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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.

I’ve seen lots of nonsense since Mamdani’s primary victory but the most irritating thread is people claiming they will leave NY if he is mayor. First of all, Go! It’s fine. It’s FINE. Go swelter in FL or wherever. No one cares. And secondly shut up. You’re lying. You aren’t going anywhere.

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

US military now briefing troops that its strike on Iran "will likely result in counterstrikes on US bases and facilities" in the Middle East, and "likely activate Iran and other foreign terrorist organizations cells abroad including the US to conduct strikes against US persons and facilities"

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail in Jamaica. Do you get it yet?

BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

Some insiders have theorized that the White House installed Fugate to oversee a pivot away from traditional counterterrorism and to steer resources toward MAGA-friendly sheriffs and border security projects before eventually shuttering operations. By @hannahallam.bsky.social‬

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

The Supreme Court ruled that the Equal Protection Clause does not protect everybody equally. Instead it upheld the Tennessee law that seeks to eradicate trans kids. My latest in @thenation www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for kids, a setback for transgender rights Fuck John Roberts Fuck Clarence Thomas Fuck Samuel Alito Fuck Neil Gorsuch Fuck Brett Kavanaugh Fuck Amy Coney Barrett

what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word

While some compounding pharmacies have stopped making alternatives to Wegovy and Zepbound since shortages were declared over, others are continuing and pushing regulatory boundaries.

Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.

youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo?...

A damning account of Trump’s hand in our now constant state of domestic terror, but Dems are not absolved of their role because “the US has repeatedly refused to do anything about easy access to deadly weapons, despite having, by far, the highest rate of mass killings among developed democracies.”

Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings

Modern tyranny is terror management. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

In April, President Trump and Salvadoran President Bukele shook hands in the Oval Office to celebrate a deal to ship gang members to the notorious CECOT prison. But a new ProPublica investigation found there’s more to the story. 🧵👇

@kenwhite.bsky.social NPR should introduce you as Pope Hat to avoid confusion.

On a party-line, 13-10 vote, a bill that would repeal the FACE Act has passed out of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. The FACE Act prevents people from physically blocking or threatening/using violence against reproductive health clinics or houses of worship. It now goes to the full House.

"Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” has $185bn for ICE, which is more than the annual military budgets of the UK and France combined. Wherever ICE raids trigger protests, Trump can send in the troops." My column. www.ft.com/content/3d6c...

When President Johnson activated the Nat'l Guard in Alabama in 1965 over Gov. Wallace's objection he did it to protect protesters advocating for voting rights for Black people who had previously met violence at the hands of state troopers. Very different situation.

SCOOP: The CDC is planning to move information on cases of diseases like measles and polio to a data system managed by Palantir, raising concerns about patient privacy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/h...

The way tech is trying to shove AI down our throats is making me even more disinterested and disdainful.

NEW: Across the country, Republican lawmakers have been working to undermine or altogether undo the will of the voters by making it harder for voters to pass amendments and laws through citizen-led initiatives. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social‬

Who let the bird flu out? Us! We did. Because HHS just cancelled their contract with Moderna for an H5N1 pandemic bird flu vaccine, effectively hobbling our ability to combat the disease when (not if) it begins spreading like wildfire. #birdflu www.reuters.com/business/hea...

RFK Jr. said Tuesday he “couldn’t be more pleased” for the CDC to stop recommending the Covid vaccine for “healthy” pregnant women and children.

Based on my experiences to date, being right about everything has no measurable benefits.

A two part Memorial Day Reid. Part one: On Memory... www.joyannreid.com/p/a-daily-re...

Just as I expected. 

The fact that we’ve just collectively decided to ***ignore*** this is insane