Pritzker needs to take some sort of demonstrative action against this. But nothing he does will stop this. Still, liberal voters and elected leaders are confronted by the fact that the police are not democratically accountable. They have no interest in protecting you or your rights from the feds.

Hey @jamesgunn.bsky.social is the “Top Trio” in Peacemaker a reference to “the Big Three” from the old school Fox Comics (ft. blue beetle)?

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Great piece on how privatizing and vouchers change the essential facts about public education. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content...

Tim’s right. WTF

in a sane world, this would be an impeachable offense & articles of impeachment would be drawn up tomorrow. just as Jimmy Kimmel’s case wasn’t about Jimmy Kimmel - but about state sanctioned censorship - the Jim Comey case isn’t about Jim Comey. It’s about the rule of law versus authoritarianism.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

This social media intern needs a raise.

“They all came out of the woodwork…” youtube.com/shorts/cMUre...

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: In Defense Of Mass Censorship https://theonion.com/in-defense-of-mass-censorship-1848673776/

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

This also applies to the cowardice and complicity of corporate media, entertainment, and publishing. (Panel from my adaptation of LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME. Get it & other books while it’s still legal to do so. Do you think that’s a joke?)

•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump •CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump •ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller •MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions” •FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

The president of the United States just took a TV show off the air. That’s what your “free country” has come to.

He’s still employed.

What America is going through is not unusual in historical terms. Plenty of examples like it today elsewhere in the world. What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.

The quiet part of the question "how can we design for people not like 'us'?" is often "without testing with or hiring people not like 'us'"

Yesss! Look @snowdaylearninglab.org !!!!

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

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So, in 1930s Germany most of the popular papers were either burned down, outlawed, or otherwise shut down. Often a paper was simply co-opted by the NotSee Party. Democracy Dies in something something.

Apparently, the only thing that Americans agree upon is: Release the Epstein Files.

Look up Horst Wessel to understand what’s coming.

Coincidentally, I cannot recommend highly enough reading Raymond Williams’s “Culture & Technology” chapter in *Politics Of Modernism* with other people at the bitter end of this hype cycle.

“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton

As Orwell said, “The party demanded…”

Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

😕

This is the bad place.

🤩

Chicago keeping art alive:

Brilliant

I, for one, am glad the country didn’t place a mentally deranged, physically disintegrating, septuagenarian at the helm. Or a woman. Can you imagine?!

GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Facts are stubborn things… Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas…. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? — He isn’t focused on crime & violence. It’s about an expression of authoritarianism.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

For those of you who don’t like to open links or don’t have instagram. I downloaded the video for you. If you haven’t heard about this guy before don’t scroll past it, his name is Jesse Welles. I promise you won’t be disappointed. #jessewelles #wellesmusic #thekaelosproject #kaelos #wordshaveweight

Well isn’t this lovely. Opera star sings Habanera (from Carmen) in the airport (?) What a terrific voice. #opera I don’t care if they’re staged, we need more profl free public #music and #art.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

This argument is an Absolute Cinema... 👀😅🤣 #cat #catday #bluesky #animals

She didn't even mean to tell the future ... she was just calculating the most plausible outcomes of racism in America

Fuck that Fuck this Fuck them Fuck him and Fuck us for not doing anything about this when we clearly can and should.

Fox News' Trey Gowdy: "The only thing that can give us any modicum of peace at all is those two children are with the person who loved them the very most, the person who created them, that being Jesus. That is the only thing that can possibly give parents in the future any modicum of peace."

This song remains incredibly relevant in 2025. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes ft Teddy Pendergrass performing "wake up everybody"

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down Should have been gone long ago What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground How can you run when you know?

Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job

Please make this a #1 hit song and viral #trumpisapunkassbitch