This was my point this morning on my podcast and on Velshi.

Before America's REAL civil war, people weren't calling for one.

Current talk about "civil war" is an advertising campaign for violence.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxHu...

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be.

Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.

From @mariaressa.bsky.social: "The rights you lose today you are going to have to claw back with much more than you had if you were to hold the line."

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'Complete takeover': Lawmakers exert control over university policy in 11th hour They appeared near the bottom of the 220-page budget bill Wednesday evening, and rose to the forefront of the heated debate Friday morning.

In an unprecedented power grab, the Indiana state legislature has taken over Indiana University. They have effectively dismantled tenure protections by instituting productivity quotas and www.indystar.com/story/news/p...

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), 1936-2025.

Much will be said by many more knowledgeable than I about his papacy and its historical significance.

I'll only say that he seemed to me a very decent man in an age of indecency.

May his memory be a blessing.

How *not* to look away Cruelty is central to the authoritarian playbook

Read more about the four ways we can confront an autocrat's dehumanizing tactics in our latest weekly briefing, and remember to subscribe: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-not-to...

How *not* to look away Cruelty is central to the authoritarian playbook

Humanity can still win over an autocrat’s use of cruelty for power. We offer 4 ways we can confront dehumanizing tactics in a way that overcomes, not feeds, the division autocrats demand. Threaded ⬇️
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WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?

Vaccines do not cause children to have autism.
Vaccines cause children to be able to grow up to be adults, because children can stay alive instead of die from vaccine-preventable diseases like measles.

Also: autistic children are delightfully amazing and we love them. ❤️

2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense.

That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.

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You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

People Have the Power: Week Whatever of the Stupid Coup and the Pushback I wrote the following early yesterday before the big news of the Wisconsin election in which Elon Musk's estimated $20 million and illicit bribes to voters did not net a win for his candidate and may ...

This is a test. Not like a test as not the real thing like a fire drill, but the real thing itself: a test as in all of us are being tested, as in "these are times that try men's souls" and everyone's principles. Who will stand up to the coup/constitutional crisis? Who has already surrendered?

FACEBOOK IS HIDING HEATHER COX RICHARDSON’S POSTS SOMETHING ISN’T RIGHT

#HeatherCoxRichardson
The fall of the #FirstAmendment

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

In a world full of Donald Trumps and Elon Musks, be a Cory Booker.

The Paul, Weiss Wikipedia page should lead with this emendation

Millions of you, around the world, have put the lessons I wrote in #OnTyranny in late 2016 to good use. It has been humbling to learn how from courageous and creative dissenters, protestors, and oppositionists. I was honored when John Lithgow volunteered to read them aloud.

Mike Waltz said he never met Jeffrey Goldberg. A photo suggests otherwise Goldberg has responded to questions about the photo, telling CBS News, "If your eyeballs see us together, then I guess your eyeballs are seeing us together."

“Goldberg has responded to questions about the photo, telling CBS News: ‘If your eyeballs see us together, then I guess your eyeballs are seeing us together.’”

Abolish ICE is not an absurdity statement. ICE was created in 2003 as a response to 9/11 - we do not need it. We already established that following orders isn't an excuse.

it makes a little more sense if you think of DOJ as daddy's lawyers frantically cleaning up after the nepobaby's binge weekend, even as the failson heads into friday ready to do it all over again. (they're trying whatever. time is on their side.)

Beautiful, powerful letter

I have been asked by Harvard colleagues if they should keep quiet so as not put the larger Harvard community at risk with their words

Took me a while to ruminate

My response:

Harvard is its people and their voices

If we are silent then there is no Harvard to save

Trump to sign order aiming to close the Education Department The Trump administration has already moved to cut the department's staff by half.

Again thinking about SCOTUS' decision that Biden's 2022 student-debt-relief EO implementing powers granted by Congress under the HEROES Act went too far...want to know what they think of dismantling the entire apparatus for collecting/managing this debt www.npr.org/2025/03/19/n...

Stock markets around the world plunge as Trump tariffs take hold In Toronto, the S&P TSX Composite Index plunged by 431 points, or 1.7 per cent, in 15 minutes at the start of trading. In New York, the NASDAQ, Dow Jones

#BREAKING: Stock markets around the world plunge as Trump tariffs take hold

The Great Resegregation The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

If you read one thing today… www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

In 2022, russians killed the mayor of Motyzhyn village, Olha Sukhenko, her husband and son. Before being kidnapped, she was evacuating village residents, delivering food and medicine. Their bodies were found in a mass grave after the liberation of the Kyiv region.

russian occupation is not peace.

Ruhle: The left-leaning podcast MeidasTouch has just done the unthinkable—dethroned Joe Rogan to become the country’s most popular podcast…