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I’m a book dragon, Nana, and mostly perplexed at where we are.
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Librarians stay winning

Mans was plagiarizing when it would still get you expelled from school

BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...

Today’s That’s Marvelous newsletter is about bad times and Bill Belichick and b-b-b-b-b-basketball! I think it’s a lot of fun!

It’s wild that ostensibly neutral outlets would call a brief suspension of some tariffs during ongoing negotiations a “trade deal.” It just objectively isn’t that. If there’s an explanation for it other than Trump and the WH press shop claiming they struck a deal, I don’t know what it would be.

Trump in Truth Social: “A GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE.” That’s a synonym for “present,” which is EXPLICITLY forbidden in the Constitution, because the Founders understood *why* foreign states would offer such presents. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

The video doesn’t show a congressperson “body slamming” an ICE agent, but it does show that ICE agents are unprofessional thugs who seem to delight in escalating confrontations

It’s not that they don’t know what the constitution says. They know what it says. Just like they knew what it said when they asked Pence to ignore it. They just don’t care. They believe it can be rewritten by bending it to their will, if enough of them decide to do it.

Tracy Flick be mad www.thedailybeast.com/leavitt-laun...

If you’re not alarmed yet you’re not paying attention

Trump’s Hatemonger in chief Stephen Miller says they are looking at suspending Habeas Corpus (so they can violate rights with impunity) They won’t stop with immigrants. They will find excuses for activists, media, anyone who opposes them. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention.

This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.

Renae contracted Measles as a baby when she was too young to be vaccinated. The virus remained dormant in her brain for years & she died at 10 of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. Is anyone tracking the long-term consequences of Measles in Canada? www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

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i think this shit is an affront to this country and its traditions

New at Tusk: The idea that law is a legitimate and neutral thing to which we owe respect is alien to Trump

My dude, you ruled that he was free to commit as many crimes as he wants.

I am going to keep saying this until I am blue in the face: if we survive all this, and that’s a non-trivial if right now, it will take a generation to fix the damage. By that point, China will have surpassed us.

Exactly. The Pope adheres to ancient, straightforward Sunday School teachings about helping the needy and not being cruel to the vulnerable. That this is being portrayed as radical and partisan says way more about the ones making the accusation than it does about him.

It's honestly fascinating to watch the rightwing response to Pope Leo XIV. Normally, this guy would be greeted with enthusiasm. He's solid conservative who grew up in the Midwest. The first American pope. But he follows Christ's teachings on migrants and refugees. So, they're irate. Fascinating.

It really is this simple. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

I have been aware of the existence of Robert Prevost for <checks phone> one hour and he is now my favorite person in all of history because of how insane he is making trumpworld

😂😂😂

Wait til they hear about some of the stuff Jesus said

Ok. I'm fully on board now

Dang, now he has been told off by two Popes. Vance collecting all the L's.

an AMERICAN? they chose an AMERICAN? draft day will never be the same again

once again my full throated support and endorsement for any democrat who pursues criminal legal accountability for the DOGE boys. and i’d be fine with shipping these guys to the Hague

Virginia Tech football has been using Metallica’s Enter Sandman for their walkout music since 2000 and last night the band finally played Lane Stadium setting off the Richter scale

The people who think "Oh, that's not the way it works" have actually read the Constitution, unlike the human pinky ring who now serves as Secretary of Commerce.

i’d go so far as to say this is wickedness

Something I hope everyone covers this tomorrow notes is that...the President has no authority whatsoever to make trade deals without congress. None. Not even the pretext of one.

We talked to half a dozen former John Fetterman staffers. They say the Pennsylvania Democrat isn’t doing the basic job of a U.S. senator.

I stay healthy by carefully looking at my food to spot any bacteria. Also I know it’s OK if the guy at the grocery store is nice.

Not only that, but the particular dispute between them didn’t even exist until the day they were founded.

There's actually a bunch of families whose kids were injured and even killed by raw milk and if i were an editor I might try to interview them right now.

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

American media made Biden a lame duck president over a cough. Meanwhile Cheeto Benito openly says he has no idea what his own gov is doing and it's just another Wednesday

we lost two Super Hornets to the waves and I haven’t seen any discussion of the race or gender of anyone who might be at fault, which means I have a pretty good guess as to the race and gender of everyone who might be at fault