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i truly thought this was about gay porn. like that was my direct read

“ICE ISN’T PROFITABLE/ IMPERIALISM ISN’T PROFITABLE” They are using your money! Not theirs! They don’t care how much they use!

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

Golden hour flyover ✈️🌅🪶 Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron, Astoria, 6.4.25

He wasn’t a criminal when they claimed that as a reason to deport him to a prison in a foreign country, so they’re hell-bent on making him one now.

It is absolutely true. Exhibit A:

A fairytale in Tuscany. Fun fact: Taken with my smartphone

I really try to avoid human politics but I have to say that I am happy to hear that Abrego Garcia is back in the United States, where he belongs. I am sad to hear that the current US regime is still trying to persecute him. Please remember that your president is a convicted criminal

Pretty sure this should tell you all you need to know about the veracity of the DOJ's charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The fight between Musk and Trump is fundamentally all about people losing their healthcare. If you don’t know how to capitalize on that and you keep insisting it’s all a distraction you need to find another line of work.

Yes, again! Yesterday, a group of minority voters filed a federal lawsuit charging racial gerrymandering designed to shrink the voting power of Black and brown residents. It must stop! We must fight in every precinct across the country. @lwvus.bsky.social @lwvva.bsky.social @lwvtexas.bsky.social

See how quickly that escalated… We put fragile, emotionally underdeveloped narcissists in power …and then we wonder how wars start.

remember when yevginy prighozin decided he was more important than putin and his plane exploded and putin was just like well, I hope we’ve all learned a valuable lesson today

If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth. From Saturn. We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

Harvard isn’t violating a law. They’re just killing, you know, the vibe. (The vibe is state-imposed ideology on higher ed.)

Why does he gotta go and ruin a perfect day?

concerned about the state of the world because of two powerful men fighting? doomscrolling again? stop. breathe. enjoy the universe for a brief moment

I've got a new piece out on the astounding abuse of power from Missouri's AG and GOP lawmakers right now, all to try to undo the abortion rights constitutional amendment voters approved months ago—and also, how this should be a reality check on the tactic of "putting abortion on the ballot":

The First Bunch of Sweet Peas 2025😍

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Velvet-purple Coronet #hummingbird at @montezumalodge.bsky.social #colombia #birds #nature

Rep. Crockett IS THAT GIRL!!! She speaks the truth with exacting precision *in laypersons terms*. If the @housedemocrats.bsky.social are smart, they will make @repjasmine.bsky.social the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. She is one of the most effective communicators we have!

Because great fiction writers aren’t that stupid.

My new column at Governing is on my family's choice to take the convenience of an urban neighborhood over a larger home and yard. Not everyone wants to raise kids in this environment, but more families should be able to make this choice if they want to: www.governing.com/urban/high-d...

Created a WhatsApp group "Middle Aged Men Go See Action Movies" in an attempt to recruit others to go see BALLERINA with me this weekend. Let's hope I'm successful. And this movie has nothing to do with dancing, and everything to do with Ana De Armas killing people good.

MY GODDESS!!!!! Hit that man with “Go Back to Africa!”

There was some strange system where they all got their food and shelter and education and medical for free, no matter what job they did.

I was all ready to go to @jamieloftus.bsky.social's book signing in Louisville aaand my car wouldn't start. 2 weeks later I finally got a chance to go pick up my copy of Raw Dog, and she autographed it even though I wasn't there. All hail the Hot Dog Queen.

I decided to make a GIF of it. have at it: share.emily.media/aoc-the-girl...

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FOX: Did the Colorado case push his hand? TAMMY BRUCE: No. In fact, this was his plan all along. What Colorado showed us is that the president has been right from the start FOX: Ok. The question comes specifically because the suspect in Colorado is from Egypt, which is not on the list

A lot of people are out here tonight thinking they are doing regular feminism and doing JKR feminism instead and man (gender neutral) in this day and age if I did not understand some little bit of pop culture I would definitely google it first before deciding the internet needed my whole opinion

Imagine seeing 10s of thousands of people picketing Tesla for MONTHS and thinking... "we should def court the white supremacist Nazi that those people are protesting."

PRIDE MONTH DOUBLE RAINBOW IN CHICAGO HOLY SHIT

Johnson did the same song-and-dance about the last Trump tax bill, and then voted for it when he secured a massive tax loophole for his campaign funders. He will vote for this bill, and any concession he picks up along the way will only make it worse. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-best-d...

A Guatemalan national who says he was wrongfully deported to Mexico is back in the United States, in what appears to mark the first time the Trump administration has brought back a migrant after a judge ordered the administration to facilitate their return.

I still think this is one of the most gutting notes I’ve ever read.

Resistance takes many forms ✊️

🔥MUST-WATCH: @profgalloway.com takes Elon apart “Somehow in 🇺🇸 we decided💰excuses depravity… his behavior his abhorrent. He’s not a role model. His legacy won’t be an EV or rockets— it’ll be unnecessary death, disease, disability of 🌎’s most vulnerable.” piers: “Wow.”