Hours after ICE became the highest federal law enforcement agency in America history (and likely in world history), the Supreme Court lifts the last obstacle to ICE deporting people to any random country around the world, even in conflict zones or where migrants are enslaved.

PSA: It is ok — and necessary — to grieve right now

They want us dead basically. They want us dead and / or desperate. This doesn't make sense politically it makes sense if you follow like Curtis Yarvin and the goal is to collapse the government.

"An absolute moral failure." Around one in three disabled people are on Medicaid. I spoke to disability advocates about how devastated they are that the House passed the budget bill that will slash close to a trillion from Medicaid at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

anyway long story short is the Medicare cuts are a moral abomination but the ICE ramp-up is ... idk what the right words even are for it. It is on a different scale to what we have ever seen before. If they actually spend that volume of money it is wrong to even really think of it as ICE.

i wish i could be more helpful in this moment. i think i’m just paralyzed by everything we know is coming.

Absolutely fuming with disabled rage and heartbreak

Such a great look at a Sooty Grouse up high at Mono Lake's headwaters!

There’s no such thing as being TOO close to a hummingbird… Ever 📷🪶

I baked brown butter banana bread this afternoon and my house has never smelled better

Bring back guillotines

Good morning everyone! I’m here to help 🐈

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

may be beside the point/extremely obvious but i feel like you can only ignore extreme wealth inequality for so long before it metastasizes into something that fundamentally remakes and destabilizes the world by giving people access to so much money that they are fully above consequence

Chúc mừng năm mới you crazy animals! 🧧🐍🧨 Happy year of the snake to @angelaglasses.bsky.social

My neighbor is an elderly gentleman who watches TV pretty loudly. He’s currently watching the vote count from the 2024 election…they are discussing battleground states and Dems’ path to the white house. He must be a psychopath

The high barometric pressure that comes with the Santa Ana winds in Southern California absolutely wrecks my head. I experience a very specific kind of migraine pain: acute throbbing in the temples and occipital region

"The U.S. political system is owned by corporations despised by the American people. Luigi Mangione is the result. "In a fairer world, Brian Thompson wouldn’t have been murdered. He would already have been put behind bars." via @theintercept.com

Fergus is helping me fold the laundry… by tunneling into the middle of it. (it was not warm)

Elon Musk Wants to Pay for His Tax Cuts With Your Social Security and Medicare. The point of Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s DOGE is to cut entitlement programs so Trump can give tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy and corporations. apple.news/AovzGgCzhThS...

Early Law & Order is great because there are entire episodes that hinge on “anti Irish prejudice” and “a girl did a crime???”

Holy smokes so there’s 12 days left of 2024, so I will use the final 12 days for my 2024 Orange County 300+ birding effort in review! Each post will contain a few photos from the birds on the list as a thank you to everyone who joined me on my journey this year! 🪶

trust no one

I miss boy genius

Luigi Mangione posted online about having spondylolisthesis, a spinal condition that can be extremely painful and debilitating. I talked to other people with the disorder about how hard it is to get proper treatment within the U.S. healthcare system:

Super happy to get engaged to my best friend with this beautiful ring with unheated sapphires🥰

I’m really enjoying reading Intermezzo but Sally Rooney desperately needs a sensitivity reader for disability 📙

Eat shit assad

Frappuccino… are you… okay??? #cat

must pat the butt to pass

If you can’t be good. Be good at it.

Can confirm. This is also part of the reason I took up embroidery!

They look like they're having such fun! #birds

Hey friends, new and old, I'm toying with doing #MigraineChat - the live hour long "tweet" chat - here on Bluesky in December.

Health experts fear that he could undercut decades of work to control the spread of infectious diseases such as measles; hamper international research collaborations; and scuttle current efforts to increase global coordination and cooperation ahead of future pandemics. www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/h...

The HPV vaccine has been recommended in the US since 2006. New study out today shows that cervical cancer deaths in young women in the years that followed have plummeted, decreasing 15% per year from 2013-2015. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“The reality is medical care looks different when you’re chronically ill. The system doesn’t function the same for healthy people as it does for us. Learning when to seek care (and what that care will look like) can be a traumatic experience” This is why many of us don’t/won’t go to the ER:

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

I don’t quite know for what reason, but Frappuccino LOOOOOVES feet!🦶 My suspicion is that he’s a sucker for odor and has bonded with the scent of our combined feet and his scent glad, as he frequently rubs his cheeks to our feet He makes home happy and calms him a lot! Our little feet man 🐈‍⬛ #cat

Speaking of clicking links to articles I’ve written about books, NPR’s Books We Love 2024 is live! I have a ton of recs in here. 🧵 apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

Say hi to Yams everyone

He got away with everything, and got rewarded with a second term. The list of people whose failure, cowardice, lack of imagination, and wishful thinking got us here will be longer than the "begats" in the Old Testament.

COMEDY!!!!!

Chronically Ill People & RFK Jr #chronicallyill #disability #rfk #chronicillness