6 Degrees Dance

Donut Shenanigans kept me and my teenage son entertained during and after covid.

Hasan: The great irony is of course that Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant. The grandson of an immigrant and married to an immigrant. In fact two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.

I long for the day we have saneness again.

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

As a 52-year-old, I grew up with domestic right wing terrorist organizations threatening violence daily, and blowing up buildings and killing people periodically, throughout my whole political life: it was the anti-abortion movement.

Little update on Facebook's decision to shut my account.

ICE doesn’t care any longer whether you’re a citizen or not. It’s full stop an ethnic cleansing movement. See if for what it is.

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

Remember the 2nd case like Abrego Garcia, involving the gay man deported to Mexico n/w/s having been terrorized and held for ransom there? Judge Murphy orders the US to bring him back. not facilitate, not effectuate, bring him back.

National Endowment for the Arts rescinds grants, dazing publishers and theaters Arts organizations across the country saw their grants pulled with little explanation, while a proposed federal budget sought to eliminate the arts funding agency altogether.

Arts organizations across the country saw their grants pulled with little explanation, while a proposed federal budget sought to eliminate the arts funding agency altogether.

Chuck Grassley gets called out at a town hall…

"  Stop the use of the word entitlement because it's insulting to all of us." 🔥

#HandsOffMySocialSecurity

Heading out to handsoff2025.com tomorrow? Please read this!

cory booker beats strom thurmond’s racist ass for longest floor speech / filibuster

cory booker beats strom thurmond’s racist ass for longest floor speech / filibuster

HE DID IT

Watching @booker.senate.gov stand up for our country and about to break the record for longest speaker. Chills.

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.

If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

This is a critical victory for trans rights.

Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.

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point out, it is also unworkable. (See Dkt. No. 69-1 at 17.) The recordkeeping and administrative burden from such an arrangement, (see id.), ' also mandates nationwide relief. Nor is it clear what, if any, prejudice the Government would suffer from nationwide relief. In its brief in opposition, it points to none. (See Dkt. No. 84 at 57-59). For all these reasons, the Court finds that relief must be nationwide. Anything less is ineffectual. III. CONCLUSION Citizenship by birth is an unequivocal Constitutional right. It is one of the precious principles that makes the United States the great nation that it is. The President cannot change, limit, or qualify this Constitutional right via an executive order. The Court GRANTS the i Plaintiffs' motions for a nationwide preliminary injunction (Dkt Nos, 63, 74) and ENJOINS enforcement or implementation of the Order on a nationwide basis.

Birthright citizenship remains the law of the land. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election.

She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny:

snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

British Columbia is already pulling the American liquor.

No on HR 722 Trump lied when he said abortion would be left to the states. Now, his extremist allies in Congress are proving it with H.R. 722—a bill that lays the groundwork for a nationwide abortion ban and gover...

Send a letter to state reps against the proposed national abortion ban. Took me 1 minute.

actionnetwork.org/letters/1a54...

A dramatic rise in pregnant women dying in Texas after abortion ban Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period.

www.nbcnews.com/health/women...

Mild-mannered Tim Kaine becoming one of the sharpest, angriest Dem senators v Trump has been an interesting twist.