aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

Michigan Avenue right now.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

All these headlines saying “Bondi Goes on the Attack.” Really? She wasn’t in the octagon, she’s a public servant who was at an oversight hearing. Her job was to answer questions. She refused to do her job. Stop glamorizing and whitewashing this moronic, performative bullshit.

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Dolly Parton could’ve written Das Kapital, but Karl Marx couldn’t have written 9 to 5 and it shows

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

JUST IN: Magistrate Faruqui continues sounding alarms about defective criminal cases brought by federal prosecutors in D.C This time he says prosecutors sought to "gin up" a charge against an immigrant for misreading a confusing form — to jump start deportation. www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/fi...

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

"What you fail to see Mr. Pope" is truly the most incredible assemblage of words I have seen coming out of X, the Everything App, in quite some time.

This is unprecedented partisan politicization of a public land agency website. I admit chuckling at the sinister irony of “three cheers for volunteers” amidst a shutdown. Lack of agency staff - like for endangered species critical habitat enforcement - risks real to harm our most vulnerable species.

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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Loves me. #bloomscrolling

My thesis is that no matter how doomer you were in Nov. 2024, we're probably past your worst-case scenario for the first 9 months of this administration. It's very strange for me to realize I wasn't pessimistic enough. www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-in-...

This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Kimmel won. Winning matters, wins are how we’re going to prevent this autocratic slide.

[logging on every day] man what

✝️ Rapture Update - Grimace has been raptured

I know I keep going on about this but 1) yes 2) it has DEEPLY embarrassed the media people who kept trying to pretend that this regime can be treated as legitimate, and 3) we absolutely cannot let them forget it

I feel like news publications should put more energy into asking autistic people how they feel about all this because…

Trump's ignorance fuels Hepatitis B vaccine myths vajenda.substack.com/p/trumps-ign...

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

What a fucking G.

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Black-Eyed Susans at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Maryland #bloomscrolling

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?" A: yes

Obama: So we have to extend to people during their period of mourning We can also at the same time say I disagree with the idea that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a mistake I can disagree with the suggestion that my wife or Justice Jackson does not have adequate brain processing power.

Obama: We have to recognize that on both sides there are people who are extremists  But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.

The regime has terminated grants for several special education programs, including federal funding for state-based projects that support deafblind students. The cuts and are part of a broader push to end programs referencing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). www.tiktok.com/@kendallybro...

I am so tired of angry young white men. I do not want to listen to them. I do not want to hear about them. I do not want to be told that if they break the whole goddamn world, it is somehow everyone else's fault for not giving them every last bit of attention and power. Enough already. Grow up.

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

You can complain on social media all you want, but there's only one thing media organizations understand.

Like, people are calling it HATE to post the direct quotes of a person who said and stood by those words until the second the ceased to exist. That can’t make sense to them inside their own heads. Why do they need to believe it?

This! The very nature of ambivalence is a lack of celebration, or even thinking something is “good”. I could spend a year analyzing the language of the past 24 hours alone. We are not speaking anywhere near the same dialects anymore.

I know most political discourse is just DARVO now, but damn. We’ve got to find a way to speak the same language.

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."