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They are always so close to the point but then deliberately miss it.

An Onion front page with the headline: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice Who will stand up for our democracy? This question, fraught in even the most peaceful times, has only grown more pressing as our country approaches its 250th anniversary. Each passing day brings growing assaults on essential liberties like freedom of speech and due process. Meanwhile, our delicately assembled legal system faces a constant barrage of threats. Even as this issue reaches publication, the U.S. military has been deployed against peaceful protesters. We teeter on the brink of collapse into an authoritarian state. That is why, today, The Onion calls upon our lawmakers to sit back and do absolutely nothing. Members of Congress, now more than ever, our nation desperately needs your cowardice. Our republic is a birthright, an exceedingly rare treasure passed down from generation to generation of Americans. It was gained through hard years of bloody resistance and can too easily be lost. Our Founding Fathers, in their abundant wisdom, understood that all it would take was men and women of little courage sitting in the corridors of power and taking zero action as this precious inheritance was stripped away—and that is where we have finally arrived. Now is not the time for bravery or valor! This is the time for protecting your own hide and lining your pocket. Now is not the time for listening to your idiotic constituents drone on about what’s happening to their precious democracy. This is the time for getting down on all fours and grov- eling. Now is not the time to say, “Enough is enough,” and have the tough conversations about resisting the ongoing assaults on American liberty. This is the time to let the wave of apathy and indifference roll over you as you think about getting a really nice renovation to your house in Kalorama. But what can I, one coward, do alone? you might ask.

Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state.

That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:

Sit back and do absolutely nothing.

Tweet from @zelliemani "Entering a world war to end a genocide is one thing, entering a world war to keep a genocide going is another"

Reflecting on the HUGE #NoKings turnout vs lackluster attendance at Trump’s parade & realizing this administration does not have the power we feared.

Because—and this is important—WE are choosing not to give it to them. The only power they have comes from us.

Don’t let them take your power.

Some of you can’t handle seeing two alpha horse going at it and it shows.

speaker melissa hortman and her husband

Speaker Hortman was a bold and brave leader who made hard decisions and fought for the people of Minnesota every single day.

She and her husband Mark did not deserve to die. My heart goes out to their children.

It is so awful. And more so for the people of Minnesota. My heart is broken.

Well, that was quick. I'm pretty sure we should all stop saying that the shooter in Minnesota was dressed like a policeman and just assert that there is no longer any way to know whether or not anyone is or isn't law enforcement. Because that is the truth.

Any person in uniform wearing a mask and refusing to be properly and reliably identified should be assumed to be the same kind of murderer we’ve seen in Minnesota.

We’re told immigrants don’t work, but they raid workplaces.

We’re told hiring undocumented immigrants is illegal, but they never arrest the employers, just the employees.

We’re told this is about safety, but it’s really about furthering a white nationalist agenda.

Congrats Chrissy!

That man so fine

Amazing!

ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back theSkimm makes it easier to live smarter. You're welcome. Get all the info you need from AM to PM, wherever you are.

The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on!

Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com

Oof. Sorry.

SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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While it was sunny and snowing yesterday, the snowflakes were just glinting on the ground.

More like a coin that’s very much weighted towards “predator.”

If you’ve ever seen captions for an event happening live you know those captions are very often gibberish. You don’t have to be hearing impaired to know this! What kind of rotten brain do you have to think deaf people have it TOO EASY

Going forward, many people are going to tell you that you are required to respect them or listen to them or agree with them or be nice to them because some politician or intellectual or billionaire said so, and I am here to preemptively remind you that you are still free to tell them to fuck off. 😘