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Read Banned Books under a shelf of books.

Happy Banned Books Week! 🗃️

For more information on Book Bans, check out this recent report from @penamerica.bsky.social

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Some recent gouache cigarette paintings. Ifyouvegotem.com

In the 1993 film “Groundhog Day,” a cynical man is doomed to wake up every morning in the same town to relive the same day’s events. The Middle East can feel a bit like that, only bloodier and more tragic.

If I ever write a lede like this, you have my permission to take my computer, attach it to a 500-lb block of concrete, and toss it into the deepest reaches of the Pacific Ocean.

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Chicago: The feds gassed the cops.

It really does get old, seeing government officials use every single tragedy they can to attack their political opponents.

Americans want affordable lives and the ability to work hard and get ahead.

It’s really that simple.

If You’ve Got Em Just bad little gouache paintings of cigarettes and cigarette butts.

Cigarette paintings are now live: www.ifyouvegotem.com

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

As everyone else has noted, the ice stuff is just going to get worse and the dem plan of ignoring it isn't going to get better

“A shutdown falls on the president’s lack of leadership. I mean problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top. A shutdown means the president is weak.” – Donald Trump, 2013

Thru Traffic Human Rights Can't Be Debated

This is the best essay on Charlie Kirk’s assassination (and parenting and the current national mood) that I’ve read yet, by poet Noah Silea: nfsiela.substack.com/p/thru-traff...

“I don't think folks fully realize just how many people stick in awful jobs they hate to keep the health insurance. There's a reason big companies have spent billions fighting universal health care even though it would save them trillions in premiums.” - via berniegirl67_3

We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup.

It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.

If they claim they haven't heard the quote, play it for them and ask for a response.

If they claim it's being taken out of context, play a longer version and ask for a response.

If they try to sidestep the issue, play it over again and ask for a response.

Hegseth said yesterday he wants to ban any symbols of “superficial individual expression” by people serving in the military. Of course, he was probably talking about dangerous things like rainbows.

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.

California and New York paying taxes to this federal government in 2025 is tantamount to England and France paying taxes to Germany in 1940.

The money is going to be used *against* you.

I’m confused how it is despicable to ask that question. These are exactly the kinds of questions we have been begging reporters & TV hosts to ask. You see when they do get asked how sensitive they are about it. Much, much more of this. More crypto questions, Qatar, UAE, etc bsky.app/profile/atru...

Every government shutdown over the past 30 years was caused by Republican intransigence in Congress, the White House, or both. (Remember that one time when Ted Cruz was basically the Speaker of the House for a few weeks?)

This is Ezra Klein pulling a "people are saying" just like dear leader does. I'm starting to really hate this guy.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

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At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

If there’s a more beautiful piece of music in the world, I’d be hard pressed to name it: open.spotify.com/album/4vArLM...

Some of us do.

That health care briefing today had to make Bill Cassidy and Susan Collins damn proud of their votes to confirm RFK Jr.

At least while selling out the public health of a nation they avoided a mean post from Trump on Truth Social.

Priorities.