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Maybe it’s just me, but I’d much rather have an entire undocumented immigrant family with two happy trans kids living right next door to me than a white supremacist or a racist MAGA lunatic any day of the week.

Breaking: The Trump administration is shutting down the national suicide hotline's service for LGBTQ kids. In February, the program received an average of 2,100 calls and texts per day. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How to report an obligatory request for comment. www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...

Masked anonymous cops who disappear people to a death camp where the identities are secret have a name. We call them secret police. #ICE agents are no different from the guards at #Auschwitz and when the hammer falls, the complicit war criminals should be held accountable just like Hitler's men

No wonder dude masked his face entirely.

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

There’s always a tweet.

We could use more Members of Congress who really understand what the right-wing takeover of the judiciary means. Mike's a good guy who gets it.

So…in 2011 the Justice Department confessed error to the Supreme Court that it had misrepresented the factual basis underlying the rationale presented to the Court to justify Japanese internment. As in, that is the official position of the U.S. government. Are they going to retract that, too?

In 2016 MN Police killed a Black man named Philando Castile despite him disclosing he had a legal firearm. Yesterday MN Police released a white woman named Jenny Boelter despite her car full of cash, firearms, & passports hours after her husband mass murdered people & was on the run from police.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=8L6K...

Look, everyone, including Trump, can have butterfingers, it happens. But let’s be honest, if Biden had done this (as with the tripping or walking the wrong way or whatever) there would have been multiple news stories and calls for medical examinations. It’s the double standard that annoys me

The headline is not ideal, but kudos to NYT's @anniekarni.bsky.social for shaming Mike Lee (and down in the story, Derrick Van Orden). www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

please do this for your trans friends.

He said it. Yes.

apnews.com/article/no-k... killed at Utah 'No Kings' rally was fashion designer from 'Project Runway'

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

"Again and again, I arrived at the same conclusion without fail: no, my eyes did not deceive me and my standards are not too high and I’m not being unfair. That was, hands down, the worst military parade I’ve ever seen." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

Drop your favorite protest sign

Finally. Been looking high and low for Seattle’s numbers. YES!!

Shocking but under-reported that Minnesota police 'canceled' No Kings Day protests because of the assassin. Lockdowns are martial law. The First Amendment doesn't require police permission.

5th Avenue, 40th-42nd streets. New York Public Library left.

I love you Seattle. #abolishice #nokings

Endorsing the humor, not the term.

Today's assassinations apparently aimed at tipping control of the Minnesota legislature.

If you'll allow me to say it, The Onion is cooking with gas today.

Was the 2024 election stolen? This investigation says yes and documents every bit of its findings. Too giddy to read carefully yet, but checks every box I can imagine, on first pass. Stunning, epic, horrifying scoop. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

@golden.house.gov is a joke. He's a No Labels/AIPAC tool. To him, essential oversight is "theater." Maine: I love you. I love visiting, hiking, cycling, and camping in your state. You have wonderful people. But you deserve better representation. Get rid of Golden AND Collins. Please!!

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

Imagine being too physically abusive and politically embarrassing for Corey Lewandowski

One thing that stood out really powerfully in last night's mayoral debate is that Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander both operate from the premise that New York City is a wonderful and beautiful and precious place. Andrew Cuomo does not.

OMG. According to two members of Congress that just conducted an inspection and confirmed horrible conditions at the ICE detention center where unrest led to 4 people escaping, apparently people were able to escape because an EXTERIOR WALL was made of drywall and wire mesh!

Terrifying