“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Sending the CIA to Latin America always has awesome results and a great track record. 🙄 I am practicing my deep breathing.

Frog 🐸 in our pond. 💚💚💚

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

Ugh. apnews.com/article/un-c...

Some good reporting here. www.aljazeera.com/amp/features...

What a nightmare.

Today so far feds in Chicagoland have: Attacked & arrested protesters at the Broadview detention center w/the help of the ISP other agencies Tear gassed a street in Logan Square that has a grocery store & elementary school on it, among other things Violently handcuffed an Alderperson It's 3pm

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

1) Obama set us up for this mess putting all those bases in Colombia. I won't say I (and many others) told you so many years ago but.... 2) They are going to use them to stage the attack on Venezuela and this is why didn't fully pull out "assistance" a few weeks ago. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says it's "appalling" for President Trump to pitch U.S. cities as "training grounds" for the military. "This is unconscionable, it's reckless, it's dangerous," says @mayorofchicago.bsky.social.

A powerful, urgent read.

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

One of ours..... #PCUSA

Abundant prayers for the people in the church in Flint MI that was shot up and then set on fire. Horrific isn't enough to describe this. I don't know how, but we have got to get a handle on our addiction to gun violence and terrorism in this country. There are no words.

"A new climate analysis — presented for the first time here — projects how humidity and heat will collide to form 'wet bulb' temperatures that will disrupt the norms of daily existence."

Probably one of the 18-yr old DOGE dudes is in charge of the State Dept social media accounts. Embarrassing.

All bad. Zero good.

FYI in case it’s been lost in the noise, James Comey made a name for himself on high profile cases in the NY office, including the one against Martha Stewart. Long history of ruining women’s lives with scant evidence.

I'm so glad people don't need to bother going to medical school anymore, wasting years of their lives in boring classrooms and residencies and taking out huge loans to pay for it. Who needs professionally trained experts when you or your loved ones need help anyway?! So yesterday. Passe! #bebest

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.” Stephen King, born on this day in 1947

Meanwhile, Brian Kilmeade, who advocated killing all homeless people, still has a cushy Fox job.

Ugh! I cannot. He was amazing.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Very good news. 🇧🇷 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Let’s say it plain: the Supreme Court of the United States endorsed racial profiling today.

nailed it. lol.

Only Justices Sotomayor, Jackson and Kagan believe in the rule of law and upholding the Constitution. Not new info but they made it real clear today.

Some of the potatoes we grew in the garden this summer. Fabulous harvest this year! Thank you the garden for everything! 🥔♥️

We need Leslie Jones to come back on the @thedailyshow.com and walk us through today with RFK Jr. She does the best sketches on him.

I think Department of War is actually a super accurate name for what we've been doing all along. However, I believe my interpretation of what we do and what these people think are two different things.

In the pouring rain I found a wasp on the road with a raindrop between its wings. I offered it my finger. It climbed onto me & I put it in a dry, sheltered place in a wall. First it shook, then it dried itself, then it flew away, hopefully home. Have you done something like this?

Reason #1,538,198 why animals are smarter than all of us.

I have had e-coli and let me tell you if I was President doing food safety checks would be something I’d put the people power of the National Guard in charge of. It’s awful. No one wants it. Ever. These people are going to make us all very sick and I don’t want to do that experience again. Ever.

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

1) a true patriot who will go down in history as one 2) this is bullshit

People who hate children and intentionally work to harm them and ruin their lives are the most evil people on this planet. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

Everything is depressing, but LOOK AT HOW GORGEOUS MY SAVOY CABBAGES ARE! #garden2025

Uribe is getting off easy for all the horrors he inflicted. At the same time it’s shocking and amazing we are even this far.

The Birdcage forever. 💔

XO Colombia. Rough day.

The always right and fabulousness @billmckibben.bsky.social says we need to bring back the work LICKSPITTLES and I love resurrecting old words for this useless time we are in. billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-eerie-l...

This.

Wildflowers in summer. Beauty is always with us. 🌻

A beautiful butterfly today on my butterfly bush. ❤️❤️❤️

Feliz día de independencia a mi querida Colombia 🇨🇴 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

A great post from Pirate Wire media - well worth the read as always. Thank you @murosinvisibles.bsky.social I always wondered when our exporting of the School of the America's modus operandi would come back here. It's been a slow burn, but now it is a fire.

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The best.