And I managed to share this with no text except alt text. These are from Tampa No Kings today. And one more:

I just keep thinking about the first guy to put on the frog costume reading the news today and seeing frogs literally all over the world what a fucking thing, man that 25 year old did more for the country in a week than most of the NYT op-ed section in a lifetime

with alt-text.

after a clarinet player was arrested at Sunday's ICE protest in downtown Portland, I talked to five artists, crafters and makers - a puppet designer, an illustrator, a graphic designer, a knitter, and a theatre artist - about creativity under fascism www.orartswatch.org/resistance-c...

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

If you are going to a protest today: I hope you are all fine. I really hope everything goes well. If it doesn’t, though- shut the fuck up and only use WATER to wash out tear gas/pepper spray/whatever, and do not touch or handle canisters, detonated or not. Also wear a mask and drink water.

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

wholesome boomer #nokings in Ann Arbor

it’s honestly astonishing in this day and age when republicans experience consequences for their actions

He has confused expertise with authority. Expertise is hard-earned, and deserves our trust.

Here's the thing about health that the "either/or" framing of this poll doesn't capture: making people healthier is a long, slow process. Making people less healthy can be done very quickly (and w/ very long-lasting results). The damage we've seen will last a long time. www.axios.com/2025/10/16/a...

"How did federal officers know about the building’s layout and occupancy? … landlord or property management would have likely possessed that information. Had federal immigration agents, he wondered, been deployed as an extralegal eviction force?"

It's going up to $40 billion. USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.

As long as we don't think about all the people who lost jobs for tweeting, "hey, this Charlie Kirk guy seems to have been a racist?"

Go after "enemies," pardon everyone else.

Every October, we get materials related to Open Enrollment. Every October, as a scholar of early medieval England, I find myself reading OE Benefits as "Old English benefits" and being BAFFLED.

The news in the world is awful, but it's almost Halloween, so let's talk about pumpkin enrichment for big cats. This is Jinx the black leopard (Big Cat Rescue, Florida) enjoying shredding a pumpkin.

Okay! This is going to take a while so I had to finish some stuff first, but: Why Da Pope Fucking Up Opus Dei Is A Huge Fucking Deal: a thread

At this point, I think I'm just sleeping and dreaming that I'm on Bluesky reading all these updates.

vance to his kids: “it is okay to tell your friends you love hitler as long as you don’t get caught”

Thread!

I was also the person everybody texted when Gordon Liddy died and honestly those two facts are a pretty comprehensive summary of my whole deal

Yes, AND it does so in a way that doesn't make the lay members who are not part of the abuses, and who serve as a useful smokescreen for the abusers, feel like they're being punished: they're being acknowledged as valuable members of the church even as the whole organization is being hamstrung.

it dramatically disrupts the flow of the money and removes the lay organization from their priests’ control it really is huge

Huge if true! And I'm hearing from others that it's likely true.

More details on the massive and mysterious FBI raid in Eugene, OR Wednesday morning: ICE just *happened* to be there and multiple people were “swept up” and detained, according to court documents. Via @lookout-es.bsky.social:

Grand Larsony.

Most of all, we don't need this! It's part of the lie that noncitizens are voting and "stealing elections." They aren't. Voters must already attest to their citizenship under oath. Noncitizens virtually never vote and have never been shown to vote in numbers that would affect any election.

Only three days left! I left comments against a proposed new requirement that Americans would have to show a passport, DL, or state ID that proves they're citizens to register to vote. Many states don't show citizenship on these IDs, and tribal ID wouldn't count. www.splcenter.org/take-action/...

This sounds familiar.

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

A thread I needed today

Mamdani continues to have the best campaign ads ever

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.

Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”

There’s a lot to be upset about, and I don’t advise putting your head in the sand, but it is really bad for your brain to be mad all the time on a purely physiological level. If you possibly can, take time to put down the mad. It will help you think more clearly and remember why you’re doing this.

Update— DHS Asst. Secretary Tricia McLaughlin just doxed the 13-year-old who was taken by ICE, sharing a copy of a police report on X with his full name and photo visible. She’s trying to prove the disputed claim that he had a gun. I’ve reached out to the city. I will not be sharing the post here.

Openly is the only change. So much of this conversation is disingenuous because these "The young white conservatives say horrible bigoted things" scandals happen annually and every time the claim is that it is different. They made afterschool specials about young white supremacists in the 90's

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

Thunberg: "if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors."

Scoop: Trump & Patel are expected to announce they'll reallocate money to pay FBI agents. Except they're doing that without congressional authorization. And it does nothing to help investigators who need cash to pay informants, translators, lab techs... @notus.com: www.notus.org/congress/fbi...

Okay so a I have a true little story about how the episcopal church funded the local BPP chapter’s ambulance program and all I’m saying is, Episcopalians: they may surprise you!

After years spent there learning the craft of journalism, I could not imagine a world where officials at the Indiana University Media School ordered the school newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student, not to print any news. Yet another sad development at a diminishing program. READ: loom.ly/kVhquyk

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

The one good thing about the time we’re in is it *should* now make crystal clear for the doubters how the a significant faction of the Republican Party has cynically deployed “colorblindness” to further an explicitly racist agenda. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot. The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

If Mike Johnson "hasn't seen them cross the line," he's not looking.