Folks, please go volunteer at your local food banks. Particularly if you know something about food allergies, and can help them organize around food allergies/potential cross contamination.

Organizing still works — Avelo Airlines is feeling the heat for profiting off Trump’s terror tactics by running secretive (often illegal) deportation flights. You can take action to help ground “ICE Air”: www.groundavelo.org?utm_source=b...

The UN Population Fund warned that severe malnutrition among pregnant women and infants in Gaza will have long-term effects on future generations, as Israel’s war devastates the health system and causes extreme food and medicine shortages.

I’m good with my taxes subsidizing social welfare for people who can’t afford food. I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.

Complicated feelings about the White House. Built by the enslaved, AND the US has been complicit in the destruction of buildings/monuments that are much much older.

Updating my LEGO White House

Chemo time!

This prof of art history at Hunter's old thread reminds me of a story that I'm too lazy to look up now: Fred Trump deliberately destroying early 20th century Coney Island attractions he promised he wouldn't destroy out of spite. bsky.app/profile/did:...

and if you think he's going to willingly leave his newly renovated manse Jan 20 2029.... This demolition is a statement of *ownership*

These poll results from France closely align with conditions that often precede fascism:

In other words, “reconstruction” will only take place where there are no Palestinian people because Israel is preventing their return to that part of Gaza.

Just now: Demolition crews continue to tear down the facade of the White House East Wing.

Traveling to the real America, doing a racism, running up a massive tab, and then skipping town is not just a Young Republican thing

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Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

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Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

if you're going to a protest today I wish you luck. The only specific thing I will beg of you is this: don't use milk to wash out tear gas or mace. if you see a street medic with milk, yell at them until they throw it out. do not continue to spread lies about emergency medicine.

Now that you have exercised your protest muscles, what now? How are you going to protect people?

The first and last decent CEO of a social media app was Tom from MySpace. Buddy made himself everyone’s friend, stfu, and stayed out the way. Everyone since has been the worst.

Virtual No Kings rally: #NoKings

The military seizing survivors of illegal strikes should be a much bigger story.

I'm aware that the Trump Administration's HHS Dept is now on Bluesky. Due to concerns the account and other branches of HHS will share medical/vaccine misinformation using #Medsky feeds, I've made the decision to preemptively add the HHS account to a Misinformation Blocklist hosted by @medsky.info.

On police procedurals the internal affairs detective is always some vendetta-driven asshole trying to take down a good cop and in real life the internal affairs detective is like "in conclusion, the baby was probably reaching for the officer's sidearm."

Trump isn’t even trying to hide the fact that the DOJ is completely politicized and the rule of law no longer applies federally

it’s honestly astonishing in this day and age when republicans experience consequences for their actions

Ooooooooooo.

Folks, maaayyybe we need to follow up the #NoKings protest tomorrow with a #GeneralStrike. Shut down as much as we can of the country while the government is shut down.

CAIR-AL Calls Tommy Tuberville ‘Increasingly Unhinged’ After Embrace of Sandy Hook Denier Alex Jones, Rants About Sharia Law tinyurl.com/bd2yz88r

Please do not protest as a fucking Handmaid unless you have a Xena or Wonder Woman (orig, not fucking GG) outfit underneath. Protest as a strong woman. There are many from history that people can protest as. (Or from fiction)

i don’t think I really need to connect the new water heater to my phone, do I?

correct

Including today! Opus Dei membership is secretive, but their fingerprints are all over the current attempted theocratic coup of the US. If there's a right-wing Catholic in the US, chances are good they're a member of Opus Dei. Alito and Thomas are definitely members.

This country hasn't supported small businesses for decades. Globalization, corporate consolidation, and wealth inequality have ensured that all that matters is getting the cheapest item as quickly as possible.

A “small business” specializing in Christian esoterica that’s only applicaple for one month out of a calendar year, most of the products being imports, ackshualee.

I wish i could find a word game that didn’t just make up words. Any suggestions?

I have a friend who is a single mom who works full time and now spends her Sunday afternoons doing grocery runs for her undocumented neighbors. She's gone from 1 person to now 8 families in just a matter of weeks. Everyone can do something.

this right here is why when some folks say we shouldn't talk about Trump disappearing people or his military occupations or other horrific abuse bc we should only be talking about 'kitchen table issues' (as if the people being disappeared don't have tables smh) I'm like, it's not hard to link them??

Predictable and alarming:

And yes, we saw people ID'd and prosecuted via pictures posted to social media last time around with this admin and they weren't nearly as bad then. Don't be the reason someone catches federal charges.

The more available photos of a protest the higher the likelihood that the state will use them to prosecute people. Do not contribute to the problem by giving them something to subpoena. A few reporters working a crowd is less of a problem than 100s or 1000s of people doing it.

Samuel Alito preparing to raise absolutely the craziest flag you've ever seen at his Long Beach Island compound.

Sure is Hitlery out there in the Grand Old Party

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

Am I the only one seeing parallels between Palestine and the current sitch in the US?

“Footage, obtained by the outlet, captured the musician face-down in the mud, with her instrument about two feet to her left, struggling as what appears to be a federal agent straddled her backside. A police officer stood next to the pair.” The Feds then jailed her across state lines. For music.

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Minister of National Security for Israel, personally oversaw and participated in the torture of Greta Thunberg. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust. From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad." I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵