They are knocking down doors and dragging screaming kids out into the night. I don't know what to say aside from this is it. This is the goal. They have always wanted to make an example of Chicago and it's not as if they haven't other places & other ways. All of it. This is fascism, plain & simple.

It’s so annoying that we all have to just continually point out how rules around/between decorum and violation are applied asymmetrically to vulnerable groups versus the people who are always hassling them, and it’s extra insulting that the people in charge are trying to lol it away.

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No tea no shade but these citties (especially the blue ones 👀) need to be deploying their police departments to protect their citizens from ICE & need to be offering legal support for their citizens when they are unlawfully detained.

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding: "When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

Asymmetric warfare To quote from the gospel of ST:TOS "I've found that evil usually triumphs - unless good is very, very careful" And havjng the possible "appearance of" enable ACTUAL corruption...is not being careful

Judge Simon's right - he wasn't required to recuse, though he had the discretion to. The problem arises when principled judges recuse even if there's an appearance of bias but unprincipled judges like Alito and Thomas don't.

It's also a reminder that DHS isn't hiring the best of the best. A lot of these are just riff raff who can't get a job elsewhere or get their rocks off abusing women and children.

/4 The other side of this is not merely saying “you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs,” it‘s people who say “lol fuck those eggs.” It’s between decency and thuggish, swaggering, nihilistic evil.

1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch. I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

Cronkite vomited And Jesus wept

For years we warned about this: The “Enabling Act of 1933”, which allowed Hitler to seize control of all branches of the German government, served as the template for “Project 2025” — and Trump’s DNA is all over it.

"This is a very race-conscious administration. It just happens to be the case that its policies, its prescriptions, its advocacy, its project is in service of whiteness. ...Whiteness is a race, too. It's also an ideology," says @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social. newrepublic.substack.com/p/race-and-r...

The Democrats work for the American people. The Republicans work for Trump.

What The Fuck Will be characterized by corporate media as "pushing boundaries" not "naked authoritarianism, and illegal"

"Enshittification" factually depends on platforms being at the start. "good to their users" and when it started Black people IMMEDIATELY said these platforms were never good to us and COLLECTIVELY Media , Tech , Journalism< Philanthropy said "shut up we don't care"

the government should not be able to smash into your home and drag you into the street for no reason. it's kind of a core civil right, perhaps THE core civil right.

It's becoming difficult to hide that a major purpose of the Trump administration is siphoning tax revenues from Blue states and redirecting them into subsidies for Red states. At what point does this become intolerable?

It's the first of the month so it's time to flip the page on my #WynonnaEarp calendar! #Tubi These awesome Earp calendars were created by @nedleysoffice.bsky.social and they benefited the awesome folks at @trevorproject.bsky.social !

Also! If you have access to an indie pharmacy (I know, they're rare, but they *do* exist), they are much less likely to ask questions. I qualify under the exemptions due to a health issue, but nobody asked me about it when I got mine a couple of weeks ago.

The Onion and McSweeney's staff are just pounding their heads on their desks. How do they keep ahead of this?

This is tonight!! In Berkeley!!! ⚡📚

Of, FFS. Adding yet another solution to Fermi paradox - nuclear power plants running on vibe-ware

OM*G*. This is the single best homeopathy zinger I've ever seen. Hall of fame stuff!

I do wonder when media outlets will get interested in ballooning everyday costs. My family's grocery bill has exploded over the past six months and - unlike when a Democrat is president - this is a non-story.

If you're blaming the Democrats for the shutdown of a government that is run entirely by Republicans, why stop there? Go wild, man. Blame the shutdown on leprechauns, or the Seattle Mariners, or maybe the cast of "She's the Sheriff." You've decided facts don't matter, so have some fun with it!

Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

As always

this is the third time Donald Trump has shut down the government while his party controls both houses of Congress

If I’m running messaging, the word on the street is that Democrats are refusing to fund a dictatorship. Either Article 1 means something or nobody gets anything.

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

The headline here is “Hegseth announces changes that will protect domestic abusers in the military.” Even though this is incontestably true, no news organization will use this headline, because telling the truth is deemed impermissible if the truth hurts the right too much

Trump just called us "the enemy within" Those are LITERALLY the words Adolf Hitler used to describe Jews in Nazi Germany. Literally the same words.

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!! reactormag.com/reading-rain...

idk guys, "we're going to train our military on our cities" seems like the kind of thing that's 1) very bad and 2) very easy to message against but what the fuck do i know

Today's speech is exactly what one expects from someone who flounced from the Individual Ready Reserve due to his white supremacist tattoos

Well… the whole world can now see that the emperor is naked. How embarrassing.

And who has the money to buy up all the arable land suddenly on the market, and consolidate into estates and fiefdoms?

Did that man just call generals in from all across the world to put the entire military leadership in the same room as the president so he could call them fat & ugly and say girls have cooties?

Tomorrow is the release date for SILVER AND LEAD, the nineteenth book in the October Daye series. It should be hitting Kindles for the East Coast in about three hours. For everyone who's still on this ride with me, thank you. I am so appreciative. I hope to see some of you in the coming weeks!

Corruption up and down the line

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"We are asking the Department of War to deploy to our cities" should be a statement that ends any Governor's political career.

And again, this is not generally my response to what big studio lawyers do all day, but this time I'm like, take all these LLM con artists/thieves and lawyers, do your thing

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