Lynda Powell

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

holy crap this is easily the best Tony Award speech of the entire night. hell yes to all of this

"This is dedicated to the beautiful tapestry of immigrant families who make this country really special. May you one day not have to audition for the empathy that should be freely given by this country that benefits from your beauty. To the queer and trans communities that always will exist, no matter what people in power try to take away from them. To the people of Palestine who deserve to live a free life – a full life – without occupation. ... If there's one thing we can learn from vampires, it's that life is short, but that's its gift. Find beauty in the ephemeral and gratitude in what is not promised."

—Ali Louis Bourzgui, winning Featured Actor in a Musical for The Lost Boys

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @DAGToddBlanche: You don’t get to decide to “move on” from the Epstein Files or from following the congressional law. That decision can only be made by the American people and Congress.

You will be disbarred. The files will eventually be released.

November is coming.

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

hell yes to this acceptance speech from Qween Jean, who just became the first openly trans person to ever win a Tony

"We are here for the legacy of queer people. Trans people, we have to take up space. We have to shift the paradigm...the world right now is deeply, deeply combating so many ailments, and we know as a society that when we come together we can make real, permanent change."

Qween won Best Costume Design for a Musical for Cats: The Jellicle Ball

[Stallion Stats @MegansStats]

Megan Thee Stallion takes the stage at the 2026 Tony Awards with a freestyle! #MeganAtTheeTonys

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Rosie O’Donnell on Trump: “If you grew up in New York you knew he was an asshole and a liar from day one. He is a con man, he is a narcissist, and he is a psychopath if you ask me”

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

A man calls into Fox News and tells Jeanine Pirro that Trump isn’t making America Great Again he’s Making America Hate Again and he’s tired of it and she should be ashamed of herself because she was once a Judge and knows better than to allow this to keep happening.

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

Victor Marx, frontrunner for the GOP nod for CO Gov, makes astonishing claims about his accomplishments. He’s either had one of the most extraordinary lives in human history or he’s a liar and a fraud.

When I asked how voters should decide, he joked that his dog would bite me.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Anthony Scaramucci: “My name is President Hillary Clinton. I’ve blown up the country by getting into a forever war, I campaigned on affordability and jacked the prices to the moon, but I’m focused on interior decorating and remaking the ballroom. I want to ask you, what do you think Fox News would be doing?”

Don Lemon: “Excoriating, they’d be running her out of DC, they would want to impeach her, they would say she’s inept and why is she focusing on such frivolous things”

[Pascal @Dragonesse85]

@OccupyDemocrats

[Catherine 🍀 🇫🇷 Paris @WhatsUp_Cath]

@NEWSMAX A ‘Thank You Notes’ moment from The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon… on an UFC ring set up at the White House! 😂🙌💯 #FallonTonight.

[DulceBiatch @BiatchDulce]

JUST IN MAY 2026:
36 RIGHT-WINGERS/MAGA’s MADE HEADLINES FOR CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN.
#RepublicansSupportPedophilia

[Epstein File Search @epsteinsearchin]

In February, Jayapal read an Epstein email at a House hearing:

"Where are you? Are you okay? I loved the torture video."

DOJ redacted the name. Congress forced unredaction. The recipient: Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, CEO of a company with financial ties to Trump.

[Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff]

Trump should show up here at the L.A. County ballot processing center because he’d learn within five minutes this is democracy in action, not some conspiracy.

[Gene Trevino @GenoVeno73]

LITERALLY carved in stone (granite) at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial (Room Two) on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

This is from President Roosevelt's January 9, 1940, greeting to the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born.

👇👇👇👇

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

The Devil’s Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black people were funneled into concentration camps.

As the enslaved people were released from the plantations in large numbers following the Emancipation Proclamation and the advance of Union forces, Natchez became a refuge for many seeking freedom. But instead of freedom, the Union Army traps them in a concentration camp in this deep-ass pit surrounded by steep bluffs, known as the Devil’s Punch Bowl.

However, the influx overwhelmed the town’s resources. Union authorities, struggling to manage the situation, confined thousands of these ‘freed’ African Americans—men, women, and children—in a makeshift camp at a low-lying area dubbed the Devil’s Punchbowl. This natural depression was prone to flooding and offered little shelter or sanitation.

Disease started spreading, people were starving, and thousands—especially women and kids—died slow, painful deaths. Their bodies were left to rot, and the land is still untouched to this day because their remains are literally in the soil. Mass graves still hide under the town’s peach orchards.

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

Brook Rollins deleted this Screw Worm post. Either Trump told her to, or she's afraid he'll get mad.

Trump & his loyalists are gonna spread screw worm throughout the whole damn country while trying to cover it up. 🤬

Covid-19 2.0

[kevin blue @kevinblue345]

White university of Iowa tries to take black scholarship for black students to give to white students

[Lev Parnas @levparnas]

Enough is enough.

At what point do we stop pretending this is normal?

At what point do we stop allowing @realDonaldTrump to insult women, berate women, threaten women, degrade women, and then hide behind power like he is untouchable?

He has been doing this his entire life.

In business.

In politics.

In the courts.

In the Epstein circle.

And now, as president of the United States, he uses the most powerful platform in the world to attack women who speak out, women who stand up, women who dare to tell the truth.

Look at what he is doing to E. Jean Carroll. A jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her — and instead of accountability, he keeps attacking. He keeps trying to intimidate. He keeps using power as a weapon.

And that is exactly the point.

This is not just about insults. This is about control.

He takes away women’s rights.

He attacks women’s credibility.

He covers up the Epstein files.

He protects the powerful men while attacking the women who survived them.

He wants women silent. He wants survivors scared. He wants the country numb.

I’m asking a simple question:

When is enough finally enough?

When do we stand together and say no more?

No more letting the media normalize it.

No more letting politicians excuse it.

No more letting powerful men abuse women and then call themselves victims.

No more silence.

I am calling on this community — women, men, survivors, parents, citizens, everyone with a conscience — to stand together as one voice.

Protect women.

Believe survivors.

Demand the Epstein files.

Hold Trump accountable.

And stop supporting any media outlet, politician, or platform that continues to sanitize, excuse, or cover for this madness.

Because this is not politics anymore.

This is about basic decency.

This is about right and wrong.

This is about whether we are still willing to stand up for the women of this country against a man who has spent his life degrading them.

Enough is enough.

It is time to stand up.
It is time to speak out.
It is time to fight back together.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

🚨 Trump's new Medicaid rules just made it official: having cancer is not enough to be exempt from work requirements. You have to PROVE cancer is stopping you from working. While you're in chemo.

This week, the Trump administration released its final 400-page rule on how states must enforce the Medicaid work requirements that were buried inside last year's "One Big Beautiful Bill." Starting January 1, 2027, most low-income adults on Medicaid must prove every single month they are working, volunteering, or attending school for at least 80 hours — or lose their coverage.

For months, advocates for cancer patients and people living with HIV had been pushing for a blanket medical exemption. What they got instead was a trap. The new rule ties the definition of "medically frail" — the exemption category — directly to a person's ability to work. That means cancer patients who are still capable of working, even in between chemo rounds, do not automatically qualify. A woman with early-stage breast cancer receiving radiation treatment? May not qualify. A man living with HIV who takes medication and still reports to work? No exemption.

And here's the part that should stop you cold: Harvard health policy professor Adrianna McIntyre told reporters that even cancer patients who ARE technically exempt could still lose coverage — because the paperwork process is so complex that "a recently diagnosed cancer patient who is employed might lose Medicaid coverage due to errors in completing the necessary paperwork." Cancer will not wait while a Medicaid office sifts through forms.

The American Cancer Society ran the numbers. Researchers at the University of Chicago published a study in JAMA Oncology projecting that over 1 million mammograms and colorectal and lung cancer screenings will be missed within the first two years of these rules. That translates to more than 2,300 undetected cancer cases — hundreds at advanced stages — and an estimated 155 avoidable deaths from just three types of cancer alone.

A coalition of 48 patient advocacy groups signed a joint statement calling the rule "life-threatening." The American Academy of Pediatrics said it will "harm those whom Medicaid is intended to support." The HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute's director said bluntly: "We will lose individuals from Medicaid, and many will become ill and die as a result."
68 million Americans depend on Medicaid. The CBO says at least 5 million will lose coverage. And Dr. Oz went on TV to defend it by saying Medicaid recipients watch too much television.

[The Blue Torch @_TheBlueTorch]

fucking brilliant 🔥