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. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
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Also known as: the mid-90s
"People tend to fetishize big... acts of “Resistance" w/o remembering that small individual acts of noncompliance are also tools that can frustrate great & evil powers. We can save a life, [ease] the suffering of a person, or can change a mind. Right now, that has to be enough of a reason to try."
“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.
Fucking hell
Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee election security.
I forgot about this cruel and petty aspect of Trumpy 2.0. How is it that he is allowed to risk the said those who receive Secret Service protection? Why does a single person get to? Bonkers. I hope some laws are bolstered in 2026 and beyond.
Huh
I’m serious. This REALLY infuriates me. @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @cnn.com Do your job. You failed to lift this up in 2024. If farmers are hurting, explain why and who is to blame. And remind Americans that we paid BILLIONS for Trump’s first tariff blunder. It’s so irresponsible to ignore this.
After Rep Ty Burns pleaded guilty to domestic abuse, injuring his wife & assaulting his teenage daughter, it's unclear whether OK GOP & House Speaker Kyle Hilbert will take action. They even kept the case against Burns secret until Thursday, Aug. 28. THIS IS WHAT THEY DO & THIS IS WHO THEY ARE!
There’s literally no one who can stop this abominable thing from occurring?!
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
When a president decides to disregard the will of the American people, you’re right, that’s the mark of authoritarian rule. The White House has notified Congress that it plans to cancel $4.9 billion in foreign aid funding that lawmakers had already approved, doing so without their consent.
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
Heckuva job, Bobby
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚
I’m surprised he hasn’t mentioned precious bodily fluids yet
Huh
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
Why is he allowed to do that? His agency is about science not opinion! The public good should be a real thing! 🤬
The look on her teary face in that scene is imprinted on my psyche
This is great: a National Guardsman standing up to say every member of the National Guard and military "is legally obliged to disobey an illegal order."
It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion… … and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines. Infuriating.
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Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong. Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
Just…no
Tremendous crossover move right here:
"A group of people who only remember 'the cover was blue' is called a patron." buff.ly/6jkXvSs
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1. History isn’t there to be liked or disliked. 2. History is there to be learned from. 3. History offends you? Even better. Then you’re less likely to repeat it. It’s that simple.
That’s almost the worst part.
this sort of thing is unpleasant enough
Or, also, good reporting from AK? I feel like I keep seeing the same two pieces.
James Madison was elected in 1812 during the War of 1812. Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1864 during the Civil War. FDR was elected in 1944 during WWII. JBJ & Nixon were elected in 1964 & 1972 during the Vietnam War. George W. Bush was elected in 2004 during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Bye Bye Big Bird 😢 No more #npr
Please: DO NOT NORMALIZE OR EXPLAIN AWAY ARMED MILITARY ENGAGED IN LAW ENFORCEMENT IN AN AMERICAN CITY. If it doesn’t seem that off base or unusual to you, perhaps it’s because you are not the target of this.
Whoever can, please convince good people in government to reject and push the f*ck back
A travesty
My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.
That is the lying-est lie I have ever heard
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"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."
Maybe Putin will find them on Friday
Replacing the head of Bureau of Labor Statistics with a stooge, proclaiming that crime is up when it’s down, and taking over the Smithsonian are all about trying to take over facts. But facts are facts whether or not Trumpists agree.
Huh
Well bless his wittle vacation-y heart 🤬🤮
Huh
I wrote a thing, a roundup of some of the resistance going on.
those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this
No, you did not give those of us who happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor any due process. And that was profoundly wrong. It destroyed our lives.
NEW: "The electronic case filing system used by the federal judiciary has been breached in a sweeping cyber intrusion that is believed to have exposed sensitive court data across multiple U.S. states, according to two people with knowledge of the incident."
My shoe
Even though they shouldn’t have to, maybe some other Kennedys can make up the difference?
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister. “I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
You must do not anything useful ever! Never mind individual freedoms if I don’t like ‘em!
I hate baseless and false claims. Lies are lies! Thanks for bringing this up again.
I hate this mentality, which is rampant among MAGA: I hate X, so therefore I must destroy it for the rest of you, no matter how you feel. It’s what I believe and my beliefs are all that matters!
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Nah
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Also, gravity, maybe.
Turning old plastic into new plastic is really, really hard. Products made with dyes, flame retardants and other toxic chemicals create a health hazard when heated for recycling, severely limiting the products you can make from recycled plastic. (Published Aug. 2024)
Michael D using his platform to highlight the atrocities of starvation in Gaza #SpeirGorm #Gaza
Also it’s an ad, not a random social media post from Sydney Sweeney stating all that silliness. Also, AE had to know.
He will do it on a Friday at 4:00 EST
Never mind okay, why is this LEGAL? It is 2025, FFS!
It’s such a bummer that he made such a vehement turn too. I loved so many of his plays and movies, and probably still will several of them. It’s so hard to comprehend. Him and Naomi Wolf, and early 90s environmentalist RFK Jr. 😖
Natalie Portman in The Professional, Ethan Hawke in Dead Poets Society, and a bit newer, Oscar Isaac in Inside Llewyn Davis come to mind quickly.
Any Dems who don’t have this attitude should exit politics now:
Nothing to see here! Move along. No really, move along!
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
This is what is happening right now.
“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell
Natch
I hope maybe a journalist of some kind will find out if he actually can do this 🤬🤮
Wait, fucking cancer is woke?! Why does he keep getting away with this?
I wish I had! Looks like I was five.
Truly, can he just keep doing this? Are there any guardrails?
This is serious. Very serious.
Oh I have been waiting on this one.
"Meet the Journalist Who Called Every Name in Epstein's Little Black Book" Leland Nally made 2,000 phone calls and attempted to contact every single powerful & influential name in Epstein's 97-page black book. This is what he learned about Epstein's web of deceit. youtube.com/watch?v=PI3o...
Terrific. Now what?
I hope the Walz investigation goes deep too
Welcome to America; where our president is publicly saying nice things about, giving immunity to, and suggesting a possible pardon for a well-connected child sex trafficker. But I’m sure he’s got a good reason.
Bribes work!
Oh, and in plain view. Great.
Things are working out great! For them. 😒
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
Of course he is.
Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:
