Slim Heilpern

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good morning mr president, as you have repeatedly requested we have the ass pics of the republicans youre going to be endorsing alongside the ass shots of their democratic opponents for you to compare

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

Stand Up! We put this little Country tune together four years ago in advance of the midterm elections and, well, it's that time again and this is still relevant as ever. Whatever else you do, stand up and VOTE BLUE – it's the only way out of this mess! youtu.be/RsS4KmuD3M8

owner even lost in federal court trying to force access through Yosemite. Now suddenly it’s back on the table. Our national parks are not supposed to be carved up to make private developments more valuable. Yosemite belongs to all of us!

The Trump admin just changed the definition of "harm" to animals under the Endangered Species Act, in what environmentalists called the biggest erosion of protections for wildlife in 50 years. @nytimes.com gift link to the story w/ @catrineinhorn.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

"Buenos Dias America" Words and Music by Penny Hanna ©1985. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqu5...

Buenos Dias America" is a never before published song written by Penny in 1985. Her poignant lyric is even more relevant now than it was back then. Listen here: slimandpenny.com/web/articles...

Sometimes it feels like Trump thinks he was elected president of the White House.

California is showing the world a top 5 economy can grow AND be green! “For the first time, California discharged just over 12,000 MWs, equivalent to 12 large nuclear plants, of energy from its battery arrays. That’s enough to meet over 40% of the state’s energy demand.”

Happy Earth Day?

Our scrapbooks serve as a scattershot index into our personal stories, with each item surfacing deep (if not completely accurate) memories. And its the subject of our latest single: slimandpenny.com/pages-of-our...

The Agriculture Secretary sent an agency-wide email titled "He has risen!" that told the story of Christ. Separation of Church is just the latest Constitutional principle this administration is destroying. The Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves.

In a nutshell. 😊

ROFL!

"The Children of the New." 😄😅😆 And man, we burned the fuck out of so many CDs.🥹💿

Come on down to Crazy Don’s Gas Emporium!

We should not move on from the President threatening to annihilate a civilization.

Boiling frogs

This is a horrifying threat of genocidal war crimes. The lives of civilians and service members alike are at stake here. Congress must stop this war and remove Trump from the White House.

Artemis II crew returning to Earth.

"He wanted it big. He wanted lots of gold, lots of marble. He wanted visitors awestruck by his architectural expansion of the country’s symbolic seat of power." {gift link} www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

We need the lawsuits brought to specifically charge racial discrimination in these firings and blocked promotions.

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“This is one of the most grotesque crimes of our time.”

We offered to fund TSA. No conditions. Republicans refused. They want the hostage, to extract more ICE money with. No ICE reforms

"Jews don't belong in American society." Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America. But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.

Terrific band, great album!

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth None of them through the Strait of Hormuz billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

Also Marco Rubio: Our shared Christian faith must dictate our most consequential decisions about who gets to enter and join our society

Excellent advice right here.

American humanists are committed not to governments or nation-states, but to the safety and dignity of every human being. The Iranian people deserve peace, safety, and the right to self-determination - now, and always. (To be clear - we don’t support temporary wars, either.)

Send ICE agents to Iran. They already have the outfits.

Donald Trump in 2012:

Weird they dragged in Hillary Clinton when there's another First Lady right there in the White House who actually knew Jeffrey Epstein.

the 'restrictions' are worth stating explicitly. Anthropic doesn't want its AI to be used to make decisions about whether to kill someone without some human oversight. Hegseth says he won't accept that restriction.

Of all Presidementia's prior State-of-the-Unions I've not watched in the past, tonight's State-of-the-Union is the State-of-the-Union I'm not watching the most. 🍊🚫

I refuse to get used to our government murdering people on the high seas. If they can do it to these people, they can do it to you.

So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE. And this is what they called it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

The American people do not want war. Trump is threatening an illegal strike on Iran. This will do nothing but bring needless death and destruction. We cannot let warmongers override Congress's power. No war with Iran.

A heads-up from @billmckibben.bsky.social: "One way of summing up this moment is to say that the endangerment finding & the politics of climate are puny in the face of physics. We’re going to see that physics in action in the next 24 months, and it will drive many changes... some of them political"

None of this is normal

Quite the chart

[Abraham] “Lincoln saw clearly that if we give up the principle of equality before the law, we have given up the whole game.” —Letters from an American 🇺🇸 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Courage and clarity — wow

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons