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Just saw Life of Chuck. It’s one of those movies. The big ones. Thanks @mikeflanaganfilm.com (and good to see you @ericvespe.bsky.social)

A great way for Senate Democrats to protest what’s going on is to not have almost 40% of the caucus keep voting to advance a money laundering bill.

58 years ago today, the Supreme Court ruled on the side of our clients Mildred and Richard Loving, legalizing interracial marriages nationwide. This Loving Day, we honor the generations of families who were torn apart by anti-miscegenation laws and celebrate the couple that changed history.

Fight the Empire.

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

Worth bearing in mind that illegal entry is a misdemeanor and being unlawfully present in the country is not even a criminal offense, but a civil one. This is the equivalent of saying we need to torch the Constitution & send in the SWAT team to catch jaywalkers & people with overdue library books.

It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

Former senior DOGE figure says that despite "high expectations," DOGE was actually unable to find significant fraud or waste anywhere in the federal government. www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

I’m seeing all these debates here about whether violence can be justified in some circumstances. That’s not helpful. It is beside the point. This is a battle over legitimacy and the field of that battle is public opinion. This is a flagrant abuse of power. It is a crisis entirely of the Presidents..

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487

Immigrants are our greatest asset. Republicans blocked rational and humane immigration policies for decades because the problem is politically more valuable to them than a solution. Now a convicted felon who hung out with Jeffrey Epstein is criminalizing them without due process. Speak the fuck up.

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

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“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

worth remembering that when Trump announced a travel ban in 2017, people literally went to airports to protest. Eight years later, Trump announces a new one and it's not even front page news. We're the frogs and the water is getting awfully hot.

This is one of my favorite not funny memes.

The real tragedy of young men today is not that they're being held back from success by a bunch of woke scolds. The real tragedy is that they're being told that success & happiness come through escaping all constraints, dominating & controlling others, & suppressing all vulnerability or weakness.

Happy Memorial Day!

Just to make it plain: the blue lines are what they're taking from to pay for the red lines www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I still think about the Andor episode where: 1. Tay Kolma tells Mon Mothma that he wants more money to keep working for the rebellion. 2. Mon tells Luthen as much & he says that Tay has become a threat that must be eliminated. 3. Cinta takes Tay away to kill him. Here's the remarkable thing ...

"We do not live better when we flee, hide, refuse to share, stop giving, and lock ourselves up in our own comforts. Such a life is nothing less than slow suicide (EG 276)." #PopeFrancis #EvangeliiGaudium #WeAreFrancis

Does MAGA realize that they're the baddies and ANDOR is about resisting fascism?

Grateful to be included in a new horror writing community. If you are so inclined, here’s my latest short film. I think you’ll like it: youtu.be/lz7XchCtKNI?...

Well I have not got round to watching Andor yet. I know very late to the party but this speech appeared on my feed and is very relevant today.

We need to keep doing this. We need to constantly remind the media and the people that these are ordinary people, not boogie men criminals. They’re human beings being grabbed by the real monsters who are ICE.

A great start to our Horror Writers starter pack! There’s still lots of room so please let me know if you’d like to be added 🫶🏽

The rule of law is all or nothing and must apply equally to everyone. If there's no rule of law for some people in America, then there's no rule of law for any of us.

My love of reading is strongly link to this man…