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Resistance is NOT futile

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Jake Tapper: "One 60 Minutes source tells me, 'The lawsuit was baseless. Bill Owens wouldn't apologize. He wouldn't bend. He fought for the broadcast and for independent journalism and that cost him his job. It's shameful.'"

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I for one feel sad that the last public figure meeting the Pope had before dying was this one

Hid this bad boy somewhere in the yard for the egg hunt today.

History always has a lesson.

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New in PN: White guy DEI "Pretending that Hegseth got nominated on merit is ridiculous, but it’s a fiction conservatives have all agreed to adopt. To admit he’s not qualified would mean acknowledging that straight white maleness does not automatically confer expertise."

The good news is that the constitution provides ways for Congress and the Judiciary to reign in a power-hungry president. The bad news is those people are all scared of him.

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

Warren: "There is no tariff policy. It's just all chaos and corruption. That's all we have going on. And how can you believe any of these guys?

I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: If you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a major voter suppression measure that, if it became law, could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters and badly undermine U.S. democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🚨House voting on SAVE Act today, worst voter suppression bill ever considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million w/out access to citizenship docs -69 million women who took spouses last name -ends online + mail registration & voter reg drives www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.

One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....

How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfvt...

I think it’s very funny that one of the go-to defenses for Trump’s very stupid version of mercantilism is “he’s had these views for forty years.” Oh well, then we absolutely *gotta* let him wreck the global economy if he’s believed this nonsense for long enough.

If the racism isn't horrendous enough the stupidity behind it is so stupid it makes it so much more dangerous.

I hate this timeline that makes me agree with — of all the idiots imaginable — Rand Paul.

Trump's words from his 2015 announcement speech seem prescient today. "Free trade can be wonderful if you have smart people, but we have people that are stupid."

Just because it’s satire, doesn’t mean it’s not true.

Denver streets packed today #handsoff #resist #50501

3.5 million people turned out yesterday. Not one Capitol building stormed, not one police officer attacked. #handsoff

Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials. Imagine if I had said to law firms that you will not be allowed into government buildings. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

I love this

Show some gratitude to the financial geniuses in the White House, America!

A more innocent time, before the threat of penguins forced his hand

Carney: Canada must be looking elsewhere to expand our trade, to build our economy, and to protect our sovereignty. Canada is ready to take a leadership role in building a coalition of likeminded countries who share our values… If the US no longer wants to lead, Canada will

Past tense

“Golden Age”

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

VIEWER FEEDBACK: What are we seeing? Answer: President Trump keeping his campaign promise to use the justice system to reward his allies and punish his perceived rivals.

The Justice Department’s latest filings make it abundantly clear that it is creating a black site for migrants in El Salvador that’s worse than Gitmo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Booker: Strom Thurmond’s record always kind of just really irked me. That the longest speech on our great Senate floor was from someone who was trying to stop people like me from being in the Senate. So to surpass that became more important to me.

Another fuck-up in a growing list of dangerous and irresponsible fuck-ups.

Canadians' desire to visit the U.S. is absolutely tanking, new data suggests. Advance bookings for Canada-U.S. flights in April-September are down over 70% compared to this time last year, per aviation data firm OAG.

Also, henceforth all meetings will be conducted virtually on Signal

No lies told here.