Marissa

My southern grandmother Frances hated Reagan because, among other reasons, she thought he was dumb as a post. She was right.
I don't want a President who's dumber than me & talks like 'real people'.
I want someone who's so goddamn whip smart he terrifies the rest of the room when he walks into it.

Currently visiting San Fran and man! This place is so cool. Every turn is fantastic architecture, great history, tons to do. Live in STL and that place has a free zoo, tons of free attractions, newish soccer team and stadium, great stuff for families, fantastic history, and amazing beer scene.

Anatomy of the Swiss Revolution How Switzerland Engineered Itself into Becoming the World's Greatest Transit Nation

Switzerland is “rich in something vanishingly rare in the rest of the world: common sense. This is most apparent in the way the Swiss get around…a model of sensible, sustainable — and yes, even enjoyable — transit. It’s simply the best transportation system in the world.” Via @taras-grescoe.com

Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?

“Cracker Barrell Outrage Almost Certainly Driven By Bots.”

“…the boycott was unlikely to be an organic grassroots response but a bot-assisted amplification seeded by meme/activist accounts.”

Via @gizmodo.com

In other words, we’re being manipulated.

Aggressively, constantly manipulated.

I don’t ever remember any other President who told Americans to hate other Americans.

Not one instance.

So we all know Stephen Miller wrote this, right? Like his pathological need to act tough shows through. Man needs some serious therapy

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Very cool

I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE. An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Don’t let this make you quieter.

Get louder.

We broke up the banks. We broke up the railroads.
We broke up the steel companies.

We can break up the media conglomerates. We can break up the tech conglomerates.

We've done it before. We can do it again.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell could not have sold children for sex without rich perverts buying children for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.

257. The Commission recommends that all Member States: (a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip; (b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide; (c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law; (d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide; (e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. 258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: (a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants; (b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

The chart is missing halloumi

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

He needs to resign or be removed.

Watching RFK flail, stammer and stutter during the congressional hearing is proof that he’s never stood before a Morbidity and Mortality committee, never defended a PhD thesis, never been pimped on rounds. Not only does he not understand the science, he’s clueless on our culture

Resign or be fired

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

Hot take, but: car drivers speeding, illegally parking, failing to stop for pedestrians, and aggressively driving to much more damage to a city than graffiti, no matter how badly or obnoxiously done.

I legit blocked a few Gaylors this AM before the announcement. What impeccable timing

And honestly, while we’re at it, let’s put a modern Glass Steagel back into effect.

Dear journalists:

The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.

Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

That first picture is most definitely NOT in New Bloomfield. Close, but no. It’s in Fulton in Westminster College’s campus

That’s what therapists have been saying for years. Naming it takes the power away.

Very cool how Thomas & Alito were found to have taken exorbitant bribes over the years and not a goddamn thing was done about it

The movie The Purge, but only super-rich people are allowed to commit crimes and get away with it, and it’s every day… and I’m just describing our country right now… never mind.

This is ironic — we’ve been talking for a long time about how “short trips” make up a LOT of traffic in cities & have BIG implications for pollution and GHG emissions. So it’s a big opportunity to convert such trips to walking or biking trips.

But guess what — they’re ALSO REALLY BAD FOR YOUR CAR.

Kind of sucks that people assume you’re on a GLP1 when you lose weight. Like, no, I just regulated my nervous system, got over my cortisol addiction by quitting my toxic corporate job and working part time with low stress and was also recently diagnosed with IBS, okay?