Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago. He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.” “How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

incredible how transphobia is such a reliable bellwether for all the other terrible opinions someone holds

Us: “We want cheaper food” Them: “Tariffs!” Us: “We want healthcare” Then: “Gold ballrooms!” Us: “abolish ICE” Them: “Six figure signing bonuses to new ICE agents” Us: “We want affordable housing” Them: “A UFC ring on the White House lawn” It’s almost farcical except it’s costing real lives

This IS a great headline and also: Seattle! Get the word out! Someone was exposed to rabies and needs to seek medical care IMMEDIATELY!

Incidentally, next weekend (October 4-5) is the first New Mexico Sacred Harp Convention since before the pandemic. Here in Santa Fe! You can come! yes you, I don't care where you are or if you have ever sung before

Think of this as equivalent to removing the merit system from government employment. Your tax dollars deployed to serve the goals of a personalist authoritarian system. All the talk about banning DEI because of merit shown to be nonsense when they also remove merit-based processes.

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting: Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial 100%

This is the kind of INCREDIBLY PRACTICAL AND HELPFUL stuff I love seeing elected politicians doing. Never believe them when they say they can't do anything. THEY CAN. AND SO MANY DO. Celebrate them. High five, @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social.

If your elderly relatives started telling you about AI videos they had watched saying that "medbeds" would fix everyone's health problems, you'd start to look into assisted living and power of attorney. Trump has the nuclear codes.

An even vaguely capable media would cover Trump’s “medbed” post extensively and critically. This is really extreme stuff that shows how far Trump has declined.

By 28 September 1939, Poland had been defeated and divided up between the Nazis and Soviets as per the Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact . The western area of Poland was annexed into the Greater German Reich. The Soviet Union occupied the eastern section... 🔗 buff.ly/qU7BrzL

This reporter helped expose the falsity of ICE's narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez. His work is a perfect example of why we don't have secret police. Journalists have a constitutional right to cover protests and their aftermath. Release @peoplesfabric.com immediately.

They're going to try to overturn Obergefell and end marriage equality. Eyes wide open, folks. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

“It’s the spending of government money on health care that irks the modern GOP…If the ACA subsidies lapse, insurance premiums will spike for all the people now getting that assistance, for an average increase of about 75 percent per person.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

NEW: Yet more businesses and organisations warn the Government that the EHRC’s proposed trans bathroom ban is unworkable. This comes after our open letter from 650+ firms urging them to reject it. Reach out to your MP, and ask them to make sure that Ministers listen to these concerns.

The unsung heroes of America: lifelong agency workers at Social Security, Medicare, VA and so many other agencies who are staying there to ensure the American people are taken care of. They didn’t have to stay. They are being worked into the ground. Thank you with all of my heart.🙏

If you would like to contribute to gutter kitten’s care, she will be with Spicy Whiskers Rescue! Run by a friend of mine, she pulls from the “unadoptable” euth list at city shelters or friendly strays from colonies!

Went for a little pujo stroll and dropped into another bookstore--not a trace of my book again, so I may as well shill the N. American edition of THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR again here. It's an uncategorisable mythic realist tale of a fading extradimensional refugee diaspora in 90s/00s Calcutta:

A MAGA nutjob owns CNN and CBS and is getting control of TikTok. Twitter and Facebook are controlled by wingnuts, as are the WaPo and LAT and a majority of local tv and radio stations. And yet this reality rarely comes up in discussions of the Dems’ messaging problems or lack of popularity.

Californians! Harass the ever loving fuck out of that governor of yours. Make sure that bastard signs every one of these bills!

Baccarelli "cherry-picked and misrepresented study results and refused to acknowledge the role of genetics in the etiology" of autism and ADHD, Judge Denise Cote wrote in her opinion. www.scrippsnews.com/health/scien...

“It’s yet another way this regime practices eugenics. By refusing disabled people the accommodations they need, they’re targeting them for elimination. People die in ICE custody every year, but we often don’t hear about them. Their stories go untold, their pleas unheard and the eugenics unopposed”

So good to see this work - I was definitely one of those who left the field as there were just no practical ways to combine family and fieldwork. I’m so impressed with today’s generation! #PregnantInTheField

next week, Canberra! events.humanitix.com/book-launch-...

"It was a dangerous habit: once policemen stopped being civilians the only other thing they could be was soldiers.” - Terry Pratchett (Snuff)

Disabled people can’t “just move” to escape fascism. Moving requires resources, money and health that most of us don’t have. Many countries won’t accept disabled people, especially if they have universal healthcare. People are trapped, so we must fight for them.

This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Better answer to this👇 Here's a small bag of sweets. I'm going to hand out 5 each starting on the front row. Is that going to be fair to everyone? You at the back? No, I'll run out? HOW DO YOU KNOW?

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

The upshot of the breathtaking speed of our descent is there's no illusion that if we concede a little now, we save anything down the road. The second we caved on trans care and immigration, we caved on abortion, gay marriage, social security, and vaccines. No caving thus far has slowed us one bit.

The US president is not insane. He's lying. We have to start recognizing that there is a difference. He doesn't believe there's a war in Portland but saying that dissent is war increases his power. Thatcher called it 'being economical with the truth' Trump called it 'alternative facts'. Lying

Today is International #SafeAbortion Day. Access to safe abortion protects the health of women and girls. As with all other health services, women and girls should be able to access safe and respectful abortion care, when they need it, without fear of harm, punishment or recrimination.

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

The Right is nakedly trying to make it illegal to call them fascists which is about the most obviously fascist thing you could come up with.

It's odd that Republicans can do the mental gymnastics to link Tylenol to autism, but not link gun deaths to guns.

Heads up: The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle Book 1), by @nghivo.bsky.social, is on US ebook sale for $2, as pointed out by @galatfemme.bsky.social. I've bought some for random giveaway.

he's not "predicting" it, he's expressing his selfish vision of nobody doing anything he doesn't want (not that we should care what any of these comemierdas predict anyway, but since some people do, sub-heads should be clear). Also who's going to monitor all this surveillance? #Infomocracy

Voting as Fire Extinguisher

PLEASE support local journalism and a free press!!! their work is crucial in these times unraveledpress.com/support-unra...

This is what happens when Trump, Dr Oz & RFKJR get together. Lies, lies, lies…

🚨 IMPORTANT THREAD 🚨 People are protesting the Broadview ICE facility tonight. This will likely be an extremely high-risk action. I caution you to consider your risk level before attending. I will not attend. Attendance risks your safety, but also the safety of Broadview residents + detainees. 1/6

Border Patrol agent talks about how he knows that the people he's arresting at this nutrition bar factory in NY are "literal street rats" who would "eat our kids"

There's no point keeping the government open when Trump keeps the money from being spent on it.

I feel very strongly that we must use the next three years to build a new opposition movement. I tried to lay out my reasons and what I think we need to do to make it happen. Please watch, comment, and share. youtu.be/_GUgnpAYMCc

The same guy telling you Portland is war-ravaged, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall and people were eating your pets in Ohio.

I urge members of the public to remain calm, stay safe, and document what you see with your phones and cameras. My senior team has also asked legal organizations to support monitoring on the ground.

Yesterday, the PA Supreme Court held that when a board of elections decides before Election Day that a mail-in ballot won't count because of an error, the voter has a right to know so they can vote provisionally. And that's why the GOP wants to axe them. Vote YES to retain. bsky.app/profile/adam...

Jeffries has pretty limited power right now. but he *could* remind people that Ds will be in majority one day, and that they will use power then to hold people accountable. people should be worried about obeying unlawful orders! they should fear going to prison or being exposed! 1