John Schelling Pollock

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

California! Vote YES on Prop 50!

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

BREAKING: New research shows cervical cancer is on its way to being completely ELIMINATED. ✅ Not because of school prayer, not because o seed oil bans, not because people stopped taking Tylenol. It was a vaccine.

Lights are on but nobody is home.
We have a broken Roomba for President.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

The USDA has funding set aside to keep food assistance programs running during emergencies.

Trump just won’t release it.

440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.

"The Trump administration hides its atrocities behind its atrocities, its obscenities behind its obscenities, its corruptions behind its corruptions. The ones this week distract us from the ones last week." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/48CM3SF

I can't and I don't.

Also... Is he dead yet?

It is so bizarre how petty and personal he is. He doesn’t have a diplomatic bone in his body. Nor anything even close to resembling a statesman or a president.

Remarkable (not in a good way) that so very little of this made the news or was discussed five years ago. I do like that it’s coming back up now though as part of the Trumpian legacy of destruction.

The last ten years have been a really unpleasant crash course in how fragile our federal government is when the people in power do not act in good faith and are not held accountable.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Wrote a thread, of disagreement, in response to this, which seems to equate 'people' with 'select elites.'

“his state-sanctioned campaign of extrajudicial murders under the guise of a war on drugs.“

That sounds familiar.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Jeffries: "He's found time to demolish the East Wing in the most horrific way possible bc he wants to erect a ballroom so he can be celebrated like a king. He's found time for all of these different things, but somehow can't be bothered to find a dime to extend the ACA tax credits."

HLA and pathogens in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and other post-infection conditions - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - HLA and pathogens in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and other post-infection conditions

University of Minnesota scientists found that people with certain HLA genes linked to chronic fatigue syndrome bind weakly to viral and bacterial antigens, suggesting poor immune clearance may underlie ME/CFS, long COVID, and post-Lyme illness.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Color me shocked. They’re ALL such goddamn hypocrites.

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"I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." - Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA event, April 2023.
It's a price he is willing to pay. His words - stop blaming democrats.

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

Powerful work assembling the facts and voices and making the case--that Trump indeed has a great deal to hide.

Awkward Trump-Powell moment at the Fed

This sounds batsh*t crazy but it's, quite literally, a straightforward & purely factual description of what's going on here

Wow, nine hours of standoff. Deep bow to those standing up against ice.

Mussolini was shot and then his corpse was attacked and hung. Pinochet died under house arrest, while facing criminal charges in Europe and in Chile. Idi Amin died in exile. The Shah of Iran died in exile. Pol Pot died under house arrest. Mobutu died in exile. Ceausescu and his wife were executed by firing squad. Saddam Hussein was hung. The Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo was assassinated. The last Somoza dictator was assassinated in exile after being overthrown. Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner, Colombia's Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, and Marcos Pérez Jiménez all died in exile. Argentina's Jorge Rafael Videla died while serving a fifty-year sentence. Ferdinand Marcos died in exile, and Duterte is currently in the Hague for crimes against humanity. Slobodan Milošević died in the Hague while on trial for war crimes. Hashim Thaçi, former p.m. of Kosovo, is still being held in the Hague. The Khmer Rouge's Khieu Samphan is serving a life sentence in Cambodia. Charles Taylor of Liberia is serving a 50-year sentence in the UK. Chad's Hissene Habre went into exile in Senegal, where he was tried on charges of crimes against humanity and given a life sentence; he died in prison. Only last winter Assad fled Syria; only last summer Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh. That hasn't been the fate of all dictators but for many of them the chapters after their power crumbled were not what they would have written. Nor is this reassurance that justice or democracy always wins or dismissal of the damage each of them did. I was just thinking and then decided to compile a list.

Oops, left a few names off: