B/c it was not enough to silence her voice on the House floor, #Montana Republicans have banished Rep. #ZooeyZephyr from the state legislature for the rest of the session. She will not be permitted to represent her 11,000 constituents who elected her to speak for them. GOP lawmakers misgendered Zephyr & accused her of violating decorum by opposing their anti-trans bills & saying they would have “blood on their hands”. Protesters who supported her were arrested. This is what #fascism looks like.

“So let’s be clear about what Abbott, Carlson and other MAGA types are advocating here. In pushing a pardon for Perry, they’re stating they believe that if someone plows his vehicle into a crowd of protesters, the protesters have no right to self-defense.” https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-smearing-of-garrett-foster?utm_medium=email

Walgreens is restricting sales of abortion pills because they (probably correctly) believe they're more likely to face consequences for defying conservatives than for defying liberals, despite liberals official control of the Presidency and Senate and nationwide popular majorities. Either use power yourself or watch your enemies use power instead! There's no alternative!

I was looking over bank statements from 2021 and kept coming across monthly $500 deposits and it took me a moment to realize I'd completely memory-holed that the government briefly sent every parent money for their kids and we could still do that but instead literally nobody talks about it or even remembers.

what do you call a cow who doesn’t produce milk?

I can't get over this New York Times headline saying Ron DeSantis is "building his brand" by wrecking public education in Florida. It reminds me of NYT’s first mention of Hitler in 1922, which claimed his anti-Semitism wasn’t “genuine” or “violent” but was just “bait” to attract followers. From 1922 to 2023, NYT is still covering fascists from a marketing perspective rather than a moral perspective.

Literally impossible to imagine a piece of economic news that would generate positive coverage right now. Even when they show inflation dropping, the headline is "uh this just means there's a recession imminent you idiot"