Also, it sounds like people have figured out which hotel the ICE agents are staying at and are giving them a lovely overnight musical performance with drums and vuvuzelas and so on. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

I used to live in Arkansas, which seemed to be making progress on education until a wave of Christofascist ignorance embraced by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders pushed the state back into the Stone Age.

Run this as an ad during midterms.

The devastation I feel about this attack on science in particular is hard to cope with. It’s like watching my dad die all over again. I would do anything to spare someone a death via pancreatic cancer.

Everyone who opposes ending PBS in Arkansas should contact: Arkansas PBS (800-662-2386), our governor's office (501-682-2345), and their state lawmakers. (Find contact information for your state lawmakers at www.arkleg.state.ar.us.) #arpx

SAY SO LONG TO SESAME STREET: Arkansas' statewide public TV broadcaster - Arkansas PBS - ending contract to air PBS programming; will brand itself as ATV and air locally produced programming instead. Arkansans will need streaming services to get PBS content. #Arkansas #arpx #arnews

I have to admit the news that Arkansas will no longer have PBS programming unless you pay to stream online has just dumped me into a depression. It’s just unfathomable that my granddaughter will grow up in a state that hates education and culture and art so much.

🚨 NEW from me @ms.now: Labor Dept Sec. Chavez-DeRemer held a prayer service yesterday for employees, during work hours, after being inspired by the a similar event at the Pentagon Legal experts say it violates the Constitutional separation of church + state. ⤵️

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

I want a time machine so I can grab my parents from 1990 and plop them down in front of their 2025 maga selves. I don't think any would survive, but definitely not my father.

This is really the heart of Trump’s new AI rules: he’s trying to make sure Mecha-Hitler proceeds unobstructed

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

Just wondering if the mega rich will really be happy when American democracy is completely dead , the middle class is a memory and civil unrest is all that remains. Is making money all you guys care about.

Please read this on Arkansas trashing PBS.

I cannot imagine not having PBS available. When I was a kid, we had two channels: AETN (as it was known at the time) and the local ABC affiliate. I grew up with Sesame Street, Electric Company, 321 Contact, Doctor Who, and more. (1/3)

The US government just loves enabling child exploitation and traffickers.

Reminder: extension of the ACA tax credits would cost less than 10% of the cost of the tax breaks given to billionaires and corporations earlier this year. Don't let them tell you we can't afford it. It's that they CHOOSE not to prioritize your healthcare.

Cuban touches on this question in the thread, but the doctor income math changes once you eliminate the massive ass student loans that they carry forever.

I’ve always had to have a referral from a primary first. Adorable when billionaires try to act relatable. Confusing their greed with intelligence. Cute.

I have to get a referral to see any specialist already and even with one I often get turned down. This scare mongering is the daily reality of most Americans and M4A is the answer.

That's all the House Dems + 20 Republicans:

I am extremely concerned for the princesses. And how the porn slop is going to be pushed.

Citing a budget crunch brought on by the Trump administration's termination of federal funding for public media, Arkansas becomes the first state to unplug from PBS. Viewers will get mostly local programming, instead. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

This is depressing. I assume this means after July there will be no more Nova or Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood are all of Masterpiece. What a backwards place we’ve become.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

An insane political move. One of the recurring complaints about immigration in the U.S. is that those seeking asylum jump the line. This is line-jumping — but for rich people, not those in need.

Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what Repro Uncensored call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.

This is former state Rep. Carlton Wing's PRIVATE production company. He's the new Executive Director and Grifter-in-Chief. www.myarkansaspbs.org/about

Just saw the news directly (or indirectly with a buried lede) from a AETN/ArkansasPBS FB post. Pissing away 60 years of Educational/Public TV legacy to bend the knee to Trump and Governess SHS. Pathetic

Hearing that Arkansas PBS is going to disaffiliate with PBS. This is a tragic loss for our state. Are the studios being overtaken for state-funded Huckabee Bible Hour? Are there other states that will take us long-time AR PBS supporters in and remove their location restrictions for streaming?

ITS OK TO HAVE PRIMARIES IT IS IN FACT GOOD.

Well, the last time I personally saw the National Guard lined up in the streets like that, George W. Bush had just announced the US was invading Iraq.

These two headlines show exactly how much waste there will be now that ICE has unlimited funds and no oversight.

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Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms. It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.

Also, of course, the State Department changing typefaces for reasons that boil down to "fuck accessibility" is both utterly in line with the overt bigotry of this administration and a signal indicator of how unserious these people are, it doesn't matter what typeface you use when you're a joke

I've been thinking a lot about how Corporations try to get out of their tax responsibility, ESPECIALLY for property taxes. In many states, local schools are funded mostly by property taxes. With the farm crisis, this gets so much worse.

One of the reasons people wear comfortable clothes in the airport is the workout required to RUN to your connecting gate. Throw in flights being cancelled and you need something that stands up to a second day of wear. You really can't afford anything else after the extra hotel charge.

The GOP plan is to let premiums massively spike for 21 million Americans. And then it gives them $1k per year ONLY IF they switch to bronze plans — which it also raises the cost of. Awful awful plan that fucks over sick people.

“It’s like bringing principles to gun fight” -Melissa Murray (@profmmurray.bsky.social) What a good line 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Wins 2025 hands down

The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hill stayed silent because Hill had always been on their side. His record speaks for itself.

I am happy for @crockett.house.gov running for Senate. Let’s mix things up! She is smart and capable and charismatic. I wish her the very best.

Hepatitis B is a serious liver infection that, for most people, lasts less than six months. But for some, especially infants and children, it can become a long-lasting problem that can lead to liver failure, liver cancer and scarring called cirrhosis.

Gen X get out of the house and engage with these LEADERS.

Know Nothing Cottontail #arpx

It’s important to remember there are two scandals here: 1. The Administration has likely committed war crimes. 2. But the entire operation - which now includes two dozen attacks - is illegal. In our democracy, the President CANNOT wage war without the consent of the people.