It’s costing taxpayers $450/M annually & Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp is already flooding. Imagine a hurricane. People are going to die.
There’s always enough money to hurt folks, but when it comes to public transit, low-income housing, schools, or public healthcare, “Sorry, we’re broke.”
The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences.
The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.
The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
On 6/12, DHS Sec’y Kristi Noem said “We are staying here to liberate [LA] from the socialists and the burdensome leadership this governor and mayor have placed on this country and this city.” This use of military force to displace a democratically elected is the very definition of a coup.
The assault of Senator Padilla will rightly get lots of attention.
But don't forget that Kristi Noem was in the midst of saying that the government was going to use the military to "liberate" a city from the mayor and the governor it elected.
The thuggery operates at every level.
Funded by your tax dollars.
yep we do this all the time
Do you have "The Black Book"? In Black neighborhoods in #Boston, people are preparing for aggressive policing with pocket-size "know your rights" guides. bit.ly/43y6jRk
The government will decide what work you can do in the name of freedom
Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil.
Owner of loudest peep machine wonders why there no peeping.
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
The GOP scheduled another late-night vote in the Rules Committee to advance cuts to Medicaid, food assistance programs, and more.
@repmcgovern.bsky.social and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social are right. If the people support this bill, then have your meeting in front of the cameras in the light of day.
The Trump administration is jailing and vilifying judges and the entire judiciary.
This is an extinction level event for democracy.
Everything about this is a tragedy, every level, from cheated freelancers to authors obscured to readers who don’t get served either.
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
Another reason so many authors on your feed are furious about that A.I. generated summer reading article, is that in a media landscape where coverage for books is shrinking absolutely everywhere… this is what we get.
Did you know that we as trans people don't have to redo Gender Wars shit? The dudes rock, the dolls rock, the theys rock. The only important distinction right now is are you cool or are you a cop.
As Candace Owens is attempting to give Harvey Weinstein a redemption arc I will again point out that for victims of sexual violence there is never any bar of proof, not even the ultra-rare conviction and prison sentence, that will stop people from calling you a liar
If the president is able to suspend a right it isn’t a right. Like literally that’s how that works
“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”
I've said it before, and I'll repeat it: The expulsion of expertise from government and academia during Mao's Cultural Revolution devastated China for decades, particularly in science and technology. That profound harm led the country to take education as seriously as it does today. wapo.st/3YTivKW
Does It Matter if the U.S. Surgeon General Never Practiced Medicine?
Does it matter if the pilot has never landed an aircraft before?
So, uh, Kevin Spacey is getting a lifetime achievement award at Cannes…in case you were concerned about how #MeToo is ruining abusive people’s lives.
Marjorie, I know the truth confuses you and facts ain’t your strong suit—so let me break it down real slow:
George Floyd didn’t die from drugs. He died because Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 9 minutes. That’s called murder.
Never let yourself forget what this country does.
Reading Sulzberger's remarks here make it abundantly clear that he and his colleagues simply do not understand their role in what's happened. Shying away from precision, especially in headlines, to maintain "fairness" isn't doing anything to help us live in a shared information environment!
The Constitution disagrees. The Emoluments Clause, part of Article I, Section 9, Clause 8, bans office holders from taking ANY gifts from foreign countries. There is no mention of quid pro quo. That is because the Founding Fathers knew that even the *appearance* of corruption promotes corruption.
A restaurant called “Don’t fill up on that” where all we serve are the free bread courses from other restaurants. Cheddar Bay biscuits, chips and salsa, brown bread from Outback, breadsticks from the Olive Garden, and the servers are always all “now don’t fill up on this” and we all laugh and laugh
