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Love the lantern. Anassa kata!

This is so good, especially coming from a man that looks and sounds like he does

Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

The Smithsonian Trump EO is an alarming overreach in2 cultural institutions. When governments dictate which stories get told, we lose the opportunity 2 learn from our history. The Smithsonian should remain a place where scholarship determines how we present our national story.
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Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.

🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up

If only Rubio would listen to Rubio 🙁

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Levi was my supervisor during an internship/co-op in law school (sometime in 97 or 98 I think). I’m so proud to have been affiliated with GLAD.

A friend from the VA just sent this and asked me to share. PMDB is Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior in the workplace. THIS is the real war against women: being forced to say there are only 2 genders but not being allowed to mention 96% of violence is perpetrated by men.

A Missouri Representative has filed a bill to track pregnancies in the state.

HB 807 will: "Maintain a central registry of each expectant mother who is at risk for seeking an abortion of her unborn child and make the same available to a prospective adoptive parent who has completed screenings."

Data and information about the flu vaccine is political? WTF

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Justice Brandeis said, “Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law. It invites every man to become a law unto himself. It invited anarchy.”

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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What Democrats Did Today Feb. 14, 2025 —Senator Chris Murphy and Representative Maxwell Frost reintroduced the Office of Gun Violence Prevention Act —House and Senate Democrats rallied outside the Department of Veterans Affairs to stand for veterans and VA workers —Democratic attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit to challenge the decisions Elon Musk has made within DOGE —Virginia House Democrats passed constitutional amendments aimed to protect reproductive freedom, voting rights, and marriage equality —Representative Sharice Davids pushed the Department of Transportation to implement FAA safety reforms that Congress passed last year to improve air traffic control

Here’s what Democrats did today (February 14):

BREAKING: A federal judge has determined that the Trump administration is violating his order lifting the blanket spending freeze on federal grant programs.

He is orderin gthe administration to immediately unfreeze funds, including for NIH and the IRA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

They are going to ignore court orders.

If they ignore court orders, the social contract is dead and buried, the constitution is no longer in effect.

It's a rubicon that cannot be uncrossed.

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

Con law and fed courts clearly weren’t JD’s best classes in law school.

For those not familiar with how financial markets work, US Treasuries are the ultimate safe asset, used as collateral for everything. Even a hint that some Treasuries might not be honored could bring everything to a screeching halt 1/

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

We had many fatal plane crashes in decades past when hiring practices favored white men. This DC accident is the 1st fatal U.S. commercial air crash in 16 years. That hardly suggests fairness in hiring is a problem. Quite the opposite. Trump is using a tragedy to push his racist, sexist message.

Reporter: You blamed the diversity elements but then told us you weren’t sure that the controllers made any mistakes.

Trump: It’s all under investigation.

Reporter: That’s why I’m trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash.

Kansas faces one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in US history Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 confirmed latent cases.

Do you wonder why you haven’t heard much about this massive TB outbreak recently? Cuz the CDC can’t hold any press conferences or issue public statements of any kind.

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Never believe that anti- Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will

When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

"It was a Roman salute" is an updated version of "actually, the Buddhists also used swastikas." If you are using it post-1945, you know very well that the association has changed.

The media coverage of Musk's obvious Nazi salute tells you all you need to know about whether democracy is about to, or has already ended here.

That a Nazi salute defines the first day of the second Trump presidency illustrates that even the most doomsaying cynics among us cannot predict how truly awful the next 4 years will be.

Everything happening with TikTok this weekend is a show and happening outside the legal system. I’m looking at it this way: TikTok shut down to send the message to users that Trump wanted to fix it; TikTok is coming back up before the inauguration because Trump wants it up for his inauguration.

“Every storm runs out of rain.” Maya Angelou