Thinking back to all of the people fired after the deaths of Billy Graham, Jerry Fallwell, Anita Bryant, and James Dobson

Lysenkoism and world ice theory all over again

Who could forget Hitler’s masterful negotiating move of committing suicide with his wife on their honeymoon in an underground bunker…

Can we now stop dismissing the Jade Helm stuff as a silly conservative theory, and instead see it as an unintentionally revelatory form of projection by aspirationally authoritarian conservative, “freedom fighters” who were battling against tyrannical phantoms that existed only in their own psyches?

I wish The Onion could go back to publishing satire

Finally, a chance to acquire bird flu or the parasite Cyclospora free from big government interference. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

55 years ago today, four Kent State students were killed on campus by Ohio National Guardsmen for protesting the Vietnam War Why does it feel like this is what Trump means by Make America Great Again?

“Shipping ports are empty across the United States. Nothing is coming in. Businesses have cancelled the remainder of their 2025 orders.” (h/t FreightWaves)

"I like Trump: 32%" "I *hate* Trump: 51%" Good luck in the 2026 midterms any Republicans who think they can win on riding on Donald's wrinkled, baggy, sloppy 1980s suit coattails.

A great example of what NOT to do. Idealist disengagement is one of the reasons we are in this mess. If you can’t stand Schumer & Co, then this is The Time to be engaged.

The only thing genAI is useful for is letting other people know you want to have fewer teeth.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

The Trump Administration has made a shocking claim: that it can declare living people dead to cut off their access to government benefits and the broader U.S. financial system. Thread on my colleagues’ new blog 🧵 www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...

Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes. More details here, but this is... really bad. www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

I can’t get over the fact that Trump disappeared a legal U.S. resident to a gulag in El Salvador and is refusing to bring him back despite a unanimous Supreme Court decision ordering him to

Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...

So, with a 145% tariff somehow Chinese cars are still too competitive for Detroit?

Illegal ideas.

BREAKING: Germany is considering the withdrawal of approximately 1,200 tons of gold, valued at around $124 billion, from a U.S. Federal Reserve vault in New York.

More institutions are going to be tested. Pressure is already being publicly directed at Powell to lower rates.

Hello world! My name is Marcy Rheintgen and I recently became the first person to be arrested under the transgender bathroom bills!

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."

Democrats voted unanimously to confirm Marco Rubio.

Germany issues warning for transgender & nonbinary people traveling to the U.S. www.advocate.com/news/germany...

Authoritarianism is where investigating the crimes committed by leaders are illegal, but leaders committing crimes aren’t. He said he’d go after his political opponents and he is. Read the “First They Came” poem again and understand that solidarity is what helps us survive this

They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts. The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.

WaPo entering their goebbels era

what happened to read only access

DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

Walmart called the police on a cis-woman using the women's bathroom. Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'" 😡 😡 😡

The Pentagon has marked 26,000 photos for deletion to purge evidence of diversity. The photos include the 1st black pilots in WWII, the 1st women to pass infantry training & the plane that dropped the Hiroshima bomb because it’s called the “Enola GAY”. This is real. We’re living in a horror story.

Trump: I’m going to kill your loved ones. Democrats: [wave placard] Trump: Especially the black ones. And the gay ones Democrats: [strenuously wave placards]

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

A group of unqualified, unelected bureaucrats, including a teenager with alleged links to hacker groups, is now seeking access to the personal identifying information of every U.S. taxpayer. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I don’t agree that it’s a good question, but if you insist on asking. Historically, what happens is the Trail of Tears.

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So cool to see this little homage to a truly great performance

Think about how fast it went from Trump personally is not liable to prosecution for official acts to Trump’s big Nazi donor’s extralegal and unaccountable goon squad is not subject to arrest.

People talking about this or that item becoming more expensive are missing how disastrous this trade war could be

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

Why do Trumpers want to abolish the Department of Education? Because it’s in charge of prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race and sex in schools that get federal funding, a policy Congress set in 1975 through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).