⚡️ Zelenskyy: We cannot just withdraw. There are 200,000 Ukrainians living there. It is our land.

Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40. Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store

The default assumption should be that they’re lying

We met before our first date because we met on the internet in the 90's, when that was edgy and daring. That meeting was at the LDS temple in Chicago on Christmas Eve day. He got a me a nice little book as a small gift, "How Can I Help?" about service to others 1/x

And here we are again. Trump makes "ceasefire" proposal. Ukraine accepts it. Russia rejects it. Trump blames Ukraine. This is now the 8th time.

The Trump Admin is issuing subpoenas to social media platforms, including Bluesky, demanding personal details of anyone who criticizes DHS's reign of terror in American cities. Don't like CBP killing Americans on the street? You name is added to Trump's list for retribution. I'm certainly there.

I'm just going to say a thing. What a person looks like is not reflective of their soul. Insulting the appearance of bad people who do bad things as an outcome or indication of their rotten hearts perpetuates the notion that conventional beauty = virtue, a myth that's led to untold human damage.

One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.

I enjoyed reading this. It was encouraging. Maybe I have a really low bar for encouraging.

BREAKING: DOJ moves to drop criminal charges in alleged shovel/broom attack in Minneapolis that led ICE to open fire. "Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit," prosecutors say. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...

Because lawless ICE goons are harassing, arresting, and murdering people who are citizens, you idiot.

All of my group chats are responding to Homan’s announcement by asking everyone to double down because: 1. ICE is still out there and abducting people today. We can’t trust the occupation is over until we actually see it. 2. People are going to be in an economic crisis for a very long time.

Happy Darwin Day to all who celebrate.

The Dow just dipped below 50k so could someone let Bondi know she should care about child traffickers and rapists now?

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

There is no point in listening or Homan shovelling this word gravel shit. Words and actions are incongruent. Save it for the criminal trials.

Alternatively: We are imposing new requirements to private businesses that will discourage them from serving people on SNAP.

Omigosh, Canada, take us back oh please oh please!

The masked armed men have to wear the masks because the woman in the bathrobe might threaten them

Think proving citizenship is simple? Ask any of the 21M+ married women if her birth name does not match her current name. No match. No vote. This is voter supression. #HandsOffHerVote

What's the word for a two tier law system where certain groups of people are given harsher punishments for the same crimes? Is it apartheid?

I'll note again that this illustrates exactly why we need to completely abolish & wholesale reform the existing advise & consent process. It is worse-than-useless if it cannot screen out people like RFK Jr., Hegseth, & Bondi ex ante. All of this was perfectly predictable. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

Eat the rich??

Pam Bondi: ‘What Is The DOJ Hiding?’ https://theonion.com/pam-bondi-what-is-the-doj-hiding/

Showing ID to vote sounds reasonable to people. Of course what he's leaving out is that most likely, the ID you have and use to do these things wouldn't actually allow you to vote.

Mobility I need a walker this is bullshit.

Today's irrational fear: I took my every-six-months online dementia screening on Monday. I did fine. The fear: I did NOT do fine.

Revival Of Internship Program Heralds CEO’s Daughter Coming Of Age https://theonion.com/revival-of-internship-program-heralds-ceos-daughter-coming-of-age/

The next Dem presidency needs to wage a fucking holy war against elite corruption

"…because in a few years you will be busy migrating north, scrambling for resources and cobbling together a subsistence lifestyle."

Ohio fuckin loves protecting pedophiles www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

No children should be in ICE detention.

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

The King of England is talking about criminal charges for his own brother (for his association with Epstein) meanwhile America can't even get rid of Howard fucking Lutnick

Don’t look away from MN. ICE is still wreaking havoc across the state - changing their tactics to deceive Minnesotans - pretending to be construction workers or folks delivering groceries. Still over 2,000 ICE agents in the state. They’re not going anywhere, your anger and outrage shouldn’t either.

💥 Cofounder of Reddit: “the biggest sham is that we have somehow identified these types of [DEI] goals with not being meritocratic. Those of us who’ve been out here building multi billion-dollar companies with an eye towards having diversity, equity, and inclusion, we’re hiring for greatness”

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I will never understand why it is acceptable for individuals to sit in a congressional hearing and lie with impunity. MAGAts do this every single day and not one, not one! has ever been held accountable for it. What is the point of these hearings if the truth is optional?

Remember to tell people that things have NOT DEESCALATED. Pulling 700 agents means there's 2,300 agents on our streets, terrorizing us and kidnapping our neighbors.

Trump doesn’t fight for working people. He sells us out. The result? $19 billion lost to corporate rip-offs and scams.

Celebration by Kool and the Gang

I need to stop replying to this damned encrypted email.

The worse thing Trump has done to our country was 1/6. The “opposition party” nailed him to the wall in the house select committee, Jack Smith had him dead to rights, the MAGA Supreme Court corruptly let him off the hook, the media yawned, the R’s wouldn’t vote to convict, & the voters voted /1

Will Trump protect yet another criminal rather than hold them accountable?

This seat was previously held by a Democrat who left to join the current (Republican) state administration. It's a win, but it's not the sea change people are claiming here on BlueSky.

This 🧵 is worth reading if, like me, you are a non-knower of things reggaeton, Puerto Rico, and Bad Bunny

We must now be decent people in indecent times.