oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter

GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

There seems to be a concerted, coordinated effort from the White House and various governmental agencies to join Bluesky en masse prior to the "No Kings" protest and flood the zone. A reminder that the Trump admin is monitoring social media platforms to find excuses to revoke visas:

And the AP's new poll shows that 61% of those polled DISAPPROVE of him. He has power but more and more people hate him too.

Voters blame Republicans for the shutdown by a 53-37% margin lmao

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

we are not having a lot of luck with institutional pushback - everyone who does is fired and replaced we are definitely not having any luck with “norms” what we are having luck with is ordinary people looking at the incompetent bullshit put in front of them and going “absolutely not”

in a word... be more concerned with what a thing is doing ... than language choices

People still think they don’t need to read black thinkers to do their work. They’re wrong and their work is worse for it.

This is one of the significant fault lines between the Left(s) and the Right. On the Left(s) [in general], we believe that everyone deserves public goods and to live in dignity. Period.

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?” @aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

"While SARS-CoV-2 does not cause HIV/AIDS, its ability to induce immune dysfunction—including T cell depletion and dysfunction, increased susceptibility to infection including opportunistic, accelerated biological aging, neurological, and systemic damage provide parallels in terms of AIDS."

You have to understand that there is NO accountability for ICE even in theory. You can't sue an ICE agent. They won't be criminally prosecuted for violating your rights. They won't be fired. THE ONLY WAY TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM ICE IS TO RUN FROM ICE.

The responses here compel me to warn teachers: students will never forget injustices borne of your ignorance and your belittlement is gasoline poured on what becomes a durable fire.

I gave my fifth-grade teacher a handmade Christmas card. But I'd spelled it Cristmas. (We are atheists, and Christ wasn't a big topic of conversation or reading at our house.) And this bitch, instead of saying "Oh how nice! Thank you!" returned the card to me with the spelling corrected.

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.* You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

New avatar. Not sure who made it and it might be AI, but it made me laff. #chingalamigra

This is not morally or legally different than lining up two dozen men and shooting them in the face.

Does that man have even one good quality? Just one tiny spark of humanity?

UUUUGGGGGHHHHH

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

"Trump has civilians murdered on his orders, and he enjoys doing it. The deaths of these civilians please him." daniellarison.substack.com/p/trump-the-...

It’s been fun being attacked for years for saying bigotry motivates these people more than low taxes and small government

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

One thing I haven’t seen reported about the ICE building protest: they have 10-20 costumes on a rack that anyone is free to use. Put it on, inflate it and protest!

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm. The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now! Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows. FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

"Product of his time" harvest the fruit of the dick tree and choke on its fruit.

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola. Fuck Columbus.

Don't forget to spend your FSA money. Lots of things that you can purchase using those funds will be of great use and interest to places like homeless shelters, domestic violence organizations, mutual aid groups & more. Consider buying menstrual products for one thing.

Pritzker’s goons shutting down protests at ICE Detention Center in Broadview.

Readily confess I was taken in by this pattern. There's so much to recommend JB Pritzker... but all of them, every one, will be found to have feet of clay. Dammit.

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.

Wild! The article names the group that claimed responsibility: www.theguardian.com/world/2004/s...

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

I am happy that more people see that the police state is a BIPARTISAN project.

Same here. Huge disappointment.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

Psychiatrists/NPs/therapists who could provide off-the-books, no-fee, Zoom-based care for individuals in crisis in ICE-targeted Chicago communities, please email me: [email protected]. Include whether you can prescribe, speak Spanish (or other languages), and available hours per week/month.

As Democrats contemplate a 2026 or 2028 run and wonder what message will most motivate voters, they need to understand that the minimum opening bid is vengeance.

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

Her baby... in? her placenta? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

This is the lesson of 2025

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

"training" is the consistent liberal canard. nope people, this is THEIR JOB. they are doing what they are hired to do.

Important, enlightening thread. I did not know these things. ✊🏻🖤

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.