The frustration: the expense & the lack of clarity & purpose on the mission to deploy at home. There is no purpose other than power. This is not ok. “I feel like maybe they would get a little boost in morale if they could just get a little bit more details.” www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

From this week's #MemoToMembers: #NLIHC urges HUD to reverse plans to drop seven fair housing cases involving disparate impact discrimination. Weakening this protection risks allowing harmful housing practices to persist without accountability. More here: nlihc.org/resource/n...

Shout out to the policy team @nlihc.org for this analysis of the bipartisan Senate housing bill!

Heat kills. A bill just reintroduced in Congress can save lives. Urge your members of Congress to back federal heat bill introduced on July 16th. Go to: act.seiu.org/a/heat2025?m... #WeFeedYou #Calor

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" yeah well I asked my friend Joe, I asked my friend Jake, they said it was fhqwhgads

As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]

Superman is the story of an immigrant who grew up in Kansas, landed a low-paying job as a reporter in Metropolis, and still had time for a hobby because urban housing was affordable.

Philosophy professor & US Citizen Jonathan Caravello has been brutally detained & effectively disappeared for trying to help a legal observer remove a teargas canister from under their wheelchair during an ICE raid on a California farm. …is a sentence I've now had to write. What… in the actual fuck

Remember when the Trump admin tried to shut down the Social Security call line — falsely claiming 40% of callers were “fraudsters”? Now they’re scrambling to fix it, because millions of Americans rely on it. You can’t gut a vital agency and then pretend to care when it breaks.

“Superman is too woke!” Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:

From a Biden appointee to whomever needs to hear it: don't be a bottleneck. If you insisted something cross your desk on its way out, block time on your calendar to read it, for goodness' sake.

Planting trees was good enough for the jobs program serving my Okie ancestors during the Depression.

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

Book bans are a bad look for the parents' rights extremists.

Trump promised he'd target "criminal" immigrants. Instead of pursuing gangbangers and drug-dealers, he's rounding up grandmas, gardeners, cancer-stricken kids, construction workers. He's stripping those here *legally* of their documents. Even some GOP lawmakers have now begun to criticize him:

i posted this thread on the other app last yr but wanted to put it over here bc ive been thinking again about the iraq war and the "torture debate" which was really an eye opening event politically for me....

🚨 The Senate budget bill lets the government detain immigrant families indefinitely in unlicensed facilities. This is a direct threat to children’s health and safety. Congress must reject this cruelty. 📢 Tell Congress: NO on the budget bill. youthlaw.org/voteno

Nothing whatsoever.

It's on!

Last Summer I would see so many more more people on the Mall any day I biked my son to museum camp.

RIP Alasdair MacIntyre, a towering figure the likes of which this world rarely produces. Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that his influence extended far beyond his scholarship:

Need some enterprising group to start pushing Matthew 6:5-8 monuments in our public buildings.

EMDR is awesome. So are the right meds. I've been in therapy off and on. These days it's walks, painting miniatures, playing the banjo - the small set of activities that can get my brain into a relaxed flow state. A former colleague of mine does a weekly guided meditation for #firedfeds, it's great.

@responsiblehs.bsky.social we're trending - hooray!?!?

Just show up, address children as people, model kindness and respect, provide opportunities to get out in the community. The folks who hosted language classes, pool time, etc. in my homeschooling group weren't all as controlling as my parents, but my parents thought they were safe. That helped.

This.

Positive examples of people living with and managing mental health conditions openly; more consistent access to third spaces and extracurriculars (I got grounded a lot for the most minor shit); adults who would stand up to my parents when they knew what was happening #homeschoolchat

Not well. Denial, ignorance, shame and stigma, "just turn to G_d."

If you know a kid who's homeschooled and may be struggling, don't look away. You can change their life just by being a caring, supportive adult. Here are a few ways you can get involved: responsiblehomeschooling.org/advocacy/kid... #HomeschoolChat

C) some of my independence, confidence, and resilience I would also attribute to how I was schooled. #homeschoolchat

A) being homeschooled and being abused were separate but tightly related experiences. So, childhood trauma. B) late-diagnosed (as an adult) cognitive differences and mental health needs, though I'm old enough it might have been missed in mainstream school back then, too.

I first learned about CRHE from this chat back when it was over at the other place. So glad it's back!

Our Mental Health Awareness Month #HomeschoolChat starts in roughly 20 minutes!

By homeschooled people, for homeschooled people 🫂 Join us here tomorrow at 7 p.m. ET for #HomeschoolChat, an online discussion for formerly homeschooled adults. We’ll be talking all things mental health. See you then!

RFK Jr's always going on about "healthy" and what he means is a mixture of nihilism and eugenics, that public health and medicine are pointless because "unhealthy" people are going to (and deserve to) die anyway. Never mind the kid's death was easily preventable. Call them "unhealthy" and move on.

I'm sorry, but isn't this just the Cultural Revolution 2.0? Why on earth would fired aid workers and NIH medical researchers go to work on assembly lines for worse salaries in jobs they don't know how to do? Why are they getting their economic policy from Mao?

I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat

“Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.” wapo.st/4jdXL8m

What impact has DOGE's $1 limit had on how SSA staff do their job? Examples from just one local office: • Can't pay to shred documents with PII • Can't buy death certs to verify if users have died • Can't provide ASL interpreters • Running out of paper and toner www.wired.com/story/doge-o...

Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵

Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

Top USAID officials are trying to create a false narrative that life-saving aid has continued despite Trump’s blanket halt to foreign aid. Our @nytimes.com reporting shows the exact opposite. USAID even issued an internal email to stop applications for waivers: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

Sheer idiocy www.science.org/content/arti...

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.

"Government Efficiency"

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