After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Yesterday bovino wasn't being fired. Headlines today, Noem not likely to be fired. Sure, I totally believe you [the one who always lies] on that.

It's relevant that the congressional Dems who voted to fund ICE include one of the most avowedly anti-trans reps (Suozzi) and the four who voted to support Marjorie Taylor Greene's draconian ban on lifesaving care for trans youth (Cuellar, Davis, Gluesenkamp Perez, Gonzalez).

2A advocates--they're coming for your guns. Although he did qualify it with 'any sort of protest you want.' You will probably still be able to bring them to protests THEY want. I'm actually surprised they're doubling down on this, given the shellacking they took from all quarters yesterday.

Sent my emails to my state congressfolks. I'm in a red state, but today, shooting a man for lawfully carrying is a topic they should engage with. This is the call for anyone in a red state to stop saying "They won't acknowledge me", and start saying this is a topic I CAN pressure them on.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Dear #BookSky Minneapolis has an absolutely incredible literary culture. In fact, three of the most important small presses call the city home; Coffeehouse Press, Graywolf, and Milkweed. There are also a ton of great bookstores in the Twin Cities. So here's the assignment...

Protect other protestors! You may not be vulnerable to abuses by government but many people protest because they are. Yes they take a risk by participating, being seen, but you can help minimize that risk.

You can tell Trump is lying because his lips are moving.

Americans are realizing that unfettered federal power to detain and arrest is a very dangerous thing. I learned that lesson as a child when they put us into internment camps just for looking like the enemy. Don’t go further down this road.

I love my grey hair. I don't bother dyeing it. Sometimes I twist the curls to bring it out and other times to hide it but I'm glad to have it.

emergency shut the fuck up Friday has been declared for all future public defender needers

I'm on the GLOW board, so not exactly an unbiased source for praise of our statement on this. But I don't know how anyone can argue with it.

The Washington Post Guild is alarmed and appalled by federal law enforcement’s search and seizure of reporter Hannah Natanson’s property and personal devices. Hannah is a valued member of our union whose work covering the federal workforce has been essential (1/3)

Another thread about Linux to replace windows passing through my feed. I have opinions, and they're nuanced. I think most people are more technologically capable than they give themselves credit for. I truly believe the average user could use Linux. However, it's easy to lose perspective

gentle reminder on this horrifying day that you can turn off video autoplay on bluesky settings > content and media > toggle autoplay to off

Little thing to notice if you vote by mail. Especially for the northwest where vote by mail is very popular. Especially Oregon where there is no in person voting at all.

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

I mentioned a picture in another post. Not as great a picture as I remember but the version of that sunset over the Nisqually valley is great in my memory.

Thank you, Canada!

@democratswin.bsky.social could you space out your postings a little? My following feed is like 50 consecutive posts by you. I'm scrolling a mile to see anything else. If you space them out like ten minutes between then I'd have 4 or 5 posts between each of yours.

Someone definitely confused science with philosophy. Science is falsifiable, that's how to contest it's claims. If it's not falsifiable its religion, misc beliefs, or philosophy. Philosophy is where you argue against it and develop a better argument that is more accepted and preferred.

Frictionless brain activity

I just spotted some articles about this. "Cornhusker clink", from an article "McCook Work Ethic Camp will be utilized for detention of individuals accused of immigration violations" The fucking what work fucking ethics nazi ass shit camp?!

I think the best part of cancelling subscriptions is that we get to save money and feel a pull back to owning physical copies of media. Companies really underestimated the vulnerability they created in chasing recurring revenue. Now any brand damage can immediately land. Boycotts hit harder now.

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Easy picking for my block list today. Anyone misrepresenting the facts, with a post history of similar bullshit and I'm presuming of a bot and blocking. If you're so misinformed that you look like bot spam propaganda, get a damn education and learn about the world.

I have seen a few bits of reporting that hegseth is terrified of being assassinated. I'm glad for that for him. It might prompt him to consider stepping down. I don't want it to happen. If it did I'd just sigh at what would most likely be right wing on right wing thug violence.

Someone asked earlier this week how I would do self care in the upcoming days. I replied I am a live skeet court reporter news junkie. I'd be watching the news and seeing judges excoriating the administration. Today was juicy, lots of good news democracy. May justice forever prevail.

How many folks upgraded to Linux? Windows10 end of support tomorrow. Usually when that happens a bunch of exploits go public within a few days so the community can try to start fixing things Microsoft refused to. So far I am liking my Linux install. Everything works with minimal fuss

Watching with some amusement content about the post rapture clarity. It's like post nut clarity except nobody got off. 😂

I see a lot of boiling the frog metaphors and talk of being ready to boil over. I think those analogies understate the severity. A boil over on a stove is a hassle maybe some cleanup. An alcohol flash in a pan is dangerous but usually not enough fuel to really cause problems.

This is gonna make Trump's ears burn. If he doesn't die of a stroke he's gonna make Vance miserable for a while if not try to turn the public on him entirely. trump is miserable enough person he would live to spite vance at this point.

Civilization (western and otherwise) is democracy and government by the consent of the people. Western *history* is monarchs and autocrats, and toppling them to be replaced with democracy.

I wonder if all this Kirk stuff is an effort to have things in place so when Time catcher up to trump there won't be room for public humiliation at his legacy. If they can stifle you for kirk now imagine what they'll do if you don't shed an adequate amount of tears for trump?

Out of context from a notebook I jotted this at some point from something I read. "Legitimate authority is revokable." I wish I'd written a source for that so I could refresh my context.

I asked a friend to borrow a drill. She said yeah and also I have a worn out thrift store drill but it doesn't work well too. Of course I want to try and give it a good clean and restore. Funnily enough the drill has 1 bearing, and the bearings in my spare parts bin consist of twenty bearings.

Who cares what Putin the warmonger says of Trump the Russian puppet says. Let's hear from the president of the nation that was invaded and then not invited to the peace summit dicing up their sovereign lands.

Trans folks see and experience gender privilege from the inside and outside of their assigned and lived gender. That can make them the strongest critics of harmful privilege and toxic gendered stereotypes and behaviors.

Democrats elected officials suddenly acting like they have a spine? I'm not complaining, just surprised? I'm so used to disappointment, stern letters and pathetic hand wringing from them as an opposition party. This is the opposition tactics we should have had from day 2.

Your reminder that #Idaho incarcerates more people per capita than any other western democracy on the planet. #idpol

Watching how the US government is "working" right now makes me appreciate the genius of parliamentary democracy. Coalitions, failed government, the no confidence call to elections and all. That would be great right now, a chance to immediately say I dislike what my rats in Congress are up to.

Random thought. How many right wing gun folks, second amendment absolutists, constantly and loudly call for the dismantling of the ATF? Fuckers, that's "defund the police!" Why can't we just do that all around? City PD good, ATF bad! ATF infringes and harms 2A... Police.. brown people though!

Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures

I have looked at most prime days and concluded it's just the crap they want to push. Nothing I want to buy, just stuff they want to dump before the next cycle of consumerism upgrading starts. The Joneses are racing off a financial and ecological cliff. I don't even want to keep up with that.