First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.
Tom Perriello was the original progressive winning in a swing seat. He voted for the ACA with no regrets and lost in 2010, but so did all the middle-of-the-road Rahm recruits
CNN@cnn.com · 19h agoFormer Rep. Tom Perriello will win the Democratic primary in Virginia's 5th Congressional District, CNN's Decision Desk projects. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/4wbZT6y
Comparing immigrants to Nazis on the show of the guy who used to tweet "14/88" all the time, just an average day for the GOP
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h agoSen. Jim Banks refers to American citizens as "the babies of invaders" and compares them to Nazi spies and terrorists
This is New Jersey. The ridiculousness of these cosplaying ICE Nazis is off the charts.
I mean this in all seriousness, this is a severely mentally ill & delusional person who not only should be removed from office under the 25th amendment, but he should be in a psych ward. This is pure insanity on so many levels. He lives in a fantasy world. He is unwell & has lost touch with reality.
11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges. This is his mugshot.
The only band ever to attempt a cover of the '78 version of "Prove It." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryRi...
"Prove It All Night 78 Intro" - SPLC High School Talent Show
YouTube video by Nathan Testa
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One of the many odd things about this turn of events is that we've gone from complaining that students are behaving like babies to demanding that they be treated as such. Here, the UF president said “he would not want his own college-aged daughter reading” the story," DAFUQ?
I'm old enough to remember when the moral panic of the day was about "coddling" sensitive students. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Professor Fired for Teaching “Political” Story Sues College
English professor Vinita Prabhakar is suing South Florida State College after she was abruptly fired for teaching a story the college president deemed “political,” according to a complaint filed Wedne...
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www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Abandoned by the US: Palestinian Americans trapped in a surge of Israeli settler violence
After visits by US ambassador Mike Huckabee to the nearby Israeli settlement of Shilo, Palestinian Americans in Turmus Ayya have witnessed a terrifying rise in attacks
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This got me choked up. Ohio, thank you for this. 🙏🏽 And God bless Viles Dorsainvil, Exec Director of the Haitian Support Center. Haitians aren’t criminals. They were here legally under TPS until Trump stripped those protections. Yet we’re humiliating them by forcing them to wear ankle monitors.
8/2/1992 Tom Seaver is inducted into the Hall of Fame. Seaver enters Cooperstown with a then-record 98.84% of the vote
“Judges simply don’t believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,” a former federal judge said. “I don’t think ... in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.”
Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” Conduct
ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word.
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Where no mushroom has gone before ... (and, cue theme music now.
It‘s amazing Sen. Moreno hasn’t commented on the abuse allegations from his own daughter, but Sen. Husted is running for re-election and trying to hide. Don’t let him.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d agoa republican congressman allegedly broke his two-year-old daughter's collarbone and he somehow hasn't been run out of congress. there really is no bridge too far for these ghouls.
They just can’t say that Trump is lying. Shame on The Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump insists vandals damaged Reflecting Pool, blasts DOJ for dropped charge
The president acknowledged “there may have been some contractor difficulty” but said he disagreed with U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro for dropping a criminal charge against a former Olympian.
washingtonpost.com
MTV, I see from my notes, launched exactly 45 years ago today. I had a crush on Martha Quinn, but it did not begin to make up for how annoying I found Mark Goodman: Also unforgiveable was that these poseurs thought they should talk over the peformances of Live Aid,though none had anything to say.
as c. 2003 eric alterman would say it, even the communist financial times is doubting the political skill of the current republican administration.
1) Contemporary directors whose movies I will go see because they directed it, in rough order of level of enthusiasm (as requested): Woody Allen Martin Scorcese Richard Linklatter Pedro Aldomovar Christopher Nolan Quentin Tarantino Francis Ford Coppola Yorgos Lanthimos
Millions of Americans with student loan debt will soon pay far more in student debt payments because of Trump’s Big Tax cut last July -about 4k a year for a typical family with student debt. This is a betrayal of young Americans who need loans to pursue college or career www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
Opinion | America’s student loan system is a mess. Along comes Trump to make it worse.
Randi Weingarten and Mike Pierce: Ballooning student loan payments are Trump's latest contribution to the affordability crisis
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Like the hypocrisy and the open corruption, the naked, brazen lying is itself aspiring authoritarianism. They aren't lying to cover anything up. They're saying, "We know we're lying. You know we're lying. And we know you know we're lying. And there's nothing you can do about it."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it