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Boy mom. Wife. Catholic w Jewish tendencies. Advocate for folks w special needs & for adoption. Love democracy, equality, and the law. Oxford comma supporter. Cat mom. Proud Gen X’er. German American. 🇩🇪🇺🇸 Love Israel & all things Jewish. 🇮🇱
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Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News: "This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”

9 June 1937 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Gyuri Köppich, was born. In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

Trump: Well, we're going to have troops everywhere.  Reporter: What’s the bar for sending in the Marines  Trump: The bar is what I think it is.

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

Le excellent.

The story about how the military covered up the fact it spread disinformation about UFOs being real for decades is one of the wildest pieces of reporting I've ever read. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

8 June 1915 | A Polish Jew, Aron Belek, was born in Łódź. A tailor. In #Auschwitz from 20 February 1942. No. 22721 He perished in the camp on 11 March 1942.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is apparently at the Fred D. Thompson Federal Courthouse in Nashville for arraignment; the @tennesseelookout.com has a reporter and photographer on the scene. Stand by for updates.

I have a laser for that

3 June 1921 | A Czech Jew, Arnošt Kohn, was born in Bochov. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 18 December 1943. He did not survive.

“The searing pain of the unfilled boots, / the solemn speeches, / the lowered ramp and the flag-draped coffin.” Read “I Remember,” a poem by William H. McRaven:

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction in our TSA collective bargaining case against DHS Sec. Kristi Noem. TSA workers’ union rights will be protected while the case moves forward—a major win for workers’ protections. 🔗 www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/06.02.25...

We cannot let Trump hide behind his Big Budget Bill. We must fight each and every provision that threatens democracy and American lives.

Has the future of violence arrived? www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Wow!

Oh no. Terrible.

Thanks to new research, we now know a little more about this mysterious, icy giant.

SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the lack of healthy food options on Native reservations a “genocide.” But the Trump administration ended a program that helped provide fresh, locally produced food for tribal food banks, saying the program no longer aligned with its priorities.

Treating the people the GOP is killing as the butt of a joke is so perfectly Trumpish.

“a second aide standing at a door in the office asks one of the agents to show her a warrant. The agent says the officers do not need a warrant and walks past her.”

The United States and 10 allies say the military cooperation between Russia and North Korea flagrantly violates U.N. sanctions and has helped Moscow increase its missile strikes on Ukrainian cities.

Paramount Offered Trump $15 Million to settle. Trump wants $20 Billion. @samsteindc.bsky.social and @saletan.bsky.social react to Trump's multi-billion dollar tantrum:

We no longer have to wait until Tuesday for TACO

Communist regimes determined what could be taught and researched at universities, insisted on programs in Lysenkoism and Scientific Marxism-Leninism, abolished other departments, and controlled who could attend and teach. This, of course, is entirely different.

Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2 Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1 Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7

trump sure showed them

NEW: @cnn.com confirms that hundreds of FBI agents have been reassigned away from criminal and counterterrorism investigations to instead work with ICE to round up migrants. The security impacts are clear — and may be why the FBI is alleged to be hiding any paper trail.

State Department Plans to Launch ‘Office of Remigration.’ The idea of “remigration” has a troubling history; it originally comes from far-right, neo-Nazi circles in Europe and is typically used to advocate for the forced removal of migrants. www.thehandbasket.co/p/state-depa...

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This policy alone will do enough to slow PRC brain drain into the United States that China should remove Rubio from its sanctions list as a gesture of appreciation.

Secretary of Transportation says you should be scared of public transportation. Four million people will ignore him, justifiably, and ride the NY subway tomorrow. 🤡

No. Wrong. Fail. Zero points. She simply does not understand our system of government, laws, the principles underlying our democracy or the reasons for our success as a nation. She's an idiot and a menace and I'd focus on the menace part and stopping/resisting her first.

So a public company that in 2024 had $3.62 million in total revenue (somewhat better than the average McDonald’s restaurant) and suffered a $401 million net loss is raising $2.5 billion in capital to buy … {checks notes} … bitcoin. Guess whose company it is. www.reuters.com/business/tru...

This entire, beautiful family. Murdered.

reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Weird that we're gonna follow this up by deporting a bunch of electricians, plumbers, etc

International enrollment, at public universities in states that Trump won in 2024: Univ of South Florida: > 5,000 students Ohio State: 6,300 students Georgia Tech: > 13,500 students Arizona State: > 15,000 students Univ of Michigan: 8,635 students Penn State: 9,400 students

SpaceX Loses Control of Starship, Adding to Spacecraft’s Mixed Record Much was riding on Flight 9 for Elon Musk’s giant moon and Mars rocket after debris from January and March flights fell into the Atlantic Ocean, disrupting air travel. By Ken Chang (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/s...

Feels right.

This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

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“The searing pain of the unfilled boots, / the solemn speeches, / the lowered ramp and the flag-draped coffin.” Read “I Remember,” a poem by William H. McRaven:

All scams, all the time. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What do you call it when the world turns to shit all around you and yet you still haven't lost your sense of humor? Well, at the moment, if you're lucky, you call it Tuesday. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/what-do-we-e...

Trump's DOJ has granted Boeing a non-prosecution agreement over the 737 MAX crashes, despite the company's repeated attempts to deceive regulators.  Boeing donated $1M to Trump's inauguration and has paid AG Pam Bondi's former lobbying firm at least $480K. Follow the money.

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.