LibrarianWho

I think the Dem governors and mayors can and should do more, legally and nonviolently. some ideas off the top of my head
- order DOT to close roads near ICE facilities
- conduct routine power and water maintenance to facilities
- mire them in endless legal knots
- refuse any support whatsoever

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This is my stress ball

Don’t believe Trump’s lies about undocumented immigrants.

Transgender windmills on every corner

Noem fleeing "war torn" Portland

A masked ICE agent sprayed Pastor David Black of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in his face.
📸 Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times

A day in the Portland war zone

The Portland War Zone isn't for everyone but at least the chaos is locally sourced.

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Durbin: “The president said he wanted to use American cities as 'training grounds for our military' to fight 'the enemy within.' Chicago is not the enemy. Our fellow Americans are not the enemy."

Pete Hegseth practices day drinking the right way.

by Ezra Klein

Democrats are ready and willing to negotiate with Republicans to reopen the government. But we won’t let them take health care away from Oregonians and Americans.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news/p/scoop-john...

Try to teach yourself to do a different accent or dialect and you’ll soon realize that you have no idea what you sound like, and maybe it’s completely different than you thought

This is why I found myself on the Cambridge Dictionary site frantically trying to figure out how we in the US say “what”

He's absolutely correct. This is not a both sides thing, this is a right wing domestic terrorism inspired and encouraged by the leader of the republican party and amplified by all of its members thing.

Happening right now. To us. In America.

Powerful

How many ways does he have to show he doesn’t give a damn about working folks?!

Troops invading states. Sleeping kids woken up & zip-tied. Prices soaring. Insurance through the roof. Media muzzled. Personal enemies punished.

This isn’t America. This is what authoritarian rot looks like.

Josh Hawley, Yale Law School ‘06, Missouri Attorney General 2017-2019, pretending he doesn’t know what tapping a phone means

Pam Bondi is so transparent, you can see right through her

The #1 thing you need to know about the Supreme Court’s new term is that Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett are bad-faith actors.

A Real Housewives Reunion episode with a cast of one

He is the speaker of the House. Johnson can gavel the House in anytime he pleases. That's kind of the point of being speaker.

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Welch: "Is there a tape of Mr. Homan that has audio and video of the transfer of the $50,000?"

Bondi: "I don't know the answer."

Welch: "You do know the answer."

Bondi: "Don't call me a liar!"

Welch: "I didn't call you a liar?"

Bondi: "You just said I know the answer!"

Unfortunately they can't reopen the government because they forgot the password and then when they tried to do a new password it said "New password cannot be the same as old password"

Noem should be asked if she still thinks God is on her side

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.