“I learned what asylum was when I was 9 years old… I learned that if a boat of children arrive on your shores and you send them back to their deaths, that is an evil act. The reason we have asylum is because we tried the alternative, and the result was evil.”

@bearingwitnessice.bsky.social · 3w ago

@beth4ma.bsky.social, Congressional candidate for CD6 - the seat currently held by @moulton.house.gov - spoke to attendees at the Bearing Witness standout today in Burlington.

These people are performing for grass.

1/ Your friend is facing a terminal diagnosis and you want to show you care? Here’s how to text them: “Hey, [friend], thinking about you today. I remembered that specific, funny, brief anecdote from [year] when we did that crazy thing. I’ll never forget the expression on your face! Love you.”

I don't have kids, but if the president of my college-aged niece's university ran over her foot because she asked him a question, I'd be showing up outside his office in this

Tech companies are racing to force AI into every part of our lives before the courts can enforce our copyright laws. I am running for Congress to regulate AI companies before they become too big to fail.

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future

The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...

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If we organize around candidates of courage and conviction, we can take down this criminal conspiracy. We can prosecute the corruption. We can put the criminals in jail. We can seize their ill-gotten loot. Political violence is bad, and it can't do any of that.

Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time Saturday, joining preschoolers at a child care center for a book reading and singalong. Source: Emma G. Fitzsimmons / NYT

For your amusement, @philxbuchanan.bsky.social

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 4mo ago

Zohran Mamdani: "If you are a Mario Kart fan, government is Yoshi and philanthropy is the Golden Mushroom, that edge we need to beat Bowser on the Rainbow Road. To belabor this metaphor even further, Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario."

The President of Iran condemns insults to the Pope and the desecration of Jesus by the President of the United States. What a time to be alive.

I'm gonna get this out of my system so I don't go insane: What Trump said about the pope is easily the most genuinely anti-Catholic thing any American politician has ever said in my entire lifetime, and if Obama or Biden had said it, there would literally be calls to disband the Democratic Party.

The sickest burn I was ever subject to was when I was trying to buy an overcoat at some shop in The Hague. I put one on, thinking it looked pretty nice. My wife looked me up and down and said “you look like a magician.” Seeing my offended look without missing a beat she said “sorry, illusionist.”

Consider — where are those new tolls going? To Iran’s murderous regime. Is it too much to wonder, though, whether a portion reaches the pockets of US negotiators or other Americans? (3/14)

There's a toddler with a gun and the adults are embarassed they gave him a gun so they insist he's actually very mature for his age

Remember when Bill Clinton spoke to his AG for a few seconds privately, on the tarmac, and the US media, following the instructions of bad-faith wingnuts, made a huge multi-week scandal out of it?

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Acting AG Blanche: I just operate every day on doing everything that I need to do to execute the president's agenda and priorities

The Buffalo Medical Examiner rules that the death of a legally blind elderly Burmese refugee dropped off by Border Patrol at a closed shop late at night in winter was a homicide. He died of a burst ulcer caused by severe stress brought on by dehydration and hypothermia.

Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, was ruled a homicide. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If you have federal student debt, you may have recently received an email from the Department of Education telling student debtors who are in the SAVE forbearance to switch plans. We want to encourage you to not rush this next step. Take a deep breath. You have until September.

I had many funny thoughts after watching this eleventy million times, but my favorite one was imagining the Gus Fring face scene, but you pan around and the other half of his face is Olaf in the moment the light leaves his eyes

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew@amandasmith.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I’ve watched this four times and will not be stopping anytime soon

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

As a protestant, this feels strange to say, but the point at which an adult convert to Catholicism has been rebuked by two Popes in one year and then goes on to write a memoir called 'Communion' about his faith, they ought to bring excommunication back. This guy is evidently an unrepentant heretic.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4mo ago

Vice President JD Vance has a new book that will explore his religious faith and his conversion to Catholicism as an adult. “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith” will be out June 16.

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

Trump has potentially ended free maritime trade, a literally world-changing development that, if it lasts, may do more damage than anything else he has done so far What a phenomenally, historically evil and incompetent failure The Republican Party is a party of failure, defeat, and idiocy

Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Lol

“At every step of the way, AI firms have appeared to prioritize speed above the physical security of data centers, supply-chain redundancy, energy efficiency and independence, political stability, even financial returns…. ensnaring the entire economy.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic Disaster

The AI boom wasn’t built for the polycrisis.

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One way to explain it to centrists is, instead of killing 100 innocent schoolchildren, what if they had used your tax dollars to feed those 100 kids steak without checking if they were poor? A bomb is like a really, really expensive steak. Maybe even worse.

dinergoths, drive-in goths and divegoths

ICE agents shot & killed Silverio Villegas Gonzalez after he dropped his kids off at school in September. Minn officials launched investigations into Pretti & Good's killings. Cook County has not done the same for Villegas Gonzalez. blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/23/i... ✍️ @mollydevore.bsky.social

ICE Killed A Man Outside Chicago Last Year. Little Has Been Done To Investigate

Neither the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office nor Franklin Park police chose to launch probes into the death of Silverio Villegas González. That’s in stark contrast to Minneapolis, where local off...

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“I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free” Stares at camera.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Incredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasts through the speakers. (video shared directly with me)