Julie Hodges

Opinion | The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away

The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.

Lawrence O'Donnell on fire AGAIN tonight 🔥

Dress or art installation?

“The biggest crybaby in the history of American politics now feels ‘like a warrior.’”

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com

Female Troops Played Key Roles in B-2, Submarine Strikes on Iran's Nuclear Facilities At least one woman served as a B-2 bomber pilot during the mission, that official said. Another official confirmed women were on a guided missile submarine crew that launched more than two dozen cruis...

Turns out at least one of "our boys" piloting the B-2s was a woman
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😂slow learner?

We are richer and smarter for that bold step!

Sen. Alex Padilla has led a letter — signed by every Senate Democrat — demanding Trump "immediately withdraw all military personnel that have been deployed to Los Angeles."

"Respect for our constitution and for our civilian law enforcement demands nothing less." tinyurl.com/3f4kcvfx

Palm Springs showed up in 105 heat! #NoKings

The Christian Radicals Are Coming The movement that fueled January 6 is revving up again.

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In about 1990 I was in a line at SF airport. I randomly glanced at another line and my eyes met Sidney Poitier’s. This is my interpretation of what happened in a single silent second.

Me: Hey, you’re Sidney Poitier!
Sidney Poitier: Yes. Let’s not make a thing about it.
Me: OK.

That happened to me at LAX with Steadman, Oprah's beau, in line at McDonalds at 6:15 am. Lol.

WHAT FOX WILL NEVER SHOW YOU!!

The news won't show you this because they have a narrative to spin.

Capitol Police did this. ↓

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Also this today

Fox hosts, parroting DHS, claimed Sen. Padilla "ran at,” "lunged at," and tried to “bum-rush” Kristi Noem. Video disproves their claims, showing Padilla standing calmly across the room asking his question as security grabs him.

Checking in on the final day of Mike Lindell’s trial for claiming he had proof the 2020 election was stolen …

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window and covering his eyes with his hand . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window and covering his eyes with his hand .

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Senator Padilla was driven violently to his knees–as if made to kneel before the authority of the executive–because the administration called his questions “disrespectful”.

This should offend not just the other 99 Senators. It should offend the conscience of this country.

“ICE” as snatching people from churches now. Never forget they said this👇🏾

MAN AT CHURCH: “We don’t want this in our property.”

ICE: “The whole country is our property.”

No IDs shown, non-government out of state plates, basic tactical vests that just say police. Who are these men?

IMPORTANT: Before the fascist attack on Senator Alex Padilla, Kristi Noem said that her gestapo in California were staying to "liberate the city socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country."

Don't let that slide by.

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Punch buggy!

Mad magazine 1968

Horse_ebooks tweet: Everything happens so much

Dystopian.

In the next civil war, "the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other." - Ulysses S. Grant, 1875

This is what it looks like without a United States Congress.