Amity - mask, ventilate, filter-covid is not over

Curious. Meandering. Progressive.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
George Orwell, 1984

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

You all know this, but I'm posting it anyway. The Save Act is NOT about Voter Integrity or Voter ID!!
They could easily rewrite the bill to make it only about that, but they don't want that - they want the ruse.
The ruse is threefold: First - VOTER SUPPRESSION - against lower incomes, married women, people without passports, etc. Proof of citizenship is NOT voter ID.
Second - FEDERALIZING ELECTIONS - the Act makes states send their voter rolls to the Feds. NO!!!
Third - and the REAL primary reason Trump loves the Act - it's a way to guaranty CHAOS ON ELECTION DAY so he can declare an emergency.
The more frequently that RW hacks like Gunther and Catturd and the repulsive Scott Presler post about the "need" for The Senate to pass the Save Act and the more that militantly partisan elected officials like Luna seem unable to shut up about it, the more evident it is that they are desperate that MAGA is splintering, Trump is sinking, and they're fearful of losing their grift and office and having to go back to working jobs, like security guards and coffee shop waitresses.

[The Vertlartnic @TheVertlartnic]

Long Covid Unlikely To Explain Increase In People Too Ill To Work, Because That Would Be Too Obvious, Say Experts

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

We aren’t rewriting history on Candida auris. I kept COPIOUS receipts. Our wounds are self-inflicted. In 2021, C. auris began jumping from person-to-person for the first time ever in the US, & NO ONE CARED. Then we ignored C. auris clusters in children’s hospitals, & C. auris transmission from adults to children. After pulling a “Did they die OF C. auris or WITH C. auris?” Nevada quit reporting C. auris deaths. We did it to ourselves. C. auris has been called “The Creature From The Black Lagoon.” It’s often uncontrollable. This WILL collapse our healthcare system, bet.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Millions of views on tweets of this photo that don't credit the photographer. It's Cheney Orr: @orr_photo

[Royally Sage @sage1411]

My brother posts this every year in the family chat on the 4th. Still hilarious.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “Do you remember last year when Trump announced his massive across the board tariffs…He called it liberation day, it actually led to a stock market crash. That liberation day announcement was made on April 2nd of last year, and Trump’s financial disclosures show that he made 327 stock purchases six days later, on April 8th, while the market was down…So he makes those purchases on April 8th. The next morning, just after the market opened, he told his followers on Truth social: ‘THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY.’ Hours later, he paused his tariffs and the stock market had a historic rally, so historic in fact, it represented the biggest single day gain in the history of the Bloomberg billionaires index. To put it simply, it appears an official act by Trump cratered the stock market. Trump then bought the dip and then used another official act to bring the price of the market back up. Trump of course insists that all his stock transactions are handled by his two adult sons [@EricTrump & @DonaldJTrumpJr] without his involvement or knowledge of the individual trades carried out on his behalf. When asked about the timing of these specific trades, the White House told us tonight that President Trump only acts in the best interests of the American public, saying there was no conflict of interest. The White House also directed us to the Trump Organization. We’ve reached out to them, but we haven’t heard [anything] back.”🤦‍♀️

[Rep. Jared Huffman @RepHuffman]

Every American should be outraged by what Trump has done to our nation's 250th birthday celebration. What should have been a once-in-a-generation moment to unite the country has been turned into another vehicle for division, propaganda, and political gain.

We uncovered how he hijacked America 250 – watch to see how.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

The blatant corruption is just staggering.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

To everyone celebrating the first flight on Qatar Force One today, understand what you are actually applauding.

A foreign government handed the sitting President of the United States a $400 million plane. American taxpayers then paid to retrofit it, with an estimated cost of at least another $400 million (some estimates far higher), for security and communications work in a Texas hangar since last September.

When Trump leaves office, the plane does not stay with the government. Ownership transfers to his presidential library foundation. In other words, he keeps it.

You are being asked to treat pure corruption as normal, to shrug at a President personally profiting from a foreign gift the taxpayers paid to upgrade.

In any other administration this would be the scandal that ends a presidency.

With Trump, it’s Wednesday.
https://t.co/qAfVUp8KBd

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

The court has spoken: Trump's attempt to get political revenge by shutting down the Hudson Tunnel project wasn't just illegal, but "flagrantly" unlawful.

This ruling is good news for the thousands of workers building the project and the hundreds of thousands of commuters who will depend on it - but these unlawful antics never should have happened in the first place.

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN!

Trump wants to cut down Washington DC's oldest grove of cherry trees along and eliminate the public biking path and picnic areas so he can build a golf course on public land, using public dollars, and taking spaces away from the public.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

The world is slowly getting it.
This company is not what it claims to be.

Palantir is a surveillance and data collection front-end for Nazi psychopath Peter Thiel. It is Cambridge Analytica for the broligarchy. It needs to die in a fire and its ashes thrown into a volcano.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

JUST. FUCKING. WOW. The humility, decency, and integrity of Jack Smith came across loud and clear. This career prosecutor is an American hero. Jack Smith is the antithesis of the depravity, corruption, and moral bankruptcy of Trump, Todd Blanche, the DOJ, and Kash Patel.

Here is a synopsis of Jack Smith's first televised news interview since he criminally charged the most corrupt president in American history, Donald Trump.

Core Pillars of the Interview

ㆍ The Fragility of the Rule of Law: Smith warned that the rule of law is under an unprecedented attack, declaring it is "different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime." He explained that democratic systems do not run on autopilot and rely entirely on the good-faith commitment of people inside public institutions to uphold them.

ㆍ Consistency Over Politics: He reiterated that a healthy democracy requires investigating cases by focusing strictly on the facts and the law, applying the exact same standards regardless of political affiliation.

ㆍ Defending Career Public Servants: Smith spoke passionately about the career prosecutors, FBI agents, and support staff who are being "demonized for doing their jobs" by political figures. He expressed that he feels "terrible" about how they are being treated.

ㆍ The Call to Support Them: He emphasized the moral necessity for regular citizens to stand up for these civil servants, stating, "It's really important that we stand up for them and let them know that there are a lot of people out there who back them and who are with them."

ㆍ The Danger of Lost Trust: Smith noted that the loss of institutional trust has a dangerous "cascading effect" on the legal system, warning that when judges and the public lose faith in prosecutors, the Justice Department loses its ability to perform basic functions.

Warnings About Upcoming Elections

ㆍ Deeply Concerned for the Future: When asked directly if the country is witnessing a real-time assault on the upcoming election cycle, Smith explicitly stated, "I'm very concerned of what's going to happen in the next election, absolutely."

ㆍ Bad Actors Have Adapted: He warned that individuals who attempted to subvert the 2020 election have likely learned from past failures, adapting their strategies to be more effective next time.

ㆍ State Attorneys General Must Step Up: Smith emphasized that the federal apparatus cannot be the sole line of defense, noting that state attorneys general now have a massive responsibility to enforce the rule of law within their own state borders to protect voting integrity.

Anticipating Personal Retaliation & Indictment

ㆍ Expecting Retaliation: Wallace asked Smith point-blank if he expects to be criminally indicted by the current Trump administration.

ㆍ A Distinct Possibility: Smith acknowledged that an indictment "could happen," given the administration's vocal hostility toward him and the likely use of the Justice Department to target him directly.

ㆍ Refusing to Back Down: Despite the threat of prosecution, he declared, "I am not going to be intimidated. We did our work, pursuant to department policy... I'm not going to pretend that didn't happen because they are threatening me."

How Legal Experts & Media Analysts Reacted

ㆍ An Extraordinary and Historic Moment: Commentators and legal analysts noted that a public media tour by a former Special Counsel defending the DOJ's integrity against a sitting president is entirely unprecedented in modern political history.

ㆍ Nostalgia for Institutional Norms: Media figures reacted strongly to the broadcast, expressing a sense of nostalgia for a time when the Department of Justice operated under strict, non-partisan legal norms. Smith was praised as a rare, authoritative voice willing to publicly champion rank-and-file civil servants.

ㆍ Composure Under Extreme Pressure: Legal observers highlighted Smith’s calm, professional, and articulate demeanor during the broadcast. Analysts noted that his refusal to get defensive or angry stands as a model for how public officials should handle intense political weaponization.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

In his SOTU speech in 2010, @barackobama warned that with it's Citizens United decision, the SCOTUS had "opened the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections."
Today, his grim prophecy has become the reality.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Another day, another round of headlines about Trump's unprecedented corruption.

And this is just the stuff there's reporting about.

[Senator Mazie Hirono @maziehirono]

$1000 that could've gone toward retirement.
$1000 that could've gone into your savings.
$1000 that could've gone toward groceries.
$1000 that could've gone toward a house payment.

$1000 that instead paid for Trump's illegal war with Iran.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

The amount of insider trading Donald Trump is participating in is staggering. It’s actually almost unfathomable.

Since 2012 Nancy Pelosi has executed 213 trades on individual stocks with a total volume of $270 million dollars.

In Q1 of 2026 Donald Trump executed 3,500+ trades on individual stocks with a total volume of $1.5 billion dollars.

Donald Trump is on pace for 14,000 trades this year.

Nancy Pelosi has averaged 15 trades per year.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Could've been Batman, decided to be Lex Luthor.

[Covie @covie_93]

Somebody should tell clarence thomas that if the 14th amendment was only meant for slaves then the 2nd Amendment was only meant for a musket.