People in the complex said they were zip tying kids and they didn't have names or anything. They took you first, then ran to see if you had any outstanding warrants - not just immigration. And the FBI helped them.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.

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?

This is sure to be good stuff if you’re in the Philly area —

Can't stop won't stop. The apple reviews continue, because the world is chaos and I must assign some small iota of order to it by eating and rating apples. Today's specimen: the fancy boy known as Cox's Orange Pippin:

i don't understand conservative toughness, which involves being scared shitless of everything but also talking about how tough you are

I love my dictionary. No slop, except for the definition listed under s.

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

I’m pretty sure I believe now in Hell and that this is it.

will say here that SCOTUS saying it's fine to fire Cook would be my 100% certain "break glass, sell everything" on the American economy

Who Wrote the Trump Administration’s Flawed Climate Report? Meet the Architects of Disinformation   - Union of Concerned Scientists

This is the best elevator pitch I've seen from Dems on the shutdown.

#Kindle deal! @chuckwendig.bsky.social's THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS is just $2.99! #horror #ad #amreading #booksky amzn.to/4fbH50h

Trump has decided that no jobs report will issue on Friday due to the government shutdown. But it turns out there is a different reason: that report will, when issued, be catastrophically bad.

WE HAVE LIFTOFF www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

I hate to be petty but man there are absolutely some editors and publishers in my past who I hope notice that my kickstarter funded in 3.5 hours.

Heads up to every artist with a Spreadshirt store (I'm so glad I don't): take a look at this abomination

Good night and good luck everyone.

In the debates when they asked NYC Mayoral candidates what living Democrat they admired IIRC Mamdani was the only candidate to pick another mayor and he picked Wu.

"It appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, but he's copying tactics of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, thinking that that's some sort of proving ground for war.. is just, frankly, inane and I'm concerned for his health" www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Trump's FCC yesterday voted to kill a program that provided free Wi-Fi to rural school kids at no cost to taxpayers, falsely claiming the program was "illegal" and was being used to "censor Conservative ideology."

Can't stop won't stop. The apple reviews continue, because the world is chaos and I must assign some small iota of order to it by eating and rating apples. Today's specimen: the fancy boy known as Cox's Orange Pippin:

The GOP is literally *checks notes* defunding the police

Anyone with critical thinking skills or a memory of past shutdowns should be aware that this isn’t how it works. The president doesn’t gain new powers because Congress hasn’t sent over the money for the executive branch.

oof, oof, oof

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Some 300 swimmers looped through downtown Chicago in the first official river swim since 1927, a milestone made possible by decades of cleanup, starting with the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and Clean Water Act in the 1970s. buff.ly/QiC1WZD #ShareGoodNewsToo

This is not a fight about tax credits. This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin. We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.

who among us has not hacked up a journalist with a bone saw or hung a college activist from their ankles until death

I do not know why STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS is a mere two ducats and ninety-nine chits at your favorite online electromagic bookseller, but it is if you’re so inclined to grab it on digital for cheapy.

if the Trump Hegseth address had been an email www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

wow

COLLINS: So you're telling me you're willing to vote no every time? BERNIE SANDERS: Damn right

Hell yea nyc, fuck ai trash

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

Jayapal: It is a strange and bizarre time when we literally have a president thinking about plating the ballroom in gold—while he’s thrown 15 million Americans off healthcare, fired over 150,000 federal workers, and is threatening to fire even more if we go into a shutdown.

AOC's message to the GOP: My office is open and you are free to negotiate with me directly. What I'm not going to do is tolerate 4 million uninsured Americans because Trump decided one day to make sure kids are dying because they don't have insurance

I do not know why STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS is a mere two ducats and ninety-nine chits at your favorite online electromagic bookseller, but it is if you’re so inclined to grab it on digital for cheapy.

Instagram/Facebook/Meta employees actually said this about their algorithms boosting body image insecurity to vulnerable young women ("Facebook allegedly detected when teen girls deleted selfies so it could serve them beauty ads") to @carelesspeople.bsky.social:

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

I work with Veterans. If I told them that they "killed people and broke things for a living" they would (rightfully) tell me to go to hell. Those that have had to kill someone in the line of duty most often view it with sadness, regret, and one of the worst experiences of their lives.

BREAKING: Senate Democrats hold firm and oppose the Republican spending bill, all but guaranteeing a government shutdown at midnight. Only Ds who voted for the CR: Fetterman (D-Penn.) King (I-Maine) Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Russia is about to enter the fourth year of a protracted quagmire they thought they'd wrap up in a weekend so kind of a weird example

“No one is coming to save us.” — An anonymous NASA whistleblower. futurism.com/space/nasa-w...

There we are.

New horror display at @lahaskabookshop.bsky.social for all the new books out today! Happy pub day to all of these gorgeous books!! Also, @tkingfisher.com will be coming to @doylestownbookshop.bsky.social this Sunday Oct 5 at 2 pm with @chuckwendig.bsky.social !

ICE is out of control. They must be reined in.

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy is donating $100,000 from his political fund to the progressive organizing group Indivisible — the latest in a series of donations he says total nearly $1 million to grassroots groups across the country taking on the Trump admin. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Harvard bends the knee.

I’m still processing what happened this morning. Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?