“a rock-solid human being.”

If the FBI shows up at your door, and doesn’t have a warrant, you are permitted to refuse to answer questions until you talk to your lawyer. You are not required to let them in the house without a warrant.

“Anomie describes a state of normlessness when society's rules, values, and expectations lose their power to guide behavior, leaving individuals feeling adrift or disconnected.”

Not sure why we aren’t all screaming constantly but I guess that’s what Bluesky is for, goodnight screambox friends.

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BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

This is no shade to Chicago but this actually started in LA. They bought out a ton of vendors to keep them home.

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

I’m NOT looking at LinkedIn today, as a treat.

Y’all the East Wing of the White House is gone. It’s just… gone. I wasn’t prepared for how awful it would be to see it

Folks, it is the year 2025 and Word's grammar checker is suggesting that I should change "fewer" to "less few".

The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...

i think i’ll dress up as slutty nervous breakdown this halloween

There were a LOT of general strike signs and MULTIPLE speakers called for a general strike. Want to know the value of the #NoKings protests? They helped make this kind of demand more credible. Building capacity for mass action, step by step.

btw, when you DON'T see photos like this in the NYT or on your television or on various other billionaire-owned news sites, please REMEMBER and realize they are not telling you about a WHOLE LOT of important things

people's handmade signs did NOT hold back lol

Cuomo said “vote for me, the Mayor of Slop, the Mayor of Filth, the Mayor of Putrescence. Boo. Boo. Rubbish. Filth. Slime. Muck. Slop.”

Whether you are into basketball or not everyone should start their morning with this Wemby highlight video. Nobody has ever done it like this. The whole video really challenges the limits of imagination. But most importantly It Will Make You Feel Good!

Almost poured olive oil (instead of milk) into my coffee cup just now, so we’re off to a great start.

A great many of the (wonderful) stories about Ireland's (wonderful) UBI plan for artists tend to bury if not duck completely the hard cold fact that it was funded largely by Google's billion-euro settlement of tax-evasion charges. TAX BILLIONAIRES RUN THEM DOWN LOOT THEM IT WORKS

NYC is out in droves. This after yesterday ICE raided Canal Street.

Again and again and again I go to these events and take these photos to tell you YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

Wisconsin members of Congress point fingers as SNAP benefits run dry. The state will run out of SNAP funds for nearly 700,000 people on Nov. 1. (@notus.com / @wisconsinwatch.org) wisconsinwatch.org/2025/10/wisc...

anyway if you feel like knowing about how nazis use the internet or the christian right's agenda in government both depressingly relevant considerations my books are here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/...

Introduction: Cars ruin everything. The end.

After an annoying bike ride home dodging drivers running red lights and parking in the bike lane, this felt like the perfect thing waiting on the table. 📘 Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile by @thewaroncars.bsky.social #WarOnCars #LifeAfterCars #BikeMpls

Y’all look like you could use some leaves.

I can’t make a living writing any type of media but the people who can’t afford to pay me to write the media can still make billions a year selling the media they can’t afford to pay me to write.

Vote Mamdani because Cuomo is going to help your employer replace you with AI slop

wow. zohran brought one of cuomo’s accusers, charlotte bennett, to the mayoral debate. he asked cuomo what he would say to his 13 accusers of sexual harassment. cuomo said it takes “a certain level of maturity to work in government” and that the cases were resolved anyway. fucking scum.

Shoot - forgot to add alt text on that video! Here you go: 1000s of New Yorkers march down Canal Street in the dark holding anti-ICE signs that say things like "This is awkward. Let's break the ICE" and "ICE OUT OF NYC NOW." Folks are chanting "What do we want? ICE OUT! When do we want it? NOW!"

On one day's notice, thousands of New Yorkers marched in NYC today for immigrants and against ICE. More photos soon!

ALSO yes hello I forgot: I am on a panel tomorrow for the @libraryjournal.bsky.social Day of Dialogue! Free, online, basically a little one-day multi-genre con -- you can get more info here on everybody's events. :)

look I wasn’t paying attention is all • I was TRYING to make witch’s herbs soap but, err • oops? • honestly it worked out JUST FINE so $8.00 accidentally rosemary lemongrass soap – The Vagabond Tabby

I remember Fox News spending days on the scandal that was Michelle Obama’s modest little veggie garden. It was discussed and berated non-stop with the general theme being ‘how dare she desecrate those hallowed grounds.

"How do we get back the men we lost to Trump, Andrew Tate, and the Proud Boys?" Please do not bring those weird ****ers over here. We have kids over here. I will call Child Services.

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

Once again: the most dangerous (complimentary) thing about Zohran Mamdani is that he proves that community organizing doesn't just have to be hard work: it can be *fun* too.

I just want to say I was in the Navy. I have been drunk in so many countries I would have to sit down and make a list to count them, because hey! It was the Navy. We do that. I have many tattoos. None of them are Nazi tattoos. I took great care to make sure they weren't.

has been speaking since 6:21 pm last night. in front of a sign saying "ring the alarm bells: authoritarianism is here now!"

WATCH LIVE: Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley is holding the floor of the Senate to denounce authoritarianism.

Fun fact, the consultants that launched Platner’s campaign are the same people who did Fettermen’s.

On Saturday, a lot of kids got to witness positive joyful activism. 🐸🦄🐝 Fighting for your rights doesn't have to be 100% doom and gloom. ✊🏻✌🏻 Keep it up, little froggy.

The first time the Confederate flag ever paraded through the US Capitol was on January 6, 2021. The first time the White House was damaged in over 200 years since the US rebuilt in the 1820s after the British burned it in the war of 1812 was mid October, 2025.

Normal people: We want affordable appliances that make doing annoying tasks like dishwashing easier. Tech: Perfect, here's a toaster that spies on you and a dishwasher that talks. NP: What? Tech: Also a bed that's also spying on you & only works via internet connection. NP: Stop.

“Once my colleague pulled out his camera, the agent put away the gun," Huynh told the Sun-Times Tuesday night. "[But] if they can do this in broad daylight to an elected official, and point a gun at someone, imagine what’s happening behind closed doors.”

Here's your guide to fighting utility shutoffs this winter. W/o the gov't open, few to no states will have funds for emergency bill payment program LIHEAP. This doc has scripts, state context, contact info for governors & commissions, everything you need. Please call! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The federal shutdown is now about to affect millions of people who use SNAP - the food stamp program - and those same people cannot afford their energy bills. To get every dollar in people's pockets to go to food, not utility corporations, we need an emergency ban on shutoffs.

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.