The morning news on my phone... Jesus Christ

[ck4829]

Housing shortages... deportations... more child labor... firing squads.

Truly, a not-dystopia.

[madaboutharry]

1. It's almost as if The Hunger Games is the GOP playbook.

Some days it is a struggle not to fall into an abyss of grief.

[yorkster]

3. Yes. It comes welling up with each new blow.

And telling yourself that such a reaction is just what they want doesn't really soften the blow of knowing all the terrible things being done in our name.

I'm going to at least try to go to local protests set for April 5 and 10. It's all I can think of to do for now.

[Martin Eden]

2. I don't know if I can ever forgive friends and family who voted for Trump

Certainly I will never forget, as long as I have my faculties.

[Paladin]

10. trump voters should never be forgiven. Ever.

Friends and family very much included. Their votes put this country into the toilet with breathtaking speed; we'll probably never fully recover. Treating them as decent human beings just encourages them. Fuck each and every one of them, now and forever more.

I trust I've made my feelings clear...

[think4yourself]

4. I was so relieved when Biden won.

Remember that four year reprieve? We will have undergone eight year of this firehose of daily noise.

[Meowmee]

9. While it was a relief

It was in no way a reprieve. We were constantly tortured by him starting with January 6 etc. and then nonstop trials and failed attempts to hold him accountable, and other insanity as the news focused almost as much on him, and more than on the actual president a lot of the time.

So I count it as almost 10 years of my life being tortured by psychos and nobody seems to be able to figure out a way to get rid of them for good. During which time many horrific things happened etc.

[PJMcK]

5. Yeah, we're No. 1

Not.

[rubbersole]

15. #1 in scariest, greedy, morally bereft superpower...

...unleashed on the unsuspecting democracy loving allies we'll never get to trust us again. Ever.

[hlthe2b]

6. THe USA Today commentary from the lawyer for the man executed by firing squad was pretty incredible...

The description of the ludicrous manner in which that was "performed," the detailed description of how-despite having had bullets tear directly through the man's heart, outlined by a now disappeared target, but now leaving a fist-sized hemorrhaging hole. Yet, the presiding "doctor" felt the need to go over with his stethoscope while the man's brain functioned sufficiently for him to tear with all reflexive strength through the restraints that made him an immobile target. What that all but "ceremonial" physician expected to hear from a now all but decimated heart is so ridiculous that it lends to the horror.

I'm anti-death penalty, so I admit that from the first. But, South Carolina--like other murderous blood-lusting states--has had a history of botching lethal injection. But, good gawd--this is their answer?

[NNadir]

7. Unbelievable, isn't it?

[Meowmee]

8. Mine was

About the Myanmar earth quake, psycho exec order against parks, monuments, museums & zoo etc., there is a permanent one about dementia rates on the rise which never changes. I think because I avoid psycho stuff it shows me less, but if I click to read one it shows more. I don’t pay for it so I can’t read most of them anyway, lol.

[birdographer]

11. I check the top of the AP app opening page

and if it doesn’t say that donny or elmo are dead, I turn the phone off. Not that I don’t want to be informed of events, but good grief, at least I want to wait till I have gotten out of bed and had a cup of coffee...

[mackdaddy]

12. Governor signs ban on DEI in Ohio public colleges despite opposition by students and teachers

Governor signs ban on DEI in Ohio public colleges despite opposition by students and teachers

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Gov. Mike DeWine has signed legislation to ban diversity, equity and inclusion programs and make other sweeping changes to public colleges and universities in Ohio.

Students, teachers and civil rights groups had called for a veto by DeWine, whose office announced the signing Friday without further comment by the governor.

The American Historical Association, American Civil Liberties Union, the American Association of University Professors, Ohio’s two largest K-12 teachers’ unions and Democrats all called on DeWine to reject Senate Bill 1, which also will prohibit faculty strikes and limit classroom discussion.

https://apnews.com/article/higher-education-ohio-dei-restrictions-faculty-strikes-8b0ab7db08eb712e3350bb241b610f70

Ohio is officially Racist and Biggoted now, by law. Just great.

[AllaN01Bear]

13. the rs wanted to go back to to the g"good old days" werll here it is . next riding in the back of the bus?

the " good old days " as the rs picture them never exissted and little allice in a white dressw an d picket fences dosnt live here any morte

[MayReasonRule]

14. Dear Lord Baby Jesus...