Can we nip this "Alligator Alcatraz" shit in the bud? We don't need to adopt their cutesy marketing when talking about the concentration camp in the Florida Everglades

THIS JUST HAPPENED: Brad Lander walked through the fire, got burned, and came back with a fucking gasoline can.

ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.

Know Your Rights Training: Get Ready for June 14 Take action with ACLU People Power!

We strongly encourage all #NoKings participants to attend the #ACLU’s Know Your Rights Training, this Tuesday at 7pm ET/4pm PT, which will prepare you to handle any encounter with law enforcement and de-escalate tense situations at marches (en Español a las 5:15pm PT).

act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...

RSV: the most common cause of pneumonia in infants Respiratory syncytial virus is highly contagious and affects millions worldwide

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of acute lower respiratory infections in children globally.

🧒 It causes around 100 000 deaths & 3.6 million hospitalizations each year in children under 5. Infants under 6 months are most at risk.

🔗 bit.ly/4klHdMH

DOGE was a smash and grab robbery of our personal data.

My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️‍🌈

Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.

🚨ATTENTION MOMS🚨

Friday, May 30th at 3pm

Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear.

We are standing up for science and vaccines!
@standupforscience.bsky.social

RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-...

Millions Would Lose Health Coverage Under G.O.P. Bill. But Not as Many as Democrats Say.

In the first 15 minutes of the E&C markup, the number 13.7 million uninsured has already come up twice. It's an exaggeration of what the GOP bill would do. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...

Your daily reminder that the U.S. Postal SERVICE is a service that is designed to benefit taxpayers and not a business that should be expected to turn a profit.

GOP Plans To Cut Medicaid Would Kick Millions Off Health Insurance, New Analysis Says An authoritative analysis by Congressional Budget Office is House Speaker Mike Johnson's latest headache.

It’s official: Republicans want to kick millions of Americans off their health insurance to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

The nonpartisan scorekeepers at CBO just confirmed that the GOP’s plans would boot millions of people from Medicaid.

Poll: Trump’s approval rating at 100 days in office | CNN Politics Donald Trump won back the Oval Office and took charge of the government amid the strongest poll numbers of his political career, but as the 100-day mark of his presidency approaches, Americans’ views ...

Donald Trump is a disgrace and a complete disaster. Just 100 days in, and he’s already racked up the worst approval ratings of any President in history. It’s pathetic — an absolute humiliation. What a loser.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/...

Just sat down on the Capitol Steps with my good friend @booker.senate.gov to have a real conversation about the dangerous situation we confront in America.

And what we can all do to stop it.

Tune in live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBej...

A blue graphic that says: Our Statement on ActBlue. Donald Trump’s memorandum targeting ActBlue is designed to undermine democratic participation — and it’s no wonder why. He knows Americans are already fed up with his chaotic agenda that is driving the economy off a cliff, so he’s trying to block lawful grassroots donations from supporters giving just $5 or $10 to candidates who oppose him while further empowering the corrupt billionaires who already control his administration. As Democrats, we’re unified in standing with the millions of Americans who are fighting back against Trump’s dangerous abuses of power.

Donald Trump’s attacks on @ActBlue are authoritarianism in action.

Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record. “If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”

13/ Enraging piece on girl who had to film her own rape to be believed by cops—who'd charged her with lying about it—by @raeoflion.bsky.social and @juliaradio.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:

Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000

There’s a lesson there.

Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’ Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process

I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony.

Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.

2nd measles death reported in Texas as health experts call for stronger response from HHS A second school-age child in Texas has died from measles amid a fast-growing, multistate outbreak that now totals more than 600 cases nationally. | Texas health officials said a school-aged child who ...

Robert Kennedy Jr. has murdered another child in Texas.

www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/se...

For some disabled protestors, “Hands Off” went virtual "We know we have to teach everyone how to include us."

Not all “Hands Off” events were in-person. I attended two virtual events centering chronically ill and disabled people for @motherjones.com, who are terrified about attacks to Medicaid, Section 504, research funding, education and more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Front page of WSJ. Main headline says "Market Carnage Worsens." Right below it is headline saying "Trump Heads to Golf Club Amid Tariff Turmoil."

I often give MSM headline-writers/editors a hard time on framing of political news.

So now a note of compliment to hed-writers + photo and layout editors who put together today's WSJ print front page. (h/t @jorgeguajardo.bsky.social )

If Dickens or Dreiser were writing this, would seem overdone

A large crowd gathers in a sunny urban area, holding various protest signs, with trees and buildings in the background.

Protesters gather outside a courthouse, holding signs and banners, with vehicles passing by on a sunny day.

Two protesters hold signs during a rally. One sign humorously states, "No Sign is Big Enough," while the other mentions a 401K change.

A lively protest scene on a sunny day, featuring a crowd holding signs and banners along a downtown street, with buildings in the background.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota #3E #Handsoff #FiftyFiftyOne

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@nanaclarabelle.bsky.social
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Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

Allison Riggs: 'This is a fight for the very soul of democracy' Read more here.

NEW: A North Carolina appeals court effectively disenfranchised over 60k voters in ruling against Justice Allison Riggs' (D) victory in the state Supreme Court race.

Riggs, who plans to appeal, calls the battle “a fight for the very soul of democracy.”

From: @jaknutson.bsky.social

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

It’s a fire sale…

New York Times headline reading "New York says it does not intend to comply with D.E.I. order on schools"

Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...

The Griffin List A list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted. ...

North Carolina - Check to see if you are on the thegriffinlist.com

For everyone in NC who has ever ordered from me, I looked for you and didn't your full name, or your last name matching the zip code you provided to me (except one last name starting with G). Go look for your friends and family!

Today. Find the location nearest you and join everyone.

A newspaper headline: Al giants reject government's approach to solving copyright row The lede: OpenAl and Google have objected to Labour's proposed opt-out model and pushed for broader exemptions to let Al software use copyrighted material free

Even when you hand them everything, those fucks scream at you for the plate not being silver. Another good reason to stick with real creativity.

Ways to undo the tariffs even if the president wants to keep them:
*Congress overrides a presidential veto. It happens sometimes!
*SCOTUS, citing its own major questions doctrine and the line-item veto precedent, rules that global thermonuclear tariff warfare is an Article I power & cannot be ceded.