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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.

Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

It feels like the foreign policy story of our time is one group after another finding out why the fellows who fought WWII and muddled through the Cold War set up the system they did.

A lot of "I don't like that column there"

"Yeah, but that's load-bearing. They're all load-bearing."

I'm still bitter Sen. Franken resigned. Yes, he was culpable in propagating that kind of behavior, but it was a very different time and a very different environment. It shouldn't have happened, but he had made amends and was actively working to change things.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Full emails below

Do you think it's realistic that 331 voters voted for Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and zero voters chose to vote for Kamala Harris in Rockland County NY district 35?

But that's what the election results say.

This information was researched by @electiontruth.bsky.social

Sorry to step away from the catfight, but we’ve got a win! A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle AmeriCorps halting the termination of grants and its volunteer network!

On the one hand, Trump publicly saying he doesn’t know anything about what is going on besides what he’s being told might be a lie to try and shift the buck but on the other the evidence for “he is not actually mentally competent to run the country” is getting stronger by the day

This is a pretty remarkable exchange from Trump's interview with Time Magazine

ICE Can Now Enter Your Home Without a Warrant to Look for Migrants, DOJ Memo Says A new memo from the Trump administration reveals something shocking: ICE agents have been told they can enter homes without a warrant to arrest migrants, based on little more than suspicion.

"migrants"

80 years ago, it was Jews

Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”

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Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top.

#HandsOff2025

YouTube video by FOBBV CAM Big Bear Bald Eagle Live Nest - Cam 1

The break you need right now: livecam of bald eagle bebehs and mom www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L...

Nevada to now require parental notification for minors' abortions after court lifts 40-year pause - The Nevada Independent Nevada's long-dormant law requiring minors to give parental notification before undergoing an abortion will go into effect at the end of the month, after a federal judge lifted a federal injunction…

A long-dormant law requiring parental notification for minors’ abortions has been lifted. The court’s ruling comes in wake of the 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.

Here are the details:

Forget Tesla, Go After Twitter Take down Twitter and you can ruin Elon Musk.

"Twitter is the only child Musk loves, and the only one that loves him back. Twitter is the reason that Musk is in the Oval Office while other billionaires sit outside, boiling with jealousy."
www.politicalorphans.com/forget-tesla...

WELL DONE Rep. Larson!

Legit broke up with a guy who always needed to try and solve my complaints. Of course, he couldn't get his own shit together, but his hobby was "helping." Drove me absolutely batshit.

holup... You could link TO Signal?

Trump official announces that Trump has signed an executive order claiming that only the president can speak for “what the law is”

(This is not how the Constitution works)

Especially amongst people who aren't data scientists, field specialists, and/or who have deep knowledge of the systems

not MY face! *I'M* indispensable!

hot chocolate + lavender bitters = 💜

Duolingo owl dead, killed by Cybertruck, company says (KRON) — In what some are calling a “master class” in killing off a company mascot, language-learning app Duolingo announced Tuesday that its trademark mascot, “Duo,” …

www.kron4.com/news/duoling...

Proposed bill would ban administration of mRNA vaccines in Montana Legislators heard a bill on Friday that would make Montana the first state to ban the use of mRNA vaccines.

This is beyond just misinformation.

It is fever dream of lies codified in legislation. Buckle up world, this is where we are headed...

Yep... Dark Age 2.0.

Proposed bill would ban administration of mRNA vaccines in Montana nbcmontana.com/newsletter-d...

February 9, 2025 On Friday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order “protecting Second Amendment rights.” The order calls for Attorney General Pam Bondi to examine all gun regulations in the U.S.

February 9, 2025

Opinion | There Is No Going Back (Gift Article) The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

Read this chilling article from @jamellebouie.net

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

I think we're finding that "law" is a social contract that some have no qualms about following. Why would Trump care about the ICC?

NEW: I just moved to subpoena Elon Musk to appear before the Oversight Committee to answer for his unlawful takeover of agencies across the government.

Republicans blocked my motion without allowing any debate.

They will stop at nothing to cover up Elon Musk's lawlessness.