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And here we are. Dude, I wish I could tell you not to worry but I can’t.

This is really really bad

🎯👏🎯Sotomayor Outlawyers Supreme Court Majority In Shadow Docket Deportation Ruling: Liberal dissenters turned the High Court’s emergency ass-covering into a judicial greenlight -- and Judge Murphy slammed the pedal. flip.it/0KF_WF

“‘I had him inside here for three days, in this Louisiana facility, my baby dead in my stomach, inside my stomach for three days, dead,’ she said.”

Presidential history was made today. Just be careful when describing it out loud. open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/...

128 Democrats vote against impeaching Trump.

Been thinking about how the Iraq War and GWOT is so massively unpopular that Obama won in part because of it and his opposition to the war, and Dems won big and then the party went in on people who supported the war, even as it was a massive liability. Maybe there's a lesson here.

American Olympic champion sprinter Wilma Rudolph was born today in 1940. A polio survivor, she was a bronze medal winner in 1956 in Melbourne. Rudolph claimed three gold medals at the 1960 Rome summer games. Following her Olympic triumphs, she actively supported civil rights causes. She died in 1994

#BREAKING: Over a (sharp) public dissent from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS clears the way for the Trump administration to remove migrants to third countries *without* giving them an additional opportunity to contest whether they face persecution or other forms of mistreatment there:

MAGA is destroying America day by day for the benefit of the wealthy with the blessing of the ignorant and cowardly. Vote out every member of Congress who isn't raising holy hell right now. wapo.st/3T8gMxY

This really is Congress eating its own institutional capacity to stifle any dissent to Trump. They accuse CBO of being Democrats, even though it is run by a Republican appointee. GAO has pointed out the illegality of impoundment. DOGE tried to take over GAO, and now House Republicans want to gut it.

I saw this useful resource: www.nilc.org/resources/ho...

➡️ WE DO NOT FORGET: *a Trump-loving MAGA assassin murdered Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman, her husband, Mark, and shot others *ICE agents are kidnapping and disappearing immigrants off of the streets of America *Trump/the GOP are destroying working American families to benefit the ultra-rich

"Protests against the U.S. military involvement in Iran, including some in New York and outside the White House June 22, are expected to continue throughout the week in communities across the country." www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

The soft bigotry of low expectations

he's lenny AND squiggy.😐

As our nation girds for possible Iranian terrorist attacks, this is the person Trump put in charge of terrorism prevention. 22 years old. Recent work experience: landscaping/grocery clerk. Never worked a day in counter-terrorism. But he’s a BIG Trump fan. So he got the job.

Gorgeous: www.instagram.com/p/DIV6bustWkW/

KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.

If the president does it, it's not a leak. He's just telling you.

Missed childhood vaccinations. Skipped blood sugar checks. Medications abandoned at the pharmacy. These are among the healthcare disruptions providers have noticed since ICE operations began in Southern California earlier this month. www.latimes.com/science/stor...

we actually don’t have to listen to the people who are cheerleading war who were also cheerleading war 20+ years. we’re the adults in the room now and we have the power to say fuck no to shitty ideas.

Lol they want us to want kings

“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...

Sportsky!!!

If Democrats truly want to appeal to young men, they should probably start presenting themselves as the party that definitively *won’t* draft you into an illegal war.

Happy birthday to the prophetess Octavia Butler. We live in the times she foretold. From her notebooks.

Beyond parody at this point; the week these guys picked sex predators and warmongers over your future

Noontime spotlight. Thanks to our lovely daughter’s regular watering, our Mother’s Day gift from the church keeps on giving. #bloomscroll #bloomscrolling

He said Allah akbar

This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩

i hate that ig has turned into an AI video junkyard. i hate all of them. and a lot of them are racist or uphold racist ideas.

Just take an deep breathe and watch me wash my fasce

you know what, I’m impressed, we really did mostly do the right thing here and it doesn’t seem to have resulted in any sort of sustained harassment campaign because he just got blocked to oblivion great work, well done everyone

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

“…they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement while wearing masks…,” said Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of Homeland Security. Reporters have to stop letting ridiculous lies like these fly unchallenged

I’m torn between using either of these as a catchphrase: “I have wasted an enormous amount of your time and goodwill.” Or “I am uninstalling myself from this project.”

Probably a good moment to point out that US Homeland Terrorism Prevention is being led by an unqualified 22 year old kid who's one year out of college. www.propublica.org/article/trum...