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This is in line with the weird sexual insecurity eugenics ideology of the right-wing. It is contemptible and weak for a man to care for children who do not carry his genes, while virtuous and masculine for a man (like Musk) to have multiple genetic offspring he treats like chattel or never sees.

This is what the courts (and the country) are dealing with -- equal parts juvenile, callous, and lawless.

Federal court lays into DOJ: "This claim is either an effort to prevaricate or is deeply disingenuous. ... preposterous on its face." Detecting a pattern here? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (h/t @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

Purge at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped for now. "Judge Amy Berman Jackson said she is 'deeply concerned' that Trump administration officials aren’t complying with her earlier order" "Jackson said she will bar officials from carrying out any mass firings" until court sorts it out.

Fox is a morality free zone

I understand that Kilmar Abrego Garcia may have abused his wife but I still don’t believe, given the values enshrined in the constitution and the principles of the rule of law, that he should become Secretary of Defense

I’m old enough to remember Republicans claiming that Biden was so senile he wasn’t really in control of his own administration.

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DOGE's latest efficiency is halting $500 million in food deliveries to the nation's food banks. www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/p...

“ it’s going to be easy”

Republicans have just one economic policy: tax cuts for billionaires. The Trump budget defunds Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

"This is a lesson into the lengths that President Bukele will go to deceive people about what's going on. And it also shows the lengths Trump will go to" -- Van Hollen details how the photos appearing to show him and Abrego Garcia with margaritas were staged by the government of El Salvador

Poor fellow doesn’t know any better because he never attended a top ranked university and he never earned an advanced degree in science or did basic research

Unfortunately, this is a commonly held stupid opinion about the roles of the public and private domains. The private sector will never do basic research because it has a long horizon and uncertain return Basic research is what powers discovery Basic research is what powers the private sector

"Transforming the I.R.S. and its tens of thousands of employees into political enforcers for the president — a doomsday scenario long feared by conservatives — would shake a foundation of American civic life..." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

IRS kept DOGE out, so Trump is lobbing off heads. The instability of IRS leadership under Trump further erodes confidence in his handling of the economy, as his poll numbers drop further.

Absolutely! I’ll be selling prints soon

With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

This "WHO'S NEVER COMING BACK" document published by the White House should be "EXHIBIT A" in any forthcoming hearing where a judge/justice has asked the White House to prove how it is "facilitating" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

100%. The only point here really worth making. Rights aren't just for people everyone thinks are innocent, good, or "relatable".

This is a problem with how all government programs are discussed and understood. Government programs are not “special services“. They should not be called “discretionary funding“ Government programs are things the American people want because it makes our lives better

This is a dangerous development. “The State Department is changing its mind about human rights” www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...

I guess “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights” is no longer a core belief of our government

🚨🚨🚨SCOTUS will hold oral arguments against the stayby 3 separate fed judges put on Trump's birth right citizenship EO. NOT on the merits, on the STAY. If you are a citizen born to undocumented parents, what they call "anchor babies" you're on the menu That's a lot of FL Cubans and TX Mexicans.

I want to live in the country in which parents send their children to school with the absolute certainty that they will come home safely

‘Thoughts and prayers’ are all you’ll ever get from the GOP. The only way to save Americans from living forever in a slaughter zone is to crush the Republican Party electorally.

Uplifting

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o... It took David Brooks a ridiculously long time to see the light. But now he’s not playing

With new, specialized, ground-based telescopes coming on line, our knowledge of hazardous asteroids and comets will grow exponentially in the coming years. Seems like a bad time to reduce science funding to NASA. Just sayin'.

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

Civil society, here it comes.

Hey MAGA, how does letting Big Finance and predatory lenders screw people help the working guy and gal?

An American genocide thanks to Trump

The Heritage Foundation prepares for some more election interference www.desmog.com/2025/04/14/h...

Pierre Poilievre admitting in the debate that he's going to suspend the Charter of Rights and Freedoms so he can defend the charter rights of the people he deems to be worthy should terrify everyone. Seeing what's happening in the US with ICE he wants the same thing in Canada

If Kevin Kiley won’t talk to his constituents, I will. See you soon Folsom! RSVP HERE: www.mobilize.us/cadems/event...

Courtesy of today’s GOP…👇 Enjoy. 😎✨

I miss when the economy was booming, stocks were soaring, and we actually funded cancer research... Three months ago.

#Birds #photography All photos are my own Friday’s Bird:

Shooting memorial cancelled because of a shooting is so very American.

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

Marco Rubio: censorship of Americans ends today Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license

My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music. Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity