Gray Calhoun (he/him)

This is one of the best things I’ve ever read

Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Feels like the week we decide between making him a Hitler for 25 years while he orders executions from the YES/NO ipad in his wheelchair and oxygen tank ~OR~ making him a the most hobbled and incapable lame duck in the history of the Presidency until he's either removed or quits next year.

Doomerism like this doesn't help anything. And at any rate, I don't think this is right empirically; Trump won in 2024 when his favorability rating was around -5. Now it's -20. Yes, support for fascism is alarmingly high, but Trump's not winning any elections today with just 31%.

It is increasingly clear that stripping the Department of Homeland Security down to the studs — ICE, Border Patrol, all of it — is the minimum we must do when we regain power.

But we can’t afford to wait that long to rein in these agencies.

For those asking where we go from here: Not voting to fund ICE is a great place for us to start.

this letter is deranged, even for him

Possibly the dumbest thing I’ve typed into my phone, but as an American I’m against invading our fucking allies, including Greenland.

Fascists Are Pathetic | Defector Two days before a shouting cluster of its agents surrounded the car of a Minneapolis mother and shot her to death last week, ICE was demanding answers from the Hilton hotel group on X.com. “Why did yo...

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YouTube video by SW561 1997 Eagles at Cowboys MNF Week 3

"I don't think we've ever lost a game we were about to win, like on a missed field goal or..." FML
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Went to repost this and then depressingly saw it was from 8 months ago. This is still true, and I am now convinced it will remain true until there are successful primary challenges nationwide to the "roll over and play dead" Dems.

WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

This Is Who Charlie Kirk Was | Defector Certainly the dead tend to be thought of more fondly than they were in life. Still, it’s quite disorienting to watch American institutions obediently line up to display the utmost solemnity for a bigo...

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Went on a family walk from Capitol Hill to Seattle Center with 70k of our friends and neighbors on Saturday. Blair’s sign (the “I knew it would be bad…”) got a lot of compliments, but the jester and king trump actors really stole the show. #nokings

a photo grid of dolls with protest t-shirts and signs.

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

Holy moly.

when I die, there are people who will be sad, and then life will go on for everyone ... but you know what won't happen, is there won't be fuckin mass parties in the street in every city in the country.

“Hi I don’t have the courage to protest with you but I have some notes about the optics.”

It pains me to say this, but if you are not a US citizen, you should not attend scientific conferences in the US, visit US institutions, or otherwise travel to our country.

Right now it's not worth the risk.

Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.

Imagine being lectured by RFK Jr about how to be healthy and then having Mark Zuckerberg tell you how many friends normal people should have

fuck me, second time today I forgot to post a lengthy disclaimer that I am not actually asking for advice, just making an observation

Just incredible

Every now and then I just pause and think that … we could have just elected Kamala Harris, and we’d still have an economy that was the strongest in the world; we’d still have an American-led trans-Atlantic order; we’d be assured that our universities would remain the envy of the world; … (1/x)

This is one of the worst interviews I’ve ever seen. Moran keeps trying to move on from a point Trump is CLEARLY WRONG ON and just says “agree to disagree.” Do your fucking job!

Opinion | No, thank you. I don’t want to appear on one of Trump’s ‘lists.’ The administration keeps coming up with ways to misuse federal data.

Similarly, those in autism advocacy community have asked for more research & support. But a new autism "disease registry" that people cannot opt out of, and that is managed by anti-vaxxers who say disparaging things about people will disabilities, ain't it. wapo.st/3YO5amY

Breaking the championship trophy is one thing. Breaking the pope is a whole different level.