John D
Mundus sine Caesaribus
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
~ James Baldwin
- Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress: "They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"
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- "Two more aides left John Fetterman’s office in recent weeks...Fetterman’s former chief of staff, top communications aides and legislative director departed his office in the last year and a half" www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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- "A rapist and a murderer share a giggle."
- Priorities.
- BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
- A lot of folks blame the podcasts or bro-casts for how we got here. But even the clout-chasers and crypto-shillers think Trump’s gone too far…
- The Gaza GFM's are being deleted and marked as spam again. Sadly, there is a generally held, and false, assumption that these funds are mostly scams. I wanted to address that. The Palestinians need these donations to survive amidst the aid blockade. There's no aid getting in from the charities. 1/4
- My friend Tasneem in Gaza and I speak daily. She's fully verified but still has her accounts deleted and marked as spam by @moderation.bsky.app- as if the threat of death and starvation wasn't stressful enough for her and her family. Please give anything you can. 🙏 www.gofundme.com/f/help-tasne...
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View full threadYou're seeing an inordinately large number of GFM's because this is a massive humanitarian crisis, with civilians being trapped, starved and killed in numbers that have been greatly under-reported. Maybe it's easier on the psyche to assume these people are all fake and move on. But I can't. /end
- Oh, and I found receipts. These are from 25 years ago. Heartbreaking how little remains in Gaza.
- Imagine the power of every protest if we knew our Senators and Representatives had our backs. Accountability starts with them — and so does change.
- It's almost as if granting a criminal blanket immunity was a bad idea.
- •••••UPDATE••••• ICE collaborator identified. Officer Patrick Hanlon facilitated ICE agents as they abducted a mother, her teenage daughter, and her infant granddaughter from their neighborhood in Worcester, Massachusetts.
- Why, yes, we are indeed on the timeline where we can’t agree as a society that we should study the risks of toxic environmental chemicals. Thanks for playing this version of American Dystopia. web.archive.org/web/20250512...
- Israel bombed two more hospitals in Gaza within the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 36 since the start of the war. The European Hospital, one of the largest across the Gaza Strip, was targeted with nine missiles, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence.
- Good thing they’re stupid. That’s what he counts on.
- If your MAGA relatives try to justify the Qatar plane gift by bringing up the Statue of Liberty, remind them Congress voted to approve that gift, and we’d be happy to have Congress vote on the plane, too!
- UN Aid Chief Tom Fletcher on Gaza: “So, for those killed and those whose voices are silenced, what more evidence do you need now? Will you act, decisively, to prevent genocide and to ensure respect for international humanitarian law?" “Or will you say instead that ‘we did all we could’?”
- “Honey that stripper wasn’t giving a lap dance to ME — she was giving a lap dance to EVERYONE who advocates for freedom!”
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- Horsford: They are cutting healthcare for 13.7 million Americans. The largest cut to healthcare in U.S. history to give tax cuts to billionaires and to big corporations. This is your priority.
- The US-Israeli proposal for aid checkpoints in Gaza has been widely criticized worldwide. It would replace ~400 UN distribution points across Gaza with just four. You know it's beyond cruel when even Russia condemns the plan, saying it's "essentially urging the UN agencies to become complicit."
- Sigh. Another day of agreeing with Josh Hawley. I hate it here.
- It's about time. www.wral.com/story/alliso...
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- i hope saudi arabia breaks out the orb for old times sake
- Maybe someone will lose control during the sword dance, and Trump will not be coming back with a pulse.
- Listen: The NIH is freezing funding to several universities, including Northwestern University where a lab working on next-generation treatments for ovarian and pancreatic cancer is no longer able to continue what a head professor says is “promising research.” www.wbez.org/reset-with-s...
- Okay, that’s enough internet for today.
- Out in the garden this evening, the #Iris are still showing their stuff. It's been a good year. 🌱🌿 #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling
- This is a death sentence for the brave Afghanis who supported our war against the Taliban. It will also pose grave risk to our servicemen and women in future conflicts b/c locals will never trust or work with us again. thehill.com/policy/natio...
- Standing room only. Standing for “freedom, security, and democracy” at this inspiring veterans’ town hall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa — hosted by the brilliant Pete Buttigieg @votevets Listen to our Pete, and hear the BEST of America. Defeating MAGA Republicans is our mission, and…
- Morning walk. Saco Bay. #photography
- Buttigieg: I’m not even an elected official or running for anything— I’m here. I can’t help but notice a lot of people who are elected officials aren’t. There’s a reason for that. They don’t want to have to explain this stuff
- It's A Straight Up Bribe!
- Swing voters are often characterized as “moderate,” even though every election shows us more and more that they’re really “change voters.” They’re not loyal to any ideology, they want something different, because the status quo isn’t working.
- Dr. David Kessler speaking to Rachel Maddow: “The President is destroying those institutions that gave birth to the drugs that are benefiting him.”
- She’s not wrong
- What happens if the Executive tells the Marshals to ignore a court order? Steve Hirsch, John Hill, and Christie Wentworth argue that courts have tools—and a duty—to respond. 👇 #RuleOfLaw #SeparationOfPowers #USMS www.justsecurity.org/113218/feder...
- I accidentally checked out a large-print book from the library and folks... it's really nice 😭
- Pete Buttigieg packed a town hall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa! Love to see him working with VoteVets!
- When someone is ordered by a court to give up their guns in Nashville, there is no enforcement. Nobody checks to make sure the person has been disarmed. @paigepfleger.bsky.social reports Metro Council wants to change that by hiring a firearms dispossession investigator: wpln.org/post/nashvil...
- Tonight Kilmar Abrego Garcia will try to fall asleep in a concentration camp in El Salvador because… the President of the United States sent him there with no due process and in defiance of the court. It will be our eternal shame if we do not resolve this. Please call your reps: 202-224-3121
- Where the HELL are our Democratic POLITICIANS VOICES⁉️ He gets a $400 million airplane from the Saudis & there’s goddamn CRICKETS IN CONGRESS SILENT THEY SHOULD BE SCREAMING JUMPING UP & DOWN YELLING “HE’S BREAKING THE EMOLUMENTS ACT” & Should be IMPEACHED again‼️ He doesn’t mind But WE should 🤷♂️
