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Damn good question.

If Brazil can reject Trump, the Broligarchs and right-wing authoritarianism, so can we.

Standing with Ukraine isn’t optional—it’s defending the free world. Turning our back on democracy to embrace Putin is a disgrace. We won't let freedom fall. 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraïni

This week, NIH advisors rebuked RFK for harming #NIH and US science. Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported it. Then RFK posted calling her sources anonymous or corrupt. I'll say this hoping it does good: I'm an NIH scientist, I'm not anonymous, and RFK Jr is destroying NIH. More in attachment:

Meta took down the No Kings organizing page today - the biggest day of protest this fall. They provided zero explanation. It stayed down for the entire afternoon until most of the protests were done. Outrageous. Put this on the January investigation list.

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

He’s so good

Heartbreaking. Utterly. We don’t have to live like this

I'll just point out once more: the Republican case to voters, today and for the last 50 years or so, relies on lies & falsehoods. If you could snap your fingers and force everyone to speak only the truth, Republicans would never win a national majority again. The lies are central & load-bearing.

Horrifying where we are today

When Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear & the internet becomes friendlier. So much of politics is driven by the internet & so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do something about that, given that we know it

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

Good morning, Kalispell.

If you're looking for how to crush the regime in battleground states and take back Congress, here's the messaging that works. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...

#MorningVibe Gloria Steinem redefined equality, giving voice to millions & reshaping feminism. Her journalism, advocacy, & relentless drive for human rights laid the groundwork for generations of progress. A true icon of justice. May her memory be a blessing.

For many years I wondered, "how bad will Republicans have to get before the media/political establishment in the US gets over its endless obsession with scolding & tone policing the left?" I think at this point we have to acknowledge that the answer is: never. Literally never.

Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥

An amazing human. Like no other

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

Did you catch that the Trumpies want to permanently end appliance efficiency standards? They have saved US consumers billions of dollars over the years, but they are a mild inconvenience to the makers of less efficient appliances, so.

Inhumane. Pure evil. Maybe we should oust the electeds that gives this guy such powers

You’ve got to be shitting me. We’re spending $20 MILLION of our tax dollars on stun gloves. And we’re supposed to pretend this will cut down on lethal force AND that ICE has good judgment? This is going to lead to more abuse, not less.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

Translation: "Let's retraumatize these unimaginably brave women who were raped as girls by forcing them to speak to yet another man (who will deny the crimes committed) in order to have more power to strip all women of their rights. So I can greenlight it and pretend I care about women."

Vote these monsters out! #ICELawlessness

So maddening and absurd.

One of the great themes of Our Era is right-wingers emerging from their media bubbles to try to grapple with the actual world & discovering that the world does not in any way conform to the fantasies they developed in those bubbles. Many such cases.

The safety data sheets (SDS) for multiple Rhino Linings products reportedly used during the recent renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool warn that their uncured components are “toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects.”

Girl, yes 🔥 Let’s believe. Rising Dem star and our future president.

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.

Who attacks a turtle sanctuary?

Here @paulwaldman.bsky.social suggests the novel strategy of trying to tarnish the brand of the Republican Party. Why this isn't the foundational goal of all Democratic Party communications has been an infuriating mystery to me for 20+ years now.

One year ago.

Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country.

These people are just evil.

The US is hosting the World Cup and just turned away Africa’s top referee at the airport 3 days before kickoff because of where he was born. Omar Artan had a valid visa. He had a historic assignment. They didn’t care. Disgraceful. #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/211508/...

If you don’t like what you’re seeing at Delaney Hall, pay attention to what’s happening in Congress this week.   We must stop giving ICE and for-profit companies like GEO Group a blank check to create chaos.

These people are captives of a concentration camp fighting back against their heavily armed captors with only their bodies. Their heroism is extraordinary. Thank you to all of the protesters standing with and for them.

I have been forwarding this edition of @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter to everyone I know. The impact of Musk and Trump's cuts to USAID didn't hit right away, but they are hitting now. And in Somalia and the DRC it looks a lot like racist culling. billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-question...

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

SCDP Chair Christale Spain delivered powerful testimony at the hearing regarding Republicans’ effort to redraw congressional maps in the middle of an election year, reflecting on her mother’s experience living through Jim Crow in South Carolina “We cannot go back.” #scpol #scdems

Santa Marta is the way. Yeah France

A real banger from @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

Just wow

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a new music video for her remake of "All You Fascists Bound to Lose"—featuring Barbara Hershey, other celebrities, and crowds from the No Kings protests in a joyful, powerful show of resistance. You have to see this.