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When we face abuses of power and corruption of this magnitude, literally unprecedented in the history of the American presidency, as members of Congress, we have an obligation to investigate and to ensure that those facts become public and that there's accountability for misdeeds.

Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld

One thing that’s always bothered me about The Dark Knight. The Joker is treated as a rational actor in regards to the ferry bombs. No one questions if pressing the button blows THEMSELVES up?

Scars

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

@hankgreen.bsky.social #AHA I’ve seen my dogs eat horse poop and cat turds, but totally ignore anything the chickens, turkeys, or themselves leave behind. Does science know why? I get ignoring their own, but when it comes to other species how do they choose whether it’s candy or poison?

Rubio: Sir, you have dementia. Trump: They say I'm in MENSA.

Every Democrat since Reagan has DECREASED the deficit. Every Republican since Reagan has INCREASED it. Without fail. Every single time.

ROFL fake I assume but perfect regardless.

A picture is worth 99.9 words. How's that @github.com migration from bare metal to Azure going? via Alex on Mastodon techhub.social/@ironicbadge...

A big bowl of Golden Grahams in milk with those firm mini marshmallows for cocoa sprinkled on top and a spoon. You have the technology. All you need is the will.

Trump posts a bonkers rant: “I know why Tucker, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, & Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — bc they have one thing in common, Low IQs”

Tariffs increased prices for American importers and consumers. Economists have calculated significant increases in the prices of imported and domestic products. Learn more from Cato’s Scott Lincicome, Alfredo Carillo Obregon, and Chad Smitson: https://ow.ly/zgrX50YEwzj

i don’t think “relax, the most powerful person in the world is just a reckless liar” is in any way reassuring if i’m being quite honest

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

The wife of an Army staff sergeant, who is set to train for deployment, was taken from a military base where the couple planned to live. ICE agents had entered the base and detained Annie Ramos.

Donald Trump is pressuring Republicans to restrict mail-in voting for everybody else — while he’s sitting at home voting by mail himself? He's literally urging Republicans to withhold TSA agent’s paychecks until they pass his voter suppression bill — the so-called “SAVE America Act”.

Put this right alongside that gem from his first term, "Nobody knew health care reform was so complicated"

At a horse show and a young rider passed me her phone and asked me to film her ride. Then specified, “Vertical, ok?” I feel like I drank from the false grail as my bones turn to dust.

How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…

Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.** He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

Ah. bsky.app/profile/bubb...

"We are concerned about the clashes between protestors and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. But we believe that confrontations with police are sometimes necessary to effect change. Provided the change in question is something positive, like overturning the results of an election."

Look, it's been hard for me to figure out how to talk about the difference between healthy masculinity and bullshit, weak, fear-based control fantasies, but BOY HAS THIS WEEK MADE EVERYTHING MORE CLEAR.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

And look for the helpers

This video shows Donald Trump’s lawless federal agents again out of control. The Senate cannot vote to keep funding this. Every single agent complicit in these horrors should be put on trial at the state level for real accountability.

ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

Icy roads, take me home To the place, where FUUUUUUUUUU AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!! WWOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck, oh my god that was close Take me home, icy roads

CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….

A must read👇 After a sweeping, Republican-led review of more than 2 million voter registrations, Utah election officials identified just one apparent noncitizen in their voter rolls — who never voted. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." -MLK As always, Dr. King's message is right on time. Today calls on all of us to hear his wisdom and put it into action.

So much of how the Trump administration acts can be explained by them being weak and servile bullies who cannot understand any human relationship that is not dominance-subservience. E.g., they foolishly invaded Minneapolis because if someone stronger threatened them, they’d cravenly lick his boot.

ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

You made it through another year! Being alive is the most punk rock thing we can do rn, so good job, I'm proud of you. You're good exactly as you are and I'm glad you're here. The world is better with you in it. I love you. Next year is gonna be a year of you kicking ass and I can't wait to see it.🫶

"The Human's world ends soon," said the cat. "Again?" said the dog. "They are fond of endings and beginnings. Even if nothing changes." The dog whined. "Same procedure as last year?" said the cat. "Please." The cat lay on the dog's head and purred, muffling the fireworks. #CrossRepost