Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown. Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

It is unknown where Miller now sleeps during the day, he decided to flee his home after witnessing colorful chalk on his sidewalk that said: “Stephen Miller is destroying democracy,” “stop the kidnapping,” “hate has no home in Arlington,” which prompted him to fear for his life.

I think my favorite thing about "every city reveals its inner character" era of ice protests is that people keep saying portland is weird or cute or nice or silly when one of the most common chants at the ice building is people looking up at feds on the roof and yelling "jump! jump! jump!" in unison

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

America is very upset about migrants and drugs coming from Venezuela So America is trying to destabilize the Venezuelan government Which would create a lot more migrants And open up more space for drug traffickers

This is heartbreaking. Just because I’m not a religious observer doesn’t mean others should live in fear to observe their faith. Pleased to see this creative statement.

he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep

Meta knows its target audience - perverts and surveillance.

will there be any followup to this fascinating story by the president of the united states that a friend of his sent him a check for $130 million dollars and the president is going to give the money to the military because i for one am fascinated about the details tbh

The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed

😢😢😢 It's not his house.

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

had to put this one together from the archives but: called it again

“Medical staff did not give her any food, water, or pain medication for several hours. Much later that evening, after a significant loss of blood, Lucia was transported to an emergency room approximately an hour away, with her arms and legs shackled.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

If only they’d been proclaiming their love of Hitler, they could count as children well into their 40s.

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

If I was patrolling a torture prison and was involved in combat because people were attacking the torture prison I wouldn’t think I was on the right side because I was defending the torture prison.

I like how Joe Biden never demanded that I pay his legal bills.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com Altria Group Inc. Amazon Apple Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. Caterpillar Inc. Coinbase Global Comcast Corp. Hard Rock International Google HP Inc. Lockheed Martin Corp. Meta Platforms Inc. 1/3

It's wrong to call this "the Justice Department." He wants $230 million from the US taxpayer. Federal dollars. DOJ isn't some private company or NGO.

Ted finally deleted this lie over 24 hours later. Only the 900th time he has posted a fake right-wing internet lie. You would think a US Senator would take a few minutes to make sure these things are legit, but we are talking about Ted Cruz.

ICE has increased its spending on weapons by 700% since Trump took office. You read that right — SEVEN HUNDRED PERCENT. Trump is building his own personal military to terrorize American cities, trample on civil rights, and intimidate his opponents.

"AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat" is something from a Final Destination pre-production brainstorming session www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

Friendly reminder to interim U.S. attorneys

They have notably switched from the "antifa and hamas" narrative.

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands … may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

Mike Johnson has given the house a very very very very very very very very very long vacation because he’s worried about the Epstein files

BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel. Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.

The current iteration of the Republican Party consists of two competing factions: Fuck Them Kids (figuratively) and Fuck Them Kids (literally). In this essay I will

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?

aht aht cook a meal for WHO? you want us to quarter some soldiers in our kitchens while we're at it?

Green sea turtle no longer Endangered 🌊 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 These gentle, 400-pound giants are splashing back from the brink of extinction. bit.ly/4nfnrTw

Pete Hegseth conducted a live fire exercise over I-5 as part of a made-for-Fox stunt for him and Vance which had a misfire that struck a Highway Patrol vehicle and could have killed people? Who could have foreseen this?

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens? You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate? Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?

When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool

US Caribbean boat bombing campaign keeps getting worse. Colombia says US killed Colombian fishermen in Colombian waters. Add international incident to illegal, unethical, and bad strategy. This isn’t national security, it’s murder. Who’s selecting these targets? Is this why Adm. Holsey resigned?

Favorite signs from the Fayetteville, TN No Kings! We had 80 people. #NoKings @thetnholler.bsky.social

So glad other people got to have this entertainment.

Beyond the costumes at No Kings, Democratic leadership may want to check the signs to understand the vibe of their base right now (hint: it’s not health care)

yep, called it #nokings #warravagedportland

Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.

lol HER COMMENTS ABOUT IDENTIFYING THE LEAKS GOT LEAKED

This was my favorite sign from #Portland #NoKings. #putabirdonit