‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

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Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

When a USAID whistleblower told Trump people that it'd be hard to pull together accurate info on Malaria since DOGE had turned off access to the whole team who worked on that issue, one of the guys shouted “See, this is why, just because it might work at Twitter does not mean you can do it here!”

The Right Wants You Stupid The eternal question to preserve the “pleasing illusions” that hold society and its authorities together.

Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social look at anti-intellectualism of the right up through MAGA:

"We see this today in how DeSantis, Trump, and the MAGA intelligentsia obstruct ordinary people from thinking about the colonialism and slavery of the American founding."
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Negotiations ended like 12 hours ago while Trump was at a UFC event and now he's already made a seemingly massively important decision. We are being ruled by a brash, stupid mad man constantly looking for shortcuts. Hard to see how this turns out anything but catastrophic.

People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.

Like climate change denying "scientists."

I had to look up what a largehead hairtail was. Courtesy of Wikipedia.

Screenshot of my bluesky feed with Trump's truth social post directly above a post by Obama. The former threatens war crimes with the word "fuckin" while the latter is an Easter message of grace with a photo of the Obamas attending church.

No words for my Bluesky feed on Easter morning.

The Trump budget calls to eliminate the Native Hawaiian education program but doesn't eliminate the Alaskan Native education program.

What's the difference, you might ask? One state voted for him, and one didn't.

#NoKings biggest turnout yet in Venice, Florida

Killing people and destroying things “just for fun” is psychopathic behavior and even saying it is something only a psychopath would do and every U.S. news organization should be shouting that from the rooftops. Editors: Rise to the challenge of truth-telling or make room for someone who will.

Trans folks don’t barge into women’s spaces to assault people. You’re thinking of Trump.

Our taxes

Our taxes are paying for this instead of healthcare.

CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran

One-eyed tuxedo cat sitting in a cardboard box.

Flower has a heart-shaped nose spot.
#caturday #TuxedoCat

Gov. Abigail Spanberger: "The scale of the corruption is unprecedented. There's the cover up of the Epstein files, the crypto scams, cozying up to foreign princes for airplanes and billionaires for ballrooms, putting his name and face on buildings all over our nation's capital."

Authoritarian personality theory: about that % of any population are sympathetic to strongman politics, right?
I keep thinking about what we do about it, and the best answer I have so far is shame. Bigotry needs to be shameful again.

Monochrome photograph featuring a line of six white girls in dresses sitting on the outside step of a wooden building while reading books

Girls reading, 1939 by US photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt

This is by Florida writer Craig Pittman. I offer it in honor of Bad Bunny and the origins of the real American cowboy.

This is by Florida writer Craig Pittman. I offer it in honor of Bad Bunny and the origins of the real American cowboy.

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

Her buying it has a nice ironic ring as well. I intended support for your decentralized model.

Maybe Mckenzie Scott could make a significant donation to a non-profit journalism start-up..

A tuxedo cat curled into a tight ball.

Flower on a cold morning.
#TuxieTuesday #Tuxedocat

Poor on all sides.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

We're 8 minutes into Trump's speech unveiling his 'Board of Peace' and this is what he's talked about:

- How many countries he's bombed.
- How much oil he's taken out of Venezuela.
- How large the US military budget is.
- How he won the popular vote.
- How much investment he's bringing into the US.

A one-eyed tuxedo cat on a cushioned chair. She has a black triangle on her nose like the poster's cat.

OMG, all the tuxies!!!
#tuxedocat