Lori Geist

I hope all the people who voted against Genocide Joe are feeling good this morning

Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

“Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.”

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

This is exactly right

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..." Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Rep. Adam Smith: "This country has not agreed to have the death penalty for drug smuggling. If we want to have that policy conversation, we can have that policy conversation, but the president has unilaterally decided that lethal force is going to be applied. It's an enormous expansion of power."

The path to one party rule in the House.

At least some people are thriving in Donald Trump’s economy. How about you?

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

I’m not generally the sort of person to say “hahaha fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you” BUT www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

This is horrific.

Sen. @ossoff.bsky.social : “Here are some things that happened just in the last couple of weeks…”

Surveillance company Flock is now using AI to report us to police if the bot registers *our everyday movements* as “suspicious” www.aclu.org/news/nationa...

New Evidence Suggests Ancient Egyptians Only Ever Visited Pyramids When Friends Were In From Out Of Town theonion.com/new-evi...

The truth is these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.

"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...

In other words, he promised repeatedly during the campaign he had a secret plan to end the war in 24 hours and he was just bullshitting everyone because he doesn’t have the first clue what to do, he gave away all negotiating leverage months ago, and his special envoy is a dope.

Which news outlet is actually informing its readers about what happened?

Was quite a moment, a sense we reached some kind of inflection point in U.S. history. You can now personally pay a U.S. president to gain an audience.

I’ll add that I find it hard to trust journalists who deny their own agency. If you have a significant platform, you can’t go “Well, we have to talk about it because the press has decided it is a big issue.” Drop the “I’m just passively observing from the sidelines” nonsense. That’s not a thing.

“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

Trump and Musk are slashing critical government programs like Medicaid and Meals on Wheels—lifelines people rely on—while turning the White House into a fucking Tesla dealership. This is not a serious government working to improve people’s lives.

Ike asking Churchill why he doesn’t wear a suit before not suggesting that they cower to a maniac.

Elon’s attack on social security is the oligarchy in action. Social security keeps seniors out of poverty. Stop letting them convince you everything the government does is evil. The government is how we take care of each other.

Today was a grim, terrible day for the United States and the cause of democracy. Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

How many times do you look at the temperature on your phone? Most of those temperatures are from weather stations NOAA/NWS helps maintain…or they are a model interpolation from a model NOAA/NWS helped develop. The radar data, satellite data, every single watch and warning…that’s NOAA/NWS.

Every time I get on my phone to do literally anything

You can understand almost all of American politics with just two numbers: 71% of Republican voters oppose Medicaid cuts. 100% of House Republicans are trying to cut Medicaid right now.

This was just 233 days ago:

A reminder that DEI includes disabled veterans.

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-p...

Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.

Could someone out there write a definitive guide on convenient alternatives to using Amazon.com for goods and books and whatnot? Asking for some folks who don’t want to see democracy die in darkness.