In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Why are we still so garbage at treating human beings humanely?

How utterly damaged do you have to be to consider the Wounded Knee Massacre a noble part of US history?

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

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This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

Please note that no one else on that couch even batted an eye when Kilmeade suggested the government murder homeless people.

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

The shooting you’re not talking about.

For all the whining and crying about "bullying" online, saying that you have to mourn a guy who advocated for your death is like the prime example of how bullying works

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

This bookstore opened three days ago in Kyiv. One more sign of resilience (and beauty) I want you to witness.

Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.

This whole thread is important—but especially this part.

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

Ooh, if only I had an expansive budget and an event to plan…

Tune in ✨-TOMORROW-✨ for a very VERY special Nekomancer of Nowhere announcement ;3 #indiegame #gamdev #nekomancer #screenshotsaturday

Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.

More of this.

Always impressed (🙄) that it takes a whole gang of LEOs to take down one unarmed person doing absolutely nothing.

Understand that Trump has posted that this is also about “Cleanliness.” You read that right.

Doctor here 👋 #RFKJr today: "Doctors profit by keeping Americans sick." - Declaring war on science is keeping Americans sick - Destroying our healthcare infrastructure is keeping Americans sick - Demonizing our healthcare professionals is keeping Americans sick -We must remove RFK Jr. #medsky

This. I’m exhausted. “Tech-encumbered,” indeed.

Emmett Louis Till July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955

Very good boys and girls. We don’t deserve them, but we need them.

A cool thing.

The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse. The president's job is to "faithfully execute" the decisions we've made and he has signed into law. He may not impound, redirect or confiscate money outside federal law.

The original female gaze. Never be mistaken.

I see the ‘70s are coming back…

No words.

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Hey musical C’ville friends, check this out!

A perennial goody. Why do we keep falling for it?

Spot on.

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

As a reminder to the youngsters and the willfully forgetful…

I can’t imagine what anything could be thinking to have an international gathering in the US anytime soon.

From a dear comrade who was kind enough to let me share their video. Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!

Seeing it's tsuyu (the rainy season) in Japan I've just published a new article with rainy folklore, rainy yokai, rainy traditions and rainy woodblock prints. It's got lots of rain, just like tsuyu. open.substack.com/pub/curiouso... #JapaneseFolklore #yokai

Los Angeles 2025

An act of mercy.

Say it again and again.

I remember the good old days, when all we had to worry about was how to spell potato.

This take is from a source more linguistically reliable than the man who doesn’t actually know that “groceries” are a thing.

Nifty linguistics of the day.

See also: Trade school for thine, grad school for mine.

The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka. They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

Unbelievable morons. www.npr.org/2025/05/03/n...

"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Puppets…