Mary Kay

Nature lover, Democrat, cat mom, translator, lawyer, #HarrisWalz2024

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

He risked his life to help keep America safe. ICE didn’t care. This is evil.

Blerim Skoro, 55, spent years undercover for U.S. intelligence, infiltrating al-Qaeda-linked networks after 9/11. Now ICE arrested him outside a New Jersey immigration office while he was renewing his paperwork.

This is Trump's cruelty machine: use people, prevent them from renewing paperwork, then call them “illegal”.

If he had a different name, a different accent, a different skin tone, would this be happening?

https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY helps immigrants, families, and allies prepare for ICE encounters, know their rights, document abuse, and push back when the government turns paperwork into a trap.

PAXIS is free. Help keep it that way: https://t.co/Hi5Yo2N2N2

Know your rights. Record safely. Demand names, badges, warrants, reports, and accountability.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

Natalie Harp is Trump's shadow. She has a shocking degree of influence over what information he gets. She texts world leaders for him. She helps him write his tweets. She is Trump's greatest sycophant in a White House full of them. She is in no sense a "random person."

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

some Democrats cheer Ossoff by saying he's moving past "when they go low, we go high"

but he isn't going low

he's just telling the truth

the Trump administration IS an obscenity, and saying so plainly is precisely what needs to be done

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

i just had andrew and tristan tate arrested in miami for wearing these outfits

[Bridget Early @bridget__early]

The lede on this NYT story is devastating. As more parents reject Vitamin K shots for their babies, docs are increasingly treating brain/abdominal hemorrhages for infants who hadn’t received the routine injection, per Maggie Astor:

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Not exaggerating when I say the future depends on this catching on en masse. Kids, adults. Book clubs, silent reading groups. For the past twenty-five years tech has corroded our attention, intelligence and basic pleasure in living, and books are the key to winning them back.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He said he wishes men would stop wearing slim fit suits, adopt animals from their local animal shelter, and build affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods. I told him thank you.

[Rep. Don Beyer @RepDonBeyer]

This plan would require years of lane closures and major disruptions along one of our most critical transportation corridors. A traffic nightmare in the making.

Even setting aside the obvious illegality of this project, the public deserves a full accounting of its impacts.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

Photosynthesis is bipartisan….😎

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Happy President Obama Day to those who celebrate.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

"Obama was notoriously not a big reader" is like saying "Trump is notoriously not vain."

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I’ve been informed by folks on this site that The Hobbit and now Jane Austen are too difficult for teens. I can’t stress enough how condescending this is to teenagers. You’re taking away all the things that might bring them joy and leaving them with no pastimes but scrolling.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Incredible. Scotland puts a wind turbine near Trump’s golf course in Aberdeen 20 years ago. He sues and loses. Then his resulting hatred of wind turbines now ends up with the US Secretaries of Defense & Interior fabricating absurd lies to justify killing wind energy in the US.

[Rep. Don Beyer @RepDonBeyer]

NBC 4 Washington: “Virginia Democrat Rep. Don Beyer is cosponsoring a bill to block President Donald Trump's proposed Triumphal Arch that would stand 250 feet tall between Arlington National Cemetery and the Memorial Bridge.”
https://t.co/BYbk4hNTCb

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Karen Newton, 65, from Hertfordshire in England, left home in late July 2025 for the road trip of a lifetime through the United States with her husband Bill. Valid passports. Valid visas. Weeks on the road through California, Nevada, Wyoming and Montana. Then they tried to cross into Canada and things fell apart. Canadian officials said Bill didn’t have the right paperwork to bring the car across the border. When the couple turned back to the American side, U.S. border agents found that Bill’s visa had expired. 

Karen’s tourist visa was valid. Her British passport was valid. She has no criminal record. None of it mattered. She was handcuffed, shackled, and spent the night sleeping on the floor of a locked cell before being driven 12 hours through the night to an ICE detention centre. She and her husband spent the next six weeks there. 

She is now warning anyone planning to visit the United States that the situation is “totally out of control” and advises people not to go while Donald Trump is in office. 

A British grandmother. A valid visa. Six weeks in chains.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

The intense media focus on Graham Platner is understandable. He is an unknown in a crucial Senate race with a lot of baggage. Less understandable is the lack of coverage of Ken Paxton, whose sins are far worse. That it is “old news” is no excuse. Most voters have no clue.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

MAGA literally canceled an election to wipe out a Black district.

This is Jim Crow 2.0.

Don’t stay silent.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE