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IT can’t happen soon enough.

The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them.

It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.

Yesterday, a lot of folks clocked this as market manipulation by screenshot and backspace.

Looks like someone in the White House made billions.

So now the Regime wants to lock up homeless veterans because they are homeless.
Many are homeless because they don't trust the government. This will cause veterans to lash out against the officials who try to lock up these veterans.

ICE detainee in Arizona dies after not receiving medical attention for severe tooth pain Emmanuel Damas, a Haitian asylum seeker, was being held at the Florence correctional center before he died

A Haitian asylum seeker detained by ICE died after being refused timely medical attention for a severe toothache.

At least 40 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office — a two-decade high.

The monstrous cruelty of Trump's police state knows no bounds.

A framed quote by @Braddroflit: Never forget: The Republicans voted against Social Security in the 1930’s, against Medicare in the 1960’s and the Affordable Care Act in 2010. They never have cared about anyone except wealthy white men.

NEVER FORGET:

The Republicans voted against Social Security in the 1930’s, against Medicare in the 1960’s and the Affordable Care Act in 2010.

They have never cared about anyone except wealthy white men.

(Braddroflit)

This from Facebook:

I've heard whispers and rumors but nothing definitive...

AI Apocalypse Looms. We’re Already Blowing It. Surely there are more options than letting AI run wild or shutting it down, right? Right?

It’s not hard to imagine a world in which the 2028 election hinges instead on the future of American AI regulation. It’s hard to overstate, too, just how wide open the political terrain is.

❗️G7 countries agree not to lift sanctions against Russia amid Middle East war

🇫🇷 The rise in oil prices caused by the war in the Middle East does not justify lifting sanctions against Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron announced after a remote G7 meeting.

Some people still keep telling us
that russians want peace.
That “not аll of them are like that.”
That this is only “Putin’s wаr.”

As a congressman, Markwayne Mullin made not one but two solo trips to Afghanistan, ignoring State Department warnings so he could play action hero.

He’s a former amateur MMA fighter, not a veteran.

If he’d been captured or injured, American troops would’ve had to risk their lives to bail him out.

Cartoon by
Mike Bogart Smith

America is under sustained attack by the MAGA Trump Administration, using any method necessary in order to insure the regime's survival.

This isn't the America I grew up in.🗽

Poland is asking France and Sweden for help in investigating human trafficking tied to Jeffrey Epstein. Meanwhile, the U.S. has still not released the full files, 80+ days past Congress’ deadline.

Trump-loving farmers threaten 'to quit' as president’s war spikes fertilizer prices Thanks to weather, rising inflation and the damage of tariffs, U.S. farmers were already faring badly under President Donald Trump. But after voting for him en mass in the 2024 election, single-family...

“A lot of guys have just said, ‘I'm done. We're going to quit.’ They're hanging it up. There are [farm] sales everywhere. Lots and lots of farm sales,” said another farmer in Iowa.”

There goes the family farms, the billionaires are going to swoop in and buy up land. And all under Trump.

A black-and-white montage portrait of pioneering American virologist Charlotte Friend (1921–1987), who discovered the Friend leukemia virus and advanced understanding of retroviruses and cancer. The main image shows her in her laboratory, seated at a compound microscope in a research setting lined with shelves of scientific books and journals. She is a middle-aged woman with short, neatly styled dark hair, wearing round-framed eyeglasses, a pearl necklace, and a white lab coat over a patterned blouse with a floral collar. She smiles warmly and confidently at the camera, one hand resting near the microscope's stage, conveying dedication, intelligence, and approachability. In the lower right corner is a smaller inset close-up portrait of a younger Charlotte Friend, smiling brightly with softer features, short wavy hair, and a simple white blouse, highlighting her earlier career. The composition blends her professional lab environment with a personal archival photo, celebrating her groundbreaking contributions to virology, leukemia research, and women's roles in science during the mid-20th century. The overall mood is one of scholarly achievement, warmth, and historical significance.

Virologist Charlotte Friend (b. #OTD in 1921) proved viruses could cause cancer (1957) & revolutionized virology (& helped define modern retrovirology).

She later pioneered differentiation therapy, showing cancer cells could be "reverted" to health, defining a new path to treat cancer. #WomenInSTEM

Anthropic’s Lawsuit Should Absolutely Destroy the Pentagon in Court But make no mistake: The company is not one of the good guys.

Yay, Anthropic!

Sue the Pentagon's ass off!

"Trying to crush a business because the government doesn’t like what the business does is a textbook violation of the First Amendment."

From @elienyc.bsky.social

According to the RNC's new legal theory aimed at throwing out mail-in ballots, In 2000, Gore won! 👀
www.democracydocket.com/cases/missis...

Why would I care about the literal price tag of war? What is $11 billion dollars to the United States? Who knows? Was that money ever going to be used to uplift people?

Decoding the incredible violence we're responsible for and recoding it as money is paving over the deaths those dollars paid for.

What I Learned in Selma: Keep Marching Last weekend, I had the honor of marking the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma at the Edmund Pettus bridge.

The everyday people who marched for civil rights and voting rights in Alabama in 1965 did so knowing that they would face violence, they would face torture, and that their government would not protect them. But they came anyway. open.substack.com/pub/jbpritzk...

Many Issues Are Present With U.S. Lunar Landers, OIG Report Finds Having announced its audit back in July 2024, NASA's Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released its report into the SpaceX and Blue Origin Human Landing Systems (HLS), contracted to land astr...

The Office of Inspector General at NASA has found several issues with Artemis' lunar landers, including their schedules, systems development speed, and astronaut usable systems

For @proximareport.bsky.social -> proximareport.com/articles/iss...

Ossoff: "The president appears increasingly to have lost touch with reality. That is deeply concerning when you have a a cabinet much more concerned with winning his favor than giving good advice & the nation now plunged into war. It speaks to the necessity of winning these midterms in a landslide."

The fascist regime is reportedly telling GOP political leaders to STOP TALKNG ABOUT MASS DEPORTATIONS. Let's REMIND EVERYONE with this photo from the GOP convention that nominated Trump. SHARE!

These fascist setup CONCENTRATION CAMPS and are deporting people based on their racist Nazi eugenics.

If his brain were mush it would be an improvement

has anyone tried telling congress members that not doing what we want is wildly unpopular?
just a thought

Brain damage speaks.

Tell your Senators that this MMA thug cannot be confirmed to replace Noem, and that it's time to abolish ICE!