Folks in Maine and Alaska: please call Collins and Murkowski to oppose the confirmation of Casey Means for Surgeon General. They are apparently still on the fence and MAHA is pushing them hard to vote in favor.
1. Again, it’s the president’s war, not America’s.
Poll after poll after poll show a majority, sometimes a vast majority, does not want the US to be entangled in a Middle East war.
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Bier: "Over the last 30 years, we looked at all the government budgets -- federal, state, and local combined. Immigrants reduce deficits by $14.5 trillion."
In addition- even if Muslims were new arrivals to the US, they would still belong here as much as anyone else.
I think establishing historical precedent for minorities can be important but people should not have to justify their presence like this!
Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.
Meanwhile Texas is denying Muslim schools the ability to participate in the state’s new school voucher scheme.
In case anyone’s wondering how “education freedom” is going down there or what it’s really about
Scary.
American democracy began in 1965. It will end in 2026 when the Roberts Court overturns the Voting Rights Act.
Don’t let Fox get away with it this time. Spread the word.
Fox & Friends Weekend replaced footage of Trump attending yesterday’s dignified transfer with a clip from 2025.
They clearly didn’t want their audience to see him disrespecting fallen soldiers wearing a baseball cap.
H/T: @BadFoxGraphics
Hunh! She was disabled, I believe, but I never noticed that in her books! I shall have to reread!
there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).
the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.
This is the bill my rep’s office people hadn’t heard of yet! It’s garbage. Call your reps and make them aware of how bad it is.
He is insane.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.
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I don’t believe they are precise.
Russia’s war shattered the rules — and the Middle East is feeling it.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says the erosion of international law began with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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I just wrote a letter with @bxeaction.bsky.social asking the Senate to reject David LaCerte, who Trump has re-nominated to be a commissioner at @ferc.gov LaCerte is a disaster for our climate and communities, please join me and write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/reje...
if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.
Sometimes your father is awake. Do you want him to call you and wake you up?🤔😄
Josef Mengele returns to the USA.
You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off.
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
And should be illegal.
Absolutely.
Catherine Beecher is the perfect choice to juxtapose with Charlie Kirk. In the era when American women began advocating for suffrage, Beecher was a prominent anti-suffragist.
If “Wait, Wait” is preempted on your station due to breaking news, you can find it as a podcast. Great ep from from the campus of IU (not UI) in Bloomington, IN with Olympic champion Lily King. There are farts.
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
