I'm Tired

This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Mildly pissed that they didn't ask me why...😒

Holy moly....little Monticello Fla has folks protesting at the courthouse. Hell yeah 😎 #NoKingsDay

We are losing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has helped educate, inform, and entertain millions of Americans.

Instead, we’re getting a vulgar new gold ballroom, which none of us will ever see.

‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR YouTube video by NPR

An annual reminder

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government.

But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.

Where is the outrage over that?

The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

-FDR, 1937

"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that caused rebellion." ~ #FrederickDouglass

This checks and balances / separation of powers thing really doesn’t work when the majority in congress doesn’t agree with it.

= FINANCIAL TIMES Probability of above average near-surface temperature* 0 4— Less likely Average More likely →> 1 May to Sep period 2025-29 Nov to Mar period 2025-26 to 2029-30 Predicted temperature patterns over the years 2025-29 show a high probability of temperatures above the 1991-2020 average almost everywhere, with enhanced warming over land.

Global average temperature is expected to rise to almost 2C above preindustrial in the next five years, according to the WMO, with falls in crop yields and more than a third of the world’s population being exposed to extreme heat.

People, I'm sorry but we have to deal with this. Later is too late.

Dear science journalism,

Please start including the funding source and whether it has been imperiled by the coup in your coverage of cool new science papers. The public should know the floor is being cut out from under us.

Today, we remember Uvalde.

We remember the 19 children and 2 teachers who were mercilessly gunned down.

The kids who hid underneath their dead classmates to survive.

The parents who had to submit DNA to identify their own babies.

We need an assault weapons ban. Now.

This explains why it's so painful to live in Florida

Check out all the reasons why you should join me outside Sky Valley, GA on June 1! (Holy crap, that's next weekend!! 👀)

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Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles

When you are elected president, you are supposed to be president of the whole country.

And protect the whole country, from natural disasters and more.

No state should be denied critical funding simply because of how they voted.

HARVARD PROF David Armitage: “We’re being made an example of by Trump — authoritarians across the world go for the universities first, because they’re set up for freedom of thought and provide critical opposition.”

The people sent to El Salvador are being condemned to life sentences under brutal conditions for allegedly committing the *civil offense* of being in the United States illegally without ever being tried or convicted.

Start every day with this reality:

EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined.
#LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable

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A moment of morning zen. Yes, Florida has natural rapids. 😍

“That Could Have Been Me”: The People Derek Chauvin Choked Before George Floyd They describe an officer quick to use force and callous about their pain.

Nearly three years before the Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd as he cried that he couldn’t breathe, Zoya Code found herself in a similar position: handcuffed facedown on the ground, with Chauvin’s knee on her. Code said she began pleading: “Don’t kill me.”

He got a REAL ID, is a citizen and was arrested and told his real id was fake. ICE is a disgrace.

This is cool and by the by I have been intentionally listening to some of the thousands of hours of full university lecture series freely available online as an antidote to dumbass podcasts and doomscrolling e.g. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more.

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