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Whether it's liberals putting fliers on the windshield of Chris Cillizza's Tesla or conservative zip-tying toddlers and sending them to torture prisons, both sides could use a lesson in basic civility.

This is monstrous

Honolulu police say they are launching a review after attorneys accused officers of arresting sober drivers to meet quotas. The ACLU of Hawaii says it has identified at least 127 people arrested from 2022 through 2024 who had blood alcohol levels of 0.00.

they would get rid of all treatment of hiv and let it be a death sentence again if they thought they could get away with it

The State Department has plans to establish an “Office of Remigration": a white supremacist concept pushed by Austrian neo-Nazi Martin Sellner that posits all immigrants and “non-assimilated citizens” be forcibly removed. With the goal of establishing a white ethnostate. https://trib.al/iZknJKE

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

love to have people arrested by a private shadow police force in my functioning democracy

Almost half of COVID deaths were in senior care homes pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

yes. they literally blame higher education for a social order that doesn’t give unquestioned deference to people like themselves

“In mainland China, the portion of patients going to ER with COVID more than doubled in the last month — from 7.5% to more than 16%. The portion in hospital for COVID also doubled, to more than 6%” The new “razor blade throat” variant seems to cause more severe cases…and it’s already in the US 🧵

Thinking of Conan O'Brien on what would have been his 62nd birthday, if he had been born on May 27

CDC can no longer help prevent lead poisoning in children, state officials say arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

There are whole movies that don’t have the twists and turns of this paragraph.

when they say I can’t have my McFlurry because the ice cream machine is broken

Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop. “If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???” Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is unnecessary or a luxury, survive a month without it.

this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."

Let us all now shed a tear for the wannabee grifters who gave millions of dollars to a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist last night and are feeling jilted about the lack of a more substantive relationship this morning.

the bit about Africans being active in the slave trade is telling. it’s something that is only relevant if you think the point of discussing slavery is to disburse racial blame rather than understanding history.

www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/p...

i feel like you could put a percent ticker labeled “wokeness in government” and have it going down to zero and trick these people into think that’s a real measured metric

CNN: “The tax changes would add $3.8 trillion to the nation’s debt over a decade… Funding for Medicaid would be slashed by nearly $700 billion… food stamps program would see a cut of $267 billion…” www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/p...

Another quote from the “MAHA Report”: “Many vaccines on the CDC's childhood schedule involved small participant groups, had no inert placebo-controlled trials, and had limited safety monitoring…” This is just a flat-out lie, which is why no references were provided for this statement.

I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

This is so incredibly infuriating! Why are we talking about anything that isn’t Republican cutting food stamps for CHILDREN!!!!!!

In St. Louis, the sirens to warn people of a tornado threat were not activated by the City Emergency Management Agency before a deadly tornado hit on Friday, and a backup to activate the mechanism that is operated by the Fire Department was broken.

always "what's wrong with you" never "how's wrong with you"

planning a child's birthday party for *next* saturday? this man's never done an ounce of domestic labor in his life and is already dreaming of how to outsource it

“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

MAKE NOISE ON THIS ONE‼️ They didn’t just deport him—they sent him to CECOT in El Salvador. Agelviz came here legally through the refugee resettlement program—fully vetted. But when he landed in Houston, CBP snatched him over a tattoo: a clock and a rose. No charges. No record. Just a suspicion.

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

"Police have been issued guidance on how to search women’s homes for abortion drugs and check their phones for menstrual cycle tracking apps after unexpected pregnancy loss" "...police could bypass legal requirements for a court order to obtain medical records..." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

There’s no dumb right wing shit that this stupid newspaper won’t take at face value

kind of leery about the people championing a return to trade schools. just fully relinquishing any pretense that education should permit people to be exposed to conceptual models of beauty or philosophy and instead just becoming work placement programs

Girls should only have two dolls, you shouldn’t have healthcare, and being homeless because you can’t afford housing can get you arrested. But Trump can spend $45 million on a birthday parade for himself. Republicans call this “America First.”

“Instead of helping people work, these policies [Medicaid Work Requirements] punish them for circumstances beyond their control. And rather than investing in job training or support, they impose harsh rules specifically designed to make getting health care harder.”

me: stop doing that my dogs: no, you have to say it the mean way me: (slightly louder) stop doing that my dogs: better but let’s do another so the neighbors can hear

As in 2017, ADAPT is leading protests against the Republican plans to cut Medicaid. It’s not an exaggeration to say, as the protesters do, that peoples’ lives are on the line. #NoCutsToMedicaid #IllnessPolitics www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Begging journalists to stop parroting right-wing propaganda in their headlines. HB3225 isn't about "sexually explicit books" — it's all-encompassing censorship of any resource and literature that so much as acknowledges masturbation, sexuality or sexual assault. It's a ban on sex ed.