Constant Gardener

If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Get your flu shot! 💉

💪It may not prevent you from getting the flu but it will lessen the severity of the disease.

Several pharmacies and grocery stores will give you coupons and discounts for shopping - how this poster bought some of my Halloween candy stash last month! 🍭

Crazy how much some media has normalized the idea that voters are taking a risk if they elect governors/mayors who will defy Trump. That he’ll threaten their funding, etc.

Try to imagine, say. Greg Abbott being asked if he’s worried that Biden will punish Texas over his lawsuits.

So here's something everyone saying "just let him pay the troops" needs to consider.

Giving a President the ability to repurpose money meant for other things towards paying people means giving him the ability to repurpose money meant for paying people towards other things.

Tomi Lahren tweet The Libs are very proud of their protest crowd sizes. They say it was 7 million. President Trump won: *the electoral college *the popular vote *every swing state You are VASTLY outnumbered, we just don't spend our Saturdays with homemade signs and rage. We don't need to. We are normal, well-adjusted, and sane.

“We are normal, well-adjusted, and sane” says member of the party that invented the “diarrhea plane.”

as someone who worked at the CDC, the way they’ve targeted these illegal firings are pretty much what i would do to inflict maximum damage to what remains of our nation’s federal public health infrastructure. a hostile takeover of the agency

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

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I despise Charlie Kirk, but no, I'm not at all glad he was shot, because

1) Nobody should be shot. That's the whole point.

2) on a wholly practical level, I'm afraid this could very well be the excuse Trump has been looking for to declare martial law.

Infuriating.

“We’re gonna unleash our American warriors to the EXTREME-“

<pulls out can of Mountain Dew Baja Blast>

“-ULTRAMAX-“

<dumps soda out, pours in a handle of bourbon, immediately chugs it>

“-GNARLIEST BROS TO EVER BRO-DOWN A GAUNTLET-“

<pukes, sends training regimens to unsecured Signal chat>

So Mike Johnson wants us to believe Trump helped catch Epstein and also

✔️Gave the guy who granted him a sweetheart deal a cabinet post
✔️Wished his accomplice well and moved her to a nicer prison
✔️Called the case a hoax and the survivors “Democrat”
✔️Threatened his own people if they vote for release

Today I’d like to share two poems with you. To me, both feel appropriate to the dark time we’re now living in. Read them and let me know what you think. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/two-poems-that-feel-apt

CDC building with red circles marking many bullet holes in the glass office windows

Thanks to RFKJ’s rhetoric, CDC staff got our “shots” early this year.

Dark humor aside, live posting our way through this domestic terrorism event at a Federal agency was scary.

180 bullets, an officer lost his life, and workers are traumatized.

Why the fu** isn’t this getting more attention?

Typical CMU leadership. So disappointing that they refuse to see that kissing the boot won't spare the school or its international students.

Oh.

Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.

WTF is a "pro-vaccine group," NYT? Did you mean, "health professionals, scientists, and everyone else with a smidge of common sense" instead?

Sanewashing us right to hell.

And suddenly, no one's talking about the Epstein files any more.

It's necessary to keep pointing out: all this is not because ICE wants to deport murderers and rapists. It's because ICE is going to Home Depot parking lots, courthouses, and elementary school graduations to round up peaceful families, many seeking asylum, which means they are here legally.

Text reading: I had to come down to Los Angeles for Work and ended up trying to help with the raid last night. As a Bernie usefully. Waited by the entrance for detainees We were repeatedly denied access of any kind, and eventually LAPD force removed attorneys ice. Also tear gassed a baby under age two. Today they told us to come back at eight to see the clients, but they ever refused entry to us as well as politicians, including Jimmy, Gomez, and right now. They’re releasing some kind of gas, so the Attorneys can’t breathe

Text reading: Post it so everyone knows. When we were trying to chant their rights ice honked so no one could hear.

Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.

“They know not what they do”

This kind of elitist messaging may cost Jesus the 0002 AD midterms

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

Steve Bannon in front of a CPAC banner raising his arm in a Nazi salute

At the end of his CPAC speech, Steve Bannon exclaimed “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, raised his arm in a brief Nazi salute gesture, brought his arm down, nodded his head at the crowd, and then said, “Amen!”

We just published a 3,000 word feature on Elon Musk's incursion into the federal government.

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