Alan Fast

‘Stunning’: Jeanine Pirro’s Failure to Indict Democrats Is a Big Deal The U.S. attorney is stumbling in Trump’s revenge tour — and it’s a sign of more struggles to come.

“A grand total of zero — zero — grand jurors agreed to return the proposed indictment. As a former federal prosecutor, I have never heard of this actually happening before.”

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Marimar Martinez was shot by Border Patrol five times.

DHS accused her of being a domestic terrorist.

She went to court to get the body cam footage released.

It shows Agent Charles Exum driving with his gun drawn.

Saying “do something b*tch”.

Ramming her car.

Shooting her.

It shows DHS lied.

Federal agents cannot murder people in broad daylight and face zero consequences.

I will NOT support the DHS bill as it stands.

The DHS bill needs to be split off from the larger funding package before the Senate—Republicans must work with us to do that.

I’ll keep fighting to rein in DHS and ICE.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Sonnet #3, On Faith A speeding train hath pierc'd the veil of night A young girl sits and contemplates alone She doesn't know the terminus of flight She just knows she must leave her stifling home A singer serenades a smoky haunt The acrid smells of squalor overthrow Carnality devoid of warmth of want In perpetuity the cycle goes Isolated phantoms in the street Their shadows flit about the fading flame Desperate for connection, so they seek For anyone to feel for, through the pain When there's a feeling that your heart clings to Belief without cessation sees you through

i totally forgot that i had turned "Don't Stop Believin'" into a sonnet

Andrew Tate fake tweet: Let me make this loud and clear. If you're a straight man with a girlfriend in 2025, you're gay.

It’s not actually that far from other things Tate has said so it didn’t feel notable enough to debunk yesterday. But now that we’re moving to day two of this circulating, this tweet is fake.

You said it yourself “supply and demand.”

Immigrants play an outsized role in housing supply. Immigrants account for 34 percent of people in the construction trades, almost double that of the broader population.

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EHG belongs in the podcast canon. My weekend is already better knowing that this episode is in my feed. A great way to spend $5.

YouTube video by NBC News Family battles insurance company for surgery coverage

I was not familiar with nbc news’s “cost of denial” series but the work Ellison Barber (terrific journalist, a better friend/human) has done for it seems to be yielding some positive action youtu.be/OX6WeFnwI0I?...

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

‘Reciprocal’ - don’t print this lie in the newspaper

White House correspondents’ dinner scraps plan for comedian to host Amber Ruffin was removed after a Trump official accused her of being “hate-filled” and took aim at the White House Correspondents’ Association for booking her.

Comedian Amber Ruffin’s headlining performance at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner was canceled, a day after a member of the Trump administration accused her of being “hate-filled.”

Guys…what are we doing here?

ok Trump Take Egg masterthread time: bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

So you’re going to boycott, right?

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

I take it he really loved “Hot Frosty”?

Yeah, honestly it’s been a really effective way to cut back on my social media usage

Always grateful to read your thoughts!

Exactly, seems relevant that he also lost a case in Wisconsin today in an attempt to have his name removed from the ballot. But I’m not a professional journalist.

Very strange….Reading the headline and article you wouldn’t learn that in some states he is suing to stay on the ballot while in others he sues to be removed from the ballot.

I have a colleague that constantly misuses that phrase, but it feels inappropriate and probably too late to correct.

I think your account was recommended as part of a group of ‘film enthusiast’ accounts. I can’t find the original post, but it had a ‘follow all’ button, which is why multiple other accounts were followed simultaneously.

The youth voting rate hasn’t actually dropped between 1972 and today. There are going to be ways to slice the data that look particularly bad, but on average youth turnout for presidential elections stays between 40 and 55%, with the lowest youth turnout in the 1996 and 2000 elections.

I only remember by getting to day 3. Godspeed.

It’s as though Adobe product managers get together every Monday and ask “How can we make the software even worse?”

First, “Picture of the Year” is a better award than “Best Picture” Second, can Donald Trump not tell Jimmy Kimmel and Al Pacino apart?

A perfect face!

Working up to a double pike with a full twist dismount! Stay strong.