Our ongoing refusal to name what's happening has helped enable it. It is far easier to convince voters these are concentration camps (they are) than to convince them we don't need "detention facilities."
America 2026 | Denial Of Reality
'TRUMP NOMINEES LEFT SPEECHLESS OVER ONE SIMPLE QUESTION'
If you can't even sit here and say that Joe Biden won that election or that the capital was attacked...
What's left? #MAGACULTMORONS
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John Roberts’ Wife Made Millions From Bribes
Roberts accepted $10 Million in bribes disguised as recruiting fees from Law firms with cases pending before the Supreme Court.
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"BP’s first completely new oilfield in the Gulf since the company’s Deepwater Horizon disaster 16 years ago.
It will be deeper than Deepwater Horizon, and in riskier waters... drilling 6 miles below the sea floor, deeper than the height of Mt. Everest"
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Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.
There's just gotta be a line somewhere.
Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
Trump has basically turned the presidency into a giant Bribe Delivery System.
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WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
It's notable that Sen. Ossoff is pressing this attack in a tight re-election fight in a purple state. The rest of the party needs to pay attention.
I used to get insomnia all the time while using ADHD meds (taking time off now) and I never quite found the homeopathic solution, but I will say, a slip silk sleep mask over my eyes and a sound machine helped so much.
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“They wanted to close up the strait again…as they've been doing for years,” Trump said Saturday. Of course Iran hasn't been closing the Strait of Hormuz "for years." Quite the contrary. The Strait is closed because of Trump's war. It's an indictment of his policy, and so he lies about the history.
And on the basis of this -- a pure policy disagreement about which he was demonstrably, wildly wrong -- Roberts dreamed up "major questions doctrine" & thereby rendered US law one big game of Calvinball.
You just can't exaggerate how low, how scummy, how dumb, how fraudulent it all was.
Put aside, for a moment, what a fucking mockery this makes of the law -- how plain it makes it that conservative jurisprudence works backward from its desired outcomes. Lots of other people have yelled about that. It's worth yelling about. Instead, though, let's look at the substance.
I’ve been saying for sooooooo long that Roberts is the most nefarious of them all. Because he poses as a normal man and understands how to speak publicly in order to mask how truly radical and anarchistic he is.
I’ve never trusted that smugly self-satisfied smile. He is a dangerous man.
If the right cared about life, this would be a national scandal. They don’t. They care about sanctioning misogyny in order to sustain the patriarchy. They just want to dominate, control and limit women.
These women should be alive. This should horrify anyone with feeling.
VIDEO 🇧🇷 Alana Rosa, 20, attends the first hearing in a Brazilian trial of a man accused of trying to kill her after she refused to date him. Sampaio allegedly stabbed Rosa more than 40 times with a pocket knife. The case has reignited debate over domestic violence in Brazil
Screenshot of a tweet by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) capturing a Senate exchange in which Elizabeth Warren challenges IRS Commissioner Bisignano over whether tax cuts for Meta were paid for by cutting healthcare coverage. When Bisignano says he doesn't see the two as correlated, Warren presses: "Did you not follow that?" The embedded video shows Warren in a blue blazer gesturing at a Senate hearing.
She's so good at this.
The laugh, to normalize and rationalize and dismiss and make themselves more comfortable, is indeed the biggest problem. Even more so than the fact that if Biden had done this, it would have been NYTimes above the fold, front page. And more than the fact that he’s clearly ill.
In Maine, ICE brazenly called their operation “catch of the day.” The banal inhumanity of it all is overwhelming. The deaths, the injuries, the conditions in detention, the brazen disregard for people’s rights, including American citizens. And it’s still happening.
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Donald Trump cut health care for Americans so that Meta could get a $3 billion tax cut.
I asked the IRS commissioner if that was a "really good outcome for the American public."
He said yes.
Yaaaaaas!
In the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse exposes the self-dealing and self-enrichment of Donald Trump and his family and the pay-to-play pardon scheme out of Mar-a-Lago.
More of this please!
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Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
It’s important to recognize the people behind anti abortion legislation prove themselves to be, time and time again, unselfconsciously ignorant of the issue. They want to determine it, without taking any time to understand it.
Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration.
I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro.
I agree that she has books and short stories where that is true, but she was so prolific and there are works of genius in the mix of some schlock. Her least favorite book, The Blue Train, has so much pathos and I think she hit on real emotional truth.
But I also tend to have the reading habits of a woman in her 120th year of life.
This is prob going to be an unpopular take, but this is why Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey and Dorothy L.Sayers are so addictive to me (I reread). Because they can write beautiful prose, offer characters with psychological complexity and vivid inner lives, while also offering compelling plot lines.
Hegseth again skipping Ukraine meeting, will send top lieutenant instead
Elbridge Colby
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screenshot from balls & strikes plus link that didn't fit in my post: Wrongful abortion arrests seem to happen with increasing frequency these days. Last month, a Georgia district attorney called the malice murder charge of a woman who’d taken abortion pills problematic “on a factual and merit basis” because state legal precedents prohibit such a prosecution. The district attorney said local police didn’t consult with his office before arresting the woman, but he also told a judge that although he wasn’t planning to present the charge to a grand jury, he said he wasn’t prepared to drop it, either. The judge set a symbolic $1 bond due to his own doubts that the state could secure a conviction. A Kentucky prosecutor admitted in January that her office made a mistake when it charged a woman who used abortion pills with fetal homicide, despite an explicit exemption in the law for pregnant people. The prosecutor even suggested that she might not have read the statute closely enough before presenting the charge to the grand jury. That charge got dropped, but the woman is facing three other charges: concealing a birth, abuse of a corpse, and tampering with physical evidence. These women, too, had their names and faces plastered online for crimes they didn’t commit. Under a capacious reading of qualified immunity, none of the people responsible could be sued for their actions. LINK https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/drew-tipton-qualified-immunity-abortion-murder-charges/
Liz Jarit of the @aclu.org Abortion Criminal Defense Initiative said that, amid more arrests for abortions and pregnancy losses, Judge Drew Tipton’s ruling “sends the exact wrong message” to cops. In her line of work, *those* are the people breaking the law—not the ones using abortion pills.
Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”
This is NUTS
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