Becca's Mullet

He had a joke in his stump speeches about how, if he were to walk on water, the headlines the next day would read “Jesse Jackson Can’t Swim”

Just like the narratives around trans rights and racial justice, this framing constructs "activists" as unreasonable, radical and holding all the power.

"Do you know how mean fat activists are if you lose weight?"

Do you know how mean everyone else is if you don't?!

Yeek!

Call your Senators today, people!

Ladies and gentlemen, the future of your Republican Party! An Hispanic guy who claims to be white who hates women so much he wants them all locked up in gulags, except for breeding & menial labor. No wonder the SAVE Act is on track to disenfranchise 1/2 of all U.S. women by preventing registration.

Lovely!

"Selling Safety": A Journalist's Guide to Covering Police Technology selling_safety.pdf

Behind police tech's slick marketing is a sprawling, under-scrutinized industry that relies on manufacturing the appearance of effectiveness, not measuring it. EFF partnered with CJJ and IPVM on a new report to help you see through the spin: www.eff.org/document/se...

As a person of Scots descent, I'd love to know an English translation for "Bawheid." Reading it aloud, it sounds like bowhead, which is a type of great whale! 😀 I love to learn new names to call politicians.

My new internet speak for the week is "A.I.;Dr" which is a very cutting version of "TL; Dr"

I would help pay for the plane ticket for you and Rubio to meet!

I'm not giving in to that until it happens. And I will certainly be putting my squat and surly middle-aged suburban Mom body between voters and any ICE goons.

Fuck them!

OHHHHHHHHH!!! This is really, really good! Everybody, re-skeet, please. This is sung to the tune of Tom Lehrer's "Old Dope Peddler."

An image of Reverend Jesse Jackson behind a quilt Text reads as follows: America is not like a blanket—one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread. The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay, and the disabled make up the American quilt.

May your memory be a blessing and empower us all.

You will be missed Rev. Jackson

I understand why people shorten this quote because I had the worst time fitting it in and it still be legible, but his FULL quote is important. This is who he was. This is the man he was. Bless him

Dunno? If Trump makes a call, the filibuster's gone, or temporarily suspended, right? I'm so bad at the edge case math here, and, natch, if it's gonna happen, sooner is better than later. I know I can't spend another election cycle franticlly re-registering legitimate voters! It's driving me bats!

Senior Army comms adviser Col. Dave Butler abruptly departed after reportedly being forced out...fired on Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s orders, per reports in NYT, The Washington Post and Fox News.

It's clear. They want a military that will carry out any order given. ANY.

Oh, Honey, you win by a mile!

Yep, yep, yep, yep.

OK, what are the updates today on Republicans' attempts to disenfranchise half of American women before November's midterms using the SAVE Act? Last I heard, Collins was in favor, so there was a very close count in the Senate. I just want to know how Chuck and the It's Copacetic crowd are reacting?

Yay!

Shortly after meeting with Acosta, he then found out on television that Epstein and his accomplices had been given federal immunity.

Who at DOJ told Alex Acosta to cover up the Epstein Child Rape Syndicate?

- Julie K Brown, Miami Herald who originally broke and strongly pursued this story.

The case was turned over to the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office in early 2007, but soon stalled.

Reitner contacted US Attorney, Alex Acosta, to find out why.

Acosta told him there was “a lot of interest from higher up.”

Reiter said he felt “there was a hurry to make this case go away.”

Gots to agree.

Color me unsurprised but cripplingly dismayed.

I live in a Boston neighborhood and there are so many of them here and one neighbor started feeding them on her front lawn and when I tell you how the neighborhood got together *immediately* to MAKE this insane person STOP IT.

Excellent civic work there! They're like Gremlins in that way.

🎶 DO NOT GIVE THEM PEOPLE FOOD!
DO NOT GIVE THEM BIRD SEED!
LET THEM EAT THE JUICY TICKS,
AND THE YUMMY BEETLES!" 🎶

Ohhhh...... Andrew! Auuuggghhh.

One of my favorite clean political jokes appeared in the broadsheet, just as a statement:

"50% of the rutabaga eaten in the U.S. is consumed by Republicans. The rest is thrown away!"

It may have been funnier at 2 in the morning, but it's still funny to me now!

We refused the day-of-birth Hep B vaccine for our child (but caught him up in a couple of months,), but signed right up for the Vitamin K. Why have a perfectly good baby die from a brain bleed?

In case any of you guys don't know this, you can temporarily cover your windows with cheap space blankets (like those for marathons), attached on the inside with masking tape. You can make a couple of rooms in your house cosy for the cost of a ten-pack of space blankets and a roll of masking tape.

It's called PROJECTION, and Trump does it daily. Blaming others for what he is doing, has done, or will be doing. PROJECTION.

I never saw this -- it's awesome!