Elven Wizard

Take back your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, You now have our leave to Imprison and torment the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. We send these, the homeless, tempest-tost back to you, We now snuff out that long-standing beacon behind the once golden door!

I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.

Calling all veterans!

My friends, it's not just happening in a galaxy far, far away.

GTFO, already!

So now DHS Secretary arrests sitting senators for asking a damned question? WHAT IN THE HOLY HELL?!?!

Great, the leader of the masked Brown Shirts running around masked, without professional IDs and license plates, abducting people, wants other people to stop.

Not a bad spiel!

I  know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.

Well, we are back to a teen magazine doing better journalism than the NYT and WaPo. I feel like I’m living in a “fun” house.

Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad

Flood the phones… open.substack.com/pub/consento...

Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

The champions of Free Speech are now forcing scientists to retract submitted publications until they can be checked for the appearance of “forbidden terms.”

Our Litigation Tracker is now souped up with interactive Table. ⬇️ Now tracking 23 cases and expecting more to drop soon. Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

Media : why were people cheering for Luigi People :

An excellent resource for federal civil servants. www.civilservicestrong.org

Indivisible is holding an organizing call Sunday night from 8-9pm ET. I’ll be joining. You can register here:

🚨MUST READ: How Trump's Greenland takeover would clear the way for his donors' AI-powered mining company, proposed "crypto city" & oil drilling just banned by the local government. Wild follow-the-money reporting about Zuckerberg, Bezos, Andreesen & Thiel that finally sheds light on Trump's motive.

What do we need to do? This guy wrote us a book that I think we need to remember. @stephencolbert.bsky.social @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social @jvl.bsky.social @timmiller.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social @jonstewart2028.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @jimmykimmel.com

If you want a blueprint for fighting the oligarchs and MAGA wackos, Popovic has written a “How to” book for us. Today we are all hobbits.

Eat the rich, indeed.

NEW—Trump WH has blocked all CDC science reports (eg MMWR) & suspended all CDC / FDA / NIH external communications of all HHS agencies until further notice... including all FDA & CDC Health Alert warnings & all social media. Public health be damned. Gift 🎁 link: wapo.st/4aqfN44

Give them eggs and TikTok and they’ll never revolt.

Watch Mark Cuban. If I were placing a bet today, I’d say he’s the next Democratic nominee. I’m not saying I’m a fan. I’m rather neutral at the moment. The political winds, however, strongly suggest this is the case.

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This is one of my favorite places here. So far, so good, but definitely not out of “the woods” yet. #LAFires www.latimes.com/california/s...

Starting to think the whole West Coast should just Brexit, but to Canada. They clearly are more invested in our well-being than the right wingers in the extremist world, helping to put out our fires.

For the victims of the LA fires

@meiselasb.bsky.social @bmeiselas.bsky.social Gents, please use your platform to reach the #MeidasMighty in Southern California. Everyone should download and monitor the app Watch Duty. It’s a phenomenal early warning and monitoring tool. Next 48 hours are critical. #PalisadesFire #EatonFire

If you are in the Los Angeles area, here's where to get information on the fires: - View the fire map at fire.ca.gov - Download the Watch Duty app - Sign up for NotifyLA alerts with the city at emergency.lacity.gov

Governor Newsom’s office fact-checks Trump’s lies:

An LA organizer I trust shared this General Resource Spreadsheet with me. It includes nonofficial shelters and other resources for people affected by the LA fires.

Planet Fitness locations in Los Angeles are “offering anyone impacted by the fires—first responders and residents—free access to shower, recharge, and relax” No membership is required to take advantage of locker rooms, WiFi, charging stations at any LA County location not impacted by the fires.

Holiday fav— youtu.be/KhoVWbjoJUo?...

Good job, Texas!

So, while I found it politically disappointing that Biden pardoned Hunter, it’s unsurprising that he did so. I don’t think he would have if Harris had won. Putting the wolf in charge of the henhouse once again is going to have people covering their backsides. Why expect anything else?

Under the guise of defending free speech, Musk has turned X into one of the most restrictive, deceptive and manipulative platforms on the internet. He promised to make X a source of truth. He was called out by his own AI for being one of the most prolific amplifiers of misinformation. ...🧵

Well this seems bad.

How did Jeffrey Epstein walk free for years? Because of Pam Bondi - Trump’s new AG nominee www.rawstory.com/pam-bondi-26...