Note: the city of Broadview has imposed a curfew on protest here outside the detention center. Free speech hours (even in the "allowed" area boxed in by cement barricades here) don't start until 9am.

I didn’t want America to go fascist. I think that is very bad. But I take some solace in the fact that we got such stupid, petty fascists, the sort who order an in-person meeting of military leaders not to execute a large-scale purge, but to make them listen to him wax philosophical about gender.

The democratic leadership is stuck in a time loop from 2012

When the recipe calls for "a chili' (and you've picked ten different types in your garden this afternoon....) Når oppskriften sier 'en chili' (og du har plukket ti forskjellige typer i hagen i ettermiddag...) 🌶️🌱

146 environmental defenders were killed or disappeared last year

🚨 EVACUATION DRIVE and we're matching £1,500/$2,050 - please share 🚨 We got evacuation funds for four families, but we MUST help two more to escape the north of Gaza. Every minute's wait is death. ANYTHING helps. We have a week, but let's do it sooner. 0/8000 chuffed.org/project/hope...

Let's keep Juno connected, everybody! ko-fi.com/junostump venmo.com/u/junostump

The people wondering "how could anyone who isn't a professional escape after a high profile daylight assassination" are forgetting two things: 1. Cops are bad at their jobs 2. The FBI used to be somewhat better at their jobs and were recently gutted by political layoffs

"We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s." - Charlie Kirk www.wired.com/story/charli...

I had NO IDEA that the head writer of WKRP was trans. I’m near the end of a rewatch and there’s an episode that shows a trans woman joyfully declaring that NOW she can be who she really is, and continuously portrays Herb as the fool because he’s got an issue with it. In 1979!!!

Khristofascist Kirk Korpse is in the news. Oh what a fucking tragedy.

Remember the Gaza Humanitarian Fund? The shady American nonprofit run by a Christian Nationalist that was given full control of food aid distribution sites in Gaza? Its parent organization GH solutions hired members of an American white supremacist biker gang to run security for the all the sites.

“Either vote for me, the guy Trump endorses and is trying to rig the race for, or Trump will take over your city” doesn’t make the most sense to me

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, says he was denied a meeting with career intelligence workers because Laura Loomer objected. NOTE: This visit was 𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 and 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥. Who is feeding such information to Loomer?

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, says he was denied a meeting with career intelligence workers because Laura Loomer objected.

He’s finding that he’s got a taste for mass murder now that he can actually do it with no consequences.

RIP CBS News

I think we're now up to part № 74241.

All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.

Illinois has laws against sharing data for immigration enforcement. It’s one of only 2-3 states that have such robust rules preventing collaboration w ICE. I believe it’s one of the reasons that we’re in month 8 of the Trump administration continuing to talk about but not act on an ICE surge

I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.

Buried 35 paragraphs in: "Violent crime in Chicago has dropped significantly in the first half of the year, according to official data released by the city. Shootings are down 37% and homicides have dropped by 32% compared to the first half of 2024, while total violent crime dropped by over 22%..."

Once again, America is shattered by another horrific school shooting. This morning at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, two children—just 8 and 10 years old—were killed during a school Mass. Read our statement: www.newtownactionalliance.org/naa-press-me...

Matty Yglesias personifies the trolling, soulless fail-upward engagement hounding pseudo-intellectual brunchlord bullshit that has devoured modern American media

What if scientists hadn’t waited until this point to speak about politics Every time I see a headline like this, my brain just shouts Like what if scientists hadn’t sat around silently watching everyone around them get attacked Maybe the fight on campus would have gone differently

It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...

If they expect the meteorologists to say that Trump can control hurricanes with a Sharpie, I think they're not gonna have much success in hiring

One must be cautious when walking in the garden at night. Almost walked through this. #AmGardening 🌱

"Smartmatic has included Pirro’s internal communications in its filings to argue that Fox personalities were motivated by loyalty to Trump — not journalism." www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-sta...

here's today's post: "insane dictator wanna-be hosts batshit European leader playdate" — just another perfectly normal day in the White House. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

SCOOP — Members of DC National Guard are preparing to carry M17 pistols, multiple sources confirm to me. This follows earlier reports that the guard reversed course and would soon be arming members in DC. Now we know they’re making sure they meet requirements if/when the order to arm them comes.

See, Gaza isn’t a genocide because they’re also bombing and starving international reporters.

Vance in lockstep with Homeland Security on all of this ethnic cleansing ideology. bsky.app/profile/theb...

I've been pruning my tomato plants regularly this year, in the hope that I can keep them somewhat under control. They're finally starting to ripen. Started harvesting today. #AmGardening 🌱

I'm not doing well. I'm bursting into tears at regular intervals and I'm continually exhausted. I'm still grateful for many things, including every bit of support of any kind from everyone. Study of roses, watercolour on Arches cold pressed, referenced from a photograph by @nrloven.bsky.social.

The Tampa PD is filled with violent stupid pigs. #ACAB

The most recent version of Ubuntu includes a change of the default document viewer (like PDF, etc.). It's no longer "Evince," but a project forked from it called "Papers." I cannot stress enough how much "Papers" is an utterly unusable dog turd of the software world. Thank you.

Here’s part 1 of this week’s Better Offline. I walk you through a radical new idea: make fun of CEOs, tear down their legacies and push back on their empty promises. A great listen if you hate Sam Altman. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

More evidence that honey bees are detrimental to native biodiversity in North America.

When I’m trying to doomscroll politics but JD Vance won’t stop humping my chair

Today I harvested the garlic flowers that I allowed to go to maturity. The little bulbils inside will be planted this fall. Next spring I'll harvest the scapes, then dig up the small bulbs for re-planting the following fall. #AmGardening 🌱

Every word. EVERY ***FUCKING*** WORD of this 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

One of my favorite Bob Dylan lyrics, from "Sweetheart Like You," seems appropriate to share today: They say that patriotism is the last refuge To which a scoundrel clings Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king

I think it rocks that when Democrats win by dramatic margins they’re like “Let’s do a healthcare plan written by the Heritage Foundation and not include a public option” and when Republicans win it’s just 4 years of the Temple of Moloch from Metropolis