Island of Misfit Toys

Yesterday was rough for cinephiles: R.I.P. Robert Duvall. 🥀 R.I.P. Frederick Wiseman. 🥀 Two legends of cinema, each charting their own path and continuing to work into their 90s.

Holy shit.

A lot of people have suggested this, but I don’t think Lieu would make the allegation unless he had seen some evidence.

DID YOU KNOW...

Trump is suing me,
And you,
And your kids,
And your parents,
And all of us for $10 billion dollars?

ANDDDDDDD...
We get to pay for the lawsuit & court expenses, too.

Why don't you put that in a poll, Gallup?

How do Americans feel about the Predator in Chief suing them for $10B?

…and the rich (both people & corporations [aka “people” per SCOTUS]) get richer under Felon47.

When elected officials call it a “nonstarter” to require federal agents to get a judicial warrant before kicking in doors, to give people bail or a trial before they face long-term prison, and to allow protests...they’re testing whether the Bill of Rights is still binding or has become...decorative.

“I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once their hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.”
--James Baldwin, “Notes of a Native Son,” 1955

REPUBLICAN REP. MASSIE: “This is the Epstein administration.”

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

None of this is normal

Elon wanting to remind everyone that he's a POS who is also in the Epstein Files.

I think we are going to have a Democratic-controlled Senate.

And all we will need for the leadership of that Democratic Senate to do is hold actual, real, impeachment trials.

As the Constitution requires.

Not the bullshit fake trials like the ones that the Senate held in 2020 and 2021...

I was thinking about this question recently. In his first term he fired cabinet members left & right. But now…
▶️ It’s all about loyalty, because…
▶️ State capture is complete.
▶️ #Project2025 just needs rank, sycophantic loyalists for its full implementation!

THIS is why he hasn’t fired #Noem!

And sets a fine example by ignoring congressional subpoenas.

The Supreme Court Lives in Fox News' America A Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is untethered from democratic reality.

"A Supreme Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is not merely conservative. It is untethered from democratic reality."

Fuck ICE.

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MAGA Aesthetics and Fascist Power: Spectacles of White Supremacy The United States is not merely awash in brutalizing and murderous acts of state-sanctioned violence. It is being restructured by them. The killings of Rachel Good and Alex Pretti are not aberrations ...

"Fascism triumphs not by persuading people to surrender their rights, but by schooling them, through culture and spectacle, to no longer recognize domination as injustice. Resistance, then, must begin where fascism does, in the struggle over culture itself."

Someone added Epstein Files to Trump’s star in Hollywood Walk of Fame… 🤣👍👍🤣

@deadder.bsky.social
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Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is about—we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.

Iowa libraries warn of potential impact of bill to restrict inappropriate material Supporters of proposed legislation that would allow parents to sue libraries say they merely want to protect children

New in the Cedar Rapids Gazette on proposed legislation in Iowa: "[ALA President Sam Helmick] warned the proposed legislation would turn libraries into 'sites of surveillance' and would threaten their financial stability."

More: www.thegazette.com/state-govern...