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Retired postal worker. Iowan. Says Ope. Feral crone. 1 son, 1 grandson, and a wonderful daughter-in-law who has to deal with both. 2 cats. She/her. Woke af.
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SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

yep

Trump’s 2025 pardons so far, by the numbers: Convicted of: – Fraud: 24 – Tax Evasion: 7 – Illegal Campaign Donations: 4 – Political Corruption & Bribery: 8 – Insurrection: 1,500+ A reminder of why descriptive representation matters.

indeed

Seeing as Emil Bove personally fired me from DOJ in retaliation for prosecuting January 6 rioters, I don’t think he should be confirmed to a lifetime seat as a federal judge. But that’s just me.

RFK Jr. is reportedly going to forbid government scientists from publishing in the world’s most respected medical journals — the Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, etc. It’s going to take decades to repair the damage done by this administration.

We should organize a letter-writing campaign where elementary school students can write Secretary Real World and tell him how they learned to ride the bus or subway all by themselves, and maybe one day he can too

It can't happen here (Oh wait, it can. A cautionary tale from way back in February) www.forbes.com/sites/digita...

A student said to me at an event today, ‘I’d love to speak out and say stuff but I can’t because I’m on a visa.’ What has happened to America? Trump and Rubio and MAGA have killed free speech and the First Amendment in this country.

timeline cleanser

I read the Surgeon General nominee's book so you don't have to, and it's hot fucking trash, and I wrote about it! buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

fwiw i dont think tom homan is who he is because of kickbacks or contracts. i think tom homan is tom homan cause he's a monster who likes hurting people. $5k is nothing to a toad like that. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

And happy birthday to Rachel Carson.

Good thing for Putin he has such a good friend in WH to run cover for him while he continues to bomb civilians.

There’s a reason why the House passed the MAGA Murder Budget under the cover of darkness. It will be catastrophic for millions if signed, slashing $880 billion from Medicaid and $230 billion from food assistance. Meanwhile, $175 billion would go turbocharge abductions and family separation 👇🏽

Yep, I sneezed and hurt my back. Jfc. At 67, I can honestly say I've never really felt OLD until now. #JustShootMe

Our reps are about to burn federal infrastructure to the ground, the president won't acknowledge the constitution, and DHS is gestapo 2.0, but instead of talking about that pundits are wasting airtime on the health of a man who will never be in office again all to sell books for another pundit.

25 yo Aussie woman going to meet her US military husband is detained for having “too much luggage” sent to ICE center, body cavity searched and deported. Says she never go to US; husband resigning to join her www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjHwhA8u/

The thing I want folks to understand abt the cuts in the GOP budget is that they are IDEOLOGICAL, NOT FISCAL. This is not abt "saving money" by cutting essential services (the budget actually operates at a substantial loss). Rather, it is abt destroying the infrastructure supportive of democracy.

Sunday marks 5 years since George Floyd's murder, when millions marched for racial justice. It's bad enough that few reforms came from it But there's a straight line from BLM marches to a backlash that reelected Trump and is ending DEI. What went wrong? My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/geor...

When I interviewed KKK leaders in Arkansas, this is what they said too. “We don’t hate anyone. We just love our own people.” Then they burned a cross.

Bringing this to Bsky bc @steverattner.bsky.social hasn't posted it yet and it's so critical. The entirety of the cuts to Medicaid and food benefits are to pay for tax cuts for people earning more than half a million a year. Call Congress: 202-224-3121

Major corporations that have spent years touting their efforts to combat hunger in America, but now publicly support a $300 billion SNAP cut: AT&T T-Mobile United Airlines Uber Comcast Charter Communications Verizon Delta Air Lines Dell FedEx Southwest Airlines

happy for Khalil of course but i must say, "lawful permanent resident not charged with any crimes, imprisoned by president's stormtroopers for having forbidden opinions about US-abetted genocide, briefly allowed to touch his child" is a hell of a thing to find oneself feeling joy and relief about

Trump’s racist trolling of South Africa’s president today is perhaps the most racist WH moment since Woodrow Wilson screened Birth of a Nation there in 1915.

So yes, as currently written the House GOP budget will require half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare. That’s T as in trillion and “care” as in Medicare on top of the cuts to Medicaid and Obamacare. So how did this happen? As near as I can tell House Republicans and the …

they're preparing for the fucking rapture which is why they care about israel!!!!

SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:

jfc