Bernadette Murphy

The only place in DC where crime is up is the White House.

Karen Bass: "You don't deploy the armed forces because of people's feelings."

This about covers it.

Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office. 

“You're only given a spark of madness. You musn't lose it.”
― Robin Williams

July 21, 1951
August 11, 2014

Two things can be true:

1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; &

2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.

Are you still talking about the BIGGEST political scandal of all-time EPSTEIN & how the president of the United States is connected to the most notorious child-sex-trafficker ever AND is covering up his own involvement???!!!

Good.

#RememberTheUnderageVICTIMS 💔

Inslee: If you need more energy, the dumbest thing you can do is disallow access to wind, solar, and advanced batteries—three of the most productive ways of producing new energy. And yet, that’s exactly what he’s done.

If we can afford to put all those "criminals" in jail, we can afford to put all those "homeless" people in housing.

Those aren’t reviews. Those are opinions, and they have their place and uses, but they do not substitute for deeply informed and engaging critical writing, which is a skill that takes time, practice, and experience to develop.

Inquiring minds want to know...

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Israel has killed approximately 200 journalists in Gaza in just 22 months, which is more than the combined number of journalists killed during WWII and the entirety of the Vietnam War.

Crazy how the guy on the Epstein list is also the guy making sure you never see it.

This rescue kitten was abused by her previous owners, but her new foster mom knows exactly how to gain her trust... 🥺 #cat #catday #bluesky

Trump had Obama’s White House portrait hidden away in a back stairwell, replacing it with his own assassination attempt photo — a spiteful display of ego and pettiness.

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing.

Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter.

Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵
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Has RFK Jr released a statement praising the vaccine crank who shot up the CDC yet?

Wow, that map is unhinged!

Some conservative jagoff: Cynthia Erivo is destroying Christianity!

Me: I say this as a Catholic—if your faith is so fragile that you’re offended by a Black woman starring in a musical, you’ve got bigger problems than the culture war.

Ha!

Viruses do not compose a single phylum, among other issues.

Park volunteers taking down signs at parks

Volunteers are taking pics of signs at national parks that tell the full story of American history. In an organized campaign they are capturing displays on the brutality of slavery, imprisonment of Native Americans, rising sea levels and other hard truths that Trump wants to erase.

Odd, how South Park is covering Kristi Noem and her ICE hooligans more accurately than The New York Times.

JD Vance = Just Does Vacay.