‪ There is a stronger link between childhood trauma & addiction, than there is between obesity & diabetes. Two thirds of addicts report being abused as children.

That means the war on drugs and mental wellness issues is a war on traumatised people that just need help.

"I don't care what judges think."

A century ago, Richard Riker was part of a kidnapping club. With other gov’t officials he schemed to grab free Back NYers off the street, deny them due process, declare the fugitive slaves, and send them south to enslavement. Look around. Past is once again prologue.

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?

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Ocasio-Cortez isn't screwing around. She has the House behind her. They want to string Schumer up.

Right. It’s more like calling English speakers in Ireland ‘people from England’

Russian speakers in Ukraine are not ‘people from Russia,’ dumbass. It’s like sayin English-speaking Americans are ‘people from England’

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

“They got tsetse flies the size of eagles”

When you hear Trump & his supporters defend the detention of a Green Card holder by pretending to care about 1) antisemitism on campus, and 2) trespassing on college property, remember that Trump 1) hosted a Holocaust denier for dinner & 2) pardoned violent insurrectionists.

Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.

Is this what he told you in your office Susan Collins, when you decided to vote for this lunatic?

DHS Ends Collective Bargaining for TSA’s Transportation Security Officers, Enhancing Safety, Efficiency, and Organizational Agility | Homeland Security The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it is ending collective bargaining for the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Transportation Security Officers, which has constrained TS...

DHS just tore up a settled, signed union contract with TSA employees, which is straightforwardly, unambiguously illegal.

www.dhs.gov/news/2025/03...

old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

Not even hiding it.

I never thought I would be one of ‘those people,’ but I canceled my Washington Post subscription today. Jeff Bezos does not need my help sucking up to Trump

The US has always contained far more fascists than communists, and fascism has always posed a much bigger & more proximate threat to democracy. Yet we've never had a "brown scare." No McCarthy-esque hearings to root out fascists embedded in gov't. Wonder why that is.

I don’t know if I’d say that they’re addictive, but I do know that I start screaming at everyone when I stop talking them

Just like when CRT became the enemy, most of the people villainizing USAID as the worst thing ever to happen had no idea what it was a week ago.

OG being listed as Questionable, 96 hours before the trade deadline, means absolutely nothing. They could have amputated his foot last night and he’d be listed as questionable.

I guess that was the second biggest mistake

We're all gonna die

Lest we forget.

#EatTheRich #TaxBillionaires

So far 2025 hasn’t been that bad …

one of the writers who wrote the carter obit in the washington post has been dead for almost 11 years

They got that metric calendar