Barbara Tokay

Neurophysiologist, science writer, observer of the human condition and the changing sky, outraged by bigotry in all forms

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

The Buttigiegs have experienced a nightmare that should never have happened at all.

I hope whoever is responsible is found and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. https://t.co/mFaGCzZYJB

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious.

Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. https://t.co/72wxaVLzVT

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Joe Biden completely demolished Trump yesterday.

"It's not just his vanity projects: Tearing down the East Wing of the White House, making room for his ballroom, putting his name on a Kennedy Center, building an arch in his own honor, even hiring his own pool guy to fix the reflecting pool. Whoa, what a loser."

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

KARL: Republicans are gonna make you the poster child for the Democratic Party

MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last November, and over the course of these last 6 months, what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

[Barbara Tokay @sci_writer]

Imaginary people...

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Peter Doocy claims "people are still coming out" to Trump's 250th fair -- even as the camera shot shows clearly behind him that almost nobody is there 😆

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

This is it in a nutshell - they can’t give ANY evidence. NONE. Trump’s “stolen” & “rigged” elections lies are just that…LIES. I come from the right, and my former colleagues on the right know we have the best & most secure elections in the world. But they can’t say that. Bcuz Trump has convinced the base that fraud is rampant. And my former colleagues are afraid of the base. So they echo Trump. So wrong. And so sad. Fuck Trump. His lying about our elections is like stabbing our democracy in the heart.

[New York City Kopp @NYCkopp]

💦 Mayor Mamdani kicked off NYC’s outdoor pool season today by jumping into the Thomas Jefferson Pool in East Harlem!

This year marks the 90th anniversary of New York City’s iconic WPA-era outdoor pools. Summer is officially here! ☀️🏊‍♂️🌊

[Hemant Mehta @hemantmehta]

The word religion appears in the Constitution twice.

Both times, it’s preceded by the word “No.”

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

One way to push back against an authoritarian is to mock him.

trump is so weak and insecure he is now demanding our respect.

So I’m sending him my favorite picture below.

Feel free to retweet and send your favorite picture or video to @realDonaldTrump.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "The president was so humiliated in Hormuz he threw his toys out the stroller and refused to sign the affordable housing bill. That's after he gave some felon donor a no bid contract for the reflecting pool and it filled up with algae, which for some reason required the deployment of the National Guard. And then because of his war and tariffs, inflation rose to over 4%. He promised to bring down prices on day one, do you remember that?"

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: There is this beautiful little island off of the Albanian coast. And Jared Kushner wants it. So, he took his Saudi billions and he decided he and Ivanka would buy the island and build a luxury resort, and like clockwork, just a few weeks after Trump wins a second term, Albania's PM grants Jared's company strategic investor status, permitting his expedited to help the American prince develop his new island.

And it turns out that ordinary Albanians are not fans of this arrangement. There are massive protests. Tens of thousands of people in the streets. They are calling at the flamingo revolution. All sparked by opposition to Jared Kushner's land deal. Now Albania's anti-corruption police are getting ball. They froze a bank account controlled by two of Jared's investors, both Syrian billionaires

Do you think Jared Kushner would get special island-buying privileges if you were not the president's son-in-law?

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Why are some mail-in ballots received after Election Day despite being postmarked before Election Day?

“Will it shock you to learn,” Marc Elias asks, “that the same postmaster general who wants to cooperate with Donald Trump … that under his tenure, election mail is moving slower and slower?”

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: Trump openly admitted he asked a federal prosecutor to investigate California’s primaries after his preferred candidates fell behind — a blatant abuse of executive power.

Our democracy is being dismantled in plain sight, but that's not how national media is treating it, Marc Elias writes.
https://t.co/TG84xsGlFo

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Just a reminder that Rep Lauren Underwood is the beating heart of the Democratic party. She’s ushered 19 bills into law; she consistently wins in a swing district; she’s a leader on maternal health, particularly for Black women; and she has one of the strongest constituent-service operations in Congress.

And she’s not even 40 years old…

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

imagine: a single individual, never elected to any office, deciding that "America's doors are fully closed to asylum seekers...."

so as Hitler ramped up his campaign of genocide against utterly innocent, non-political Jews in Europe, this person, a descendent of European Jews, would have forbidden them / his own ancestors entry?

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

Thank you, Justice Elena Kagan,
for responding to the SCOTUS decision to deport Haitian refugee families back to a place America knows is unsafe,
by adding Trump’s vile, racist, Christ-hating, exact words into the official case record.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

1. Speaker Johnson, you’re obsessing about losing the House but don’t seem to realize it’s because you have no program for the country other than illegal disastrous tariffs, illegal disastrous war and humiliating invertebrate submission to your unraveling cult master.

2. You’re projecting onto us your own comically failed and obsessive investigations into President Biden, the Southern Poverty Law Center, James Comey, George Soros, etc.

3. We obviously must confront the debilitating corruption and authoritarianism you have enabled, but at the same time we’re going to move America forward on all the public goods you have thwarted, like the health care of the people, increasing the minimum wage and protecting our environment.

4. I agree that you “run the protection program” and “take care” of all MAGA violators!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "Citizens United was the most destructive court decision in modern American history. It's unleashed a flood of secret money, corporate money, billionaire money on both sides. Donald Trump's rise is a symptom of this deeper disease. Our task is not just to contain his wickedness, but to cure the rot that gave rise to it."

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "Last week, when they gathered in Atlanta to remove Black elected officials from office not by defeating them at the polls, but by manipulating maps to dilute minority power, they saw you mobilize, Savannah, and they backed down in fear of your power. A wave is building ... let's make sure they hear it down at Mar-a-Lago, that Georgia will bow to no king!"

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "This is what happens when you send your son in law Jared to cosplay as a diplomat. Despite zero qualifications, Prince Jared was tapped to lead Middle East diplomacy. Now remember Jared's slush fund already got $2 billion from the Saudi Crown Prince. Even now he's actively asking Arab princes for billions more. Not for the US, for his own business."