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Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

The Black Panthers didn't mock people for their lack of education. They taught people how to read

A lot of people need to hear this

Thank you to Mexico 🇲🇽 for stepping up and helping in Texas!

As U.S. Dismantles Voice of America, Rival Powers Hope to Fill the Void

“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

Trump’s New Plan to Undermine Judges: ‘Court-Baiting’ Read more here.

NEW: The tactic has been used by autocrats the world over — including in Turkey, Hungary and El Salvador — to erode perceptions of the courts’ legitimacy and weaken the rule of law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Supreme Court Allows DOGE to Access Social Security Data Read more here.

BREAKING: In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court grants DOGE access to millions of Americans' personal data, including social security numbers and banking information. In her dissent, Justice Jackson warned of "grave privacy risks for millions of Americans."

From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social‬

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

finally a worthy Alien vs. Predator installment

@danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co responds to Joni Ernst's "we are all going to die" claim: "Millions of Americans not getting health care, not getting food assistance... is going to result in people dying because of Republican policies. And you see how much they care from Joni Ernst, which is not at all."

No matter who you are or who you love, you are welcome here.

Happy Pride Month, Minnesota!

#FACTS

He nailed it!

We are back dolls!!!!! 💃🏽 Grab a Cosmo & your Loubs and watch the New ‘And Just Like That’ Trailer! #AJLT #SATC

And Just Like That’s Cynthia Nixon justifies her ‘messy’ queer storyline And Just Like That... star Cynthia Nixon has stood by her character’s “messy” queer storyline in the series.

And Just Like That’s Cynthia Nixon stands by her character’s ‘messy’ queer storyline #AJLT

Cartoon by @christopherweyant1.bsky.social.

The orange felon’s vendetta against Harvard in just one photo.

Donald Trump and House Republicans are crashing the economy.

Costs are up, the stock market is down and America’s credit rating has been downgraded.

Is another Republican Recession next?

Alabama worker says ICE dragged him from job despite being US citizen: ‘Color of our skin has become a crime’ He said when he tried to record the incident, the agents knocked his phone out of his hand.

“A construction worker in south Alabama says he was forcibly detained Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who claimed his proof of U.S. citizenship was fake.” www.al.com/news/mobile/...

"Political fairy smut" is a keeper

Trump admin deports Asian immigrants to South Sudan in violation of court order, lawyers say Their lawyers say they learned of the deportation plan after receiving an abrupt notice Monday evening. By Tuesday morning, the men were already on a plane.

Trump deported at least two immigrants to South Sudan — in defiance of a federal court order, according to their attorneys.

Their lawyers were notified of the deportation plans Monday evening. By Tuesday morning, the men, from Myanmar and Vietnam, were on a plane.
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Someone please explain to me how this isn’t a flagrant violation of SCOTUS’ decision in AARP that due process requires more than 24 hours of notice.

Moody’s downgraded the U.S.’s credit rating for the first time in history because the Republicans can’t get their fiscal house in order and Trump is playing whack-a-tariff with our biggest trading partners. Are we great yet, America?

BREAKING: Moody’s has DOWNGRADED the United States’ credit rating from Aaa to Aa1 — the first-ever U.S. credit downgrade in the agency’s history.

“We do not believe that material multi-year reductions in mandatory spending and deficits will result from current fiscal proposals under consideration.”

Everything he touches goes bankrupt.

Martha Stewart looking stunning in a pool

my weekend plans consist of day drinking by the pool & sucking dick