JFC, Vance, you came here to "engage" and this is your first fucking message? How tone deaf are you? All of us here are because we're trying to escape MAGAt hate and bullshit. What is wrong with you? Are you going back to X and tell everyone there how "intolerant" we are here? Good.

Happy #Easter

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

Raskin: The president derives his powers only either from the Constitution explicitly or from an act of Congress and Congress certainly has never given the president the power to relocate prisoners to foreign countries and there's nothing in the constitution that remotely vests that power…

Confirming Hegseth really was insanely reckless.

www.upi.com Three more states confirm measles cases - UPI.com

Three more states confirm measles cases https://twp.ai/4ilbob

The Women going to the Sepulchre, 1912, Robert Anning Bell Painting of women in blue garments walking leftward, one woman, and then five behind her, on a flat plain, hazy sky ....

Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.

Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.

He would have never been appointed by a president who cared about our military. He’s a disgrace to the people in uniform who serve www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

Happy Easter, EVERYONE!! 👇

Seemed. Appropriate. Today. 😎✨

*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.

The Secretary is unfit to lead.

On this #420day, we celebrate the 52nd anniversary of performers “Gail & Dale” singing the hit, “One Toke Over the Line,” on Lawrence Welk.

Neither had an idea the song was about pot, and Welk thought the song was a “modern spiritual.”

jesus hits a joint whilst holding the Easter bunny

Sorry, we promised not to post much today but we had to make a special callout. We forgot to give a proper shoutout to a few places yesterday. Denver and Dallas Fort Worth, you broke records. You were incredible.

I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.

It’s just that the shape is “round”

Are you fucking kidding me? (I think expletives in replies should be allowed whenever a topic achieves an unpardonable ridiculousness of reality.)

They also want Federal employees to quit so they can be replaced with loyalists which would be worst case scenario. These replacement people would be there for years to come undermining future administrations

Elon already said we are going to need to suffer

This doesn't produce productive people or societies.
It exacerbates & creates immediate & delayed hardship & problems that cascade in ways that are corrosive to civil society and cost ten times as much to deal with while exponentially increasing inequality of opportunity.

Conservatism.

So, the republicans figure many will use the options available to them to cut Medicaid eligibility in their states, such as backing out of the Medicaid expansion. Congress can then pretend they aren't responsible for the cuts, will say each state is just doing what they think best for themselves.

A lot of the Medicaid section, like "Equalize Medicaid Payments" and "Lower FMAP Floor," is about shifting costs from the federal government to state governments. The states - especially the poorer and more rural ones - won't be able to afford that.

Sheriff of Nottingham ass administration

taking from the poor to give to the rich

They're going to give tax breaks to the rich by killing off the poor.

The complete destruction of human life in America so tge rich don't have to pay taxes

Christians are what they do in the world and have been doing since Constantine. This memo is on brand.

Just the ill-natured, bad-faith titles of the sections are enough to invite nausea, but the itemizations are reasons for rage. Truly Orwellian stuff. And from a merciless gang of mobsters who constantly bang the drum of "Christian" piety, too. If there's a hell...

The old, the sick, and the poor. Anyone who doesn’t contribute to their obscene wealth structure.

going *hard* after poor people, as expected :(