This is your regular reminder that Covid is airborne. It’s not over. It’s still killing and disabling people. It’s a novel virus and we still don’t know the full long term effects, but what we do know is not encouraging. Wear a mask. Clean the air. Stay home when sick. Protect one another.

A few Comey Qs: Why would grand jury foreperson sign a 'no bill' indictment? Why would signature page be identical to approved indictment? Why would no-billed indictment have 2 "Count TWO"s? Pros/clerk/juror error? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“But I don’t know anyone with Long Covid!” Yes. You do. Many people are either in denial about being sick or feel pressured to hide their diagnosis. There’s a lot of stigma attached to Long Covid because everyone wants to go “back to normal” Denial doesn’t help, we must face the problem:

Brooks begins with an observation & by the end of his essay provides the answer why. Our nation’s origin story is populated by peoples fleeing the losing end of such mingling. And our nation was built accepting of religion being present in peoples lives but kept it separate from government.

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator

Pay attention to the way Trump & RFK Jr speak about people with autism and other disabilities. They act like it’s a fate worse than death. Like we’re an aberration that must be “corrected”. Like disability is a failure that is not to be tolerated. It’s not compassion, it’s eugenics.

Trump gets humiliated at the UN, Kimmel returns, he drops further in the polls and just goes fucking crazy at the White House today. Insane new tariffs, Comey, war against his domestic opponents, shutting down the government. He is losing it, and it’s getting dangerous out there.

A few things are all true at the same time — • I don't know how DOJ ever comes back from this • If Comey had been removed from the timeline, Trump would never have captured the Presidency; • Comey must be defended by all who believe in the rule of law.

It’s not even a swearing contest. Both McCabe and Comey agree: They DID NOT discuss the leak before the article published. McCabe has said *he* authorized it, not Comey. Their recollections diverge on whether McCabe told Comey that he had authorized the leak AFTER the article published.

And so many banks were involved as a high school dropout became a big "financier."

'Borrowing from the Tiger's Majesty' (2022) Yuzu Kato

He talks about moving a World Cup game out of Chicago because it has high crime, which is interesting because there is no game slated for Chicago. But Dallas has a World Cup game, and Dallas has a higher violent crime rate than Chicago, and Dallas has a Republican mayor … oh, OK, I see it now.

Well then let’s all donate to her campaign here - secure.ngpvan.com/NGY2cCnISU6c...

Outrageous.

I've seen a lot of people misunderstanding what this does and does not mean and Melissa does a great job explaining it's first and foremost a media strategy. Importantly, none of this is new and has been used against other groups and activists (Muslims/Palestinians, BLM, immigrants)

(just finished as I heard the news about Comey indictment) anntelnaes.substack.com/p/shooting-t...

Alejandra is not overselling this. This executive order, if weaponized by a lawless administration like Trump, could lead to the dismantling of institutional/nonprofit opposition to Trump. It can also be used for surveillance and disruption ops similar to the civil rights era and red scare.

This is an actual New York City subway ad

the state of texas pulled a 13-year-old trans boy out of class and subjected him to the same questioning that kids get when they're molested because his parents accepted him. it's what's happening, and it shouldn't be considered activism to say it. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/...

Peterbilt builds all of its trucks under 33,000 lb GVW in Quebec. So does Kenworth. All of Freightliner and Mack's trucks for sale in the US are manufactured in the US, but both are subsidiaries of European manufacturing conglomerates (Daimler Truck AG and Volvo, respectively).

JUST IN: Comey faces one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice in connection.

"One of our recurring questions is how some theoretical future administration dedicated to liberal democracy would handle the legacy effects of Donald Trump’s authoritarian attempt."

I honestly thought a grand jury would no bill this

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

Whether it’s Barack Obama wearing a tan suit in front of reporters or an ICE agent brutally attacking a mother in front of her children, both sides have subjected our most vulnerable citizens to disturbing images.

He even once admitted he would make up stories, like immigrants eating pets, if it suited his narrative.

The government won't tell you that they are fascists, but they will tell you that anti-fascists are their enemies.

Charlie Kirk never cared about debates.

The sanitizing of Charlie Kirk's legacy

An even more hostile place

Just a feeling.

The criminal 'justice' system has always been a joke, but the Trump Regime is really leaning in to ensuring everyone knows it

i've said it a bunch, people grasp "civil rights was unpopular too" from a moral sense, but frequently miss what it means in the material sense. popularity is not the thing you *need* to get change. popularity can *help* but it is not enough in and of itself to force power to change or act.

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

Alice's Restaurant (The Massacree Revisited) (22:26) My favorite line: "I said to myself, 'Arlo, how many things in this world are exactly 18 minutes and 20 seconds long?'... I'm sure it's just a coincidence." youtu.be/B_tMzSxvoeA?...

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❝ I had a dalliance with a woman with a bizarre fetish for the things; she even used them in text messages. ❞ I will never understand the belief that using complete sentences with capitalization and proper punctuation in text messages is somehow deviant behavior.

It’s rare that one clip can both be grounds for a massive corporate lawsuit and grounds for the 25th Amendment at the same time.

Today the cult leaders will claim to have figured out the cause of autism, and it'll be acetaminophen (Tylenol). Here's an enormous study on this very correlation with stringent methodology and a sample size of 2.4 million children. TL;DR - There's no link jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Kimmel: "He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this now."

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

"last time i went after them they gave me $16 million dollars"

that is a lot of extended car warranties

Why are we taking our latest politics cover to the streets? We wanted you to see what we saw, over many months of covering DOGE, ICE, and the rest of it. Tech leaders got what they wanted—a seat at the table with a would-be king, and a chance to haggle over the rules that govern their businesses.

"In his very first [Fed] meeting, without enough time to have been properly briefed, he alone dissented from everyone else. That's a statement. It's a signal. What's the signal? Look, I don't know, but I do know if you wanted to signal, I am the White House's boy, this is the signal you'd send."

Having read Isaac Chotiner interviews for a while now, I think his biggest weapon is simply listening to what people say with an appropriate amount of interest and responding to it logically rather than just plowing on with their outline. It's only revolutionary because hardly anyone else does it.