This has been the GOP's plan all along: 1) Pass massive tax cuts for the rich. 2) Claim the cuts will pay for themselves, dismissing concerns about the deficit. 3) Use the massive hole they've blown in the budget to justify deep cuts to programs that millions rely on.

I hope more writers will, in the current conditions, be open about the beautiful irrationality at the heart of writing. You can box it in by talking about word counts and whatnot, but at the heart is a raging fire and *being lost* and a deep disrespect for cordial efficiency.

“Our client is being shamed and humiliated for explicitly discriminatory reasons, and her family is being denied a once-in-a-lifetime milestone,” the girl’s attorney said. trib.al/82XG49S

Not a drag queen or trans kid👇🏿, a Republican. New Report Reveals Brett Favre as 'Driving Force' Behind Mississippi Welfare Scandal mediaite.com/a/njuvl via @mediaite

What a cruel, primitive country we live in.

Well, what about my ship being tied together in a horse? 😜

"You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life." Tina Turner: 1939-2023

Since 2012, members of the Sackler family have donated over $10 million to the Federalist Society, the group rigging the courts in favor of extreme right-wing conservatives and corporate interests. It’s not a justice system if it’s also an auction. nytimes.com/2023/05/30/hea…

The Human Dignity Trust vehemently condemns Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni’s recent signing of the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 into law. Join us as we call on governments to act: humandignitytrust.org/news/in-assent…

Republicans are literally trying to shut down public libraries. This is appalling.

She warned all of us in 2016 that this is who Donald Trump is. Best if we listen to women more often.

To the media: stop calling it "willful retention of documents" and start calling it what it actually is: espionage. You do no one a service by trying to avoid the word. Donald Trump committed espionage and everyone should know that he did. Full stop.

ICYMI in 2022:

Please publicly call out every person perpetuating the grooming lie; whether on this platform, at school board meetings, in your neighborhoods, in your families. This is putting already vulnerable, marginalized people in harm’s way. We cannot allow it.

This is an excerpt from my interview earlier today with three concerned women from Southern California whose schools sytems have been targeted by far right extremists, including the Proud Boys. You can watch the whole interview here. 2/ youtube.com/watch?v=p6oJ9R…

This is, or was, a great school. My kids went to this school. A diverse community is built around this school. To say that I’m pissed is a vast, vast understatement. splcenter.org/news/2023/06/2…

The Supreme Court ruling 5-4 against the Navajo Nation in its water rights dispute is egregious. This is stolen land and this ruling by SCOTUS continues the legacy of stealing from Indigenous peoples.

Josephine Wright, 93, has lived in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina for 30 years. Now, she's facing a lawsuit for not selling her land, she says. She's also faced harassment such as debris on her property and snakes in her bedroom window. NEW: capitalbnews.org/hilton-head-gu…

If you share Trump’s mugshot today, please share that the Fulton County Jail it was taken at, is at 3x it’s capacity, infested with bugs, is holding 87% Black people, most of whom haven’t seen a day in court. Six people have died in custody this year. Fuck cops, fuck jails.