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“We’re like coworkers at a nuclear facility. We sit in the same room all night monitoring different screens.” From the Four Seasons on Netflix. Dylan Morgan and Josh Siegal killed it with that line. Painfully funny.

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

Straight-up misogyny is the explanation for 2024 that accords best with the actual vote shifts. But for some reason if you mention it a ton of people rush out of the woodwork to go “no no no! it’s inflation and Harris’s policy choices! Which for some reason only men cared about!”

Ridiculous - utter failure for so many Ds to help crypto bill advance given its role in influence-peddling and corruption

If you are a parent, or a grandparent, planning to help your kids, grandkids and the wider community manage this reality of unprecedented climate discontinuity should be one of your central concerns.

This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data. "As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported." nsidc.org/data/user-re...

Let's fucking goooooo

Insurance is the forerunner of climate catastrophe, because fiduciary duties and trillion-dollar bets require insurers to be accurate about predicting our climate-risk future. We are careening into an insurance crisis that cascades into wide economic harm.

This is horrifying and heartbreaking. Sending so much love to the Filipino community right now. I can’t imagine how you’re feeling. You deserve to feel safe celebrating your culture. This is devastating. 💔

In the coming days you’ll see headlines like, “ICE Can Now Come Into Your House Without a Warrant.” They will be false. Trump’s Attorney General, who once accepted a bribe from him when she was FL AG, instructed her agents to ignore the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution. That’s the story.

my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison

You can't report on this garbage without informing readers of the literal identical policy under Hitler. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

Indiana University Professor Ben Robinson--who was also arrested and sanctioned re: last spring's protests--is now being investigated under the state's "intellectual diversity" law. It started with an anonymous internal complaint, which the university escalated. Now, his tenure is in jeopardy.

Apparently not a joke x.com/Stef4NewYork... Endless numbers of white nationalists in senior positions. Tell me again how concerned you are about antisemitism.

Every single college newspaper in the country should print her piece, exactly as she wrote it, under their own by-lines

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

If you're a constituent of Schumer, Hassan, Peters, Durbin, Schatz, King, Shaheen, Fetterman, Cortez Masto and Gillibrand, now is a good time to leave another round of voicemails to their offices.

The worst thing is in the “%#*^< around, find out” cycle we are still very much in the first part

This is completely fucked up. I know everything is fucked up, but THIS is why universities need to stand up and fight, not cave like Columbia did. NOTHING will satisfy them, and all the capitulation just leads to more demands and humiliation.

We need to save our health care. I voted NO on RFK Jr. I will vote NO on FDA Commissioner. I will vote NO on NIH Director. I will vote NO on all of Trump's nominees. And I will vote NO on a funding bill that is nothing more than a giveaway to Elon Musk and Republicans.

Yo @durbin.senate.gov, no one is picking up your Senate phone and you don’t even have a voicemail. Vote no on cloture and the spending bill or I will do whatever it takes to make sure the next Senator from Illinois has basic constituent services set up during business hours.

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

It would all be very unpopular if you could convince people it was happening

my fellow Californians of good moral character… trans people need you, *i* need you, to tell Newsom exactly what you think of him saying trans Californians (in a trans! sanctuary! state!) aren’t worth protecting PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS SLIDE

Counteroffer: we nationalize SpaceX and you go to prison