Since it’s hot right now, want to take a minute to talk about Ghibli and what it even means to “copy” Ghibli. Because lost in everything, as is destined, is what even is Ghibli’s style people are referring to. For instance, here are two images that are quite Ghibli

trump’s cronies are grabbing UMN grad students out of their apartments.

Gov. Brian Kemp’s administration is seeking federal approval for Department of Public Safety officials to expand participation in a controversial program to allow those officers to perform some of the functions of federal immigration agents. #gapol ajc.com/politics/kem...

Senate Finance Committee is voting on advancing the nomination of RFK Jr (to burn down what's left of our public health care system) as HHS Secretary on Tuesday at 10AM StopRFKjr.com makes it incredibly easy to call Senators and tell them "no"— call + send StopRFKjr.com to at least 1 other person

If you want a vision of LA's future post-fires, look to Maui. It's not great!

A healthcare worker just told me that all of the COVID data they have submitted to the CDC has been scrubbed from the agency's system. I am wondering if others have had this experience.

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

NEW: In response to orders by the Trump admin, the CDC has taken down the Household Pulse Survey, one of the biggest and most important sources of Long COVID data in the world. The US government is literally erasing the existence of Long COVID.

ICE just adopted new policies making it harder for Congress to prevent deportations, per memo leaked to me:

So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.

NLRB's Acting General Counsel just send this memo out to staff saying, "I cannot promise you that everything is going to be OK." "I know that the past few days and nights have been extremely scary and distressing for some of us."

StopRFKjr.com is a simple link you can send to your friends, family, colleagues that makes it incredibly easy for them to call their U.S. Senators and tell them to oppose the disastrous nomination of RFK Jr to run all federal health programs. Please share StopRFKjr.com as widely as you can

they want to erase us completely. do not let them, we will outlive these fascists. create art, take pictures of yourself or your trans friends, make something lasting. we will outlast them forever

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

The USDA has taken down most website pages that have references to climate change. The Trump administration had ordered USDA workers to identify, archive, or unpublish materials mentioning climate change by "no later than close of business this Friday," according to leaked emails.

ICE Agent Decides He Wants Kids After Seeing Incredible Love And Devotion Of Parents Begging Him Not To Take Their Child theonion.com/ice-age...

I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and- Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...

I'm calling on all public health orgs, physician orgs, disability orgs, chronic illness orgs, and patient orgs to publicly and forcefully condemn this unlawful action and direct your GA staff to demand congressional action.

This is a 5 alarm fire. They're going to pull down all publicly available data, studies, guidance, etc that involves LGBTQ people so when the worst happens to us, no one will know. They're actively trying to erase us. gizmodo.com/cdc-ordered-...

The CDC gender reveal parties are next

Frustrated there's not more I can do directly, but for now I can just try to document reality. Elon is bringing his Twitter destruction playbook to the US government, and it's impossible to explain just how serious and bad this is. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...

okay so what legal authority does elon musk have to commandeer the office of personnel management and access reams of sensitive data? www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

StopRFKjr.com That's it. That's the skeet.

Per the NYT, former CDC head (& Obie) Tom Frieden said that, under RFK, there could be a “soft recall” of vaccines whereby “certain vaccines remain technically available but are no longer widely recommended or reimbursed by insurance, making them effectively inaccessible to much of the public.”

And speaking of disabled people and planes, the wheelchair attendants who work at airports make absolutely shit wages that make them heavily dependent on tips, with, again, minimal labor protections.

Direct result of the end of the sensitive locations policy. Note that ICE didn't go into the church. They knocked, the pastor opened the door, he said no, and then they waited until their target left the building to arrest him. So it's not "bursting into church." But it terrifies people anyway.

Calling all my POTS people... How are you dealing with temperature disregulation?

Some of us are doing everything we can to help our neighbors. Others are just trying to milk them. It’s truly disgusting. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Mexico has launched an app for Mexican nationals in the U.S. (legally or no) that has an emergency button you can tap to alert the closest consulate if something happens or you feel in danger from immigration. Please share.

Bill Gates is in fact not “one of the good billionaires”.

TikTok’s LA-based employees are being told to either continue their work from home or use their personal/sick days if that’s not possible, while the company’s LA office remains closed due to power outages caused by high winds. Read more here: tcrn.ch/3WeKKSN

Pasadena Humane has seen an influx of over 300 animals due to the fires. People lined up down the block to drop off beloved pets they could not take with them when they fled their homes. Some animals arrived with burns and injuries and are being treated. Donations and fosters are needed NOW.

amid all these socal fires and our ongoing drought, one thing we don't talk enough about is stewart & lynda resnick (via @motherjones.com) www.motherjones.com/environment/...

A New Form of Slavery? Meet Incarcerated Firefighters Battling California’s Wildfires for $1 an Hour (from 2018)

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

Slightly old but essential reading as we approach Tu Bishvat. thebaffler.com/salvos/fores...

“Back in 1867, Democratic President Harry Truman tried to buy Greenland”

I spent most of my adult life watching schools say they can't expel professors for sexually assaulting and harassing students and colleagues only to see how quickly they react over social media posts against genocide

This is a test to see if now that my dad has joined bluesky I'll be guaranteed a like on each post.

This plus the fact that white evangelical women are a demographic that fb pushes towards conspiracy/disinfo content - 2020 really showed how removing any safeguards around algorithmic radicalization is v risky! FB has outsized responsibility for January 6 and anti-vax explosion because of it.

Since we’re all talking about Greenland and Canada now would be a good time to remind people that Puerto Rico and Washington, DC actually should be added as the 51st and 52nd states.

Oh no

A mask ban on the subway means anyone who can’t afford to get covid will be banned from riding the subway. Health exemptions don’t work.