John Legend

It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:

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Musk, who think he’s humanity’s savior, will likely be remembered as the man who caused the deaths of 15 million people www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

And the clip of him assuring us that Saddam had WMDs. We need to quit doing this war criminal’s bidding

Load the supercut of Bibi assuring us for the last 30 years that Iran was a few weeks from a nuclear weapon

I marched in the streets of NYC in protest as we were on the verge of the disastrous war in Iraq 20+ years ago. It was so obvious then and is so obvious now. These MFers are lying to us.

Surely none of y’all believe we attacked Iran because they are on the verge of a nuclear weapon. Those of us over 25 have seen this movie before. Don’t fall for it

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

I hope every elected official, business owner, university president, and media executive sees the millions of people out in the streets today and understands: If we fight back, this is the power on our side.

I hope some of you actually take some joy in these pathetic images of this ridiculous and now boring military parade. It's a fiasco and everyone gets to point and laugh. More hard days ahead but for today enjoy.

entire block of crowd control barricades arranged to accommodate a long line of people at security, empty

One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

Remarkable.

MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."

Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.

Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

You know when things were pretty quiet and peaceful in L.A.? Before ICE started arresting residents who were bothering no one and going to their jobs. And before DHS and National Guard troops showed up and made the situation worse.

Of course Trump and Stephen Miller want the situation to get worse.

The most dangerous man in US history?

By the hour, Donald Trump makes it clearer he is the most dangerous political leader in our history, the greatest threat America faces.

Reminder: If they can lie that they're violent and disappear them, they can lie that you're violent and disappear you.

“He’s been talking about it…”

Saying the same half-cocked, uninformed, off-the-fly things in 2025 he said in 1985.

And it shows.

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived. Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.

The U.S. has become a secret police state www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

a woman is covering her mouth while holding a bow and arrow in a green field . ALT: a woman is covering her mouth while holding a bow and arrow in a green field .

Every night @maddow.msnbc.com has a first segment that runs through protests and town halls held in last 24 hrs and if you are feeling like nobody is feeling like you feel or you don’t know what to do: start by watching these and then find your people in your area. They are everywhere.

Trump and DOGE Propel V.A. Mental Health System Into Turmoil A chaotic restructuring order threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

One of the most striking and consistent threads in Trump’s political career has been his utter contempt for military veterans. What they’re doing to the VA is shameful. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...

Seriously.

Come on down to the White House Tesla Auto Mall!

Opinion | This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is a frightening sign of an authoritarian slide.

"If someone legally in the United States can be grabbed from his home for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a drastically different country from the one we inhabited before," writes our columnist Michelle Goldberg.

Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.

We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

“Breaking the law” is so much more accurate and way quicker to say!

"Be angry, but don't give up."
From Rachel's interview tonight with Senator Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social
Part 1 (testing how it looks to post a multi-part video here)

This is morally indefensible and strategically bankrupt. It’s just letting people die on purpose and it makes us weaker in every way.

Isn’t this already illegal? How do we expect to pass legislation from the minority in both houses?