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What a photograph.

“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Support local journalists like Alex at Oregon Public Broadcasting @opb.org!

“Now Lucy, I know we’ve had our differences in the past vis a vis you pulling away the football, but this time, THIS TIME, I really trust that you’re not going to pull it away.

I trust you, Lucy, and not just because of the twenty nine concussions I’ve received from falling after missing the ball.”

FYI: The White House isn’t a club.

It’s ours.

I know we call a lot of things Nazi shit these days but this is pure Nazi shit. "Don't show the Fuhrer in an unflattering light!!!"

This part.

Over the decades I have spoken at all of the service academies and War Colleges. They've all known I was "a critic" of many policies

This is a really, really ominous development

(AFAcad cancelling a speaker, in endowed-lecture series, because she has criticized Trump.)

gazette.com/military/air...

If you consider yourself a legitimate news organization, it is your duty to ignore this grotesque bootlicking by the fascist enablers at the US Open

America was built on saying “fuck you” to kings.

Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...

While Kennedy once claimed that he was increasing the number of scientists and front-line workers, ProPublica found that more than 1,050 scientists, physicians and public health specialists left or were pushed out of the CDC from January to mid-August.

Senator Rand Paul directly and forthrightly takes on JD Vance:

"What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial."

Forefathers: What do we want??

Citizens: INALIENABLE RIGHTS

Forefathers: Bill of Rights Forever!!

Trump: Hold my Revlon.

@schiff.senate.gov
@padilla.senate.gov
@gomez.house.gov

1/2 You represent me in Congress. Please introduce appropriate legislation to prevent the DT State Department from engaging in the promotion of Christianity or any other religion above religious practice in general and to prevent ...

last paragraph of testimony: "I urge this Committee to consider the real threat to Americans’ freedom of expression, the one here at home. I have noted a handful of areas where this administration is putting freedom of expression under direct attack. Where is the opposition, let alone outrage, given the attack not only on speakers – journalists, public media, professors, students, whistleblowers, civil servants – but on every American’s right of access to information about the issues important to our democracy and to our public’s health? That, I would respectfully submit, is the real threat to American speech and innovation, and I look forward to helping this Committee, in any way you see fit, work to address it."

👀 Jim Jordan held a House Judiciary Committee hearing on . . . how Europe censors Americans. Nigel Farage came along! Let's just say I have a slightly different view than them. My written and oral testimony are here: ijclinic.law.uci.edu/2025/09/03/h...

Here are my concluding paras:

www.writersfordemocraticaction.org/april-19

ONE IF BY LAND

TWO IF BY D.C.

the north end church in boston

it’s 250 years today

@northendpage.bsky.social

YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows (Live in London)

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows.

youtu.be/xu8u9ZbCJgQ

205 looks pretty good on you, Maine! 🎉 Happy Birthday to the best and most beautiful state 🌲🦞🌊

📸: Benjamin Williamson Photography

“The President Wanted It and I Did It”: Recording Reveals Head of Social Security’s Thoughts on DOGE and Trump In a recording obtained by ProPublica, acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek portrayed his agency as facing peril, while also encouraging patience with “the DOGE kids.”

“Are we going to break something?” acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek asked, referring to what DOGE has been doing with Social Security data. “I don’t know.

March 15, 2025 March 15 is a crucially important day in U.S.

March 15, 2025:

The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy.

Nonetheless, holy shit.

What’s remarkable is that there’s hardly any real news driving this. It’s just investors belatedly realizing that Trump is who he is, and always was.

Ohio. CSNY.

A response to people who “would wear a mask if the social stigma weren't so high.” Why a fear of "looking different" isn't a good enough excuse

harmonyk.substack.com/p/a-response...

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did on J6

Watching Putin’s little stooges try to bully Zelenskyy in our goddamned White House is pretty repulsive.

Now watching Trump yell at Zelensky. And Vance talk to him like he's a toddler. This is a shameful moment for United States diplomacy. It will be hard to recover from this.

This is what a deal with the devil looks like👇

@housegop.bsky.social JUST VOTED TO CUT Medicaid, SNAP benefits, school meals, & housing assistance all in exchange for giving corporations & billionaires a tax cut all at the  expense of the middle class.

"Do you hear the people sing/Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people who are climbing to the light." A military rendition of "Do you hear the people sing?"/"One Day More" (from "Les Misérables") as President Trump and the First Lady hosted a...

They sand Les Mis at the Governors’ Ball! #resist

althouse.blogspot.com/2025/02/do-y...

He should be our messenger.

Trump blames Ukraine for starting the war the way a rapist blames his victim for looking too sexy.