My husband just redid the window treatments in our bedroom and the upgrade is so intense we both feel underdressed going to bed.

May it last and you be back at work in the hospital soon.

I guess they could call their mascots dance party the Portland Pepper Ball.

@mommunism.bsky.social ❤️🇵🇸 Today, a ceasefire and an end to the genocide were declared in Gaza. We have lived through the worst days of our lives. We were bombed, starved, and lost our relatives and everything we owned. We have nothing left but our lives Please give hope life🤲⬇️ gofund.me/3cb8c285

Please update us when you can, Mark.

a high armhole allows for freer and more comfortable movement

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it. But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan. Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

Good lord. @apnews.com

Dolly Parton called a press conference to clarify formally that no weapon formed against her will prosper

Honest to god the biggest scam in America right now is whatever Dem consultants are being paid

On X DHS has responded to Zach Bryan's anti-ICE song by stealing Bryan's "All Night Revival" for another ICE gun vid of its Chicago raid

Incredible. Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

Ramzi is now also fundraising for medical needs, if you can help. Thanks to everyone who has donated thus far.

Don’t think you’re supposed to do that.

I read somewhere recently that what the rich really want is slavery and it's hard not to read this article through that lens

She's not anonymous (can't speak to her salary). Her name is Camille Zapata

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ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

FanTASTIC news let’s get this done

You cannot be fucking serious

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

one of my most durable political lessons out of Occupy is: not only is it a bad look to instruct people at protests you are not part what to do based on posts online, it’s bad tactics to order around people with local experience and who are doing countless things you won’t know about from posts

In case you, like me, saw your electric bill more than double.

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Happy to learn the poet Jane Hirshfield is big on Tumblr.

My favorite fact is that in Florida the guns come from gun owners leaving the guns in their unlocked cars. The state allows for on person carry but establishments can still ban them so they leave them in their cars ulocked because that's smart, and people steal them.

They said on-line isn’t real life, and Bluesky is a niche social media site. But here is @akalhan.bsky.social getting “Kavanaugh Stops” into the Boston Globe! With a pic of Kav looking a little petulant too (but then when doesn’t he?). Glad to see this is sticking to him.

Speculative fiction class discussion two days in a row about how the stories don’t keep up with these days.

Hammam is still raising money for a tent for his family, if you can help.

Was shocked by our electric bill today. Almost 300$ for the month. 120$ is normal for us, and I thought that was high.

Picture here is from 1992. LA riots. Ive seen this called bad news judgment. In any real journalism outfit this is more like a firing offense. I basically say such things. Beyond belief.

hi, cis folks in california! this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out. he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841 want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

Raided my @bookshop.org wishlist: —EDINBURGH and THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT by @alexanderchee.bsky.social b/c it's absurd I don't already own them. —THE RIDDLE OF THE ROSETTA, coauthored by @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social — great background for a story I'm cooking up. —The Pinckney memoir as a treat.

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

They really don't want to release the Epstein Files, huh.

I love that the Zoology department was integral to finding text about Merlin that was otherwise invisible to the human eye.

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

"Law enforcement" was always just "capital protection."

Lawless Russell Vought thinks he can nullify a law by deleting it from an FAQ www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

its funny how not a single actual journalist has been like, “actually she’s good at journalism”

wait it's possible to move from pilot studies to permanent implementation of basic income? please tell everyone except Andrew Yang about this

SUE. HIM.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

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