I’ve not written a new thread about my situation this week and there’s an iceberg of reasons there but here are highlights I have new symptoms: Cellulitis of the left foot up to my knee, 1/6

More than a century after the Irish, Germans, Italians, etc. helped make this country. But tribalism and bias die hard.

Indicting Democratic candidates on transparently pretextual charges is the latest sign that things are getting very bad.

This and the Chicago indictments make it abundantly clear that the rule of law is dead at DOJ. The agency has been fully weaponized to smite Trump’s enemies and shield his friends.

Federal conspiracy charges because an ICE goon had to drive a little slower. What an absolute joke.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) has just been indicted by the DOJ over participation in protests against ICE at its Broadview facility in Illinois. This is a brazen weaponization of the DOJ to target political opponents with bogus charges. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The SNAP fight is actually a recapitulation of the entire purpose of the shutdown. There's a contingency fund, Trump is required to spend it, but he's not, usurping Congress's power of the purse, essentially so he can do it again with normal appropriations whenever he wants

“Chicago has long been a laboratory for policing. From the repression of labor movements in the early 20th century, to COINTELPRO surveillance, to Jon Burge’s torture regime... the city has been central to testing and refining state violence.” -Ilā Ravichandran truthout.org/articles/thi...

Host: Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, 19 states have banned or severely restricted abortion access. Mothers living in states with abortion bans are nearly twice as likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or shortly after

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

“and .15 percent ‘have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.’” “OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said earlier this month that ChatGPT now has 800 million weekly active users.”

I'm starting to see multiple threads where bluesky folks are trying to raise money for their local food banks because of the shutdown of SNAP starting November 1... can we get a thread going for people to find each other? Drop your link and put your city in front, let's coordinate city by city!

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

Salting the earth as you slink away in failure. Just a public servant to the very end.

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All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.

Basically all US policy is at this point about indulging Trump’s irrational obsessions, petty grudges, and corrupt grifts, and then taking secondary and tertiary measures to mask the consequences of those policies.

Thanks to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for giving us another wonderful book to read during this time and for an extra letter that arrived with this. @akpress.org did a great job packaging and delivering this on time. thank you all, I look forward to reading this and sharing this with my comrades.

people who earnestly try to argue that blocking certain accounts deprives u of important opposing viewpoints are assuming these certain accounts are posting in good faith which is a dangerous assumption tbh

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Holy shit. Buckingham Palace stripped Prince Andrew of his titles and honors. THIS IS THE CANARY IN THE COAL MINE FOR THE EPSTEIN FILES RELEASE. The Royals know they can’t cover it up anymore. The damn is finally breaking!!!

I can understand the much-needed break given the breakneck pace at which they've been legislating over the last eight months, oh that's right I'm sorry they let Trump take over all appropriations, tariffs, and military decisions while taking 17 recesses.

the institution of trial by jury might be the most robust one left at this point

"What if, in the process of trying to ban AI products that quite actually encourage children to kill themselves, we wind up banning chatbots that help children cheat on their homework, diminish their propensity for critical thought, and lead to the development of other forms of AI psychosis?"

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.

Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast. She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Send every ICE employee to the fucking Hague.

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

a lot of people are finally waking up to the importance of the 3rd amendment. As a 3A absolutist, i think it should be illegal for soldiers to be quartered anywhere in this country. they should be camping under the open sky at all times. all military bases and barracks are unconstitutional.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

If we regain power, what can be done to prevent this from happening again? Could we remove the federal government's ability to engage in domestic law enforcement?

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.

The omniforce is accountable only to Trump: they ignore state and local guidance, or court decisions. Forget about knowing the identity of the official. Now you may not know which agency he works for, or even if he is an agent of the state.

She knows how to sell a product, but that product is not "news" She's not afraid to take on a mob, but that "mob" is "most Americans who are not billionaires she constantly flatters" She's an entrepreneur, if that's a synonym for grifter. Imagine being "amazed" at the hostile reaction to all that

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000. (Published June)

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

I’m sorry but the fact that this is not everywhere is kind of malpractice

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent. Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.

What does Pam Bondi know about the grand jurors who indicted Comey and how does she know it?

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Based on Bondi’s inability to give a denial or even an ordinary sounding non-denial, I would conclude Sen. Whitehouse’s volunteering of “you don’t know anything about that” is not supported by the circumstantial evidence.