Wow.

THE EPSTEIN CLASS

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America

I was puzzled for a moment about why DHS would release the phone footage from the murderer's point of view, since it clearly shows that the murderer was in no danger from the victim.

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

"I can't remember the quotation exactly, but it's like 'when fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and wearing the cross.' Mike Johnson's the real embodiment of that." - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

Targeting more than half the population of the US for a political reason is treason. No elected official or a member of his staff has the right to punish the American people for who they vote for. Withholding money for states that voted for Harris is tyranny and must be stopped now.

As the parent of an Autistic child, this reduction of the condition to a transactional throw-away "big news next week" is soul crushing. Autism is not "out of control". It demands recognition and a society that realizes the strengths in everyone. Divisive BS to further anti-science

Thanks to a standing order signed by the state health officer Thursday, anyone in Washington state can get the Covid-19 vaccine without consulting their doctor.

I’ve seen enough. Impeach Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Ossoff on RFK Jr: "Absolutely he should resign. And he never should've been confirmed to begin with... in any normal Senate, he never would've gotten so much as a hearing. This is someone who throughout his public life has embraced just about every piece of quackery & pseudoscience he's come across"

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician, voted to confirm anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. as health secretary because Cassidy thinks his re-election is more important than whether children die of measles or are crippled by polio.

2A Gundamentalists have proven they have no interest in bearing arms to rise up against tyranny, so their absolutist “constitutional” argument against national common sense gun reform is moot—and the time to talk about it is right fucking now.

Evergreen State is standing up!

My Saturday PSA: Joe Biden isn’t the president anymore. Instead, we’ve got a mentally deranged and ethically compromised old man with the nuclear codes trespassing in the Oval Office. Stop talking about Joe Biden. Start talking about the Convicted Felon, Donald Trump.

A perfect response.

Who pays for the felon/GOP’s proposed tax cut for billionaires & wealthiest Americans? 🤑 Answer: Hardworking middle class Americans pay for the billionaire/wealthy tax cuts! Felon/GOP increase taxes on everyone else & gut Social Security/Medicare etc. to pay for the billionaire/wealthy tax cuts! 🤬

This is the way:

Uniter 9-year old Teddy “Recently…RFK Jr. made false comments about autism, like people with autism are broken, that autism caused by vaccines, and that people with autism will never have jobs or families. But that’s not true! “I have autism & I’m not broken.” @nj.com, www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjSfAeVL/

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

“#AutismAcceptance is about loving autistic people for who they are, helping them find and embrace their strengths, & helping them learn the skills to thrive in a world that wasn’t meant for them. It isn’t about changing them or doing research to cure them.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

A lesson from Ferris Bueller on tariffs.

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. Full video: www.instagram.com/reel/DHzLuhi...

Hey NBC and Seth Meyers, y’all need to book the largest possible venue in D.C. on April 26th and do a competing fundraiser and comedy show that actually celebrates the First Amendment. Televise it. Make Amber Ruffin the central act. Send a message that free speech is non-negotiable.

That Kristi Noem video with the detainees is so upsetting and the fact any sizable fraction, let alone a majority, of our society would endorse it is evidence of a deep rot in our entire culture. Like until you answer what fuels the appetite for that kind of thing it will only get worse

WE TOLD YOU SO!🤬

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.

REPUBLICANS: “But her emails!” ALSO REPUBLICANS: “Let’s move on.”

The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

The Department of Education is under attack by a bunch of oligarchs and Trump. Our most vulnerable children, with disabilities, will not have the care they deserve and need!! I thought it was “No child left behind!” #MomSky

L - Eric Trump tells people to “buy the dips” on crypto. R - A couple days later, Trump makes his crypto announcement. How much time did the media spend on Hunter Biden? I read more articles about Biden’s shoes than this blatant and obvious corruption.

Sen Dick Durbin (D-IL) uncorks quite a reaction: “Former President Ronald Reagan and the late Senator John McCain are rolling over in their graves at the thought of an American president sullying America’s image by siding at the UN with dictators in Russia…”

Dear Republicans, No one is “teaching” us to fear pregnancy, but maybe, just maybe, you should ask yourselves why we might.

Naomi Beinart, 16: "We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman...Where the body I haven’t fully grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday."

It’s been a rough week, but this helps.