this happening in a place called Quakertown is real first-draft shit

Pritzker’s invoice to White House:

(via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Trump has ordered the Treasury to send him $10 billion in cash & $10 billion for a slush fund (on top of the $200 million in cash stolen from Venezuela for another slush fund), on top of $10+ billion gotten from foreign governments in exchange for favors, but do go on about not taking a salary ...

If i still lived in NY, you'd have my signature!

Complaining that following the Constitution will stop you from doing the thing you want to do is... an admission that what you want to do is unconstitutional.

You swore an oath to defend the Constitution. You are violating that oath, Rep. Alford. Time to go home and let someone else do the job.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

For those unaware, a quick primer on perhaps the most dangerous of the oligarchs.

Peter Thiel.

Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

RFK Jr/MAHA world say they're not reducing access to vaccines for anyone who wants them, only giving people "choice" to opt out.
But by refusing to even review new vaccines, yes, they are absolutely blocking those who want a new immunization from ever having access to it.

Pretty clear that Trump aims to destroy the basic research capacities of the United States.

5-year-old twins were denied bond because lack of assets and property.

Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me. 😡

This isn’t a setback. This is deliberately thwarting the research and development of safe and effective medicine.

FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

imagine the drop in gun crime if we adopted biathlon rules and made everyone run a lap before taking a shot

Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou: The fact that the very people who are meant to lead this country have completely retraumatized us… it’s—I mean—it’s like being raped by the Department of Justice.

I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.

All Hat. No Cattle. Cosplay cowboys

Those same cowboys and ranchers and militia men are nearly all silent on the “tyranny” they just stood up against a decade ago. Some of those same men are even celebrating ICE.

The men who stood up for cows during the Bundy uprising won’t stand up for humans.

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Selfie of Akash smiling after waking up early to be first in line to cast the first vote for Kat in McHenry County! We added an 'I voted for Kat' sticker, some star stickers and copy that reads "FIRST VOTE CAST IN IL-09 FOR KAT!"

Shout out to Akash for casting the first vote for our campaign in McHenry County this morning!

Early in-person voting is now open in McHenry and Lake County, and mail-in ballots start going out across the district today.

After you vote, by mail or in person, send us a selfie. We love to see it!!

When you're so coked up and stupid you put the scope on backwards:

they're trying to be coy about salivating over the prospect of raping women, they'll contest that but if pushed to explain, that's exactly what they would describe. forced pregnancy of any kind, by a man or by the state, is gender-based violence

Jacob Frey: "The continued presence of 2,000 federal agents in a city that only has 600 police officers is still not deescalation"

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Fulton County officials asked a federal court to return 2020 election ballots that the FBI seized last week. The county is also requesting that the court unseal the affidavit the administration used to obtain approval for the search.

They want us working earlier and til we die to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Supervillains.

WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.

As a veteran who’s deployed, I know exactly what “in theater” means. It’s a military term for operations in foreign countries. Using it to describe Minneapolis isn’t accidental…and I can’t overemphasize how dangerous that language shift is.

My Turn | Complacency on campus My students' acceptance of Trump’s attack on Venezuela isn’t patriotism, it’s that they don’t expect anything better from their government, writes Champaign's Janice Jayes, who teaches in the history ...

"Afraid of being manipulated, [my students] simply don’t read at all."
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