Marissa Rothkopf

Some Citrus Morning Buns Daylight Savings Time Recipes, part 2

Welcome daylight saving with these citrus-y morning buns, made with a cream cheese biscuit dough, filled with apricot-citrus filling and then a vanilla cream cheese frosting all slathered on top. In other words: a nice post for once.
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Please read this, from my big brother @djrothkopf.bsky.social .

this is the TRUTH.

Living in a Time of Lunatics and Monsters Let's be honest about the roots, costs and consequences of the Iran War

Trump is behaving like he believes he is a god--picking leaders and who shall succeed and who shall fail and who shall live and who shall die everywhere around the world. It's not politics. It's madness with global consequences. My latest.
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Contrarians Combat Trump’s Wrongdoing at Home and Abroad Fighting on all fronts: Publisher's Roundup 57

Congress ordered the Kennedy Center to be a living memorial

Trump wants to shut it down & demolish it anyway

So we amended our lawsuit & sought emergency court relief to stop the destruction of national cultural institution

More in this week’s Publisher’s Note on @contrariannews.org 👇- TN

The Bygone Era of Supreme Court Support for Voting Rights Sixty years after upholding the Voting Rights Act, the Court has dismantled most of it.

Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act.

We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy.

New from me at @brennancenter.org:

US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war

A group of 15 servicemembers say their commander told them: “Trump has been annointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran that will cause Armageddon.” That’s just one of dozens of similar complaints. Holy shit. WHERE IS THIS STORY IN THE U. S. PRESS?
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Pistachio and Lemon Olive Oil Cake A cake dedicated to Cricket, who deserved better, as do we.

"I dedicate this cake to Cricket, soon-to-be former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s former dog, who deserved so much better from her. As we all did."

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Pistachio and Lemon Olive Oil Cake A cake dedicated to Cricket, who deserved better, as do we.

I made a cake, and dedicated to Cricket the Dog.

(it's a pistachio, lemon, olive oil cake. it's really quite nice.) @contrariannews.org

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Oh, can't we keep anything nice? I love this giant bird. Brings me joy every time I see her. @mayor.nyc.gov please-oh-please can't she stay?

Nooo! She is my favorite. Why can't she stay!?!!?

Undaunted Trump ditches Noem — and allies refuse to support the war

Trump can be forced to retreat when Democrats go on attack, embarrass his incompetent and dishonest lackeys, and effectively deploy free media. That’s a strategy to be used again and again. My suggestion for the next Cabinet member: Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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send him my best!

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Fair.

🧵🧵🧵 Here's a thread with examples of the unfitness of Markwayne Mullin, Trump's choice to succeed Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary. 🧵🧵🧵

Tell me what you think…if Noem had been a man, Trump wouldn’t have fired them.

Markwayne Mullin?

From worst to omfgtheabsolutelybottomofthedumpster

dammit, woman, you beat me to it. I just posted it and scrolled and...You WIN.

Here's the @balint.house.gov exchange I wrote up earlier. Thanks to @atrupar.com for clipping it.

So now the total number of countries attacked by Trump is 8. 9 if you count his sending US military into US cities.

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

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When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

totally was worth it.

Hiring a white, male insider to turn the brand around isn't what Target needs.

!!!!!!!!

This is the man who decided we should go to war.

Scenes from a personalist regime

You don't want to read this, but you should.

OK, that's enough internet for me for today.