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The hell?

I remember when I was a kid and we narrowly avoided a pile up on the freeway on the 4th of July, caused by drivers distracted by fireworks. This was a disaster waiting to happen if normal traffic had been allowed to continue. What a bunch of incompetent, uncaring fools.

That April Fools website you did is still one of the greatest things ever.

More pointedly, the pope said, "Someone who says, I'm against abortion, but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. Someone who says, I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life."

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

I am currently loving my 2023 Chevy Bolt EV. I bought it used, but they were under 30K new. It most certainly can be done and I am glad Chevy is bringing them back.

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

It's bullshit that I agree with David Frum. Things shouldn't have sunk so low that we've reached our level of agreement! We should be in the realm where we disagree on every issue in the news!

Tweet from Stuart Stevens: When Democrats take the House, they must understand they are not a governing party. They are a dissident movement. Act like it. First day: - cut off all funding of Exec. Branch -vote to nationalize Starlink and SpaceX -defund ICE That's the first day. On the second, get more aggressive. There is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos.

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

Being paranoid is a pretty appropriate reaction

In the name of Ann Richards, Molly Ivans, Sarah Weddington. And Barbara Jordan, I'm here to tell you Texans are rising to save our democracy!

Namaste. 🧘‍♀️

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That is an excellent point and you are right, a sizable chunk of our population sees them that way now - I know I do - but there are way too many who do not. No one remembers the Stasi fondly today and hopefully ICE will occupy the same place in our nation's collective history.

I'm wondering if at some point in the future, we will look at these people in ICE the way the Germans regarded people who had been Stasi in the former East Germany.

Back in college in the 90's, I took an elective called "Modern German Culture", taught by an awesome young visiting professor from Germany. I was really interested to hear about the rise of Hitler as explained by a German...and now, 30 years later, I finally get it.

Brutal Trump takedown by @governor.ca.gov Newsom

WTF, California?

Agreed.

And on top of all that, the family is stuck paying the bill for the months in the hospital.

I don't know what this means, but I'm the one who wrote a fully updated, 624-page hurricane response plan at FEMA that took over 2 years of work and careful coordination among state and federal agencies. He could start by studying that.

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

I heard one of these ads just this last week on a local radio station! I was equal parts shocked and sickened.

Mike Waltz has left the chat.

A picture shows 32 men arranging themselves into an SOS on the ground of a prison yard. The ground is bare earth. All the men are wearing red or orange prison jumpsuits.

What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.

11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.

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Don't forget maternal mortality rates. States stopped tracking those to hide the rising number of maternal deaths.

I wish I could be maybe 25% as cool as Jane Wiedlin. Hell, even 10%

I am assuming that the government is fighting so hard against releasing any prisoners either because they don't want them to talk or they are already dead.

THIS. I kept my last name for so many reasons, but I can't believe that this has become a new one.