“This administration is finally going to give the veterans what they want,” VA Secretary Doug Collins said last March. Yet veterans across the country told us it has become more difficult to get treatment, as hundreds of therapists have left the VA.

It feels very surreal to get COVID-19 for the first time in 2026.

Call me a raving radical but I literally do not care whether your imperialist massacre of children is “constitutional” or not.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Captain America in an August 1990 in issue, after the last time the US violated international law to invade a Latin American nation and kidnap a head of state to stand trial on drug charges

I don't know who needs to hear this but withholding medicine from groups of people out of animus for their class is a UN textbook definition of genocide.

Three Democrats (Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis) joined the Republicans to pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's federal ban on gender affirming care through the House of Representatives. It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.

For those keeping track, this makes two recent, draconian pieces of anti-trans legislation — the NDAA's sports ban and now the blanket trans youth care ban — that would not have passed the House without Democratic support.

Reading books on the train is the life upgrade I didn’t know I needed. I have greater wellbeing with a 40-60 min commute each way than working from home. 📚🚇

Yep. The "Dark Triad" remains stigmatizing, sensationalistic, imprecise, problematic, unscientific, and easily replaceable. It takes me back to the "good" old days of feeblemindness, moral imbecility, and hysterical women.

Outstanding work! Saving this one for review writing. @drlynam.bsky.social @jdmiller.bsky.social @vizecolin.bsky.social

UVA chooses yet again to make additional racism the newest attraction on its already horrifyingly racist Thomas Jefferson theme park “grounds.”

Seen in Chicago

If you are a billionaire governor I don’t think posting ”damn that’s crazy” counts as doing everything in your power

ICYMI: This morning, while @govpritzker.illinois.gov was preaching holy fire against federal immigration agents on social media, IL state police joined feds in arresting protestors at the Broadview ICE facility. Also: agents set off tear gas a busy Chicago street, and handcuff a Chicago Alder.

We need clear communication with the people. And if the government won’t meet people’s material needs during this shutdown, the party should. It’s time to use our resources to help others, not just get candidates elected. More food banks, less fundraising.

Genuinely though, now is the time for Dems to put those funds to use like Kat Abughazaleh did. Not with ads and robocalls but using those funds to support affected workers and families, shoring up food pantries, and making sure their constituents have what they need to get through this.

this is true. it's also true that rolling over would hurt many, many, many more

Honestly I’m shocked they finally figured out that they’re allowed to vote “no” on things.

Too real to be defeated by horror damage tonight in Arkham Horror LCG.

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted. My story:

help i keep seeing clips of pete hegseth against my will, get this man out of my phone

If you're an lgbtq news outlet, your job is not, contrary to what you might think, giving every queer person alive a heart attack every morning

The feds just arrested one of the best journalists in Chicago for reporting on them Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

the fact that a sitting US president is talking about antifascism being terrorism should tell you a lot about what he thinks his own government represents

Trans rights are human rights.

as usual, Margaret eloquently summarizes the thoughts that have been drifting around in my head this week. @margaret.bsky.social

This is political violence.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

A politician welcoming the feds of any stripe into our cities is the same as welcoming ICE. There is no other way to put it. Very disappointing words to hear in the face of this invasion

I just want a global 'turn all 'ai' off everywhere, categorically, no exceptions unless I individually approve them in triplicate' setting for all my devices

anyone who uses tragedy to attempt to take away trans health care is a genocidal maniac who wants to inflict pain on an entire community

Fucking love living in a massive, global, multicultural city. Sick of people trashing it/all other amazing global cities for transparently evil political purposes.

huh wonder why they had to do it at night. this is absolutely monstrous.

Bluesky moderation suspending trans people for wishing ill on the members of a hate group who are actively working to eradicate us shows us what a morally bankrupt crock of shit civility is and how it only serves to punish victims and protect victimizers. Bluesky should be ashamed of themselves.

Unacceptable and cruel. This is functionally a federal employment ban for trans folks. And right after we’ve lost our collective bargaining rights too.

People always bring up the innocent accused because obviously that’s the easiest position to defend but my hot take is even people who are guilty of the worst crimes deserve a fair trial and someone representing them and fighting for a humane and just sentence.

reminder that the "credit card companies denying the sale of anything that could be considered pornographic" fact and the "platforms/government trying to define anything remotely queer as pornography" fact should get filed in the same section of your brain

Okay but more importantly good news for folks seeking therapy in Illinois or from providers here.

Good day to be a real person planning for licensure in Illinois.

Where the fuck is JB Pritzker? Stop these lawless hospitals illegally denying trans kids healthcare. @jbpritzker.bsky.social

Dear AI, please fuck off. I don't need help writing e-mails or reading journal articles or doing just about anything else I can think of.

First time getting an invite to review a paper where the abstract was not in English (and not accompanied by a translation). Is this a common occurrence for an English language journal?

I’m someone who has waited too long to say something, prioritizing other issues, waiting to learn the “right” way to publicly condemn the ongoing genocide in Palestine. I have been cowardly and am ashamed. Fascism rises from our silence.

Othering of vulnerable groups ✅ Arresting minorities ✅ No due process ✅ Ignoring judges orders ✅ Calling media fake news or 'lying press' ✅ Funding personal paramilitary✅ Hyper militarization ✅ Controlling academic institutions ✅ Building concentration camps ✅ State control of media ✅ It's fascism

We’ve built a system which manufactures homelessness out of smaller, addressable problems and takes basic human needs and makes them into crises to which we can respond with force. We then use that force to justify not helping. Then when people have no options left, we lock them up. Over and over.

Involuntary “treatment” does not work. What it does do is permanently alienate people with addictions from potential treatment providers, drives up overdose deaths and maximizes “revolving door” use of facilities such that people who are ready to make a change and want treatment can’t get a bed.

Legislators failed to fund transit in May, forcing agencies to begin planning 40% service cuts. This is unacceptable – rise up with us TOMORROW and demand Gov. Pritzker and legislators return to Springfield this summer to save transit NOW! ⏰ July 12th @ 12pm 📍 Daley Plaza ➡️ rally.savetransit.org

I have finished the FULL draft of my dissertation and have my defense scheduled. 😅