“.. no announcement, no ceremony, no news cameras — just two employees on their routine overnight shift working while most of Washington slept.”
@washingtonpost.com #J6
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Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:
Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"
And, it included a non-party in the caption.
These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.
well hold on now maybe the military invasion in the middle east being run by narcissistic sociopaths with substance abuse issues will go smoothly and we’ll all end up looking stupid
🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) for refusing to turn over key records related to his office’s sweeping 2025 voter roll purge — a purge that canceled nearly 471,000 registrations, about 6% of the state’s voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
It was never about protecting cisgen women and girls. This law strips transgender adult male and females of their right to pursue liberty.
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Resign.
Resign.
Resign.
Have some basic decency: resign.
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30 years.
This video should be on every network.
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Delroy Lindo told Vanity Fair that he and Michael B. Jordan “did what we had to do” while presenting but that he also wished “someone from BAFTA spoke to us afterward”
#MorningVibe
In 1954, Edward R. Murrow reminded us that disagreeing with those in power isn’t the same as being disloyal. He warned against letting fear take over & replacing evidence with accusations.
This is a call to courage. Freedom doesn’t protect itself.
Six years ago today, Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed by racist vigilantes.
He was jogging near his neighborhood when he was attacked. Ahmaud should still be alive. We owe it to him to keep pushing for real justice and real change.
If you weren’t listening to @wamu.org this morning, this week’s installment of @the1A.org’s “if you can keep it” w/ @elliotwilliams.bsky.social @carolleonnig.bsky.social is a “must-hear” on where human rights, civil liberties, & the & rule of law stand in the USA.
(All are under dire threat, folks.)
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
The most Boston of blizzard updates:
‘Dunkin’ on Route 9 in Wellesley is open, police say’. (Because Dunkin’ Iced is year round!)
gold | noun | a medal awarded as the first prize in a competition
Wu: Snow emergency, you bet. Storm of potentially "historic proportions." Kids: No school on Mon.
City offices, libraries closed. Trash pickup delayed 1 day.
Space savers: Yes! Up to 48 hours after end of emergency declaration. Except South End and Bay Village, where they are a no-no.
#Boston
Will ping you when the date for this year’s annual Donna Summer disco party on Boston City Hall Plaza (last week of June) is confirmed!
MAHA suckers/influencers will be SHOCKED to learn this. (Oh wait, learned was in there.)
The Trump administration rolled back restrictions on toxic pollution from power plants, including limits on the release of mercury and lead.
Declaring war against Iran won’t stop us from talking about the Epstein files.
We can multitask.
"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending *** As of the end of January, there have been no convictions."
By the time he’s done, I’ll bet that at least a quarter of the national debt will just be money he stole.
This one hits hard.
"The Social Circle city manager was contacted by ICE...
“They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the government plans to use for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees.
“I told them I’m not going to do it,” he said...
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What $70 million in taxpayer money buys: a private luxury jet for Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski to jet-set around on.
And we’re supposed to believe it’s used for deporting undocumented immigrants.
She lives with her grandmother in Colombia and travels frequently to the U.S. to visit her mother. Her visa made them targets for ICE.
A trip to Disneyland ended with a 9-year-old, who had broken no laws, detained at Dilley, Texas.
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The cover-up just never ends. Rest in peace, Ruben Ray Martinez.
George Orwell wrote: "Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.”
But they're not. They're definitely not. With your help, we'll defeat the fascists and save our country.
