Except all those people voting for Eisenhower or not voting at all because they couldn’t vote for a Democrat or a woman essentially opened the door for Trump to win.
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Except all those people voting for Eisenhower or not voting at all because they couldn’t vote for a Democrat or a woman essentially opened the door for Trump to win.
WATCH: “In video captured by the Tennessee Holler…” On @msnbc, @eriellereshef plays our video of @brotherjones.bsky.social getting banned from @GovBillLee’s Teslas-only tunnel announcement — even though it was a state event, in his own district.
This made me laugh
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@raskin.house.gov: "They'd conscripted 1000 FBI agents to be working around the clock 24 hours going through 100,000 Epstein documents and told them to flag any mentions of Donald Trump... This might be one of the most massive cover-ups in the history of the United States unfolding before our eyes."
These corrupt, incompetent idiots are going to kill a lot of us wapo.st/4lWdVEE
Breaking News: The EPA said it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of scientists, after denying that it intended to do so.
NEW: The Justice Department has recently been contacting states demanding access to sensitive election and voting data. A former department attorney and voting rights advocate told Democracy Docket that these efforts “should concern all Americans.”
A 15 year old boy with no criminal history has been sent to Alligator Alcatraz How much is too much? amp.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
At $600 million per year for 5,000 detainees, the Everglades detention facility would cost a whopping $328.77 per bed per day. ICE's 2025 budget request read: "Average adult bed cost per day is $187.48 for FY 2023." reason.com/2025/07/09/l...
🚨NEW: When ICE raided a Californian farm yesterday, they snatched & disappeared a disabled US veteran who was in his car. They smashed his window, peppered sprayed him & dragged him to the floor. Listen to his wife & sister here, distraught. No-one will tell them where he is. (🎥 ABC 7 News)
Everything he says is just….mind numbing. He just talks and talks and talks and talks. At least he isn’t wearing a MAGA hat
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Top Hurricane Scientists Sound the Alarm on Looming NOAA Cuts Long-time head of NOAA’s premier hurricane lab in Miami says proposed cuts would reduce forecast accuracy by as much as 40 percent.
Sen Thom Tillis (R-NC) tells CNN that there are 100s of people who should still be behind bars for what they did on Jan 6
REPORTER: Do you expect any of the countries here to face tariffs? TRUMP: I haven't thought of it, but maybe, I don't know. Let's see, I like him, him, him, him, and him. No, I don't think so. These are friends of mine now.
According to Yale experts, up to 35,000 Ukrainian children have been kidnapped and taken into russia and temporarily occupied territories, the Guardian article says. These children are forced into places where their identities are erased and hatred towards their homeland is imposed.
Chance that this guy—who onJan 6 told other rioters who were attacking law enforcement officers, “Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!”—could get a security clearance in normal times: Zero. Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
Because Trump is on Putin’s side. Because Trump works for Putin.
In a case that exposed the passions surrounding the US’s religious-secular divide, the court sided with parents in Maryland who protested that they were left with no means of shielding their children from the contents of six storybooks they found objectionable. Read the full story ⬇️
Republicans pulled an all-nighter to: -strip healthcare away from 17 million Americans -take food assistance away from 3 million Americans -eliminate school meal access for 18+ million kids -send energy costs soaring -add $3.3 trillion to national debt -raise health care premiums for seniors
Just horrible. Sickening. Evil. This decision will kill children. We all knew RFK Jr was the worst person for this job. He's lived up to the hype. The f*cking worst. Kennedy Withdraws U.S. Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...
ICE raids have led to fear and anxiety for immigrants in Los Angeles. That fear extends even to those who are in the U.S. legally, keeping many away from public life.
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.
The top 10% of earners in the U.S. would see the biggest gains under the GOP tax and spending package, according to congressional forecasters, but those at the bottom of the income ladder would be worse off.
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ICE crossed a line in LA
Elsewhere on the Internet I see someone being a conflicted about not finishing a book of mine, so let me make it easy for everyone: If you're not vibing with something I wrote, put it down and try something else! Not everything I write is going to work for everyone, and that's fine. Let it go!
Very informative chart from Washington Post
Israeli strikes on Gaza killed at least 32 people, including over a dozen women and children, local health officials said Sunday, as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu headed to meet President Trump.
PEN America is deeply concerned by the detention of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University doctoral student and children's literature and media advocate, reportedly due to her pro-Palestinian op-ed published a year ago. (1/2)
Yunseo Chung is: – a legal permanent resident – a high school valedictorian – a Columbia student who merely participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations And ICE wants to deport her. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...
Just as we move into severe weather season, the National Weather Service announces it will no longer send up weather balloons out of its Omaha office due to staffing issues.
Trump reinstated security clearances for a major law firm, Paul Weiss, after the firm agreed to provide $40 million in legal services to support administration initiatives Essentially a bribe, which Trump accepted
Valid visa and now gone. BTW, she was here to SAVE LIVES. Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
Posting tonight ti shine a light on what the Alien Enemies Act looks like IRL. Our @immdef.bsky.social client fled Venezuela last year & came to US to seek asylum. He has a strong claim. He was detained upon entry because ICE alleged his tattoos are gang related. They are absolutely not. 🧵
Retired service band members united to play in concert with young musicians after their show was canceled due to President Trump’s executive order ending DEI programs. https://cbsn.ws/4iaHcKm
From today’ NYTs “A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported, despite a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion”
A Hmong American woman who has lived in the Milwaukee area since she was 8 months old was deported last week to Laos, a country she has never visited, and says she is stranded in a rooming house surrounded by military guards. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
SICKENING—Trump’s DHS just deported a surgeon from Brown—who is here legally on an H1B visa that doesn’t expire until 2027, & committed no crimes. Trained in the U.S. at Ohio State, University of Washington, and Yale as a **transplant surgeon**, she is a highly trained doctor on kidney transplants.
The Trump regime will arrest you in the middle of the night because you spoke your mind. And federal agents in plain clothes who refuse to identify themselves will be the ones to do it. If you think I'm being hyperbolic, watch this clip.
Holy shit. This is *the* gold-standard measurement of atmospheric CO2 -- the one in all the charts.
Did you also hear him say in the speech that HE is the chief enforcement officer of the United States? Not the Attorney General— but him
Immediate presidency-ending scandals for any previous president from Truman to Biden, now happening daily 🤷♂️
Musk’s status as a “special government employee” limits him to 130 days in the executive branch. However, despite working daily—documented by his own X posts—they claim he only works one day a week, effectively stretching his limit to 130 weeks. This needs to be brought to Congress—please share.
I’m down for Al Sharpton’s boycott on Friday. If we want to be effective, we need to stop giving these people our money. Are you in?
Would Trump’s wives and mother have been able to buy that card when they immigrated?
Van Hollen: "European allies & others around the world who believe in freedom & democracy are wondering if this is just rhetoric or a real shift. My warning to them is I think this is reality. I think Trump is much closer ideologically to Putin & other autocrats than he is to democratic countries."
New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...
I don't think the Dems can stop the firings. But why aren't they proposing legislation that assures those that took the buyout get paid , and that all that are fired, get at least a year severance and health benefits? And any one with a health condition is covered the entire time they are sick?
Several Department of Education employees told ProPublica they were directed not to contact students and schools about their pending civil rights cases. “We’ve been essentially muzzled,” an attorney said. By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social
"School libraries are the best. I grew up spending most of my time in them. I really depended on librarians to guide me, and I am forever in their debt." —Julianne Moore #TLSky mrschureads.blogspot.com/2013/11/chil...
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.
Elon's "call out conflicts" plan doesn't seem very solid
Treasury Department officials said Tuesday that the agency last week “mistakenly” and “briefly” gave a member of Elon Musk’s team the power to alter a sensitive federal payments database, prompting an internal forensic investigation that remains ongoing. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.
He’s rubbed elbows with the Proud Boys, the Patriot Prayer group, Nick Fuentes and other extremists. Meet Donald Trump’s new nominee to be director of the National Counter Terrorism Center. apnews.com/article/2022...
We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
“Now, as fears emerge Trump’s administration is ‘dangerously’ undermining the U.S. dollar, Musk has confirmed he wants to put the U.S. Treasury on a blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies—including Musk’s pet project dogecoin.” www.forbes.com/sites/digita...
“So what do we do to stop Trump?” is a question I get dozens of times per day. I answer in detail here. The worst thing we can do is give up. Autocrats want capitulation through exhaustion and compliance through fear. Do not comply. Here’s how to take action: www.qasimrashid.com/p/magas-7-de...
JUST IN: The Treasury Department has agreed to give Elon Musk’s DOGE access to a system that distributes entitlement benefits, grants and tax refunds to Americans each year, per WSJ
“I’ve been an infectious disease doctor for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this.” The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.
USAID's website
Excellent post
Hannity as Trump rants about Biden not pardoning himself: "Let me get to the economy." Trump: "I don't care."
Some details from this wsj scoop www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Started //// going (Democracy dies in capitalism)
I like it because it forced working together for a compromise.
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Things are going well* in Nebraska. *Not great! journalstar.com/news/local/e...
It seems a discussion is in order of the Laken Riley Act that I happily voted against on the House floor today. It is a bill that served no purpose than to stir up anger. But let’s quickly review why:
Just for fun, I create FREE monthly reading challenges/coloring sheets for readers of all ages b/c both #reading & #coloring help reduce stress. Here’s the Jan update w/a nod to @jmalphy.bsky.social! #tlsky #edusky #skybrarians Happy reading AND coloring, y’all! www.librarygirl.net/post/library...
NEW: Send letters to your Senators to oppose Linda McMahon for Education Secretary—please share this post and the link. Let’s get this one moving! Thanks!
Happy Festivus everyone. Always amazed this crazy episode birthed a real celebration that seems to be enjoyed by so many around the world. So may your feats be strong and your grievances few. Enjoy.
As school vouchers become available to all Iowa families, parents at a large private school operator in Dubuque are experiencing tuition sticker shock.
Politically motivated by who? Ricketts?