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And they called him “Sir”
Lauren Boebert Slammed for Hypocrisy After Calling to “End” Mail-In Voting A viral “this you?” moment ratioed the GOP congresswoman meidasnews.com/news/lauren-...
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - 1984, George Orwell
Her response 😡
No one should be suspended or fired just for exercising their First Amendment right to speak out. I’m joining my colleagues in calling for these EPA employees to be reinstated immediately so they can keep doing the good work our country depends on.
"This year is different. Jews are not the victims. We are the victimizers," writes David N. Myers on Tisha B'av. "And we must add the devastation of Palestinian life wrought by Israel in retribution for Oct. 7 to the list of catastrophes we mourn."
Who counts as a "real American"? My latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1983...
Trump’s actions have prompted debate over whether the U.S. is drifting toward authoritarianism—and how far the parallels really go. From Robert Kuttner: https://trib.al/oFOgUZ9
It’s uncanny
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
I'm attending Americans United for Separation of Church and State's event, “VIRTUAL: Beyond the Bench: Faith, Freedom & the Supreme Court” - sign up now to j www.mobilize.us/au/event/795...
"The bamboozle has captured us.”
"It is possible to grieve for Palestinian and Israeli people. And it is possible to still at the same time reject antisemitism and Islamophobia, without hesitation or qualification." - @bulldogshadow.bsky.social
#NeverAgain @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
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Far right influencers are blaming the horrible flooding in Texas on chemtrails, which do not exist, rather than blaming them on climate instability, which does exist. They are monetizing fear of the unreal while ignoring the looming danger facing the entire planet.
The young man standing on the left was my uncle. I never met him. He died from polio 15 years before I was born. He spent his final days in an iron lung. The sorrow of witnessing his suffering devastated my grandparents. Vaccines save lives—those of the afflicted and those who love them.
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.
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy... "That's just how it is."
It would make a great rally chant.
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BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.
When we have someone that we’re close to, and we want to refer them for care, we don’t refer to people based on their theoretical allegiances. We refer to people based on our sense of their character. - Lee Grossman
Americans United's President and CEO Rachel Laser on today's Supreme Court Ruling in the St. Isidore case! www.au.org/the-latest/p...
Understanding one’s impact 𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 is utterly central to understanding 𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓. - Paul Wachtel
Our administration will stand for two things: Fighting antisemitism and stopping the Soros-funded, Hollywood-controlling, migration-orchestrating, well-poisoning, global banking cabal of rootless cosmopolitans from destroying our Christian way of life. by J.D. Vance
This is chilling. It is how you destroy America, but also how you destroy respect for religion in America. The wall separating church and state is designed to protect both, after all. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Someone explain to me why it's illegal to give an old lady a bottle of water as she's waiting on line for hours in the sun to vote, but it's totally cool for an ultra-billionaire to bribe voters with million dollar checks in Wisconsin.
Will do!
Sorry, refugees and Medicaid recipients. Under President Trump, the GOP is taking America back from the elites. by Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, and Peter Thiel
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Gordon Allport's characteristics of psychological maturity. Guess who meets none of the criteria.
The Moronic Inferno (Borrowed from the title of a book of essays by Martin Amis)
Today’s issue of A Public Witness explores Bishop Mariann Budde’s viral call for Trump to show mercy, the attacks on her and the Episcopal church that followed, and the Washington National Cathedral’s history of advancing Christian Nationalism.
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While we’re banning books… Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar. Be. Like. Finland.
Yep. Here's my report which shows the prayer was even written after Jefferson died & comes from prayer book of church Jefferson worked to disestablish: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/johnson-wi...
Vivek Ramaswamy dumping his company's stock--before the public announcement that the drug the stock's value was based upon had failed all tests--is the clearest example of illegal insider trading. And another example of how the rich skirt consequences for committing crimes in America.
Gives new meaning to the phrase, “Ugly American.”
I wrote about how Congress has turned into a senior center. How many AOCs are never elected because 80-year-olds refuse to step down? How many young lawmakers don’t acquire leadership roles — and miss out on years of experience — because seniority is prized above anything else?
Let’s keep this in mind, devout Christian Speaker Johnson tried to keep the house from releasing this report because he wanted Gaetz to be attorney general. Typical
WANTED: 2-3 moderate House Republicans willing to switch parties, become incredibly influential and get their constituents virtually anything they could want. Any takers?
Just a bunch of people living their lives, using their natural immunity, not a vax in sight
Best letter. Ever.
Jake: “Let the police handle it” Mrs. Mulray: “He OWNS the police”
“You call it loud, but the human crowd Doesn’t mean shit to a tree” Jefferson Airplane, Eskimo Blue Day
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