This @peterbakernyt.bsky.social paragraph is a perfect summary of our descent into authoritarianism. He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

A person near me at the coffeeshop is making unconscious yummy sounds with his first bites of breakfast sandwich. So sincere, so wholesome.

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

Genius

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

Super-fun to chat with @torreybird.bsky.social about her childhood family dinner-table conversations about semantics, her work aligning stakeholders on language and meaning in big digital projects, and how to close "semantic gaps" in complex organizations. knowledgegraphinsights.com/torrey/

They’re bringing limes, they’re bringing grapes… and some, I assume, are gourd people.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Remember, birding is there for you.

the small, quiet sparkle of PNWers noticing signs of Autumn 💖

PNW mood. ⛴️ @wsdot

The online book launch for the 2nd edition of Strategic Writing for UX was a career highlight. Thanks so much for sharing it with me!

The state of America: Cyndi Lauper changes the lyrics to Girls Just Want to Have Fun to Girls Just Want Fundamental Rights.....

Look, the actual causes of the Revolutionary War are oft misunderstood, but to be clear: this is bullshit It was a dispute about the nature of the British empire, & specifically whether the American colonies had the same standing relative to the king as Great Britain did, or, rather...

Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"

Is Mailchimp borked for anybody else? I'm in the middle of newsletter writing 😅

It’s 6:14 p.m. at the D.C. parade, and it is *quiet* on Constitution Avenue between 20th and 21st streets.

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

Senators are ELECTED to be a VOICE for their constituents. What happens when that voice is stifled, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed like Senator Padilla was? We have a democracy, but we can lose that democracy. I took to the Senate floor to speak out—I hope you'll join me.

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

If Nazi Germany, they sent political prisoners to the camps before they sent the Jews. If a fascist state has a way to disappear a person, then nobody is safe.

Copyright protection under 17 U.S. Code § 105 is not available for any work of the United States Government. The White House is the People’s House. Content for every @WhiteHouse is in the public domain, never copyrighted with “All Rights Reserved.” Small stuff vs human rights violations, but BS.

Teen Vogue presents: Introducing Vivian Wilson @thevivllainous.bsky.social In her 2nd-ever interview, the 20-year-old tells @ellayurman.bsky.social about going viral, protecting trans youth, her “pathetic man-child” estranged dad Elon Musk, and more @teenvogue.com www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...

Quite a fun moment when the security contractors who had been terminated by the USIP but had switched their allegiances to DOGE entered the property with an unconfiscated key and headed immediately to the gun safe.

in 2010 if you said "this Citizens United decision will end up with one single person buying the House of Representives like a pound of cheese, so as to impeach judges who rule against his coup attempt" you'd have been dismissed as a hysteric

This picture speaks for itself. Donald Trump and Elon Musk don’t care but we MUST.

Jewish Voice for Peace is occupying Trump tower to demand Mahmoud Khalil’s release, no muslim ban ever and to stop arming Israel www.instagram.com/p/DHJWluoAV1v

How many of you could put your hands on a passport, birth or naturalization certificate, and marriage record within say an hour? Because NH now requires all that to vote, and it's messing with women who changed their names after marriage. Project 2025 wants this to be a Federal law, the SAVE Act.

I'm re-reading The Murderbot Diaries, and it is with that perspective I say WTAF. I don't want to live in a corporate polity, and I don't want humans to be enslaved or indentured to them, either. The history of "company towns" and colonies is grim. gizmodo.com/tech-execs-a...

the advent of javascript frameworks was not, as was advertised, to "simplify application state & reactivity" on the web, but rather to satisfy man's primal urge and fervent desire to Build A Quite Strange And Peculiar Contraption

Germany's Minister of Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock has just given a really remarkable, nearly 12-minute speech on yesterday's events at the White House in support of #Ukraine. I have translated a large part of the speech for you. PART 1 OF 7

America is now kidnapping and disappearing foreigners. I recommend strongly you stop coming here.

CBP is detaining german tourist for over 1 mo because they accused her of intending to tattoo for $$ while in US. In jailing her to deport, they held her in solitary for 9 days, also kept her from her return flight Feb 15. She's still jailed. CoreCivic+CBP ⬆️ 💵 www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

Your friend and mine, @daviddylanthomas.bsky.social, has a vision. Beneath a park in Philadelphia, lie buried the bodies of hundreds of enslaved people. What if they all came back as zombies, but they only ate white people? Clearly, we need this film. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

This week-by-week tracker for federal education actions is incredibly useful! The most shocking thing I've learned so far is that it's been six weeks since Trump took office.

When this president says "Right out of central casting" it means that the person has the job based on his biases about race, gender, body shape, etc.

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

My favorite from today’s 50501 March in Boston.

If you can't support the most ardent fighter working Americans have in politics than you simply have no interest in making the world a better place. You're only interested in abstract moral purity and do not care what happens to real people.

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

I loved reading @rachelmcconnell.bsky.social's interview with the always-great @lapope.bsky.social for the upcoming Lead with Tempo conference. "When you gloss over the complexity, nuance, and detail, you miss so much… it shuts down so many opportunities to learn." medium.com/lead-with-te...

There’s gonna be so many variations on this theme over the next three years and eleven months. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

In conclusion, this is why we fired the person who approves the funds for Grandma’s walker

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine. Nothing within Gaza without Palestinian Gazans. My government should be working with Ukraine to free Ukraine territory from Russian interference. My government should be working with Palestinians to restore Gaza for Gazans.

Is it me, or was Vance's speech in Europe a demonstration of his personal fealty to Putin?

Roses are red Borscht’s Ashkenazi It’s solidarity or bust Against the government Nazis