Not sure "if Trump could have silenced dissent by shutting down rallies, trampling on your freedoms, he would have" is quite the argument that the speaker thinks it is.

Sabrina Carpenter to donate portion of Short n’ Sweet tour profit to Transgender Law Center www.thepinknews.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

i love women

BREAKING NYT: A shell fired during a live-fire demonstration at Camp Pendleton on Saturday prematurely detonated, dropping fragments of the shell on a California Highway Patrol vehicle and motorcycle that were part of Vice President JD Vance’s protective detail, according to a patrol report.

Holy shit someone just held a successful heist of the Louvre and stole France’s Crown Jewels.

Top story when you go to The Guardian this AM. Which it is not when you go to the Washington Post or the NY Times. Apt language here, whereas WaPo describes the day as an airing of grievances as though we are a bunch of whining George Costanzas, not a vast public fearful of losing everything.

Note in the annals of the NYT, WaPo and WSJ, this Trump posting simply doesn't exist. Typical. bsky.app/profile/nich...

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike. (via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

Sabrina Carpenter Expands Tour Fund to Support Trans Rights www.transvitae.com/s... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

BREAKING: No Kings Day protests are breaking records for turnout across the world, with thousands of events and millions marching. And, it's breaking through. Republicans, Independent, and Democrats are in attendance. Spread the word. Read the latest. Subscribe to support.

“but surely the blame falls on fox news and the manosphere and the daily wire and whatever! i only read the good articles anyways!” nah. it took the “reasonable concerns” you got from steeping yourself in the bigot papers to launder this shit out of the sewers and into all of our lives.

#A_NewHope ✊

The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few minutes ago and the end of the protest is nowhere in sight. @blockclubchi.bsky.social

I do not suggest "drink when Mike Johnson pretends not to know something" as your drinking game, as you will likely not survive

In the immortal words of Mark Hamill:

Horrible. There’s no such thing as “looking American.” These are U.S. citizens being targeted by ICE for doing nothing wrong. And President Trump is to blame.

Kat has been a relentless defender of our Constitutional rights during these protests at a very physical cost to her. Where will this stop?

We’re back at the Broadview Processing Center protesting ICE this morning. The good news? They tore down the unlawful fence we demanded come down. The bad news? We’re still lacking accountability, transparency, and our First Amendment rights. Join us today at 1930 Beach Street. See you soon.

This is well worth taking a couple of minutes to read and reflect on.

My husband’s ballot came in the mail. Mine did not. I looked into why and… I was purged from the voting roll. PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION.

Say it!

The Speaker of the House thinks a naked bike ride is terrorism. This is a sentence I never thought I’d write when I got a degree in professional writing for journalism.

About 13 officers in a crowd of community members and protesters were exposed to the tear gas. This is the second time CPD officers have been gassed by ICE while trying to work with them. The move violates a judge’s order telling federal agents to rein in excessive force. trib.al/hmhsWkI

I had the opportunity to catch up with many friends (some of whom I had lost touch with), and talk to others that I never really interacted much with in high school. One of the people whom I had fallen out of contact with after she moved to Texas has been messaging back and forth with me the last

I hate to think what boys and young men are learning from watching such behavior and how it makes girls and young women. Parents need to teach that this is not acceptable.

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

I'm having a decent hair day, and the copier repairman complimented my outfit. I'll count it as a win!

“The group chat members spoke freely about…the love of Nazis within their party’s right wing and the president’s alleged work to suppress documents related to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex crimes.” I don’t want to hear anymore complaints when Dems call out the GOP for what it is.

The Hawaii Supreme Court has assailed SCOTUS in recent rulings. "The Roberts Court casually dismisses the lessons of American and world history, the warnings of prominent early Americans, and the judiciary’s storied legal minds," the court wrote.

Listen up, Chicagoans. He thinks this is ok.

Any Chicago area friends interested in joining me for the screening?

Saturday the 11th was National Coming Out Day. I spent the weekend attending my 40th high school reunion, but my first one as the real me. Thanks to friends who have always been true like @craigasullivan.bsky.social, it was an absolute blast of a time!

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

I was working on the story and he just came out and said it

An unarmed pastor protesting outside the Broadview processing center with his arms extended in the air is shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE...

This is an important point. Everyone one of these people has been asked to leave their home, their family, and their job to work without pay bc of the shutdown. We're better off thinking of ways to make this backfire on Abbott than to treat them poorly.

One day you're living in a constitutional republic, the next day the president is calling for the arrest of governors and mayors

So much truth here.

It’s fine for Democrats to continue to make the case for our health care. But they need also now to make the case for our Constitution, and for our republic, and our country. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-rule-o...

To be clear to my friends outside of the Chicago area, the only chaos here is being caused by the Federal government.

Brutal. Constituents in Jim Jordan's (R-OH) district would have to fork up an additional $16,846 every year to keep their coverage.

We covered this on today's @dailybeanspod.com. Extremely dangerous and these ICE agents should be charged with felonies.