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Frederick, Maryland wants No Kings

True that! #politics #religion

He speaks to dead people

What I hate about social media: the Declaration of Independence gets ZERO likes. Lol.

“…when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security…”

No wonder the White House didn’t want Abrego Garcia to ever come back. Folks, we’re PAYING for that torture with our taxes.

2 Dead as Firefighters Targeted in Shooting in Idaho, Officials Say

This is nuts.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...

That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose. Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss—it’s all part of a tactic called “sludge.”

I wrote about my car, our collective sanity and the state of Fuck It. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Kennedy Withdraws U.S. Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency

More deaths coming.

Kennedy Withdraws U.S. Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...

This has the potential to be a really important day in American history. Whether restorative, or destructive, is uncertain.

A remarkable photograph by four-time Pulitzer winning photographer Carol Guzy.

“You can’t make this up.”

- Marsha, making it up

Intelligence Agencies Increase Focus on Greenland, U.S. Officials Say

Benjamin Franklin once penned an essay entitled “Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One.” If Trump read, he would be wise to learn from it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

She was a class act. Kind, whip smart, so elegant. It was an honor to serve her.

I am saddened to hear about the passing of Secretary Alexis Herman—my Soror, a trailblazer, and the first Black woman to lead the Dept. of Labor. Her impact on this country and the fight for working people runs deep. Rest in power, Madam Secretary.

I’m almost 64. And I have never carried $3,000 cash with me ever. Has she heard of credit cards, Apple Wallet, Google Wallet, Venmo, yada yada?

Who the fuck “looks forward” to attending a funeral?

Dogs in Heaven? Pope Francis Leaves Pearly Gates Open (Gift Article) Pope Francis’ remarks to a distraught little boy whose dog had died have caused a new debate on whether animals have souls, suffer and go to heaven.

You had me at this, Francis. So sorry to lose you now, when we need you so very much. www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/w...

Coronavirus: Trump hopes US will shake off pandemic by Easter As the president sets out "a beautiful timeline", New York warns it is a "canary in the coal mine".

“It will be over by Easter.” www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

“This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear.” Appeals Court Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III.

I’ve never been to space, Ms. King, so I have nothing to say.

Lauren Sánchez in Space was Marie Antoinette in a Penis-Shaped Rocket Let’s call the “first all-female spaceflight” what it is: rich women showing off.

Good stuff! www.thedailybeast.com/lauren-sanch...

Marjorie Taylor Greene Bought Market Dip Before Trump Paused Tariffs, Profiting From the Rally The Georgia congresswoman purchased at least tens of thousands of dollars in stock the day before and the day of President Trump’s pause of a sweeping set of tariffs that sent the market soaring.

What an amazing coincidence www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

They are casually cruel - one of the most cruel regimes in all of human history. And it’s just getting started.

Trump Live Updates: U.S. and El Salvador Say They Won’t Return Man Who Was Mistakenly Deported

Terrifying www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04... guy

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” (Antonio Gramsci)

Who amongst us hasn’t gotten mad at our bosses sometimes

The White House Correspondents’ Association said it fired host Amber Ruffin so it can instead focus the dinner on celebrating the First Amendment.

Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.

Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States expressed bewilderment after the leak of attack plans. “You’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.

Amen www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...