I think it was a "pick your battles" issue for many who would like to get back to talking about other important things in public.

We are also seeing the consequences of under representation of GenZ employees in media who would have recognized this immediately.

Team Trump to Use Unverified Data to Blame Deaths on Covid Vaccine - NewsBreak Trump administration health officials are planning to link the deaths of more than two dozen children to the Covid-19 vaccine based on information from a d

Team Trump to Use Unverified Data to Blame Deaths on Covid Vaccine
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Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.

OMG hide the silverware and the trophies!

Actually the best way to destroy a narcissist is to ignore them. Attention is their energy.

She seems so nice.

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On the left:

June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians.

On the right:

June 13: See for yourself.

Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.

Men are pretending to be ICE to abduct women as if this wasn't the most predictable thing to come out of allowing masked goons with no ID to snatch people off the streets.

Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.

Los Angeles: We stand with you. #ProtestFascism

ICE Agents and Their Prisoners Left Stranded in Shipping Container in Djibouti Nearly a dozen ICE agents have been left stranded alongside a group of eight deportees in a converted shipping container at a U.S. military base in Djibouti. That’s according to an extraordinary docum...

When you work for the devil, sometimes you find yourself in hell. #ICEsucks

www.democracynow.org/2025/6/6/hea...

The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.

“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

dustin on Twitter: “look at the resources they're willing to commit to terrorize people but not feed or house people”

BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin

The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach

We MUST defend judicial independence👇

Pete Buttigieg’s Theory of Everything How the former mayor, transportation secretary, and unlikely culture whisperer is piecing together a Democratic response to the chaos of Trumpism – and everything that comes after.

If you didn’t get to listen to the full hour of the Pete Buttigieg Interview with Tim Miller- here’s a great read on it.

(But also- make sure the video is in your playlist.)

open.substack.com/pub/demwinsm...

Behind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbath Hardly anyone is paying attention.

At a time when people are understandably focused on the daily chaos in Washington, these articles describe the rapidly accelerating impact that AI is going to have on jobs, the economy, and how we live.

A heartfelt "fuck you" to everyone who told me I was overreacting in November 2016.

This‼️

This is heartbreaking on so many levels. America is completely off the rails.

just going on the teevee and admitting it's all first amendment violations

Shame on West Point for inviting a draft dodger, who views the US military as merely props to be used for his own glory, to give its commencement speech. With no respect, the tacky wheezing fool wore a campaign ball cap and rambled on about yachts and trophy wives to the bored graduates.

This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake.

Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone

They are being such assholes

Time well spent

Pregnant Atlanta woman being kept alive by machines is just like a scene in Handmaid’s Tale

That book and show are supposed to be a WARNING, NOT A GUIDE. 🤬

The Trump administration is allegedly shipping people who are from Vietnam and Burma, in southeast Asia, to wartorn South Sudan, in East Africa. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Historian of South Africa here. What Ray says is the simple truth. 👇🏽

Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.

DISINFO: “The persistent myth of "white genocide" in South Africa represents one of the most pernicious and deliberately manufactured falsehoods circulating in global digital spaces today.” iol.co.za/sunday-tribu...