I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

I’m already mourning the end of the WS. So much fun to watch!

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone? Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate. They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.

My lung cancer was diagnosed because I had hip and shoulder pain - the cancer had spread to my bones. Not for a moment did I think it was anything but signs of an aging/aching body.

As the lights continue to dim on our Democracy, I just want to go on record that I have always believed that everyone deserves quality universal health coverage whatever it’s called. No one should ever have to worry about going to the doctor and putting food on the table. No one. It’s a human right.

#Florida has some excellent indies, inclu. Tombolo in St. Pete, Oxford Exchange in Tampa, Midtown Reader in Tallahassee, Books & Books in Miami & Key West (where Judy Blume runs the store), Story & Song in Fernandina Beach, Happy Medium in Jax & the Lynx in Gainesville, run by @legroff.bsky.social.

I feel like news publications should put more energy into asking autistic people how they feel about all this because…

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

And he’s doing a terrible job at all four.

DJT being one of them.

Party of individual freedom???

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

I believe my friend, whose son’s rare cancer, was successfully treated at the NIH would beg to differ.

Time to round up more “undesirables.” More masked marauders on the streets? “Treatment” centers in a swamp? I am never going to forgive the people who voted for this. Never.

🎯 A few precise words that explain a lot ⬇️

You don’t have to eagerly endorse reading every book in the library to understand that it’s wrong for the government to have full control over what ideas are available in a publicly-funded library. They are arguing before federal courts that “libraries are government speech.” That’s un-American.

Ridiculous and embarrassing for FL.

State BOE Member Byrd recommended districts skip the review process and go right to removing every title on their shelves that has appeared on the state’s annual removal lists. Well, it appears Volusia listened. Here are 10 of the disappeared titles we have been monitoring, now banned in Volusia.

can't say I like how often this administration keeps returning to the theme of "forcing undesirable citizens like poor people and scientists to toil in the fields"

Literacy is a social justice issue:

America is 100% disappointing.

They were supposed to be deporting “gang members” and “criminals.” So far, they have kidnapped people working their day jobs and folks lawfully showing up for their immigration court appearances… It was always a lie.

my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

Ron DeSantis took over the New College of Florida, this is how it’s going. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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Firm grasp on the issue at hand, as always 🤦‍♀️

What? Articulate as ever 🙄

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

Never—NEVER—absolutely N E V E R call these ppl “pro-life” or let their efforts to call themselves that pass unchallenged. This is condemning innocent new-born children to death, and their parents to unfathomable sorrow. And for what?

I’m not sure how Duffy can fix any of the issues with air travel when he’s on Fox 24/7 complaining about it and blaming other people. STFU for 5 minutes and do your job! This isn’t a reality TV show - people’s lives and livelihoods are in the hands of these unqualified dipshits.

Same, Toad, same.

Literally destroying every good thing . . .

Is that stupid person in the room with us right now?

Living human brain tissue used to mimic Alzheimer’s in breakthrough study

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

And that’s saying something . . .

As usual, whatever Homan spews is the exact opposite of reality.

Dumber and dumber every single day . . .

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A glorious day to celebrate. April 9, 1865. The US defeated the army of the traitor slavers. Don’t let them keep lying about it. It was slavery. They proudly said it at the time. It was slavery. Good riddance.

The cruelty is the point.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Now we can direct our anger toward the prez and his awful enablers.