Grassroots movement folks WERE onsite during the March. They actually cut the March short because they were pushed out by the local groups. Also, those little bitches had a permit. 🫠

One year ago today

A. People in DC did not know those fascists were planning to march. B. They marched for 15 minutes and then turned tail. C. People in DC would have been out there had they known they would be there. D. Do people know how people in DC (who actually live in the city) roll?

Governor Walz deployed Minnesota’s National Guard to DC this week to support Trump’s corrupt and destructive “Freedom 250” celebration and enable this regime’s ongoing occupation of the capital city. There’s nothing patriotic about that.

As a white person it's probably not my place to say this, but everyone sharing that picture of patriot front on the train with that poor woman just makes me think everyone is participating in resharing participatory propaganda made for the white gaze and not doing anything more useful

If y’all have *any* doubt about whether your HVAC filter is clean enough, change it. Changed ours this morning and the difference is remarkable. 😳👍

It's just illustrative that as angry as you think people are about what is going down, they are even angrier. DeGette tried to hunker down and weather the storm rather than going toe to toe with her challenger and people noticed. Nobody should get too comfortable in their incumbency.

This Sears Free Spirit bike was everywhere, for instance.

Patriotism can be seeing the promise of a nation and then working your ass off to reduce the gap between its stated ideals and its reality

Patriot front marching from Union Station right now. White supremacist and neo-fascist organization. Cowards.

Jesus Christ this photo...

“I am calling on average Americans everywhere to peacefully exercise your First Amendment rights en masse every day until this administration is removed, and our democratic republic is restored.” — USAF Major Jason Watson, just before being arrested for protesting at the Capitol on July 01, 2026.

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It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.

1. How much is this insanity costing taxpayers? 2. With the oil supply and strategic reserves being so low, isn't this burning lots of jet fuel that the military needs for other operations? I suppose using up their fuel for this ridiculous display is better than using it to bomb other countries. 🧐

“The Trump family’s earnings, experts said, have moved him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey” {gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...

And expanding solar. Even at this heat I’m sending excess energy INTO the grid, dammit! I’m doing my part!

Detainees at the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in New Jersey are going without air conditioning during an extreme heat wave. Families say the AC is off in one of the housing units, potentially leaving hundreds of people trapped in sweltering heat over 100 degrees. www.nj.com/politics/202...

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Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.

Never forget about Diadie Camara, a young man so desperate not to be returned to slavery that he tried to plead asylum in one of the most corrupt countries on the planet (even worse than ours under Trump). www.reuters.com/world/africa...

"Send the Mexicans home, make the blacks work." The "philosopher" of the tech-fascist movement

Bad air is the norm during fireworks on the 4th n DC. Going from 10k-20k shells to 850,000+, on a humid night with little wind... should be interesting. Why 2026 is primed to be smokey: www.capitalweather.com/dcs-firework...

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Hello Bay Area drummers, Do you want to play in an 80s band? Are you excited about the prospect of playing Wham and Van Halen in the same set? Are you available to practice on Thursday nights in Oakland? Are you a nice person? If you said yes to these questions, hit me up in the ol' DMs

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Brazilian authorities detained Czech, German, and Russian nationals attempting to fly to Europe with hundreds of poached cacti & seeds. The critically endangered plants, native to southern Brazil, can take up to 10 years to mature. @nandawenzel.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay. mongabay.cc/1yWvkB

good friend of mine has multiple pride things out in front of her house (in a neighborhood plastered with reelect mike johnson signs) and has gotten multiple notes in the mailbox thanking her, including one from a closeted teenager signaling virtuous beliefs is good, actually

When I was 13, my grandparents gave me stock in Hershey’s candy as a bar mitzvah gift because I liked candy. I had to sell it this year when I married an FDA employee. Because, as we all know, the federal government is very concerned about financial conflicts of interest.

I did not realize how crooked an outfit "Track AIPAC" seems to be. They appear to list J Street contributions as being part of AIPAC or functionally the same thing. Their "individual expenditures" list seems to include a lot of giving from people who are simply Jews.

And I will say again that the library workers and patrons deserve more than this. Stop playing word games.

So, in Alberta, you have to show a confirmation of female sex in order to register your daughter for youth sports. Nothing required for boys. It has been associated with a decrease in registration for girls participating in sports. No change in boys. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.

5/ “I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism,” he said. “Therefore, I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.”

Rufo is a racist propagandist and engaging with him in this format should be disqualifying. It’s right up there with “he’s doing politics the right way.”

Paying attention to anything Ezra Klein says is a mistake. He lost the plot a long time ago. Disgusting.

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

By definition the disability rights movement is intersectional. If you aren’t or haven’t experienced a disability, you will. Building and ordering our communities to benefit the broader disability community is perhaps the most basic civil rights fight we can take on and should.

Have mercy. 19thnews.org/2024/09/kama...

"Amy Coney Barrett has two adopted Black children from Haiti AND she helped clear the way for Haitians to be stripped of protection and thrown into the mouth of deportation. That is not a contradiction. This is how whiteness works." #Adoption #Adoptee #Haiti #Haitian #Immigration #TPS #SCOTUS

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we all make jokes about how woke 1 went too far but woke 1 was extremely, absolutely correct about how much these people were dogwhistling, absolutely correct about the direction they were going in, absolutely correct that how their beliefs were not compatible with a free society

A major part of why I'm never forgiving every Trump voter is that we could have done 250 with a woman president, daughter of immigrants, married to a Jewish man. The prefect summary of the American Dream. But the fucking burger, you see. God fucking damn it. fuck them.

A loud and painful reminder that COLLEGE-EDUCATED Black women bore the BRUNT of job loss last year cc @epi.org.

People pretend to be mad at *the techniques* of DEI. But they are not mad at the techniques. Because when done correctly, DEI techniques are completely legal, fair, and common sense. They don't advantage any one group over another. They simply remove unfairness. It's *the outcome* that racists hate

At the Faith and Freedom gathering yesterday, Speaker Johnson told a story that concluded w/John Quincy Adams saying, "Duty is ours, results are God's." But I spoke w/historians who oversee the Adams family papers. They…couldn’t find evidence of Adams saying that. religionnews.com/2025/06/23/o...

I've been thinking about this a lot. First, this is absolutely a homophobic attack on Buttigieg's family and should be treated as such. It's also an example of how CPS works all the time. I keep seeing everyone horrified that the kids were separated to be interviewed. That's what they do.

Alito’s standard for racial discrimination in the TPS ruling, that racism has to be the *sole* motivation to count as discriminatory, is so deranged that it could arguably cover neither Jim Crow nor slavery. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

what in the actual fuck texas storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...