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Nothing screams “The Aristocrats!” like having one frivolous DOJ prosecution interrupted by a DOJ lawyer informing the court that a grand jury declined to return an indictment in a wholly separate, even more frivolous prosecution.

What ally of the US detains our politicians and gets away with it with such impunity? None. Israel is a rogue and hostile nation to Americans. Americans are being killed, harassed and beaten there by the IDF and we act like it’s nothing. There is no other country that could get away with this.

Kavanaugh stops.

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

What about her future? What about how hard she worked to be there? What is to become of her life now? What process of justice could possibly right these wrongs? And how much more will she lose in the process of trying to get it? How much more of this are we all supposed to tolerate?

I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

Wow! Thanks Bob. Much needed money that will really help!

Jennifer Nelson writes: "My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica...The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’" Breathtaking. I'm crying.

The Human Muppet community has lost two icons in under 24 hours and we appreciate your sympathies at this time.

Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18

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"[P]rosecutors dropping these charges sends a clear signal to the many thousands of LGBT people and their allies that they can attend Hungary’s upcoming Pride events with joy, and without fear of arrest, fines, or imprisonment on spurious grounds." www.hrw.org/news/2026/06...

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈

I mean... this is a pretty clear message.

most gerrymanders are republican legislators saying fuck the voters these ones are the voters saying fuck republican legislators

Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary are non-binary. You are who you are. You have a right to be who you are. That right is non-negotiable, now, and always.

Minimizing the impact of consistent episodic community-centered protests only serves the interests of the ruling elite and undermines efforts to build political pressure (even and maybe esp. on elected Democrats) AND political cover.

patiently explaining to national political reporters that the people who organize No Kings are also doing the daily advocacy, voter registration, mutual aid, and immigrant defense, and that just because the cameras show up for the big crowd does not mean that work did not exist before and after

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

Here's what I believe: no more business as usual in the Senate. We shouldn't be voting to proceed to normal legislation until Republicans schedule a debate and a vote and on a declaration of war against Iran. Let's see if Trump has the votes to authorize war. I bet he doesn't.

The big political story in America, by any conceivable measure, is the deranged dementia patient destroying our institutions & alienating the rest of the world. But that story is uncomfortable for the mainstream political press & they'd rather cover just about anything else.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not. 12/12

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

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Live your life such that Bruce Springsteen does not write a protest song about you. May the rest of us live with the bravery and spirit of Alex and Renee.

Let’s talk about abolishing ICE. Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.” /1

We need to get it lodged more firmly in the discourse that Trump and Stephen Miller are prioritizing removing nonviolent immigrants over public safety. They are sinking so many resources into their ethnic purification project that they're putting us in more danger. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam

Great article covering the bonkers change RFKjr et al are recommending. Denmark has universal Healthcare. They reduced the schedule because the diseases are not prevalent in their population. Not because of safety. Denmark thinks this US change is bonkers too. (gift) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h...

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

If it saves lives, Republicans oppose it.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.

I love them. (hint: doing alt text the right way)

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

7/ Democrats need to stand for something right now. And what need, to vote for this budget, is pretty simple and reasonable: Don't cut people's health care just to pay for a billionaire tax cut. Don't fund Trump's growing authoritarianism without checks on his corruption.

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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

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This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

It looks like Trump's hand picked Supreme Court isn't going to stop him from rescinding money that Congress already agreed to use. How can Democrats agree to a Republican budget that lets Trump delete the parts of it he doesn't like?

An unintended side effect of declaring war on a war-ravaged American city is that my feed is filled with beautiful scenes from said war-ravaged city.

‼️Beyond the anger, I feel such utter sadness at the corruption in this country's leadership that uses corruption to ensure they stay in power so they can do more corruption to stay in power.