These fuckers would rather spend billions of dollars to keep themselves in power, than pay one fucking cent more in taxes, or have even the slightest accountability for their destructive actions. There's no fixing this except by destroying their financial capacity.

I feel like it might be tough to fight to get focus on it in the midst of everything else we’ll be dealing with if we make it through this but somehow getting rid of Citizen’s United is an absolute necessity and must be a priority, unless and until we do it we are in a lot of danger

Contrast of Forms, by Fernand Léger, 1913, (rotated) 📸 by Mike Segar

of all the “this is the dumbest timeline” examples I think it might be “we are literally living in the plot of 99 Luftballons” for me

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So the confrontations, violent apprehensions, and general fear bearing down on communities like Minnesota is only the beginning of the nightmare. Behind the scenes, Orwellian anti-judicial antics thwart lawful recourse. And hidden from sight, non-citizens are tortured for being noncitizens. 29/

To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like: The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/ Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!

Good start. Keep going!

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

In China’s Yangtze River, the finless porpoise population is rising: the latest count puts it at 1,426 in 2025, up 177 since 2022. Scientists link the recovery to the ten year fishing ban that began in 2021, alongside tighter habitat protection and monitoring. buff.ly/hzREApS #ShareGoodNewsToo

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The short story of the 21st century in the United States is that out of malice or cowardice or some combination of both, every presidency contributed to building and expanding a federal secret police of goons and thugs, despite clear warning and obvious abuses, until we got to this point.

Gallup and its chair, Jim Clifton, have long postured as non-partisan, but this move is a distinctly partisan in this environment. Like so many other institutions, Gallup is destroying brand integrity in the service of fascism.

I know I’m fixating, but “shooting down party balloons and using it as a pretext for war” is literally the “99 Luftballons” story arc. 🎈🤯 (Even “Miami 2017” didn’t map this closely.)

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See ICE wants these cases in Texas, where Trump-infected courts are more tolerant of their antics, more biased against non-citizens, more willing to let DHS fill up concentration camps. (Not all Texas judges, for sure. Plenty are bravely faithful to the rule of law. ICE is playing the numbers) 17/

Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it. The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after. I’ve had a front row seat. 7/

A month ago, I knew almost zero about immigration law. I hadn’t dealt with it since clerking >10 years ago. I had no interest in immigration law. I knew even before law school I didn’t want to go into criminal law. I didn’t want power or responsibility over someone’s freedom or their life. 2/

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Catherine O’Hara and James Van Der Beek both died from colorectal cancer. I lost a treasured friend to this disease two years ago. Please get screened starting at age 45.

Game show from late 70s and they're commenting how "Shawn/Sean" is a very trendy name. REALLY?

Despite having written thousands of lines of poetry, only one complete Sappho poem survives.

The Grim Reaper is not doing his best. Does he need glasses? A refresher course on scythe usage? Perhaps, like certain members of Congress, he should step down and let someone younger and with more enthusiasm take over the job?

We can’t spread disinformation just because it gives us hope. That is not a good excuse. Frankly, no excuse is a good excuse. 1/

A little blue hippo made by an Egyptian artisan around 4,000 years ago! 🦛 ❤️ Decorated with river plants and lotus flowers, blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and rebirth. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 📷 by me #Archaeology

Tamino forrm Open Mind has been beating this drum for years, showing a clear acceleration in the warming. tamino.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/h...

That's some Nazi shit right there...

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He was very weary; the day had been long, and full of dragons.

I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.

Well, I'm back from my West Texas party where we had a lot of fun but some balloons escaped and now it's time to check Bluesky but first let me get a big mouthful of water

At this point I think the judges are just "line must go up"-ing this thing.

Seriously Here in Chicago we are having midterm elections RIGHT NOW

This is a really powerful piece from @thatsabrina.bsky.social that also makes me really want to read her new novel: lithub.com/the-power-of... #romancelandia

Okay, that was beautiful, I am legit crying. (The Canadian team skating to "Vincent.")

And the only reason he's being platformed on the topic at all is that he's so rich people think it matters when he makes ridiculous nasty noises with one of the holes in his face.

Since thousands of years ago. Biblical jubilee was a way of the rich getting to keep their heads and avoid bread riots and be merely extremely well off.

Wow, I hope these GBR skaters are in fact Scots, else this is kind of offensive? (But also the costume designer should be shot. What the hell. There are ways to use tartan tastefully, or punk, but this is neither.)

These COVID rapid tests come in an 8 pack for less than $20 right now

additional PSA: 49% of covid infections are asymptomatic, so you might be infectious without knowing it. wear a (K)N95 in shared air to protect yourself and others. (damn, i wish it were financially feasible for everyone to be testing regularly....)

Supermarket eggs it is! (Though honestly I have 18 eggs in the fridge, which will probably last me 2 weeks, until the next market.)

Can we declare a 50-year moratorium on any skating to anything Romeo and Juliet? I'll allow an exception if the pair are doing the street fight where Mercutio and Tybalt get killed.

I strongly suspect I'm going to have to suffer with supermarket eggs if I want to watch this to the end. (If I were smart, I would go right now, while the Zambonis are doing their thing.)

"The existence of talking machines—entities that can do many of the things that only we have ever been able to do—throws a lot of other things into question." A cement mixer also does work that was unique to humans at one point. But we're not asking general contractors whether they're conscious.

Holy shit. And an appropriate one, too. Genuinely: who died?

#AICouldNever Aretha Week continues with this live version of her most iconic song www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOwc...

Folks look at you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then Cabinet secretaries don't get immediately impeached & removed for behaving like this in front of the legislature that oversees them.