Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

The only ‘rebellion’ happening here, to state the obvious, is by the executive branch of the federal government against the Constitution. These people need to cope and seethe.

FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed & deficient with Noem in charge Staffers sound the alarm.

Staff at FEMA haven't received any internal communications from the agency or department leadership since the deadly floods in Texas, which is unheard of in the wake of a major disaster.

Acting Administrator David Richardson is "nowhere to be found."

The president and vice president, like most Republicans, think it is good that a christian fanatic murdered an elected Democrat, and they pretty clearly hope there will be more murders.

Is it so much to fucking ask that our real life supervillains not be so obviously fucking pathetic

1/8 Trump just told Americans who have bodies that sometimes get sick (and prefer not to die) to #GoFundYourself!

So we did.

We’ve launched a $723B GoFundMe to replace what he’s stealing from Medicaid.

Every $10 cancels $1K in medical debt.

Pitch in at GoFundYourself.page

One explanation is that antisemitism has become conflated with the divisive politics of the current Israel-Hamas war. It is certainly true that criticism of the Israeli government is not the same thing as antisemitism. This editorial board has long defended Israel’s right to exist while also criticizing the government for its treatment of Palestinians. Since the current war began, we have abhorred the mass killing of civilians and the destruction of Gaza. Israel’s reflexive defenders are wrong, and they hurt their own cause when they equate all such arguments with antisemitism. But some Americans have gone too far in the other direction. They have engaged in whataboutism regarding anti-Jewish hate. They have failed to denounce antisemitism in the unequivocal ways that they properly denounce other bigotry.

You are the ones conflating opposition to Israel's genocide and antisemitism! It is abundantly clear that the pro-Palestine movement is motivated by moral offense at the mass killing of innocent people, not antisemitism.

If you study the successful rebellions and resistance and civil rights movements of the past, you will note that “people who spend their time publicly bumming out everyone around them by emphasizing how totally fucked everything is” do not play a central role, or indeed, any role at all

Trump administration halts research to help babies with heart defects James Antaki has worked for over 30 years on a device to help infants with holes in their hearts and other defects. Now it’s all at risk.

NEW: after 30 years of work, a Cornell professor was getting close to putting a small device to help save the lives of babies born with holes in their hearts into production

Then the Trump administration cut off funding without explanation

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

20 million is about twice the highest estimates, and even if it were true it would not justify removing people without due process, let alone sending them to a gulag for life. The Constitution puts mandatory restraints on government to restrain amoral lickspittles like this bsky.app/profile/sky....

Speaking as the parent of the 2-year-old: Critical Support to Comrade Rachel

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

nothing this administration does, or the last did, in the name of defending jews is about defending jews.

UArts’ Hamilton Hall will go to the Philly company that repurposed the Bok Building Lindsey Scannapieco’s Philadelphia company Scout intends to preserve Hamilton Hall for artist workspaces and the attached Furness building for subsidized apartments for artists.

heyyyyyy it’s a piece of good news! we never get these any more www.inquirer.com/education/un...

Following Trump's purge of its pro-worker leadership, the NLRB has reportedly dropped its opposition to a SpaceX lawsuit arguing the agency itself is unconstitutional.

The richest man in the world is getting a solid return on his $290M investment in Trump.

When we unionized a few years ago, a lot of peanut gallery types on social media wanted to tell me it would be the end of Wired.

Hope it’s now clear (thanks mostly to our insanely talented and hardworking politics team) that it does not work that way.

Unions are good.

Tomorrow Trump will sign an executive order mandating that Kid Rock does the Super Bowl halftime show every year

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

A MINOR

my mom legit has followed every twist and turn of the kendrick/drake beef via josh johnson standup and i cannot wait for her commentary on the halftime show

This is almost such an obvious point, it feels slightly crazy to point it out, but a politician winning a national election does not mean that the criticisms of that politician were wrong. Nixon and Bush both go reelected and everything their most unsparing critics said about them was right.

🙃

House Passes Bill to Bar Trans Athletes From Female School Sports Teams Republicans’ decision to push through the measure early in the new Congress indicated their belief that the issue is politically potent for them. Its future in the Senate is uncertain.

I know I’m preaching to the choir here but it is just staggering how little Republicans care about womens’ sports or a level playing field unless it involves genitals. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...

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Holy shit y’all, this is huge news! Proud of all the #1u family building power for workers! We are sure gonna need it these next 4 years…