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Love. Truth. Causing Good Trouble in Tennessee, fighting for queer Southern liberation🏳️‍⚧️ they/them 🏳️‍🌈
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ICE crossed a line in LA

No words www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...

I love Pedro. Period.

I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants

There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this

Just FYI because evidently Fox or OAN or whatever is pushing the lie that America accepted the Statue of Liberty and that’s equivalent to the plane. Congress VOTED to approve receiving the statue. So congress should vote on the jet

🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Cutbacks have gutted the staff at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, who work to protect the public from toxic algal blooms. Severe spending limits have made it difficult to purchase ordinary equipment for processing samples, such as filters and containers.

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

A reminder: Both sheriffs and local police have the right to refuse ICE detainers. These requests are voluntary and not legally enforceable under federal law. Across the country, many sheriffs and police departments choose not to cooperate and that choice is fully within their legal rights.

In space, Venus flanks Earth on the left, with a hellfire greenhouse effect. Mars on the right, which long ago had running water. Today, it's bone dry. Something bad happened on each planet. Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.

THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS. Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!” Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.

NEW: The ruling against Trump's law firm order shows how to respond in this moment. Judge Howell's decision striking down the order targeting Perkins Coie can serve as a framework for addressing Trump. This evening at Law Dork —>

The Trump family's crypto business just got a huge $2 billion investment from a UAE government-backed firm. We are witnessing a foreign government effectively bribe the President of the United States — right out in the open. Hello?

We hadn’t won World War II by May 8th. I know because my family and I were still in an internment camp in Tule Lake, California.

Just a normal Friday night at the asylum…

Trump's post is a federal crime. 26 USC § 7217.

Concepts of a plan

I saw some guy online comment today that "we need a male AOC" and I had to shut my laptop and go for a nice, long walk in order to avoid screaming.

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease

Cal-Maine, the biggest egg producer, has been accused of using bird flu as cover to jack up prices and triple its profits from a year ago. It also received $22M in federal aid. While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.

“Totally not photoshopped”

NEWS: DOJ is now formally refusing to acknowledge the existence of transgender people in its filings — to the extent of misrepresenting other parties' filings. This goes further even than DOJ did last week in referring to people as "trans-identifying individuals" in a Supreme Court filing.

They're going to push DOJ lawyers to misgender and deadname trans parties in court. Of course, judges will push back and then they'll use that to try and disqualify the judge.

YESSS! Immigrants have the power to bring this country to its knees.