Annabanana

That’s a really unfortunate location

McGovern: "This is not a governing philosophy. It is a scam. I wasn't sent here to vote for trash. I can't understand why you'd choose a career of public service to do this -- to rip away the healthcare & food assistance of working & middle class Americans. Is that really what you came here to do?"

Someone on Twitter writes: "Derek would you ever consider doing a thread on how transmascs can dress well and have clothing that helps hides hips and stuff? Only advice I've gotten are straight leg jeans and a boxy shirt"

I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵

Graduation is Friday, I don’t believe that’s a coincidence

If you’re in Morgantown, WV or you know anybody who is, 50 ICE agents landed at the airport there this morning.

"Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin'
Four dead in Ohio."

Neil Young

Remembering:
Allison Krause, 19
Jeffrey Miller, 20
Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20
William Schroeder, 19

4 May 1970

When your opposition plays dirty, being nice doesn’t make you noble...it makes you their next target.

-Jack "Tired of this Shit" Hopkins

This is it.

"The Trump administration's attack on difference, the idea that people who are different are a tragedy and a burden and that they have nothing to contribute — that is fascism. And it is a danger to almost everyone."

Despite intimidation effort, a Trump critic speaks up A fired DOJ whistleblower testifies against the administration's widespread corruption of the rule of law

A DOJ lawyer said nope to a presidential pardon for Mel Gibson. She got fired. The Trump administration tried to keep her quiet. But she's still speaking out.
I detail the latest below:

One of the big reasons (other than doctors getting better at diagnosing it) why it seems to older people that there just weren't autistic people around when they were growing up is because many, many children with mental and physical disabilities, differences and delays were institutionalized.

This is the kind of thing that, if true, leads to life sentences for treason

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism.

If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone.

Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

“Abortion is murder” turned into “Birth control is bad” turned into “Women should not vote & neither should those under 25” fast.

That’s exactly what we, those outspoken folks like me, said would happen. Exactly.

It’s a power grab by white men who miss the days when they controlled everything.

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

#TrumpTariffs #TrumpMarketCrash

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

Willie Nelson!

Jasmine Crockett @ @JasmineF....6h There's an immigrant taking people's jobs... his name is Elon Musk. He's snatching farms, government jobs (even those in which they manage our national security), and definitely those whose jobs are to root out fraud (inspector generals), & those that are keeping us safe (FAA), meals on wheels workers, head start, and the list goes on, so l'll be the bigger person and admit to MAGA that I was wrong when I said immigrants wouldn't take our jobs. You were 1000 percent correct.

There it is. The message. You can take a decades-long Republican scam (“immigrants took your job”) and flip it against them.

What happened to your job?

Elon the immigrant took it.

These absolute morons are going to destroy the United States.

If you’re in favor of the US leaving NATO, you either don’t want the US to succeed, or you don’t know wtf NATO does.

Worth noting that Mike Lee voted to expand NATO in 2022.

In Worcester v. Georgia, 1832, the Supreme Court determined that the Cherokee Nation was a sovereign nation. President Andrew Jackson pronounced the decision "still-born," and the Cherokee ended up in Oklahoma (those who survived).

We've been here before, Congress. What are you prepared to do?

They're waking up.

You really crack me up!

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No more yolking around?

The only thing in the animal kingdom that wants anything to do with Canada Gooses is Canada Mooses.