No masks on cops. No masks on cops. No masks on cops. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Similar achievable demands (the only limit is character counts): - End courthouse arrests for people following the rules - Protect churches, schools, hospitals etc - End restraints on ORR handoffs of unaccompanied kids - Get FBI/HSI/DEA/ATF etc out of immigration enforcement The list writes itself

“Abolish” or “defund” aren't within grasp in 2026. But where are: - End qualified immunity - Rewrite use-of-force so this crap isn't ruled “within policy” - Overturn July 8 mandatory detention memo - Reinstate TPS - Open up detention centers, enforce humane conditions He doesn’t even *ask* for it.

Chuck Schumer wants to compromise with this.

The Episcopal Church has put together a very impressive toolkit for protesting, including tips for clergy in particular. Truly inspiring. This is how Christians ought to be engaging the moment. www.episcopalchurch.org/protesting-f...

NEW: A ton of additional details about Mobile Fortify, including the company behind the app, which is being used by ICE agents to scan the faces of countless people in the US. The app sends that data to CBP, which uses AI to match the info with existing records.

I wrote about this moment. You can skip to the end if you just want a list of ways to help. If you want, you can also read about the time I almost died, was in ICU, and a nurse was my light in the darkness www.moryan.com/the-crack-in... 💚

Breaking Axios: Kristi Noem's language that Alex Pretti wanted to "massacre" federal agents was dictated to Noem and her department by the man most responsible for the controversial operation: Stephen Miller. That's according to four sources who spoke to Axios. www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...

HEY THRUSTERICANS! WE'RE BACK WITH THE SUMMER OF 83 MULTI AWARD - AND WE NEED YOUR VOTES! best score! best vfx! best performance in a small role by someone who would go on to be a much bigger star! THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO CAST A VOTE THAT WILL ACTUALLY COUNT! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally. Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.

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Really too perfect that Dokoupil's smug lecture at the end of this broadcast about trusting audiences to hear the news and decide for themselves was delivered *in the very act* of choosing to cover up a newsworthy legal threat made by the president about the interview the audience had just watched.

After the 2020 election, Larry Ellison joined a call to strategize on overturning the vote for Trump and donated to election deniers. Now he controls CBS and wants CNN’s parent, raising new questions this week as his influence grows. My latest in @status.news www.status.news/p/larry-elli...

Psst! Any Stranger Things fans in Austin want two tickets to see the finale at the AMC Barton Creek 4pm Thu.? (Tomorrow, New Year’s Day.) DM me ASAP! :)

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Trump plans to cut housing grants, in a move that could put 170,000 formerly homeless people at risk of returning to the streets starting in January.

so proud of this podcast - miss the blockbusters of yore? want to know why your mom and dad are the way they are? tired of manufactured 80's nostalgia and ready for the real thing? join me, @robogeek.bsky.social, and the inevitable @producerbrad.bsky.social as we revisit the movies that made us!

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

He did it. Chasing a dream is a perilous enterprise. To see @realgdt.bsky.social’s so gloriously made manifest at such long last is extraordinary. A staggering achievement exquisitely crafted & ingeniously constructed w. spellbinding virtuosity. Magnificent. See it on the big screen while you can.

This is one of my favorite interviews with @realgdt.bsky.social ever — a must-listen!

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org

I’m running for governor. For over a decade, Greg Abbott has made it easier for billionaires to profit while hardworking Texans struggle to afford groceries, housing, and healthcare. But together, we can make Texas work for Texans again. Join us: ginafortexas.com

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SEE. THIS. PLAY. APPREHENSION is a spellbinding new psychological thriller perfect for spooky season with surreal twists, destabilizing paranoia, twisted laughs, and great performances. You do not want to miss it! 8pm Thu.-Sat. until Nov. 1 at Hyde Park Theatre Tickets: apprehensionplay.com

Remake of Children of Men but it’s about a non-white family from another country trying to get home safely from a vacation to Florida’s Disney World

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

"school shooting industry"

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the National Guard of one state can’t invade another state. They are separate sovereigns

@gruber.foo @andru.bsky.social As much as I want them to call it the iPhold (right???), I think they’ll go iPhonePad (says what it is, and fun to say) with an ad campaign about the iPhone & iPad hooking up and this is their offspring. - Sent from my iPhone 13 mini (still clinging to 65% battery!)

We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.

If everyone simply acknowledged that the emperor has no clothes, we could all just point and laugh instead of pretending his unconstitutional executive orders have actual power

Essential Labor Day reading ⬇️

Book Recommendation: Want to time travel back to the summer of '82? This book covers the journeys of 8 genre movies to the screen. Highly, highly recommend! And if that's not enough, check out the "Multiplex Overthruster" podcast with @okbjgm.bsky.social & @robogeek.bsky.social for tons more! 💛 🎬

lol no www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/7922...

Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!

This is what we mean when we say America will not progress until the *systems* of white supremacy are dismantled and discarded. The same fascist policies that targeted Japanese Americans are now targeting Latino Americans, in literally the same locations and with the same denial of due process.

There have been some very scathing dissents over the years, but I can't think of one where the accusation is so bluntly made that the majority is a bunch of partisan hacks who are politically subservient to a president.

Prominent Fox hosts -- including Maria Bartiromo, Jeanine Pirro and Lou Dobbs -- privately sought to help Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to newly unredacted documents in Smartmatic's lawsuit against Fox, per the WSJ. www.wsj.com/business/med...

New from @iamleslierangel.bsky.social and me: Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night held hostage in the Texas House. Then four enraged women — many of them mothers — refused to leave her side overnight. The slept in jail; are banned from Capitol grounds for a year. thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/19/h...

They’re not saying it because msm has refused to report on the truth about racism & white supremacy in this country in any sustained manner. They will say “Democratic cities” over and over. But what of Portland, Seattle, Nashville, Jacksonville, Miami?

RFK Jr. Mandates All Americans Drink Mysterious Glowing Liquid

I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension was released 41 years ago today! "Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth."

Putin was sanctioned by the ICC for stealing children from Ukrainian families. He will meet with Trump - who has complained that Epstein stole children from him at Mar a Lago. If Trump truly put America first, he would arrest him when he sets foot on American soil. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab. Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us. It’s time to fight back.