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Y'all, please stop. I really don't wanna cheer for Slytherin Mit Romney. Not today. Not ever. No Newsom. He'd sell you and your first born for the next seat up the ambition chain. #gavinnewsom #la #california

The United Farm Workers, along with the entire labor movement, stands in strong solidarity with our comrade, labor leader David Huerta. We demand his immediate release and condemn indiscriminate sweeps targeting working class immigrants.

EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

When the topic is women the conflict is that women are failing society. When the topic is men it's that society is failing them.

If you’re attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight, be sure to come prepared with a joke about the toddler cancer patient they just disappeared despite her being a citizen. Otherwise it’s going to be awkward when you’re mugging for photos with Stephen Miller.

"'She’s a very talented scientist with huge potential … the capacity to be the best of the best,' he said..." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

Going back to catch up on some @bullseye.maximumfun.org and listening to the one from Feb with Tramell Tillman. Y'all.... Go listen to it. It's so good. As always @jessethorn.bsky.social is one of the best interviewers around and it's a lovely, deep, human conversation.

Source: Pete Hegseth is about to announce his resignation via Signal group chat.

*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

🚨Attention Members of the DC Bar🚨 Ballots went out today for key positions in the DC bar. Please vote for: Diane Seltzer for President Amanda Molina for Treasurer Note: Seltzer is running against Pam Bondi's brother. Get your ballot and vote ASAP.

It’s weird* that the president can just decide to put a huge tax on American businesses without congress even being a little bit involved. * very unconstitutional

i have been joking that their plan is for your kids to grow up to work in a textile mill but they are serious

NEW -- President Donald Trump skipped the return of four soldiers who died in a training exercise to Dover Air Force Base Friday and instead spent $4.2 million of taxpayer money to attend a dinner for one of his business interests and to play golf. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

53k people watching @booker.senate.gov on TikTok right now as he approaches hour 20.

So sick of calling @amyklobuchar.com office and hearing "the office of senator Amy Klobuchar is unavailable, please leave a message" .... BE AVAILABLE. Show up to a protest. Host a town hall. Do anything.

Early voting today in Wisconsin

Lewelyn has lived in the U.S. for 50 years. She’s a green card holder, a lab technician at UW Medicine, and a trusted pillar in her family. Now, she’s in ICE detention while trying to come home after visiting loved ones in the Philippines.

“The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.”

THE ONLY PUBLIC EVIDENCE of any "wrongdoing" by Rumeysa Ozturk is an *op-ed* urging Tufts to *follow student resolutions* to recognize the Palestinian genocide & divest from companies tied to Israel

This is a really good analysis of just some of the very serious harms that we will all experience as a result of the newly announced mass firings at HHS. FDA, CDC will be slammed by latest job cuts open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

NEW: Did innocuous tattoos of hummingbirds and palm trees lead the Trump admin to believe the men they disappeared were gang members? “If they notice they have a tattoo, they’re just taking them into custody," one lawyer said. Read @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and @nlanard.bsky.social: