The closing line quoting Prince was fantastic!!

Says the Majority Leader who himself voted to confirm this lunatic 🙄

F*ck fair. Fight back!!

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Jason Delgado (Florida Capitol reporter for Spectrum News 13) on X: "Quick look at what inside a detainment tent looks like here at Alligator Alcatraz." What is shown in the picture is a long tent structure, about 50 feet wide. There is a corridor running down the middle. On each side are three rows of bunk beds. The bunk beds are sectioned off into cells which are constructed out of chain link fence, with chain link on the ceiling as well, making each cell a literal cage. It looks to me like each cell contains 9 bunk beds, so has capacity for 18 people each.

Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.

Damn right!!!

I don’t know how many times we have to say this, but the U.S. government is not a business and shouldn’t be run like one. It’s a service—for the people.

Jefferson said the care of human life is the first duty of good government. Healthcare, housing, and education aren’t luxuries, they’re the scaffolding of a strong democracy.
A sick, uneducated, unhoused people aren’t free. They’re abandoned.

AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

Hated her while she was our governor, hate her more now. Despicable doesn’t begin to cover it.

Trump just broke into your retirement and stole 5% of it in 8 hours.

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

How many train wrecks do we have to survive before we pull our heads out of our collective asses and let women run this country?

They called it from day one.

RIP Val Kilmer.

Of all of his terrific roles in movies, my favorite will always be "Real Genius" with him playing the brilliant, but exploited science grad student Chris Knight who has no fucks left to give.

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl 20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow

You have to see this.

PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

Ignore the third term talk - it’s meant to distract you, and it’s working.

“No person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”

I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now

Republicans have wanted to remove Social Security since its inception. That is a long time. It has come up in every Republican administration. W Bush pushed for privatization.
So over all this time we've been used to this threat, and became a little acclimated to it.

But now they plan to do it.

@aoc.bsky.social: "Every time you see Tom Homan, every time you see Kristi Noem... understand that they are taking attention, focus, dollars, and real resources away from actual drug enforcement, trafficking enforcement, and actually going after and trying to investigate really harmful activity."

The Christian Nationalist Plot to Disenfranchise Women Voters The SAVE Act, which purports to fend off the phantasmal threat of voter fraud, would throw millions of women off the voting rolls.

“The SAVE Act, which purports to fend off the phantasmal threat of voter fraud, would throw millions of women off the voting rolls.” newrepublic.com/article/1914...

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

#SHUTDOWNSENATE

Share liberally. People all over America need to see those crowds!

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

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'"

YouTube video by Jennifer January 30, 2025

Sen. Hassan’s tearful statement to RFK Jr. was the most powerful moment yet. As she spoke of her 36-year-old son with cerebral palsy and the guilt she once felt, she made clear: science isn’t the enemy—it’s how we move forward.

The truth saves lives.

youtu.be/w_zG1FibBN4?...

Great news! Public money for public schools only!

They’re testing. It wasn’t a “glitch” that turned off Medicaid portals. They’re seeing which things they can delete without a fight.

Vets benefits? Abuse shelters? Aid to children? Cancer research?

They don’t care who gets hurt. Just what they can get away with.

Keep. Fighting. Back.