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How about burning Trump flags?
What are we doing? Tourists, Business Travelers, Students...Seriously? apnews.com/article/trum...
When they go "low," STEP ON THEIR NECKS!
DC cars need car magnets with 1-877-447-4487 and girightshotline.org on them. If we are going to drive around in an occupied city, troops concerned about obeying illegal orders should have easy access to these numbers. #NationalGuard
This is exactly right. You can at most have two areas. But if everyone covers one or two areas, the overall message gets out.
Wait, does this mean that men are sperm repositories?
You know what, good for The Pitt. variety.com/2025/awards/...
As Redfin's Chief Economist, I rely on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for housing forecasts. I support the National Association of Business Economists’ statement condemning the firing of the BLS commissioner. Trustworthy data is crucial for business decisions and should remain apolitical.
Is a Hoagie a sandwich?
Someone needs to hear this: The government was created to serve the people; not to operate like a business profiting from us……. It’s meant to work for us, not exploit us. Read that again until it sinks in.
Correct stance by @warren.senate.gov The Vought/Trump/Vance/DOGE-Musk [remember them, and him?] forces are acting in entire bad faith. Do not engage with them.
So, the Senate confirms Emil Bove even though there were 3 whistleblowers who credibly assert he perjured himself to Congress. If there is absolutely no consequence to perjury for the House and Senate, why should anyone tell the truth ever again? apnews.com/article/emil...
Mahdi Khanbabazadeh, 38, was driving his child to Guidepost Montessori school on July 15, was illegally arrested and detained by masked men claiming to be ICE. He was awaiting the decision on his citizenship. The arrest marked the first immigration enforcement action outside of an Oregon school.
When you should be sleeping but just have to read one more chapter
Biologist Katie Digianantonio writes home to Ohio: The medical breakthroughs that often reach Ohioans first are now at risk from federal cuts. Her work mapping molecular shapes helps design treatments for cancer and neurodegenerative disease. 🧪🏠 www.cantonrep.com/story/opinio...
This is without question the only correct way. As is eating popcorn with chopsticks.
Watched it today. It’s a horror and everyone should watch. Especially if they are in Jim Jordan’s district—he shows himself to be a lying coward.
Judge declares blatant racial discrimination...⚠️
My heart goes out to the loved ones of these legislators in MN. #NoViolence www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Took a hot minute to find a headline that didn't jump to the conclusion of "illegal aliens." abc7.com/post/chinese...
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
I feel this. Learned about The Tulsa Massacre in 2020 binge-watching The Watchmen. Watched the first episode and was enraged I knew nothing about this atrocity before a DC Comics series. Still get mad and embarrassed. Started reading US history outside the white edit. Wish I had started sooner.
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🏆 This. All day.
Only 35% of US imports from China are consumer goods 64% are capital or intermediate goods, used by businesses for production By putting tariffs on China, we are disrupting our OWN supply chains What kind of business genius does that?
Doing some advanced buying on essentials to get ahead of the tariff supply shock that is coming soon and here’s a good example from a vitamin supplement showing why Made In The USA doesn’t matter for tariff or supply chain purposes. Stupid punching ourselves in the face.
This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.
If you are a member of the DC Bar, please watch this video and VOTE for Diane Seltzer for DC Bar president. If you are not a member, please share with others who are.
History tells us why this is bad.... www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
It's comforting to watch well qualified people do their jobs...
#Caturday
This picture may haunt me to the end of my days. It is an ICE agent taking an axe to the car window of an immigrant in New Bedford, MA. Not far from where I sit now. An immigrant with no criminal record was abducted by this smiling man. An axe taken to a car window and to our democracy. 1/ #MomSky
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?
Make a difference. There is no cavalry coming to save us... 5calls.org
I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do
Just to note that this Administration is clearly very concerned about antisemitism until an actual act of antisemitism occurs on Passover directed at an elected official on public property. The silence is deafening.
Bring back Kilmar Abrego García... NOW. 🧵(1 of 6)
A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:
3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
Important for all of us but especially journalists.
Our biggest problem as a society is we've decided wealth is a proxy for intelligence -- when in reality, an overabundance of money causes your brain to cease functioning
This is an important message for anyone running or planning to run against a GOP incumbent who can't figure it out themselves. President have no power of tariffs. Trump is only able to do this because Congress gave the President the power. Congress cld take that power back at ...
February 1
Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
Not being allowed to hand water to people in line to vote no matter who they are voting for, while being allowed to hand people million dollar checks to get their vote, is the most American thing ever.
Are we “Great” yet?
John Rufus Gifford is an American politician & diplomat who was finance chair of the Harris 2024 presidential campaign since July 2024. He was the chief of protocol of the United States from 2022 to 2023. Between 2013 & 2017, he was the United States ambassador to Denmark. 4/4🧵
They need to “fall in line” less and leak more. Come on. Learn how to do it securely, and then do it.
You know Canada Goose parkas are both attractive and uber functional, but I guess the Canada part is the problem...
The elephant in the room.
In addition to everything else that is wrong with this, why aren't these men wearing uniforms? They're dressed like they just came from the skateboard park and half seem to be concealing their faces. These are terror tactics, meant to inspire a penumbra of fear beyond those directly victimized.
They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics. Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.
Well, they lied. Obviously.
“Have you ever noticed there are two sets of rules in this country” is a theme we could hit harder here. Imho.
It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal *honor* to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen.
I'm thinking this is everyone "except"...
Don’t let them spin this Signal debacle as if it’s no big deal. It’s an epic national security failure and a massive story.
According to a source I have at the CIA, Director Radcliffe lied today under oath. Signal is absolutely not loaded on agency computers. As a matter of fact it’s specifically prohibited as an outside app. Skype is allowed for conference calls but not Signal. He’s lying. @markwarner.bsky.social
It’s very discouraging to watch our country slowly re-learn the lessons that led to the end of segregation, among them that people who think they’re racially superior are nearly universally incompetent fools unable to face up to their own deficiencies and putting them in charge is suicide
Pete is right, as usual. These people cannot keep America safe. I’m embarrassed to be an American now more than ever. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
If your own member of Congress is a Democrat and hasn't made this demand, ask them why. If your member is a Republican, ask them anyway. Don't let them off the hook. Let them know you're watching all this.
All of them should be resigning and being prosecuted via the espionage act. But, nah, that's not gonna happen.
White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.
This is one of the biggest threats to Americans' personal data in decades. If you're a 23andMe customer, I strongly urge you to delete your data to protect it from whoever the new buyer might be. Here’s how:
Molly Jong-Fast is right--Call your congresspeople and senators. The people involved should be resigning right now. Do it for those of us who only have shadow representatives!
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... what the actual fuck
PSA: If you've ever used 23andMe, delete all your data. They're going bankrupt, and who knows where your DNA will end up?
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Everyone realizes that we’re going to be taxed the same, if not more. And that the congressional spending for a “privatized” postal service will be the same, if not more. And then all of those tax dollars will flow right into some oligarch’s pocket (with 50% to donald, like Putin did). And then… 1/2
Young people have every reason to be enraged.
This, right here..
I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.
Truth! 🎯🎯🎯 Fuck Trump, fuck Elon Musk, fuck fascism and fuck Nazis. 👇
What horseshit from DOD that they "mistakenly" deleted pages on the Navajo Code Talkers, black Medal of Honor recipients, Jackie Robinson, and more. They labeled them DEI and deleted them and then got caught and now they're scrambling. Nobody changes a URL by mistake. Constant lies.
Trump: the streets will run like rivers with the blood of my enemies. Their heads on spikes will adorn Congress and every federal building and court. Chief Justice Roberts: Actually the GSA is in charge of federal court decorations in consultation with the judicial counsel
From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
Incredible stuff minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/18/g...
They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.
If John Roberts didn’t want Trump to act like a king, perhaps he shouldn’t have decided the American Revolution was moot.
No lies detected...
#ElonMusk “A privileged opportunist who talks about saving humanity while demonstrating contempt for actual humans. A self-mythologizer who constructs heroic narratives about himself while running from actual heroism. A chickenshit coward who now wields power over the brave.
Wish I had a time machine so I could go tell Ben Franklin that we're making fun of the French because they wouldn't exist without us. "You came from the future to tell me fucking WHAT"
The immunity ruling, Sotomayor said, “‘lies about like a loaded weapon’ for any President that wishes to place his own interests, his own political survival or his own financial gain above the interests of the Nation.” Trump’s pointing the loaded weapon at us. www.americaamerica.news/p/a-lawless-...
✅ DEI News of the Day™ Starbucks shareholders voted on Wednesday by a count of 99-1 percent to reject an anti-LGBTQ+ proposal brought by a conservative investor who objected to Starbucks partnership with the Human Rights Campaign. Starbucks CEO doubled down on the company's commitment to diversity.
Quinoa is grown all over now but 20 years ago it was almost unknown. USAID, working with countries in the Andean region, helped develop and popularize the nutritious grain, thereby raising living standards and reducing food insecurity. It’s just one example of what we’ve lost.
“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
