“When we're dancing with the angels, the question will be asked, in 2019, what did we do to make sure we kept our democracy intact? Did we stand on the sidelines and say nothing? Did we play games?” -Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., Feb. 27, 2019. #Elijah
Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe he has made that effort and that is, therefore, why he will sleep for the eternity. #ElijahCummings#RIP
Loggerhead sea turtles 🐢 don’t just migrate willy-nilly. As it turns out, they follow a narrow band of ideal chlorophyll and heat levels—which stretches across the Pacific and moves north and south with the seasons!
In honor of #WorldSeaTurtleDay, see how data collected from tagged turtles and @NOAA’s #satellites reveals this migration pattern!
Irish Studies scholar here, who has written on this novel. The only antisemitism in the text is expressed by the Citizen, a parody of extreme and violent right-wing white nationalism, the kind of fellow of whom old Phelim here would heartily approve were he to encounter him.
1/🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Five months after Jeffrey Epstein's own Chief Pilot wrote to U.S. Customs and Border Protection acknowledging "the owner of the Aircraft is a registered sex offender" — CBP renewed Epstein's federal authority to fly foreign nationals from 42 partner countries into the United States.
Through 2018.
The implications are explosive. 🧵👇
MS NOW EXCLUSIVE:
Kash Patel may have a 'personal slush fund' of taxpayer dollars to pay loyalist agents, according to Rep. Jamie Raskin.
Raskin is demanding documents from Patel — citing claims that $8,000 payments are made to agents who carry out "unlawful partisan and personal orders." https://t.co/ZOU8iRxj2u
holy shit -- OMB nominee Hal Duncan repeatedly refuses to say whether he thinks it's a good idea to put civil servants "in trauma," as Russ Vought once said
🚨 DHS conducted raids this morning in Minneapolis, targeting rapid responders. In a few hours, they will announce conspiracy charges against popular defenders who allegedly resisted federal occupation of the city, describing them as “antifa” groups. Another NSPM-7 case.
A Russian frigate has apparently opened fire at, or near to, a British civilian ship in the English channel. SkyNews confirmed the yacht contacted French authorities and both British and French are now responding.
Banger of an expose on Trump’s ballroom: despite his insistence otherwise, taxpayers were on the hook for the project from the start.
Via @Blaskey_S and @jocwapo
Gift link:
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Breaking: Police are investigating a shooting on a metro bus in Northwest DC outside the WUSA9 studios. Wisconsin Ave NW is shut down. https://t.co/w60QZUaFvI
We need to be clear about what is happening in this photo.
Rick Scarborough, former Southern Baptist pastor, got on stage at the Texas Republican Convention and told state DELEGATE Mohamed Hussein to convert to Christianity or leave the country. He was so upset that he cried. It was then and only then that Rick felt guilty, so he sat down and pretended to pray for him.
The only evil we need to expel from this state are the people who don’t believe in the CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHT of freedom of religion.
📷 Manoo Sirivelu for @TexasTribune