SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted. My story:

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

Trump just called us "the enemy within" Those are LITERALLY the words Adolf Hitler used to describe Jews in Nazi Germany. Literally the same words.

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

The Trump Administration is increasingly a fascist regime. Why? Because they behave like fascists. They even quote fascists. It's OK to refer to people who act like, and quote, fascists as fascists.

Trump's petition asking the Supreme Court to let him officially redefine (read: rescind) birthright citizenship is now available and I wish I did not have to worry about the Supreme Court taking seriously such obviously, egregiously unserious & racist bullshit www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

and if trans people aren't enough for you to get up and moving (they should be, what the HELL is wrong with you!!) know that it's not just trans people who are on the line, even if they're at the front of it. this is just as much about human rights as much as it is about trans rights specifically

Whenever I see an author supporting a good cause, by whatever means, I see if I can find their book, then I read it and leave a review, usually good because people on the right side of things tend to be worth reading.

It’s #MythBustingMonday. Today’s myth: “Multiple vaccines at once will overload a child’s immune system.” This idea is popular with anti-vaccine groups and also POTUS. But immunology, decades of research, and real-world data all say the same thing: it’s false. 🧵

1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist. No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men. The silence is deafening. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"A former director of the North Carolina Republican Party — who resigned amid election fraud and corruption scandals — has been appointed to a new role overseeing North Carolina's state and local election officials..." www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

I will not vote for Rahm Emanuel, a pro-genocide racist transphobe who defends the extrajudicial police murders of Black kids. Fascism lite won't defeat fascism classic.

I feel naive just writing this, but a president threatening to withhold funding to a city unless it elects his preferred candidate for mayor seems like the sort of thing that shouldn't be legal.

I'm disappointed. No donations, no support, no sharing. You've broken my heart and silenced my voice. Donations have really slowed the last 2 days Without your support we really have nothing, and we have already lost so much. Please share and help me 💔 Please share and help me 💔

Outsider Geek Boutique is my favorite shop on the Citadel!

Do you use "MyChart" to find out how a test went? It's owned by Epic Systems, an American private equity firm. This excellent reporting from CTV is a must read. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic... HC data breaches getting more common as private equity invests (+ monetizes everything, incl your data) /2

If Democrats cave on this, I will never, ever, ever, ever vote for them ever again. Ever.

The barriers put in place to stop any trans girls from playing with others girls are so complicated and onerous that TEN SCHOOLS can’t get enough cis girls through them to field soccer teams this year. “Respect for women’s sports” my ass.

When I was 18, my Mom bought me a book called “Where’s Mom Now That I Need Her?” It was a guide to adulting, meant for kids getting ready to leave home for the first time.  I was disappointed… didn’t she know I wanted a new CD player? A cool jacket? Concert tickets? 🧵

Crying watching this

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

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So exhausting..

if there’s someone whose takes you consistently like on this app, find out if they have a non-app body of work and support it Do they draw comics? Buy some! Do they write Star Trek books? Borrow them from the library! Etc

MASS WORLD PROTESTS THREAD:👇🧵 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. While 90% of media (owned by 6 billionaires) were focusing on getting teachers fired for calling Kirk a nazi… there were mass protests all over the world! Did you hear about any of them? I dug up some videos:👇🧵

This shouldn’t be a controversial statement at all. If you have even spent a short time examining race & class you would know the biggest thing keeping whitefolk broke is whiteness What are they dismantling every social safety net & having soldiers push grandmas down under the banner of Right Now?

Also this is appalling. Jesus Christ.

abolish ICE Abolish ICE ABOLISH ICE

As someone who crowdfunds for my survival BECAUSE I've put my all into community and using my professional skillset to prevent us getting neglected to death? It's hard knowing you believe in something that feels extinct, but I don't know another way to be, so I focus on the support that shows up.

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

The opening to "The Kingdom of Gods" by @nkjemisin.bsky.social is just unexpectedly sweet and wonderful. Thank you for that!

This dentist FA & now she’s FO.

What the fuck?

This activist's guitar was destroyed by ICE today. ICE fired multiple rounds of rubber bullets at us, and the guitar was struck. I am trying to raise $800 to help replace their instrument, which they rely on for gigs. I bet someone out here can straight up cover the cost. DM me.

The Brookings Institute found that Charlie Kirk was the 2nd largest misinformation spreader among podcasts they analysed. "Mr. Kirk, a conservative activist and the founder of Turning Point USA, ranked second, with 17 percent of his episodes containing an unsubstantiated or false claim." Gifted:

Trump blames Democrats for “violence” while unleashing untrained thugs who drop their guns, aim at bystanders for filming, and terrorize immigrants just trying to work. These Gestapo tactics must end. This was in Maryland.

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

This is your regular reminder that Covid is airborne. It’s not over. It’s still killing and disabling people. It’s a novel virus and we still don’t know the full long term effects, but what we do know is not encouraging. Wear a mask. Clean the air. Stay home when sick. Protect one another.

For the love of all that is my attention span, please let me speed up the training video? This 45 minute video of the sloth from zootopia speaking about the agile development method document set is a crime against me personally. #INeedYouToSpeakMoreQuicklyPleaseIHaveNoPatienceForThis

frankatha #knightsofguinevere #artpost

Leaping into the weekend like…

@dgblankinship.bsky.social on what Washington is losing with the demise of Crosscut 🔽 My take: It's the entire region's loss. Crosscut was a crucial partner on @investigatewest.bsky.social's Decarbonizing Cascadia series, along with @thetyee.ca and others. washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/09/24/l...

No matter what this meeting is about, Pete will always be a National Guardsman assigned to a Civil Affairs unit who got a bunch of crusader tattoos in his 40s because he wants you to think he's a cool, war-criming operator instead of an extremely online wife-beating loser

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Fuck you, make me. They're just trying to scare you into doing what they have no capacity to do themselves.

Cuomo could never.