Just in case folks didn't know, because we have who we have in the HHS:

Autism isn't something that needs to be cured.

Thank you.

They are so dapper in their new duds.

Trump administration erases page honoring trailblazing priest, lawyer and activist Rev. Pauli Murray broke race and gender barriers in legal, ecclesial, and social communities. The Trump administration is targeting gender nonconforming people like them.

Trump administration erases page honoring trailblazing priest, lawyer and activist 19thnews.org/2025/04/paul... via @19thnews.org

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

Cory Booker sets a record with marathon Senate speech. Will it rally anti-Trump resistance? New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker has held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted more than 25 hours.

apnews.com/article/cory... Booker sets a record with marathon Senate speech. Will it rally anti-Trump resistance?

If they had truly been "treated well", fair wages and profit sharing would have been involved.

::hugs::

Anyway, I was explaining to my friends how a dwarf escaped prison. I explained in great detail how he dug a hole and used a rope to rappel down the prison walls.

So I explain that rappel is another word meaning to a controlled descent.

They are gonna say that was a little condescending.

The Pentagon removing references to courageous Black people?

Corporations being encouraged to stop trying to hire people who are not white?

Schools banned from telling the truth about slavery?

Trump likes to pretend he is a new Abraham Lincoln, but he is just an older, stupider George Wallace.

He looked 50 at 40, then held looking 60 at whatever for a few decades.

I see "Kingdom Come" and Gen-X brain immediately thinks it is some sort of DCU tie-in.

INBOX: Fox & right wing sites claim Trump/DOGE canceled a $600K study of trans men’s menstruation — but a holler follerer found it and it was a study of alternative natural fibers for feminine products. (It just mentioned trans men in the data)

More lies.

Link: portal.nifa.usda.gov/web/crisproj...

What those insidious ones from Rome?

Always wondered how the Star Wars Emperor could start with a battle-hardened army and end up with an "entire legion of his best troops" being beaten to death by teddybears with sticks.

Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.

Gene Hackman dying seems a good time to tell you that Sam Raimi made a western called The Quick and the Dead, absolutely every cool actor is in it, Hackman destroys in every scene as the Big Bad, and for weird reasons 1995 America decided it was bad and erased it from memory

YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO Johnny Cash - Hurt

Sometimes “hurt” by Johnny Cash just sneaks up on me and guts me. Not a song I can just casually listen to in the background. youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI?...

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Haiku for 2025

Every day it's just
What in the actual fuck
Please please make it stop

#haiku

Government Employees, remember, a perfectly legitimate response to Elon Musk's email is: "Russian Warship, go fuck yourself."

This is re: Trump's EO to ban trans persons from the military. Reyes is a federal judge. If I got this etherized in court I'd walk into the fucking sea. bsky.app/profile/mike...

At Cabaret yesterday, Cliff said his line “…if you’re not against all this then you’re for it. Or you might as well be”. The audience interrupted the scene to applaud that line so strongly it stopped the show. Doing a show about the onset of fascism right now is. . . chilling.

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

[PROPOSED] ORDER With the consent of the parties, the Court DEFERS RULING on the Plaintiffs' [8] Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and ORDERS as follows: • The Defendants will not provide access to any payment record or payment system of records maintained by or within the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, except that the Defendants may provide access to any of the following people: • Mr. Tom Krause, a Special Government Employee in the Department of the Treasury, as needed for the performance of his duties, provided that such access to payment records will be "read only"; Mr. Marko Elez, a Special Government Employee in the Department of the Treasury, as needed for the performance of his duties, provided that such access to payment records will be "read only"; Any person who is an employee (but not a Special Government Employee) of the Department of the Treasury and who has a need for the record or system of records in the performance of their duties;

Any person who is entitled to access the record or system of records under 5 U.S.C. § 552a(b)(2) (13); and Any person who is entitled to access the relevant record or system of records under the Internal Revenue Code. In agreeing to the entry of this Order, the parties expressly reserve all legal and factual arguments relevant to the Plaintiffs' claims. This Order shall remain in effect until such time as the Court rules on the Plaintiffs' forthcoming Preliminary Injunction Motion. SO ORDERED. Dated: Hon. Colleen Kollar-Kotelly U.S. District Judge (Date and signature blanks still need to be filled in by judge.)

NEW: Treasury Dept agrees not to let anyone who isn't a current, regular (non-SGE) employee access its payment system/records, with the exception of Tom Krause and Marko Elez, who will have read-only access.

The agreement will last until the judge decides whether to grant a preliminary injunction.

Understanding His Sick Game We’re being bombarded with crazy by the White House. Here’s how to handle it.

open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

This is the first time a post about this situation has made me laugh.

PROGRESSIVES AGAINST KAMALA HARRIS IN 2024: "Don't vote for her!!!! She isn't good for Palestine!!!!"

DONALD TRUMP IN 2025: "We should ethnic cleanse the Palestinians from Gaza so I can build some Mediterranean-view condos."

Imagine buying Twitter & firing everybody; then trying the exact same thing w/the Republican Party

Trump on immigrants: Put them in camps at Gitmo!

Trump on crime: Put them in camps in El Salvador!

Trump on the homeless: Put them in camps outside the cities!

Trump on Gaza: Put them in camps in foreign countries!

I don't dunno, but there seems to be a common theme to all these final solutions.

"I will gladly de-nazify that shit"

I'm trying...God knows, I'm trying...

"One day we must ask the question, 'Why are there forty million poor people in America?' ... When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy."
-MLK,
speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1967

#MLKDay
#IHaveADream