The thing with Trump is that he folds under the slightest pressure. Which is why it’s so infuriating that so many people make zero effort to push back on him.

Outside the CDC, people are chanting “USA, not RFK.” They are fed up with having one unqualified person dictate the nation’s health. #USANotRFK

Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods

"Let me exercise my role as G7 chair" -- Carney steps in to stop Trump from taking more questions

I signed the final bills Melissa Hortman shepherded through the most narrowly divided legislature in the county. All of them bipartisan. We debated, we found common ground, and we compromised. That’s how democracy should function.

We are witnessing an epidemic of the abuse of the power of the federal government, including the criminal system, to target and intimidate Democrats and their supporters. Trump will escalate this until people stand up to him. It is time we all have the courage to peacefully stand up and say enough!

Similarly, from the "To Save Tech, Listen to Black Women" SXSW panel @digitalsista.bsky.social @safiyanoble.bsky.social and I proposed in 2018 ... But no. It's almost like tech doesn't want to get beyond its history of aiding hate, racists, sexists, nativists, and anti-LGBTQ+ bigots

The billionaires are SO STUPID. How much are they responsible for how stupid this timeline is? This is just one post of a thread.

Remember too that a number of the people fighting those fires saving lives are incarcerated adults. Incarcerated teenagers, as well.

Mental health tip: If you're suffering or dealing with chronic anxiety due to the LA fires (or intensely struggling for whatever other reason), research has shown that playing TETRIS can help prevent PTSD! I'll repost in the am, but JUST remembered this:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed the first case of severe bird flu in the United States: A patient hospitalized in Louisiana

If 77 -- SEVENTY SEVEN! --of the smartest people in the world so publicly denounced me as unfit (subtext "dummy"), I would die of shame.

Just Elon Musk sharing an AI image of the New York Times engulfed in flame as a white nationalist Pepe mascot celebrates newfound influence.

This is literally true. School vouchers were pioneered as a way to help white supremacists send their kids to a new wave of private "segregation academies" created expressly for the purpose. From my book WHITE FLIGHT:

Yes! and @digitalsista.bsky.social is another one I followed from Twitter days who exposed this kind of network. So many good folks there did so much hard work on this and got ignored.

While looking for a light skin man. He could just walk.

Seeing the mug shot of Nick Fuentes made my day. 🍿

Assigned media is great and everyone should read their reporting. They are doing good, on the ground, trans-centric journalism.

Thanks! And for safety-related issues, social threat modeling provides a good framework for looking at how functionality's likely to be exploited -- medium.com/a-change-is-... cites @digitalsista.bsky.social as well as Coral project, which @blackamazon.bsky.social was involved with.

Much of the food you eat this holiday season comes to your table from the hard-working hands of farm workers who harvest our food. #WeFeedYou

I was already excited to click on a news story about Rudy Giuliani having a meltdown in court today and YELLING at the judge. But nothing prepared me for the courtroom sketch

Drake is suing because he lost the dozens

these yt boy narratives are always annoying to even listen to.

Apartheid Clyde.

It's interesting to me to see a title like this. But more importantly, the pic chosen. apnews.com/article/neig...

For those that don’t know every Monday night on GCPR.Live myself and @dowdarrow.bsky.social host a radio show for victims and survivors of gun violence. Join us tonight at 8 CST as we interview Dion Green!

As I’ve been saying for over a year: If your business model doesn’t work without violating the law, you’re not in business — you’re in organized crime. Great reporting by @elainelow.bsky.social. theankler.com/p/tv-writers...

another woman is dead because doctors refused to give her standard medical care AFTER SHE ALREADY MISCARRIED. abortion bans are killing women even if they don’t need one. porsha ngumezi should be alive.

and it's hard to argue "no you have to be a good person to get laid" when we see terrible, abusive men are in relationships all the time. they resent that toxic masculinity hasn't worked for them in the same way.

I have been thinking of this piece so much the past couple of weeks, with folks getting big mad about the Bluesky "echo chamber". "Giving more space to conservative thinkers is not going to make our polity more diverse and vibrant. It’s going to fill our public sphere with prejudice and ignorance."

Engagement Farmer Posting Picture of Two Pedophiles (2024, dir. brett ratner)

Thanks to our excellent guest, @mollymckew.bsky.social. She's brilliant, and we should all listen to what she has to say:

🚨 THREAD: Trump’s DOJ plans are alarming and demand immediate action. He’s not just firing investigators—he’s using the Department of Justice to rewrite history, hunt for non-existent evidence of 2020 fraud, and punish those who didn’t pledge loyalty. Here’s why Congress MUST act 🧵👇

reupping: 'Not being fully free': The toll of everyday racism on Black Americans Analysis: Black Americans have grown tired of being forced to make the case for their citizenship, their humanity, their very survival — again and again and again. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

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1/ Since our story with PBS NewsHour came out last month, comments flooded into Polk County Sheriff’s social feed demanding consequences for Det. Melissa Turnage, who sought criminal charges against Taylor Cadle for lying. We recently learned she was disciplined after we started asking questions.

"I can prove white people are in danger because I'm a virgin" is the funniest take of all time

I have shared the same bathroom with Sarah McBride on several occasions, and she never once made me uncomfortable. She did however help me fix my makeup. That congresswoman knows how to blend her foundation, which is more than I can say about Donald Trump.

I think people should mind their own business but also think the government should make it mandatory for people to mind their own business. Does that make sense? What side of the aisle would I fall on for this belief?

finally a BP in the same job of HUD. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...

Linda McMahon, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for education secretary, has been accused in a lawsuit of failing to stop a ringside announcer for World Wrestling Entertainment from grooming and sexually abusing children in the 1980s and 1990s.

Like clockwork

Please explain how a dem can say this? Opposing DEI initiatives does not make you a white supremacist. Conversations and demonization like this are a big part of the reason we got our a--es kicked," he continued.

NEW: Trump selects Russ Vought, architect of Project 2025, to lead White House budget office Vought helped Trump craft plans to purge the Justice Department, deploy the military to quash civilian unrest, & massively expand presidential power over spending www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

*laughing in BW* you misspelled WW.

and @jonfavs uses the coopted message to promote a story that avoids talking to or with peers of color but instead gives a white person the idea of "interpretation" without actually mentioning hwo the city lost over 30000 Black people to Covid

Like others, I fear the threat of government retribution, political vengeance and an angry right-wing mob. But I know that giving into it will only strengthen Trump and undermine the future of our democracy. Trump wants us to be scared. He wants us to give up — gradually and then suddenly.

Trump and his entourage want fo claim a mandate for the most extreme elements of their agenda. But a lot of people who voted for Trump were delusional about what that agenda actually is, and voted for him believing he wouldn’t do those things. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...