I have, of all shows, started Person of Interest in the year of our lord 2025. Times be wild. But I’m up to S2 and it’s been fun!
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference.
The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
we fucked up a perfectly good planet is what we did. look at it. it's got billionaires
I hate the updated Law & Order mothership theme song. How dare tbh.
90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.
I want the names of the Dem consultants and campaign managers who told Tim Walz to stop cooking like this on the campaign trail last year.
They should never work in politics again. THIS is the energy we need.
Watching the og Superman movie for the first time and it is so slow. My attention span was not built for 1978.
Just an FYI: Medicaid fraud is rarely perpetrated by beneficiaries. The fraudsters are almost always the doctors and CEO's that administer Medicaid. For example: when a doctor charges the government $600 for an $8 breast pump and pockets the cash and the third party administrator takes a cut.
After 1,000 National Park Service employees were abruptly fired on February 14, staff banded together to signal “dire distress” by draping an upside-down American flag from the 3,000-foot summit of Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan monolith.
Alright, I finished one of the three books I was in the middle of so that's progress.
For the book folks.
funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread
This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
The only legislation Democrats need to be introducing are articles of impeachment for gross violations of both Constitutional powers and federal law
The Fantastic Four first look trailer has me excited. I’m extremely here for Vanessa Kirby as Susan. She was so good in The Crown.
"We have a responsibility as a party to block absolutely everything when they are putting a match to the federal government." — @aoc.bsky.social on IG live just now
Every Democrat voted to confirm Rubio, and Rubio immediately handed things over to Lawless, Unelected President Elon Musk.
Let that be a lesson: don't fast-track, don't vote to confirm. Hold them all to higher standards.
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No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment.
One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.
also: Fuck You, Make Me is in fact one of the oldest american traditions out there
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Well. The world’s on fire. But I did apply to grad school this week. It’s an online MLIS program. So let’s hope we still have libraries by the time I finish.
Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.
Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
Dems can:
-oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrawn
-deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings
-vote no on all cloture
-force quorum calls at every chance
It’s a constitutional crisis. There is absolutely no reason the Senate should be connecting business as usual.
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
Would love to understand why every Democrat is not out there every second of the day explaining in plain English that Donald Trump has declared war on cancer patients.
we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
This is hilarious. It was in “Today in Politics” by Meidas Touch Network.
