Sometimes I just want to get away.

Icons just hanging out.

the bushes were people 😂

Trombone moment! Strings! Joyous!

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Asked Siri to play music by Macy Gray and I'm feeling much better now, thanks.

History shows a pattern here. When governments begin criminalizing the observation of dissent—using technical oversteps as justification—it’s often a warning sign. We’ve seen similar patterns precede press crackdowns in countries like Turkey, Russia, and Myanmar.

"Bovino to Leave Minnesota, But the White Supremacist Agenda is Still in Play" Bovino is the scapegoat for Trump's intentional reign of terror in Minnesota, but as long as Stephen Miller is in the White House, this is just window dressing. Dems must go on offense! open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

So keep pushing. Anything short of ICE’s abolition isn’t nearly enough. And I’d say that even ICE’s abolition should only be the start of ending the violence that came to feel “normal” under Trump.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun. Any second now, I'm sure. He was a white guy, if that helps? Hello? NRA?

Nor should we believe the White House or the CDC. Our government is in the hands of liars.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

Those ears!

Valentine's is coming up, and we have so many pets looking for LOVE! Scoobert is our *loviest* boy and just wants snuggles. Have you been looking for love? Maybe Scoobert is the right dog for *you*! 💗🐾 Please share to help Scoobert find his fur-ever home! #dogs #adoptdontshop #shelterdogs

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

If I talk to you about my trans son and use his pronouns, please focus for a minute and figure it out instead of asking me about his birth gender and name? Im not enjoying these inquiries!

Dictator.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.

A country that blows up foreign fishing boats for no reason is one that will shoot its own citizens for no reason.

The United States Congress has the Constitutional power and the patriotic duty to stop this insanity immediately, for the good of all Conservative and Liberal Americans’ future.

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

What book would YOU swear in on? The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski came to mind first!

Rainy Rose Parade?! What a novelty!

Chill.... and not chill

I *am* a one issue voter, actually. My one issue is "do you see all human beings as equitably entitled to basic human rights and dignity, or do you see some people as acceptable losses or sacrifices?"

Seahawks dancers so white!

Western states ought to team up and create a shadow Center for Atmospheric Research. Hire every staffperson that departs & give them what they need to continue their work. @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social asked what minor millionaires can do with their money? Fund this.

It’s possible to tell someone they are in too steep of a decline to keep being president! America just did that last year!!

Please call your Reps!

And a hearty LOL

Can you help this pup with a cash donation over the phone?

Spotted this gentleman on the Paris Metro

Last lunch in Paris...this time!

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

Telestrations brought out the best 0in our crowd

I think I may never again roast a turkey. Bought a roasted turkey breast from Costco, heated it in the oven, sliced and devoured. Absolutely delicious.

Party crackers were a great addition to our dessert gathering tonight. Playing Telestrations in paper crowns seems so right. We laughed a lot.

We made good food!

The X platform now has a new tool that promotes scrutiny about the origin of X accounts. I've noticed lately that more trolls are invading Bsky. This same feature that X has so members can check an account's country of origin would be super helpful to weed out the bad guys from causing harm here.

Apple is anti-union. Tesla is anti-union. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.

something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked

happy trans day of remembrance. you are beautifully and wonderfully made and I will never stop fighting for you. the world is better because you are in it

Happy flowers in a pea patch garden today.

The NYT Magazine article about the human trafficking along LA's Figueroa Street has me rattled. Is this horror supposed to lessen my disgust over Epstein et al? All of it's awful.