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PhD in English Literature (yes, I brag about it because it’s hard!). Ruth’s List Board Member. Like everyone else on the blue side, I’m tired but trying to maintain.
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I’ve been on the ground in DC for 7 minutes and three(!!) people, all black, passed me and said some version of how it was “horrible” that MSNBC fired me. Plus one white guy who raised his fist from across the street and shouted “Keep fighting!”

U.S. Attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers. You didn’t pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution. This statement alone is reason enough to resign.

Zero Democratic votes for the Republican budget made to cut programs like Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and food stamps to pay for billionaire tax cuts. Reject being the minority, embrace being the opposition!

A message to anybody who has ever lost a dog.

During the US governors ball, the US Army Choir surrounded the MAGA leadership and sang: "Do You Hear The People Sing" The oligarchs didn’t even realize they were being protested. #3E #USprotest #EndOligarchy

Friendly reminder: Under 18 U.S. Code § 912, impersonating a federal officer, including an ICE agent, is a felony. 2nd reminder: being undocumented is a civil violation, not a crime.

The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.

About time.

None of what is happening is to lost on any of us, epspecially those of us with some more melanin. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

Dear Europe, Trump completely melts under pushback. So push back.

The Revolution will be AI-icized

For those of you who watched the video of an Idaho woman experiencing handmaid‘s tale treatment, now is the time to decide what you would do in that situation—whether it's you or whether you're nearby when this happens to someone else. We are in a moment where we all have to decide who we are.

BREAKING: Pro-democracy forces WIN German national elections Disappointingly weak show by neo-Nazi AfD party supported by Elon Musk, JD Vance, and the Kremlin — they’ll likely again be SHUT OUT of the government Wonderful news for Europe — and critical for supporting Ukraine

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

Do you make less than $360,000 a year? Your taxes are about to go UP. And you have Trump, Musk, and the Republicans to thank for it.

During the week a dog named Bunsen texts his family. Those texts are saved. Today they are shared. This is Texts From Bunsen!

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

Jim Acosta: I think the AP should consider whether or not to sue the administration… and the rest of the press corps should start seriously considering whether it’s worth sending everyone into the Oval Office, onto Air Force One, or into the briefing room.

I’m begging Democrats to stop talking about tax breaks for billionaires and the price of eggs! They are firing Air Traffic Controllers, stranding Americans in hostile countries, and getting ready to download our data from the IRS. No one is sitting around thinking “I’m worried about the deficit!”

This is Chewy. He is a skater boy. She said see you later boy. He was way too good for her. All of her friends, stuck pup their nose. They had a pawblem with his doggy clothes. 12/10

What a disgrace. Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them. *This* is how democracy dies.

From budget hawks at the Peterson Foundation: GOP budget adds "trillions more in new deficits and debt. It allows for $4.5 trillion in revenue reductions, with only $1.2 trillion in offsets. All told, this plan would add more than $25 trillion to the debt over the next decade."

BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

Promise: "I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One." Reality:

I wrote about Kendrick Lamar Superbowl performance-- its subversive messaging about America being a rigged, deadly game of survival-- especially for Black people. But we need to stop pretending revolution is going to come from celebrities. It'll come from us. Gift link here: wapo.st/42JVBs6

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

We know you can do this one. Democracy dies in the darkness. Thursday, February 13, at 8 PM your time, turn off all the lights and TVs visible from the outside. #3E #LightsOut

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We just had the worst jobs report since Covid and it will probably be the best one we have for the next four years, BUT THANK GOD WE SOLVED THE PLASTIC STRAW ISSUE.

When social media exposes traditional media’s deceit, it’s time for independent journalists to investigate why the press is backing a president who undermines free press—and is it coordinated?

A MINOR

Whatever you think about what he’s saying I think we can all agree it would be nice if this guy just went away and never came back

Look at the way “aggressive and vicious” Buster sleeps hugging his stuffed shark now that he has been rescued. Quite the contrast to his previous life… (1/2)

Kendrick crushed it. Great show.

Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.

It’s been a lonnnnnnngggg time since Mahomes played this badly.

Does “Golden Age” refer to a time when planes keep crashing, eggs cost $10–15 a dozen, the U.S. is being booed and protested by all our allies, workers are losing their jobs, and Americans’ personal data is being rummaged through by unelected oligarchs and their strange crew of 20-something incels?

DOGE is reportedly threatening NOAA with massive staff and budget cuts. NOAA houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center, which produce forecasts and warn people about storms. This attack on public safety is ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.

“Panama communicates to the world my absolute rejection of this method of managing bilateral relations on the basis of lies and falsehoods.” —President Mulino (gift link) wapo.st/3WTA50b

ELON IS ALLOWED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. NOT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OR STUDENTS & PARENTS. I WILL BE BACK.

BREAKING: we have secured an order that BLOCKS the government from releasing the names of the 6000 FBI agents being illegally targeted by Trump & Bondi for their lawful work on the January 6 cases! A big win by @sddaction.bsky.social & our incredible partners for rule of law & the FBI

MAGA lunatics are currently trying to spread propaganda against badass Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett sending money to her husband, but the problem with that is she’s never been married. They’re unbelievably stupid AF.

Wait. Have @doge and Elon just been pulling numbers from usaspending.gov ? Then releasing it as if they discovered it ? Brilliant if true. Absolutely brilliant. Fooled me. Very Trump like too. Any usaspending.gov experts out there that can tell us ?

This is Lily. She had a torn ligament in her leg and needed surgery so she could walk again. Thanks to your recent support of our merch, @15outof10.org was able to cover her entire $7,500 hospital bill. She has since fully healed and has found a forever human whose smile is as sweet as hers ❤️‍🩹