I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Tax cuts for billionaires?

7) Moderator to camera: "Thanks to Mr. Miller for honoring the people's subpeona. Next week, Scott Bessent will view the entirety of Ronald Reagan's condemnation of tariffs and fulsome advocacy of free trade and then he can...."talk that shit now."

And thus does this failing nation begin to heal.

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

THIS‼️

Otherwise known as communism.

This just expands his attacks on Higher Ed- cutting off the department will disappear funds available; reducing enrollments; closing colleges and universities.

And people thought Biden expanding the court was radical-
Dems always talk themselves out of changing the rules when they have the power, then complain when Republicans exploit their power to the max

Dan’s trying to look tough while he quits. Was already complaining about all the hard work compared to his previous job.

And people were worried that ‘Abolish ICE’ was too radical. Instead we got ICE supersized….

A Republican

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

This is Nick Begich (R-Alaska). If he votes for the bill,
37,000 of his constituents lose access to their healthcare.
27,000 of his constituents lose access to their food assistance.
578 energy jobs in his district will disappear.

The Kill America Bill - here’s hoping there is still an election option in 2026

Such a secret operation we didn’t bother to discuss it with Congress. Sounds like after the fact they figured they should notify a few people before the press conference.

Same people saying ‘Iran is a threat. We had to bomb’ also think we are ‘being invaded by immigrants and attacked by Venezuela’. I trust nothing they say at this point.

Iranian foreign minister: "It was the US who betrayed diplomacy, who betrayed negotiations when, at the middle of negotiations with us, they gave green light to Israelis... I think they have proved they are not men of diplomacy and they only understand the language of threat and force."

Glitter bombing the Gestapo.

Perfection.

Like when we hippies put daisies into the National Guards’ guns.

Press- “What’s happening in the Situation Room right now? Who is there and what is being discussed”?
Reality - working on makeup and lighting for best photo op

The next democratic politician that gets wrongly arrested for helping their constituents should refuse to leave once they are ‘processed and released’. Make a statement, demand an immediate apology and refuse to leave u til it happens!

2 The bill lacks exceptions for rape or incest and threatens doctors, patients, and families seeking care. This isn’t just anti-choice—it’s anti-democracy, blatantly disregarding the will of the majority of Ohioans. Our rights and voices must be respected, not erased.

Brows furrowed…
Susan ‘Charlie Brown’ Collin’s always thinks this time it’s going to work!

Malpractice!

"In the United States, racism has always gone hand in hand with the concentration of wealth among the very richest people."
- Heather Cox Richardson @hcrichardson.bsky.social
No one uses current event details and historical facts to indict Trump better Richardson. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Same Marco who “didn’t know about any crypto dinner” last night? I think we’re safer just keeping a pair of dice handy and rolling them to make decisions since Marco is too tiny to matter