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Again the lead prosecutor on this case when it was presented to the grand jury currently works for Dick Durbin as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats.

biggest barrier to AOC winning the presidency is an awful media environment; second biggest is getting sandbagged by operatives / orgs. who would rather be in the minority for 4 years because they don't think they'll get White House gigs and access

Democrats just defeated this bill, then Republicans pulled the War Powers Resolution vote on Iran because they didn't have the votes to defeat it. The measure is privileged in a way that requires it be brought up within a certain number of days, I *think* that will mean it comes back in early June.

he equates low ratings with death itself. relies entirely on the approval of others for justification for life. a horrifically empty person. sad!

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 21,1956

I got yelled at about this on X, the everything app, so I figure I might as well say it here: The DoorDash Discourse is stupid. The number of disabled people who rely on DoorDash (or can use DoorDash) is very small compared to the number of disabled people on SNAP or who just are straight up hungry.

Very specific kind of bullshit I HATE: supposed "nature" accounts on IG that post "A.i." videos. That's fucking disinfo. Lies and bullshit posing as documentary. Block 'em all and shame the losers who post that trash.

I just wanted to make sure you didn't miss McLovin's book end photos before he leaves tonight.

FoxNews reports Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as Director of National Intelligence www.foxnews.com/politics/exc...

Happy trails, buddy. Your family is out there somewhere. 🥹

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 24,1943

One thing people ALWAYS do? Call me Ishmael. Let me break down why.

also as I said in February when this hire was made, it was appalling that Durbin would accept the detail appointment of Mecklenburg given that she was prosecuting Democratic officials in Illinois at the time of the initiation of her employment. This was unacceptable judgment from RJD from Day 1!

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 23 ,1949

The delay here is bc Republicans are unexpectedly losing the vote before the Iran resolution, on a bill to establish the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, which Dems are opposing because R's rewrote a popular bipartisan version to add rightwing poison pills. Vote has been open for 40 mins

The fourth member of Trump's Cabinet to depart in the last 2 1/2 months

completely embarrassing for Spanberger. good luck winning a primary with all those fake republican swing voters your courting, Abby.

"the cherishing of antipathies is a luxury for which [people] ought willingly to pay, instead of transferring the hateful tax onto the victim" is such a bar, my god

Today in Jeremy's salad: collard greens, bamboo, rose, pansy, wine cup, hibiscus, and watermelon

Melissa hits the Texas angle on the head. It is also important to note that when Trump became president, some number of people from the Texas AG's office went on to work in the national AG's office to undertake the exact same playbook:

this seems really really bad and i'm serious - people should be disbarred.

"A.i." in education and the humanities is a net evil and you should be ashamed if you're pushing it on people.

hey Eugene, any info you can share on why you hate trans kids? thanks!

Our 17(!) year old barn kitty, Radiance, is really starting to slow down. I gave her a little wet food treat tonight. Pretty sure it's the first wet food she's had in her entire life.

Why grant the premise like this? Say you’re going to nuke all this shit the second you’re back in power, not just for substantive reasons, but to create chilling effects around compliance.

FINALLY ITS FRIDAY!

You know who really, really hates data centers? Women.

Proposed Burrito Tax: For every 1 door dash opinion you post you must bring meals to a disabled person who can’t get food safely themselves.

I went to a job interview to be a writer’s PA for the George Lopez talk show and realized I didn’t want to work in tv badly enough to wake up at 5am every day, so I enrolled at CSUN for geology

I have just been informed that the person in the right of frame, Trump's left, is not in fact a pregnant woman. I just don't know what to do with this information.

I thought this was sushi

We’re gonna look back on this period like when everything had parkour in it for a year or two there.

Sometimes you fall short and then people try to butter you up by insisting that well, you were within the margarine of error

Just thinking about this reply guy law professor FROM FEBRUARY for …reasons

the only person they’d accept is Sydney Sweeney and they’d spend the whole time talking about how the libs are crying bc they picked her, while everyone else would just be like ok I guess

when I say the way to beat AI is to organize labor …

It's crazy how much time dying empires spend thinking about the sanctity of toilets

Jesus christ just say girls and gays this is taking forever

MY STARS SUSAN COLLINS IS ASKING FOR CLARITY IN WRITING

A reliable way to kill interest in libertarianism is to listen to libertarians youtu.be/PcllE7fx8-I

a caper movie about stealing art from the Vatican. we’re calling it JESUS HEIST.

istg i was just thinking earlier today that if i were a politician and went to a basketball game i would sit where i almost always sit now -- it the nosebleed section dude even sat in the CORNER nosebleed; that's commitment to the people lolol 👍

Lemme tell you what’s actually pretty high on the list of things that “will not get me to let Sam Altman scan my eyeballs”

Look at this happy little ditch bouquet

I see this behavior a lot in science. There's something important we don't understand, a challenge to existing models or knowledge, and a ton of people immediately come forward to say "that's not a challenge because I have a possible explanation". Which is not the same as the correct explanation.

Update: the first one to be truly ripe was delicious 🥹

Shift drink: Trinidad Sour 1.5oz angostura bitters .5oz rye .75oz lemon 1oz orgeat

Quite the end of the clip where one of hasan's chatters says "antisemitism is not a negotiating tactic, we should be principled in general" to which he responds "shut the fuck up what are you fuckin talkin about"

talked in therapy today about how the constant promotion and celebration of GLP1s is fucking up my eating disorder and how weird the cultural silence is about that, so here I am talking about it

Building on this, malice existing is not a surprise. But the ways malice is expressed and constrained dictate the kind of society you're living in. A passive aggressive comment vs. overtly aggressive one; an aggressive comment vs. a thrown hand. The actions people feel comfortable with matter.

not a huge nascar fan but even i'm shocked by the kyle busch news

War Powers Resolution on Iran coming up in the House any minute now. It's the third vote in the series; right now we have 9 Republicans absent to just 2 Democrats (not sure who).

Via his spokesperson, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell is not a fan of Trump’s $1.776 billion “slush fund”: “So the nation’s top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong – Take your pick.”

RFK Jr. says the most effective treatment for Ebola is a diet of whale heads and raccoon penises, combined with regular baths in raw sewage.

Nov. ‘24 in defense of Vindman voting to sell out trans people. perfect, no notes.

Why do we bash "dead-beat" dads for not being there for their kids but we never question if the child has bad vibes? Or if they're just unpleasant to be around?

"A.i." turns you into a chump.

Ava, the AI Brutal Domme Realtor

Omg, someone foster this little coven

These people keep giving non-monogamy a bad name, I swear to god

In my pre-op screening, the nurse asked at least three times/ways if I was taking weight loss medicines. I had to assure her in several ways I was not. Made me think everyone she sees now is on them, which tracks with this.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 May Politico House rejected legislation to advance construction of Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum after a partisan battle broke out over whether to include trans women. House Dems remained united against anti-trans Rep measure.

Remember when white men discovered that Mariah Carey's black? I have a prediction for you!

i really love this one

Completely insane to me that he thinks the first world vision is the one that cut all the science programs. But that's racism for you. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 May HuffPo House Reps pass bill forcing public schools to out trans students to parents with EIGHT Dems: Henry Cuellar (TX), Donald Davis (NC), Cleo Fields (LA), Laura Gillen (NY), Vicente Gonzalez (TX), Marcy Kaptur (OH), Marie Perez (WA), Eugene Vindman (VA).

Three of the five Democratic candidates for governor of Maine have formed a ranked-choice alliance ahead of next month’s primary.

The main thing that stuck with me after watching the newly recovered episodes of Doctor Who, "The Daleks' Master Plan" is that the First Doctor apparently spent his spare time designing bondage furniture.

Ok it’s been a long day admittedly but I just broke out in SOBS at the end of the Late Show

So many of y'all have been to some dodgy ass concerts.

"The Daleks' Master Plan" is so weird. As far as I can tell, the Doctor steals the taranium core from the Daleks in episode two, and then the Daleks finally get the core back from the Doctor in episode ten. And in between those two plot points, basically... the Daleks just chase the Doctor around???

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 May MaineStar State officials determined Maine ballot measure to restrict trans kids kids' access to bathrooms and sports is 500 short of the minimum bec. more 12,000 signatures appear to have been collected improperly. mainemorningstar.com/2026/05/21/d...

Diplomatic path to what??

L O L

genuinely amazing to claim in court to an angry judge that it is somehow luck that none of the people you wrongly charged with a crime had a gun and shot at an ICE agent, and that if they had done that it would have been right to charge them, therefore they are at fault if you really think about it

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 May Reuters Fed appeals court declines to stop order by TX judge that RI Hospital to turn over trans kids' medical record to him under seal while DOJ case works through the appellate process. ACLU indicates it will appeal. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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The race for governor of Michigan looks very different at the start of Friday than it has in the last year and a half. Former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, a Democrat-turned-independent whom Democrats have long feared would cost them this office, dropped his campaign the previous day.

Reading between the lines, sounds like high level donors kept bothering 2028 contenders about the autopsy, so it became enough of a Problem they had to put it out there somehow. Money talks! www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

Gabbard's resignation letter cited her husband's cancer diagnosis as the reason for her departure, but (predictably) Reuters is now reporting: "A source familiar with the matter said that ​Gabbard had been forced out by the White House." www.reuters.com/world/us/gab...

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! Simon & Garfunkel Springsteen B.B. King Chicago The Temptations Guadalcanal Diary They Might Be Giants David Byrne (Rei Momo tour) Jonathan Coulton Willie Nelson (at an Ann Richards fundraiser in 1990)

This is just science fiction for potential SpaceX investors (no shade to Gizmodo)

Charlene had an unexpected smash hit with her camptastic song "I've Never Been To Me". She followed it up with a duet with Stevie Wonder that ranted about sex, drugs, JFK, poor sportsmanship, TV, and spiritual decay. Radio stations banned it. My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 May Advocate Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce advanced bill restricting discussions of gender ideology” and “discriminatory equity ideology” --i.e. transgender, race, or DIE -- in American classrooms. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Who all wants link up and collab on this

Spokane area ICE agent Jeremy Burlingame shared this tweet of a local arrest on his Twitter/X account which has just been discovered. There are many more repugnant tweets.

No one does a Meal Train for disabled people.

Relatedly, saying "no" a lot and meaning it has been shown to be The Secret for defeating Trump in a variety of arenas

not me though. better than the gods, even.

You can probably get a crusher election like Obama had in '08 again, you just need a wildly charismatic candidate and a campaign apparatus that empowers grassroots supporters to do tons of peer-to-peer campaigning. Something to consider!

"Hat tip: Meredith Shiner, who pointed to Mecklenburg’s detail to Durbin’s committee staff with suspicion and disgust months ago." - @capitolfax.bsky.social

It’s good to see Rick Scott come out and say that every dollar donated to the Florida athletic department should go to education, not football

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 May Guardian As expected, long-awaited rules from UK Equality and Human Rights Comsn says toilets England, Wales and Scotland must exclude trans men and women, but gender-neutral options must be provided. Of course using them outs you but that's "equality" in the UK.

Sorry I don't mean to spike the football, but Dick Durbin's office NEVER wants to see me coming.

The World Prepared for Ebola. Just Not This Ebola Governments and drugmakers spent years building Ebola defenses after the 2014 crisis. A rare strain now spreading in Congo is exposing their limits. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Went to speak to my 8yo’s class today about my job and they sent me thank you notes. I started by asking them, with a show of hands: who likes to read? Who likes to write? Who likes to ask annoying questions? If you like these things you’re on your way to being a journalist.

This is very much worth keeping an eye on