Michael Ian Black

What the US is experiencing right now is fascism. There's no other word for it and pretending that it's verboten to say so diminishes the truth as much as they are diminishing the truth. It's fascism. It's arrived.

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

Mediaite @mediaite.com

Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’

Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’

Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Department of Justice is considering bringing charges after a now-fired Office Depot employee refused to print flyers advertising a vigil for Charlie Kirk. The post Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Makes perfect sense to discontinue medical research right after a global pandemic that killed millions. This is the kind of strategic thinking we need!

Imagine watching that sermon and thinking it was "nasty." We elected a man who thinks mercy has no place in a house of worship. God help us.

People broke this story? The magazine that regularly features Miss Piggy on the cover? GET READY TO ACCEPT YOUR PULITZER, PEOPLE MAGAZINE!!! people.com/jeffrey-epst...

Jeffrey Epstein Was Vladimir Putin's Wealth Manager, FBI Source Claimed in Newly Released Epstein Files

Jeffrey Epstein managed money for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, among other powerful world leaders, one confidential source claimed in FBI testimony

Congrats to Jimmy Kimmel for never bending the knee.

All the videos we see of ICE/police/military assaulting people on camera are happening because they know they will face no consequences for their actions. They're breaking the law because they believe the law no longer applies to them. What kept them in check before was fear. Now they have none.

I honestly had no idea that so many people were such cowards.

We've been, correctly, beating them up for not doing anything. Today they did something and they deserve credit. Nice job, Dems. More, please.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com

1. Today, Senate Democrats showed spine, and killed a national transgender sports ban bill via filibuster. Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture. S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Senate Dems Show Spine, And National Sports Ban Bill Dies

The failed legislation reflects a wider effort to disallow trans women (or anyone suspected of being a trans woman) from women’s sports and spaces.

Why are people mad at Chuck Schumer? Is it the whole rolling over and playing dead like a dog while another dog takes a giant shit on your face thing?

Only white pandas from here on out.

You know how they were saying this would be the most important election of our lifetimes? I'm starting to think they were right.

Just once, I would like one of these congresspeople to say “If you’re not willing to acknowledge reality about this, then I have no reason to trust you about anything else. I will vote no. I yield the rest of my time.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

BLUMENTHAL: Who won the 2020 election? TRAYNOR: This issue has become a question of political controversy B: It's 'political controversy' only because Trump refuses to accept the results T: It is not appropriate to engage in discussion regarding that B: So you're going to use the same script

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Now we're going to assume the worst just because the Vice President of the United States is assembling the cabinet to discuss how to deal the President of the United States potentially being implicated in a child sex trafficking scandal? Grow up.

Ate some scrambled eggs today like a goddamned millionaire.

Shit is so bad that the best American news of the week is that Dolly Parton didn't die.

Lawler is lying. He told me he would not vote for any bill which cut Medicaid. Then he did so. He can parse his words any way he wishes, but he's lying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

bookmark this soundbite from Mike Lawler for when Republicans actually develop a budget and it has huge Medicaid cuts

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MAKE KID ROCK SECRETARY OF BAWITDABA YOU COWARDS

Remember when scholars of authoritarianism told us he would go after his political opponents, unions, academia, and the media and people were like, “But Tim Walz got the date wrong from when he was in Tiananmen Square?”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Trump: "This is like, proof. Irrefutable proof that Obama was seditious. That Obama was trying to lead a coup. And it was with Hillary Clinton, with all these other people. But Obama headed it up ... this is the biggest scandal in the history of our country."

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Would suck if at the US Open tomorrow chants of “Epstein” broke out while Trump was in the crowd.

Old enough to remember when scenes like this would have been unthinkable in America. (It was 9 months ago)

“We’re going to continue our completely neutral position of encouraging Russia to kill civilians while preventing Ukrainians from defending themselves.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick claims that Trump cutting off intelligence sharing with Ukraine is "an escalate to deescalate tactic by the administration to bring these parties to the table." (A prime example of how even allegedly "serious Republicans" don't have the stones to criticize Trump ... )

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Grateful today for a Georgia peanut farmer who lived the teachings of his faith.

Now I may just be a poor country lawyer, but where I come from, "collateral arrest" means "false imprisonment."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Tom Homan admits that a number of people ICE just arrested in Boston are "collateral arrests" and hence not criminals (city officials are urging ICE to release the names of all the people arrested)

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