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University professor, Thoroughbred & dog mom, hiker, reader, some-kinda Buddhist
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Waking up to Ukraine absolutely shredding Russian military and air force Is amazing Slava Ukrainii

Breaking News: The CDC kept Covid shots on an updated vaccination schedule for children, days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said they would be taken off.

Yes, Joni, we’re all going to die. The point is not everyone should die faster and poorer because you gutted their healthcare.

The war on science and expertise is now in full swing.

215-214, House Republicans vote to PASS their multi-trillion-dollar MAGA bill, sending it to the Senate Massie & Davidson vote NO. Andy Harris votes PRESENT. Garbarino & Schweikert miss the vote. All other Republicans vote YES. Democrats vote NO. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Pence: "To have POTUS in Saudi Arabia questioning America's global war on terror & describing is as nation building & interventionist I thought was a disservice to generations of Americans who wore the uniform..particularly giving that speech in Saudi Arabia where 15 of the 19 hijackers hailed from"

yes. this.

thank you elon musk and donald trump for destroying this country’s ability to generate wealth for the future. we salute you. MAGA.

THIS. We wrote this piece, when the devil is at your front door, in 2021 but its premise still stands, "Critical race theory provides powerful tools that help us understand how systems reproduce racial inequities — that is the only way we hold the devil at bay." hechingerreport.org/opinion-usin...

This is not a serious administration and it’s also filled with bad people

Please enjoy these shelter pups reacting to getting a kiss. Some are bashful, some have butterflies, and all deserve approximately 10 million more. 14/10 for all

Horsford: They are cutting healthcare for 13.7 million Americans. The largest cut to healthcare in U.S. history to give tax cuts to billionaires and to big corporations. This is your priority.

Accepting a private jumbo-jet from a foreign nation is a clear violation of our Constitution, which plainly prohibits U.S. officials from accepting gifts from foreign governments.

So many layers of corruption.

Speaking as one frog to all you other frogs, don’t you think the water may be getting uncomfortably hot?

You mean to tell me that Chicago gets to claim Michael Jordan, the first Black President AND the first American Pope? Good lord you ain't going to be able to tell them NOTHING.

Trump just now: "We are going to be taking away Harvard's tax exempt status." 26 U.S. Code § 7217: "It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request an ...investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer." The president is an applicable person.

'“It’s not being done with any thought about human life, it was just ‘this seems so woke so let’s get rid of it,’” Bennett said. “People think water is free and comes out of your tap whenever you want, but it’s not that simple.”' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Trump family’s cryptocurrency business just got a $2B investment from a firm backed by the United Arab Emirates government. With this deal, they will be enriched beyond most people’s comprehension—and they have the UAE government to thank for it.

💯. Why does almost no one in the public know this though? If you think about it, the government’s creation of the internet is probably one of the greatest policy achievements and worst communication failures of all time.

Why is it up to @rollingstone.com to write the most honest and direct headlines? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Dear red state universities: make McSweeney’s comedy again

Damn.

Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”

…well discerned & historically attributed; his essay educates with precision & humility.

Macron shook one hand.

Resistence is NOT futile

Jake Tapper: "One 60 Minutes source tells me, 'The lawsuit was baseless. Bill Owens wouldn't apologize. He wouldn't bend. He fought for the broadcast and for independent journalism and that cost him his job. It's shameful.'"

What folks love about @repjasmine.bsky.social is simple—she keeps it real. No sugarcoating, no political gymnastics. She says what the rest of us are thinking but don’t have the mic to say out loud. She’s right—this is a “nightmare”. And we need more voices like hers, calling it out—no apologies!

For people in the journalism business, and for people in general, *this* is the killer detail in latest Hegseth-dereliction-of-duty report: That *four* people on the call were willing to talk about it! Congrats to the reporters. And most obvious dead-man-walking of cabinet members perhaps ever.

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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

Turns out people want their dems to fight for their values and protect due process

Pope Francis snubbed JD Vance and sent someone else to lecture the VP on immigration. Damn.

When David Brooks has more resistance in him than Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries…

History always has a lesson.

Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the *official* account of the *White House* - is it being run by a six year old?

If we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity.

Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

The "vibe shift" was always a mirage. And “even before Trump's 100th day in office, the mirage is already disappearing.” www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Oh. "This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically