The mask is completely off. You can’t meet these people in the middle. We’re not working toward the same goals. They hate America. They hate democracy. They hate freedom. And they hate you.

When I was formerly on Twitter, MacFarlane documented every J6 Insurrectionist, from charges, audio, video, social media and self bragging evidence against them, as well as charges, please, apologies, denials, admittance of guilt down to sentencing of every single defendant. It was exceptional work.

"If this is worse than Watergate, isn't it about time we get to the primary source: Jack Smith under oath?" -- Durbin points out the ridiculousness of Republicans holding conspiracy hearings about Jack Smith while refusing to allow him to testify on camera

37 indictments, plus: Trump associates repeatedly lied about their contacts with Russians. Trump refused to answer questions about his obstruction. A statement signed by over 1,000 former federal prosecutors, that anyone else who engaged in that obstructive conduct would have been indicted.

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

If you were to show up at an airport in a tactical vest that said ICE on it and a temporary Punisher tattoo you get from a gumball machine you could do some real bad shit right now. Granted you'd have to cosplay as a guy with a lobotomy who can't do a pushup.

Just a reminder that Trump hooked up with Stormy Daniels four months after Melania gave birth. bsky.app/profile/atru...

ICE officers getting paid for standing around doing nothing while TSA employees work without pay is a pretty succinct summation of where we're at right now

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The only reason the Supreme Court of the United States is now examining the legality of a mail ballot receipt law is that Donald Trump is an election denier who still can’t his loss, and Republican lawyers have decided to legitimize and sanewash that denialism as a matter of federal election law.

Due to the Noneuclidean Principle of Commemoration (NPC) the 101st anniversary is always rougher than the 100

This is the funniest false positive for my labeller @facelabels.bsky.social so far

She hit him so hard he dropped my saddle bag, doubled over, vomited, and then took off again.

AI would also add in the second panel "You are great at picking mushrooms and making sure you didn't waste any when you ate it."

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

Washington DC is not the President’s personal real estate empire. Our public buildings belong to the people. That’s why I introduced the Federal Facilities Protection and Oversight Act—to protect our historic federal buildings and ensure no president can demolish or remake them on a whim.

My resolution to overturn the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United decision — H.J.Res 122 — has now been co-sponsored by 72 Members of Congress. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!

Another study has been making the social media rounds by antivaxxers using simplistic thinking from a single sentence, "Myocarditis and pericarditis were documented only in the vaccinated groups." I have a deeper analysis here. icemsg.org/lies/studies...

It’s now the Marktwain Mullin award

Generations upon generations have fought for the sacred right to vote. Which is why I'm standing in defense of that right and am voting NO on the so-called SAVE Act.

It's *VERY* hard to keep up with the COVID conspiracy theorists' "reasoning" It appears to be: "Fauci bioengineered a horrific deadly virus in a Chinese lab but also COVID is just a mild cold & we should have let the whole world get infected instead of vaccinated because COVID vaccines are evil!"

I'm starting a page to debunk Nicolas Hulscher. It's too bad that his alma mater, @umichsph.bsky.social , doesn't rein in this liar. icemsg.org/lies/nicolas...

Oh, yes, Mr. Government Person, you could *totally* torture me with "Funky Kingston" by Toots and the Maytals. No, nooo, don't torture me with that upbeat reggae classic! *fast-forward* *relax on the bunk, sing along* I want you to believe every word I say, I want you to believe every thing I do...

GARCIA: What's important right now for us is that we hold Pam Bondi accountable for the subpoena. Everything after that, whether it's contempt, whether it's anything else, all follows. She's got to show up for her deposition.

FROST: We asked Pam Bondi multiple times, are you going to come and speak with us under oath? She would not say yes. We want her under oath because we do not trust her. Why don't we trust her? Because she's a liar.

My one step plan to save democracy: Instead of Presidential debates, Chotiner interviews each candidate live on TV. We've done dumber things.

And like, i say it's not that they were young because look: damn near every member of the Black civil rights movement started younger and did better things. Age does not excuse willful ignorances like bigotry and a casually cruel desire to have power over and hurt other people.

If USA is constantly branding itself as a Christian nation & the most powerful nation in the world then its wars are Christian wars, its genocides are Christian genocides, its mistakes are Christian mistakes. That’s the terms USA set. There’s no escaping that.

Nick Benson is a real-life hero, and everyone should follow him and thank him for his doggedness. He’s been trying to figure out for months how captured families in his community were getting to Dilley, and he did it. bsky.app/profile/otte...

More and more I want the consequences for the billionaires, politicians, appointees, and lackeys who are committing crimes for Trump to be devastatingly financial. Take all their money. ALL OF IT. And garnish their wages forever. Let them live off of whatever UBI gets passed in the next admin.

“If we look at kids who are immunocompromised, they are relying on the community to protect them…..They rely on community immunity. They rely on having a 95% vaccination coverage shield so they do not catch the measles." Another reason why RFK Jr’s repulsive anti-vaccine crusade is so dangerous 😢

Kennedy and MAHA are all about the eugenics. Your kid died and wasn't 100% healthy at baseline? To them it's somehow your fault and not theirs.

Donald Trump is now just openly bragging about interfering in the media. He's the president. He's running a truck over the first amendment here.

It is hard to overstate, for non-lawyers, just how milquetoast the ABA is in normal times. It’s supposed to be boring insurance lawyers leading workshops with boring tax lawyers, trying to drum up business. A pissed off ABA is like dentists manning the barricades and singing Le Marseillaise.

I'm telling you, boring old lawyers are now going to ABA panels to applaud hostile retorts to MAGA panelists and yell "you're a clown" at them. A whole lot of people who merely furrowed their brows at Trump I are now seething with rage, and the Dem consultant class needs to wake up to that.

Sports gambling should be legal but you should have to go to an actual building to do it and it should be so off-putting and sad you’ll never want to do it again

The political culture of the contemporary GOP is indistinguishable from that of the school shooter community

Need new, large, placebo-controlled studies for well-established vaccines that have been used by millions of children for decades: Kennedy Also Kennedy: a 16-person phone study is enough evidence to license my pet drugs. Every scientist: tears their fucking hair out.

youtu.be/mHHc9jGRzgk?... <= there is no redeeming ICE. Abolish it and hold everyone from top to bottom accountable for their crimes.

These clowns are so far gone it's like the Niemöller poem but with "I" instead of "they."

Powerful piece by @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social “When I saw clinical trials cut short with callous disregard for participant safety, court orders ignored to achieve political ends, & mission-critical colleagues fired based on false accusations of poor performance, I first spoke up inside the NIH.”

Someone just posted about how they don't care if their students use AI as long as the text conveys the ideas the students meant to convey. The thing is, you don't know exactly what you think until you write it. And if some prefab thing pops up, you're liable to decide that was what you thought.

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

We need reparations for ICE victims. Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.

as someone who monitors right wing media, its under discussed right now but i can tell you conservatives are absolutely terrified of the way talarico is using religious messaging against them

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Our understanding of the origin of COVID-19, while still incomplete, is one of the most well-supported scientific theories of any pandemic. When it comes to “Scientific Freedom”, it must be based in science and evidence - this is the opposite, platforming pseudoscience instead.

The shoe thing is low on the "important global matters" scale, but HIGH on the "I'll take things a deranged Roman emperor would do for $500, Alex" chart.

If/when a deMAGAfication of US ever occurs it must begin with the Roberts Court without which none of this would be possible

I'm vague-skeeting deliberately so as not to stir up trouble - but one thing I always hate is people thinking they're clever because they can point out that thought experiments aren't real life. We know they're not. They're not supposed to be.