Carl Sagan standing in a garden.

If something can be destroyed by the truth, then it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

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If you know, you know

“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help.
If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."

-Pope Francis

This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism.

If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone.

Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

If Stephen Miller can lie about Abrego Garcia and his case on national TV, he can do it in federal court under oath. Judge Xinis should demand his appearance, question him under oath, then jail him for Contempt when he commits Perjury.

This lawless administration has to be subjected to rule of law.

The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government's contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The administration is a perfect storm of dumb people who enjoy inflicting pain and are addicted to psychotic cruelty and quadrupling down. It ends in total ruin if you don't impeach him.

I kind of want to go

This doesn't have anything to do with the economy. It's Trump's Vengeance Tour, pure and simple.

A cartoon woman at a lectern states: ‘I don’t understand evolution and I have to protect my kids from understanding it. We will not give in to the thinkers’.

I see economists are now enduring the same sense of arse clenching, teeth snapping astonishment as scientists did when he said to inject bleach

#TrumpTariffs #USstockmarket #secondgreatdepression

UK: Brexit is the biggest act of economic self harm any country will ever perform
USA: Hold my beer...

Russell Brand has spent the past few years aligning himself with the American right as allegations of sexual violence were made public against him. He knew he would find defenders and protection among their ranks. That should tell you everything you need to know about what the party represents

My absolute favourite band. You must listen to the live concept album Rite Here Rite Now. It’s a lifechanger!

#Ghost

This story makes a really powerful (and tragically depressing) point: that there is no evidence strong enough to counter a world view anchored in conspiracy theory and reinforced by a multitide of motivated "influencers" — even the death of one's own child.

Walz: "I think we have to assume the very worst in everything this administration does, and we need to prepare for it."

Roth: ““The infatuation with institutional neutrality,” he said, “is just making cowardice into a policy.”

How Trump is attacking reproductive rights ‘sneakily’ through executive action Mini Timmaraju, President of Reproductive Freedom For All joins Katie Phang to discuss the fight to protect reproductive rights under the Trump administration.

Trump’s Project 2025 continues to steamroll reproductive rights across the country.

Thank you @mintimm.bsky.social for always being on the front lines of this fight:

www.msnbc.com/katie-phang/...

I’m going to continue to talk about building (and migrating to) infrastructure to counter the right wing bullshit machine. Here’s another piece of that. We need good (better?) alternatives to Substack and we need to take our content and eyeballs over to them.

1/4. Ukraine has proposed a ceasefire without conditions. Russia will almost certainly reject this and try to dictate to Witkoff that the US help Russia achieve colonial control of Ukraine, something that Russia could never achieve on its own.

“In the last few days the US has stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine, stopped sharing satellite imagery, there’s been a fresh wave of strikes from the Russians..we’ve seen in the last few days America has not been behaving as a reliable ally for Ukraine. Do you deny this?”

Claudia Scheinbaum, President of Mexico, in the centre of the image in a purple dress on International Women’s Day, 2025. A search around on google fails to turn up an image credit unfortunately, I found it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/s/MGhF9O80FL

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.

(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)

America needs to stop cheering for the pickled egg On madness, cynicism, absurdity, and the event horizon to the end of the republic

My latest — a reflection on the madness, cynicism, selfishness, and absurdity

A decade of information manipulation has left us a nation of cripples on our own psychological defense

It’s nearing the end of the republic but we’re cheering for the pickled egg

www.greatpower.us/p/america-ne...

She told you.

DOGE Is the Deep State A shadowy group of unelected figures reshaping the federal government to their own benefit from the inside? Sounds familiar!

Wired: DOGE Is the Deep State
www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

Trump's Lifeline to Putin: Cutting Ukraine's Aid Amid Russia's Collapse Marco Rubio, Michael Waltz, and their ilk will spend the rest of their lives avoiding Ukrainians for fear of being spit on

Russia’s ‘3-day war’ is now 3 YEARS old—and they’re getting wrecked. 800,000 casualties, no tanks, no fleet… and now Trump is cutting Ukraine’s aid to throw Putin a lifeline. Sad! Read how Ukraine is WINNING despite the betrayals

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trumps-lif...

“When there’s to be a public flogging, it’s best to let it happen”