PSA: You do NOT have "until Jan 30th" to call your reps about ICE. The House is voting on the DHS appropriations bill TODAY (1/22) 🚨🚨

“Tomorrow the revolution will ‘rise up again, clashing its weapons,’ and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!” Rest in power, Rosa Luxemburg. (5 March 1871 - 15 January 1919)

This is something a villain in Captain Planet would do. His name would be Senator Oozemore and he’d have hundred dollar bills falling out of his pockets all the time.

i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed” basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again. i feel that with my dad.

Just read a passage in a book that describes elderly people as time machines: able to recall the past whilst being reminders to younger people of the future that awaits them. I think that’s a pretty magical understanding of age.

Actually, Benny, the Constitution disagrees. You don’t need to believe in God to be an American — you just need to believe in freedom. You know, like the freedom to believe whatever you want. That’s why the founders banned religious tests for public office.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

The Episcopalians have been activated. Repeat: the Episcopalians have been activated.

[Manager at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory struts out of the bathroom:] Great news, ladies! Guess who just finally unclogged the middle toilet?

He deserves to be roasted for his performative cowardice, but I think it’s under-noticed that Markwayne is seeking praise for driving his own car, like a filthy peasant.

An owl with some attitude.

No, JD, belonging in America does not depend on how many generations of your family have lived here. The values of this country matter - deeply - to who we are and what it means to be American.

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So sad that my six-year love affair with my Instant Pot has ended like this.

Here's your lede: "In the latest indication of an incipient police state...."

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I just heard ICE is going to Boston, and I have never wanted to see something more. Boston is an entire city with a speech impediment, generational trauma, and the collective impulse control of a toddler that just full-on ate an entire tin of Zyns. Let’s see who deports who.

Republicans are trying to restrict mifepristone using a junk science published anti-abortion activists. Here's lead author Ryan Anderson admitting the goal is to ban abortion pills nationwide. Oh, and he used to work for the Heritage Foundation, home of Project 2025 🤡

He thinks there’s a cargo ship full of VCR tapes steaming toward the Port of Blockbuster that he’s going to exact these tariffs upon, doesn’t he

The Trump horror show continues. But I bring you these small reasons for modest hope to remind you that there are still some cause for optimism. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/twelve-small-reasons-for-modest-hope

TOMORROW is the big day. Read Heads Up News and tell a friend! www.headsupnews.org/p/the-moment...

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Opinion | I am a Republican because I believe in traditional family values. Here's why I support a government run by two men who between them have 19 children by 8 different women.

This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen

Erich Fromm, The Heart of Man (1964)

This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

I love how tender this is. By Ada Limón.

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Not only does less than 1% of the fentanyl entering the US come from Canada, it’s up to the US border patrol to seize it not Canada. The Canadian border patrol is busy preventing American guns from entering into their country.

Oh Canada! 🇨🇦

"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." H. L. Mencken, who died on this day in 1956

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” ~President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941

Josh Hawley will probably get fewer steps in today than he did 4 years ago.

I read over a hundred books in 2024 (it can be done!) and today I’m counting down my ten favorites. A thread:

Trump will overplay his hand. Be ready for when he does.

I try to say this prayer immediately after midnight on New Year’s to set my intention for the coming year. It’s from the Book of Common Prayer (1979).

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square. 45² = 45 x 45 = 2025 Also, 9² x 5² = 2025 40² + 20² + 5² = 2025 My favourite? 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025 #Mathematics #teaching #education

“We can begin a whole new year together,” said Frog. “We will skip through the meadows and run through the woods. In the evenings we will sit right here on this porch and count the stars.” “You can count them,” said Toad. “I’m going back to bed.”

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." Ralph Waldo Emerson Hope everyone will have a great 2025.

We're not sitting around complaining or amplifying the chaos, our policy is to show you the beauty of our park and the science that goes on here until something sufficiently bat shit crazy happens that we put out a call to action. That's it, we now return you to your normally scheduled programming.

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