Photos from today. #TimelineCleanse

Just in from two SF No Kings events (Ocean Beach and then a colossal march and rally downtown). So many good signs, so much devotion to justice, liberty, human rights, and Jesus lord the one part of the US economy that must be booming right now: INFLATABLE critter costumes.

It was really nice to get out among friends today. 💛

It actually extremely upsets me that we feel compelled to block these accounts, but whoever is running them right now apparently is riding the far-right fascist line.

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This isn’t the whole story, of course – but if it’s not at the core of your story, you’re on the wrong track. Add “Once democracy made it possible for women to threaten patriarchal domination and for queer people to publicly affirm their identity” – and we’re already very, very close.

Finally read "On Tyranny" and it is quite depressing to think of how the cult like mentality results in everyday professionals sliding slowly into fascism. A brief glance at political comments anywhere online would tell you there are plenty of Nazis-in-training.

And they certainly were not passed to protect white people from so-called anti-white discrimination. This shit broke me today.

Remember when everybody got upset over the term "deplorables"?

Only a couple more months for humans to invent the massive kaiju-fighting robots of Pacific Rim, which takes place in 2025. My optimism is waning.

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

Sometimes I think the worst thing about losing our democracy is that we are losing it to some of the dumbest/least competent people. They claim to have God and the founding fathers on their side when it's clear they've never read a Bible or the Constitution, and have a stunning lack of education.

I have seen the memo that went out inside EPA about the oncoming RIF, to be done "pursuant to the President's priority programs, projects and activities." It's light on details but it promises that RIF notices will have a 60-day window as required by law. There are, uh, other laws though.

If you are employed & doing pretty fine right now, set aside some money from each paycheck to dedicate to mutual aid asks. Even just $20. Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

The most on-brand local shenanigans. Hit a school bus? NBD, just back yer truck through the pasture/fence and carry on. 😅 (No one was hurt.)

Love the strategy of pissing off everyone you need on your side to be a proper authoritarian

Thanks, New Yorker

Find the People over Papers map here: iceout.org/en/

It’d be nice to have a single place on the internet where black people or trans people or indigenous people or any queer people can simply exist free from tech doofuses and power-mad Karens with nothing on the ball but heads full of air but thats too much like right, I guess

Just gotta take a moment to appreciate this 100% relatable metaphor from breastcancer.org in helping interpret imaging results.

I find myself hoping at the next Bsky board meeting that there’s a push to do a no-confidence vote on Jay’s leadership, because holy fuck has she shit the bed this week.

ICE is at war and has spent weeks bogged down in a Chicago suburb only locals really knew of before that time. They are very very very far from anything close to winning. People need to treat the admin as less all powerful.

Just because I can survive harsh conditions doesn’t mean I should have to. Graphic: @standplaatskrk.pl

I gotta be real it is extremely doing a number on my mental well-being that mr. cato institue here is taking a stronger stand than the majority of the democratic party. the anti-DHS coalition is uhhhh a bunch of socialists, the cato institute and the neocons as led by bill kristol???

This timeline, y'all. This timeline.

Starting to consider that it may be best to begin each day screaming violently into a pillow.

You ever read an incredibly negative prediction and think “about time someone said it?”

Amazing and depressing all at once.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

This has had me #enshambled for two days.

This was well done Thank you for sharing @strictphotos.bsky.social youtu.be/yVS10nrdWu8?...

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Honestly, if something is breaking your heart every day it might be time to stop.

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Due to a lapse in appropriations, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off until further notice.

🎶Ain't no party like a shutdown party because a shutdown party don't sto🎶--- ooh, oh no.

being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"

*weeps* Just have to survive one more day, and then one more, and then another, and then another, and then another....

Would like to take a moment to thank autocorrect for correcting someone's name to "Wart", you really made me look like an ass.

If something is bad, don’t make it sound even worse If something is good, don’t make it sound like the One Weird Trick that can fix everything If something sounds like it could be right, but you know it’s wrong, don’t write or reshare it Double check stuff before amplifying We are the algorithm

Just realized that if AI ever actually becomes AI and sentient, I'll probably be one of the first annihilated for talking so much sh*t about it.

I'm gonna be physically sick. 😭

Your reminder that they cannot arrest millions of people no matter how hard they try. They lack the infrastructure, they lack the personnel, and the economy would straight-up collapse They are going to try to scare us by making examples out of a few people, and our job is to not fall for it

In the stillness of the night, when our minds wander, the ghosts of the past rise. They whisper stories long gone, yet their voices are clear, their messages powerful.

Evil.

Me trying to figure out what's most important to talk about at therapy today while scrolling the timeline.

Everyone hoping a government shutdown would affect ICE/CBP... probably not, they are historically excepted employees that would continue to work, but without immediate pay.

Yes, but how do we break through the insane lap dog, unquestioning media that sinply serves his b.s. to every day Americans w/o criticism? Especially since it is on repeat everywhere all the time. Something doesn't have to be true/sane to be gradually accepted as if it is due to constant repetition.

Well, the shutdown scurry has begun. *sigh* I honestly don't know what to hope for at this point.