Megan Palmer

I miss having a human president.

This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10

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Pentagon to resume medical care for transgender troops The move is another setback for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has made culture war issues a major part of his role.

Exclusive: The Pentagon will resume gender-affirming care for transgender service members, according to a memo we obtained.

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

🎉 🚨 UPDATE: As suspected, the cruel Lamberth & Watson bill to kick undocumented kids out of schools across 🇺🇸 is DEAD FOR THE YEAR, after huge pushback.

Bravo, y’all 👏🏽 — finances is the excuse, but the truth is the support wasn’t there because of the backlash.

Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!

NASHVILLE today…

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

This is important.

Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

Well this seems like a fantastic plan.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...

TODAY WE MOBILIZED OVER 3 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS THE NATION!!!

This movement has entered the next chapter: the people will mobilize again, and again, until we make a difference.

It only takes 3.5% of the population in a sustained resistance in order to make a difference.

#50501movement

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and…

One flight attendant recalled being told: “‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off.’”

By @mckenziefunk.com

So bad even introverts are here! Impeach

Hands Off at Centennial Park, Nashville TN

Bill Lee is still a drag and Donald is still #%*¥

Nashville showed up today for #handsoff between the storms

If Trumpty-Dumpty is working with the Russians to screw up America, he's doing a great job. Eggs, $11 a dozen. Health & Human Services down the dumper, ditto VA. If you call Social Security, they tell you to call back later. Guys 'n gals, this is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.

When I got a PhD in nineteenth-century political history, I really, truly never imagined I would have to find a way to explain to readers what an eggplant emoji means. (Wired reported more Signalgate Venmo accounts.) I yearn for the day when I can write about good, clean fun like tax policy again.

Headline: Hundreds turn out to protest planned closure of social security office

A tiny, easy thing you can do: wherever you’re traveling, buy the local paper and boost the news of how fascism is trickling down and how everyday people are pushing back. From today’s Caledonian-Record of St. Johnsbury, VT.

This moment in our country's history is depressing, but it's also illuminating. We're finding out, in real time, whom among those in power will hedge their bets, trade complicity for personal preservation, and retreat into cowardice in the hopes they'll be spared.

And we will remember their names.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

The War Trump Chooses That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason

Read this !
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

I don’t believe for one second that whole debacle in the White House wasn’t planned and orchestrated. Trump let JD go off on purpose. These clowns wanted it.

A Southwest Airlines plane was forced to abort its landing this morning after a private jet taxied in front of it across the runway at Midway Airport in Chicago.

Whatever that guy from The Real World is doing with the FAA has gotta stop.

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.

Fight ALL the fights We have nothing left to lose — let’s f**king act like it!

If you read one thing today read our latest piece we just posted. This one is a very important one. Please consider reading and sharing it with your friends, family, and neighbors. And as always, please share your thoughts and ideas. I am also going to post all of the text here as a thread. 1/

Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:

if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now.

I’m never surprised yet still always hope for a shard of humanity to arrive. But, nope!

Gwen and I are sending love to those mourning the loss of their loved ones in the tragic accident at DCA last night. I’m grateful to the first responders who rushed to the scene under dangerous conditions. Hold your loved ones a little closer today.