In my opinion, yes.
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In my opinion, yes.
Voter suppression because they don't believe in democracy.
This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
The anti-intellectualism movement in red states, the White House and Congress is self-destructive. It is destroying the country. MAGA supports it because they hate what they don't understand.
The hacks who've been claiming liberals were politicizing the universities are now overtly politicizing the universities through authoritarian means, banishing any critics.
Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
Trump has been president for less than 5 years – about 2% of the history of this country. He's responsible for 22% of the national debt. The budget issue is a Republican long con that has worked spectacularly with people who don't believe in facts.
In 1949, Superman told schoolchildren “our country is made up of Americans of MANY different races, religions and national origins. So… “…if YOU hear anybody talk against anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin — don’t wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN.”
Winner take all needs to end for all elections.
We have no money for anything that serves the public good, but we have 10 million dollars to waste memorializing a goddamn traitor to this country. apnews.com/article/conf...
NPR: “Less than five years after urging rioters to "kill" police at the Capitol, former Jan. 6 defendant Jared Wise is working as a senior adviser for Trump’s Department of Justice…” But ‘Back the Blue’, right? More: www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...
Please sign and share our petition to remove RFK Jr. www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...
"Willful blindness" Exactly!
Nebraska, everyone.
Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?
I encounter this quite often. Thank you for articulating it. The idea that because Dems are not perfect pointing out the egregious actions of MAGA makes me too partisan is infuriating.
Will the country survive until November 2026? If so, in what condition? So difficult not to give in to despair.
The destruction of science in America is devastating.
Pregnant Mother in Tennessee Denied Care for Being Unmarried The 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act allows physicians to deny care to patients whose lifestyles they disagree with nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/d...
1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” said Trump adviser Russell Vought. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down." (Published Oct. 2024 w/ @documented.net)
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State Rep. Bo Mitchell of Nashville has become the first Democrat to enter the Congressional District 7 race to replace U.S. Rep. Mark Green. Mitchell made the awaited announcement on Facebook.
At least the GOP don't deserve it.
Well here ya go...
Shameful. They are funding thugs. Republicans are morally bankrupt.
But “we’re broke”, right? We can’t afford health care, housing, education, etc right? A budget is a moral document. 🇺🇸
I sure as hell have noticed. How about you? 🤨
Horrible.
Statewide in TN only 8.6% make over $200K. 1 in 5 rely on medicaid. In Congress 8 of our 9 House seats and both Senate seats are filled by Republicans. They only care about making the rich richer.
He is such an embarrassment.
Trump at the NATO summit: "We made a deal with Ukraine to take a vast amount of the land they have for minerals. We need it."
This was in May. When will this ICE horror end? ICE Arrested a Pregnant Tennessee Woman — While in Detention in Louisiana, She had a Stillbirth nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i...
According to this site www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/d... 2016: 20 million registered voters didn't vote 2020: 10 million registered voters didn't vote 2024: 19.5 million registered voters didn't vote
That is cruel. A "pro-life" law that does the opposite. The proponents won't accept that reproduction is complicated. They don't respect medical experts. They don't respect women. RBG said it well. An abortion ban "controls women and denies them full autonomy and full equality with men."
Orwell was a freaking prophet. I read 1984 in 1984. I watched the movie with John Hurt. It is categorized as science fiction. It is today's reality.
because dipshit telegraphed this attack like moron, and likely the whole pentagon leaks like a sieve. Because drunken fuckwits make poor leaders
The NYC Bar Association views with alarm ICE agents wearing masks when conducting detentions and arrests. This comes at a time when their actions are the subject of numerous legal challenges, and a public outcry vehemently opposing unlawful detentions and emphasizing the need for due process.
Disgusting.
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This is the best, more elegant, description of what LLMs do. I wish more people understood that. Plus: there are many different tools under the umbrella of “AI” that work differently, but a common thread is they main work through giant regression models.
“The fundamental civic unit in this nation is neighbor.” - @jelaniya.bsky.social 🇺🇸
Horrified that non-violent people are being treated so inhumanely and sent away. The real threats to safety are the Jan 6 insurgents who are free and the thugs who abduct people. This is not a partisan disagreement. This is about human decency and the need for good to triumph over evil.
“A horrible display of waste… rotting fruits and vegetables… store after store closed… if the ice raids continue be ready for even bigger sticker shock when you go grocery shopping…” 🍎 🥕
"The current administration has offered no immigration policy beyond the stated goal of deporting thousands of people each day. This is not policy, it is punishment, and it can only result in cruel and arbitrary outcomes (6-17-25)." #ArchbishopGomez #PrayForAmerica
This is BEFORE #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer When is enough enough, @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty ?
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I remember after the Biden debate NPR made his cognitive decline a story but didn't do the same with Trump. I was so angry. It seems like NPR goes out of its way to seem "balanced" but ends up legitimizing the crazy. The anchors/hosts have become unbearable.
JASON WILT: “I’m a Tennessee public school kid who became a Harvard scientist… Trump’s grant cuts aren't just numbers in a budget. They directly hurt students and young researchers like me.” www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...
Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
I heard the same thing about Russians coming to his hotel to give birth to get birthright citizenship for their offspring. The hypocrisy is astounding.
"The Holy Spirit opens borders, first of all, in our hearts. He is the gift that opens our lives to love. His presence breaks down our hardness of heart, our narrowness of mind, our selfishness, the fears that enchain us and the narcissism that makes us think only of ourselves (6-8-25)." #PopeLeoXIV
I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.
What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, and Understanding. youtu.be/Ssd3U_zicAI?...
ICE crossed a line in LA
🦋 Federal employees must demonstrate their love of Trump Federal hiring freeze is scheduled to end July 15 & administration has developed a "Merit Hiring Plan" Applicants must write essays on commitment to the Constitution & plans to "advance the President's Executive Orders & policy priorities" 🦋
Vinay Prasad didn’t know that all federally-funded research has to be open access. This has been a legal requirement for years.
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
Yes.
This part
Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
Trump pardons criminals while ICE arrests non-criminals and the GOP investigated Hunter Biden's business dealings while Trump and his family freely violate ethics rules. The hypocrisy is so blatant no one can NOT see it. If the agenda is make it accepted as normal, then they are succeeding. Tragic.
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REPUBLICANS: You need to get a job to receive Medicaid AMERICANS: What if my job doesn't offer healthcare? REPUBLICANS:
“Low-income and marginalized populations…experience disproportionately high rates of dental disease…fluoride…is a practical intervention that can reduce the burden of oral disease, which…is linked to… diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and pregnancy complications.” apple.news/AsbDOv3UhRp-...
⚡️MONDAY in Nashville, Rep. Andy Ogles (who has called for investigations into multiple Democrats over ICE raids after he had one on his campaign finances dropped by Trump) is holding a rally at the Capitol in support of ICE — a counterprotest is also being organized.
It isn't hyperbole to say evil. Sending people to foreign prisons; arresting people during citizenship interviews; taking food and healthcare from children and the elderly. Evil.
I feel so powerless. Are there any Republican members of Congress that still have a soul? We only need a few to join Dems in Congress to stop this horror show. I think it would be better to call non-MAGA representatives (if they exist) instead of my TN reps who are part of this evil regime.
The “big, beautiful” bill ain’t beautiful—it’s bullshit. House Republicans just voted for the largest cut to SNAP & Medicaid in U.S. history—turning their backs on their own damn constituents: the working people they were sent here to represent. They don’t serve the people. They serve the rich.
At the newsletter right now: A Texas woman was just released from jail after five months - FOR A MISCARRIAGE. While she was jailed, the county turned her fetal remains over to a crisis pregnancy center - which then named the fetus and gave it a public funeral. jessica.substack.com/p/texas-jail...
Just to be clear, when/if someone says the reconciliation bill the GOP has been debating in the dark of night won’t add to the debt and deficit, that’s a knowing lie.
The extra-extreme members of the House Budget Committee voted "present" tonight so that the Medicaid-cuts-to-fund-tax-giveaways-for-the-rich bill could pass out of committee 17-16. Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity. 202-224-3121.
“Let’s Start Talking About Jail Time for Trump, [Musk, and DOGE]” @dceiver.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com. Yes.
In these difficult times building community, and support for each other, is extremely important. That’s why I’m holding community dances around Vermont. We just had a great event in Hardwick. People of all ages danced the night away.
you know things are dire when the only Republican making any sense on tariffs is Rand Paul
Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30. But two researchers have concluded it has something much more valuable.
We are living in our version of the late 19th Gilded Age. Tragic.
A Tesla worker in my district was electrocuted to death because the company ignored safety rules. OSHA fined Tesla $50,000. Elon Musk makes that back in nine minutes from federal contracts alone. Workers’ lives are worth more than nine minutes of Elon Musk’s day.
I recommend reading this commentary by @williambaude.bsky.social and Michael Stokes Paulsen on Trump v. Anderson. SCOTUS (and Congress) have failed the country. harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
Marc Andreesen received government funding from NSF to create Mosaic.
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.
The Library of Congress is a research library. The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress. Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research. NO children’s section. Even the general public has very limited access.
I know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.
Which states could lose the most from Medicaid cuts floated by the GOP? South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee – all Trump states. Republicans seem perfectly happy throwing their own constituents under the bus to dole out tax cuts for the wealthy & corporations.
Y’all — OKLAHOMA is going to require their schools to lie to their kids that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud. popular.info/p/new-oklaho...
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Ben Franklin on vaccination. (via Mic: www.mic.com/articles/109...)
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Pondering a time travel scenario in which Debbie Wasserman Schultz didn't sabotage Bernie's nomination for the 2016 election. Sigh.
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