Kenneth Love

Not at all interesting and certainly not the least bit important.
ProDemocracy
Prochoice
BLM
LGBTQ+ Progress
He, him.

[💗 @ma1ybe]

“The rape didn’t last long enough”

There is not enough anger in the world to account for how little sexual violence against women just doesn’t matter in society.

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

The Trump-Vance administration is using jackboot tactics to intimidate organizations that help register people to vote. Its goons are showing up to people’s homes, stalking them around “work and school” without warrants, for no other reason than to intimidate these organizers ahead of midterms because the GOP can’t win unless it cheats and frightens Americans into not showing up to vote. Everything Republicans warned about when it comes to “big government” came true under them, and they’re fine with that because they never had any principles.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

That’s what you voted for Nebraska! #FAFO

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Some thoughts on the new Epstein Files revelations:

I’ve now read everything that’s come out from the new Haberman and Swan book, and the thing I keep coming back to is the Situation Room. They held multiple meetings in the Situation Room about the Epstein files. That room is for war. It’s for national security emergencies. It is not for figuring out how to spin a scandal you’re telling the country is a hoax.

While the President was deflecting or calling this old news, his own Vice President and Chief of Staff were huddled in the most leak-proof room in America because they knew how bad it really was.

You don’t take a nothingburger to the Situation Room.

And I have to be honest, reading all this brings back a lot of frustration about what happened in the House of Representatives. I sat there and watched Mike Johnson send the House home early to dodge a vote on releasing these files. I watched him refuse to swear in a duly elected colleague for months just to stall the discharge petition. Month after month of excuses, arm twisting, and procedural games, all to keep this information from the public. We only got the files because survivors, families, and a handful of members in both parties simply refused to let it go.

So when people ask me why I talk so much about transparency and accountability, this is why. The truth eventually comes out. It always does.

The only question is whether your leaders helped reveal it or helped bury it.

Everyone who voted to keep these files hidden should have to answer for that.

Finally, notice what’s missing from all of this is any sign that Trump’s DOJ will actually investigate the powerful men named in these files.

Draw your own conclusions about why a Justice Department run by the President’s former defense lawyers might not be eager to pull that thread.

[Jett 🜲 @iky_fwjett]

Women have been saying for years that there is a growing backlash against gender equality, and every time the conversation comes up we’re told we’re imagining it.

Now the United Nations is saying it.

According to a UN report, nearly 1 in 4 countries reported setbacks in women’s rights and gender equality. Hundreds of millions of women and girls are living in conflict zones, violence against women remains widespread, and UN officials are warning about a growing backlash against women’s rights worldwide.

The part that stands out to me isn’t even the statistics. It’s that women have been raising concerns about misogyny, online hostility toward women, violence, and attacks on reproductive rights for years, only to be dismissed as overreacting.

If the UN Secretary-General is warning about the “mainstreaming of misogyny,” maybe it’s time to stop pretending these concerns came out of nowhere.

Do you think women’s rights are genuinely facing setbacks, or do you think organizations like the UN are exaggerating the problem?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

BIG excerpt out from new @maggieNYT and @jonathanvswan book “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump”...apparently WH staff were terrified about the release of a document alleging Trump had a "predilection for nipples" and abused those of an Epstein victim

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

They screamed that Tina Peters had cancer, was dying in prison and must be freed. After her release by Colorado Governor Jared Polis she made it clear she doesn't have any cancer, she had acid reflux.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

Those who celebrate @elonmusk's $1 trillion fortune need to be reminded of a simple and vital truth:

That there is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

The "Trump Kennedy Center" apparently repeatedly ignored the terms of a contract with the Washington National Opera, locked the WNO out from viewing their own financial records, and is now refusing to return$17 million of their own money — and even already spent some of it!

[Atheist Girl @iamAtheistGirl]

Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #Pride

[sora 🖤🔆 @BlackheartSora]

it's always "stand your ground" until a minority defends themself 🙄

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Commercial advertising, product placements, and corporate-sponsored promotions are explicitly prohibited on national parklands. The White House lawn is a unit of the National Park System. It also violates standard Anti-Vending and Solicitation Laws as well as misuse of public funds and government endorsement ethics. Everything this administration does spits in the face of our laws. Everything is a grift.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The Trump administration is quietly moving to change the Affordable Care Act to let health insurers offer people loans to pay for their care.

Deep in a document over 1,000 pages long about how the Affordable Care Act market will operate next year, the administration suggests that insurers consider offering loans to cash-strapped customers.

Under this approach, people who develop a costly disease or need unexpected emergency care would turn to their health insurer for loans.

A third of American households already have medical debt, and this approach would mean even more debt that patients owe to their health insurance companies.

The insurers, who already make billions, would stand to make even more.

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[Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) @speechboy71]

I know we’re all inured to this but it’s still remarkable that the president of the United States lies on a daily basis about the last three presidential elections — and all because he has the world’s most fragile ego and can’t admit he lost

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

“Adam Hoffman—an admitted child molester—is a registered sex offender in Nebraska but doesn’t have to register in Texas because Ken Paxton gave him an Epstein-style sweetheart deal. He put the well-being of pedophiles over the safety of Texas children." 😡 https://t.co/S4z0FSWvVZ

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

If taxpayers are going to pay to build a stadium, then the taxpayers should own the stadium.

You can’t socialize the cost, then privatize the profits.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

🚨 BREAKING

House Republicans are moving to "expunge" both of Trump's impeachments.

There's just one problem:

You can't un-impeach a president.

The Constitution gives the House the power to impeach. It does not provide a mechanism to retroactively erase an impeachment after it happened.

Trump was impeached twice.

The Senate held two trials.

Those votes are part of the constitutional and historical record.

Even legal scholars frequently cited by Republicans acknowledge the same basic reality:

Once you're impeached, you're impeached.

An expungement resolution may create a political talking point.

It does not change history.

It does not undo the impeachments.

It does not erase the Senate trials.

It does not make those constitutional events disappear.

This isn't about changing what happened.

It's about changing how people remember what happened.