for five bucks a month I'll tell you why this is purple

I was fired from my gig as a primary and middle school drama director on Monday. We live in frightening times. Take care of each other, and reach out to me if you want to talk 🧡

I promise them this will not turn out like they hope

I think more people need to understand that the RICO charges in the Cop CIty case being dropped and the terrorism charge being dropped in the Mangione case as practical, real world examples on how the success of authoritarian overprosecution is not a foregone conclusion

I was a Christian pastor for 14 years, that's why I have no idea what the Pentateuch is

I'd say it's clear now that Roberts is the worst CJ in American history. Taney is the only competition but Roberts has done more damage

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

why not fuhfinitygazillion

Mayor Villaraigosa, last night your campaign had an ad on KTLA, which is a Nexstar station - Nexstar is the company that initiated this “egregious violation of the 1st amendment" One thing you can do to help protect free speech is refuse to advertise on Nexstar and Sinclair stations

NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

Welcome to the future www.404media.co/ai-generated...

"In the name of 'fighting antisemitism', the Trump administration is publicly making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish public intellectual in the country today."

Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

What “fascism” means Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DO6EvDz...

Shameful and cowardly. Trump wants the USDA to stop collecting data on food insecurity because he knows hunger will spike after his Big, Ugly Bill kicks millions of families off food assistance.

that last line, just... these people's ethical frameworks (if extant) utterly confound me

oh fuck, I didn't know he spawned

who chopped this onion directly into my eyeballs

Good morning to the men who are doing the work of dismantling the toxic structures installed in them by violence!

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

i thought bluesky would appreciate this

timeline cleanse

*clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

OLIVER: “F*ck! Sh*t! — It was fun while it lasted, guys.” John Oliver says he’s lucky Warner Bros. Discovery doesn’t have to worry about the same things as CBS & ABC — then realizes the MAGA billionaire Ellisons are planning to swallow them too.

“Sted Sarandos” cryingggg what Netflix show is he working on

TIMELINE CLEANSE youtube.com/shorts/AOQpd...

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

The United States is a serial killer

Amazing mashup of Call Me Maybe with NIN’s Head Like a Hole. So so good. [kottke.org]

Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation. More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

"Fifty-three percent of Democratic voters said they preferred politicians described as similar to Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani, while 33 percent favored those similar to Schumer, Jeffries and Pelosi. Fourteen percent didn’t choose."

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

it would be so great if the Democratic Party could join reality as it exists, not as they wish it to be

just speaking as a layperson, what a fucking catastrophe to put in writing that Trump is “absolutely immune” for anything — those are the only two words he sees

Lord help me, I read this whole essay and whew boy First of all, nowhere does NYT mention that New Atlantis is funded by Ethics & Public Policy Center, a right-wing interest group. It just says the author writes on “reform” 😒 /1

shit ain’t over til it’s over

Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.

Just saw this super fashy ICE recruitment ad on TV, making the pitch to Chicago cops.

Charlie Kirk devoted a significant chunk of his career to getting people like me fired.

I don't think I've ever been so keenly aware that I'm watching people do and say the kinds of things they'll be lying to their grandchildren about

Bearing a cross on wheels is a great metaphor for Christian oppression

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It strikes me that quite a lot of people knew for the last year that the guy running our horrific deportation squads took a bag with $50k in cash from undercover FBI agents investigating corruption, and it didn’t get out until now.

So: Fascism is bad The First Amendment is good Genocide is an actual fucking crime And also: It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore

Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.

There's no more fitting tribute to Charlie Kirk than the one they're giving him right now: nominally Christian survivors on the same grift clambering over one another for more publicity, capped by the shambling, lurching embodiment of everything they long to be. You couldn't write anything meaner

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

Forever disturbed by the way the cops are at the beck and call of the most irritating white person you've ever met as an armed hall monitor