I keep seeing friends who aren't thrilled that Word is newly enshittified. At the risk of sounding like one of Those Guys, there is a magnificent, full featured, entirely free alternative called Libre Office that works on all platforms. I've used it exclusively for over a decade.

Federal agents shot two people during a violent and chaotic immigration abduction. That’s the actual headline here

With the convenient side effect of keeping a handful of people from bleeding the world dry.

Same energy.

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Link was one of the early members of Bluesky, he's a lawyer and disability advocate. He pointed out Jay, the CEO of Bluesky was following a noted transphobe and was critical of this. Then he was suspended. When people were like WTF, it was said his ban was due to posting a Charlie Kirk reaction meme

Love how file sharing was framed as stealing but a comparable situation where the only meaningful difference is that tech industrialists get rich is not supposed to be stealing. So it's only individual consumers who steal, and who they steal from is not artists but in fact tech industrialists.

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The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

"let them eat jet fumes"

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

The “Reverse Emails” - a complex move in which the Paper Of Record systematically erases the most important news about 🇺🇸’s descent into corrupt & criminal authoritarianism from the front pages - has been going on since 2016 & receives a 9.85 from the East German judge. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/

Oak Park resident Scott Sakiyama reports feds pointed weapons at him across from an elementary school today. They then arrested him and took him to Broadview. While in custody, he saw agents texting in a group chat called "Chiraq Team 2." Full testimony: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GqB...

Our government tried to send a planeful of unaccompanied minors to Guatemala without due process. Fortunately a judge was able to block it before they took off. What fucking monsters the United States has become. Trafficking innocent children. www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbsn...

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Boost. Harassment is wrong.

Someday...

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Me, this morning.

We are hundreds of miles on the interstate past Nixon's crimes that look like harmless school pranks by comparison. Presidency-ending for anyone else since WWII. At a minimum, an immediate SecState resignation. But we've decided nothing matters for this One Special Boy & his authoritarian playmates.

for transphobia to really take off as relevant, the fringe had to push it to more than just the heritage crowd. and you don’t do that with missionaries from the westboro baptist church, you do it with the new york times and the atlantic and people who are just asking questions.

feels relevant to thread this back in here. active bigotry feels the same everywhere; elite media being completely captured to launder active bigotry into mainstream daily conversations is how you get to 36% of society suddenly asking “well, hang on—*are* trans people maybe subhuman?”

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Note that Vance is also a giant coward, so he puts this on bluesky to do some juvenile trolling that is also a betrayal of his oath but doesn't dare put it on Twitter, where it might make some of his supporters do the 'are we the baddies' routine.

Listen! Do not let your fight against fascism stop with today’s No King’s protest—let today start & accelerate! Register to vote, volunteer on a campaign, get involved locally, donate to a candidate you believe in, run for office—democracy is not for bystanders! Democracy needs your courage!❤️✊🏽

Welcome to Nazi AmeriKKKa

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring. Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

🧵I just called @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office again to express my horror & rage. I also called my State Senator @harmonil.bsky.social & State Rep Camille Lilly. If you're in IL, please call. Pritzker's offices: 217-782-6830 217-782-6831 312-814-2121 312-814-2122 Find your IL state electeds ⬇️

Attorneys are taught that precedent is our foundation When we bring a case, this is our roadmap, and our bible-so if we stray from stare decisis, there’d better be an extraordinary reason why Then the MAGA Supreme Court started overturning bedrock rulings And now the rule of law is crumbling

Newsom is not fit for higher office; exhibit C:

Great piece here (and why AI regulation is one of my top three priorities). No surprise that Newsom caved to money, it’s why he should never be president.

I don't care that it's obvious; I just love this song. Rock on, Ace... 💖 youtu.be/DXeeY9D9u94?...

#ttrpg #dungeonsanddragons. Brain: you should write serious RPG stuff. Me: But… the Kruller…

It's estimated that there will be tens of thousands attendees at the No Kings Protest on Saturday around Southern California, and it's important to protect your community by reviewing your rights and being prepared in case violence breaks out. Full guide: lataco.com/protest-prep By Sheryl Turner

important note from libcrusher:

Unconstitutional. Massively unconstitutional.

sound up

#1,2&3! STFU!!! Please Watch! Advice from experienced National Lawyers Guild attorneys youtu.be/nWEpW6KOZDs

Since the other person blocked me, I am going to share this tool once again so hopefully more people can see it. If you're taking photos at a protest, make sure you're blurring out people's faces unless you have their permission to post them. And scrub your metadata 🙌

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.* You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Did you know the Supreme Court said you can protest outside an elected official's house, indefinitely? It's true! You can just show up in front of their houses and hold signs decrying their actions, and be there when they get out of bed, when they come home, and when they go to bed!

Gavin vetoed more trans health bills. Thanks buddy, fuck you too.

this is why i’m irritated by “they can’t refuse to follow orders, but they don’t want to be there & some of them are just picking up litter & helping with groceries & not working” while meanwhile whole kinds of people straight up are like “i am scared to go outside because i might get disappeared.”

If @riverodder.bsky.social were a badger, he'd look about like this. 💕