3/ Amanda on Melania: "Like everyone else, I know that she worked and earned money for a long time while undocumented—and that, too, fell under Paolo Zampolli’s purview. He circumvented the law, enabling the models to work and earn money illegally. He did the same with me when I joined the agency."
SCOTUS in its current configuration isn’t just bad for democracy, it’s actively working against a livable environment
Again: Not hyperbole, misinterpretation, or a joke that Christian Dominionism is a strain of apocalyptic accelerationism which VERY LITERALLY SEEKS to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world, & the people who believe this have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power
A lot of modern men with power appear to have been desperate and damp for a oracle to tell them what to do, and they are not at ALL interested in if the advice the oracle provides is actually good or accurate or not - that’s not the point.
Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade.
The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.
Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.
Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
halftime show
what a shot
Charging a Black journalist under the KKK Act for reporting on a protest is a whole new level of fucked up.
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
Trump just said that civil rights led to wh*te people being 'very badly treated.'
There it is. Profoundly deep and naked unadulterated RACISM.
That's why we have ICE terror.
That's why we have aid cuts globally and domestically.
That's why EVERYTHING.
Well, that…and the Epstein files.
A college philosophy professor in Texas has been told he can't teach about a rather minor philosopher called "Plato" because of new restrictions on teaching about race and gender.
We have become such a silly, stupid country.
Reminding myself that I don’t need to get all the things for January done today. I did a very solid amount of work today and got most outstanding emails answered. Now I am going to stop working and go read.
Gaza has been dress rehearsal and test case for a whole global strategy predicated on refusing the post-enlightenment idea that human dignity inheres equally in all people. it is very bad
It’s the double black eyes. I said I didn’t want anything for Xmas but I lied. I did want this
Insane. Mayor Lurie just said 135k!
Power is out in Hayes Valley, through out the mission and the sunset. I’m stuck in Hayes Valley feeling awful for all the businesses affected. Traffic is bonkers. The last weekend of Hanukkah and the weekend before Xmas. Such a mess.
I went to get my haircut before the holidays. I’m stuck in Hayes Valley. Nothing open. Power out everywhere. I should have stayed home. Power out at GGP. Everywhere. Such a bummer for businesses and restaurants and traffic!!!
I’m so jealous
I love that Rick Scott is on CNN talking about all the waste and deception in the health care/insurance business. He really is an expert since his company paid a record $1.7 billion in fines for Medicare fraud.
I don’t understand why this isn’t more widely reported. Rick Scott is a total fraud.
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He gives them permission to be the worst of inhumanity and proves that the worst beta male, full of grievances and incompetence wrapped up in a toddler tantrum, can become the bully president.
If you voted for Trump in 2024 and finally realize that he lied to get your vote and things aren't going well, it's okay to change your mind.
Write your representative in Congress and tell them how you want them to vote. Tell them how things are going. Tell them to hold Trump accountable.
Well well well Massie again. I gotta say we agree on about nothing but the last few months he seems to be the only republican willing to put himself out there.
Feverishly working on this
Editor in Chief of Christianity Today Magazine 👇🏽
South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol, centre, arrives for a court hearing
Investigators concluded Monday that South Korea’s ousted conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol plotted to impose martial law to eliminate his political rivals & monopolize power — Yoon is currently in jail while standing trial
One day America — one day 🤞🏼
the good that you do persists in this world
I cannot even begin to tell you how glad I will be when Joe Gruters goes down. One of the original sarasota bad guys