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Thoroughly schmooply, post-modern empiricist with a big heart and an active brain. Don't bring your opinion without some actual goddamn facts. Part of the resistance. Don't let the stupid f*ckers break you.
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If you can see this tweet you need to push back hard on the Republican Party’s Big lie 2.0 which is that Joe Biden let all the illegals in. It was George W Bush and the number has stayed pretty constant since 2005.

The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 U.S. intel agencies still see no evidence Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, Senate Intel Vice Chair Mark Warner told MSNBC.

I'm so glad you brought this up.

“Build the wall!” “Build the wall!” “Build the wall!” Ah.. the hell with it.

Vinay Prasad was named as both the FDA’s chief scientific officer and chief medical officer TODAY. He immediately fired Nicole Verdun, who was in charge of cell and gene therapies. “Now, there will definitely be concerns and questions about what this means for the division under Vinay Prasad”.

BREAKING: Social Security’s trustees report that the system is fully affordable, as long as we make the wealthy pay in at the same rate as the rest of us.

"These tax cuts will pay for themselves" is one of the GOP's most popular—and biggest—lies.

"The truth is, Texas isn’t red. America isn’t red. What we are is a country drowning in disinformation & voter suppression—& even worse, a profound, dangerous disillusionment. The biggest bloc in this state, every cycle, isn’t Repubs or Dems. It’s people who don’t vote.. . . .That's on all of us."

#TrueCrimeWhiteHouse

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

BREAKING: The American Bar Association has sued the Trump administration on behalf of its members to put an end to Donald Trump's law firm intimidation project, calling Trump's efforts "unprecedented and uniquely dangerous to the rule of law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I will be watching this tomorrow, please join if you can. 👀 Panelists : @dougjones.bsky.social ,Jim Acosta, Abbe Lowell and Dean William Treanor. Democracy on the Line: Standing Up to the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Free Speech www.americanprogress.org/events/democ...

Any @kerryhowley.bsky.social article is a treat, but a Kerry Howley profile of Pete Hegseth? Just delicious. To be sipped & savored.

I count 49 news headlines on the NYT mobile app home page right now, not including opinion, sports or cooking. None of them are about the massive protests yesterday.

A document circulated to members of Congress misinterprets studies and cites debunked research, scientists say. It could influence congressional perceptions of vaccine safety.

We gotta' stop lionizing "great businessmen" as national saviors. They know one thing. How to fight as dirty as they can get away with to enrich themselves and their buddies. Society is the opposite mindset. How to weave together disparate interests of a population into a functional "we the people"

Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

the word "constitution" does not appear in this article nor does any indication that the Trump regime's actions might be illegal it does however note "White House officials maintain that the president is ... standing up for 'law and order' as Democrats go soft on violent agitators."

FYI, we are a heavily armed country. The right made sure of it. They will regret it.

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

We feed you. They hunt us.

You had one job ...

Holy shit, Bill S. Preston Esquire re-skeeted me

When they think no one is looking. *Cops damaging their own cars?

For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.

So very much THIS…👇

The situation in DTLA to which 700 Marines have been deployed is a couple dozen interfaith clergypersons leading a small crowd in prayer.

NEW: Hegseth is deploying Marines against U.S. citizens. Mayor Bass says to know your rights :

This, this, this.

Rothkoph says it is possible for America to lead again & regain its stature IF we face up to our myths & failings. Let's be clear-eyed about our country to begin the long process of rebuilding a better government, economy & society. There is greatness in our future if we fight for it.