Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."

Trump: "The crime numbers [in D.C.] get worse." Official statistics: Violent crime in D.C. is at a 30-year low. The Trump regime is inventing lies to justify military control over our cities. It's what dictators do.

Getting the impression that a large number of Americans are feeling pretty bludgeoned into insensitivity right now, and that of course is one of the goals of Project 2025.

If you can't pronounce "nuclear", you shouldn't be on a news show talking about energy production, nor should you be making energy policy.

So this morning on bsky, I’ve stumbled across a British TERF whining about American trans-care, a leftist making nonsense broad-brush arguments and a racist right wing troll apologizing for Trump's friendship with Epstein The cracks in the echo chamber are forming, but I don’t think I like it.

Phang: We hear this a lot from Republicans, “Oh, well, they came here illegally.” He went to a port of entry. He made an appointment, showed up for that appointment, had a future court hearing scheduled, and was also applying for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). What more was he supposed to do?

"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!" The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:

Exactly. This not what Alan Garber got a standing ovation at this year's Commencement for.

maybe there's still some good left in this world after all

t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.

Happy 250th birthday, USPS. Dedicated USPS employees have delivered for us and we will deliver for you as we continue the fight against privatization.

A reminder: The perpetrators in the Epstein files are Oligarchs, and so are the ones protecting them.

About 400 of us outside the ICE District Office today 7/23/25 in Burlington MA

No cookies for fascists! Protest at the sheriff’s August 6, 5:30-7pm. Protest and Bake Sale to benefit LUCE hotline. www.lucemass.org

Trump is like please hate these Black people. don’t worry about the Epstein files. you all hate Black people, remember?

It’s not a conspiracy. Wealthy, well-connected men rape women and children and get away with it. Every day. Because the wealthy well-connected men are in charge of our justice system and they don’t care about women or children. But “mEn In WoMEns sPOrTs”

Another idea for a Boston connection: Citizens Bank finances GEO Group and CoreCivic (even after quite a few big banks pledged to end their relationships). They have more branches in Boston than any other city. @boycottcitizens.bsky.social shares info on this.

It has just occurred to me - I am a prolific user of em-dashes and Oxford commas. Does this mean that I have been an AI all this time? And if so, does that mean that my dog is just an hallucination?

bsky.app/profile/lisa... #newtonindivisible

Countdown to Maxwell getting a pardon and miraculously testifying to how innocent Trump is and how guilty various Democrats are....

Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices. Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire

Now is a great time to become a monthly supporter of your local PBS station

Rubio does the right thing after doing tons of the wrong thing. And by my math, there’s probably ~80 of the original batch of guys plus any future batches still stuck in CECOT. And ACLU/the courts were left out of the loop. But still, this is a good thing!

The Right: Race has nothing to do with poverty Also the Right: Race is inseparable from poverty

Another #comics creator could use some help, friends.

Happening now: demonstrators have gathered in Chicago's city hall ahead of today's city council meeting. They're here to support Mayor Brandon Johnson's veto last month of a city ordinance that would have given the police the ability to impose a snap 30-minute curfew on minors.

Every two years Democrats fall for the trick that if they just give up on this one issue they will lure votes away from the right. And every time it fails. Just for them to fall for it again the next election. It's how the Overton Window keeps moving.

There are times for compromise. Human rights are not that time.

“He likes ‘em young” - Donald J Trump on Epstein, shortly before his sex trafficking indictment. “I wish her well” - Donald J Trump on the future of Ghislaine Maxwell when she was arrested. He hung around these people and not only knew what they were doing, it clearly didn’t bother him one bit.

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

Something the Democratic base is awakening too is the lengths Dem politicians will go to "keep" or "win" the votes of people who are deeply unlikely to ever vote for them in the first place, but when the base itself says they have a red line all they get is scolded

Secretary Noem's mishandling of the tragic flooding in Texas has cost countless lives. She must resign now.

It’s morning but the prize for best quote of the day has already been awarded. @bradlander.bsky.social from IG: “The democratic primary didn’t go the way I had hoped either. 🤷‍♂️ But unlike Andrew Cuomo I am capable of listening to New Yorkers.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥

The Supreme Court said it was unlawful for the Biden administration to forgive student loans because it lacked congressional authority but has no problem with the Trump administration gutting the entire Department of Education without congressional approval. This is a lawless court.

They’re eating the files, they’re eating the flight logs, they’re eating the list. 😉

you know what they say “the enemy of my enemy is still an unstable right wing nutjob" maybe this will teach them that Trump/Bondi/et al. are lying self-serving jerks undeserving of support. But that may also manage to make them even more radicalized.

hey @support.bsky.team why does the ipad bluesky app scroll wildly, uncontrollably and unevenly? Why can I not zoom out?

The top 23 metro areas, in orange, produce 50% of GDP brilliantmaps.com/50-50-usd-gdp/ Biden-voting counties make up 70% of the economy www.brookings.edu/articles/bid... The "America" in truck commercials is a lie. Trump doesn't run this country. Blue states do. Time for everyone to remember that

not a Jew, but yeah, WTAF is wrong with people?

If your organization is still on Twitter it is enabling explicit naziism. Send these screenshots to whoever is in your organization’s trust, safety, PR, comms team.

"Trumpnomics", LOL Also, Navarro is literally a fraud. CNBC should not be talking with him.

This is how to do it: 1. Do a search for 'alligatoralcatraz'. 2. For each item, look under the picture, where it says 'report item to Etsy', 3. Select reason - I chose 'hate speech'. 4. Under details, I wrote "Supports concentration camps in the US." 5. Go back to search page, rinse and repeat.

Etsy refuses to remove Alligator Alcatraz merch from their website. Flood them with emails and social media posts. Demand they take down the listings. The disappearing, kidnapping and torturing of others is not a merchandising opportunity. This is life and death.

Same thing with crime stats, stolen elections, and “great healthcare plans.”

it is exhausting to live in a world where the news is like “the most soup-brained freakazoid in existence has a completely batshit plan that would send even Wile E. Coyote back to the drawing board. experts say exactly what you, a non-expert who just has some common sense, expect they would say”

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

Happy 4th of July, Batman.

Transgender people – regardless of their involvement in our justice system – deserve safety and dignity. I'm leading a multistate coalition urging the Court to block a Trump Administration policy that would remove all discretion of correctional staff to house transgender women in women’s prisons.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.