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Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

This video is of gay men who front for anti-gay conservative Christians. One the people highlighted is John Paulk, Focus on the Family’s go-to “ex-gay.” I had been corresponding with him to try to get him to reveal he was in on a scam when he was caught at a DC gay bar. Interesting emails.

America will continue punching itself in the face until morale improves.

The arguments we’re having today aren’t new. In fact, we were having many of the same ones more than 150 years ago during Reconstruction. I recently sat down with Malcolm Gladwell to reflect on this pivotal time in our nation’s history, and the work that remains. Check out our conversation:

This looks pretty meh, but Jeremy Strong has nailed the creepy dork-thug vibe of Zuckerberg pretty well.

Is there someone dead in the lobby or is there someone in custody? Was the person armed or not? Did he make it into the ballroom or not? Usually there should be a pretty wide grace period on finding this out, but there are literally hundreds of reporters in the room and nobody knows shit.

remember these photos when they mewl about trump’s attacks on the press

What the fuck are we doing here

AOC is all sensible Americans right now, Americans who have completely lost patience with the wildly incompetent, lying loons currently running things who undermine our sanity, wealth, and wellbeing.

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing. (image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

New with @pamherd.bsky.social: While never mentioning Trump or political parties, the show’s second season offers an almost-real time commentary on how policy changes are affecting health. Lets take one particular example of Medicaid coverage loss. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-p...

Amazing views of the Artemis II launch filmed from NASA's WB-57 high altitude aircraft 🔭🧪 #Artemis Full duration on YouTube: youtu.be/pa-dMk2VnUg

When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge. I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass. Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.

A federal judge in Vermont rules that Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova’s visa was unlawfully canceled after she was detained at an airport over biological samples she was carrying.

...sucking the oxygen out of too many city neighborhoods. Clearance rates for felonies were in a free-fall, the city courts were unable to cope with the deluge. At this moment, there was much that ailed the Baltimore Police Department. But one thing that the Baltimore media could not bluntly report:

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

was Pam Bondi trying to un-hibernate Auto-Tune the News?

Every agent must be investigated, and many need to be imprisoned for their actions. In any future government, with or without ICE itself, you can't move forward on public trust or any semblance of professionalism if the GOP paramilitary is allowed to have gone this far.

Prime Minister Mark Carney's government announces that Canada is realigning Canada's economy away from the United States.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

Here is my countdown of the Top 40 protest signs from No Kings 10/18. These are good, but stay tuned because the Top 20 are pretty epic. Here is 31-40. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

As the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, Pope Leo XIV’s handling of clergy sexual abuse will be closely scrutinized. Two cases have left him open to starkly diverging judgments — praise for helping victims in one, claims that he let them down in the other.

His "snowflakes" as he called these memos. I used to have an image of the last one. Oh wait, there's an archive! share.google/0JUaMvT2ufoT...

Find your local June 14th protest. No to Kings. www.nokings.org

Remaining group of protesters try to block the van from leaving, after a warning they are also arrested, at least 14 people that I counted now detained.

Yesterday was Vyshyvanka Day, the day of Ukrainian embroidered shirts.

Wow she went to _Texas_ for dental work?? That’s like going to London for their barbecue

RFK seems to have lied to Congress a lot

It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse. www.chron.com/politics/art...

"Her $60 million contract with the NIH had supported an international network of researchers and clinicians who had produced pathbreaking work on a disease that infects a quarter of the world’s population and kills more than 1 million people per year."

According to a source, when Musk privately messages associates and confidants about reports from federal staffers about how their lives have been wrecked, the Tesla CEO is known to react with laugh-crying emojis. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

To put more emphasis on this: Hundreds of thousands of Americans in at least 1400 cities and towns across the country, including in heavily Republican areas that never protest, protested Trump and Musk and their 401Ks being wiped out yesterday, and it’s NOT a main front page story in the Times.

#ImpeachmentNow!! #RevolutionNow!! 3.5% or Washington DC it’s the only way #March50501 #TeslaTakedown

Fascism Scholars are Fleeing the USA btw 3 prominent Yale professors are departing for a Canadian university: • Jason Stanley, a historian whose books include: “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them” & “Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future” 1/3

The Trump administration has again suddenly cleared out all the migrants it sent to the US Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, ostensibly with final deportation orders. But this time it flew everybody back to the USA -- without an explanation. w/ @charlie_savage www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director. He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

Seven former top Manhattan federal prosecutors, including several who served under Republican presidents, issued a statement Friday praising Danielle Sassoon’s decision to resign rather than obey an order to seek dismissal of corruption charges against New York City’s mayor.

Alexander Dugin, the Russian ultra-nationalist and Neo-fascist, tweets at Tulsi Gabbard after her confirmation and says “you are simply awesome.” Dugin, a close Putin ally, is often referred to as “Putin’s brain.”

A decade after it was published, the book “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents” is surging in popularity and making people rethink their family dynamic.