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I'm not the most avid Christian, but even I find the use of the cross as a prop when engaging in blatant falsehoods in the name of extraordinary cruelty to be offensive.

“Skadden Arps, don’t obey in advance” another lawfirm capitulates to Trump. @riseandresist.bsky.social

👏 Shouldn't have to applaud, should be obvious....

Millions of Americans could lose free access to cancer screenings, blood pressure tests, and HIV prevention medication in 2026 due to a Supreme Court case rooted in #HIV stigma. The court hears arguments next week. buff.ly/XJ67kC3 #health #SCOTUS #PoliSky

Always really important to go and find some xenophobes and ask them how the power system should be designed and operated www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Student who ran a political debate club at FSU shares that the shooter was kicked out of the club because of his far right rhetoric and white supremacist views.

hail to the thief

They laid down their lives for Ukraine & Europe! RIP - Yurii Slepchenko, Stanislav Khokhlov, Petro Korniienko, Viacheslav Vasyliev, Andrii Likhno, Oleksandr Zakernychnyi, Volodymyr Butov Rest, comrades, rest & sleep! The thoughts of men shall be As sentinels to keep Your rest from danger free.

Calling all covid conscious makers, product designers, and 3D artists! OpenAeros is excited to announce our search for makers, designers, and advocates to participate in a first-of-its-kind effort to develop three entirely new, entirely open source respirator designs. (1/4)

In the time since we posted this, entire working groups dedicated to this and related community concerns have been eliminated from the EPA. If you were also slated to present air quality data or programming and would like to join us in presenting online, please reach out!

I think saying "in America, everyone is innocent until proven guilty" works better for low-info normies than saying "due process" does

Dutch resistance to Amazon Web Services highlights global risks of hyperscaler cloud dominance, writes Dr. Corinne Cath. This case reveals a growing friction between the gravitational pull of the cloud and the need to preserve the public interest in digital infrastructure decisions, she writes.

I was indifferent to David Hogg but now that I know Carville hates him I'm HOGG MAXXING. I'M HOGG WILD.

i hope other elected dems are taking note - this is where the bar is now. get out there and do something. put your own ass on the line for us.

Chris Krebs is America’s next profile in courage. The entire nation should support this honorable and courageous fellow citizen.

the proposal: permanent siphon of public dollars negotiated, controlled, and enriching the same group of people who have installed themselves as the arbiters of decisions about what counts as national security, what is wasteful and what is useful public spending

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

carney is gaslighting canadians every time he suggests carbon capture is the solution to oil and gas emissions. in french he literally said we’d increase oil production but it was fine because of carbon capture. it’s pure climate denial.

Goldman: "Think about whether any of us want to vote a certain way but bc we fear for our personal safety, we decide to vote differently. We are no longer representing our constituents. We are representing something else more like the bully threatening us. That is more like Vladimir Putin operates"

It’s weird how you can accomplish things by simply trying to do them

CARTOON OF THE DAY (from @BennettCartoons ) 🇺🇸 😕

I hope seeing Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive will convince some of you to stop preemptively declaring people dead. I know it comes from a place of fear, but cynicism and pessimism can demobilize people and lead folks to give up before a fight is lost. Let's not seed that attitude.

"Homegrowns" strikes me as a term a slave auctioneer might use.

Remember, this is actually the end of the story. The rest is illegal.

#ImpeachJFKJr

Let's just call it what it is: another Trump-fomented white hatred mass murder.

When the regime talks about kidnapping people because they might be violent someday, I wish the press would always note they also released without hesitation people with a history of legal run ins who were violent on January 6th and unrepentant about it.

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

1/ I think it's good that Murkowski is speaking out about the fear of retaliation that she and other MOC fear. Like everything else, the more people who do that, the harder it becomes to intimidate people and pick them off one-by-one.

Murray Osorio PLLC, counsel for Kilmar Abrego Garcia: "If the government believes there is a legitimate case to be made, it should present that case in a court of law … not on social media. But that cannot happen until Mr. Abrego Garcia is returned to the United States and given full due process."

Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽

"she has never visited the United States..." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/17/m...

Someone is clearly going for the billionaire vote, eh @gavinnewsom.bsky.social? You are looking pretty "toxic" yourself.

ICE are fuckers. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Roger Parloff on the "evidence" that Abrego Garcia is a gang member: "It's double hearsay stemming from a document written by somebody indicted for misconduct."

Goldman Sachs has just put out a warning about a full US-China financial decoupling which would wipe out $2.5 trillion. US investors might be forced to sell $800 billion in Chinese stocks, while China could liquidate $1.7 trillion in US assets, including Treasuries and equities. Boom.

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.

Yup. They seem very, very assured.

In today’s atmosphere, it’s obvious why a book warning of totalitarian censorship would be in the American Library Association’s list of most commonly challenged books