Genius. #EastWing

I have one slight disagreement with this post. There is at least one story bigger than that of a president instigating a plot to end U.S. democracy. And that is the story that a president is instigating his *second* plot to end U.S. democracy.

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were. The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.

They sent National Guard and Marines to "protect federal buildings" from Democrats. MEANWHILE the GOP was plotting to wreak destruction on the White House! The danger is in Washington DC and the troops are guarding the WRONG buildings!

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

ICE has purchased guided missile warheads. Guided missile warheads. This needs to be the lead story on every news channel. In every newspaper. It seems like they’re preparing to go to war with America.

Poetry is cathartic and can sometimes express how I feel better than other forms of writing. My heart aches seeing the East Wing of the White House demolished. #Trump #EastWing #WhiteHouse

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Authoritarianism doesn't happen in a vacuum. It requires enablers. When a leader posts fantasies of monarchical rule, and his entire party looks the other way, they become complicit. The issue isn't just Trump's posts; it's the institutional decay of a party that refuses to be a check on his power.

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings

#NoKings peaceful “We Love America” protest and rally in Pocatello, Idaho.

NEW: A huge ice sculpture of the word “DEMOCRACY” is currently melting away in front of the US Capitol. Organized by artists and activists, it was commissioned by the Up In Arms campaign, an effort led by Ben Cohen, the cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

Why yellow?

This should be repeated constantly: "In three years, roughly a tenth of US energy demand will come from data centers alone." We need to have a real response to this!! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

He’ll have an easier time crawling through the eye of a needle than getting into heaven.

Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

Is THIS who you want writing your essay????

The cruelty and evil in this administration sickens me. 💔

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

This American would have been insulted had the committee given Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.

It is a tale Told by an idiot

This us frightening and co ing from those in power.

AOC said, “Make them small.” Okay. I’m happy to do my part. @aoc.bsky.social #MakeThemSmall

Your voice can build trust, reduce conflict, and set the stage for learning! 📣 Explore the research: edut.to/48V00LH #EdResearch #ClassroomManagement #EduSky

Looking for one thing you can do right now to help protect the right to vote? It will only take a few minutes, and you can share it with all of your friends. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-thing-yo...

Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago. ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

I was thrilled to learn the statue “Best Friends Forever” was back on the national mall so wrote a little verse to commemorate the two pals. #bestfriendsforever #TrumpEpstein

Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school. Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

Hey everyone, @yusuketrade.bsky.social is impersonating a Princeton grad student and posting some vile right-wing garbage in their name, so please do the world a favor and report and block @yusuketrade.bsky.social

80% (!) of the ACA subsidies that are about to expire go to people in states that Trump won in 2024. Time and time again, Trump and MAGA Republicans will sell out their own voters — all to fund massive tax cuts for the super rich.

I think we should establish an understanding in the United States that if you order the military to carry out a lethal strike against something that is not an imminent threat without congressional authorization, what you did was murder and the entire chain of command is guilty.

They keep on dancing, dancing, dancing the day and night away.

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

FUN FACT: Social Security and Medicare are mandatory spending programs that are unaffected by government shutdowns. So, what they're telling you here is that they *voluntarily* want to stop giving you your money and health care.

Lawsuit time. RFK jr and his 🦇 💩 🤪 antivaxxers are responsible for this.

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

As a retired teacher, this has never surprised me. Cops are in schools to maintain order among the student body, not to protect students from a gunman there to shoot up the school. Happened in Parkland, too.

I still am stunned, years later, that dozens of cops at Uvalde waited 77 minutes to kill the shooter while kids died. Has ANYONE been held accountable?

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄

Fascism has arrived in America: The seven tactics of an authoritarian. 😳👇

Inspired by @datlow.bsky.social & @thehighsign.bsky.social, I just submitted a comment on ABC's decision re: Kimmel. Join me? support.abc.com/hc/en-us/req...

Every English teacher in the UK and in the USA: 😬 🤦‍♀️

Since the very first assholes appeared in the assholiverse, throughout the lengthy, destructive history of assholery, we have achieved the apex, the apogee, a government almost exclusively by, of and for assholes, the first truly pure assholocracy the U.S. has ever seen.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.