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The millions of illegal immigrants was always a fiction built on an untruth to scare the whites. Trump promised mass deportations but there aren't any people to deport because it was all a lie. So they're just grabbing whoever.

It's kitten season!

Stalin told his aides to never bother him when he's sleeping. He had a stroke in his sleep and could have been saved but everyone was afraid to enter his bedroom so he laid there until morning.

Trump on Joe Biden, who recently announced a cancer diagnosis: "If you feel sorry for him, don't feel so sorry, because he's vicious ... I really don't feel sorry for him."

This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…

@egrattan.bsky.social

There was never a crisis at the border. There was never 10s of 1000s criminal immigrants. But now Trump has to justify his lies so his brownshirts are grabbing the weakest members of our communities to fill an impossible deportation quota. It's just ethnic cleansing.

From Trump to his children, his entire cabinet and his other MAGA appointees, one thing ties them all together. They are all lazy as fuck. It's easy to sit around and bitch but now that they are in power and have to actually work they all have the sads.

I can't believe we have to push back against Trump and his GOP bootlickers to save WEATHER FORECASTING. Of all things, Jesus H. Christ.

Great toolset for journalists here. Training services and resources designed to protect journalists from surveillance, prevent hacking attacks, mitigate online harassment, and much more. freedom.press/digisec/

Good point made by @ryanlizza.bsky.social during a webinar today hosted by @freedom.press . Trump's not going to be president forever. Why is the GOP ceeding so much power to the executive when the next president could be @aoc.bsky.social ? FAFO

The vacuum left after the U.S. abandoned its aid commitments; the price of remission; how we reported on well-timed trades and more from our newsroom. - link.propublica.net/view/611d268...

I just attended this super interesting discussion.

The whole U.S. Presidency rests on the assumption that citizens will be smart enough to see through systematic elevation of a con man by one party and multiple propaganda outlets.

The marginal voters who gave Trump another term wanted lower prices for bread, and instead they’re being served a hot dish of techno-dystopian fascism with a side of egg shortages. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

This article is from February but look at all the aviation-related problems since then. Accidents, air traffic systems collapsing, lives lost... www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Let’s be simple about what is happening: Americans are watching the dismantling of our government systems by a lawless president and unelected plutocrat in the precise ways we were indoctrinated to think were impossible in this country. lindseyadler.substack.com/p/youre-allo...

Pick a path and then find an action that fits your degree of difficulty (we’ve categorized harder actions as those that require more time, people skills, and often a small group to launch with). choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

Again, the six bribed and/or fascist members of the Supreme Court have declared that if enacting any of this is illegal, any president of the United States is utterly immune from prosecution for pursuing any of the illegal parts of it. www.the-reframe.com/what-center-...

“Having and protecting my peace of mind isn't about ignoring problems or pretending everything's fine and nothing's happening. It's about making choices that don't leave me stuck in negativity." brilliantcrank.com/the-dice-035/

Everybody committing crimes for Trump are betting he will shield them. But Trump won't last forever. It may take 6 months or it may take years but ICE, Noem, Homan, Musk, DOGE, and others will be prosecuted for their crimes.

Fascists depend on convincing us to give our power away and fall in line, that the fight is over and we lost. And while we must be clear-eyed about the threat, we must not do the fascists’ work for them by giving them powers they do not have. indivisible.org/resource/guide

Children can sense when their parents are really worried, whether they’re watching the news or talking about it with others. No matter what children know about a “crisis,” it’s especially scary for children to realize that their parents are scared. kottke.org/25/02/mister...

They found that posts from misinformation sources were more likely than those from trustworthy news outlets to elicit moral outrage (anger and disgust)—and that people were more likely to reshare them without reading them. www.scientificamerican.com/article/outr...

Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting - docs.google.com/document/d/1...

In the first two weeks of his presidency, Trump prioritized a series of executive actions that deny the existence of transgender people and seek to exclude them from public life. slate.com/news-and-pol...

“A lot of us are scared and feel betrayed,” a person who works for USAID told The Verge. www.theverge.com/policy/60561...

I've got a plan 1. Down to the road block, we've just begun 2. The guards are through 3. The Major's men are on a spree 4. Major and Wladislaw go through the door 5. Pinkley stays out in the drive 6. The Major gives the rope a fix 7. Wladislaw throws the hook to heaven 8. Jimenez has got a date

Which is the true Jesus?

According to the theory, Bluesky died in a car crash, and to spare the public from grief, the surviving Beatles, aided by Britain's MI5, replaced Bluesky with a social media look-alike, subsequently communicating this secret through subtle details of their albums.

Was JD Vance nearby?

The Chinese are going to beat the U.S. back to the moon, aren't they?

RIP Rick Derringer. Saw him with the Edgar Winter Group and opening act James Gang Monday May 13, 1974 at St. John Arena in Columbus, Ohio. They fucking rocked. www.concertarchives.org/concerts/the...

I want a website with a lot of features but I don't want to pay for it and I don't want to code it myself.

tai chi is short for taiwanese chicken

The entire modern internet has been built on platforms that don’t believe in asking for consent. What if we started demanding a culture of consent online? www.anildash.com//2025/05/27/...

I stand with NPR Fight back against illegal executive orders.

My advice for graduates: 1. Be cool. 2. Don't be a fool. 3. Avoid being a tool.

It's right there in the name. Rubio is just a secretary. An administrative assistant of state.