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The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal -- Vonnegut. Blondie/Debbie Harry, rock & roll, nature, history & other fascinating things.
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Us at CBGBs 1975

Debbie styled by Giger Zurich 1980

Tropic haze Pineapple sky Perfect wave Hurricane eye In The Sun… ☀️ 📸: Jimmy DeSana

This was the last direct message Victoria shared with me. Though private I think her followers and friends would like to see she was speaking truth until the very end. May her next life’s journey be peaceful. 🌈🩷💓💞💗

Jake Tapper has seriously lost it

JUST IN: In a strongly worded opinion, Mass. district judge Brian Murphy orders the Trump admin to facilitate the return of "OCG"—a gay Guatemalan man unlawfully deported to Mexico despite his reasonable fear of persecution—to the US to receive due process. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is why Real ID is bs. It means nothing to these racists.

ICE determining citizenship:

If undocumented parents lose Medi-Cal, California kids could suffer, advocates say edsource.org?page_id=733178

Victoria Brownworth was an online supporter of Eliann & I, a frequent contributor to my magazine, and a tireless advocate for the LGBTQI community, women, and democrats. She was a stellar journalist who was unafraid of the powerful. Victoria will be with her wife again. Rest in peace. 🙏🏾🌈

#mepolitics

Remember when Biden forced republicans to say they wouldn’t cut SS, Medicare and Medicaid? They had to say they wouldn’t cut it because they knew how unpopular it was. They lied. They ALWAYS lie. digbysblog.net/2025/05/23/h...

“Clean hands eugenics.” No need for those messy concentration camps and crematoriums.

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“My product that I’m selling? You’d better believe it’s the best thing ever.” This isn’t news.

You'll find me quoted in this piece. But, more important, Jennifer Schulze has done an incredibly good job of finding and listing all the ways our government has started undermining food safety (while pretending to actually care about it.)

En banc Fifth Circuit overrules decades of precedent and holds that there is no First Amendment right to receive information in a public library.

everything means the opposite for these people. freedom means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has announced a $4.8 million settlement with Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, resolving environmental violations related to the building’s cooling system, which uses water drawn from the Chicago River. to.wttw.com/4msKDyw

Fine's a well known anti-Muslim bigot.

These guys are creepy. Every single one of them.

Lol, STFU. Dems: We need healthcare, this bill sucks Favreau: But Tapper's book, you see...

Caught in a lie.

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

This is a really important read for many people out there, as this has been erroneously reported. The spending bill DOES ban HRT from Medicaid, which is horrific. It does NOT ban ACA/Private plans from covering it, as Gillian Branstetter of the ACLU lays out in her thread here.

Imagine how we would view this if it was happening in another country

The masks enrage me every time.

In 2011, a Chicago officer pulled a woman over just to get her phone number, then called or texted her nearly 30 times. Between 2017 and 2019, he was reported for sexual misconduct THREE MORE times before he was finally arrested. w/ @invisible.institute

In addition to thinking that new construction raises prices on existing homes, the modal LA elected official also thinks that mass transit is a charity program for people who are too poor to afford cars.

boy if I was the editor of the NYT (Harvard class of 1987) I might be thinking twice about why I empowered a racist attack on the institution for weeks, laying the groundwork for the deranged policy attacks of today.

Again, why do they dress like a band of highwaymen instead of a properly constituted police force? They’re inside the security envelope of a public courthouse.

Taking credit for things done under Biden again I see.

He applied for asylum, and this is the hearing. If he wins, he would be back on track to regain his green card.

As you contemplate that Donald Trump used pro-terrorism conduct as his baseless pretext to prohibit foreign students from attending Harvard, remember that on his first day on the job, Trump freed some adjudged terrorists from prison.

Fertility clinic director vows to rebuild after Palm Springs bombing. 'Life is preserved'

I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE A COVID BOOSTER YOU FUCKWIT.

Only Republicans are able to wreck the federal government—making it incapable of performing basic functions from air traffic control to food safety inspections, and destroying morale among remaining employees—while still making the deficit even larger.

Kagan is completely right. Using the shadow docket to OVERRULE nearly a century precedent is an extraordinary act.

I firmly believe that if President Obama hadn’t had terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden killed, the orange felon would’ve tried to cozy up to him the same way he treasonously sold out to the Saudis and Qatar.

Yes, yes we do, m'fer.

Oklahoma will not be able to use government money to fund a Catholic charter school, the Supreme Court ruled after Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself from the case.

President Trump auctioned off a private dinner with him to the top buyers of his cryptocurrency token, dozens of which are foreign nationals. I'm demanding that the Department of Justice investigate whether this dinner violates federal bribery laws or the emoluments clause of the Constitution.

Murray to FDA Commissioner Makary: "I believe this administration is laying the groundwork to rip away access to medication abortion across the country. This has not gotten enough attention and I know you'd prefer to keep it that way."

Build it and they will come! 🛤️