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"When the Amish wanted to build a barn, did they do it themselves? No, Kelly McGillis took a sexy sponge bath and she got Harrison Ford to pitch in." I hope to be a superhero when I grow up. Currently dealing with insomnia.
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Where is the Democratic member of Congress who will call on SpaceX and Starlink to be defunded and Musk fired for being the biggest abetter of Nazism and antisemitism since Hitler?

@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov as my senators, I demand, for a start, an apology for voting to confirm the steaming sack known as Marco Rubio.

"To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating." "The rise of end times fascism" www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

At the outset of this administration, Marco Rubio was regarded as one of the relatively reasonable figures. Many Dem lawmakers voted accordingly. Now, based on what I have seen and also heard from sources, he has been a key architect of this questionably legal plan to jail people in El Salvador

if elon really cared about mining he’d vociferously support the mining schools act and giving lots of funding to the energy department and bureau of land management

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg.

Figured I'd make a little thread with things people may not know about the cruelty of U.S. jails and prisons. 1. In California, guards force detainees into "gladiator fights" for their own amusement. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It’s moments like these when we might consider it relevant that the current FBI director who might be charged with investigating this crime appeared eight times on the podcast of Stew Peters, a Christian Nationalist who recently called for a “final solution” to America’s “Jewish problem.”

A Mongabay investigation that revealed an illegal cattle boom amid a record-high number of killings of Indigenous Guajajara has been cited by Brazilian authorities to remove thousands of head of cattle from the Arariboia Indigenous Territory in the Amazon Rainforest.

Pierre Poilievre doesn’t talk about men’s biological clocks, sperm counts, or prostate health—because that would be invasive and absurd. So why is it acceptable for him to comment on women’s reproductive timelines? It’s not policy. It’s not leadership. It’s misogyny. #NeverPoiLIEvre

BREAKING BAD NEWS: Trump is proposing eliminating Head Start: This is an abhorrent attack on children & families, ripping opportunities from our country’s youngest, damaging businesses & hurting our economy. Congress must hold the line & protect Head Start. #MomSky www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

This “genius” genuinely believes that healthcare budget analysts can simply be reassigned to making toasters.

I'm really disappointed b/c I was planning on attending the Bernie/AOC rally today, but instead, I'm home sick. Tested negative for COVID, but I'm still fatigued getting off the couch for a glass of water and feeling stuffy and tough to walk, etc. Not even sure I'll watch online, I'm just, /1

Used to be a time when Christianity provoked deep inquiry into every area of science, sought to understand the mysteries of the universe, the intricacies of human thought and philosophy, the laws of nature. Not sure what this inbred offspring is.

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Completely false and malicious. The measles outbreak started in West Texas among religious fundamentalist communities that reject vaccination. Nothing to do with immigrants coming across the border. Indeed, Mexico has superior vaccination rates and no measles outbreak.

An Australian man with a US work visa was detained upon reentry, called a “retard” and told, “Trump is back in town; we’re doing things the way we should have always been doing them.” He was held with 100 people including many Canadians. Posters celebrating equity had DEI scribbled out in marker.

I live in a wonderful cosmopolitan city that embraces visitors from all around the world, and we need tourism money, but I would strongly advise everyone against attempting to visit the United States now unless it's absolutely necessary.

Trump is really working on entrenching his cult of personality in the government, like one of those fish that swim up your dickhole in a river.

So Trump ditched tradition, broke protocol, and took down Barack Obama’s portrait—just to hang his own. Straight-up tin pot dictator energy. Insecure and petty to the end. 🫤

I never realized there was a class of people for whom the History Channel version of WWII was “too complicated”

Yes, they are www.amazon.com/sp?ie=UTF8&s...

Another tweet that should have ended with the first sentence. Also, I guess I'm a "World War Two enjoyer."

they said it couldn’t be done. there was no way someone could triangulate above and between the respective sides of WWII; there was no way someone could make an anti-anti-axis argument. and then he just … tweeted it out …

Land Of The Loops - Multi-Family Garage Sale [Bargain-Bin Mix] www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEVY...

Okay hear me out… Pro-climate majorities in state legislatures all across this country by 2026

I think this explains why I always see anti-Biden, "libtard" songs on YouTube. And never really any anti-Trump songs. They exist, they just don't get pushed. Google is clearly in Trump's pocket. Especially with that map update.

As Trump defies the Supreme Court and refuses to bring innocent father Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador — it’s worth remembering his Czar of Hate Stephen Miller has always been viciously anti-immigrant, even in high school 👇🏽

Rep. Al Green Condemns Trump's 'Art of the Steal' Tariffs and Calls for Impeachment. Watch the clip of Rep. Al Green's floor speech by clicking here: youtu.be/xv7U3EOeBvA

You give them little beds and spaces of their own, and they choose stuff like this. Though in fairness, there is a cooler breeze by that window tonight.

Hi, I'm the guy who wrote the book "Administrative Burdens" and it's just objectively untrue that no one will face "unnecessary burdens" b/c *non-citizens almost never vote! *About 20M citizens don't have access to citizenship documents SAVE solves a non-problem by burdening American citizens.

I feel like I'm the only person who remembers the floating death coffins at the beginning of 2020, and the only one who read a particularly terrible article about the cruise ship crew suicides.

The quack RFK hired to run this "study" forced kids onto puberty blockers to "cure" their autism. www.respectfulinsolence.com/2025/03/26/d...

I have never experienced this much reticence and fear from all manner of sources

Spent a few hours offline to try and clear my mind. A couple of things I feel like saying: I do think that space travel and tech can be accelerated, but under something a lot more publicly and collectively owned, rather than Musk and the other billionaires; there's something about listening to/1

Colossal Biosciences' wolf pups aren't de-extinct dire wolves — they’re hybridized modern wolves with some dire wolf traits. While they’re marketed as groundbreaking, the real concern is the ethical responsibility we have to these novel animals.

All this because person after person and institution after institution after institution won't stand up to a man whose lifelong lack of intelligence is now crashing headlong into his late-stage dementia.