Velma

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

[disclaimer: i'm just talkin, these are normative statements, idk and am not commenting on what infrastructure exists irl]

there has to be a way to absorb some of these people into state health departments..or set up an interstate body to keep tryna do this work..we just cant lose all this capacity

Yes

You know how when you hug someone you love that you haven't seen for longer than you would've liked and yall almost fall over from tryna feel each other's hearts through your chests?
I think if that feeling had words, they would be, "I'm still me, PLEASE still be you."

No, Speaker Johnson: The No Kings Rally on October 18 is not a “hate America” rally. Quite the contrary. It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country.

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

"Turn around or you're going to get the dog."

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

What. The. FUCK

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Remember this post? The Wall Street Journal just confirmed it was meant to be a DM to Pam Bondi.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Republican C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "As a Republican, I'm very disappointed in my party,and I'm very disappointed in you, because you have the power to call the House back. You refuse to do that just for a show."

Oh, the incredibly competent and honest president promises that he's totally going to give us something that's much better and much cheaper than we already have? Golly, sign me up.

The current paradigm of "AI"— all of its, e.g., embedded values, design, cultural deployment, & structural affordances— has been repeatedly demonstrated to harm both critical skills development & the structure & maintenance of the relational social fabric.

That sounds pretty anti-pedagogical, to me

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Once again @nytimes.com heds and subheds are failing to convey to readers what is actually happening. The casual reader will come away with the impression that this is a genuinely held rationale on Trump's part, rather than a corrupt pretext for lawless, authoritarian threats.

Um...

Yesterday, Mike Johnson said they'd swear in Democrat Adelita Grijalva (the final person needed to force a vote on releasing the Epstein Files) "as soon as she wants."

Not even 24 hours later, he now says they'll only swear her in when they reopen the government. What gives?

Chicago PD: arrest these motherfuckers threatening civilians. Put them in jail. Let the courts sort it out

Really is the height of hypocrisy for Mike Johnson to cite pregnant women in the ER as deserving treatment when 1) the Trump Administration would let them die if they need an abortion and 2) Louisiana made misoprostol, an emergency drug needed for post-partum hemorrhage, a controlled substance

ICE didn’t put this in their stupid fucking propaganda video

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

We are definitely in an era where a disturbing portion of our news sounds like deranged, satirical Mad Libs.

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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