Every dog owner: ‘What’s that in your mouth?? Omigod, drop it, drop it!’ 😱 This Greek (Boeotian) terracotta dog appears to have a red piece of, um, meat in its mouth. I’m sure he earned it (‘Hey, that dead guy over there wasn’t using this.’) 1st half of the 5th c. BCE. #MetMuseum 📸 me 🏺

1/ THREAD ; You might see the below image going around being circulated regarding the Union St fire in Glasgow. It's AI slop. pure AI slop. Relatively convincing if you don't know the place, but 100% Fake. Don't share it - debunk it. Lets go into more depth....

Some people think that every lost war is lost because pencil-necked politicians set limits on what soldiers can do. Some wars are lost because politicians are unwilling to think about the limits of what soldiers should do and what it's possible for them to do.

Strongly suspect that as this war and its negative effects escalate, we're gonna see a massive increase in disinfo and unsourced "news" - starting right the hell now. PLEASE don't share "breaking" news from rando or disreputable accounts who provide no links.

How one tiny card can make a difference action.everylibrary.org/the_life_cha...

"Like all propaganda, the Cass Review is not intended to stand up to scrutiny. It is intended to make a bang, a media blitz across the country saying trans healthcare is bad, which can then be used by the government to justify further restricting access to gender-affirming care."

People should be REALLY scared by this, it's normalising refusing healthcare to a section of the community for entirely ideological reasons with absolutely no medical reason

There's a conversational thing maga chuds do that I call motivated incuriosity. They will say thing X, which to normal people is something very, extremely, cartoonishly, obviously connected to thing Y. And then act incredibly confused frustrated when you bring up thing Y.

ICYMI!!!! This comes out TOMORROW, last chance to preorder and get the exclusive ebook

I'll add beware of posts that say "Source: "reputable site"" but don't actually have the LINK to it. If it's a screenshot of a post and it has that, find the original and check the source. It's become really common to spread disinfo, knowing you will be screenshot so no one will notice REAL link.

Over the past year, Trump has pushed nearly 7,000 workers out at the Social Security Administration and reassigned thousands more away from field office work. The result? A swath of "ghost offices" that are open in name only after being drained of the staff required to function.

New — My case for why it’s not enough to call this “Trump’s war” when violence abroad implicates us all, and how we don’t need hindsight to know that unequivocally opposing this war will be the correct (and only morally defensible) choice:

During the liberation of Dachau and Buchenwald in 1945, many of the camp guards tried to escape by disguising themselves as prisoners or civilians. Newly liberated prisoners recognized several guards immediately, and you can imagine how that ended for them.

The 14th Amendment is clear: The Constitution, not the president, defines who is a citizen. Birthright citizenship is central to who we are as a country, and we're fighting to protect that right at the Supreme Court.

Roman anti-cheating gaming accessory! This Roman ‘turricula’ (dice tower) was used to ensure a fair roll of the dice! 🎲🎲🎲 Dice dropped into the top, tumbled over sloping internal levels, and appeared randomly below. From Froitzheim, Germany, AD 300-400 📷 LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn #Archaeology

"'The court finds that there is significant public interest in ensuring the religious freedom of all citizens and the state’s position that religious freedom is somehow less important than other exceptions in the abortion law puts the court in an untenable position...'."

The only possible justification I can think of for having gender markers on our ID is so that the person looking at the card can glance up and go, "Yeah, that tracks." So it should *look like what you present as.* (Lots of NBs in my family so also 🤷‍♀️ on the whole "convenient for observer" thing.)

Major news: A @nytimes.com story today reports on developments in our lawsuit, filed with @modernlanguage.bsky.social and @acls1919.bsky.social, opposing the illegal dismantling of the NEH. The article covers newly released discovery in the case. Here’s what discovery confirmed: 🧵(1/7)

My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.

Democracy Docket has grown dramatically. It publishes seven days a week. It has several daily and weekly newsletters that go out to more than 400,000 subscribers. Its social media accounts reach millions. Its YouTube channel has more than 650,000 subscribers. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/six-...

We have the meme for that!!!

It's impossible to tell the Selma and Bloody Sunday story if you erase Jimmie Lee Jackson. It's literally sanitizing the story. There's also the story of Amelia Boynton. Famously photographed beaten unconscious. She would reprise her Selma March with President Obama at the age of 109

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

LA City Council’s City President Marqueece Harris-Dawson says he has been pulled over four times while a member of the council; the most recent was this week. He missed a committee meeting because of the stop, according to him. Among the questions: “how do you have this vehicle,” according to him.

It’s not enough for Democrats to say Trump’s war rationales haven’t been fully explained. The problem is that they are patently false. trib.al/3KARfN0

Time: Asked if Americans should be worried abt attacks at home: I guess. Daily Mail: The White House blocked release of FBI/NCTC warning of elevated risks.

Public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration

There's a thing that I say on here over and over: the GOP can persist or the Republic can persist, but not both. And most of the time when I say it, I'm talking about the GOP's abandonment of the US Constitution itself. But the GOP's abandonment of facts is also part of this.

23 year old Ruben Ray Martinez’s last words? “I’m sorry sir”. ICE shot him 3 times and killed him. Renee Good’s last words? “It’s ok I’m not mad”. Alex Pretti’s last words? “Are you ok?” These are the people DHS calls domestic terrorists. Threats. Aggressors. Abolish ICE

If you’re a (new) writer and haven’t heard or taken the advice that you should read your work aloud to yourself, just go and listen to some well-written audiobooks and compare them to some not-so-well written ones.

🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/

NEW: Believe it or not, it’s that time of year: the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is next month. Liberals have a huge opportunity: if they win, they can lock down the majority of this court thru 2030. That means they’d have it in the next presidential race, a big democracy guardrail. Share:

An investigation from Transitics has discovered something highly alarming: Indiana AG Todd Rokita has been making a list of trans people. Following in Kansas’ footsteps, he’s preparing to revoke trans people’s documents by declaring them “falsified records.” transitics.substack.com/p/indianas-a...

New Jersey, Delaware, and other nearby states have increased their minimum wage, but Pennsylvania's has been stuck for 17 years.

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

Today I want to talk about Jess’ Rule and Martha’s Rule, two new initiatives across NHS England that I think are really important and you should know about. Tl;dr: if your symptoms are not improving or getting worse, at home or in hospital, you have the right and Drs the responsibility to review.

WHAT'S UP EVERYONE, ANDREA LAFLAMME IS ON BLUESKY NOW Sick of Graham Platner's Nazi bullshit? Looking for a younger candidate than Janet Mills? Lucky for us, the great state of Maine has more than two people!!

these food recalls and exposures are going to keep happening under this administration. He changed policy and cut funding in his previous tenure and Biden never fixed it. Now, it is worse. Share widely to protect people.

Sharing to let people know the article being spread on cities at risk in a nuclear war is misleading/deceptive. Welcome to chatbot journalism.

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

Just mentioning this to those who may have missed it a day or so ago—new at #Ebooks Direct: DEAD AND BREAKFAST: THE SCREENPLAY. WARNING: contains supernatural horror, the city of London, greedy billionaires, dead people, cold iron, Queens in jeans, and steel-belted radial bacon. 😏dduane.link/DandB

Again I hear someone claim that a UK GRC requires you to make a “legally binding” promise of some kind. NO. The GRC statutory declaration is of your _intention_ to live in the acquired gender. You don’t later commit perjury by using the wrong bogs. Where does this myth come from?

SCOOP: A prosecutor who helped build the Georgia election interference case against Trump is running to unseat the appeals court judge whose ruling helped bring the case to an end. Will Wooten will challenge Trent Brown, who wrote the opinion disqualifying Fani Willis. Me for @ajc.com (link in 🧵👇)

BREAKING: @aoc.bsky.social just came out swinging in the House E&C hearing against dangerous & misguided "age verification" legislation (aka online ID checks) that would force everyone to upload government ID or get a face scan before accessing content or posting online. Video incoming. This is big

CALL TO ACTION: Today Pam Bondi announced a new rule that would stop state bar associations from investigating misconduct by lawyers. We can work to stop this rule by writing comments stating our objections. youtube.com/shorts/434iX...

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

I truly do think all of the "Noem out, Mullin in" posts and stories are failing American democracy right now! Trump is announcing his nominee. That's it. If the Senate majority wants to confirm him, they're a part of this—even after knowing what they know now. And that matters come November.

"Your phone is a constitutional right. Use it. … We are all domestic terrorism indicators now, which means the fear is the only thing left to fight, and the law is unambiguously on our side."

Ted Lieu showed our protest video in today’s Senate hearing.