2/2: I'm coming around to the view that there's simply no living with a coalition of people who worship either Ayn Rand or Confederate Jesus.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

1/2: A procedure that was traditionally employed to keep potentially innocent prisoners from being executed is now used to stop regulations designed to help ameliorate an existential ecological crisis, because they might slightly decrease the profits of corporations.

So ...

Iran War Live News Updates: Three Ships Attacked in Strait of Hormuz, Escorting Two to Its Coast While the aerial war between the U.S. and Iran is on pause, the fight for control of the strait continues

Hmm …. Arresting tourists. Tariffs, piracy, large-scale theft. Killing in cold blood. Unjustified aggression. Market manipulation. General corruption. Historical revisionism.

The #Trump Administration has managed to combine the worst bits of Klingon and Ferengi cultures, eh?

Apples and oranges.

As you can see in the sub-hed, Virginia voters chose the redistricting plan.

Texas voters did not have any input, therefore not a threat to democracy.

2/2: an unfunny joke we all play on ourselves. And while I’m on a roll the French Revolution was entirely justified.

The trouble was more hypocrisy than the revolution itself.

In a New Documentary, One of Britain's Most Famous Historians Reframes the American Revolution as a 'Messy Divorce' Lucy Worsley's PBS series highlights the emotional fallout of the conflict, with a focus on the British perspective

1/2: I'm firmly of the anti-colonial persuasion exemplified by Thomas Paine. It's a profound violation of human rights for people to be governed by any law they have no say in. Monarchy is ...

Opinion | Trump got his regime change in Canada. Now he may regret it. Canada's prime minister secures a parliamentary majority and a stronger political hand.

Weird that we may have to credit Trump with breaking the international rise of conservatism, eh?

#ETTD!

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Inspired by Eric Sloan’s work?

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

Proud mom and dad. Bill and Hillary Clinton greet daughter Chelsea at the Boston Marathon finish line.

“I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do.” — James Baldwin

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Why are straight white men overrepresented in positions of power? | Steve Phillips When we wonder why marginalized groups are ‘underrepresented’, we are asking the wrong question

Yes, why indeed?!?!

Influencers Are Spinning Nicotine as a ‘Natural’ Health Hack

"Nicotine, unto itself, is not toxic."

Oh my fucking G*d, what?!?!

It's a fucking neurotoxin that nature created that's so good at killing shit we cribbed the notes to make our own insecticides!

Saudi Arabia and Iraq Are Caught in a Hidden War Within the War Armed groups backed by Tehran are launching drones at Gulf states. Some of them are ready to strike back.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a Trump Administration negotiating a Peace — forever.

Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

This vandalism wasn't just for its own sake, isolated from any desired outcome, but also purely destructive of widely recognized value. This is slashing the painting or smashing the statue that a nihilistic iconoclast may enjoy, only worse, because the things smashed are what people need to live.

I think it’s still insufficiently appreciated that if the second #Trump administration consisted of #DOGE and nothing else it would still be one of the very worst in American history:

As a certified Bar Fly, I approve this message ...

Lori Chavez-DeRemer out as Labor secretary | CNN Politics Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will step down from the Trump administration to take a job in the private sector, according to a statement posted Monday by White House communications director Stev...

Another one (a woman when it comes to #Trump, obviously) bites the dust ...

"I’m winning a War, BY A LOT..."

If you have to keep trying to convince sycophantic followers on your own social media platform, then you probably aren't.

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My aunt helped organize PFLAG in New Orleans back in the day!

Radical concept here, I know. But there are two bits of international law that the US actually drove to get adopted: the 4th Geneva Conventions (1949) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). We could, I don't know, maybe go back to actually following them?

Radical concept here, I know. But there are two bits of international law that the US actually drove to get adopted: the 4th Geneva Conventions (1949) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). We could, I don't know, maybe go back to actually following them?

Do they? Do they REALLY?

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