“People are being too hard on those who befriend known pedophiles for access to money and/or power”

A federal judge has ordered the release of a father and his 5-year-old son held at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. news4sanantonio.com/news/loca...

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

If we wanna get clever, anyone who may have access to early Democratic primary states and their forums— find a way to get a “how do you plan to prosecute the corruption of the past administration in your first term?” into the Q’s! This will cause half the campaign consultants to hiss, that’s good!

#Bookselling update: I have sold books by Terry Pratchett, T. Kingfisher, Alix E. Harrow and Stephen Graham Jones today, and had a lovely conversation about Tanith Lee. The Jones and Pratchett were for younger readers, so those recommendations are the most important things I will do today.

Still can't believe the latest Epstein Files release just casually confirmed the anti-SJW movement was planned by pedophiles. "The entire reactionary anti-woke backlash was masterminded by child traffickers" is the kinda shit I'd say as hyperbolic agitprop, but it was true the whole time.

Every day I‘m reminded conversation I had with a fellow parent my age who casually badmouthed china & I asked “how EXACTLY” is china worse than the US? His big claim was “china wont let YouTube in” lol this was before democratic congress & president banned TikTok setting up Larry Ellisono’s purchase

It’s time. Our children and the world are watching in horror. generalstrikeus.com

As this night comes to an end, I want to thank our neighbors who continue to patrol, observe, and alert our neighbors about the presence of ICE in our community. I know it takes a toll on you, but I hope you all know that you are deeply appreciated. 1/

I can only speak for myself, but the adults in my life who made fun of me for that effort and told me it was doomed to fail, did not at the time dissuade me from my activism Rather, they lost all my respect I saw no point in sharing my thoughts with them thereafter

PS if you do have kids & you want them to continue to like you into adulthood, supporting them when they put in this kind of effort (or at the very least having open-minded dialogue with them about it) is the best path forward They are fighting for their future. They need to see you fighting, too

Got off the bus coming back home from UW yellings and walked through several hundred kids chanting "no hate. no fear. immigrants are welcome here." We got to yell this with them for a bit and have no idea if they were from the nearby middle school or high school. 🤷🏼‍♂️

My 15yo co-organized a walkout protest at their school in deep red Tulsa Oklahoma!

Thousands of teenagers showed up to rally in San Francisco! Fuck Ice was popular chant here too.

Younger kid's whole middle school walked out today in solidarity with Minnesota. Apparently there were 13 year olds getting up and making impromptu speeches. They didn't prep a chant in advance, so they settled on "F*ck ICE"

If anybody out there is like, “kids so young would never do this without adult prompting!“ 1) you really don’t know kids 2) when Reagan met with Gorbachev, I was in 5th grade & still managed to get my class to sign an anti-nuke petition Don’t underestimate how much the kids are paying attention

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…the magistrate judge's refusal to approve the criminal complaint against Lemon reportedly left Bondi "furious," with the Justice Department privately vowing to find other ways to target the journalist.” So a targeted takedown. Surprising no one.

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

OR, we are killing children around the world because a handful of rich white people realized there was a way they could kill Black and brown children globally without getting directly blamed for it

Yes — that's why I hope folks focus on indy journalist Georgia Fort, arrested for covering the same church protest, an Emmy award winner who went out on her own to focus on social justice issues — & does not have the vast resources and celebrity lawyer available to her that Lemon has.

🚨TONIGHT’S PROTEST IN MINNEAPOLIS IS INSANE: CNN is STUNNED. Share this widely! “I've covered many protests… I've not seen a crowd like this before.” It’s 8 degrees. “It is freezing, but nothing, nothing is stopping these people.” This isn’t a rally. It’s a movement. @calltoactivism.bsky.social

The very well-accepted term for "stripping the legal protections of a minority group and then sending a paramilitary force to carry them away" is "ethnic cleansing." They are planning to ethnically cleanse Springfield, Ohio.

Hey @janetmillsforme.bsky.social, we already have a hotline in Maine; it would sure be great if you gave it financial support and raised awareness about it: maineimmigrantrights.org/mirc-resourc...

Why does Sir Jimmy Crystal’s cult have exactly seven fingers? It’s not just for shock. Each member stands for one of Jimmy’s six lost sisters—and himself as a child. Jimmy forces the group to dress in blonde wigs, recreating his dead family in a twisted tribute. 7 ‘fingers’, 7 lost siblings!

Remember, it's only Lesbianism if it's from the Lesbos region of Western Massachusetts. Otherwise it's just sparkling Subaru ownership.

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing this monster full of rain, vengeance, ghosts, santería, friendship, anticolonialism, and beings from the reef. (45% off!) www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

I have ZERO expectations that there will be widespread journalist solidarity with those arrested. And that will be a downfall for journalism as a whole.

On a night of life-threatening cold, a homeless person entered a Lansing bus station seeking refuge from the freezing temperatures. Video shows police slamming them to the ground and pinning them with knees on their neck as they plead, "I'm here because it's cold outside, and I have nowhere to go."

Impeach this woman, right TF now. She took an oath to uphold the Constitution, and arresting a journalist is per se impeachable conduct.

The US government has tried and failed to get a magistrate judge to sign off on an arrest warrant for Lemon. And then to get a more senior judge to grant it. Seems like they’ve now found a way to get it done – arresting a hugely high profile journalist for reporting is a real threshold.

Someday a documentary about the making of the Judgement Night soundtrack will be made. And more people will be aware that this soundtrack marked THE TIME THAT EVERYTHING CHANGED in popular music.

Oh no this is me too

some good news buried among the horrible behavior listed: “The third woman said federal agents at her hotel are subsisting on microwavable bowls of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, because it’s become so difficult for them to find restaurants willing to serve them.”

Dem leadership is still sleepwalking and negotiating against themselves while middle aged working people freezing their asses off on the streets of Minnesota figured this out long ago and aren’t planning on standing down or giving an inch.

Couldn’t be more thrilled to be a BRAVE NEW WEIRD award winner for my story The Sunflower Farmer, and blown away it’ll be in this anthology alongside these cool as hell stories 🌻🌻🌻

I think it’s worth keeping in mind that the specific church that was protested, inspiring these outrageous constitutional violations by DOJ, is part of the network of Christian Nationalist churches tied to Doug Wilson and attended by Pete Hegseth.

So moved by the French people supporting us. Now the French government has pressured a company to end a dystopian private immigrant-surveillance ICE contract. wapo.st/4q6PupC

For all the discussion of doxxing federal agents, there’s essentially no discussion of how those agents are taking steps that attach severe punitive measures that stretch across wide swaths of the federal bureaucracy against people acting lawfully.

They didn’t care when 100s of journalists were killed in Gaza with our bombs, they have no courage and won’t speak up here either. What they rationalized there, they will excuse and rationalize here as well

This is terrible. It is also an opportunity for certain journalists to finally speak up with a *fraction* of the courage the people of Minneapolis have shown. It is also instructive that Lemon is Black. Woe/pox etc upon white journalists who don’t freak out about this.

Remember that in addition to arresting reporters, the regime deported journalist Mario Guevara after detaining him while covering No Kings Day protests. “His imprisonment is among the longest for any reporter arrested in connection with their work as a journalist in United States history.”

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

The simple truth has always been, it's cheaper and simpler to help people. Give people universal healthcare, give them a livable UBI, provide housing and utilities, give them food and education. Safe transportation too, public and private. No means testing, just "Here you go, live well."

It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have

If you’re ever lucky enough to meet someone who makes reaction videos for a living it’s really important you pretend you have no idea what those are so that they have to explain the concept and their role in it from the ground up, because it will lead to the funniest 5-10 minutes of your life.

Seriously. I didn’t specify one because I was part of many and there were so many more (we celebrated intersectionality before many people knew the word). An incredible and vibrant underground