Elizabeth McFadden

Glad you made it out and that you and your family are safe.

I never imagined that 1930’s Germany could happen here; the US is flawed but I thought not truly broken. Apparently, I was wrong.

Meet DammmitMalcolm, enormous bumblecat and affectionate goofball!

Trump orders ICE officers to expand deportation efforts in Democratic cities | CNN Politics President Donald Trump called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to expand deportation efforts in Democratic cities

All of this is being manufactured by Trump. The show of force is the point.

It distracts from his recent failures and inability to govern.

Like any bully, Trump wants to display his power — especially over those whom he doesn't consider "his" people.

Look how that Overton window just sliiiiiides
First it was "illegal" immigrants criminals
Then it was it was simply immigrants
Then it's lawful us residents/green card holders
Now it's criminal us citizens
GUESS WHO'S NEXT

Reddit is flooded with small businesses owners getting crushed by tariffs — devastated by the thought of raising prices, firing workers, or closing up shop entirely.

I would read the hell out of this, fwiw. 😍

Just finished reading it!

Loved it (no surprise there). It’s quirkily, beautifully hopeful. And I found myself, near the end, thinking about the characters I met reading it, and hoping they went on to have good lives. (Yes, I know - fictional. But they’re real in my head.)

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

He’s watching.

Spirit Airlines is a nightmare, with ZERO customer service. Just don’t fly them.

Expresses my feelings perfectly. It’s achingly painful to find we aren’t the nation I thought we were.

Mine. My husband and I shop together often. Why is that odd? He eats food, too - why oughtn’t he shop? He also does a large minority of the cooking. And he cleans.

ATTENTION, trans and NB friends … It’s being reported that the state department has stopped processing gender marker correction applications, and worse, they’re ordered to *CONFISCATE SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS.* Be extremely cautious when presenting hard-to-replace documents in any federal office.

Judge Rejects Biden’s Title IX Rules, Scrapping Protections for Trans Students (Gift Article) The decision threw out the administration’s proposed regulations, which prohibited discrimination based on gender identity.

Absolutely terrifying. It won’t stop with our LGBTQIA citizens. Every protection for every marginalized group is under threat.

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400,000 Americans lost their lives to Covid because of Trump's incompetence. He's not changed one bit because of it. American lives and deaths mean nothing to him.

What really happened after California raised its minimum wage to $20 for fast food workers What would happen to the fast food industry if it had to pay its workers something closer to a living wage?

1. In April 2024, California raised the minimum wage for fast food chains to $20/hour

The industry claimed it would be devastating & require significant job cuts and prices increases

Here is what really happened: workers got a raise, prices went modestly, and the industry continued to add jobs

The same to you, sir!

Bodies are like Tetris--the longer you play the game of being alive, the faster shit keeps happening and the more you have to scurry around doing maintenance trying not to crash.

I liked Easy Mode, dammit.

Marking a success by helping folks in a severely marginalized community - you, sir, are a class act! Well done.

Pete Buttigieg told Democrats to not allow themselves to be so outraged by the Trump administration that they would neglect working for their constituents. “We cannot be mesmerized by the worst things that we see happening,” Buttigieg said. nyti.ms/3ZiKILz

M.I.T. to Offer Free Tuition to Families Earning Less Than $200,000 For students whose families earn less than $100,000 per year, the school will also other costs, including housing, dining, fees and an allowance for books and personal expenses.

MIT announced that it would eliminate tuition costs next fall for all undergraduate students whose families earn less than $200,000 per year — following a national movement to try to make higher education more accessible.

I feel mislead by all dystopian literature. It's supposed to be a powerful authoritarian government that lords over a cowering population, and and we just need need a few brave acts of heroism to give the people the courage to rise up.

Instead it's just half the country being dumb and mean.

… and advocates know who you are. And I hope you know how much you are valued. None of this changes without you!

…too much punishment will hurt his swimming career, that someone who says things like “grab them by the pu$$y” can be elected to high office.

Of course we’re mad.

But the anger isn’t universal. Those of you who are wonderful spouses, friends, lovers, allies, staunch feminists …

This.

Yes, we’re frustrated and angry that we live in a society where we don’t feel safe around men we don’t know, where we have to assume the worst for our own protection, where a rapist can SUCCESSFULLY use as a defense in court the notion that too much punishment will …

Thanks! (And he certainly likes to think so! 😉)