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Writer, retired film studies academic, cats!, Fan of the Midwest. No kids but plenty of aunt duties. Liberal with just a dash of left.
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Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

Do this. Say this. 👇🏻

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

DOGE missed $200 million of government waste!

i am mystified by the influence of noah smith, among the most ignorant and incurious people i have ever seen on the internet. just a total dummy.

Anyway, here's Sugar the cat contemplating the impermanence of life and the very nature of existence, as one does

Does the left need its own Big Balls?

Just like we shouldn’t be firing FAA employees when commercial airliners are flipping upside down.

this is from a new report on a “third way” on DEI and it is unbelievably naive, which in my view is emblematic of the author, rich kahlenberg, whose willingness to extend good faith to obvious bad faith actors borders on gullibility www.progressivepolicy.org/a-way-out-of...

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

Amen to that.

He nails it.

“What’s the point of fighting cybercrime if we’re just going to give access for government networks to people with cybercriminal gang affiliations?” www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

“This is truly a national tragedy and one that is being executed by people who do not understand the value of scientific research.” 🧪 from @science.org

NO KINGS, ONLY TRAINS is a pretty great 2028 slogan for anyone who wants it

Does Congress even remember that it has the power of the purse? www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...

Nice try, snowflakes.

Nothing abt what DOGE claims it's doing, or even what most suspect they're doing, requires anything like the current access they now have to critical data and nat sec computer systems across the federal govenrment. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

This is the most cowardly administration in history.

I don't think the Dems can stop the firings. But why aren't they proposing legislation that assures those that took the buyout get paid , and that all that are fired, get at least a year severance and health benefits? And any one with a health condition is covered the entire time they are sick?

There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

Tragic.

Thank you to @maddow.msnbc.com for promoting @bsky.app on air and complimenting it. Her on air support is truly important

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

Dark Pence is back.

And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

when you're so pro-Putin that you've lost Maria Bartiromo ...

Jamie Raskin: "Given that I was marching at age 3, you know I’m not letting any coup-plotting, election-denying, insurrection-supplying autocrat, kleptocracy, plutocrat or theocrat, or any techno-feudalist Silicon Valley broligarchs aspiring dictator, turn me around now.” Amen!!

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

NEW: The head of the criminal division in the Washington, D.C. US Attorney's Office abruptly resigned today for reasons that remain unclear. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

the only time i can recall being language policed is when i wrote a column trying to explain how material changes in the latino community might do more to explain the trump shift than “latinx” and andrew sullivan screamed at me for not disavowing “latinx”

“Because the career incentives of elite opinion journalism are such that there will always be upwards mobility for someone like me who criticizes Democrats more than Trump”

Non-zero chance Trump, Musk and Putin are now in an open alliance to destroy the democracies of the West. We need to be talking about it more. bsky.app/profile/simo...

Happy Presidents' Day to the two best presidents of my lifetime. 💕

We just want to say that we are in awe of all of you. You are the ones history will remember—a resistance rising against tyranny. From the moment Trump took office, laws have been broken left and right. We shouted from the rooftops, and it took relentless effort just to have our voices heard.

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

Some don’t even realize they’re actually eating all the faces.

Money talks

Garcia: "I find it ironic that our chairman, Rep. Greene, is in charge of running this committee. In the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a dick pic in our Oversight hearing, so I thought I'd bring one as well. This, of course, is President Elon Musk ... "

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

An entire generation has no idea how much everyone laughed at Freedom Fries and now they're gonna have Red, White, and Blueland as the butt of every joke for the next twenty years, truly an embarrassing clown show.

in.benzinga.com/startups/25/...

Conversion therapist molested gay men he was "treating" for homosexuality - LGBTQ Nation www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/02/conv...