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[Savannah (she/her) @rx0rcist]

ADA sends out an email that leaves me with more questions than answers. Healthcare is and always will be political.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Think about all the column inches and headlines devoted to Graham Platner over the past week versus Ken Paxton and then tell me again we have a ‘liberal’ media.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

This moderator is GOLDEN‼️
We need to do this to TRUMP‼️

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 @ronnychieng at Harvard: “F*ck A.I. — the mission of your generation is to destroy it… shortcuts to skip to the end aren’t always good. The journey is the point of all this.”

[Sammy Obeid @SammyObeid]

Trump’s grandfather was an illegal immigrant…

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Ooooh, are we sharing fables? I got one for you.

So, there's this frog that enters public service, presumably for the right reasons. He spends years as a district judge, then gets elected to the state supreme court, then attorney general of that state.

Wouldn't you know it, that frog makes his way up to the U.S. Senate and gets reelected a few times. He seems to have a great path ahead.

Well, along comes this scorpion who's running for president and saying outright: if you don't support me, I'm gonna sting you.

The supposedly wise frog warns everyone else about the scorpion, tells them this scorpion is bad news, tells them this scorpion is gonna sting them with no regard for their support.

Alas, the scorpion is elected anyway, and the frog, despite knowing the scorpion is going to sting, keeps supporting the scorpion.

The frog, once wise, spends a decade defending the scorpion stinging others even though the frog knows there's a damn good chance he's gonna get stung himself because the scorpion doesn't do loyalty.

The frog, you see, is too chickenshit to speak out against the scorpion and decides to just wait out the scorpion's time. He's okay with others getting stung, though. He figures if he can appeal to the scorpion's ego and support him, he'll evade the eventual sting.

So, he spends years pandering to the scorpion and looking the other way while others get stung. And after a while, he figures he's gonna make it out okay.

Well, along comes this other frog who panders even harder. A truly corrupt and nasty frog. No integrity at all. Seems to have no soul.

And the frog thinks: there ain't no way the scorpion is gonna favor this other frog. I've bent over backwards for the scorpion. I've been loyal. This other frog is ugly as sin. No one likes the other frog. The scorpion ain't gonna choose him over me, right?

The frog is now neck-deep in delusion. He thinks the way to get out of this pickle is to pander to the scorpion even harder. He even tries to get a highway named after the scorpion.

Well... it didn't work. One day, the scorpion thanked the frog for his loyalty and then repeatedly stung him into oblivion. Stung him over and over. Seemed to enjoy it, honestly.

I think I read that in Aesop's or somewhere.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

Ohio police stop & harass Black teenagers—for "giving criminal indications."

"It’s not my fault you guys live in this F'ing high crime neighborhood!" cops yell.

"Enjoy your poverty!"

15-year-old Emma & friends were just walking home after buying snacks.

Cops call them "dumb," "stupid," and "F'ing annoying"—after pulling up in unmarked cars and stopping them.

Incident occurred near the Red & White Shopping Market on the north side of Toledo, Ohio.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.

Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.

IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.

The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.

The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.

Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.” 

Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.

The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.

This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.

Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

https://t.co/La0nlLuz1r

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

After he won the Pulitzer Prize, Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha was invited onto MSNBC where he was promptly interrogated about why he wasn't doing more to humanize the people slaughtering his family members in Gaza.

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

the analysis and insights of @TerryMoran are a treasure. not just highly-skilled on TV; he also writes like a dream

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

https://t.co/BNsdwxjslY

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

QUINTANILLA: According to the filings, the president has been trading some Intel in the quarter

JIM CRAMER: Yeah, uh, yeah, hmm

FABER: Got nothing to say?

CRAMER: Uh, uh, yeah, whoa, yeah.

FABER: Don't worry. We're not having technical difficulties, but we gotta go

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

GILLIBRAND: What is your record?! I don't want to just hear about what you don't like about the Biden administration

SCOTT TURNER: During the Biden administra--

GILLIBRAND: Stop talking about Biden! Talk about your record

TURNER: During the Biden administration--

GILLIBRAND: Oh my God!

[Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin]

Republicans don’t like it when we match their energy lol

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

A MAGA woman has been harassing her Mexican neighbors for over a year because she doesn’t like them parking on the street.She has written them threatening letters & has been aggressive.She gets mad at the cop after he tells her she’s wrong & gets she’s arrested & says call Trump

[LambChip @_Lembz]

On The Daily Show, Trevor Noah was asked by an American teacher: what’s the difference between apartheid in South Africa and racism in the United States?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

We’re governed by fucking morons

[么 ꜱ ᴀ ᴍ ꪜ, @___TheGOOdWitch]

Is education in America illegal?😅🤦🏼‍♂️

We aint satan worshippers we don’t believe in Satan either 😅