Didn’t know that Ben Affleck’s mom was one of the original Freedom Riders. RIP.

Chris Affleck, Mother of Oscar Winners Ben and Casey Affleck, Dies at 83

A schoolteacher, she was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died June 2, her family announced.

hollywoodreporter.com

WE WILL STOP FASCISM. 🇺🇸

If our elections are rigged, how did the GOP win the White House, the Senate, Congress and the Supreme Court? They won everything, so why cry about it unless you know you're going to lose bad.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

"Bradley Cooper is starring in a major Hollywood film about January 6th directed by Sean Penn. The officers who were beaten that day are going to have their stories told to millions of people. Justice cmes in many forms. This is one of them." Really American

>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses

I missed this last night, so from the bottom of my heart as a lifelong Dodgers fan: Fuck Blake Treinen

Peter Karlin@heykarlin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Blake Treinen the only Dodger refusing to wear the pride hat on Pride Night. Such a colossal piece of shit.

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

Maybe WE THE PEOPLE, class action as a country, should establish an extrajudicial private prison with no due process for the government personnel (from the ICE line to the Presidency). Remove their health care, feed them maggots, take their freedoms & rights. See if they can bribe their way out.

Why do your worst posts always do the best and vice versa

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

Thousands attend protests in Selma and Montgomery for voting rights | Alabama Reflector

Speakers at the All Roads Lead to the South events urge people to mobilize to oppose redistricting efforts by Legislatures in the south.

alabamareflector.com

It’s weird that Helen of Troy being played by a black actress is a problem, but most of the rest of the Mediterranean, Greek and Turkish characters being played by incredibly fair and blond haired people of British, Irish and Scandinavian descent isn’t. And by weird, I mean entirely predictable.

Remember how *hysterical* Republicans got when Obama bowed to the Emperor of Japan in 2009? Well, here is Trump bowing before the President of China—and not a peep from the MAGA outrage machine.

Just make Paddington James Bond. Everyone would be delighted. He's a well known assassin. It would be good. He could hide so many gadgets in his coat and under that hat. His paw are gross though. Just marmalade and germs. Whatever

its so hard being a cat in space because the vacuum is everywhere

Day baseball at Wrigley Field back in the 1970’s, two-thirds empty and filled with the drunk and unemployable, as God intended...

Some of y'all need a hug, a forehead kiss, and a grill cheese sandwich cut diagonal.

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

In 1909, my great grandfather helped found the NAACP, connecting DuBois and Wells and others to Jewish philanthropy in New York. I think about him, because they were just past or right in the nadir, and that's how he chose to spend his time. Gonna keep trying to live up to him.

The 1st Amendment wasn't written so we'd feel free wishing each other a happy birthday. It was written so we'd feel free saying sharp and difficult things, such as stating plainly that the president of the United States is a convicted felon who is trying to destroy American democracy.

Hakeem Jeffries responds to Karoline Leavitt: She wants to lecture us about civility? Get lost. Clean up your own house before you have anything to say to us.

I don't know if the assassination attempt was staged or not but I do know that Donald Trump is mentioned more than 38,000 times in the Epstein files… So, let’s talk about that. 😎✨

Am I understanding this correctly? The President, the Vice-President, the Speaker of the House AND the Secretary of Stare were all at the White House Correspondent's Dinner together and security was so laxed that a guy ran through security with a long gun? I call bullshit.

The White House claims it has secured all of Iran—when it can't even secure one DC ballroom.

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

Nobody wants ICE or their prison warehouses in their community. It would be in everyone's best interest if they simply abolished the agency right now. There's nothing of value there.

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

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ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended.