Robert Gorell

This guy gets it.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

Sharing this interview specifically because Trump’s FCC doesn’t want us to see it and stopped it from airing on television:

youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history

From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

What happened to this RFK Jr.?

Halle Barry calls you a bozo before you have to walk on stage sounds like a nightmare I’ve definitely had.

Virginia House seats won by Democrats this century, out of the chamber's 100 seats:

in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51

2025, i.e. this week: 64

What are its borders? Who is its leadership? Does it have a constitution?

This is insane and dumb. Everyone wants this — except for the Israeli far right and most Palestinian Arabs.

See also: Every single rejected deal for independent statehood (with actual borders and leadership).

REPORTER: You say that Putin has let you down. What are your next steps to compel an end to this war?

TRUMP: It doesn't affect the United States unless you end up in a world war

London welcome's trump...

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"

Horrific news for Detroiters and anyone who reads news from the Detroit Free Press. The “Freep” was a bastion of capital-L Liberalism for my entire life before this moment. A cryin shame…

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

The people who came up with "MS Now" know that Trump is going to call it MS-13 Now, right?

Thank you, sir!

Hey, @claudeyoung.bsky.social … do you know if this mix is still streaming anywhere? Hope you’re good!

Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve Starvation only helps Hamas end the war in a way that advances its aims.

YUP

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

They’re in the streets protesting this government, just as they were in the months before 10/7/23 … hello.

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.

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Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.

Russell Vought claimed on CNN this weekend that NIH funding is corrupt. A reminder, his family has directly benefited from the NIH. Read this piece by @juliametraux.bsky.social

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

MAY EVERY DAY BE ANOTHER WONDERFUL SECRET

She’s right, but just a reminder that it was her dad who helped Trump get elected at the buzzer in 2016 with that bullshit letter about the Clinton investigation when TRUMP WAS ALSO BEING INVESTIGATED AND THE FBI SAID FUCK ALL. Gahhhhhhhh!

Two historians weigh in on ICE and the Gestapo An examination of the Gestapo and ICE.

I talked to two historians about the comparisons between ICE and the Gestapo for my newsletter
madness.ghost.io/two-historia...

it's remarkably bleak that Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women, including an allegation that was adjudicated and in which he was found liable for sexual assault, and yet the American public needs still MORE evidence of his depraved character and unfitness.

Ossoff: Did anyone really think the sexual predator president who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein was going to release the Epstein files?

Measles stays in the air for up to 2 hours. If you’ve been in a room with anyone that has measles and aren’t vaccinated you could have measles. This is serious and people are dying from something that... TikTok video by Martha Rosey

Frantic mom who’s baby was just exposed to measles at a day care—via an unvaxed parent—and now the day care is closed and everybody must quarantine for 28 days, after an emergency trip to…the hospital. This the RFK Jr future www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6LNEJHf/

Former FEMA commissioner on @jenpsaki.msnbc.com’s show saying that nowhere near enough aid and specialists have been deployed to Texas, including people who could have helped search for survivors