Randy Wilson

"The Trump administration’s broad threats to science—climate science especially—go far beyond the potential closure of the Mauna Loa Observatory... What would be lost is staggering...The whole world will pay a price for this recalcitrance, not least America."

#ClimateSky

To put it nicely, I don’t give a fuck what the average layman has to say about climate change or its effect on air turbulence.

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills:

"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."

Is this meant to imply that somehow these camps are intended to preserve human life? Because that certainly isn’t the impression I’m getting. Those lives are being very intentionally and publicly tossed away. We should call the camps what they are.

Trump is a FASCIST with Dementia. Yet corporate media will not use either word to describe him.

Flaming middle finger picture

To the entirety of the Republican Party: be it ordained that your first day in hell lasts 10,000 lifetimes and may it be the shortest fucking day you all ever spend there. The end.

You can cancel the 4th of July; we are no longer free. If there are any rights that the Republicans haven’t gleefully stripped from us, it’s only because they haven’t figured out how.

Only hope

TO DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP.

A VERY LARGE DOOR HAS BEEN OPENED FOR YOU TO STEP INTO. THAT WAS DONE BY US.

NOW DO YOUR JOB AND WALK IN AND START FIGHTING LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER DONE BEFORE

For nearly a decade, since Election Day 2016, the media and politicians have had a choice: Recognize that we were in a crisis like no other in our lifetimes, or pretend that we aren't. Nearly all politicians, and too many in the media, have chosen the latter.

Ok, *this* is best comparative stat, members of media: The DC Pride parade one week ago had a bigger turnout.

Dear lord this is embarrassing even for the “new and improved” WaPo

my grandpa was illiterate so i have no idea if this ouija board is working or not

BREAKING: ICE has ‘kidnapped 6 roofers’ in South Florida, abandoning the roofing truck by the road and telling no one.
Locals say those men have no criminal records, have families here and are living in America legally with valid work permits.THIS is why people are protesting…

Enough is Enough! ✨

Don’t know how else to say it: you should care about other people, because you are other people.

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns

los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

Direct File is 'beloved by its users,' internal IRS report says The IRS is reportedly ending the Direct File, but a report obtained via the Freedom of Information Act says that 94% of users rated their experience as “excellent” or “above average.”

Got my hands on an internal IRS report on how Direct File went this season. TLDR: pretty well. 94% of users said their experience was excellent or above average.

That said, the IRS is reportedly killing the free tax filing service.

www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

Neat reminder that some of the core problems with the US Constitution have been apparent for a very long time

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist."

~ Hannah Ahrendt

Sure but they can inflict a little suffering with this method and that is absolutely irresistible for Republicans.

Philosophers: there’s this thing called ‘epistemic injustice.’

GOP: oooh!! Love the sound of that!!

Canada looked at us and said “nah fuck that.”

Congratulations Canada 🇨🇦
We love you

Yeah, every time I see Bill Kristol acting surprised about where all this came from, I want to punch him in the face.

I gotta say, either he has some hardcore dementia or some massive fucking balls to pretend he wasn't one of the cheerleaders of all this shit during his entire pre-Trump career.

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism.

If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone.

Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

In the flush of Bluesky early days I joined a lot of starter lists and apparently one of them was “corny ass dad jokes” so my struggle now is that I have to unfollow some perfectly nice people to tighten up the timeline.

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

The pause means that from now until the end of time: “But a *real* world trade war has never been tried.”