The neat thing about the ultra-viral Czech beaver dam story is that it’s just a particularly vivid example of what legions of unsung beavers do every day — help us solve our environmental problems without our gratitude or acknowledgment, and in spite of our attempts to kill them! Beavers gonna beav.

So, not good?

Happy First Day of Fall! Fall officially began at 12:19 PM MDT today! 📍 Aspen Vista Trail, Santa Fe October 5, 2024

I am here for the Governor of Illinois quoting Karis Nemik's manifesto from Andor.

watching kimmel tomorrow

Never mind

What are the names of the U.S. Navy officers carrying out these orders to serially bomb civilian boats that pose no threat to their own vessels, killing everyone aboard? Surely they’ll want to take personal credit for this honorable service and perhaps wear a little campaign medal on their chest.

pissing off my friends on this San Francisco trip because i won’t stop growling “IT’S A WARZONE” in a right-wing propaganda voice while we walk around some of the most beautiful city streets in America

Good doomerism: "on our current trajectory, we're fucked." Bad doomerism "we're fucked."

This morning's front page @chicagotribune.com. Photo by @staceywescott.bsky.social

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

Andor, a Disney+ show about resisting fascism, just won 5 Emmys. Three days later, the network caved to it.

Most important is the righteous humane invective, but this is also a perfect essay glowing with a gold vein of Orwell.

#SciArtSeptember Day 14: mimic • I'm fascinated by how parts of our anatomy mimics shapes in nature such as the inner ear being shaped like a snail shell. nave of vibration (2017). #SciArt #embroidery

If we somehow make it through this current nightmare to a future more perfect union, I hope history records the steady, clear, well-grounded contribution of Jamelle Bouie to the fight and to our understanding of foundational American truth.

Look at that. And New Mexico is not a rich state. Just one that figured out some priorities.

“The [centrist Democratic] demand I was hearing them make was that the spending bill needed more bipartisan negotiation. It was unbearably lame.” (Ezra Klein, stopped clock, momentarily telling the correct time) Fyi @murray.senate.gov

Justice Sotomayor, not mincing words, also says that today's decision will lead to the "creation of [] a second-class citizenship status" for Latinos, who now will have the burden to "carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely."

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

I honestly do not care about some pundit’s opinion on what a government shutdown may or may not look like in an election a year from now. We are beyond that. Whatever can be done to slow down this speed run towards authoritarianism is necessary and should be done.

More people in DC than in Wyoming or Vermont. Coming up on Alaska and North Dakota. Per capita, we pay more federal income tax than any of the states. (Incl NY, CA, CT, etc.) Voice in Congress: Zero. Have never before felt as much DC-specific patriotism—across race and class—as now.

/3 ….among the leadership, the elite. It requires someone to push back against populist scorn for civilization. When we lose the critical mass of leaders who support civilization, and when other leaders are too weak to fight, we get barbarism.

The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because — wait for it! — Black and Brown people live here. This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.

Artists and writers might not be so opposed to AI if every major AI advocate did not take such pains to announce, as loudly as possible, "I am an asshole." deadline.com/2025/09/ai-t...

“I think that they’re scared shitless of Trump— period. Every Republican is.”

Hate when 'The Internet' stokes baseless conspiracy theories about a president's health

Los Angeles— One arrest outside the MDC. Situation still volatile

The Atlantic wins the stupidest headline of the day contest in the face of brutal, intense derp competition.

hopescrolling

Even if he didn’t name his dog Zevon, I’d love this guy.

The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.

More recent and better link to “Big Crime,” a new song from Neil Young that was played live for the first time on August 27 in Chicago. The official audio was recorded during the sound check. Lyrics included in link below. m.youtube.com/watch?v=8B9A...

🧵 Thread “Your government is out to kill you .”

It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives

Just muted “Cracker Barrel.”

even as the world is completely falling to pieces im still able to worry everyone’s mad at me which really shows the resilience of the neurotic human spirit

The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

The state decided it wants to crush just one guy who *didn't do anything wrong*. They picked Kilmar Abrego Garcia because they thought he'd be an unsympathetic target for their abuses. They put in little effort and it turns out he wasn't, that made them look bad, and they're taking it out on him.

Let’s be clear about what is happening: This man is being punished — and disappeared — because he embarrassed our pretender king. They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.

once again, i'll suggest that perhaps the reason the broad public thinks democrats are weak is that when confronted with situations that demands that democrats loudly and proactively stand up for their values, democrats shirk from the fight

I couldn't put Murderland by Caroline Fraser down. Best book I read all year. And an absolute must-read for anyone from the Pacific Northwest.

A lawless and illegitimate regime and its minions are not entitled to the protection of the rule of law.

UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.

me last week: “There was, and is, no external crisis facing the United States. But for reasons of both personality and political ambition, Trump needs a crisis to govern — or rather, to rule. And if the actual conditions of reality will not give him a state of exception, he’ll create one himself.”

Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland. “Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement. fox17.com/news/local/k...

Nothing pisses me off more than getting a fundraising text from Democrats talking about how they’re fighting fascism… Because it’s such bullshit. We’re not idiots. Everyone knows most of them aren’t doing jack shit right now to fight back.

Do not give the Gestapo a moment's peace. Do not let them believe for a second they will ever be respected, trusted, or seen as anything but invaders.

it is incredible to see the extent to which the Sensible Centrists are simply incapable of grasping the very simple and obvious fact that the president's concern with crime is a pretext, and that to deny claims of a sudden epidemic in crime is not to say that crime is nonexistent.