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average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
Let's take it National and begin coloring crosswalks in many cities.
A Star Trek TOS patterns of force scenario?
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Washington state from enforcing a law that would have required priests to report evidence of child abuse learned during confession. The Trump administration had intervened on the side of the Catholic clergy. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
You can't "fix" a government that believes that people shouldn't self-govern.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is amazing, let’s go! Blue states are fighting back against Trump’s threats to withhold funding by introducing bills that give the federal government a taste of its own medicine.
JUST IN: Never seen this before — the Justice Department is suing ... the entire federal district court bench in Maryland over its standing order requiring an automatic two-day stay in habeas cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Breaking news: The State Department is requiring that all student visa applicants make their social media accounts public to be scrutinized for hostility toward the U.S., according to a cable obtained by The Post.
Basically, Americans agree that Trump's secret police organized as ICE are essentially like the German Geheime Staatspolizei or Gestapo. But for Republicans, this is something positive.
We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.
More than one million Bostonians turn out for NoKings.
DUBLIN, IRELAND: American immigrants protest at the US Embassy against the Trump administration in solidarity with #NoKingsDay #NoKings #3e
Downtown Bothell No Kings protest
President Trump and Attorney General Bondi offer no comment on the political assassinations in Minnesota. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
I endorse this approach. Indeed, it's obvious. Start just by playing Noem's remarks before her security goons punched out Sen Padilla.
@padilla.senate.gov is being interviewed right now by @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social and he is tearing up about his parents and the mistreatment of immigrants. He cares, and he gets it, and NO ONE deserves to be persecuted for trying to make a life here.
Its odd that with the attacks by law enforcers against peacefully protesting citizens .. with reporters and bystanders getting shot .. there are no reports of undercover police being shot. As if the enforcers knew that they would be shooting into the crowd and undercover officers weren't deployed.
BREAKING: LAPD didn’t just “detain” someone. They surrounded him, beat him, and jumped him — like a gang. On camera. On horses. While he screamed for help. Unarmed. Cornered. Alone. If that’s not state violence, what the fuck is?
👀 Gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Trump is threatening to defund California — we’re a donor state. We put in $80 Billion more than we get… maybe we should withhold those resources.” www.instagram.com/reel/DKlRUa6... We’ve been wondering when this would start to become a thing.
live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.
ICE forced to barricade themselves inside the federal building in Los Angeles until LAPD could intervene and rescue them from the brave crowds standing up to the regime.
We need a better more representative government
Adriana Smith was a young mom and Emory Hospital nurse who tragically lost her life in February while nine weeks pregnant. Georgia’s abortion ban is forcing Adriana’s family — against their wishes — to keep her body on a ventilator for 7 months to incubate the fetus. The cruelty is unfathomable.
Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation called for all resource exploration to cease, citing treaty with the Crown. “If Alberta wants to separate & no longer wants to be part of Canada, then you’re not allowed on our traditional territories anymore.” #cdnpoli #AlbertaSeparation
As Trump goes to war against science, and introduces a new Lysenkoism, French President Emmanuel Macron and EU President Ursula von der Leyen seek to expand the current brain drain as research scientists flee the United States. www.lemonde.fr/en/science/a...
Trying to imagine if Trump told America, "Maybe you don't need 30 guns, maybe 2 guns."
1. 55 years ago today, U.S. soldiers with the Ohio National Guard shot and killed 4 students at Kent State University - Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, and William Schroeder - and wounded 9 others, during a protest against the war in Southeast Asia. Take a moment tonight to...
You don't want to be a law firm with a reputation for caving under pressure.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeWH...
Lack of empathy for a presidential candidate whose leadership and legacy was harshly assessed by a newspaper: callous and despicable. Empathy for a migrant ripped from his family and abruptly flown to a brutal foreign prison: suicidal. MAGA world hates empathy because empathy undermines hate.
Skipping straight to the "the customer is always right" lesson without learning why it's detrimental?
And I don't suppose that getting El Salvador to apply for U.S. Statehood would get very far....
😐😶🤨🫢
So, what I'm hearing, is that someone needs to go to the El Salvador concentration camp and interview him then.
This is where they sent Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia
maps.app.goo.gl/7CnaWTPmK9Pg...
FYI The Center for Terrorism Confinement is in Tecoluca, El Salvador, about 72 km (45 m) east of the capital, San Salvador. It is a mega-prison designed to hold large numbers of inmates, particularly those involved in gang activity.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
About half the protest turn out in downtown Bothell Washington
If there is anything we, as individuals, can do, please share.
Remind me again just how many Senators visited with Putin 7 years ago? thehill.com/homenews/sen...
To the tune of youtu.be/oBxlsi5SYkg?...
My signal-ing, my signal-ing I want to play with my signal-ing My signal-ing, my signal-ing All come on now, everybody sing My signal-ing, my signal-ing I want to play with my signal-ing My signal-ing, my signal-ing I want to play with my signal-ing (One more time)
This here song, it is so sad To those of you who never had A blue app alerting with a ding So you could play with your own signal-ing
My signal-ing, my signal-ing I want to play with my signal-ing My signal-ing, my signal-ing I want to play with my signal-ing
I remember the girl on the dole We used to play games with certain roles She'd be the queen, I'd be the king Together we'd play with my signal-ing a ling
My signal-ing, my signal-ing I want to play with my signal-ing My signal-ing, my signal-ing I want to play with my signal-ing
Once I was climbing the corporate wall Oh and I had an awful fall I fell so hard I heard wallstreet bells ring But I never let go of my signal-ing
My signal-ing, my signal-ing I want to play with my signal-ing My signal-ing, my signal-ing I want to play with my signal-ing
When Putin started me to Nazi Gestapo I found a place in Mar-a-lago And every time the sky would rain They'd catch me playin' with my signal-ing
My signal-ing, my signal-ing I want to play with my signal-ing My signal-ing, my signal-ing I wanna play with my signal-ing
When MAGA took me to Sunday School They tried to teach me the golden rule Every time the choir would sing I'd sit there and play with my signal-ing
My signal-ing, my signal-ing I want to play with my signal-ing My signal-ing, my signal-ing I wanna play with my signal-ing
When I was a little donny boy My step-President bought me a cute little toy A blue app alerting with a ding He told me it was my signal-ing
And the earth is flat. And the moon landing was faked. It's all an extension of negging to introduce insecurity and make manipulation easier. Resist it. Believe in the truth.
It's almost as if their personalities were AI generated. I'm a little surprised one or two of them don't have six fingers
Thousands in the US chanting "Zelenskyy is a hero" outside of Nazi Tesla Dealership in Manhattan as #3E protesters occupy the inside. (📹 @scootercasterny.bsky.social ) #3E #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeOver #StandWithUkraine
"I am much smarter than my dating history would lead you to believe"
If a US military coup isn’t being planned now, it should strongly be considered.
When you think about what the State Department is doing to the passports of trans and non-binary folks, I want you to also think about this.
generalstrikeus.com
The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on. Now.
It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.
www.readthedetox.com/p/trump-can-...
As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.
Of course. Anyone who thought otherwise is an idiot.
Wow.
It’s time to move on from the liberal dream where MAGA realizes that this all hurts them too and the result is some kind of productive pushback. This admin is dismantling and discarding every limiting mechanism of government. Political constituency was a means. They are not seeking re-election.
Ok now.
And there it is.
Ok now, Army brass. Keep it up.
If the White House decides it can defy the will of the courts, then the people must defy the will of the White House.
"This was the day it all changed ladies and gentlemen. It wasn't the mighty Fleet, it wasn't some fancy new weapon... it was a Seattle public bus driver who captured the heart of a nation and said 'Gargle my balls'.".
🚨NEWS: A temporary order has been issued blocking the Labor Dept. from sharing any data with DOGE, after a group of unions, including AFGE, sued DOGE and held a major protest outside DOL yesterday. Here's the union's email:
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!
@shebangs98569.bsky.social First!
@katmusic.bsky.social @gumbyscreens.bsky.social
JHC Do they just stay up at night thinking up ways to make life in the U.S. more hellish?
Oh my God. Please donate right now to The Trevor Project. They're going to need it. www.thetrevorproject.org Trans youth, you are seen and loved. You belong here, and you deserve care. We will fight for you, full stop.
My heart is broken. I know this will go down in flames in court. It doesn't change the terror it will instill in the heart of every loving parent of a trans kid tonight, or our kids themselves. Please donate to Erin and @assignedmedia.org for fighting the good fight.
Federal workers have filed a lawsuit to stop the federal government’s HR office from emailing all civilian staff simultaneously, citing privacy violations.
Fiance reports that ICE trying to board a bus in Seattle were refused by a Seattle bus driver who told them "gargle my balls"
Goooooooo.
If the party stakes and kills the vampire, they release a huge mimic. If the party somehow really screws up - like casts fireball at the coffin, the vampire and the mimic both turn on the party. Now there's a trap for you.
What the party does NOT know, is that a mimic infiltrated the vampire's abode 1,000 years ago and mimic'd the coffin. The vampire went to go to rest and was trapped by the mimic. The vampire and the mimic have been fighting/feeding off of each other in a silent combat for the last 1,000 years.
A D&D situation: The party has been clearing out undead from a decrepit mansion/castle. In the lowest level of the basement, behind a secret wall door, they find a closed coffin. They suspect that a vampire is sleeping within. And they would be correct.
They won't use people's preferred pronouns or even names. I will gleefully not use their preferred name for the Gulf of Mexico.
This piece is fantastic. Read the whole thing.
