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Human torch. Anxious weirdo. Crafter of things. Accumulator of detritus. Listener. Noisemaker. Doofus.
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It just seems fundamentally *wrong* to be in a world where JK Rowling is alive and Brian Wilson isn't.

Trump underwater in literally every single issue. 38% approval overall. 27% approval on his spending bill. 40% approval on deportations. Musk also at 30% approval. 38% approval for RFK Jr. 35% approval for JD Vance. Nobody fucking wants any of this. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

“Some of the powerful called their plan "accelerationism" others called it "conservatism." Those who tried to tell the world what was happening called it by different names--Christo-fascism, nationalism, rightwing extremism. The name didn't matter, the object was always the same.”

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My relatives keep asking me how we're doing in the riots. I say, you mean the police riots? Cuz no one else is rioting.

Counterpoint: Robert E. Lee was a treasonous loser who gladly slaughtered his fellow Americans in defense of slavery while being a mildly above average military tactician. He should’ve been hanged in Lexington.

WATCH: “Holy f*ck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…” @lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet. Alexandria’s page (the woman who helps her): www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...

We feed you. They hunt us.

Why is ICE arresting employees but not employers? DOJ policy is to charge the most culpable people. The employers would seem to qualify.

DOGGETT: Isn't it true that for you & for a number of cabinet members and Trump appointees, simply not having your taxes restored to the level that existed when President Bush was in office will provide you very substantial personal benefit? Yes or no. BESSENT: That's not a yes or not question, sir

Bessent won't commit to not participating in IRS audits of particular taxpayers

HUGE MEDIA NEWS: POLITICO is launching a new spin-off publication, POLITICO Weimar! If you sign up now, each morning you can get its “Reich Chancellery Playbook” newsletter delivered to your inbox as a bonus!!

Reed: "You signed a contract with a company to reconfigure the [Qatari jet]. What is the price of that contract?” Hegseth: “That cannot be revealed.” Reed: “This is the Appropriations Committee of the United States Senate. We appropriate the money that you will spend.”

Florida child welfare officers found a 17-year-old living in a shed with no food or water. They sent him to a foster home... and then reported him to ICE, whereupon he was handcuffed and shackled and marched to detention. Not only is that victimizing him again, it violates Florida's own rules.

I joined Symone Sanders, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez on The Weeknight to discuss Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and Marines to aid in ICE raids in Los Angeles and House Speaker Mike Johnson’s response. www.youtube.com/watch?v=21ep...

Texas AG Ken Paxton’s crusade against alleged voter fraud has led to the criminal prosecution of six Democratic officials, all Latino, in Frio County, Texas. Civil rights groups say the charges are politically aimed to suppress Latino civic participation. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tex...

A woman walking home alone was shot point-blank with “non-lethal” rounds fired by officers in Los Angeles. A neighbor filmed the assault and rushed to help only to be fired on and ordered back.

As the government is putting up photos and rewards for protesters that they want to go after, remember that the person who called in the tip about Luigi never got paid.

"'On the Democratic side, this has to be an unapologetic fight for immigrants because it’s a fight for U.S. citizens now, too. This is one of our most vulnerable communities, and we’re being used as a political piñata.'"

Trump goads the troops into booing California Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass and attacks them as "incompetent"

$134M (so far). Fascism ain’t cheap.

Insane scenes in Downtown Los Angeles as the cops open fire indiscriminately on people milling about. The cops shattered a business’s windows while firing on a live-streaming journalist. Keep this in mind when people talk about the protesters causing property destruction. 🎥 : AXN News on YouTube

Yep.

They aren’t arresting dangerous criminals or drug lords, they’re arresting hard working day laborers and nice ladies who have been working in the garment industry for decades. People are outraged and standing up to protect their community members. newrepublic.com/article/1963...

BREAKING: Miller reportedly engineered the raids that sparked the protests that have engulfed the city in recent days—likely because he wanted a pretext to send in federal troops. https://trib.al/oM1280f

It's funny that the way chatgpt obsequiously fawns at the users no matter how delusional they are being, is *exactly* what billionaires consider normal human interaction. To a billionaire, chatgpt just sounds like every single person they speak to.

Putin would never have dared to invade Ukraine under Trump's watch but he's...perfectly happy to bomb civilians and refuse to engage in real diplomacy under Trump? Why would that be?

MAGA: “The 2nd Amendment guarantees a militia to fight tyranny!” Also MAGA: “It’s fine that Trump seized California’s National Guard against the governor’s will.” You can’t have it both ways. Read why this matters. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/a-well-reg...

New in PN: ABC is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller "Miller and Trump are hateful bigots. Independent journalists can still say that. Journalists at ABC can’t, because the president gets a veto over their coverage. That’s not democracy and it’s not a free press. It’s fascism."

Although the Roberts Court will let likely him do whatever he wants, there is supposed to be a process… www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

The failure to deploy rural broadband has become synonymous with excessive bureaucracy, Asad Ramzanali and Benjamin Dinovelli write. The real story is more complicated:

He’s a major reason there is a distrust of vaccines. The nonsense this imbalanced, drug addled sociopath believes is going to cause innumerable deaths.

the thing about this is that these guys don’t actually want blunt talk; blunt talk would be things like “you’re a sexist and a bigot whose contributions to culture have been overwhelmingly negative, and you frequently respond to mild criticism like a child”

I have to imagine Trump’s obsession with people spitting on soldiers is tied to that persistent myth about guys coming back from Vietnam in the 1960s.

Mohler said the resolutions reflect a divinely created order that predates the writing of the Scriptures and is affirmed by them. He said the Christian church has always asserted that the created order “is binding on all persons, in all times, everywhere.” apnews.com/article/sout...

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Dark days, indeed. www.thebulwark.com/p/its-always...

We’re fighting back. ✊✍️ Shoutout to our brave NIH colleagues behind the “Bethesda Declaration” No, you *cannot* attack medical research. It benefits us all.