“Secret police” are your words, not mine. Seems like you’ve been giving them a lot of thought.
Unlike NYPD, your agents don’t identify themselves & wear masks that cover their faces. Now they ignore judges’ rulings, too.
What law enforcement agents are supposed to uphold … is the rule of law.
Sneaking a peek at the die hard #VT Israel defenders still on Twitter
It’s easy to give up Twitter. You should. Give it a try.
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
Photographer Dona Ann McAdams, circus arts teacher Troy Wunderle and Juniper Creative arts collective are among this year's honorees.
I’ll be real honest, folks. I do not get the meltdown about Mamdani. Like, I get possibly arguing he’s a lightweight but all I see is a massive, over the top, complete crash out about him. I mean, it’s racism, I get that, I know, but it’s like politicians and journalists contracted the rage virus.
And crazy snakes in the water, but a fav here too 💚 Enjoy and hope you didn’t get hit too hard by the storms.
Terry Tempest Williams on protecting the Boundary Waters, public lands, and the open space of democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/o...
FAST COMPANY Article: While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called "micro-retirement." Micro- retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months. Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:
'Vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
The people who lost children and other loved ones in the Texas floods are owed honest answers from officials. They should be told why flash flood warnings issued hours earlier were not conveyed to people in the path of the water. They don’t need more prayers from politicians. They need answers.
July 4 Hi & Lois is pretty on point
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FEMA Ends Wasteful, Politicized Grant Program, Returning Agency to Core Mission of Helping Americans Recovering from Natural Disasters Release Date: April 4, 2025 Under Secretary Noem, DHS is eliminating waste, fraud and abuse WASHINGTON - FEMA is ending the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program and canceling all BRIC applications from Fiscal Years 2020-2023. If grant funds have not been distributed to states, tribes, territories and local communities, funds will be immediately returned either to the Disaster Relief Fund or the U.S. Treasury. Statement Attributable to a FEMA Spokesperson: "The BRIC program was yet another example of a wasteful and ineffective FEMA program. It was more concerned with political agendas than helping Americans affected by natural disasters. Under Secretary Noem's leadership, we are committed to ensuring that Americans in crisis can get the help and resources they need." Approximately $882 million of funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will be returned to the U.S. Treasury or reapportioned by Congress in the next fiscal year. The 2021 law made $1 billion available for BRIC over five years, $133 million to date has been provided for about 450 applications. FEMA estimates more than $3.6 billion will remain in the Disaster Relief Fund to assist with disaster response and recovery for communities and survivors. Ending this program will help ensure that grant funding aligns with the President's Executive Orders and Secretary Noem's direction and best support states and local communities in disaster planning, response and recovery.
While Kristi Noem’s out here blaming everyone but herself, here’s her own April press release bragging about clawing back $882M in disaster resilience grants. The kind that could’ve helped in Texas. They’d rather wage culture wars than actually protect human lives.
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Here’s an article…released the day before lives were lost in flooding in TX. www.texasobserver.org/trump-texas-...
As Texas officials point to the National Weather Service failing to predict the amount of rain that caused this tragedy, it’s fair to wonder if the cuts made to the dept that many warned about played a role here.
(Now add FEMA cuts & hospital closures)
The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.
Can confirm this email is authentic — and about nothing in it is true.
Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that.
It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.
Yes this is the kind of bigot they seek out in order to target trans people for hate; they just expanded to letting him also source Nazis for their efforts to amplify eugenicist propaganda.
The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
It’s weird how the white conservative guys at the NYT get to say whatever they want but anyone else has to watch what they say because it’s “too political”
Great thread that might explain to some white folks that “checking the box” isn’t so simple for many people
Altman is such a fool that he is celebrating America while it abandons its principles and its most vulnerable people — and posting about it on a site run by Musk, a man who has explicitly said he is trying to destroy OpenAI. Which Altman has no problem with. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/04/o...
My mother died of COVID complications along with a secondary infection.
Its been two months but I do not think I have or will ever have enough words for the rage I feel for the minimizers, deniers, the states and conspiracy theorists who demonized protective measures and told us it was all "over"
The NYT still has “editors,” right?
Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans.
This is Washington at its worst.
We need to ban Congressional stock trading.
Mamdani’s mom literally made a whole movie grappling with this specific question
An original technicolor print of Star Wars (before all of Lucas’s tinkering) was recently shown in Britain. “It was very clear — without a doubt — that Han shot first.” [npr.org]
So the scoop is he did something factually accurate and defensible? On an application to a college he didn’t go to? 15 years ago? And you relied on hacked and stolen information from a racist eugenicist for this “scoop”?
Weird, most celebs and influencers with supplement codes and a nice script about the importance of good nutrition seems to be quiet on the cutting of SNAP and Medicaid.
I’m sorry but the editors who green-lit this story and the reporters who wrote it knowing the source is a right wing ideologue have been willing Rufo-ed. In fact at this point they have no excuse.
