Guess we need ballrooms in every school then

I was in a trauma-informed training where they quoted someone (apologies): “The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” I can’t stop thinking about that and how much of our politics right now can be traced back to lack of love early on.

🧵 I can’t stop thinking of how Versailles-on-the-Potomac it is for White House reporters to party with Trump, Hegseth & Stephen Miller this weekend despite their assault on the free press. If Trump’s masked thugs led the press away in handcuffs, the arrestees would negotiate for the exclusive. 1/4🧵

I dislike constantly double-checking the news because every story feels like parody.

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

How does it feel to be an Iranian right now? 🧵

@drstaceypatton.bsky.social has an excellent take on this on her Substack.

I think that this effort, by @katherinepomps.bsky.social and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, will prove to be one of the more consequential analyses conducted during the first two years of this administration. Its findings are incredibly alarming, but they can be addressed.

anyone attending the white house correspondents dinner is a fucking traitor

@gallup.com Please reconsider your stance on presidential approval ratings. In the meantime, I will assume you are trying to hide the fact that DJT is historically unpopular and that you are fundamentally untrustworthy.

My sense of Minnesota today is that there’s less tear gas and the same amount of unlawful detention, destruction of families, loss of livelihood, people in hiding. There is less tear gas at places like Lake and Lyndale, so it’s not making news.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

via @pabloreports.bsky.social Over 100 priests arrested in Minneapolis for protesting ICE in Minnesota where today it's -21 degrees outside MSP Airport. The clergy gathered in prayerful solidarity to demand airlines cease contracting deportation flights to DHS.

I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

In extraordinary message, Fed chair announces that he’s being extorted/coerced by the US government under color of law.

how is this real

Fantastic reporting here.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

This is an absolutely extraordinary, revelatory quote. Why is the NBC affiliate in Portland the only place reporting it? www.kgw.com/article/news...

The only way to see the US as a historically white country is if you pretend Indigenous Americans don't exist and you ignore the fact that African Americans have been in this country longer than most of its white people. The way US history is taught from k-12 affirms the lie of white supremacy.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

the lesson of the kimmel thing is that a corporation that previously caved to trump was forced by its audience to defy him. they're afraid of him but they're more afraid of you.

Can someone with influence please start calling Trump the biggest snowflake?

I love this so much. Not everyone in my household is white, or I would do the same. If they are in yours, please do it for me.

Frustrated with CBS, but this is some good reporting.

So much love for Superman. Kindness is the real punk rock. Plus a dog.

Dictatorships often isolate their own countries from the world, and this move by the US to discourage foreign visitors should be viewed in that light. They will continue to escalate. I expect they will eventually increase barriers to Americans travelling outwards as well.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now Thanks for your service to our country

I agree. How do we get Denocratic leadership to jam things up? I’m frustrated we weren’t better prepared because it was literally all in Project 2025.

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Years ago, I was driving between Americus and Plains, Georgia, when a PSA came on the radio. Jimmy Carter was letting people know about adult education classes from the Plains Community Center and Southwestern Georgia Technical Institute. I love him so much.

It seems we are already losing sight of the fact that a handful of billionaires effectively turned our information ecosystem into a Superfund site, no one knows how to clean up the mess, and simply telling the truth and hoping people find it is woefully insufficient

I’m putting together a list of how to respond to authoritarianism, among other things, for my friends on Facebook who are despondent. Most of them are middle aged white women, so they have some privilege and want to use it. Hit me up with your ideas.

I’m going to go teach English at our local Latino Community Association like I do every Wednesday night, and I can’t help but wonder if these classes will be continuing in January, if it will be safe for my students to meet. But I’m going to keep showing up.

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

My 12-year-old just saw the clip of Trump saying, “I’ll protect women whether they like it or not,” and he started singing, “Oh, can’t you see you belong to me?”

Mount Washington in OregonCascades? Maybe Broken Top?

Absentee voters who haven't returned their ballots yet, returning in person at an official dropoff location may be your best bet now. Mailing with the USPS now risks your ballot not arriving by Election Day, which, in most states, would get your vote rejected www.npr.org/2024/09/20/n...

Why are the headlines calling Tim Walz’s relationship with a Chinese woman an affair when neither of them were married at the time?

If you’re worried about election denial and election certification in Congress, find a House race that is close and help them get out the vote. The House certifies the election. The House changes hands before the house certifies the election. Turn the House blue.

I keep thinking about my parents’ evangelical church and hoping there’s a whole group of voters polls aren’t finding. I was visiting there the day Biden dropped out of the race. The pastor announced it just before the sermon. He looked shaken but didn’t say more about it.

I can't stop thinking about the fact that legacy media thinks Trump's McDonald's stunt is bigger news than Milley's comment about fascism.

This thread is giving me hope.