AOC on Susan Collins touting the money she got for body cameras and ICE training in the DHS bill. “Senator Collins wrote the blank check to allow these officers to conduct themselves in the way that they have in Maine in the first place, and she's the one who's poured resources into it.”

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

I unloaded 340 bales of hay on Sunday (I had the trailer end) and did the full maintenance (including mowing and weed whacking) at the cottage by myself and the two together were a helluva workout on the glutes. I know this because my ass hurts.

How many completely innocent people have to die before there is accountability? How are communities supposed to feel safe when federal agents act as judge, jury, and executioner?

An innocent man was murdered by his own government in Maine this morning. Abolish ICE.

ICE shot and killed Joan Sebasatian Guerrero at 7:15 AM. His three-year-old daughter will never see her dad again. It took DHS 12 HOURS to release a statement. They claim the officer shot Joan out of fear for "public safety"—NOT his own life. Everything about ICE’s conduct is unconscionable.

ICE is a menace to democracy and its murderous conduct should be soberly considered. But we should also recognize that these people are weak and sad and ought to be made fun of. Read more: www.theverge.com/policy/96430...

$113.35 billion apportioned to ICE this year. In span of a week ICE has executed 2 US residents in their vehicles claiming "self defense." No officers involved were wearing body cameras. Available video in Houston shooting shows they lied. In Maine, available video shows car after execution circling

cc @fenbeast.bsky.social

Public safety?! In a city with NO homicides in 2025?! We (Maine) have the lowest violent crime rate in the country and 1/2 of the incidents last year were the result of domestic violence. ICE is the threat to public safety.

just to be excruciatingly clear it is also not okay to shoot the target of your warrant as an arresting LEO. the warrant is not a warrant to shoot someone. it is a warrant for arrest.

Rest in peace to one of cinema’s most outstanding artists; the legendary actor Sam Neill (1947–2026)

Oaxaca, 1988, a group of college exchange students visit a local establishment called “El Biche Pobre.” Ten of them became violently ill. The head of the host organization asked the students where they ate; upon learning the location, said, roughly, “OMG even the locals don’t eat there.”

True story: I was throwing hay today and it was exhausting and I didn’t think I could get through the last 20 bales, but every time I started to feel like I wanted to give up, my brain yelled LINDSEY GRAHAM IS DEAD at me and I somehow kept going!

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

I was raised to not speak ill of the dead. In therapy, I learned that speaking honestly about the harm done is more important than protecting the dead. Lindsey Graham caused more harm to this state than anything else in my lifetime. His legacy is hatred and brutality. Now, SC can move forward.

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

@alternet.org poll on how people view the need for transparency in the McConnell case has quite the ratio.

This is the kindest take possible. I think it’s at least partly true. But there was likely a bit more evil in Graham’s core than it implies. We still don’t know, after all, what Trump used as a lever to get Lindsey to flip to his side. It certainly wasn’t simply a sense of belonging.

This, I’m actually sad about. Wind to her wings.

lotta folks are going to get extremely & very uncreatively homophobic about lindsey graham being dead & i think it’s important to remember you can simply celebrate the fact a warmongering bigot is dead without being shitty. drink some champagne! go for a nice walk! fuck your loved ones about it!

Will be adding “Rule of threes validated before November election” to my bingo quilt in the hopes of generating some positive energy.

Delaying my morning routine to read the comments and view the memes and they do not disappoint. I’d do this all day if not for the fact that we have hay coming in. Just a few more and then I’ll get dressed. Just a few. Just

When a politician dies we see a lot of hagiographies about them. If you mention they were a terrible person IRL, you get chastised. My feeling? If you don't want people to talk shit about you after you die, don't be shitty when you're alive.

Sharing a gift link to this because I know when I was caretaking my mom every ounce of validation that I was doing something emotionally, physically, professionally and financially impossible helped me feel less alone

Gets up and goes out to the kitchen after being off social media since yesterday PM, sees husband looking intently at phone: Hey hun, what’s happ— Him: Lindsey Graham is dead. Me:

The Great Dane whose large head rests on my hip has taken to grumbling every time I shift. Entitled bitch.

Overstock ripped me off for 400 bucks.

Yesterday's trip to the ED put me a little behind my grandfather's pace, but #100YearsAgoToday he and his friends were working their way up to Lake Athabaska from Fort McMurray.

Has this guy looked in the mirror? (And does how much weight your elected official can bench really matter?)

🎯 @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social : “Any senator who votes to confirm Todd Blanche should know — you’re now part of the cover-up. You’re complicit in the cover-up if you vote to confirm the Todd Blanche for attorney general, who has led the cover-up of the Epstein Files.”

ok i am going on a 🧵 walk here shortly going to status check as many of the president's DC renovation projects as I possibly can this may end up being a multi-day event because of bad afternoon weather and the fact that this involves walking like 10 miles but we'll see how i do lol

One really lovely moment in the ED. So, I wear a silver medallion. It’s the Arabic word “Allah” and I’ve had it for 41 years—purchased in the bazaar in Cairo during my semester abroad. I wear it as a tribute to my Iranian-born bestie Navid, who is fighting stage IV ovarian cancer.

Taco Bell has removed several items from menus in certain places to prevent the spread of the diarrhea parasite. Taco Bell is doing more than our government. So that’s how well things are going.

According to Mercy ED, my 21 yo son is now my 22 yo daughter. Wasp sting. He used his EpiPen but we’re here to ensure it doesn’t get worse. No idea why the person checking him in put his gender as F & screwed up his birth year twice. She originally had him in 2007. He corrected her. But…

sitting here twiddling my thumbs waiting for an email from a potential employer containing an assessment document... timed edit of a 10-page manuscript... and I don't dare go down any rabbit holes lest I cost myself the assessment time and possibly the job. Getting tense. Wish me luck.

"Inside the GOP, a person’s character is negotiable as long as the accused is useful. Republicans like to call this toughness. I think it’s something much less flattering. It’s the willingness to overlook almost anything as long as the person is on your side." Adam Kinzinger is right on the money.

Smartest thing I’ve ever done in my sleeping quarters was tie a backscratcher to the headboard with a long string so I can easily locate it and get hold of it when unreachable places get itchy. Which happens a lot.

It would appear that I did two entire hours of martial arts classes (plus 20 minutes driving each way) with a tick in my pants. I am super sensitive to those damned little bugs but I didn’t feel him until I sat down to dinner. 8-legged ninja has been extracted and flushed.

My 21 yo son just now: “somehow I got it into my head that you were 20 in the 90s.” I asked him if he know what year I was born (he did) and then I asked him what he gets when he adds 20 to that number. He responded correctly. I said “just checking” and went back to my phone. GenZ, man.

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.

Trump defending Graham Platner is another nail in the coffin that had already been pretty thoroughly sealed, yo.

Five facts that you should know about the current Cyclospora outbreak.

and this is why I keep voting for her. She's 100% on the nose with this.

I am once again begging people to understand that “women used to stay married” is not the same thing as “women used to be happy.” Usually it actually means “women used to have no money, no legal protection, no right to their own children, and a church lady judging them from three pews away.”

Brushed my husband’s senior dog, who evidently is responsible for 90% of the tumbleweeds in the corners because in 3 minutes of brushing, I pulled a giant pile of undercoat fur off him. Which I immediately took downstairs and spun into yarn. As one does.

Because I swear this needs a macro so it just auto-posts every week: Nobody is entitled to an elected seat. An election is a job interview for a job with a TON of power and privilege. It’s not a jury trial, it’s not about proof beyond reasonable doubt. It’s not even a grand jury indictment —

I do hope you wagered on the win. Oh, but he’s a new convert to crypto, so perhaps not.