Classic authoritarian logic: corrupt people by giving them an incentive to do the wrong thing. In 1933 and 1938, years of major assaults on targeted groups, the Nazis forgave the debt of other Germans to bind them to the regime.

You deserve to know the names, institutional roles, and political affiliations of anyone whose salary you are paying

One thing I see liberal outlets giving ground on that I feel the need to correct: it’s impossible to “dox” a paid public official By simply reporting their name, institutional role, and political affiliations

Katie Miller is now jumping in to blame CBP and defend her husband. (All of this shows how vulnerable Stephen Miller is, so we need to keep the pressure on to get him out of the administration.)

Hey Lakewood your CostCo had these losers drumming up support for voter ID today. They either left or got bounced by 1pm

hey if you want to help with the 3d printed whistles or get your own whistles or print some: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement

Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies

It's off by a few years, but Franklin Carmichael’s A Northern Silver Mine, 1930

Great read on the TallBull Memorial Council, their stewardship of buffalo in Denver, and their annual ceremonial harvest.

This is an exceedingly delicate and well-reported piece about a hard topic

Checking in on MechaHitler

The article shows you Gaines' nonsensical claims to be a protector of women fighting against abusive men contrasted by her support for her terrible swimming coach who did actual harm to his athletes & employees. She defends the one who had power, ofc. This is a woman who only values punching down

"The way Grambo sees it, it’s a numbers game. If he can draw the attention of officers to himself, perhaps fewer immigrants will get swept up, and that’s a win. “I know I can’t stop them,” he said, “but if I can suck up their time, then at least I can help some people.”" This is the way.

I’m sorry that I don’t have anything intelligent to say right now because I am so fucking angry www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...

i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff

The fake blood and animatronics are ready, but you can't locate Mr. Nicholas Coppola? Problematic Cage gap

If you want to read my Cost of being disabled article, you can find it here: www.patreon.com/posts/143361... And you can find the video where I discussed how COVID and the cost of being disabled led to alt-right gains here: youtu.be/x9laJCEgw_s?...

we should feed everybody actually all the time there is no reason for anyone to be hungry and/or homeless

Don't forget about LA. The feds never left (& won't be leaving until at least 2028). The people will continue to fight. * data below as of November 1 from @lapublicpress.bsky.social

If I can give 3 pieces of unsolicited advice to people facing ICE/CBP: 1) go outside 2) meet your neighbors 3) be loud They want you to be isolated and afraid so they can work in secret, control the narrative, and act with impunity. They lose power when we see what’s happening and to whom.

Please? #MutualAid We're going through every donation we get just for daily survival because its trickling in. Its been 2 days since the last & bills keep hitting. I need to have an EpiPen on hand. linktr.ee/wylder

People had questions, like "Are there apples that taste & crunch like Honeycrisp? But without the existential rage about being alive?" Yep! Let's talk about them!

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend" Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...

I'll also repeat this: the toy is a displacement for a parent or guardian because it's the parents' job to shield or not a child from this and other content. A company's product will never factually replace the true role of a mother, but they can and will try. bsky.app/profile/oliv... 8/n

omg if you live next to a field of horses they're literally neighbours

If your big tent is large enough to accommodate Nazis, then it’s a Nazi tent.

...what does she plan to do once she gets inside that tent, my dude

It's that time of the year when the rotting Halloween pumpkins start delivering tremendous bug content. I got these shots of Pheidole dentata ants successfully hunting fruit fly adults and larvae in the muck.

some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops: Blue Diamond Bob's Red Mill Land O'Lakes Tillamook Welch's

Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.

i really think i saw this on here long ago and now i cant find it and so maybe i made it up but anyway here it is

Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor

The definition of audacity: ICE asking WA tribes to host detention centers. They got a very polite “fuck off.” “The Nisqually people are not in favor of, nor will the tribal council allow, the detention of individuals by ICE on our reservation or in our facilities.” - Tribal Chair E.K. Choke

reminder that Dubs, Washington’s live mascot, is an ABSOLUTE UNIT

Acknowledging the dead would mean acknowledging the catastrophic public health/economic/policy failure that made the body count so high in the first place There were a few moments in that first year where we nearly got something, but that amounted to an NYT full spread of names and a CNN clicker

You get the feeling Hegseth simply asked Grok to name these?

This sounds like porn for white supremacists.

OPERATION SWEDISH PENIS ENLARGER

OPERATION WHISKEY DICK OPERATION LITTLE BLUE PILL OPERATION PUSHING A NOODLE

OPERATION NO HONESTLY THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE

OPERATION MY DICK DEFINITELY WORKS

Operation Desert Cockstand

OPERATION THRUSTING CROTCHROD

one of my "counterintuitive facts that explains everything" facts is that without new construction cities get less dense as they gentrify, bc wealthier households have fewer kids and fewer people per bedroom

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.