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If We Want To Stop Mass Shootings in America, We Need To Stop Voting Republican. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-we-want...

It's wild to me that the Orioles looked at what happened this year, kept the GM and manager in place, and fired the mascot. www.nytimes.com/athletic/766...

I'm in love.

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Thinking about Danny Thomas’ legacy vs what Elon Musk’s legacy will be.

The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning

Now we get to watch Trump award Spain, a country he inexplicably hates, the World Cup while a bunch of people in NJ mercilessly boo him.

Cape Verde! What a game. Hold your heads high.

We are a nation of immigrants and we should welcome anyone who wants to come here to make a better life for themselves. If you reject that idea you reject the very idea of America.

Families in Tennessee with critically ill or severely disabled children who are undocumented are being asked to leave the state program that pays for lifesaving medication and treatment or stay and have their child reported to immigration authorities.

trump and republicans very busy making america healthy again: "for breastfeeding mothers, the bill would reduce monthly fruit and vegetable benefits from $52 to $13..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” — President Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, December 10, 2002

“Shah Alam’s death comes just 15 months after his arrival in Buffalo in December 2024. He is survived by his wife and two sons.” Border Patrol leaves nearly blind, non-English-speaking refugee to die in the winter cold a few miles from his home

NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

@michellegoldberg.bsky.social was going to say something about a World Cup boycott on @chrislhayes.bsky.social show. Would like to hear it.

Half a billion on terrorizing citizens but we can’t have universal healthcare or basic income or affordable housing or public transit or

My org @immcouncil.org represents those two gay men. They had been arrested on charges of sodomy by Iranian moral police, and fled the country seeking asylum. They face the death penalty if returned, yet the Trump admin denied their asylum claims in a kangaroo court process. They are terrified.

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."

“If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart.” - former First Lady Betty Ford The East Wing is gone. Over a century of American history, reduced to rubble. All to appease the vanity of a corrupt authoritarian.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

I was listening to @alfranken.bsky.social interview @jonathanalter.bsky.social - Alter seemed to argue that it’s not a big deal if Texas gerrymanders to get 5 more seats because historically Dems will likely pick up a lot more seats. But does he really think Trump will stop at Texas?

NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk. “When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.” The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children. Don’t ever forget.

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

if constitutional rights only apply to individuals or states that have sued for relief, you don't actually have constitutional _rights_, you have _privileges_ that can sometimes (but not always) be secured for you by your lawyer

“ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a ‘secret police,’ with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF.” @garrettgraff.bsky.social

Beloved Ohio high school soccer star kidnapped by ICE and deported www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Member of the Little Lobbyists, a group of children with disabilities and their parents who rely on Medicaid, took to Capitol Hill this week to warn that the proposed reductions to the health insurance program could be devastating.

#NoKings #Baltimore

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Let’s go!!

SCOOP @motherjones.com: Republicans want to ban pets from domestic violence shelters through a proposal in the budget Advocates say the program is small but critical: “Survivors won’t leave, they can’t leave [abusers], if they’re going to leave their pets behind" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump has deported a four-year-old US citizen with a rare form of metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with their doctor.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

Well worth reading. The obvious point here is that some presented "woke" as an existential risk to speech and academic freedom, and some people warned about govt censorship as a bigger threat. The former were not just wrong but paved the way for govt censorship. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

These people asked what they could do for their country and their country told them to get lost. apnews.com/article/amer...

This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

AOC: How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their personal wealth is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stock?

We have the most anti-free speech government in modern American history. (And yet, in true Orwellian fashion, they claim to be champions of free speech.)

US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

SCOOP: The Trump administration has dismissed all health officials who oversaw care for some of the world’s most vulnerable people: more than 500,000 children and more than 600,000 pregnant women with HIV in low-income countries. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/h...

"Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging... "An emergency order removes protections covering more than half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service..." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

@booker.senate.gov well done, Senator.

remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...

“Eviscerating the federal government and subjugating Congress; defying court orders and delegitimising judges; deporting immigrants and arresting protesters without due process; chilling free speech at universities and cultural institutions; cowing news outlets .. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...