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cop: do you know why I pulled you over? me: because you had an emotionally distant father, an overbearing mother, married a woman just like her, your kids hate you, and you’re taking your anger and frustration out on me? cop: [holding back tears] because your gas cap is open

Losing a friend to a cult is hard Losing family to a cult is disastrous But losing a whole county to a cult is devastating and become surreal

ICE raids Poconos pizza shop. "It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy." www.wnep.com/article/news...

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

"The fact that the country has to constantly be in court to fight its own president is really wearying" -- anon

If you want to astound a younger American today, tell them that thirty years ago there was actually a years-long investigation into a president's personal business dealings and, even better, it centered on a real estate venture where he *lost* money.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will

NEW: The National Sheriffs’ Association(!) puts out a statement saying the Trump admin’s publication, with no feedback first, of a list of Sheriff departments alleged to be sanctuary jurisdictions “violated the core principles of trust, cooperation, and partnership with fellow law enforcement.”

Dracula: I have crossed oceans of time to be with you. Mina: That's because you sailed from Varna in Bulgaria to Whitby, you nunce. You could have just gone overland and crossed the English Channel. Dracula: Really? I will kill that travel agent.

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Tom Homan, one of the top officials behind the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, is facing questions after it was revealed he was paid by a private prison company that stands to profit from the government’s detention policies.

That time I tried an 1930s fan... but it was a bit stronger than expected... ;) I love it when old appliances sound like Spitfire engines. Mind you, plugging it into a much higher voltage network may have helped...

New @nature.com An ingenious way to track DNA replication patterns at the single-cell level that leads to cell heterogeneity and daughter cells that can potentially give rise to cancer www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Casar: What we discovered last night, which is really breaking news, is that they’re not just robbing Medicaid—it turns out they’re also planning to rob Medicare of nearly half a billion dollars if they pass this bill.

I'm torn with the release. Sales aren't too good, but the reviews are excellent. The sale-to-review ratio is also incredible. I'm hoping for more eyes for Without a Dawn: store.steampowered.com/app/3145620/... Thank you for your support! 💚💛 #visualnovel #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #steam

SPRINGSTEEN, on tour in the UK: “.. "In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration." @variety.com variety.com/2025/music/n...

It is absolutely impossible to maintain a belief in meritocracy if you have ever actually been anywhere near any seat of supposedly earned power.

This 👇should be headline news.

By exactly whom John? www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Your School House Rock moment......

Perhaps they couldn’t find anyone willing to go tell the judge why they thought the local mayor was a flight risk for non-violent charge

OK, I’m told the feds released Mayor Barka rather than holding him over the weekend on the pretext they couldn’t get him before a judge. I am pleasantly surprised, through I suspect the decision was made on a lower level and that the people who made it may suffer.

The Trump administration is exploring plans to suspend habeas corpus rights for immigrants, one of the most fundamental protections in the Constitution.

Bitterness and cynicism are a form of surrender, when anger at injustice remains but the will to confront it is dulled by resignation. As true warriors, let anger at injustice be bright and righteous, and let it drive us to confront its cause and cast it down.

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

This day keeps getting better.

Extending an official invite to Chicago's own Pope Leo the XIV to host a screening of BLUES BROTHERS

The crazy thing about making video games is that the actual industry is a dumpster fire, but nobody can stop you from just making one. You can make it about anything you want! You can just…do that. And it’s a real video game that counts as a released thing that humans can enjoy. What else is there?

There it is…

Critical mass in Congress refers to the minimum number of votes required to pass legislation. Just one "hard pivot to the Constitution" member could literally change the world. Just one "hair on fire," "Democracy is too important," R member of Congress could trigger a few others who need the push.

The overwhelming majority of jobs at the two biggest companies in America pay less than $20/hr. Meanwhile, the heads of those companies are some of the richest people on the planet. See the problem?

If guilty people don't have Due Process rights, then innocent people don't have Due Process rights, because we don't know if they're innocent or guilty until we have a trial or hearing.

When a government starts by stripping rights from a vulnerable group, it’s not the end goal—it’s the opening move. What’s tested on the marginalized today is used on everyone else tomorrow.

Granddaughter of a Navy vet. Daughter of a Navy vet. Mother of an Army soldier. Not one damn dime should be spent on a military parade for a draft dodger…

They never end with just making a list or database. Never.

Tariffs are taxation without representation. We wrote a whole Declaration of Independence about it. Threw tea in the harbor and everything.