Grateful for you and all your work, Congresswoman Presley ❤️
Grateful for you and all your work, Congresswoman Presley ❤️
An American citizen and Los Angeles native, @seiucalifornia @seiuusww President David Huerta was injured and detained when ICE terrorized a working neighborhood. We demand his immediate release!
One of the all time great backhanded love songs! They are mostly by Billy Joel. Except for “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” and “You Don’t Have to be a Star to be in my Show”
A catastrophe.
this is like the least thing, but I find the jeans so infuriating. I feel like it would help us tremendously as a country if any agent of state power operating domestically was obliged to wear unflattering polyester uniform pants.
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.
That’s the thing. Or one of the things, anyway. You can’t preach minimalism or austerity whilst perched upon a gold throne. I mean you can, but you will lack credibility. And yes by throne I mean toilet
1/ People sometimes need a jarring reminder of how far down the path Trump administration is going toward authoritarian assertions of power A sign: John Yoo, architect of torture memos and maximal presidential powers, sharply rebukes President Trump and DOJ actions on 4 grounds @npr.org interview
If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from reporting on the current DOGE collection of govt data, it is that the people who’ve previously spent their careers carefully handling this information believe there is almost no limit to how it could be abused (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
Man I’m just so fucking proud of all the people who didn’t give up and aren’t going to give up
Pete Hegseth in 2016: "How damaging is it to your ability to recruit or build allies with others when they are worried that our leaders may be exposing them because of their gross negligence or their recklessness in handling information?"
This isn't The Art of the Deal. It's insider trading with a bad comb-over. Step 1: Tank the Market, Scare the Non-Millionaires Step 2: Let the Aristocrats Feast Step 3: Flip, but say ‘Winning’ Step 4: Pretend None of This Ever Happened & Get Your Media Dregs To Do The Same Rinse, Enrich, Repeat.
using money to purchase goods lowkey hits different when you're in an economy
Neo-Nazis and white supremacists using a feigned interest in combatting anti-Semitism as a way to suppress freedom of speech and expression in the US is as nauseating as it is totally on brand for this administration. But don't be numbed to it. Worse is coming. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
And now I looked this up on Wikipedia and I am edified.
He has literally said this himself, presumably to ratchet down his status as the world’s most hated cartoon villain.
Things that are actually disrespectful: 1. Kidnapping green card holders 2. Deporting people without due process 3. Storming the US Capitol building and killing/injuring cops in the process I’ve got more suggestions if anyone needs them.
This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.
The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar Goals
❤️ WISCONSIN: “I’d like to apologize. My eyes were opened. I’ve learned a very lot about this group of people.” Larry came to testify against the anti-trans youth health care bill, but had an epiphany and changed his mind. Context: www.pride.com/politics/ant...
Imagine this: On the evening of March 8, you and your spouse unlock the door to your apartment building. As you step inside, two men—not in uniform—push their way in behind you. They tell you your visa has been revoked and that they are there to deport you.
+1 to this theory
It needs to be repeated over and over: accusations of antisemitism are going to be one of the primary weapons of the fascists to seize power. They are trying to weaponize the power of these accusations while simultaneously making Jews appear to be the orchestrators of their power grabs.
Trump used to be a malignant methane-emanating meat bag, now he’s Death, destroyer of worlds
Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.
steve bannon is out here saying liberal jews are the enemy of maga, and now musk is out here naming (dead) jewish donors as being responsible for the national protests against maga
The burdens of Republicans’ campaign of hatred against the community affect trans people most severely, but they truly fall on everyone. I don’t want to live in a society where police officers come storming into the john demanding to see your private parts. www.advocate.com/news/lesbian...
Oh see, in the first one I thought she was JOking. Apparently no!
“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡
…a functional government?
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
Could it be that the Repubs who respect marriage rights are no longer identifying as Republicans? I prefer that narrative than to believe that a whole bunch of people embraced the dark side
Gotta choose! “sane” || “free market”
Got a printer? You can start fighting fascism. Here's a thread of things you can print and distribute. 👇 I promise doing something--even this--feels better than raging silently. And maybe it'll show you that standing up is possible and open you up to more things you can do.
DOGE DOLE ROLE ROTE RATE RAGE You need to know about Curtis Yarvin and his RAGE plot, because DOGE is quite literally a hoax—a fascist plot to end our democracy in disguise. That plot is known among fascists via an acronym: RAGE. www.jamestownsun.com/opinion/lett...
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
I love infrastructure which is why I normally pay taxes without complaint but I am super unjazzed about funding genocide AND the dismantling of my own home country, with no redemption in sight
Since Congress’s allotted funds have already been improperly unallocated, U.S. citizens are questioning whether they are legally required to continue paying federal taxes.
a new realization I’ve had about the incredible people who organized resistance against the nazis is how many of them probably hated each other
Word has it DOGE has terminated the five men protecting the cursed seal that holds the five dark sages in their slumber
Alt National Park Service, you’re our only hope! Don’t YOU be defeatist! 🥺
So basically The Matrix: www.yahoo.com/news/where-j...
Mornin’, Dmitry
You: Oh my god the house is on fire! Me (wise, has read books): And you're surprised? Houses have been on fire before [as the flames consume us both] Furthermore,
NOAA is an absolute mess, and it’ll be worse tomorrow. Please help us. There have already been over 1,000 terminations. It’s not just layoffs—Elon Musk and his staffers are trying to completely dismantle us. Today, there were tons of firings, and more are coming tomorrow.
This is Graham’s M.O. from the way back
DEAR FEDERAL EMPLOYEE, I AM WELL KNOWN LEADER OF DOGE ELONK MUSK. FOR THE PROSPERING OF AMERICA AND PER THE REQUEST OF PRESIDENT TRUMP PLEASE TO BE RESPONDING THIS EMAIL WITH YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AND THE PASSWORD TO YOUR GOVERNMENT COMPUTERS ACCOUNT, OTHERWISE YOU MAY BE FIRED
Krasnov’s Russian asset face
“Killing Me Softly” was one of the first anthems of my maudlin youth, next to “Sound of Silence” and “Yesterday”
this is the kind of thought you probably want to keep to yourself TBH
This is 100%. Almost everything in the constitution is general or implied. The document literally says there's going to be a post office and congress is in charge of setting it up, deciding what it's rules are.
Republican Senators who voted for RFK Jr. have the best healthcare in the world, paid for by you. They don’t care about what’s going to happen to your kids, your parents, or you.
I say again: Anti-vaxxers are anti-human.
At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.
There’s a typo in this post- it should say, “it’s difficult for the public to swallow that.”
just weeks after being ordered by a federal judge to pay nearly $3mil in damages to a man they assaulted in boston in 2022, patriot front is back in boston marching around in their silly little matching outfits!
Picnic gingham
Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.
To be fair Leon’s ketamine use may have him so heavily dissociated that he considers the CEO etc of Space X to be an entirely separate being
To be fair Leon’s ketamine use may have him so heavily dissociated that he considers the CEO etc of Space X to be an entirely separate being
I pointed out something similar a few weeks ago, but beyond just mocking the media for their stupid complicity here, these articles should be a direct refutation of the admin's claims that "The American People Voted For This." Because they literally promised they weren't going to do this.
NEW: Kash Patel was paid $25,000 by a Kremlin-linked filmmaker to promote anti-western propaganda. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
NEW — DOGE now has full access to HHS Payment Management System, I’ve learned. The system distributes almost $1 trillion per year in grants (largest in the govt) and supports all of NIH, CDC + many other public health initiatives. Musk guy Luke Farritor is actively delaying payments to recipients.
I seem to remember telling the uncommitted voters that Trump would level Gaza.
Yesterday’s live is now on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
Elon staffers are using private emails, violating federal law.
Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything.
Hey Bluesky! I’m here. Yes, I’m still a bit stunned by my prescient tweet (below) 14hrs before the tragic DC crash, after which many of you encouraged me to finally gravitate to here. Happy to belatedly join the community. Tom
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
One day you’re young and fun then next thing you know you’re old and sore and disillusioned and terrified you’re running out of time to accomplish anything meaningful and you don’t know how to wrap up a joke anymore
@occupydemocrats.bsky.social
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has blasted Google for kowtowing to Donald Trump by changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico – and wants the United States to be identified as “América Mexicana.”
The White House has removed this page from WhiteHouse.gov
these are never not inspiring
Medical toxicologist here to confirm: all available, real-world data has proven mifepristone is actually even safer than many over the counter medicines. Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K)
Nougats.
Is there a good alternative to G00gl3 for email and… stuff? I am deeply entrenched with those particular corporate overlords.
Is this for real? I didn’t follow the link because I don’t actually want to know. This is a screenshot, not a link. So you’ll have to, uh, Google it.
While we may face repercussions for this, the truth lies in the metadata. Memos to federal employees are being authored by individuals with ties to Project 2025. You can verify this yourself.
The IGs are doing what few others have — resisting. They may end up fired, but they are making cheeto work for it. In other words, they are *not obeying in advance.* Good to see someone still has some nads.
I hear there are stories coming, but putting the brakes on our country’s world-leading medical research system feels like a five alarm fire and I don’t see a newspaper that even has it on the front page yet
Traditional Medicare has VERY little prior auth and rarely denies. 99% of MA enrollees have prior auth, and these plans deny a fair amount. Trump/Oz/Project 2025 want “Medicare Advantage for All.” What we need to emphasize is that embedded in MA is coverage delays, denials, & administrative hassles
I use dark humor but think an elected U.S. official talking about using the power of the state to attack a religious official for what they preach is unacceptable, even ask a “joke.” Or, if it’s okay, then PURELY in that spirit of fun: Mike Collins would look spectacular lying in state.
On first glance I thought this was a lump of Dijon mustard
When I was like 10 I mispronounced bourgeoisie- I think I was reading it from a record’s liner notes- and my 11 year old friend told me, no, it’s “boooorschwa”, it’s the name of a French painter
Search drinks in yr camera roll
Search drinks in yr camera roll
What you gonna do? *nutmeg*