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"After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities; once we've ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends...What comes next?" #JBPritzker #PrayForAmerica

Good morning friends! Sending you all a big hug on this Friday morning. Today I will be trying to remember that even small acts of kindness and love matter—and to do a few.

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

Genuinely, genuinely, this is one of the best things that has ever been. Go forth, you thing of beauty. Please, please share in my delight. Repost Ahoy! 💙

Canadians are now referring to the United States as the 11th province

Today's front page of The New York Post.

Suffer the children.

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

Who's in?

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

Long live the King? King Jesus? Amen. Cause that man ain’t look, sound, smell or even think like Jesus - not even close. Not even the blue eyed white Jedi Jesus. Yall trippin’

Map quest is sticking with The Gulf of Mexico. Use Mapquest. Do not use Google.

Dark Pence is back.

AP is banned from WH events and all the other legacy journalists walk right in. If this was the 60s, we know who would have been with the Freedom Riders, and who would’ve been writing about them from a safe place. AP stands alone. Sad but true.

Nothing to see here, just the president of the United States of America siding with war criminal Vladimir Putin and lying about Ukraine starting the war. My god.

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

The JD Vance team flagged my TikToks for impersonation and had my account banned for making fun of him in a doughnut shop.

So...how many National Park Ranger salaries would be covered by the $5 Million spent on a joyride around the Daytona 500?

You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger. Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

Hegseth: "I stopped drinking and won't drink if confirmed."

When I was an intern with The Humane Society of the United States, I learned that outdoor cats kill around ~2 billion birds each year (and have literally caused extinction for several species!!!) and this is why I get so angry when people let their cats outside.

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

JFC indeed.

6 questions, 3 scotches.

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

It’s been called the Gulf of Mexico for 425 years. Thanks Britannica!

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

As the military under Pete Hegseth rolls back recruiting for minority Americans remember that black women are the only reason the Army met its recruiting goals last year. Not enough white men qualify to even serve no matter volunteer. They'll learn when recruiting collapses and it ain't "wokeness."

Today a man told me his father had immigrated to RI in 1953 as an unskilled labor for a small business. Then he said, “I wouldn’t mind immigrants now if they bothered to do the paperwork.” Sir, the wait time for an unskilled labor (EB3) green card can be decades. Your dad wouldn’t make it in now