news items. I think I held this batch to the right size.

I was reading up on the history of diphtheria and ran across this interesting fact.

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-05-16T06:02:11.757Z

He’s never visited a mosque in the country where he’s president but he’s happy to do it in a country where he can make money

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2025-05-16T11:52:41.101Z

In the days of yore, this would end a political career. A DNI firing intel officials who reported something in contrast to a president trying to abuse emergency powers. We're the frogs and the water is at a rolling boil, folks.

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-05-16T01:09:09.011Z

The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States, not an individual. That’s why it is now a public monument and not sitting in Grover Cleveland’s presidential library (not sure if he even has one)

— Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T16:27:59.795Z

More: http://www.facebook.com/share/r/15NM…

— Being Liberal ®🗽🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇳🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@beingliberal.bsky.social) 2025-05-16T14:37:00.308Z

Among the victims of the Jabalia massacre were a group of orphaned children.They had gathered to receive financial aid from a charity when they were targeted.All the orphans were martyred, along with the charity’s staff, now raising their complaint of betrayal to their Creator.

— Mona Hijazi 🇵🇸🫒In Gaza (@monahijazi.bsky.social) 2025-05-16T09:05:43.156Z

Seems to me that if there’s a senile guy doing nothing in particular the usual way and a senile guy setting everything on fire, the fire guy is the one who should be the focus of media inquiry

— 86 47 Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T18:42:24.254Z

This can’t be true because Trump already declared victory over the Houthis & said he wiped them out already after a month of missile attacks that cost us 6 Reaper drones and 2 fighter jets, and the handful of remaining Houthis have surrendered because they are afraid of him.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-05-16T01:51:30.987Z

How about fixing the air traffic control system?

— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2025-05-16T11:03:43.946Z

When that second intelligence memo came out that said Tren de Aragua was not a proxy for the Venezuelan government, I was certain someone was going to lose their job. Sure enough.

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-05-15T20:01:07.321Z

Let me get this straight. While this Admin is pushing to take $6 a day away from hungry kids on SNAP to root out "wasteful spending” they see no issue spending over a billion of your hard-earned tax dollars to replace Air Force One with a Qatari jet (the President got for free)??

— Rep. Angie Craig (@repangiecraig.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T14:10:11.073Z

The science is clear, there is no single, physiological or biological marker that allows for the simple categorisation of people as male or female.This means that you can’t use chromosomes alone, you can’t use genitalia, you can’t use testosterone levels to divide people into male or female.

— Kirsti Miller (@kirstimiller30.bsky.social) 2025-05-16T13:40:50.501Z

They're going to profile anyone gender nonconforming to push them out of the military. Too feminine as a man? You're out. Too butch as a woman? You're out. This will be a de facto ban on queer people as well.

— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2025-05-15T22:47:17.087Z

Friday Political cartoons / memes / news items so it won’t get too long.

#health care from Liberals Are Cool

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#qatar from Liberals Are Cool

#south africa from Liberals Are Cool

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#qatar from Liberals Are Cool

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#medicaid from Liberals Are Cool

Sunday’s Political cartoons / memes / and news items. I may started doing these a third day as they get too long.

Since cis het men who are natural born US citizens commit the most crimes, I think they should have markers on their IDs, restricted state to state travel, higher insurance and tax rates, separate restrooms, and state sanctioned vasectomies at 14 because they cause 100% of unwanted pregnancies.

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-05-07T15:36:30.220Z

Sending love and support to our transgender service members. Thank you for your continued desire to serve and protect this country. I’m so sorry this pathetic draft dodger has any say in who can defend our country and the Constitution since he has no intention of doing either. 🤍🏳️‍⚧️

— Dana Goldberg (@dgcomedy.bsky.social) 2025-05-06T19:09:34.186Z

Trump administration erases school shooting victims at ATF headquarters

— Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) 2025-05-07T15:04:55.722Z

This is fascism.

— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) 2025-05-06T20:53:29.203Z

I feel bad for their son but not them.

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2025-05-06T19:38:46.143Z

I’m more concerned about our fighter jets at the bottom of the Red Sea.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-05-07T01:41:03.799Z

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You know, many of the grievances against King George III that Thomas Jefferson and others listed in the Declaration of Independence seem to apply to Trump:

–>He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
–>He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
–>He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
–>He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
–>For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world
–>For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent
–>For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury
–>For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
–>For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments.

Art of the deal is raising the tariff to 145% then cutting it almost in half despite the fact that China has made no concessions and has completely ignored you. Xi just sits back at laughs at our orange clown.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-05-09T11:51:27.682Z

When two Popes dislike you, it’s a divine sign.

— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) 2025-05-09T15:37:49.270Z

Rome has a pope who listens to Jesus.Washington has a president who listens to Putin.

— Bill Caine (@billcaineusa.bsky.social) 2025-05-09T15:12:23.651Z

#racial coding from Liberals Are Cool

#surgeon general from Liberals Are Cool

#michelle obama from Liberals Are Cool

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Kash Patel was ATF director and never showed up for the job. Now he is skipping out at FBI?

MAGA are literally, and you don’t often get to use literally with such precision, the worst people for the job.

Patel wanted power and clout, not the responsibility attached. Destroying agencies through embarrassingly unqualified leadership is Patel’s one skill.

It’s a theme with this administration.

https://liberalsarecool.com/post/783102346059186176/kash-patel-was-atf-director-and-never-showed-up

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#separation of church and state from Liberals Are Cool

#due process from Liberals Are Cool

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#pope leo from Liberals Are Cool

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#trade deal from Liberals Are Cool

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#FEMA from Liberals Are Cool

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Yes, this is EXACTLY what you voted for.

You voted for a clown sleep farting through his court case. A convicted felon and lifelong rapist. The swamp incarnate. A narcissist and fraud willing to do anything to enrich himself.

Voting for Harris/Walz was clearly better considering your kids’ student debt and husband’s job situation.

You picked the unserious choice. You lost.

https://liberalsarecool.com/post/783004389932777472/yes-this-is-exactly-what-you-voted-for-you

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It’s not illegal to be here. It’s a misdemeanor.

Kidnappings and shipping innocent people to foreign prisons is a crime.

https://liberalsarecool.com/post/782996630928506881

Nancy Mace is such an imbicile. All gender is men and women. Any gender can use the bathroom. I have all gender bathrooms in my house. So does Nancy Mace.

Conservatives are unabashed losers.

Posting a POS by a bathroom door is very meta.

Nancy Mace is trying to make a career out of manipulated outrage and cringe morals.

https://liberalsarecool.com/post/782991026728140800/nancy-mace-is-such-an-imbicile-all-gender-is-men

#trumpcession from Liberals Are Cool

#harvard from Liberals Are Cool

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#school vouchers from Liberals Are Cool

#ai from Liberals Are Cool

Just that easy

Wednesday political cartoons / memes / and news items. Some good ones in this batch

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/outrage-as-white-woman-who-called-black-child-n-word-raises-500k-naacp-fund-for-5-year-old-victim-reaches-324k/ar-AA1E7b7w

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rochester-minnesota-park-racist-rcna204553

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14674047/Shiloh-Hendrix-playground-slur-Rochester.html

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#due process from Liberals Are Cool

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Donold, you can’t be pope. The job requires humility, grace… and literacy skills.

— God (@godpod.bsky.social) 2025-05-03T21:46:11.759Z

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#jasmine crockett from Liberals Are Cool

#white supremacy from Liberals Are Cool

#stephen miller from Liberals Are Cool

#tariffs from Liberals Are Cool

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#narcissism from Liberals Are Cool

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https://liberalsarecool.com/post/782724811966316544/not-one-company-would-hire-kennedy-or-hegseth-not

05/5/25

Not one company would hire Kennedy or Hegseth. Not one company would weaponize their ignorance and betrayal to country.

MAGA welcomes the white male ignorance.

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#alcatraz from Liberals Are Cool

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#immigration from Liberals Are Cool

Sundays Cartoons / Memes / and News Bits. A bunch of good ones

These people are irredeemable. We'll need Nuremberg style trials and denazification programs when this is all said and done.

— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2025-04-29T22:33:08.703Z

To be clear, nothing – NOTHING – Joe Biden said 4 years, including his debate meltdown, comes anywhere close to the insanity, unreality, unhingeness, of Trump repeatedly insisting – even when the interviewer is letting his crazy lie pass – that it was a real image of his knuckles

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T02:03:34.078Z

The man who has never accepted responsibility, apologized, or admitted a mistake in his entire life isn’t about to start now.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T13:26:50.767Z

Alternate headline: Trump Surrenders Again – Shows World He’s Weak, Indecisive, and Stupid.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-04-29T20:58:52.808Z

This reporter’s front yard was ripped apart for having a Black Lives Matter sign. Then he started investigating. On this week's More To The Story, NBC News reporter @mikehixenbaugh.com talks to our friends at @revealnews.org about how that incident led him directly to America’s public schools.

— Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) 2025-05-01T15:10:19.721Z

every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease

— Emily Zhou (@emializh.bsky.social) 2025-05-01T18:45:43.210Z

The Attorney General of the United States gushing on camera that the President has saved two-thirds of the entire population of America from dying of a fentanyl overdose was a gut-churning lurch towards the absurd flattery lavished on personality-cult dictators by fawning subordinates.

— Timothy Burke (@timothyburke.bsky.social) 2025-05-01T10:38:51.955Z

Un immense livre en train d’être brûlé par des petits personnages avec marqué « I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books »

A LOT of people do not want to hear it but in the United States at least, food has never been safer to eat, not to mention tastier

— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) 2025-04-30T20:37:37.741Z

“'They were shouting at me, threatening to rape me, chanting ‘death to Arabs.’ I thought the police would protect me from the mob, but they did nothing to intervene,' she said."

— Alex Steed (@alexsteed.bsky.social) 2025-05-01T16:37:10.088Z

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#DOGE from Liberals Are Cool

#projection from Liberals Are Cool

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When MAGA talks about grooming and indoctrination, they are talking about vampires like Stephen Miller.

This reads: children will be taught Republicans are good and others are bad.

https://liberalsarecool.com/post/782385522828001280/when-maga-talks-about-grooming-and-indoctrination

#trans from Liberals Are Cool

#lindsey graham from Liberals Are Cool

#immigration from Liberals Are Cool

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#blasphemy from Liberals Are Cool

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#mental health from Liberals Are Cool

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#mike waltz from Liberals Are Cool

https://x.com/JuddLegum/status/1917958279008764162

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it is the same … so get over it.

#trans from Liberals Are Cool

Wednesdays cartoons / memes / news

DOOCY: Would you ever arrest a federal judge or even a Supreme Court justice?LEAVITT: I'd refer you to the DOJ for individuals they are looking at … anyone who is breaking the law or obstructing federal law enforcement officials is putting themselves at risk of being prosecuted, absolutely

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-28T13:19:30.921Z

In the last few days, the president fell asleep at the pope’s funeral, said he wasn’t making decisions in the White House and fell for an obvious photoshop.Cool. Cool cool cool.

— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T11:13:33.627Z

It really takes a lot for me to say this, but the Graham tweet is genuinely a pretty offensive thing to say.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) 2025-04-29T22:54:04.918Z

There's not a single crime in the history of the UK that would have been prevented by a bathroom bill. Not oneBathroom bills aren't about safety, they're about trying to exclude LGBT people from public life. That's it

— Katy Montgomerie 🦗 (@katymontgomerie.com) 2025-04-30T11:55:07.791Z

I'm old enough to remember when pro-life GOPers would accuse working class women of having babies just to get government money. Anyone remember that, or am I nuts?

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-04-29T18:38:02.528Z

i have somewhat jokingly come around to the idea that the acceptance of transness is a kind of sociological great filter. either society emerges out of it having abolished [the policing of] sex or it just collapses and leaves its people in a state of eternal paranoia and mass panic

— 👁️🍄🪸 (@bloomfilters.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T10:11:50.887Z

His former deputy who was just fired gave an interview this week with Megyn Kelly where he said Hegseth spends 50% of his time obsessing over his press and doing Fox interviews while neglecting his most important work.Hegseth this morning:

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T12:17:04.957Z

💥 BREAKING: The Heritage Foundation withdrew its anti-DEI proposal to IBM for shareholder vote today, originally submitted for vote at IBM's annual meeting. Why Heritage withdrew its anti-DEI proposal is unknown.Earlier today, shareholders at American Express voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal.

— Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 (@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social) 2025-04-29T17:31:29.435Z

Super-PACs can accept unlimited donations from easy to obscure sources.And, rather notably, the funding for Trump’s attack on ActBlue seems to have come from just such a source: a super-PAC bankrolled by Elon Musk.

— Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) 2025-04-30T12:12:19.374Z

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T11:23:09.982Z

He is just completely disconnected from the reality of how his policies impact average Americans, and he is surrounded my sycophants 24/7 who tell him that he’s the greatest, everything is perfect, and everyone loves him. He lives in a fantasy world.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T02:10:36.630Z

Ask yourself: If the President so easily falls for photoshopped pictures he sees on Truth Social, what other complete falsehoods is he relying on when he makes decisions? How else is he being manipulated?That wasn’t funny. It was scary.

— Heath Mayo (@heathmayo.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T02:30:10.502Z

None of the official ABC tweets or clips from the Trump interview tonight feature the most important clip of all: a demented Trump repeatedly and falsely claiming, and seeming bizarrely to believe, that Albrego Garcia literally had the letters and numbers MS13 on his knuckles.

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T02:18:41.997Z

While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!

— Peter Sagal (@petersagal.bsky.social) 2025-04-29T16:26:20.223Z

LGBTQ+ Americans can be discriminated against because of who they are and who they love.Unacceptable.I’m proud to join in reintroducing the Equality Act. LGBTQ+ Americans must be protected under federal civil rights laws. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

— Senator Dick Durbin (@durbin.senate.gov) 2025-04-29T18:13:41.894Z

As a party, we are prisoners being held hostage by people who simply refuse to accept that their time has passed and won’t accept that others more capable right now. Stay in the Senate, but step down from leadership. It’s time for a new approach, a new face, & a new voice.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T12:28:38.351Z

Sunday’s cartoons / memes / news items

They’re just joking, right? He has no plans to violate the constitution and try and stay in office, right?Right?

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2025-04-25T03:31:04.405Z

https://x.com/AFpost/status/1912530624704917943

https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1915201870299340916

<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>NEW: According to the IMF's 2024 World Economic Outlook data released yesterday and BEA data, California’s nominal GDP reached $4.1 trillion, surpassing Japan’s $4.02 trillion, and placing California as the 4th largest economy — behind only the United States, China, and Germany.… <a href=”https://t.co/YgLliJl4a8″>pic.twitter.com/YgLliJl4a8</a></p>— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) <a href=”https://twitter.com/GovPressOffice/status/1915201870299340916?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>April 24, 2025</a></blockquote> https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

https://x.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1892681622551400495

https://x.com/BHWilliamsMD/status/1915748256912494807

https://x.com/gregjstoker/status/1915925202283745664

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 2025-04-26T12:07:09.826Z

A headline from Hell.@nytimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04…

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 2025-04-26T09:50:06.051Z

The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.

— Being Liberal ®🗽🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇳🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@beingliberal.bsky.social) 2025-04-27T07:04:29.139Z

We are hearing discussions are underway to ensure RFK Jr. doesn't accidentally ban the "CHEETO#6" artificial dye.

— Alt CDC (they/them) (@altcdc.altgov.info) 2025-04-26T15:44:39.181Z

This is democracy in action! 💙🔥👊💪🏻#MomSky

— Christine Moretti (@christine520.bsky.social) 2025-04-26T22:38:39.525Z

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days.As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

— Michael Jay McClure (@mjmimages.bsky.social) 2025-04-27T01:02:37.603Z

This was meant for Sunday’s cartoon / memes / news posts but it got too long. So I post it now late at night

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

— Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) 2025-04-22T19:14:04.480Z

Warfighters gotta look lethal.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-04-23T17:57:09.949Z

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2025-04-23T11:55:03.933Z

In March, 48 people were arrested in New Mexico, according to an ICE press release. Why is nothing known about who was arrested or their whereabouts?

— The New Yorker (@newyorker.com) 2025-04-22T19:24:34.898Z

The executive director of the Texas State Lottery resigned abruptly on Monday in the latest fallout from the agency’s decision in 2023 to help professional bettors in Europe purchase and print millions of its tickets and guarantee themselves a $95 million jackpot win.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-04-23T03:03:51.857Z

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2025-04-23T03:15:49.667Z

Apparently RFK is trying to walk back his bullshit comments by saying he doesn't mean autistics like *me* are bad and awful and need to be irradicated; no, he just wants to get rid of the "low functioning" autistics and let me just say FUCK THATI'm not more worthy of existing than autistics who 1/

— Dr. Amy, PsyD (@dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com) 2025-04-23T21:52:22.311Z

"biological sex" is exclusively defined by working back from "whatever the disgusting trannies aren't".

— Grace 🏳️‍⚧️ (@gemofamara.com) 2025-04-24T15:24:07.202Z

Apparently, trans women have a biological advantage at pool.

— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2025-04-24T16:20:27.527Z

Four Seasons Total Landscaping is once again ready to host the circus!

— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) 2025-04-24T15:49:24.619Z

Breaking news: The United States faces millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates for the disease drop 10 percent, according to new research published Thursday.

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 2025-04-24T15:21:47.484Z

They're going after the accreditation of universities and threatening to revoke the ability of accreditors if they don't crack down on DEI and LGBTQ people in academia. http://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential…

— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2025-04-24T01:05:08.729Z

Last place. Loser.

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-04-23T22:28:00.878Z

He even lost Fox…

— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) 2025-04-24T16:43:10.099Z

The Florida State University Faculty Senate approved a resolution asking that the administration to withdraw from the 287g agreement deputizing campus police to conduct immigration enforcement. The Florida International University Faculty Senate did the same.

— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn.bsky.social) 2025-04-24T13:05:10.536Z

Billionaires are the problem http://www.commondreams.org/news/19-rich…

— The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) (@theserfstv.bsky.social) 2025-04-23T16:41:09.478Z

👇🏼

— Leia BlueSkywalker (@blueskye2025.bsky.social) 2025-04-23T21:03:51.364Z

https://liberalsarecool.com/post/781674400185532416/having-a-baby-and-raising-a-baby-are-very

Having a baby and raising a baby are very different. $300K is more realistic.

Will they be handing out $5K checks at conception?

And you know this has some MAGA fine print excluding everyone but white conservative Christians.

Why not just provide pre-natal healthcare, paid family leave, paid medical leave, universal childcare, universal pre-K, universal child health care until 17, child tax credit, and protect the rights of women/mothers?

[Not to mention a rapist abuser handing out $5K check is creepy]