I feel like the DHS read Doctorow’s “Little Brother” and said, “yeah, we ARE the baddies.”

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

We’re airing a new campaign ad, starting tomorrow. Here it is:

WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment "I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim. At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."

BREAKING: Hegseth’s search history revealed

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

I remember gawking over the sample new @mbta.com Red Line car at Government Center in 2018. 7 years and a move out of Boston later, I FINALLY got to ride one yesterday and it was AMAZING 🤩 Definitely top ten experiences of the year.

What are you getting dad for Father's Day besides a working fire extinguisher in the kitchen.

“AT&T to acquire Lumen (formerly CenturyLink)” (formerly Qwest) (formerly US West) (formerly AT&T) Isn’t history fun?

On the roof.

😳 but also 🤩 (for the science) This feels like it could _easily_ be a Spooky Lakes video.

Hey, so, just thinking: - USAID was heavily involved in South Africa and helped black S. Africans overcome decades of violent oppression under apartheid - Afrikaners and others violently subjugated blacks in S. Africa until 1994 - Elon Musk is S. African Yeah, you’re right; just a coincidence.

Listening to Billy Bragg tonight and this hit really hard. “Freedom is merely privilege extended unless enjoyed by one and all.”

fml it’s only been 95 days.

Honest question: at what point is a judge going to say “the US government cannot be trusted to respect the rights of those in its custody” and halt ALL deportations until they are validated by a judge? Is that even a possibility? It’s not perfect, but it might be better.

Shopping for EVs in the US is infuriating. It’s a process of finding a super cool option that’s not huge and is significantly cheaper than other options and then finding out they don’t sell it here.

We decided to watch “School of Rock” last night because it has “Minecraft Steve in it” (I know…It is what it is) and I decided to google a bit and, yall, the little singer girl just got married to the big security guard boy /in real life/. She’s a OBGYN sonographer and he’s a music industry lawyer.

Look, let’s be real. The only reason I’m buying the Oblivion remaster is because I’ve run out of Skyrim remasters to play.

il a des bras et des jambes

Biblical scholars now believe that if Jesus had covered up his gang tattoos, he might’ve avoided crucifixion.

Someone once said NextDoor is the social network for dogs if they could type. It’s always “what’s that noise?” and “who’s that stranger?” which is exactly what I imagine my dogs would text other neighborhood dogs.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Or block the faces out — blurring can be undone — and strip the metadata! The @eff.org has a great guide: ssd.eff.org/module/atten...

young men will be D+20 in 2028

The best part of today was meeting a husky-malamute mix at a #HandsOff protest. Every time a car went past and honked, she howled 🐕 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ✊ 🍞 🌹 10/10 excellent doggo and ally

The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people. We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.

This is a real exchange I just had:

S&P looking a lot less Standard and a lot more Poors today.

Whirlpool was one of the big beneficiaries during Trump 1.0 when the company lobbied the administration for tariffs on imported washing machines. And a study found that Whirlpool raised its prices even though they were avoiding tariffs — simply because they could. www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/b...

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

i would like articles about layoffs to acknowledge if the ceo took a paycut or not. i know the answer is typically no, but i think journalists should make them say so

Creativity comes in many forms, and on this episode of The Children’s Hour, we hear from legendary actor William Shatner, bestselling author Dan Gutman, street artist Maewyn Padilla, and young actress Celestina Harris about their creative journeys.

Trans rights are human rights. No exceptions.

“Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar.”

for those local who want to show solidarity

Man, magnets are cool. That is all.

I don’t think people talk enough about what a great piece of software IRS Direct File is. Honestly. The UX is clean, clear, and goes out of its way to explain to you what you paid, why, and how much you get back. Taxes shouldn’t feel like a black box. Huge kudos to the team that made this.

The standard for morals in the Republican Party has disappeared. When Alberto Gonzales, who famously justified torture, is criticizing the pardoning of Jan 6 insurrectionists as morally wrong, you can’t even pretend to be doing the right thing.

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

Finally, a win for legislative transparency, as the House moves to make committee votes public and implement additional reforms.

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Hardwood xkcd.com/3051

@reckless.bsky.social I’ll just leave this here.

I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

Love is a pan of mac and cheese. 🧀😍🍽️

Well there it is.

TIL Zac Efron was in Firefly 🤯 How did I not know this??

I really liked those futurism books in elementary school that predicted what 2025 would be like, so I checked out Paleofuture’s blog cataloging 5th graders’ predictions for 2025 from 2000. “I think in 2025 Furbys will try to conquer the universe.” I mean, I could see it.