Naked children torn from their mothers and tossed into vans. U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties. Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed. This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda. It was always about cruelty.

Some #birds for this Friday morning

They’re baaack. 🤣 Repairs and all…

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

Republicans control the shutdown. Top to bottom. For example, construction of Trump's ballroom will continue as "essential" during the shutdown. But the stuff that helps you will not. abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

Beloved librarian @mychal3ts.bsky.social will take the helm as host of the reboot of 'Reading Rainbow' when it returns this Saturday, October 4! 🤩🌈 Read more: https://bit.ly/3WelbAT

A damp Thursday morning selection of #birds and friend.

You can be mad at Jim Comey for what he did to HRC in 2016 and also decry any potential indictment as bullshit. You can do both.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

I haven't had time to read up on the latest shooting, but I'm going to post my incredibly radical position that a shooting is bad no matter who did it and no matter who was shot. Stop trying to crack the code of a shooter's motives and focus on the one thing they all have in common -- the guns.

I have been slacking with my daily #bird pictures. But, I am back and the rain is not slowing my visitors down.

Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Just deal with people being different than you.

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

Obviously, there's no scientific link between Tylenol and autism. These political statements harm pregnant people and those with autism. RFKj's entire rhetoric around autism is anti-science and stigmatizing. It's not based in reality. Don't let their pseudoscience fool you.

Reminder: You don’t need to report your activism on social media. Some accounts are being highly critical of what they see/don’t see happening. You don’t owe them anything. Focus on what you can do and let them yell into the void.

THEY DON’T CARE: 1. That Tom Homan took $50,000 bags of cash 2. That their party is protecting all the Epstein pedophiles. 3. That no one is safe from gun violence anywhere. WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT: 1. Punishing innocent brown people for crimes they did not commit.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

CBS parent company Paramount canceled Colbert to win approval from Trump's FCC to merge with Skydance. Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo — and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna. See how this works?

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

The left was derided for promoting a cancel culture because they went after predators and those who abused their wealth and power. The right is canceling anyone who dares speak truth to power. Both sides are not remotely the same.

BREAKING: ABC has pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air indefinitely following comments he made in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. Trump’s FCC chair earlier appeared on MAGA propagandist Benny Johnson’s show and threatened to revoke ABC’s broadcast license if they didn’t take action against him.

JESUS: "Feed, clothe, and provide shelter to the homeless." CHRISTIANS: "Nah, let's just KILL them instead. Glory!"

Three HBCUs have had to lock down their campuses today. What about THIS political violence? Where's the condemnation from the right and from the media?

Loomer deleted the post on the left this morning

Thursday morning #birds and friend were already very busy at the feeders today.

The GOP doesn't care about kids. They take away their food, healthcare, vaccines, and education. They protect pedophiles and traffickers. Hundreds and hundreds of kids are killed by guns each year and they just shrug but lose their minds when a far right MAGA adult is murdered.

Unclench your jaw. Relax your brow. Go get a drink of water. See if you've taken your meds Eat something. Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing. Because you do. You're a wonderful person. And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through

Can we claim to have a functional Constitution (or Congress) if a public university instructor who teaches that gender and sexuality are spectrums can be fired simply because a student says that "according to our president, there’s only two genders"? www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

It is busy on the #bird feeders this Wednesday morning

Tuesday morning #birds

Monday #birds are enjoying the humidity drop

Sunday #birds are still a little damp, and a upset that I did not refill this morning while it was pouring

Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said RFK Jr. has ordered officials to hide tuberculosis cases, even as three active TB cases were just reported in Maine. He’s also suppressing bird flu reports. Pandemics don’t start with viruses they start with secrecy. RFK Jr. must resign now!

Saturday morning #birds and friends enjoy are prepping for a big storm with possibly of tornadoes- in Connecticut. This is not normal

If you didn’t know, now you do! Sunny days are headed our way!

Friday morning #birds and friends enjoy a damp morning

Trump DOJ is now looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns. Worth noting that the Nazis did the exact same thing to the Jews. Also worth noting they have no plans to ban right wing white supremacists from owning guns, even though they commit a vast majority of all mass shootings.

Ummmmm...... what? What about all the white men? The majority of mass shooters have been straight white men. How about we look into that?

🚨8 New England & Mid-Atlantic states have formed their own coalition to address CDC shortfalls led by RFK Jr misinformation & lies: Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania. What State is really missing? NEW HAMPSHIRE! vtdigger.org/2025/08/28/w...

holy shit dude using a fake deployment for wildland fire crews from a fire that’s only 13% contained during peak western US fire season to detain multiple firefighters and remove the crews from the fire is a scale of evil & dangerous I can’t fully communicate to people not from wildfire regions

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

The president is using the military to dismantle cities that didn't vote for him The president is using the military to distract from women speaking out against his and Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuses. We are not living in ordinary times. Extraordinary responses are called for.

Think re: the malignant thinking behind this decision: U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services is baring nonpartisan groups such as League of Women Voters from offering voter registration info at the end of naturalization ceremonies. It's as if they don't want new citizens to exercise their rights.

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

Wednesday afternoon #birds

NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...