CBS reports ICE agents have repeatedly made fake 911 calls. Each time, police found no threat. In Illinois, that’s a felony.

The media’s job is to make you think that the people who want to give you healthcare are just as crazy as the people trying to take it away.

October 7, 1977 Queen released "We Are the Champions" with "We Will Rock You" as the B-side. #ClassicRock #RockNRoll #ClassicVinyl #MusicSky youtu.be/7gpVj_fzv4o?...

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

Rudy is the real deal. Been waiting for an update, and he sure has it! Makes me really glad I migrated @gregpak.com to Blacksky's myatproto.social PDS for non-Black users - gonna migrate @gregpak.net over asap as well.

Whichever way history turns, I have a feeling that this will be a historic photo

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Tolkien could have listened to the first five Black Sabbath albums.

I know we're all used to the president talking like Livia Soprano all the time, but this is a goddamn outrage

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection. I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

Traffic is stopped on Powell Street and hundreds of people behind ropes in fancy clothes drinking champagne out of little plastic glasses are looking at this guy on a chrome Buffalo

Someone saying "Let's do the fucking news" is the ultimate sign that person has never, ever worked in a real newsroom (the fantasyland of the NYT Opinion section doesn't count)

As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

I've been trying to put my finger on why ICE/DHS lies feel so much more outrageous than normal cop lies, and I think it's because they don't lie like cops, they lie like aggressively stupid criminals

Guy who knows how to put curves on things doesn’t necessarily know how to code.

Life-changing decisions about worker hiring, firing and discipline must be made by humans, not AI. The California state legislature passed #SB7 to protect working people from soulless robo-bosses. We urge @governor.ca.gov to stand with workers and sign this landmark bill into law.

The acting CDC director has finally signed off on the vaccine advisory panel's recommendations for the COVID vaccines. While the CDC is trying to sell this as a win for antivaxxers, in reality this means that COVID vaccines will be more accessible than they have been in recent weeks.

New Yorker cartoons nail it again.

ok I didn't mention this in my piece on friday but one of the things the judge asked about was whether the guardsmen were going to get paid during the shutdown the doj was like "idk" the state of oregon was like "we looked into it and the answer is no"

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

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The crime we need to worry most about is the regime's effort to criminalize opposition to Trump. Marcy references the case of SEIU labor leader David Huerta. She notes the FBI is probably using this ridiculous "intimidation of a police officer" charge to comb through SEIU's internal communications.

immigrants are absolutely deleting their socials. multiple reporters have said they've never seen such a climate of fear getting commentary from sources

If a federal judge, appointed by Trump, can call him “simply untethered to facts,” our White House press corps can as well. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

One of the things we are going to have to be very, very aware of is that a lot of people who are being heavily armed right now will simply not be willing to accept the results of a democratic election because they will go to jail.

I’m up for a fight despite my background.

i just can’t get over ICE going into the streets of the city i live in, throwing gas at citizens, invading people who live here. this is state sponsored terrorism being enacted on americans

Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school. Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military. They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

Had a boss who would fly off the handle every once in a while, then he’d buy fancy coffee for the crew at afternoon break, my coworker called them guiltuccinos

Oscar on set (honoring Wrightson)

"Wild Horses of Nevada" (1927) by Maynard Dixon

Republicans shut down the government because they plan to rob millions of Americans of their health care. Democrats are holding the line against this senseless cruelty. @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social

This woman is on fire in the EU parliament.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

I was doing yard duty at the preschool and moderating conflicts among 4 year olds. Let’s see, we’re debating waffles here, is that right?

Here’s the bottom line: Trump’s chaotic shutdown isn’t hurting the wealthy. It's hurting kids and families who are losing child care and food assistance. Workers and families are owed stability, not political games. https://seiu.co/3VICD0i

also a congressperson says to you, another congressperson, 'the president is dangerously unwell' and you say 'i know you are but what am i?' akdlsjf pls be serious

not a single news org signed. that's what it takes. stand together. everywhere, every time.

An important thing that is often ignored about Mamdani: he's cheerful! Taking the city's (and country's) problems seriously doesn't have to mean projecting nothing but darkness and rage. His positive vibe is an unbelievably effective way to make the tent bigger. As is fun/dorky stuff like this.

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Pulp's This Is Hardcore is so much more hardcore than Stephen Miller www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUMq...

President Trump is bailing out a foreign country that is undercutting American soybean farmers. Some real “America Last” stuff…