Violation of the Constitution's 8th amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment

As I’ve promised before, I will only confirm justices in the Senate who are unwavering in their support for marriage equality. Love is love, and that’s non-negotiable.

Maybe just provide more support for education?

Elon Musk holds multiple C-suite roles at multiple large companies.

Ignoring actual waste, fraud, and abuse...

I love how those rosettes on the door are too big for their panels 😆 they really just went to Home Depot, bought some junk off the shelf, and spray painted it gold.

Photos of a starving baby in Gaza shocked the world. Here's how he's doing now Images showing baby Mohammad Al-Motawaq captured world attention last month. In Israel, they were used to support claims that mass hunger in Gaza does not exist.

It is not, in fact, 100% accurate. Read this story from NPR:
Photos of a starving baby in Gaza shocked the world. Here's how he's doing now www.npr.org/2025/08/05/n...

Netanyahu is a liar and a war criminal.

People always yell at you for pointing this out about economic sentiment, but the same phenomenon is at play with crime: Americans (esp. Republicans) are convinced that crime is up when actually it is way down after a spike during the pandemic.

There's something to be said for the stability of a presidential system, but we definitely need a new constitution with much better guardrails.
With the Supreme Court: I kind of like how France has 3 different high courts, each with jurisdiction over different matters.

And that's not a new phenomenon. The whole reason CPB was created was because lawmakers saw the quality of programming from foreign public outlets like BBC vs the US big 3 and they were concerned, esp. for American kids consuming the low-quality content.

So the whole thing where Pam Bondi was like "oh they shut off the cameras for a minute every night, totally normal" -- yet another thing she made up, huh?

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages

@newjewishnarrative.bsky.social

Remember that time he retired and then almost immediately came back and fucked over Conan because his life was empty without a TV audience but then had to retire again pretty quickly because nobody actually wanted to watch him anymore? What a guy.

This is incredibly disturbing.
Also, she is a month and a half older than me. We had a teacher in middle school who kissed a student and we all knew at that age how messed up that was.

I hate piling on the media outlets and blaming them for everything, but it is so incredibly frustrating that they systematically adopt his framing, no matter how semantically bullshit it is

Held hostage? 🧐

Trump has been a candidate or president for 10 years now and this man has learned absolutely nothing in all that time

Isn't it illegal for a CEO to lie to shareholders?

Found in House Republican conference: 219 able-bodied adults who refuse to work.

*CBP, not ICE

Some Mar-A-Lago member probably went on one of these Great Lakes cruises and had something they didn't like and so decided to use ICE for revenge

My husband said Colbert's show should move to PBS.

Notice I did not say all. But, like, many European cuisines are unspectacular and heavy on the meat and potatoes. German cuisine, for example, is not globally celebrated for the complexity of its flavors.

Quick answer: yes.

But also to answer the racist idiot's question: yes. Ethiopian food is amazing and far superior to most European food.

NPR and PBS received ~$85 million last year in federal funding.

Trump’s golf trips will cost taxpayers over $100 million this year.

Republicans think kids learning to read is wasteful spending and indoctrination, while giving a blank check to their cult leader to golf isn’t.

I'm confused: are you arguing that NPR is biased because they accurately fact-checked the claim that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered in a lab?

It's always hilarious to me that Republicans, of all people, use that phrase

And the federal prosecutor who gave Epstein an insanely sweet deal where he was allowed to leave prison during the day WAS APPOINTED TO TRUMP'S FIRST CABINET

I've always thought that Puerto Rico should pursue statehood, but this really bolsters the argument for independence

It's almost as if the administration isn't really concerned about anti-Semitism and they've just been using that accusation in a cynical ploy to discredit their adversaries 🤔