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This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

Twitter is so fucking toxic

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:

Trump to Americans right now

I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

It’s no wonder that Trump has such a twisted view of war and sacrifice. And the utility of bribes.

“You know what another word for frozen escalator is? Stairs,” said Kimmel.

We live in an age of monsters, @joshtpm.bsky.social writes. Elon Musk, Donald Trump, the Ellison family, Peter Thiel. The function of the Trump era has been to wind them all together into a single formation, first by allurement and then by force. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-a...

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. In other words, I am the *opposite* of his cowardly employer.

People confront Trump at a DC restaurant. He smiles at the camera as they chant “Free DC, free Palestine, Trump is the Hitler of our time.” Trump’s masked agents have snatched residents & he’s unconditionally backed Israel’s genocide of Gaza. Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and JD Vance seen alongside.

Who the fuck are Dems supposed to be "bipartisan" with? Trump is incredibly unpopular and keeps tanking. Meanwhile, he controls the House and Senate Rs. It's all him. He's speaker and majority leader What world do these messaging gurus live in?

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

"To pretend that her death deserves the same recognition as that young soldier at the gate is obscene. It is a betrayal of the oath she once swore and a desecration of the sacrifice made by so many who kept faith with theirs."

6 months ago, in the shadow of the night, Israeli soldiers took 16-year-old American Muhammad Zaher Ibrahim from his family. He’s been imprisoned ever since. He’s suffered from scabies & lost 25 pounds. Remember Sayfollah Musallet, the young American killed by settlers last month? They’re cousins.

Paul’s right, it’s unreal how little traction this story has gotten. www.mediaite.com/crime/israel...

"When he was taken into custody Friday morning, immigration agents tied his dog to a tree and then unclipped his collar, allowing the animal to run loose on Sepulveda Boulevard, according to the GoFundMe page." www.latimes.com/california/s...

I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.

The Israeli military just killed him. (Look at the photo caption)

“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner. But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"

what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.

I can't stress enough how wrong and disingenuous the most recent wave of COVID revisionism is. The *only period* when Democratic counties had higher death rates was April-May 2020. From June 2020 onwards, Republican laxity and denialism were the most powerful force driving deaths.

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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, renowned journalist Scott Pelley just highlighted how Donald Trump is working to stifle free speech in America, and how he plans on fighting back. This is huge.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

I'm going to go through the "HHS passback" in this 🧵. This is what the White House sent back to HHS, based on HHS's guidance. It's Trump's budget plan, though can still be changed. To start off, they call to eliminate Head Start, which helps fund free pre-k and learning programs for poor families.

"After the last soldier was found, the Lithuanian government planned a procession for the soldiers’ departure on Thursday, with schools closing early and thousands lining the streets of Vilnius." That's behaving like an ally.

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

The story of the search for the 4 soldiers involved in the training accident in Lithuania is inspiring. “Never leave a fallen comrade” drives superhuman & alliance action. www.thebulwark.com/p/when-ameri...

Honor these young servicemen: Sgt. Jose Duenez, Jr., 25, Joliet, IL Sgt. Edvin F. Franco, 25, Glendale, CA Pfc. Dante D. Taitano, 21, Dededo, Guam Staff Sgt. Troy S. Knutson-Collins, a 28 of Battle Creek, MI

Powerful voices from VA clinicians under attack. Veterans are going to see dramatic changes. The suicide rate is going to climb. Homelessness will go up. SecVA Collins knows and doesn't care. Great piece from my friend @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social. Free read. open.substack.com/pub/onoffens...

Musk/Trump admits they sent innocent men to El Salvadoran torture, and are just going to leave them there.

Cory Booker has taken the Senate floor and plans to filibuster as long as he’s physically able to protest the complete disregard for the rule of law by Trump and Musk. Watch here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

This is an enormous scandal on par and maybe worse than the Eric Adams scandal.

$19,000,000,000,000.00

A bunch of cry baby billionaires who never served in the military want to force millions of our troops to go without pay at Christmas. But do go on about the price of eggs won’t you.

An amazing story. Trump taps Tiffany's father-in-law to be his Mideast envoy. The guy has no diplomatic experience, though, Trump says he's a "dealmaker"—& he's known as a billionaire. But it's all a con. He runs a small trucking company in Lagos. Another grifter. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/w...