Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
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Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
This is full-on authoritarianism. Free Nicole Collier. #txlege
🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”
Definitely a possibility too. That's essentially how the snowshoe breed was created.
Being against mail-in ballots is being against our Troops’ right to vote. For generations, we have cast ballots by mail, dating back to the Civil War. Denying that right is a betrayal of service, and yet another way Trump disrespects those who serve. GET STICKER: shop.votevets.org/products/vot...
That's not a Siamese. Siamese don't have the white boots and are shorthaired. Looks like a Birman to me, could be a Ragdoll but those are usually MUCH fluffier kittens.
@colbertlateshow.bsky.social, I named my new kitten Colbert, not because you’ve had me on your show. Truth is, you should’ve had me on more. I named him after you because you ARE a goddamned American hero. Thank you.
Residents and demonstrators in Washington D.C. react to President Donald Trump’s plan to fight crime in the city by federalizing the police and deploying the National Guard.
legit laughing my ass off
It's... art.
"And a Nobel Peace Prize. And bridges and airports named after me. Heck, just put me on Mount Rushmore already, because I'm much greater than those losers on there."
It's a scam for the massive income redistribution that their voters unwittingly keep voting for. www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartman...
REP. @rokhanna.bsky.social calls out @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty @RepTimBurchett @RepOgles and the rest of the GOP for ever having pretended to care about the debt. #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
I'm definitely not feeling much like celebrating this 4th. Feels more like we should be having a funeral.
@yarotrof.bsky.social
More true today than it ever has been.
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“I never thought they’d redistribute MY wealth upward,” sobbed woman who voted for the Upward Redistribution of Wealth Party, which had redistributed wealth upward and passed little else the last time they had power.
They just don't talk about them.
😳 “as many lives lost as WW1” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Also, women tend to struggle to get taken seriously at regular doctor's offices. Having a healthcare source sort of "by women for women" is just common sense.
It's so quiet! I've never seen such a lifeless "parade". The crowd seems completely bored, the few of them that turned up.
❤️ for this message. I didn't like someone else calling them "traitors" for marching. Blame Trump, not the soldiers following orders for this debacle.
Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"
Mentions on this morning's Fox & Friends Medicaid: 1 Biden: 39
"Kayleigh McEnany called for CBS' Scott Pelley to be arrested following his commencement speech at Wake Forest." - mediamattersforamerica "Thus proving his point." - covie_93
For instance, I recently bought a 3D printer, and that market is certainly *flooded* with cheap products from China. But anyone that does a bit of research will learn you do NOT want a cheap printer, they are so much harder to use and break quickly. The most popular brands are ALL higher priced.
"The end goal is to sell, not the best product, but the cheapest and quickest product". This certainly is not always the case, particularly if regulation prevents the market from being overrun with monopolies and the average person has sufficient buying power (both currently issues in our country).
Yea, people do tend to need incentives to innovate, work, continue to progress our nation economically. Is capitalism an imperfect system? Absolutely. Is it still the BEST system if regulated properly. I've yet to see any evidence to the contrary. pittnews.com/article/5424...
Yes, because we've allowed it to get to that point. There still are plenty of countries which have extremely high level of happiness across all levels of society that are still capitalists societies. There has never been one that is socialist.
Capitalism is not the problem. Unbridled, unchecked capitalism is.
100%. Hypocrisy is part-and-parcel of being a MAGA bsky.app/profile/mrfl...
Thank you Marc, for your courage in the face of Trump's attacks and intimidation. You have shown what true patriotism looks like. And I hope someday in the not-to-distant future you are awarded a Medal of Freedom for what you have done for all of us.
It's a distraction tactic. Which the media falls for every time. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-16-2025
In that case, the “able-bodied men” in Congress should not receive their gold plated, tax payer funded healthcare program.
A Montana court has struck down the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, finding that it violates the rights to privacy, equal protection, and free expression guaranteed by the Montana Constitution. lambdalegal.org/wp-content/u...
Not that facts ever mattered to the MAGA crowd.
My love of reading is strongly link to this man…
"The crowd chants 'Don’t take the mother!' over and over again as the daughter keeps trying to get back on the hood of the car. More Worcester cops arrive, all helping the ICE agents carry out their rotten senseless work." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Make it make sense
I feel like I'm a zookeeper when I have visitors over. "Do NOT feed the kitty, she is getting all the food she needs!" She convinces quite a few people that I must not be feeding her.
OLD AND BUSTED: Lowering prices and ending Russia’s war on Ukraine on day one NEW HOTNESS: Randomly renaming bodies of water
As a NC resident, thank you!!
Wow, democracy actually won!
😳 #MedicareforAll
laying the groundwork for open defiance of judges
Australia told their far right Trumpees to get lost last night. Ran them completely out of town, just like Canada. A wave of rejection is starting for these guys all around the world — America’s next.
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.
BREAKING: Federal judge rules that President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the Perkins Coie law firm — the first of several such orders — is unconstitutional and, accordingly, "null and void." Background at Law Dork on the original TRO in the case: www.lawdork.com/p/perkins-co...
![IV. CONCLUSION The U.S. Constitution affords critical protections against Executive action like that ordered in EO 14230. Government officials, including the President, may not “subject[] individuals to ‘retaliatory actions’ after the fact for having engaged in protected speech.” Hous. Cmty. Coll. Sys., 595 U.S. at 474 (quoting Nieves, 587 U.S. at 398). They may neither “use the power of the State to punish or suppress disfavored expression,” Vullo, 602 U.S. at 188, nor engage in the use of “purely personal and arbitrary power,” Yick Wo, 118 U.S. at 370. In this case, these and other foundational protections were violated by EO 14230. On that basis, this Court has found that EO 14230 violates the Constitution and is thus null and void. For the reasons explained, plaintiff is entitled to summary judgment and declaratory and permanent injunctive relief on Counts II through IX of the Amended Complaint. The government’s motion to dismiss is denied. An order consistent with this Memorandum Opinion will be entered contemporaneously. Date: May 2, 2025 __________________________ BERYL A. HOWELL United States District Judge](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiao7yxugdwnz4olk32epcxvgerj5kdhnzylfw6t74rlsuymhegl7q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
But like many of his followers, they insulate themselves from seeing the truth about him because you can bet RW news won't ever show them this.
Same. I wonder how my mother who is a devout Catholic and I know voted for him because of her pro-life views, would feel if she saw this.
What an embarrassment. It’s wild that the official position of the US Government is now pro-Nazi.
Congrats everyone — we are at the point where The Onion and real life are indistinguishable from one another. 😳🇺🇸 theonion.com/ice-agents-w...
Honestly this is just incredible content.
Senator Van Hollen is a hero.
Very glad to be proven wrong tonight! Kudos to the Senator from MD for ensuring he is safe, and likely producing some more legal fodder to prove the inaction of the Trump admin.
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
No. There's a very good chance he is not since they won't let anyone see him.
We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.
So they've upgraded him from a gang member to a terrorist now. Still without a shred of evidence that he has committed a single crime.
Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
No, it's not all in your head. Allergies really are getting worse every year.
Sickening support for an authoritarian government. Hope they lose a lot of business.
Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism" "That theory has been debunked" "One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
My law firm is currently litigating 49 voting and election cases in 21 states. States with the most cases: AZ, GA, NC, NV, FL, LA, PA. I expect new cases will be filed this week.
Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?
A friend talked me into buying the latest Samsung Galaxy Pro 3 buds, which a lot of people rave about the fit on, but for me they are VERY uncomfortable, even with some premium small memory foam tips. But I keep them because the sound quality and features are still better than anything else I have.
My personal favorite of all the ones I've had is the Google Pixel Bud Pros. Comfortable enough I can sleep in them, even though they do tend to fall out. Next fav was the Sony LinkBuds, stay in well when running and didn't hurt too much, but batteries died way too early.
Ugg, as someone with small ears, I'm insulted that @wired.com thinks a shitty $40 pair of earbuds is the "best" that I can hope for. Clearly they didn't have someone with small ears *actually* test premium earbuds to see which ones fit us.
Even she couldn't stop from laughing at the absurdness of the question.
This is NC’s version of “I just wanna find 11,789 votes.”
McGovern: "How is any company supposed to forecast for their future, build a plant, hire workers, if they have no idea what the hell this president is gonna do in his next tweet? ... I need a neck brace to be able to get through all this."
So many small businesses that produce their products in China still will be devastated. And we go through all this chaos again in 90 days.
Wild that it’s just now sinking in who actually pays for the tariffs (Hint: Small business owners, American consumers, etc.)
Yeah, doesn't get much harder than trying to get good shots of a solid black dog running at top speed without flash in a poorly lit room!
I expect the SCOTUS would consider it part of his official duties.
Again, impeachable actions by the minute. For example, the President of the United States bragging that he is extorting law firms.
I used to photograph dog sports, I feel your pain. All white dogs outside vs. all black dogs inside, hard to say which were worst to get good shots of.
At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.
If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.
Do clients really want to hire a law firm known for how quickly it rolls over? Yet, now this is Paul Weiss's well deserved reputation.
Same with our cars. No one buys them because they don't meet minimal standards in other countries. I recently traveled to Costa Rica and used Uber to get around and was blown away at the quality of the electric cars they had there. Most were from China.
And this is true as well, in cases where the price *might* come down. bsky.app/profile/blue...
"It's all just supply and demand, that will take care of everything". Yeah apparently he never got past Economics level 1, first semester.
LOL of *course* it's fine to disagree. I do hope you are right, but I will wait to see if all this activism actually is going to effect change. I think those in charge feel untouchable now, in a way no one ever has before.
We've seen decades of people voting against their own interests, Republicans have shown a knack for gaslighting the less educated masses.
I guess you give people more credit than I do, after seeing how easily they overlooked everything Trump did and was saying he would do just because he promised to lower the price of eggs.
I’m originally from nearby Suffern, NY and this is insane for Nanuet.
Sign of the day…
Is it the Chad? 
Feathered Stone 