It’s absurd in its truth.

A murderer was treated better when taken into custody than an immigrant…

Scenes from the soggy yet spirited No Kings rally in Dublin, Ireland, today. We did our part… Excited to see what you do, America! We love you! #nokings

We need to stand up for @terrymoranabc.bsky.social

The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

Trump canceled: "a grant to Emory University and Georgia State University, where researchers had developed three potential drugs that showed promise against many RNA-based viruses, including coronaviruses, Ebola, avian influenza and measles.."

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Means to Provoke, Not Pacify Don’t give him the pretext he wants.

I know everyone's been breathlessly waiting for what I was going to write about LA.

here you go - gifted

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.

“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”

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On Tuesday Kevin Hassett said "we'll probably see a few more trade deals, a few more [trade] deals even this week," and "there's some stuff very close to being finished, and it's up to the President."

It's Sunday, and the score card says he got to zero.

Portland, OR showed up today
#NoKings
#PDX
#HandsOff
#50501Movement

@aoc.bsky.social: "Listen, if your representative is not doing a town hall, give me a ring... I'll say it right here, right now: if a deep red Republican district wants to have an honest conversation, even if it's with someone they disagree with, I'm willing to do that."

What a wonderful idea…👇

Let’s. Do. This. ✨

Morning Glory Diner Breakfast Specials Featuring: THIS AIN'T IHOP BREAKFAST PLATTER EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES CANNOLI CAKES EXTORT UKRAINE MINERALS THEN EAT EGGS BENEDICT U S SUSPENDS TAX COLLECTION SCRAMBLE Gay chicken eggs lovingly scrambled with spinach, shiitake mushrooms, turkey sausage, caramelized onions, and smoked mozzarella. Served with potatoes or grits and a biscuit. $19 NEW WORLD ORDER CINNA CRUNCH FRENCH TOAST MUSK IS A DOUCHE STRAWBERRY VANILLA WAFFLE CHICKEN LITTLE WAS RIGHT CHICKEN CHORIZO BURRITO

The neighborhood diner, unlike the Democratic Party, is meeting the moment

This whole thing was a deliberate set-up, and the real audience for it was not the American people. It was the global fascist movement.

Trump behavior today with Pres Zulensky was shameful. We have lost our standing with Europe and global allies. We are now an ally of Putin.

Trump is too much of a coward to say a bad thing to Putin, yet he dares lecture Zelensky?

Russia is on the verge of collapse and Trump/Vance are desperate to save them

Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.

Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist.

He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.

The advert is seen at the end of a bus stop. It says “GOES FROM 0 TO 1939 IN 3 SECONDS”. Underneath is a picture of Elon Musk doing his Hitler salute out of the roof of a white Tesla. Underneath is says. TESLA: THE SWASTICAR

An ad put up at a bus stop in London today.

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing How regime change happens in America

Did Musk fire hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees to increase "efficiency"? I don't think so. There is a better explanation:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis There are twenty-four hours in a day. This isn’t a matter of political opinion or technological disruption—it’s as immutable as the fact that two plus two equals four. No amount of geni…

www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...

Every Democratic Senator voted to confirm Rubio as Secretary of State. Every one of them should publicly demand that Rubio fire this man.

About to drop $525 to get this guy to make a video denouncing sexual assault and send it to Pete Hegseth.

Wish me luck.

Pete Hegseth: The Short Course 13 Steps to National Destruction

"5. Hegseth never notes that the politicized Russian army meets all of his standards perfectly, but is ineffective and commits war crimes."

Essay: "Pete Hegseth: 13 Steps to National Destruction"
snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...

Trump isn't even in office yet & we're already talking about letting him bypass the Constitution as though that's a normal conversation to be having.