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Why sheriff Taylor doesn't carry a gun. Clip from 'The Andy Griffith Show', season 5, episode 23. Broadcast on March 1st, 1965.

Ahead of No Kings Day, a couple trainings we have coming up that might be useful: Safety and Deescalation: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... Know Your Rights (w/ACLU): act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...

The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle. Don't give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

This guy consistently posts songs with incredible lyrics mere hours after events unfurl. This was a good one.

Banks are aiming to issue cryptocurrency. Lawmakers just put a line in the GENIUS Act saying when a bank issuing crypto goes bankrupt, crypto investors get paid before regular depositors. In other words: your savings account becomes crypto’s bailout fund. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

I’m not sure if you can overdose on schadenfreude but we’re about to find out

Somebody tell Grok, there is a white South African getting massacred

No notes.

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

What?!?! The EPA has drafted a plan to eliminate all pollution controls from coal and gas-fired power plants. The agency claims these plants “do not contribute significantly” to dangerous pollution or climate change, arguing their emissions are a small and declining share of global totals.

The White House just dropped an executive order significantly shaking up operations at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the government’s nuclear safety regulator widely regarded as the “gold standard” for global nuclear power safety operations. I used to cover NRC closely. Here are some notes🧵

This is the way

Texans, flee the nanny state and come up north to enjoy the land of the free. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/21/t...

“If you haven’t been poor, don’t legislate for the poor.” - Rep Lateefah Simon, CA-12

A video circulating on Reddit shows ICE officers wrestling a Hispanic construction worker to the ground while he repeatedly says that he is a US citizen. He was reportedly detained for hours until he was eventually released.

This is the way

If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

From what I can tell, the biggest hits in the GOP budget take place after the midterms. And because most Americans have no idea how our budget process works, they will blame the wrong people.

"There’s no reason to believe that TAKE IT DOWN won’t be similarly exploited to go after sex workers and LGBTQ+ users, as well as anyone who posts an image or animation that another user simply doesn’t like and decides to report... It’s a danger that too few Americans understand."

🚨🚨🚨 “The Trump admin has decided to permit the sale of devices that enable standard firearms to fire like machine guns, a move that one person familiar with the matter said was “by far the most dangerous thing this administration has done” on gun policy.” #MomSky www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

On the Card Campaign website, you can download the Medicaid card, which has the most important information for people to know, and call their representatives. The GOP bill cuts 650 billion from Medicaid and 500 billion from Medicare. www.cc4democracy.com

CLEVELAND, TN: “A senior at Tennessee Christian Prep is suing her own high school, saying they suspended her from school and are withholding her diploma all because she posted on social media that she was gay.” WSMV: www.instagram.com/reel/DJ7Megu...

It’s ok for folks, Susan Collins is concerned.

At least when you're having a heart attack, or your wife or daughter needs life-saving care for her or her baby, and you have to travel 100 miles to the nearest hospital, you'll have the peace of mind in knowing that the "illegals" aren't getting free healthcare.

At 9:00 AM this morning the entire Pentagon got an email inviting them to a “Christian prayer and worship service” from the Office of the Secretary of Defense. A Cabinet member directly violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment prohibiting the government from

Pleased to announce my summer reading list: PURGE NIFLER, by Salman Rushdie A RANK OF ELEPHANTS, by JRR Emily RR Dickinson, Jr. THE LIEUTENANT JOKE SOCIETY, by Angry Mitch Album CHAD, by Jonathan Franzen THE TALE OF THE BOY IN THE LAND WITH THE LAMP FULL OF SAND, by Hilary Mandel

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

Reminder ⤵️

This is the way

Up is down

Good googly goo

Breaking news: President Donald Trump’s administration will pay nearly $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt to settle a lawsuit brought by the estate of the Trump supporter who was fatally shot by police when she tried to storm the House Speaker’s lobby during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack.

DENVER (AP) — "Tucked deep in the thousand-plus pages of the multitrillion-dollar budget bill is a paragraph curtailing a court’s greatest tool for forcing the government to obey its rulings: the power to enforce contempt findings."

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C’mon, Universe, seriously??

Trump Shares QAnon Meme, Call for Military Tribunal of Obama Trump continues to amplify extreme content on Truth Social meidasnews.com/news/trump-s...

The bottom 60% of U.S. households don't make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," where as the top 1% have more money than at any time in history, according to a new analysis. www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of...

Great question

Trump vs. Trump… amazing…

Jesus wept

BREAKING: This is unusual trading by a politican. Representative Greg Landsman sold up to $50,000 of United Health, $UNH, on 03/26/2025. Since, $UNH is down 53%, and it was disclosed that the DOJ was investigating $UNH for possible Medicare fraud. He sits on the House Subcommittee of Health.