Thom Parker

This is an important point

Much in DC in its formative years as our capital was deliberately “plain”

Because our government was supposedly not going to reflect the excess & exclusion of Old World royalty

The White House is stately & straightforward as a statement of principle

You know.
No kings.

In America, keeping books about gay penguins out of the hands of schoolchildren is a priority.

Keeping bullets out of their bodies is not.

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Excellent defense politics analysis right here 👇

they're having a hard time hiding their boredom

The thick-headed stupidity of the Trump administration in a nutshell:

All Voice of America's Farsi language employees have been urgently called back to work to broadcast into Iran.

They’d been put on administrative leave ahead of swingeing cuts.

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.

That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.

So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

Trump’s Un-American Parade What looks like an excess of strength may really be a deficit of liberty.

Essential “No Kings Day” reading from my PhD advisor T.H. Breen.

George Washington specifically rejected a military parade like the one Trump is having tomorrow. What seems to a king like a sign of strength should be seen by citizens as a loss of liberty.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Sneak peak at all of America tomorrow for “No Kings Day” 🍊🦅🇺🇸

For Trump, This Is a Dress Rehearsal Ordering the National Guard to deploy in Los Angeles is a warning of what to expect when his hold on power is threatened.

More coverage from @theatlantic.com on LA:

David Frum warns Trump is doing this as a dress rehearsal:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Conor Friedersdorf on the incentives for escalation:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Abducting people at work sites - meaning they have jobs.
Capturing them at court dates - meaning they're following the law.
Blocking them from accessible higher education - meaning they're striving for more.
And peddling lies about jobless, lawless, driftless.

NO KINGS! - Holland, Michigan · Indivisible On No Kings Day, we'll create a counterpoint that shows what democracy really looks like. From 12 to 2 on Saturday, we'll gather in Centennial Park in Holland. We'll start with a reading of the Declar...

June 14. 12-2 pm. Centennial Park. Be there! I'm attending Indivisible's event, “NO KINGS! - Holland, Michigan” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Apparently the qualifications to work in Trump’s “meritocracy” are to be condescending, uninformed, and completely out of touch?

Whoa! New polling shows that a majority of voters in EVERY SINGLE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT oppose cuts to Medicaid.

Members of Congress should take note.

☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121.

Defend Medicaid!
Defeat Cancer!

Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity When the bidding stops Monday, the top buyers of a Trump family crypto coin will win a tour of the White House.

Spiro Agnew had to resign as Vice President after he accepted more than $100k in bribes. Trump's corruption makes that look penny ante. The Qatar plane is obvious grifting, but this crypto coin scam is even bigger. @nytimes.com @ericlipton.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

Creating a problem and then demanding praise for fixing it.

A pattern.

A screenshot reading: During the meal, Cardinal Chomalí asked the new pope why he had chosen the name Leo XIV. "He told me he is very concerned about the cultural shifts we are living through, a Copernican revolution really -- artificial intelligence, robotics, human relationships," the prelate said. "He was inspired by Leo XIII, who in the midst of the Industrial Revolution wrote 'Rerum Novarum,' launching an important dialogue between the church and the modern world." The new pope believes the church has a vital role to play in today's moment of "perplexity," Cardinal Chomalí added. "There is a revolution happening, and it must be addressed seriously. The church can contribute through its moral authority and also its academic strength."

www.detroitcatholic.com/news/chilean...

The Library of Congress is a research library.

The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress.

Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research.

NO children’s section.

Even the general public has very limited access.

There’s this…Roll the videotape. 📼

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

Rep. Jasmine Crockett didn’t hold back:
“I cannot wait until voters get to say,
You took food out of my mouth.
You took the roof from over my head.
You made sure I don’t have healthcare…
So I’m making sure you don’t have a job.”

That’s not just a mic drop, that’s a warning.

#JasmineCrockett #Vote

The birthday parade will cost an estimated $45 million.

That's over one-fifth of the 2025 NEH budget, which covered >900 grants in all 50 states to support public libraries, local museums, community history projects, literacy initiatives, research grants & more. Until he rescinded the funds.

NOT MENTIONED: Jeanine Pirro was investigated because wiretaps showed that she was conspiring to illegally record her husband on their boat because she thought he was having an affair. (He had already had a child with another woman.) The hubby went to jail for tax fraud. Trump pardoned him.

Messy.

you're welcome

Page One must have been crowded.

So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡

@schooley.bsky.social

And just like that, inflation was no longer a problem . . .

He stood there on Jan 20 and falsely mouthed the words to protect and defend our Constitution.

Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.”

Translation: No.

Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.

Now we know why he didn’t have his hand on the Bible when he took the Oath of Office.

"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."