"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

Senator Schumer on the Galactic Empire: we will allow them to blow up planets for now in the event this makes them unpopular and then maybe we can get some of their support to stop blowing up planets

Slotkin: While we are on the subject of Elon Musk, is there anyone in America who's comfortable with him and his gang using his own computer servers to poke to your tax returns, your health information, your bank accounts?

i am sorry to my gen x coworkers but you have to understand i am never, under any circumstances, going to answer a teams call without a message outlining why we need to talk first

Pete Hegseth published a story saying sex with an unconscious woman isn’t rape. To be clear, he didn’t write it, but he published it.

This is who Trump the misogynist, sexual predator relates to ~ other misogynistic sexual predators. It’s beyond disgusting. 🤢
www.snopes.com/news/2024/11...

Bad development for Kash: “Republican Sen. Mike Rounds emphasized his support for current FBI Director Christopher Wray after President-elect Donald Trump announced he intended to nominate loyalist Kash Patel for the department's top job.”

People with HIV will be able to receive kidney or liver transplants from donors who also have HIV, federal health officials announced Tuesday.

The landmark move, which takes effect Wednesday, is expected to shorten wait times for organs for all patients.

If you really want to encounter a lot of views different from your own, go read some books. You don’t need right wing assholes screaming at you on social media for that. This can just be a place where you chill.

Bathroom discrimination aimed at trans women and girls hasn’t decreased any rates of physical and sexual violence—it has only further endangered trans women and girls, with the additional effect of endangering cis women and girls who don’t perfectly conform to femininity

One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.

Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.

Skubal’s Cy Young🏆— at least some things in the world right now make sense. Richly deserved after achieving the pitching triple crown in wins, ERA, and strikeouts. 🐅⚾️
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Perhaps the CEO of this company is not the person we want fiddling with government agencies and regulations.

Evidently I got the wrong link in this post

Here's the right one: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The reason Elie Weisel said "no one is illegal" is because declaring people as "illegal" is an early step to creating a permission structure for mass dehumanization and genocide.

That's why it matters. We are in the business of words. Accuracy matters in the word business. Intent and context matter