I’m willing to believe in signs and portents now

you are in a fight... and you need to use all available tools to secure your well being

what you think you are in... you are not in you are not in a moment of equal consideration you are not in a moment where you life is equally valued you are not in a moment where facts, truth, and data is prioritized

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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...

This is why I keep talking about wanting to hear about Dem Senators shunning their colleagues (and I don’t!). Republicans should be ashamed and they should pay a social price for this among their peers. But you KNOW Schumer thinks they’re all really good people who golly gee just *can’t*

Well see, 6 Republicans on the Supreme Court have given this man total immunity and power, and 53 Republicans in the Senate have confirmed every batshit person he nominated, and 219 Republicans in the House think he’s absolutely super. So at least 279 of us definitely do not see it

Watching a third of the country beclown and degrade themselves in cultish devotion to this stumbling turnip makes me want to puke.

TIL

It would be genuinely less embarrassing if Trump just walked up, slapped his dick on the podium, and said: “There. This is what qualifies me for this job according to my voters”

Americans could have voted for ONE goddamn woman but NO

What will it take. Jesus suffering Christ

This historical record will show that China didn't take global leadership status, America gave it away.

Every day is a national embarrassment

at some point we are going to discover where the shakedown money Trump is taking for his various "deals" is going and it is not going to be what anyone would understand as being "the United States government"

Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.

I’ve been saying!

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

So I'm assuming that financial journalists are hard at work figuring out who in the administration shorted Kenvue today, right?

Oh cool, like out of their own money? Maybe Elon is good for a billion?

This is exactly what a baby trying to convince his doctor not to give him a shot would say.

What in the Biden too old tho is this

“Jim Crow is over” is what John Roberts used as his rationale for gutting the Voting Rights Act, and now we have explicitly racist gerrymanders, which are DENYING BLACK PEOPLE THE RIGHT TO VOTE, under the guise of “partisan” gerrymanders in many states. Come on, man. Do better.

I got married late in life and there was no way I was going to do a huge amount of paperwork (and pay fees!) to change my name on all of my legal documents. It was interesting how many women told me they didn’t want to change their name & it was a hassle but “super important to my husband.”

far and away the most compelling argument for pro-natalist policy is how fucking dysfunctional greying countries are becoming politically. can't cut elderly benefits. can't raise taxes. can't let in workers. no throw only fetch politics until something collapses.

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

Unnerving point from @bcfinucane.bsky.social: The White House appears to be quietly trying to get Republicans to formally turn over a large swath of Congress's warmaking powers to Trump. That's what this new draft bill would do. From our pod discussion: newrepublic.com/article/2007...

Can’t someone run some ads in Alabama and Iowa that are like “Donald Trump and [local GOP wingnut] don’t care that you’re going bankrupt because of their tariffs but they’re going to help out their pal in Argentina”

Cool, with what money exactly? And it was appropriated by Congress for this purpose?

If we don’t fix the information environment, the only thing that will ever get Democrats elected is Republicans just torching the place. While that is actually happening, that’s not sustainable. We need voters to actually hear facts and not a constant stream of lies from every platform and outlet.

Such a weirdass picture

I wonder if we'll ever be able to follow the money from these shakedowns (tariff avoidances, profit sharing, visa fees) to Trump pet projects, like refurbishing his Qatari airplane, his trips to his golf courses, the stupid ballroom, the desecration of the rose garden.

I see many earnest, data-driven policy discussions about H1-B but again this misses the power so misses the point. Trump does not have the power to impose this fee. Period. We’re not arguing about policy after that point.

Read an article recently about how Miller once got so angry when talking to a reporter about immigration that he started crying.

it's really jarring to see how little media attention the assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their dog Gilbert received in comparison to the notable death of a non-elected leader of a right-wing organization.

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

My primary policy position is: no hungry kids

I have spent literal years trying to re-create a cabbage and pasta dish I once had in Cluj Napoca, Romania

“A study of fatal mass shootings, incidents in which 5 or more ppl were killed, from 2014 to 2019 found 59% were domestic violence [DV]. In 68% of cases, the shooter was committing or had a history of DV. Fewer victims survive mass shootings tied to DV than ones where that dynamic isn’t present.”🧪🛟

A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I’m no longer a Catholic but I find this use of the Rosary as a prop at a political rally extremely offensive

this, too, is political violence

And this is costing taxpayers how much? For a civilian podcaster and influencer?

Would really like to hear from some Republican senators on this! Starting with: Senator, are American taxpayers paying for this? Do you think this is more than or less than an affront to American dignity compared to a President wearing a tan suit? Will you be attending?

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

Reluctant praise for going with “accepting bag of cash” in this headline instead of “testing limits of currency transfers” or some such

The rapture would solve a lot of problems tbh