Evan Sass

"Politics" is a screen behind which bad actors tuck the people impacted, in hopes that you overlook their humanity. "It's just politics" is always a distraction from the cost to and in human lives.

E.J. Antoni, a man with short brown hair wearing a red jacket, is highlighted via a yellow circle around his face. He is moving through a crowd of Jan. 6 rioters near the U.S. Capitol. Text in the top left corner reads: Watch at propublica.org/jan6-vids.

#ICYMI: You can spot E.J. Antoni, Trump's pick for Bureau of Labor Statistics Chief, in the crowd of Capitol rioters via our archive of 500+ Jan. 6 videos.

Watch him walk through the bottom of the screen starting at ~1:41 in this clip: projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...

Musk Weighs Return To Politics After 60th Death On ‘Elden Ring Nightreign’ Tutorial AUSTIN, TX—Reconsidering his recent departure from Washington as the words ‘YOU DIED’ appeared once more on his screen, billionaire Elon Musk reportedly weighed a return to politics Monday after his 60th death on the tutorial level of Elden Ring Nightreign. “Seems like these enemies are glitched to be unkillable—maybe I should stop back by the […]

Musk Weighs Return To Politics After 60th Death On ‘Elden Ring Nightreign’ Tutorial
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Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people.

There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

Today at least two judges were arrested for acts that are not criminally illegal and a two year old U.S. citizen was kidnapped and shipped to Honduras by ICE, who called it a "deportation."

Are we great again yet?

This is why they don’t want to do due process.

At this point "Abolish ICE and prosecute every officer who helped with deportations" is the moderate path

ONE IF BY LAND

TWO IF BY D.C.

the north end church in boston

it’s 250 years today

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A distraction is what a laser pointer is to your cat. The federal gov’t detaining and jailing and deporting people without due process, and without taking accountability for their actions and, in fact, slandering those denied their rights, is 100 percent worthy of your unflagging attention.

It might feel good in the moment to say he should be sent to languish in a torture prison in El Salvador, but the Constitution entitles all persons within the territories of the United States to due process and freedom from cruel and unusual punishment. Even traitorous felonious predator grifters.

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
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We found the voter fraud!!!!!

Executive Orders are not laws and do not need to be treated as such

Depriving people of a reasonable way to get their own money is not "saving." It's STEALING.

whether they’re retiring or not this should be the last term for each of them

Hell yeah Nancy

Trump's first month showed $36 billion more in spending than last year This February's monthly statement showed federal payments that were $36 billion higher than last February's.

Trump's first month in office showed federal spending of $603 billion in February — $36 billion HIGHER than last February!

Pass it on.
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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.

How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65

Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.

Panel 1: Mark Zuckerberg stands on the stage at a Meta all-hands meeting, wearing a little chain and a shirt that says "Cool Dude." "I think our company could use more Masculine Energy," he says into a mic. In the crowd, an employee raises their hand. "Excuse me, Mr. Zuckerberg," the person asks. Panel 2: The person stands up, asking, "By "Masculine Energy," do you mean a mature definition where men in power use their relative strength to protect and uplift those less privileged?" Panel 3: The person continues, "…or a more childish definition where men in power are free to be aggressive and harm others without being held accountable?" Panel 4: Hold on Zuckerberg. Panel 5: "You're all fired," Zuck says.

"would you please put that in writing" is how you pull off insubordination without actually being insubordinate. Very useful when you are getting sketchy (whatever 'sketchy' might mean) instructions from someone who might not want to take responsibility for it later.

signed, a former union steward.

Trump Announces White House Initiatives to combat Anti-Christian Bias Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast this morning, President Donald Trump announced the creation of a White House Faith Office and a task force to combat what he called "anti-Christian bias" in t...

As ever, "anti-Christian bias" means "not allowing right-wing Christians to discriminate freely" and "not treating Protestant/Evangelical Christianity as America's de facto religion" (in spite of it being unconstitutional to do so).

If you don't think America is corrupt, Pam Bondi, the Florida Attorney General who took a bribe, was sworn in as the US Attorney General by Clarence Thomas, a SCOTUS Justice who routinely takes bribes.

Government workers when DOGE shows up.

Refuse to be stored in black plastic sacks and placed in the containers provided

Do not go gentle into that good night

Well, food is about to get a lot more expensive, and I manage stress by info-dumping, so I'm gonna share some of the survival strategies I learned spending my first 30 years food-insecure:

First: Cooking in large quantities and freezing some for later is more cost-effective than cooking every day

I don’t care if you’re a relative, a fantasy novelist, or an elected official, transphobia is manufactured outrage and transphobe are trash.

None of America’s problems are cause by trans people. None.

But a LOT are caused by bigots.