Julia Verstraete

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Pretty rare to watch an internet fight where I want both people to lose terribly.

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I wish them both the worst.

“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

F.D.A. Poised to Restrict Access to Covid Vaccines

The FDA will permit Covid vaccines only for adults over 65 and those with certain medical conditions in the fall, according to new regulatory standards.

Trump FIRED Dr. Carla Hayden—the first Black woman Librarian of Congress—by EMAIL. The role is supposed to be apolitical…but y’all know he’ll turn ANYTHING into a political attack.

The Trump administration is exploring plans to suspend habeas corpus rights for immigrants, one of the most fundamental protections in the Constitution.

If you thought Operation Whirlwind couldn’t get any more unhinged, think again. Ed Martin has been caught ghostwriting online posts attacking judges, including both federal and state officials overseeing cases tied to Trump and his allies.

Your School House Rock moment.....

34 time convicted felon of a President throwing a 92 million dollar vanity parade the same moment he and the GOP tell us all we need to sacrifice and suffer.

I’m barely familiar with Star Wars canon, and even I know what that red lightsaber means

this is legitimately evil

I have read so many people saying "but chatgpt can search the web now!"

Good for it, so can I, and if I do it myself, I will know if a result came from reddit, a universoty website, web md, or www dot deluded crunchy moms dot com.

Trump-appointed federal judge blocks use of Alien Enemies Act for Venezuelans in South Texas The Trump administration, U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr., ruled, does not "possess the lawful authority under the (Alien Enemies Act), and based on the Proclamation, to detain Venezuelan ...

The Trump administration, U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr., ruled, does not "possess the lawful authority under the (Alien Enemies Act), and based on the Proclamation, to detain Venezuelan aliens, transfer them within the United States, or remove them from the country."

Book cover of Cecil Michael's ROUND TRIP TO HELL IN A FLYING SAUCER, from Jack Womack's excellent collection of science fiction and paraphernalia, now part of Georgetown University's special collections but documented in his Flying Saucers Are Real!

Every day since January 20

From theguardian.com: New independent press to focus on male writers Conduit Books will not 'seek an adversarial stance ...but the emphasis at first will be on ambitious, funny, political and cerebral fiction by men that is being passed by... Ella Creamer

Clearly the most underserved group in publishing 🙄

100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists.

1362 Days to go...

This is petty. The FBI has reassigned several agents simply for being photographed kneeling in solidarity with racial justice protesters in D.C. during the 2020 demonstrations after George Floyd’s murder.

These are the accomplishments?

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

Claim by the White House:

The Supreme Court ruling made it “very clear” that Trump was “well within his constitutional authority” to carry out deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.

What the Supreme Court actually ruled:

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

roberts et al have divined the Actual Intent of the constitution, which is to allow the government to exercise nearly unaccountable power to strip people of their rights. it is why we fought the revolution!

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Tweet from user 'Dan Pfeiffer' reads, "In my overly long political career, I have never seen anything as substantively inexplicable or politically suicidal as Trump's decision to sink the economy and raise prices immediately after being elected to improve the economy and lower prices."

Perhaps “Liberation Day” referred to enough voters finally realizing Trump is a dangerous fool. I know, wishful thinking…

A tweet from Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) reads, "Pete Hegseth texting out war plans like invites to a frat party." Below is a screenshot of a tweet from The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) stating that American war planning usually takes place in secure facilities, but the Trump administration planned strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor.

Yet Republicans lost their minds over Hillary’s emails.

The U.S. government spent $710 billion in Trump’s first month, an increase from the same period a year prior. Cost-cutting efforts are ineffective, and job losses are occurring without clear justification.

Trump officials start dismantling civil rights offices, as part of DOGE’s secret plan Legal experts said that unwinding a civil rights-era bulwark designed to safeguard employees’ rights removes a crucial check on institutional power.

worth saying again that this was a bait and switch. if trump had openly announced he was running on allowing companies to discriminate against women and minorities he would not have won wapo.st/43aVQg1