Ted Cruz and Joe Rogan oppose Trump's censorship of Jimmy Kimmel because "they could do the same thing to us." That's not the reason to oppose it. Totalitarianism is repugnant and should be opposed in all of its manifestations by all sane people.

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

Acosta: He can try to roll tanks down Pennsylvania Avenue and all of that—Hegseth can show up in a camouflage tie he got at the Gap—but at the end of the day, the real American strength, the real American might that was on display over the weekend, was in those No Kings protests across the country.

Los Angeles will always be a proud city of immigrants, and we will defend immigrant communities.

Presidents do not have the power to end birthright citizenship — it’s guaranteed by the Constitution.

I can prove I am a US citizen because a) I have all the documentation, b) it's four generations back before you find immigrants in my family, c) I'm well-known enough that my birthplace is public record. But the system isn't designed to help anyone prove anything.

nymag.com/intelligence...

We still can’t get straight answers on why ICE agents are masked and refusing to ID themselves. On top of all that they appear to be lying about cause.

Congress, do you see what’s happening? Don’t be silent!

Call your Senators & Reps. Demand an investigation.
☎️ Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

-FDR, 1937

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

So very sad. Jill Sobule killed in a house fire last night.

Friendly reminder. In the United States, criminals are entitled to due process. Even if you pay hush money rig an election, steal top secret documents, or incite a mob to overthrow the government; no matter how egregious your crimes, you’re entitled to due process.

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

I have quoted Timothy Snyder and his book "On Tyranny" for years.

"Do not obey in advance" was Snyder's first directive...

yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/03...

[Natasha] Cloud believes it’s more imperative than ever for athletes across American professional sports to speak out against racial discrimination[...]

“The systems of power are working as they always were intended to work and it’s time to break down a system that has only been about white men.”

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

“Listen, if you are competent, you are not concerned,” said Crockett, adding that “mediocre white boys” are the only people attacking DEI initiatives because they “have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder.”

Duckworth: How many nations are in ASEAN?

Hegseth: We have allies in South Korea, Japan, and Australia

Duckworth: None of those countries are in ASEAN

He didn’t “fall short.” He raped someone.

Here are the details of the tentative ceasefire deal that Hamas have agreed to (per AP): apnews.com/article/isra...

Canadian MP Charlie Angus on California: We have fire crews in the danger zones. The Canadian military is now on full alert to help. That’s what we do—we help our neighbors in times of crisis.

The fact that Trump isn’t there.. is shocking but this is what criminal grifters do.

Let’s tell Mr. Trump that we too have border issues with the United States. Canada has tough gun control legislation, but illegal guns are pouring in from the U.S. We need to tell him that we expect the United States to act to reduce the number of guns crossing into Canada. (Jean Chrétien)