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Thank you to U.S. Senator Alex Padilla for putting his body on the line to challenge the illegal and immoral actions of the Trump administration.

We're fucking cooked

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

I really don’t know how people forget to eat. Wtf you mean?

Okay, if that one’s too tough: Luke or Darth Vader? He-Man or Skeletor? Indiana Jones or Hitler? The Von Trapp family or, also, Hitler? Elphaba or Glinda (that’s a trick one)? Cinderella or the wicked stepsisters? Little Red Riding Hood or the wolf?

You have no obligation to defend or explain the behavior of random street protesters. We have a lawless government that is flagrantly violating its legal, moral, even philosophical obligations to us. Everything else is secondary

If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention. 🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

BEGGING LIBERALS TO READ THIS

#GVerse #Justice - A federal judge just ruled that Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil can be neither detained nor deported by the #Shitface47's admin. HUGE WIN for free speech and due process!!!

Whuuuuuuuuuuuut

how this point interacts with the norms of commentary on protests: if it's true that *any* destruction and disruption will attract a disproportionate amount of attention, then fingerwaggers labeling protests and protestors basedon these scenes are in effect demanding blanket, total discipline

I'd also be interested in reading Cornel West, Gloria Steinem, Arlie Russell Hochschild, David W. Blight, Nell Painter, Dahlia Lithwick, Zephyr Teachout, Randi Weingarten and many others' reflections on having signed the Harper's Letter. What do they think now? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Lette...

everyone shut up ok researchers are reporting whales exhibiting a friendly bubble blowing behavior around humans that they don’t perform for other whales. scientists believe this is whales attempt to communicate with us bc bubbles rise to the surface. imagine sending hellos in bubbles. oh my god. 😭

No sleep for ICE tonight as activists found their hotel again. Hotel managers have to decide whether that GSA per diem money is worth having their hotel completely surrounded 24/7 by protesters.

In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

A reminder. Folks are showing up across the country. Blocking ICE wherever they are, protecting their neighbors. People will be out Saturday. Can't make it to somewhere big? Show up at a nearby intersection. All it takes is a sign (and maybe some friends for company, and some water).

I really feel for pro athletes who are struggling. And I would never call one out by name. I have no doubt they want to succeed more than any of us want it. But, as a fan watching a terrible outing, sometimes I'm just hoping that it's gonna be enough to get my team to pull the plug.

i think southern baptists should probably consider a ban on being led by child predators

I'm derek guy pilled

Quite the lede 👀 "There's little left for us to say that can further embarrass the Tesla Cybertruck, a vehicle that was supposed to be the culmination of Elon Musk's genius." 💀 #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall futurism.com/cybertruck-s...

“We refuse to let ICE in their masked, secret police cosplay uniforms intimidate us.” -Minnesota AFL-CIO president Bernie Burnham.

How many Harper’s Letter signatories, esp from the right, have spoken out against this vs smatterings of violence in LA? My on-going frustration w and refusal to let go of the Harper’s Letter is bc its facile dangerous bothsiderism was obvious from the start, but has imposed ZERO costs on signers.

Let's not pretend Trump actually wants to help Los Angeles. Trump is deploying the military on American soil to stoke MORE conflict and MORE violence. Every Republican that remains silent is enabling him to trample over the constitutional rights of the American people.

Late posting this, but here's today's Indivisible newsletter with action items in the lead up to No Kings Day! ezralevin.substack.com/p/how-to-pre...

Protests via “your cousin from Boston”

God protect Doechi. bsky.app/profile/phil...

they never miss

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.