This is where the comparisons to 2020 really fail. That time was very tense, yes, but we knew who the enemy were and they wore uniforms. Here? They're fucking everywhere. That's the point.

Victor Manuel Diaz was taken from his community in MN by ICE, brought to a detention camp in Texas, and has now died. Like you and I, Victor Manuel Diaz was human being who deserved dignity and safety. He should be alive today, and would be if it not for this brutal regime. May he rest in peace.

“Parents are making impossible choices: declining surgery for their children, delaying emergency care, and refusing specialty referrals because they have calculated that the risks of deportation or family separation exceed the medical necessity." www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...

"Before I was even in high school, my image had been used for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). I’d been featured on fetish websites and Photoshopped into pornography. Grown men sent me creepy letters" Now online services like X do this automatically to everyone whose photo was ever posted online

Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.

Losing my mind at the Dems with their billionaire backers and powerful friends who have come up with the brilliant strategy that the party should adopt the policy positions of the avg MAGA voter — apparently ignoring that independents and swing voters even exist. Is this what $40 million gets you??

The DOJ is not investigating ICE agent Jonathan Ross for the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a top official said Sunday. The top DOJ official confirmed that an investigation is underway into Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

Policy can be negotiated, and smart people like Zohran can be convinced to change approaches if their current one isn't working. But you can't convince somebody to love the place they live and want it to be good for the other people who live there.

Unironically I think the reason so many people on social media who will never live in NYC have latched onto this guy is that right now people need someone who seems positive and happy. They don’t want to feel bad any more than they already do. He is the Great British Bake Off of elected officials.

I’m starting to wonder if looking genuinely happy and acting like you really love the city is a more effective way to campaign (and govern) than scowling about what a shithole the city is and how many more cops it will take to subdue it.

Tylenol during pregnancy is safe without increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability of offspring A new review of the evidence just out www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely. That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.

You'd be amazed how many editors, when I've tried to pitch pieces using that particular term, would not accept its use about anything currently happening in the US (though some were willing to go there, thank goodness).

ICE approaching a teenage girl and U.S. CITIZEN on her way to soccer practice and snooping around her car with giant guns is not making us safer.   All it does is terrorize our kids.

I am re-upping because I doubt the Greenlandic Inuit will be centered in the coverage of Trump’s imperialism, and also because some of us were called hysterical when we flagged this even before his second inauguration.

From my column of nearly a year ago, a reminder that Trump’s Greenland gambit is an attempt to steal an indigenous nation that is working toward its own independence: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/08/o...

NPR built a visual archive of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, showing exactly what happened through the lenses of the people who were there. In Chapter 3, we lay out a timeline of key moments throughout the day as the assault on the Capitol unfolded.

I know people believe that the Democrats are in the minority and can't do anything. I would encourage you to read about how, in fact, minority parties can be disruptive. If they want to be. You don't even have to read. You can just see how the Republicans acted during the Obama years.

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it's dope how we all know someone is going to kill at least a daycare worker and probably some kids soon but we have to just sit back and wait for it to happen because the venal sclerotic dipshits who are ostensibly the good, reasonable, compassionate ones just don't actually care, at all

Astonishingly corrupt government; I for one have been grateful to the AAP for calling out RFK Jr’s extreme, horrific, dangerous anti-science, anti-public health positions

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Failure to recognize this moment as part of the centuries long battle against white supremacist oppression is a dangerous denial, and a gift to the American fascist project. @sifill.bsky.social is right on.

Picking up your car from the bar the next morning isn’t a walk of shame—it’s a badge of honor. It means you made the smart call, got home safely, and kept the roads safer for everyone. Celebrate your choice, maybe with a cup of coffee.

we aren't powerless! never forget that outrage and pushing back works, even if it just buys time until we have more power. this is a marathon, not a sprint

AUTISM SIMULATOR FEATURES 1) People tell you you’re wrong about your basic internal experience for a couple hours “No, it isn’t itchy. The lights aren’t too bright. It’s not loud. You’re being too sensitive. It’s not that crowded. It’s not that big of a deal. It wouldn’t hurt you to look at me.”

20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

now you come to me and you say, "pobrecita chancleta, bring me justice." but you don't ask with respect, you don't offer friendship. you don't even think to call me catfather.

anyway medicaid paid for my top surgery and that saved my life so fuck these transphobes

I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill

So, to all the "RFK's got some good ideas" folks (Rachael Bedard, Leana Wen) and Jay Bhattacharya is "an excellent choice for NIH" (Steven Macedo, Frances Lee) and Vinay Prasad "will bring a breath of fresh air to FDA" (Adam Cifu, John Mandrola) groupies--you own this now too.

It is both deeply ironic and profoundly funny that all these overconfident maga chud dudebros are convinced they'll be at the top of a meritocratic system, when in reality they're actually the ones who've benefited most from what they themselves characterize as non-meritocratic factors.

Dress for the job you want (Bog Witch) not the job you have (Regular Witch)

Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post. We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does. Our members keep getting papers.

"quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically" Let's all make that a 2026 goal!

In honor of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social's legacy as a disability activist and writer, today we are republishing Bitch Magazine's Access Series, which was originally curated by Alice Wong. Worker-owner and former Bitch editor-in-chief Evette Dionne updated the intro to the series here:

Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.

Sen. Mark Kelly fears for safety. "It would be irresponsible for me not to consider that [Trump’s] words result in increased threats to myself, even to my staff, to my family." “It would be a rather irresponsible thing for us not to consider this seriously.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Zohran press conference is your regular reminder that the entire administration folds like tissue paper at the slightest hint of confidence and conviction, and thus the fact that national democrats are playing a game of capitulation and weakness is exactly why they're all getting away with it

I’ve never met an autistic person whose “behaviour” wasn’t completely logical once you understood their needs, their history, and their nervous system. We’re not confusing. People just aren’t listening.

Today is just one long demonstration of the One Special Boy virus that has consumed our polity. Immediate presidency-ending stuff for anyone else from at least Truman to Biden. We're not even pretending to care about the law or the Constitution or any of the norms or duct tape anymore.

evil woman wants access to affordable childcare for HERSELF

I know this lady's household budget spreadsheet goes crazy. I would trust her more with the budget than your average Pete Buttigieg or whoever

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

Technically, it's an aggravated felony sexual assault of a child, with harsher penalties put in place for perpetrators with younger victims. Also, ACTUAL MEDIEVAL HISTORIAN HERE: For non-nobles, the average age of brides from the Black Death onwards was...22.2 years old.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

There are two lessons from last noght, a local and a national. Nationwide, we see a mobilization of the Dem base and a rebuke of Trump’s vision. In New York—really a Dem-on-Dem race!—we see something more specific: the emergence of a new vision that contradicts the preferences of Dem leadership.