Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this? Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids. She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms. Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen. 🧵
This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.
Damn right!!!
The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.
I suspect they'd do anything to the rest of us in broad daylight and get away with it. I'm livid. As if the last few weeks weren't bad enough.
"Sir. Sir." That's Senator to you, you fucking fascists.
I hate that the thanks for donating to a Democratic candidate is having my phone number sold on a list to a hundred other campaigns, all of whom send me passive-aggressive texts asking for my donation, often weirdly attempting a guilt trip, as though I knew them. I really don’t like that.
2 things need repealing to help fix the country-
I've always loved Paul Rudnick's wit.
🔥 BREAKING: Bristol Myers Squibb shareholders voted today to reject two anti-DEI proposals. One of the proposals called on BMS to "Cease DEI Efforts," and was rejected by shareholder vote 97-2 percent (1% abstained). BMS Board supports "our culture of inclusion" and "all decisions are merit-based."
1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵
this is legitimately evil
RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To Do Their Own Research About Dragons
Not the Mama
Seriously cool
And it’s probably going to!
Exactly this
Being forced to drink our own shit is a perfect summation of the Republican Party.
Texas measles outbreak update today 597 cases (36 more since Tuesday) 63 are or have been hospitalized And efforts toward control are being hurt by funding cuts www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
In today’s atmosphere, it’s obvious why a book warning of totalitarian censorship would be in the American Library Association’s list of most commonly challenged books
What you're seeing are wet microbursts—intense downdrafts from thunderstorms that slam rain into the ground, creating those stunning lobes. Like a reverse explosion from the sky. Captured in Perth, #Australia
Proud to cosponsor the Stopping a Rogue President on Trade Act to end Trump’s reckless trade wars and return tariff authority to Congress. American families and small businesses deserve stability—not this chaos.
🧵There’s a lot of people out there saying that measles is being brought to the US by immigrants, specifically undocumented immigrants crossing the southern border. Let’s talk about measles and migration. ✈️ TL:DR: Measles in the US comes from outbreaks started by unvaccinated traveling Americans.
Perspective changes everything. [Ars Mathermatica]
RFK Jr coming up with more bone head ideas this week. Did you see he wants to let Avian go unchecked? To find the immune hens of course. No thought to millions of opportunities for mutation. Next pandemic anyone?
But will we do anything about it? I know what I think.
I had a shirt on the other day that said....Prejudice is an emotional commitment to ignorance....I was in the grocery store & a woman came up & high fived me & said told me she loved my shirt.
So basically he moved the deck chairs around a little.
"The problem with a delayed response is that the more power leaders with authoritarian tendencies accumulate, the harder it is to mount an effective resistance. The opposition is thus more likely to succeed if it acts early..." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
More complete list here, which includes changing your name back legally to match your birth certificate. open.substack.com/pub/fuquinay...
My G Grandparents came here from 6 or so different countries ( a few borders have changed, and it's a guess on some). I think about this sometimes and wonder what country I'll be deported to some day for saying the wrong thing to the wrong republican asshole.
Grups
let’s graph the arrests due to fraud
I've been a little conflicted on this one since always. But I understand (like you do) the intention here. I've come down on, you speak up and act where you can to help others, but you don't let yourself get destroyed in the process. (All bets are off if you fuck with my kids though.)
St. Andrew’s University in Scotland has a centuries-old legend about a student who's struggling to write an essay when the actual devil appears and hands him the essay fully written, if you were wondering how people in the past would have felt about cheating with AI.
WTF??
who's on what platform, 2025 edition
Grateful to the over 150 Lake County community members who joined me for "Coffee with Our Congressman." I’m committed to fighting Congressional Republicans’ plans to cut health care to fund tax cuts for the ultra-rich.
$8,000,000.00 *per day* – That's how much Rocket boy makes from the US government. Eff him. Listen to this short video and repost ad infinitum.
We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!
just inane. "For the farmers in the Central Valley, it was not irrigation season, and this was their precious summer supply..." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
EXPOSED The National Park budget is $3.6 billion It Produces $55 billion in Revenue So, absolutely no reason to cut any part of our National parks, except for a greedy land grab
It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!
Somewhere, Jeff Bezos is angrily clicking “track shipment” to see what happened to his new editorial page.
www.cpr.org/2025/03/03/h...
Two market meltdowns. One common denominator.
The accuracy of the political cartoons recently is incredibly painful.
🤣🤣🤣
Less/Fewer Well/Good Who/Whom
Really interesting. I still don't get why we were told Covid wasn't airborne for so long. It seemed so obvious by mid 2020.
This three-page story arc.
Slashing research funding will only cause our talent to leave the country and hand China and other global competitors an advantage in emerging fields. It’s bad for Americans and it’s bad for our economy. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Mi español es peor. Pero trataré.
Commentary on the news environment. Been this way for a long time.
Hundreds of NOAA employees are being fired by Trump and DOGE. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.
no more words necessary
For everyone who hates cybertrucks.
Has anyone heard how widespread the economic blackout is? I'm hoping that a lot of people observed it.
There was an episode of "Sliders" based on that premise. It was one of my favs.
I’m not necessarily saying humans are too dumb to be worthy of our spot at the top of the food chain but I will say that if there were 100 gorillas and one gorilla took 55% of all the bananas the other gorillas would beat that gorilla to death with their bare hands.
Federal employees are important public servants. Trump and musk need to back off! www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
That was a rude reply. Maybe they really love what they do and get a lot of value out of it.
The Scream: Napoleon Bonapartheid Edition
www.npr.org/2025/02/20/n...
Anybody who has worked in public service would have known about probationary periods for promotions. But none of these assholes know anything about public service.
He’s really good at this!
I didn't see any real action items here.
Not just the highly educated. Welsh miners formed study groups to read Austen and Dickens. Scottish shepherds built lending libraries. Watchmakers & cabinetmakers taught themselves Greek and Latin. The loss of working-class autodidact culture is one of history's great tragedies.
DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
Suddenly I am getting a lot of follows by guys who only follow women and don't post. It was one of the creepy things about Twitter even early on. Sorry to see it starting up here.
Occasionally still say it with my 36 year old.
Agreed. IRL the people around me have not woken up to what is happening.
Google is so powerful that it "hides" other search systems from us. We just don't know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Here’s a list of sites you never heard of:
How many seniors would then lose their homes?
Trump's new FAA Administrator
I'm not a jazz fan, but that song transcends.
Lol!
So. Who are we going to run in 2028?
- There have been four deadly plane crashes in the United States in 2025. - Before 2025, the most recent deadly plane crash involving a U.S. airliner was in 2009. Do with this information what you will!
The size of Earth vs Jupiter
You may be overweighing that one problem
Sometimes it's all colors (light), and sometimes it's lack of color (pigment). Freaky indeed.
One thing that was certain, that the white whale had nothing to do with it-it was the black whale's fault. For the white whale had been having it's face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour...
I spent serious time shouting at my computer when Acrobat DC decided to change it's interface to something totally unusable. Took about an hour to find a revert button. I'm sure the button was generated due to my shouting and pounding my desk.
Someone turned it into a meme 🤣🤣🤣
Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use. Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
I don't have a complete preparation list, but I'm thinking about getting vaccine boosters for some of the 'childhood ' diseases, like measles.