"Using their vehicles as weapons" She literally tried waving them through:

How the nyt used the Cass report to restart its anti-trans propaganda campaign in the US: Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

If you spent your holidays with relatives asking how we could ever possibly pay for universal healthcare, let them try to justify us paying for this

Good example of a thing where states need a firm reminder that they have and can enforce their own laws, even if the federal government won't. Every state has its equivalent laws about this stuff. Musk is not cloaked in some federal immunity just because he's off again / on again buddies with Trump.

Health Speculations Swirl As Trump Seen With Damage Numbers Above Head https://theonion.com/health-speculations-swirl-as-trump-seen-with-damage-numbers-above-head/

Reposting so I can find this! 💜💜💜

Pam Bondi’s former lobbying firm raked in $25M last quarter as clients tried buying access to Trump. Trump fundraiser Jeff Miller’s firm came away with $14M — nearly 5x what it made last year. Trump’s cronies know everything is for sale in his White House. "Drain the swamp."

I'm a computer engineer which is exactly why I want most of my main household items to be offline.

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

No Kings 🇺🇸

Governor Pritzker, why can’t you assign police officers to tail ICE and arrest them every time they racially profile, kidnap and human traffick people?

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

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

this is fucking epic, and i do not use that word lightly. holy shit. @sadqueer4life.bsky.social

[update] Scheduled: #AO3 will be down for about 20 hours starting at 07:30 UTC on September 26 while we prepare some improvements to collection browsing.

"He reviled, belittled, and demeaned large numbers of my fellow Americans, but he was quite cordial to me" sets my teeth on edge.

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

If anyone is actually PAYING for YouTube Premium, this is the time to drop them like hot coals. www.tumblr.com/sterlinggoth...

YouTube is going to start age-verification. Which... no. More data-mining? In whose hands? Blackout on August 13th. If they proceed with this, I look forward to the YEARS of lawsuits

We're not mind readers but...

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

RFK Jr. plans to fire all 16 members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force calling them too “woke”. The panel sets free coverage rules for cancer screenings & more. A key meeting was quietly canceled.

In Chicago, we now have a whiskey bar/restaurant/game cafe! “Evergreen Social” has shitty seos, so good luck finding it, but delicious fucking mocktails maps.app.goo.gl/Cvi2uizyS74S...

Just hours after a panel of federal judges in New Jersey rejected Trump’s nominee, Alina Habba, to continue as U.S. attorney and instead appointed Desiree Leigh Grace to the role, senior officials at the Justice Department abruptly removed Grace and reinstalled Habba,

This is another post breaking down our last post. The Justice Department’s decision to fire a judge-appointed U.S. Attorney and reinstate Trump’s preferred pick, without Senate confirmation, isn’t just unusual. It’s a direct attack on the separation of powers that defines American democracy.

OMG Rhys Darby on @gamechangershow.bsky.social when??? 🤩 #RhysDarbyFaction

A U.S. citizen and former Marine detained. A 15-year-old boy with no criminal record held at "Alligator Alcatraz." A father who has lived here for 30 years. No criminal record. Still held by ICE after nearly 6 months. We are witnessing the cruelty of Trump's police state.

btw did you know you can subscribe to PBS for only like $5/mo or a $60 one-time for a year donation, and get access to their Passport streaming service? They mail you a little live programming guide and everything, too. The 40-something seasons of NOVA alone are worth it.

Time for more #YOFT featured collaborators! (Sorry for the pause, I've been out of town) Today our feature is @alandslideofop1.bsky.social! These two pieces with ghostly Stede are some of my favorite individual pieces of art in the whole project, but they did a ton of gorgeous work!

The White House is posting AI-altered photos of members of Congress made to look like they're crying. No disclosure it's fake. Half a million views

‘Parishioners excused.’ That’s how bad it is. A Catholic bishop lifted the obligation to attend Mass because ICE might raid the church. Mass isn’t required “if a member of the faithful has a genuine fear of immigration enforcement actions.” The feds should be ashamed. Terrorizing the faithful.

Getting Kristi Noem to do her job instead of photo ops

A growing number of adults in America are food insecure. But Republicans just gutted food assistance programs — which may cause 22 million families to lose some or all of their benefits. Trump also cut $1 billion from two programs that support food banks. Unbelievable cruelty.

Weird how the new concentration camp immediately started doing all the same things the old concentration camps did.

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill. And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants. Cashing in on cruelty.

It features a militarized Uncle Sam and fear-driven messaging, eerily similar to the kinds of posters used by Nazi Germany to encourage citizens to turn in Jews, immigrants, and other so-called “undesirables.” This isn’t patriotism. It’s historical echo.

For every millionaire household that would get a tax break from Republicans’ big, ugly bill, 19 Americans would be stripped of their health coverage. Their priorities couldn’t be clearer. We must stop this devastating bill.

Who else is exhausted already? (and we've barely begun...)

Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, DEI, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP.  It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

I’ve met with working people across this country, and everyone, everywhere thinks we should be protecting Social Security. DOGE’s misinformation, cuts, and data takeovers are putting working families at risk.

x.com/thetnholler/... Add to the list of crimes against our military... not only is Trump gutting the VA, but his letting his for-pay gestapo disappear military translators puts troops in danger, because who the hell is going to cooperate with our military if this is how our allies get treated?

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.