Mike F 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

I’m just sayin’.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

A sitting U.S. Congressman is demanding the deportation of a U.S. citizen because he doesn’t like a democratic election result.

i kind of think the opening sequence in STAR TREK (2009) is the best thing abrams ever put to film

The White House @WhiteHouse If Daddy's home... Hey, hey, hey, Daddy. President Donald J. Trump attended the NATO Summit in The Hague, Netherlands. DADDY'S HOME 1:06 DADDY'S HOME: President Donald J. Trump Attends the NATO Summit, 2025

So weird. They’re all just so fucking weird.

So holy shit, that US bill passing is pretty bad for basically everyone, huh?
Especially fond of this:

“The War on Science”

Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.

YALL, THE TITLE!!

Bondi grotesquely claims that Abrego Garcia's wife and child are better off with him gone

Rock bottom in the US.
People who got Ds in high school have been given the reins, lined up to look at a graph and go, “Hey, why is this side lower than that side? Look everyone, we fixed it!”

"Transgender people have always been part of our history and always will be; the question is how much repression and silencing they’ll face."

Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT:      Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court Lawyers

I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy.

Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Nobody in America has been more coddled than these incessantly whiny conservatives but they couldn’t use slurs on social media so they think they’re Anne Frank.

If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.

"Flow" won the Oscar for Best Animated Film ♡

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

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Same feels?

I subbed, will have a watch later today if I can.

Screencap of NYT headline reading "Alice Weidel, Germany's far-right leader, lives in Switzerland and is raising two sons with her Sri Lankan-born wife. Her party, the Alternative for Germany, campaigns on a platform that is anti-immigrant and defines family as a father and a mother raising children." Followed by a picture of a smiling blond woman in a suit with a German flag

Are you all okay over there

Trying to find out more about the survey. Gallup says this is from “at least 1000 respondents.” Do they have more concrete methodology numbers somewhere?

The new American regime in a nutshell.
“We have the bigger stick, do what we say, even if neither of us get what we want.”
It’s like the 2nd grade playground out there now.

if i can’t make tomato soup, i won’t have comfort food while me and everybody i love are scourged from the earth and our names are erased from the historical record.

incompetent imbecile sabotages California’s water supply millions of gallons gone, for a pointless photo-op

here's today's post: "incompetent imbecile sabotages California’s water supply" — millions of gallons gone, for a pointless photo-op.
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There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

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I assume every Democratic member of Congress knows that not one word uttered by Kash Patel—under oath or otherwise—can be believed.

It's difficult for me to articulate how untrustworthy and dangerous the man is.

If America collapses in the next year, him being the FBI director would be one reason.

A “hoax.”

I have experienced a curious mix of feelings while having a significant portion of my life’s work in books and the art of my friends distorted and vandalized by post-literate fascists for the last few years. The feelings right now are uniquely awful.

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This is a hilarious way to say “we haven’t figured out how to make AI do anything useful”

You’ll probably see this screenshot floating around a lot but it really was wonderful to see Lynch put a scene in Twin Peaks: The Return where he has his character literally stare at the camera and say that you should either support trans people or die. I needed to hear that in 2017

I Will Pay Any Amount to Not Pay My Taxes I’ve gotten myself into a bit of a jam. A series of natural disasters is barreling towards my home, and there is a severe shortage of resources and...

"Seriously, I don’t care how much it costs. Take every dime I have. But know this: I would level my house to the ground before I paid slightly higher property taxes to fund infrastructure that would prevent a landslide from leveling my house to the ground."