Reading this is making me relive my own laid-off experience, which was horrible but cotton candy, kittens and rainbows compared to DOGE. Let Virginians remember: The cruelty is the point. #VOTE2025

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“The network audits show how regularly police in other states, often cooperating with federal authorities, utilized Flock data in Virginia for immigration-related purposes. Roughly 9 in 10 searches were conducted by law enforcement in other states.”#ICE #immigration vcij.org/stories/virg...

“In other words, nine days from today, any ability to charge Comey for any alleged false statement he may have made at that hearing will lapse.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

📌 This.

Measles cases up 31-fold in the Americas region this year The Americas region have reported 11,313 cases so far this year. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...

Tribune visual journalist Stacey Wescott has been making pictures in and around Chicago for 26 years. On Friday, she documented former Marine Curtis Evans carrying an American flag amid a cloud of gas in the middle of a confrontation outside of an ICE facility. Here's how she captured that shot.

I’ve now had two opportunities to change my last name, and I’ve never regretted not doing it.

The Pentagon just dropped a memo saying reporters have to sign a pledge promising not to obtain or use “unauthorized” material. That word—unauthorized—is so vaguely defined it could cover basically anything. It’s a direct attack on journalists just doing their jobs. This is bullshit.

Once again, Trump is out-Nixoning Nixon. "The ouster of Siebert on Friday is far more serious, because this involves the president of the United States essentially ordering the prosecution of a political rival." cardinalnews.org/2025/09/22/h...

Flock cameras give me the creeps. We’re not the UK. vcij.org/stories/stat...

This story, of equal or greater important to the Kirk shooting, is getting no material media coverage. The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

Mike Osterholm-led Vaccine Integrity Project makes its YouTube debut Tuesday, reviewing the science behind COVID, flu and RSV immunizations. This is a worthy counter to RFK Jr’s fool’s “gold standard” of science. www.startribune.com/robert-f-ken...

If the RFK misinformation circus today is getting you down, tune into the @cidrap.bsky.social podcast or start reading “The Big One.” I am a few dozen pages in and the scenarios take me back to 2020. What have we learned?

Proud of my senator!

Are we going the way of Argentina? @planetmoney.bsky.social has been on a roll with great (scary) insight. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

This statement alone is enough to nullify any and all obligations to accept the legitimacy of his authority.

Sadly, there are documented cases:

DJT, our Disinformation President, has yet to make a statement. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Just drove by an estate sale at a house that had a big Trump sign in the yard last fall. -1 🤷‍♀️

Trump, the National Guard, and the District of Columbia: What You Need to Know at www.justsecurity.org/119178/trump...

The visual I gagged over was American military personnel bending to lay out an actual red carpet for a monster war criminal to step on, grinning. Unbelievable.

More than 30 years as a US diplomat, ultimately Ambassador, served under R&D Administrations- nothing in my experience can remotely compare to this humiliation of our country.

In the abstract there's no inherent connection between crypto and being a malevolent, transgressive asshole. But the two things run together with remarkable consistency.

once again "ai" is just many underpaid overseas contractors in a trenchcoat and every once in a while sam altman pretends to be scared of its awesome power in order to drum up more funding

Premium Newsletter: The enshittification of AI has begun. With GPT-5, OpenAI has cut access to all other models, reducing the value of even their $200-a-month subscriptions. They join Anthropic in screwing their customers over by making their products worse. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

Every two weeks I get a dose of sanity from this podcast.

Study: mRNA #COVID vaccines cost-effective for US seniors, and under some scenarios, younger adults Vaccination of all US adults may be attractive not only for its expected health gains but also for its economic benefits, the authors say. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

Absolutely, @mtosterholm.bsky.social and @cidrap.bsky.social present the actual facts!

The biggest story on #NPR right now is the one they’re not broadcasting. :(

You may not feel it, but the ground beneath you may be sinking. In fact, the surface of California’s Central Valley is nearly 30 vertical feet lower than it was a century ago. Why is this happening? Because our planet is rapidly drying. THREAD/

6/ It’s a vicious cycle: Pumping for groundwater is dehydrating our world. And yet, people take more water from underground due to need, when climate-driven heat and drought are at their worst.

Oh happy freaking day! Release money for adult ed, GED and ESL, of course! Education IS economic development, duh. Breathe. #highered #communitycollege #ESL #ELL #GED

Scenes from Good Trouble Lives On in Roanoke last night. Only one turd in a truck hassled us, singing, "Ice, ice, baby!" out of his window as he drove by again and again. #goodtrouble #indivisible @roanokeindivisible.bsky.social

So I went on a long and freeing walk with my Gemini sister, @bethmacy.bsky.social. Around every bend, there was an adventure! Batteries are recharged! (DM me for my planning spreadsheet. 😆) #camino #caminoportuguese substack.com/@bethmacy/no...

Liberty University in the news again. www.glamour.com/story/the-li...

youtu.be/kbjNyAyfVcU?... #noKings "Jan6 still stings"

Historically one of President Donald Trump’s most loyal demographics, evangelicals are divided over just how far to go with immigration crackdowns. religionnews.com/2025/06/09/i...

You need this story today, trust me.

I met the sister-in-law of Edvin at the Roanoke #NoKings rally today. Edvin has lived here for 35 years, paying taxes and bought a house. Most recently he’s been painting new Publix stores in Richmond. He goes to gas up his vehicle, ICE swoops in and he’s back in El Salvador. This is not my America.

#NoKings #NoKingsRKE

Let's do this, America. #NoKings

Is there a better song for today than "American Tune," as truthfully adapted with banjo by Rhiannon Giddens? Weary to the bones, we are. #NoKings #NoKingsRKE youtube.com/watch?v=67py...

Toldya.

yep! unpaywalled:

We must respond to the systematic dismantling of public health. Our lives depend on it.

So, we lost Prince, Tom Petty, and Michael Jackson yet this guy goes on.

Lately it can feel like every step forward after #georgefloyd has been a step or 10 back. But, 5 years later, police reform in Virginia is HAPPENING. No surprise that Henry County charts here either. #FOIA reporting FTW by @vcij.bsky.social @muckrack.com vcij.org/stories/as-v...

More Irish connections to the #Camino de Santiago! www.irishcentral.com/roots/histor...