I read and I know things 🇺🇸🚀🌈🌊❤️☮️

Locus of Improbability.
Not the political party @arivalayam .
DMK என்று அழைக்கப்படும் தமிழ் அரசியல் கட்சியை நீங்கள் தேடுகிறீர்கள் என்றால், நான் அவர்கள் அல்ல!

[I read and I know things 🇺🇸🚀🌈🌊❤️☮️ @dmk]

What are 5 topics you can talk about unprepared for 5 minutes?
1-Science fiction / fantasy
2-Software design
3-Politics (social progressive & fiscal conservative), especially economics ("saltwater")
4-Medicine (thyroid cancer survivor)
5-Life, the Universe, Everything (polymath)

[dr. alicia andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz]

what are 5 topics you can talk about unprepared for 5 minutes?

1. why Toni Morrison should be read every year in highschool instead of Shakespeare
2. Pema Chodron’s teachings
3. contemporary songs w good horn parts
4. pregnant people of color in Shakespeare
5. Bruce Springsteen

[I read and I know things 🇺🇸🚀🌈🌊❤️☮️ @dmk]

Laurence Fishburne reads a stark warning from W. E. B. Du Bois written in 1953.
https://t.co/c4TUI8tvMF

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

Turns out we may already have an anti-aging vaccine.

Created originally to prevent shingles, it appears to influence aging and cognitive decline - far beyond anything it was designed to do.

The beauty of science.

https://t.co/Cynp2gcxBC

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: In Columbus, Ohio, ICE agents hit a U.S. citizen’s vehicle, and then admitted, on camera, that they “do this all the time”… before driving away.

A 17-year-old U.S. citizen was reportedly on his way to church, when multiple officials surrounded his car, backed into his front bumper, and jumped out of their vehicles.

When he rolled down his window, they told him…

“We got the wrong person.”

And walked back toward their cars.

The 17-year-old got out to document what happened, and told an officer they had hit his vehicle…

And the response was:

“You can take a picture if you want. We do this all the time. You’re okay.”

And then they drove off.

The Fourth Amendment protects you from unreasonable searches and seizures. And courts have made clear that a “seizure” isn’t just being arrested, or put in handcuffs.

It also includes situations where law enforcement use their authority in a way that blocks your freedom to leave… or creates an intimidating, forced encounter.

So, when officers surround a car, hit it while backing up, and pull a teenager into a sudden law enforcement interaction, with no valid reason…

At minimum, it’s a reckless stop. At worst, it’s an unlawful seizure, with property damage, and no accountability.

And then there’s the part when she casually said…

“We do this all the time.”

Because that turns an “oops” moment into a pattern.

And when that pattern violates your constitutional rights and due process, it starts to feel a lot like the government is using the Constitution like they use the Bible…

Quoted when it’s useful, ignored when it isn’t.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: The Secretary of Homeland Security just admitted, on camera, that he is going to violate your First Amendment right to free speech.

He said, “I have ZERO tolerance. If you verbally assault our officers… we will find you, we will arrest you.”

Except… that’s not how the First Amendment works.

Unless someone is making a credible threat of violence, speech… even rude, angry, or insulting speech… is still protected.

That’s the whole point of a free speech clause… to protect the people from situations where those in power don’t like what’s being said.

So, when a top federal official starts framing “verbal assault” as something you can be arrested for, without clearly defining it as an actual threat…

It stops sounding like protecting officers, and starts sounding like a government trying to silence people who speak out against it.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.

Here's what happened:

He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.

These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.

Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.

A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).

The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.

But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.

With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.

And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.

The threat does all the work.

By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.

Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.

If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.

Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

oh my goodness -- Ted Lieu played Rubio a video of Trump sleeping while Rubio tried to talk to him during a cabinet meeting. Then this exchange happened:

RUBIO: I've never seen him fall asleep

LIEU: I'm gonna show you a video that shows you just lied to Congress

*plays another video of Trump sleeping by Rubio*

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Tennessee has passed a law requiring both prospective and current data center owners to bear the entire cost of their necessary utility infrastructure, per WKRN

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

Bill Pulte is a partisan thug with no experience in intelligence.

He is another unqualified Trump appointee that will make our country less safe. 

And you won’t hear a word from the Republicans who claim to care about national security.

[Shashank Joshi @shashj]

“The Justice Department is standing by an extraordinary measure giving President Trump, his family and his businesses potentially lucrative protection from I.R.S. investigations, Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, said on Tuesday.” https://t.co/cd1N20HVou

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 HOLY SHIT.

A U.S. citizen just testified before the Senate that ICE agents ignored his passport, detained him, placed him on suicide watch, and released him WITHOUT charges or explanation.

Read that again.

An AMERICAN CITIZEN says he showed agents his passport multiple times…

and still ended up locked in a cell under 24/7 lights, stripped naked, wearing a hospital gown while guards watched him constantly.

His family reportedly had no idea where he was.

Then after all of that?

No charges.
No explanation.
Just released.

[Anna M. Gomez @AGomezFCC]

Nobody is buying the FCC's excuse for why they're targeting Disney.

Their motivation is clear and the pretext is transparent. This is about punishing speech they don't like, and everyone knows it.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Almost seven years clean and sober.

Not a victory lap. Just a fact.

To anyone in the fight right now: it gets quieter. Not easier. Quieter. In the quiet, you find out who you actually are.

That’s the part they can’t take from you.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Trump supporters, please explain why you don’t care as the Trump family makes billions of dollars!

[I read and I know things 🇺🇸🚀🌈🌊❤️☮️ @dmk]

Happy Pride month!
#Pride is important because somewhere out there is a confused teenager who still thinks maybe being dead Is better than being gay and that's not okay.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

The next time you pull up to a national park and pay the entrance fee, know this:

Our parks have $23 billion in repairs that have never been made.

But instead of prioritizing that our national parks are clean, maintained, and ready for your next visit, the President is spending some of the money on vanity projects like painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue.
https://t.co/VMWYaT0UgB

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

There is no world in which this is okay.  

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 

His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated. 

If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself. 

This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it. 

The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next. 

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW. 

Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do. 
 https://t.co/FV2Tkpz7Dk

[I read and I know things 🇺🇸🚀🌈🌊❤️☮️ @dmk]

@habituallychic Would you like more info about Salutation? DM me.

[Jon Douglas @atranscendedman]

US hospitals, 457,950 COVID patients.

AI found long COVID in 16.28%, about 1 in 6, with 89.31% developing chronic conditions.

Coding misses over half of cases.

https://t.co/prqZnFk72R

[Zachary Cohen @ZcohenCNN]

A lot of what Miller says in this clip is true.

Including the part where he says this entire military beat down has resulted in a situation where the only thing Iran seems to be actually putting on the table in short term is re-opening a key waterway that was open before bombs started falling.