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Reader/writer/scholar/feminist/mom♥️folklore/myth Fighting fascism since 2016. #Resist “Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.”H. Heine “Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.”J. Simien
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
"I chose a crass serial rapist and adulterer, who calls women 'nasty' and 'piggy,' and took away by daughters' reproductive rights, over my daughters. So why are they displeased with me??? It must be all THEIR fault! I take no responsibility. NONE!"
It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
BREAKING: AOC on MTG retiring:
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
A tweet from “Adam Mockler @adammockler” reads: “Stephen Miller just went on Fox News and said telling troops to refuse illegal orders is an ‘open act of insurrection.’ He is telling on himself. They are planning to give illegal orders, and they want a military that will follow them blindly.”
This young man has it exactly right.
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Nothing to see here. Just the FCC Chairman gleefully admitting that government violation of the Constitutional right to Free Speech was ALWAYS the plan.
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
The DOJ released the security video of Epstein's jail in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient.
The DOJ released the Maxwell/Blanche transcript in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient.
Such an obvious cover-up.
Remember-- if Trump wanted transparency on Epstein, he wouldn't need to gather Vance, Bondi, Patel, Blanche and Wiles tonight to discuss strategy; he would simply release the files. This is what a coverup looks like.
Weakest 3 months of job growth since 2020.
Rand Paul: "We can't discourage greedy and corrupt people from being president by no longer letting them be greedy and corrupt while being president. Goodness, this might stop them from violating term limits expressly stated in the Constitution!"
I mean my God what is in those files?
Trump can "ethically" take a jet from a foreign power, but AOC didn't pay enough to rent a dress. Fuck this govt.
2021.
AOC wore this dress that said TAX THE RICH.
She paid to rent it.
After YEARS of ethics investigation, they decided she didn't pay ENOUGH to rent it, & thus committed an ethics violation.
Talk about missing the point. 🙄
(No paywall. Ironically.)
Ghislaine Maxwell Can’t Help But Notice Interview Room Covered In Plastic Sheeting
ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻
Sometimes hot takes turn out to be the best takes
Nope, doesn’t seem like they’re buying it.
Woman in long dress is looking out the window.
It is galling for this puritanical pixie, who has the secular power to (1) prevent deaths in floods by making sure the National Weather Service is funded; and (2) help now by making sure FEMA is funded, to pretend that all we have as a nation to respond to disasters is the free placebo of prayer.
This is apparently the second white supremacist attack in Baltimore this week. MAGA now feel emboldened to put on masks and go out to beat people.
🚨 MEASLES OUTBREAK IN U.S.: WORST YEAR SINCE DISEASE WAS ERADICATED
A disease once eliminated in the U.S. is now roaring back. And we just hit a chilling milestone.
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