My hand to God, I often wonder how many of our problems would be alleviated if the entire internet somehow went down for a few months.

The Federal government cannot be trusted on health issues over the next few years. We have to rely on blue state health departments.

Please I beg you to take a half hour & watch @elienyc.bsky.social explain the devastation that happened this week. & while you’re at it, read everything he writes. He explains it better than anyone out there.

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: "I always picture old men trying to push the rewind button on a video cassette player, because that seems like the right technology for them." truthout.org/audio/hope-i...

This is the billboard currently on the highway between Mar-a-Lago and West Palm Beach airport. Reporters Without Borders just released its latest World Press Freedom Index, which finds that the United States has dropped to 64th place worldwide in press freedom under Trump. rsf.org/en/index

A new week of all of the worst people doing all of the worst things.

New distraction just dropped

My therapist says: 'Don't look away' does not mean 'constantly stare at' Happy Friday. We will win.

This documentary about independent journalist Amy Goodman of “Democracy Now!” is a must-see, especially if you care about a free press, which is so important for democracy. She is such an inspiring person!

Here are the 7 senate democrats who voted to continue sending bombs to Netanyahu. Richard Blumenthal (CT) Chris Coons (DE) Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) John Fetterman (PA) Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) Jackie Rosen (NV) Chuck Schumer (NY)

Something you will never see from Republicans: Swalwell loses all 21 of his endorsements from Democratic colleagues

These women TO THE LETTER are incredibly brave for coming forward. WHEN doesn’t matter. WHY NOT BEFORE is not your business. JUST IMAGINE what it takes to do this against someone who has run for president and is the leading contender for governor of the largest US state.

I’m very proud of my wife for sharing the details she did. I’m disgusted by all of it. She found herself in one of those moments where she didn’t care what she lost if it helped one other person. The reality is the truth don’t care who tells it, but she told it. Love you @allysammarco.bsky.social

RESIGN.

If you wonder why students protested loudly under Biden but aren’t as visible under Trump, it’s because they thought they had some margin of safety to speak on campus then. Even before Trump 2.0, they learned administrators and political leaders were willing to harm them instead. So here we are.

In 2024, we taught college students that protesting gets you tear gassed, suspended and possibly unable to get your degree. And people are wondering why young people seem under represented at protests.

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.

People need to realize the 25th Amendment is HARDER than impeachment and removal. MUCH. Impeachment/removal: majority House and 2/3 Senate. 25th Amendment: VP, majority Cabinet, then 2/3 each House and Senate. I mean, come on folks.

Donald Trump must be removed from office for threatening war crimes and genocide. Speaker Johnson: bring the House back into session. Invoking the 25th Amendment and impeachment must be on the table, but Congress should also move on a War Powers resolution to stop Trump.

Threatening war crimes is an immediate disqualification, not a “oops” you can cancel out with a 14-day truce. He’s volatile, he’s dangerous, and he’s unfit to continue. Remove him.

Today at 11 am ET, we're talking about Trump's threats of war crimes and calls to remove him via the 25th Amendment, what the 25th requires (the good/bad news), whether impeachment is possible, recent court decisions and the birthright citizenship argument, and way more. youtube.com/live/2VdHGp2...

perhaps none of us can predict what Trump or Iran will do. perhaps we have to continue to sit in that deep and terrifying uncertainty knowing that as individuals we control none of this. 'I don't know what will happen' is the truest truth of this moment.

An Easter message from the president which should really force the VP and the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.

💜💜💜

alcatraz is the one touristy thing i always recommend to visitors because it’s so creepy and dark and the boat ride over is cool. they will take this from the locals over our rainbow flag-draped coffins.

This will fail. Tell everyone you know that this is desperate shit from a desperate man. Our duty is to vote and get everyone we know out to vote no matter what he does.

LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)

Totally cool with me that my current earworm is "All You Fascists Bound to Lose." Especially love that it's this one. youtu.be/dWUa7aAIfLE?...

Does attending a No Kings protest really matter? Spoiler alert: more than you can possibly know. Find your event at nokings(dot)org 🚫👑

My latest. "The only place I know how to begin is here: We are at war, and I want it to stop."

This may be the most powerful 85 seconds I've ever seen on television.

Everyone needs to read this. Especially those in Congress who could stop it. There is a paragraph in here toward the end that makes it plainer than literally anything I have ever read that Trump’s mine is GONE.

okay maybe i'll make posters

Anything that explains in detail the rise of the oligarchy always feels very grounding to me. We've been here before, we're going to have to learn the hard way on how to rebuild. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZit...

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

A template for when IT happens:

The Voter Elimination Act is a desperate bid by a failing would-be dictator to *save* himself from losing power and with it facing consequences for his crimes.

It’s 2026. People shouldn’t have to fight just to survive while billionaires hoard more wealth than entire communities. Workers are owed more than survival. We are owed the chance to thrive.

fun fact: it's common these days, post publication of James Q. Whitman's oft-cited work, that the Nazis modeled their regime in part off of the example of the US. but the first half of Whitman's "Hitler's American Model" focuses on the US as a “global leader in racist immigration law”

The Pope calls for a ceasefire in the Middle East:

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

He still thinks he can bomb and post his way through this. He needs to be removed from power.

For me the fact that a senseless, unjustified, unjustifiable war was casually entered into with no apparent thought for consequences (or maybe even belief in consequences), and that it just happened all of a sudden without a chance for the debates and protests of previous wars: yeah, same.

i don’t know exactly how to articulate it but like, we’re absolutely at war yet it doesn’t feel like it because the people leading it are so fucking stupid so the typical climate of seriousness is missing? if that makes sense?

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

Breaking News: The U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people, most of them children — was the result of a targeting mistake.

I'm STILL livid about this. Anyone with a heart should be. That's a fucking war crime.

📌This is an AP photo of graves being dug at a cemetery in Minab, Iran, before the funeral for children and teachers killed in a U.S. airstrike on a school there Feb. 28. 📌To bloodthirsty MAGA asking why the school was next to a naval base, shut up. WE have schools ON our bases overseas.

‪ NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations. But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.