BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Quick doodle commission for @jezzaworks18.bsky.social! Thank you. 💜

I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.

I'm glad people are not crucifying the artists at larian over this and directing the ire at management. I have oceans of knowledge of how the threat of genai is treated in the animation industry by rank and file artists and we would never be "more or less ok"

Gregory Bovino is back in Chicago, and so is the violence. Trump sending him here is not about safety. It’s about fear and force. We won’t give in. In Congress, I’ll vote to abolish ICE. blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/16/b...

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.” The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida. It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID. Free link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

Haia!!! I'm starting my very first playthrough of FFVII tonight! Please come hang out with me! (Sephiroth changed my brain chemistry so now I gotta play this game) 9:30 ET | 6:30 PT twitch.tv/trashbabyaia

University of Alabama suspended publication of two student-run magazines, claiming they weren’t in compliance with federal guidance on DEI “This is an attack on the student press and nothing less”

IGN is paying attention to censorship again. Use their momentum, call visa and mastercard, tell them you read the article, ask them why they're censoring legal stuff reminder that you don't need to know specifics of what's at play. It's often better to sound like a normie

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

I saw a post this morning somewhere about trying to draw an upturned chin from below and yeah - that's a tough one! You need to rely a lot on shading the form rather than lines for this usually. Beards can be a nice cheat. 😋 Here's a few refs to try today if you want the challenge. ⭐

I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me. I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.

It would help us so much if just a handful more these managed to sell. It would give us a lil bit of breathing room after multiple expensive dental procedures this year. Please consider giving these originals a new home or sharing the post with someone who might like them. Many thanks in advance!

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

If you've stopped masking in public for whatever reason, now is a really good time to start again

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Thank you, @podsaveamerica.crooked.com @jonlovett.bsky.social & @crooked.com for speaking with me about the ridiculous and dystopian reality we’re all being forced to exist in.

“Mmmmm I hate to say it Homie but we may have to team up if we have any hope of defeating Krusty”

I saw Marge with Piccolo's cape and I couldn't stop my hands from moving.

I’m begging. I only have until today. If I don’t pay $1880, I’m on the street. I have a job, Ii start soon, and I don’t want to be homeless on my birthday. 😞 Please. I’m almost out of this; I don’t want to lose everything. PP: www.paypal.me/briggsycakes Cash App: $briggsycakes

Do you use Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify

Living in the duality of trying to be entertaining enough for people to care while going through hard times & trying to maintain a positive disposition has been so difficult. Here is an update on my personal situation, health and survival. Fundraiser: 🪷 gofund.me/b9dc07bb3

Here is a list of all the billionaires who are desperate to stop Zohran Mamdani. I can sense their panic, and I love it. 😄

idk why this concept is difficult to grasp for a lot of people and doesn't take priority over wether or not liking wizards makes you a good person. Dont give her money! The money funds evil! its truly that simple

🚨Tortured; the streets of America, 2025. Keep buying your shit from Apple, Amazon, Home Depot, United, Delta, AT&T - and you are contributing to this barbarity. 1/2

Pay attention -- what he means is allowing Democrats to win a free and fair election.

Helped two teens who were hiding from ICE this morning after a third had been snatched on Oakton in Evanston. They’re safe, half dozen community members responded. Adrenaline crash happening now.

my debut graphic novel 'on starlit shores' is available to pre-order in both the us (30th sep) and uk (6th nov) now! 🤩 bio.site/lgions

I’ve had maybe four (???) freelance gigs fall through over the last month with nothing lined up. If anyone needs art pls consider me! my portfolio is on naladraws.com if you have disposable income and want to help me pay my bills this month, I’ll put links in replies. #mutualaid

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases. Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on. Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights. Block, and move on. This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly. Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested. Stay safe out there.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL: ICE raids Walgreens in Chicago—agent tackles Black man to the ground, arrests him for “running.” Store shuts down immediately after. Customers told operations paused “because of ICE.” Occurred at the Walgreens on E 106th.

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

The Trump administration doesn’t believe in free speech. Or a free press.👇

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

🚨After being tased and beaten by ICE, a man dies in a Chicago hospital. Date and location in following post. These are the horrors of 2025 and we cannot look away. 1/2

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry. The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

The Alabama Solution documentary on USA prisoner system is heartbreaking and infuriating. It’s no wonder they don’t allow people in to see and practice oversight. My God.

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”