2 y.o. just found my headphones (not missing) and brought them to me. "Here mommy, its mommy's headphones!" *pauses, smiles at me* [About me, to no one in particular] "That's my sweetheart!" 🥹

Happy 5 Years of being an "Anarchist Jurisdiction" according to the DOJ, fellow New Yorkers.

In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing. (Published Jan. 2024) By @stephannnnie.bsky.social

"[T]he whole point of solidarity[] is that you are stronger together ... [Y]ou do not leave anyone behind."

I wish I was kidding.

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

Happy update: they are all okay and made it to the south!! Less happy update: it took nearly all of the money they had to get there, and costs are even higher in the small city that is now accommodating appx 1 million displaced people from the north. If you can, please help them.

Damn, he's good, and right.

Remembering how upset (respectful, but upset) some people were when I told them I didnt want photos with my kid's face on fb and to please ask before posting.

"[Turning Point USA's] longtime leader, Charlie Kirk ... went on a crusade last year to, in his words, 'tell the truth' about Martin Luther King Jr., whom [Kirk] described as 'an awful person,' while claiming [MLK Jr.'s] signature achievement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, was a 'huge mistake.'"

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY

"Days turned into weeks, which turned into months. The library began its transformation. My handmade signage identified the Dewey Decimal System used in the nonfiction section. ... Paper dragons flew above the fantasy section. A cardboard jewelry box with hearts anchored the romance section."

rip legend

Coffee shops are the heart of darkness for republicans. All their horror stories take place inside them. They have taken the place of the forest in middle American gothic.

“I am come to rescue you!” -the toddler, busting into the bathroom @teaberryblue.net

So, hypothetically, if you're added to a secret unauthorized signal chat full of high-ranking government officials, is that authorized for release or...?

Public defenders have warned for decades: Police cannot be trusted to protect anything but capital. The police state is bad. The surveillance state is bad. Courts won't save us. Our laws are enforced selectively and oppressively. Due process is flexible at best. Wish we were correct less often.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

"I’m especially worried that this commercial is not so subtly targeting police officers who may already be bad actors or have issues with authority and following a chain of command." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ad...

But compare ("In her letter, Sassoon criticized the rationale behind dismissing the charges, arguing that Bove and the DOJ had 'reached this conclusion without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which this case is based.'”)

Here, @hbomberguy.bsky.social goes on a deep dive about the flawed study and basically all the bullshit that spawned out of it, if anyone is interested www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIc...

I have not heard from my friend Tareq for a few days, and just learned from the most recent update on his fundraising page that the main internet cable where he and his family were staying was bombed. They were still in the process of trying to make it out of gaza city.

"By the end of July, with my stomach weakening from hunger, I scrolled through my phone and saw the famine's effects on children—some undernourished, some skeletal. ... [T]he beast of famine was harsher than anything else."

This is horrific. It also isn't *just* immigration courts, though. When I was a trial-level public defender, I kept an inflatable kangaroo in the pocket of my court bag just in case a judge went a little too far that day. I'd love to be wrong, but remain forever skeptical that courts will save us.

I hope you all read this from me.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

Within days of Brian Kilmeade, a man who still has his job, calling for homeless people to be murdered.

ICE is putting more people into solitary confinement, and the conditions are brutal. Important reporting from the Marshal Project www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/16/t...

Starting to feel like it was a mistake to let rich bastards amass enough wealth and power to do things like this.

This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times. (1/3)

Sorry, i don't think the solution to "why we have such low approval ratings as a party" is shifting our message to "we're actually not much different from Republicans, and are also willing to put vulnerable constituencies in harm's way." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

"Prisons are literally heating people to death." "[A] few women have attempted suicide just to get into the emergency room to wait in the air-conditioning." Decarceration "should be applied on a national scale to combat climate crises in prisons." #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration

“Deaths in NYPD custody have surged to levels not seen in at least a decade, with 40 people dying in 2023 and 2024 combined — roughly double the toll of any two-year period since at least 2016.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/17/d...

OHP crime is new on me.

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?" Unashamed to say this made me cry.

If ICE firing guns on a crowded street and slaughtering a man driving ~away~ from agents, a man who clearly posed no risk to anyone else Is not met with national outrage Its already-reckless agents will kill anyone, anywhere, anytime they deem it necessary It stops now or never

"I don't care that he's dead." "He's not a hero." "He's a scumbag." "He shouldn't be celebrated." No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd. Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.

Once again proving that "Democracy Dies In Darkness" was a promise, not a warning. I am sorry this happened, but @washingtonpost.com didn't deserve you. Looking forward to whatever you do next.

"The United States is now shooting itself in the foot with foolishness."

“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”

This should be put on his tombstone (after he dies of natural causes, of course. Unlike this heartless ghoul, I do not advocate for murder.) #FireKilmeade

Very normal behavior.

My friend Tareq and his family are preparing to evacuate. Again. A large apartment building next to theirs was flattened by airstrikes. Theirs could be next. They must now leave another home, knowing that--like the first they left--it won't be there when they return. Please help if you can.

Pivoted so hard they affected the earth's rotation

Democratic and Republican leaders alike care more about one Charlie Kirk than they do about ten thousand Gazan children.

Well said. Sounding alarms that no one answers and addressing tragedies that no one cares about feels like it’s roughly 95% of my public defender job

how the media could cover kirk's death more responsibly: 1. don't just assume the shooter was from the left

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus