Wanna hear me talk both cyber and quilts? I was on voices of the vigilant this week doing just that! Check it out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I told you we’d be back

Tanks being moved into DC. National guard being mobilized in LA. Paramilitary thugs being unleashed across America. It's summer in America and fascism is in full bloom.

Random Monday: someone on this flight just starting chewing juicy fruit gum and I'm suddenly 7 and want some more than I've wanted anything.

Happy Pride!

In a moment like this, when our country is in peril, don’t ask the meaning of life. Life is asking, “What’s the meaning of you?” Powerful words.

Got to take a ride in a friend's 1944 restored Willy's Jeep. So fun! I giggled most of the ride

May the 4th be with you!

The world turned upside down.

ALERT: I had not seen this article until this morning. It is a pretty big deal. Mike Waltz isn’t actually using Signal. He’s using a copy or third party version of Signal created by a company called TeleMessage the point of which is to allow archiving of messages. The app claims to preserve …

Open source AI hiring bots favor men, leave women hanging by the phone

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

Not gonna lie, it's extremely sketch for Kristi noem to speak at RSA on how she's gonna rebuild CISA, when CISA didn't show up, Chris Krebs was on another stage, and she's part of the destruction of all of our cyber defense capabilities....

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

“Your Home Without China” 🇨🇳 An incredible interactive graphic examining which household categories rely on Chinese production: @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Art.

This is what we’re working towards, but we gotta make it happen!

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

@chickgonebad.bsky.social @vespavixen.bsky.social

"Furthermore, I expect the German legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them, but that they are here for the nation" Hitler, 1942 Doesn't sound much different, does it?

In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

Yeah, keep using AI. Please. By all means.

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid

🧵CDC released a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on measles today: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes... As of Jan 1, there have been 800 measles cases and 3 deaths associated with 10 outbreaks. 654 (82%) are associated with the TX outbreak that has spread to NM and OK. In 2024 there were 285 US cases

Pretty much sums it up……

Since January, 213 people have been detained at the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit. 90% of those abducted are there because they made a wrong turn and drove onto the bridge by accident. www.npr.org/2025/04/24/n...

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A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.

Donald Trump’s tariffs will act as a tax increase for nearly every income group, with minimal impact on the top 1% of earners. Surprise, surprise.

“He has, from the moment of his nomination, been a miserable example of a leader, deflecting blame, accusing others, and smirking and snarking his way through his Senate confirmation hearings and almost every other public appearance since taking his post.”

JUST IN: Karoline Leavitt now says there will be “no unilateral reduction in tariffs against China,” reversing course after Trump admitted the tariffs were too high and reports surfaced they would be lowered.

*Brian Krebs found that one of the code libraries the whistleblower said a DOGE person downloaded from GitHub that none of the NLRB IT people or contractors used matched one that Marko Elez had on his own Github. Elez was at Labor in early March. infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/...

I have questions.

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

Biden handed them an economy that weathered COVID better than anyone else on the planet, one that was so primed for a boom this year that magazines like the Economist were writing glowing praise about it. This effort to pretend the opposite was true might work with the base, but not anyone normal.

Y'all wonder why I'll never resubscribe to the Washington Post? If you didn't think Bezos injecting a pro fascist bent to almost everything the paper has done, now the other shoe drops.

SCOTUS on 4/10: “The order properly requires the Government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador…” DOJ on 4/21: Objects “based on the false premise that the United States can or has been ordered to facilitate Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador.”

Holy shit

pretty great that the last thing the Pope did before he died was tell JD Vance he was a racist

You don't need to strip search & detain & deport too many white European tourists to crush the tourist industry.

The Bigger Picture: “Why Is Everybody Sick All the Time?” "It [COVID] killed more people in 4 years than AIDS did in 40. Excess deaths have surged from secondary effects of COVID, especially cardiovascular disease, liver disease, respiratory infections, and other causes" Source: archive.md/QyaKR

Shits on fire which is why I keep reposting stuff, because the signal needs keep alive. Trying to be positive about it all but scared and severely sad about all of it. So here's Nellie snuggling me because that's what I have right now. Oh and I'm officially down 50 pounds. So there is that.

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

Just a reminder for con organizers, even outside immigration risks, this is genuinely all that is still relatively safe for gnc attendees in America, 2025.

Separate the art from the artist unless the artist is hellbent on removing the human rights of others in which case stop making excuses for why you still give them money when there are millions of much kinder and hungrier artists out there