“Her father is a refugee, and she's achieving glory with the American flag... [And] these people are trying to deport, detain, and deny the next Alysa Liu right now.” @timmiller.bsky.social reacts to MAGA celebrating Liu’s Olympic win while backing policies that target refugees.

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

It’s giving middle passage

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

How are they going to spin it if Election Day rolls around and huge swaths of their own base can’t vote? Please explain to me how it will be Joe Biden’s fault.

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Feels like Kendrick Lamar introduced the concept of Super Bowl halftime show as political performance art and Bad Bunny is taking that baton and running with it.

This was amazing.

this case is maybe the single best example of one of the most destructive tendencies of this court: the tendency to treat their job as a collegiate legal seminar where they operate in hypotheticals rather than deal with the real world as it exists

Just like with Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the biggest sin any targeted immigrant can commit is winning battles — legal or PR battles — against the government, and they just won’t let those losses go

This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

We can all divest from abusers and abuser-apologists. We can. It might hurt. It *will* hurt. But it won’t hurt as much as the abuse hurt the abused.

I am begging everyone, don’t ever update your profile pictures. I literally have no idea who half of you are if I’m expected to remember your names.

“With a judicial finger in the Condtitutional dike, it is so ORDERED” needs to go down in the history books. This is incredible.

If my citizenship no longer protects me from the abuse of power, the loss of my rights, and even my citizenship, your citizenship is no more secure. But if your citizenship is more secure, then the discrimination is not about citizenship, law, or order. Iykyk

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Arresting Black journalists is also vice signaling. Their base is racist and hates journalists and they want to get them excited again. The mainstream media industry has never protected Black journalists or journalists of color the way it should.

The administration that spent the first half of 2025 telling us there was nothing wrong with coordinating literally classified war plans on Signal now is saying that it believes it’s a crime to post publicly available information on Signal.

organized, unseen, unpaid labor acting rapidly and effectively? yeah that'd be women

“He’s killing us in the streets and we still have to pay our taxes in April” is an incredibly compelling point.

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

Justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter. Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The Lord looked and was displeased that there was no justice. Isaiah 59

America first is America alone. The world is going to continue on without us; the long term damage to these United States and We the People is incalculable.

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

It is really something trying to summarize what things are like in the US right now for relatives overseas.

“We’re not called to be full-time activists, but we are expected to be full-time Christians.”

if someone punches your neighbor and you go to protect them, that does not make you a protester. that makes you someone who protects your neighbor.

This is extra funny given that I have not updated my resume since literally 2009.

What if non consensual sexual imagery and leaking of sexual images without consent was illegal and we framed laws on consent not on the apparatus used to violate consent

“We’ll give you permission when it’s time to be concerned. Also, we were really concerned 18 months ago, but now there’s no need for that anymore.”

i am frankly not sure the falcon is even aware of the falconer anymore

It’s the natural downstream effect of the Americans retirees at the Picasso museum in Paris 20 years ago who griped as they passed me, “They don’t make ANY concessions for English speakers!”

Welp my “be calmer/less angry this year” resolution is done barely 3 days in.

Why I really don’t trust institutions, reason #317: “Kids lie all the time,” the (female) principal said in defense of why she didn’t do a thing to punish a boy who perpetrated AI sex crimes against numerous female classmates, but expelled one of the victims for punching the boy.

And God said unto us, “Thou shalt not murder.” And we said unto God, “But what ‘is’ ‘murder’?”

This is desperately embarrassing.

this is how you lose the dish war

"We want everything revealed. We want both parties cleansed of this plague, and if there’s no party or parties left at the end of the cleansing, so be it." @kkdumez.bsky.social kristindumez.substack.com/p/epsteins-w...

As the days get shorter, I’m reminiscing about sunrise over the Pacific in Korea this stiflingly hot summer, when I was convinced I couldn’t wait for chilly winter weather. I miss Korea, and I almost (gasp) miss summer.

But duh, she isn’t the kind of woman who ruined the workplace, so.

Today my toddler waddled out the door as usual with a huge smile on his face…then he felt the wind and snow flurries on his face..then he staggered back inside crying, utterly defeated.

Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do

I feel like this is an important aspect to emphasize, loudly, to everyone who endorsed Cuomo. they chose to side with a known sexual predator for personal gain and frankly that should be disqualifying for public office. you knew who he was and decided the women he hurt were acceptable losses

Not good, shouldn’t be normal. Generosity is the linchpin of morality.

Also, well done, Bluesky. Tonight’s live skeeting of this crazy game felt almost like old times on Twitter.

Holy cow that game felt like it was never going to end. But wow.