“They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down. We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military." The worst of what we feared when Trump’s spending bill gave ICE a blank check is happening.

“As predicted by many activists and civil rights advocates, ICE is increasingly becoming a force tasked with enforcing the political will of the administration and straying further and further from its original mission,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @Truthout.org. truthout.org/articles/tr...

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

Just FYI, not to besmirch her legacy, but people characterizing JG as being “kind”, “gentle”, “loving”, etc…they probably have never read interviews with people that worked with her. She wasn’t like a bad person or anything, but she was unpleasant from everything I have heard. Remarkable scientist.

time ran out, rest in peace ❤️

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

If you heard the leader of another nation threatening to unleash the military against his perceived political enemies, what would you call it?

It’s time for the military to start refusing some unlawful orders.

Senator @jeffyarbro.bsky.social (an attorney): “Deploying military units to take part in policing Tennessee citizens violates the Tennessee Constitution… We either have the rule of law or we don’t.” @govbilllee open.substack.com/pub/tnsenate...

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

All mental illness begins and is maintained by a valid grievance being repeatedly unheard.

It is said in some circles, robbing banks is against some local laws if applied correctly by a competent prosecutor.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

The problem is--well, one of the many problems is--centrist commentators made it seem like calling fascism fascism was an overreach. So now the people we should call that have made it a crime to call them that and the scholarly use of it is penalized locally and we're... what, pretending?

Everything the mainstream media considers a "radical left-wing belief" is a compromise position. The actual radical beliefs are things we can't discuss because they're too far outside the Overton Window for most people to understand.

79. American citizen.

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Neoliberal pundits “Karl stop saying the Techno fascists are actively building a surveillance state inside the crumbling facade of America it’s doomerism” The techno fascists:

Part of our problems as a species is that we convert any new form of technology into a baby play toy for adults because that will drive sales in some way. We blow most of our energy budget (and a species) on making very useful things do absolutely nothing of use.

Driving didn’t “naturally” become inevitable. We designed a society that make driving inevitable in most places. We can design something different

i told my landlord they're releasing the amelia earhart files and he lowered my rent 50%. i told my grocer and he gave me a free nectarine. i told my doctor and he said i didn't have to pay for the visit. try it. you never know who out there has been waiting for this moment.

Why are we so quiet on our side when they do horrific things to us, but we lose our jobs for not mourning Kirk? Please, I need you all to repost this Family of Black student found hanging from a tree in Mississippi demands answers share.google/i9tQSXbbQW0m...

The text is purely artifactual.

I still live like this 25 years later. I think she lives a few blocks away now, whenever I see her she hardly seems herself anymore, detached, I think she medicated the spark you see on this away. Literally blocks away, and yet completely apart despite the moments we shared. This is life.

Scanning for a bit tonight. I can pick up the train chatter and most of the citywide hospital chatter. The law enforcement runs through a digital trunk, so nothing like that is on the list.

From LA to Chicago, the feds continue their horrid practice of aiming high and directly at press. When these agencies get to uncritically claim that videotaping is violence, this is the outcome: reporters getting hit in the face with “less lethals.” Unconscionable.

Just a thought. Your political views have likely not changed much over your life. If you feel they have, it’s likely due to culture becoming more fascistic. The Overton window is moving around you, you aren’t really moving within it.

People need to understand the fascists are coming for everything. There’s no negotiating. There’s no hiding. We either come together or we get picked off one by one.

Yup. We need to continue to make every shitty step they intend to take as difficult as possible

Listening to the discussion here on Bluesky about Argentina... the one thing I find striking about it is that Americans have no concept at all of what Left and Right look like anywhere but America. The thing you have to understand about America: America is fucking weird

UPDATE: New footage and info from the chaotic scene in New York City today, where an ICE officer violently shoved a desperate woman to the ground as she pled for the safety of her husband, who had just been arrested without warning as he attended a court hearing. Read the thread ⬇️

Abolish ICE. Fascist motherfuckers. One of these days, someone is going to fight back and hand them their ass.

If you do not adjust /all/ of the laces in your shoes while putting them on, start doing that today. Add a tad bit of slack anywhere it seems tighter than the others in addition to the loosening. Get the edges of lace holes even with a slight pucker, and the laces will desire path it from there.

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

HOLY SHIT

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

I wonder if he will declare war on Escalators now.

Watching 2016 a production of this, ATM. It’s very fun/funny. It’s basically a prolonged cat fight (but with dance moves), so far. It’s basicaly you got served of 19th century France. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Deu...