Quaker Guy in Georgia, USA

you can absolutely guarantee there will be cases that seek to overturn Brown v. Board and Loving v. Virginia in the next few years funded by deep-pocketed right wing groups.

It’s so surreal watching every single piece of progress we’ve made as a country in my lifetime, and even my parents lifetimes, get undermined or fully rolled back live. It feels like being trapped in a dystopian movie.

Again and again, we are shocked by the treatment of learning-disabled people. Yet we never learn from the past | John Harris A landmark book exposes the history of loathing that underpins scandals like Winterbourne View. It has received next to no attention, says Guardian columnist John Harris

“an obvious political fact that all of us ought to appreciate as a matter of instinct: that the present and future will only be different if we finally understand the past”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

These gen Zers preach ‘chastity before marriage’ at the Jersey shore. What are they so afraid of? Christian group Generation Life has sent 20somethings to do ‘beach outreach’ at the US haven for hedonism for the past two decades. A lot about young peoples’ sex lives – and their sales pitch – has c...

@cartersherman.bsky.social wrote “the Jersey shore – a stretch of sand south of Atlantic City”

Correction from a New Jersey native:

Most of the Jersey Shore is NORTH of Atlantic City.

All of the Jersey Shore is south of New York City & Sandy Hook.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You’re not evil for asking why the president cut services and let your family drown.

Well they ARE Concentration Camps, by definition - anyone can look up the definition if they want.

And fwiw, Hitler started the SAME WAY.

His first camps were "just for criminals", but once you have a Concentration Camp you'll be forever thinking of groups you want to put in there.

Tiffany Cross called it exactly what it is.

Thousands have been disappeared. Immigrants are being sent to concentration camps while people debate the language instead of the atrocities.

They’re concentration camps. Plain and simple. This is state violence.

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

Kennedy's move to cancel preventive health panel meeting raises alarm Task force members fear the health secretary may be gearing up to fire the panel members and install new ones, as he did with a separate vaccine advisory committee.

If you’ve ever been given a free or low-cost test for lung, breast, colon or cervical cancer which caught a tumor, it’s likely due to a panel of 16 doctors and public health experts who reviewed the evidence and determined that a screening could save your life.

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

“The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers”

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

So who has written a good guide for locking down/scrubbing social media for travelers, given [broad gesture]? Something short of just deleting all one's accounts.

🚨 A very long thread 🚨

I need you all to actually come to terms with what happened last year. No, Harris did not run a bad campaign. You're just stupid. He ran on dictator shit, she ran on “He’s going to kill us all but I’m won't and here are the policies that will benefit you if you elect me”.

Imagining the discourse if Biden referred to a cabinet position by a name that hadn't been used in 80 years

In the good old days, when the USA followed the Rule of Law,
Mz Noem’s actions would’ve constituted a “depraved indifference to life”, & she would have suffered severe legal consequences.
Under the current Dictatorship, it’s just another day🤷🏻‍♀️

Wait until the hurricanes come 😢

They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.

From 'Real Fear' To Heartbreak: GOP-Led Campaign Spotlights How Trump Is Wrecking Lives The "Home Of The Brave" initiative will share the stories of people "who have been harmed by Trump’s disastrous policies."

GOP-Led Campaign Spotlights How Donald Trump Is Wrecking Lives

The "Home Of The Brave" initiative will share the stories of people "who have been harmed by Trump’s disastrous policies."

www.huffpost.com/entry/home-o...

#ConcentrationCamp
And they’re so proud.
‘Evil is the absence of empathy,’ and it defines this administration and the United States population who voted for it, and him. Tragique.

I believe the Germans built some extraordinary camps in the 1940s for their unwanted citizens as well

They too started w/ deportations, before realizing it was too expensive and time consuming, so they switched to gas chambers

But I’m sure Trump would *never* do that (he says for the 1000th time)

Germany here. Watching aghast as America is refining our past.

Heavens.

The fact that huge amounts of American political and media discourse is now presenting "fighting antisemitism" and "fighting Islamophobia" as two mutually exclusive goals in direct opposition to one another is ultimately going to make both Muslims and Jews much less safe in the US.

I think many voters wanted prices to go down, to revert to pre-pandemic prices. Many aren’t old enough to have lived through high inflation before the pandemic & think that lower inflation means lower prices. Add tariffs which obviously make prices higher — and of course nobody’s happy about that

All the polls showed that Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is not what voters want. The GOP stopped having town halls because of voter outrage.

I guess it's hard to hear with your head stuck so far up Trump's ass.
#ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice Big Ugly Bill #RepublicansAreTheProblem

Which concentration camp is which? Hint: the one on the left has alligators and unbearable heat.

Trump’s doing what he does best: killing people.

His pathetic Covid response killed hundreds of thousands - these detention facilities are designed to do the same.

I acknowledge horrible things have been and are currently being done in the name of Jesus, as I pointed out above. IMO, they bastardize a faith that, for people like me is less about blind following of dogma than it is an example to follow of how to treat all people with grace, love and compassion.

Just call it the Florida Concentration Camp. Giving it a cutesy nickname makes it seem like a ride at Disney World. And using Florida in the name reminds everyone that it's one of the most loyal states to the MAGA/Republican coup.

Danger: millions will lose care and DIE! The Abominable Bad Bill passed Senate on Vance's vote: Call Every Congressperson and DEMAND they vote it down and DO NOT send it to Trump! 202) 224-3121 LASTCHANCE to kill the bill!

Danger: millions will lose care and DIE!
The Abominable Bad Bill passed
Senate on Vance's vote: Call Every Congressperson and DEMAND they vote it down and DO NOT send it to Trump! 202) 224-3121 LASTCHANCE to kill the bill!