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In all seriousness, Vance’s unhinged diatribe really reminds me that this country is in dire straits. I can’t even wrap my mind around how bad things are and how impossible everything feels. How are we supposed to stay here and write and stay like… alive?

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

Hey, you guys? If you know where Lara Trump put Charlamagne, my DMs are open!!!

Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.

5/ NPR should put together a feed of stories that are about rural America from across all of its offerings, that stations could run. For example, I just listened to a Living on Earth segment on how flooding is overwhelming rural septic systems. Very timely coverage for rural communities

As heartbreaking news continues to emerge from central Texas, @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social and I are thinking of everyone affected and grateful for the extraordinary work of first responders. Here are some ways all of us can help:

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it. They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory. Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human. Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.

I. Keep. Beating. This. Horse.

Thinking right now about that period 14 months ago when lefties were portraying Joe Biden as something akin to a fascist dictator. I took a lot of heat for saying people were being ridiculous and that those attacks on Biden would age extremely poorly if Trump won. And now here we are.

This is *such* a great story. Especially when the developer behind this US Attorney’s phantom apartment tries to bully the Times Union reporter: “I know many many people at Fox. Such action would induce me to pen an op-ed in the NY Post”

And? "The workers". The other class of people Trump recognizes. 1.) Extremely rich people 2.) "The workers".

RFK, Jr. demanding to be allowed to see Kristi Noem in the ER so he can check her humors.

Governor Tim Walz, "The way our nation moves forward is not through hate. It is not through violence. It is through humility, and grace, and compassion.

In the Handbook for Grooms: How To Marry Well, this picture accompanies the "Lessons Regarding Edibles" in chapter 3 as but one example of why it would not, no, be "just so funny" if you smeared your bride's face with the wedding cake without her consent.

HONESTY. INTEGRITY. DECENCY. #June14th-ObamaAppreciationDay

Honestly, folks. As a historian, every day I wonder what new assault on the democratic process awaits us from the executive branch. The revolutionary generation knew that they were living in world-changing times. So are we. We need to live up to this challenge.

With all eyes on ICE and the national guard, guess who else's "extracurricular activities" snuck under the radar? That's right, the good old LAPD ... ⤵️ Great to see the PD that gave us Mark Fuhrman and the Rodney King 4 staying true to its traditions. Mayor Bass ‬did you see this? @mayor.lacity.gov

UNCLE! I give up on DIY dating. I give up. I am ready for the matchmakers and the aunties. I accept your wisdom and ministrations.

This is 🏆 “The problem with speaking up for each other is that everyone is left without a voice.” What I heard here: the struggles of the oppressed are only taken seriously or heard through the voices of their oppressors.

Trump is too immoral to have virtues that are laudable and too stupid to have vices that are interesting.

I just think there needs to be more attention paid to the uniquely creepy, mendacious, awfulness of Speaker Mike Johnson. Don’t underestimate the depth of his ambition and breadth of what he is willing to do to never return to Shreveport.

Trying to be graceful with the desire of some pundits to have a "Joe Rogan for the left" because I understand they're attempting to offer an approach, and yet, it's very difficult to be graceful when it's clear they understand neither Joe Rogan nor the left but are treated as though they do.

How quickly this went into my cart 🤭💥

Eighty years ago, enemies laid down their arms. Since then, we, Europeans, have built something extraordinary: a Union of peace, democracy, and solidarity. An anchor of stability. Our Union was born as a peace project, and it remains one today.

🧵 by my friend Edwin, who is a good person.

Happy Hitler Killed Himself Day to those who celebrate. And condolences to Elon Musk and other Donald Trump fans. www.history.com/this-day-in-...

Virginia Foxx is afraid to face her constituents — that's why she hasn't held a town hall in 15 years. She doesn't care what you think, but I do. That's why my campaign is hosting public town halls all across NC-05, starting with Greensboro on May 8 and Boone on May 12.

I'd like to point out that I see this reflected in our extended local protests - even in deep red pockets where a protest has a single person, that person has been, three in four times, gen-Boom. Blowing it up. It delights me, insofar as "delight" is a thing now.

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

What I want to know is how the government made a deal to allow Tate out of Romania to go to Florida, but the government says it can't arrange to get a person who was illegally deported back here from El Salvador.

We’re launching a new DNC War Room. We are going to compete in every information space and put Trump and the Republicans on the defense every day. At this very moment, Trump is actively wrecking our country. He can’t go unchallenged.

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

the boy who cried put

Donald Trump has been the president of the United States for 77 days. (The next presidential inauguration is scheduled for January 20, 2029. Assuming that actually and legitimately happens, can you really afford another 1,384 days of this?)

Tomorrow is going to be lit. And by "lit" I mean that your historyoscope says "avoid walking under any tall buildings with windows".

Let's be clear that this thing Trump just said about having no trade deficits with any country would be far more radical, more disruptive, and more expensive, than every single leftist dream you have ever heard put together, including Medicare for All, Guaranteed Housing, and Universal Basic Income.

He is not equating Trump with God in this anecdote. God, in this anecdote, is behind the arrival of the would-be rescuers. He is equating Trump with the dying man's perception of God - which is markedly different from God. That's the point - that Trump supporters' perception is lethally flawed.

i may be unserious, hysterical and woke, but my strategy of “taking trump seriously no matter how insane he sounds” has paid more analytical dividends than the alternatives

Tom what’s Laura Loomer’s stance on NC3? I’d like to know more precisely how I’m going to die

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