universal human rights and everyone having the necessities of life. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

In case anyone else on West Coast was wondering. #Boldandthebeautful

If you see me staring at the sky , let me . I have people up there , I miss❤️ #mobilephotography

Y’all don’t realize that most postal workers are driving around in trucks literally still from the 1970s. They don’t have air conditioning. It will be 104 in Boston on Monday. These new EVs would give them climate control for the first time.

😎Happy Caturday 🐈‍⬛

I looked this up, and yes, it is real. I've included an article about it in the comments. Please share for those who may need it. Thank you!

Redefining "assault" as asking questions probably accounts for the increase in assaults of ICE employees "Reader said that agents would not tell her what immigration laws her employee violated, threatened her with assault of an officer for asking questions"

In France, there's something called the philosophy of "ne rien faire" (to do nothing). This is — for so many French people — is sacred and quite close to a human right.

160 years ago, on the 19th of June 1865, Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War. June 19th, or Juneteenth, has been a federal holiday in the U.S. since 2021. (Picture from 1880's)