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Is Trump in mental decline? He sounds far worse than Biden ever did. | Opinion For those who spent weeks, months and even years howling about then-President Joe Biden's 'mental decline,' what say you about Trump's rambling?

it's pretty damning when it's all laid out like this www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Big protests crowds on both sides of 9th street and other corners not in photo.

NYPD standing right in middle of bike lane?!

Mom and toddler holding a sign: What a Beautiful Day to say No to Nazis!

Looking good, #Brooklyn. As the mama and toddler say, it’s a beautiful day to say No to Nazis. (Also, NYPD, get outta the #bikenyc lane: You’re pushing a lot of people on bikes into vehicular traffic.) #TeslaTakedown #Resist #MomSky

Ah, he never disappoints.

One more tiny step...

There is additionally an intrinsic problem in playing ball with censorship regimes like China: once they have leverage over you, it's hard to keep the balance of "it's better that they have this than nothing". The regime asks for more, and now you have revenue on the line, and redlines dissolve. 3/

favorite genres:

5. alas, magic has faded from this land...unless..?

4. we'll have to assemble some kind of team to pull this off

3. guy who can turn into a bird

2. you are the LAST person in the world i could ever be prevailed upon to marry!! (they will marry)

1. yearning, never articulated

Hi, my name is ____. I'm a constituent, zip code _____, phone number _____. I'm calling to ask you to speak out for and fight for the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent resident who was abducted from his Columbia dorm room over the weekend in what looks like a violation of his First Amendment and due process rights. This is not only a terrible injustice to him, but it affects us all. Please speak out and fight for his release now.

UPDATE: Called all my NY reps - national and state, as well as my city councilperson, to ask them to speak out for and fight for the release of Mahmoud Khalil. Here's a quick script if you need one and want to make calls yourself. You can find your reps here: reps.fyi

San Francisco's Upper Great Highway closing to cars for good on Friday A two-mile stretch of Upper Great Highway in San Francisco will be closed to cars for good on Friday as the city prepares to open a new park.

A two-mile stretch of Upper Great Highway in San Francisco will be closed to cars for good on Friday as the city prepares to open a new park.

EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION! RELEASE MAHMOUD KHALIL HANDS OFF OUR STUDENTS ICE OFF OUR CAMPUSES MON. MAR 10 • 4PM JACOB K. JAVITS FEDERAL BUILDING 26 FEDERAL PLAZA, NYC

Time-honored activist tradition of having your talking points ready for when the cameras approach as you get arrested. Thanks Frankie!

More of this

I feel this in my soul 🥲

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

Still and forever after mad that Ghostbusters 2016 didn't get a sequel. #NeedMoreHoltzmann

The fact that the Nazis are always the bad guys and never the good guys shows just how woke and out of touch Hollywood has become

I am writing this because I want you to understand my world, the world I live in, and the world I live alongside. Nonfiction | Maggie Helwig | Issue 44

"I am writing this because I want you to understand my world, the world I live in, and the world I live alongside."

An excerpt from Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community by Maggie Helwig (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social) in SMLTA

sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/i-am-writi...

Every piece in The Cut now is like, I Had a Horrific Accident. Then I Opened My Marriage.

THERAPIST: When setting goals, it's important to make them achievable

ME: I want to be rolled out of work on my birthday by a group of Oompa Lompas

THERAPIST: I will literally pay you to go somewhere else.

Opinion | I am a strong defender of free speech. Unless that free speech criticizes the Israeli government.

by Bari Weiss

Pope Francis should excommunicate jd vance

[watching anora] nobody in this movie would last two days at a conclave

This is great messaging!!

Yes.

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

My fear is that the Trump administration arrested Mahmoud Khalil to make an example out of him because they’re gambling Dems won’t put their jobs and lives on the line to protect a Palestinian.

Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…

Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.

For those supporting this obscene violation of due process and expansion of governmental overreach to detain and deport legal residents without due process, please research authoritarian regimes.

Today they'll use it against a group you don't like, but it will be turned on you tomorrow.

🙏🙏🙏

As a fellow constituent, @schiff.senate.gov I too came here to ask this — it’s illegal and unconscionable to disappear anyone, and we expect you to fight hard for justice. For all of us.
Do not make this easy for them.