This…Trump’s behaviour is now so obscene that mainstream media in the US - and I might add the UK - have decided it must be hushed up.

OK, so our "Secretary of War" currently has two big priorities: (1) murdering innocent fishermen in the Caribbean, and (2) endangering the lives of commuters in Southern California. Perhaps, we are seeing one of the downsides to having a drunk TV talk show chatterbox running our military.

in place of a king, you would have a queen! dark, but also beautiful and terrible as the dawn! treacherous as the sea! short of legs and close to the foundations of the earth! all shall love her, and despair!

Late for Caturday - The Window Watchers

Some assorted reminders as we enter the weekend: 1. Posting illegal content is a violation of §3.B of the Bluesky terms of service. 2. Violations of the TOS may be reported through the app. See TOS §6.A 3. The Hatch Act (5 USC §7321 et seq) is a law.

Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

If I’m not mistaken, the founders of antifa have arrived.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals  You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Compare n' contrast Young Republicans to Black children (byline reads "CPE Editorial Staff" - it me.)

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor. According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position 👇 (Published Dec. 2024)

Every democrat should be talking like this. Not the feckless mueller time version of this that we’ve had for years, but actual promises of actual consequences As long as it goes unpunished we’ll never be free of this

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.” Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

This literally brought tears to my eyes. It's a beautiful tribute, a political promise, and an amazing example of how easy it is to show respect for our trans sisters and brothers. Trans rights are human rights.

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

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood. I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

the republican majority leader with a clear vision for the democratic party

I had the day off today and cleaned my garage instead of doomscrolling. Please clap.

"I am a proud woman of faith, and I know that faith and fear cannot share the same space. And so today I am not fearful, I am fearless, and as my faith teaches me, no weapon formed against me shall prosper." - @newyorkstateag.bsky.social

I love Balloon Fiesta so much.

A horrifying must-read from my colleague Kristen Gelineau on the starvation that has gripped parts of Myanmar after the dismantling of USAID.

The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.

The tank's role is to draw aggro

Felt compelled

Why is the President of the United States trying to communicate with the Attorney General about government business via direct messages on the social media site he owns? And is a direct message on a privately owned social media site kind of like a private email server?

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Challenging red-state governors to take seriously the breakdown of the Constitution and the Union isn't something to be done because there's much realistic chance they will defect. It is something you have to do first to make plain their betrayal and the implications of that.

FYI: There's a Nemik super-edit that's…weirdly powerful? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf60...

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Cozy Caturday

“While the growing mutualism between tech and government strengthens, it may leave some consumers behind, particularly women concerned about surveillance and the exploitation of reproductive health data.”

there's been too much fighting on here - let's rerun Trump Is Secretly Dead this weekend, that was fun last time

Dark days don’t scare us. They prepare us. Thank you @crockett.house.gov for reminding us, the systems that were built to break us are crumbling, and it’s our chance to build something new.

Let’s give these motherfuckers bribing and kidnapping children as much attention as possible

I’m supposed to believe both that trained and paid journalists couldn’t see through Project 2025 spin but also they’re the people best positioned to tell me what’s happening and how I should feel. Why? They failed at their jobs by their own admission.

The sky was pretty adorable this morning.

A central problem that we still don’t talk about enough is that nearly all of our elite societal institutions - universities, media outlets, corporations, corporations, political parties, etc. - have proven increasingly unable or unwilling to screen out lying grifting charlatans like this

At the risk of hyperbole these really may be the most horrible people to ever live.

We're dealing with evil people, and I hope to God there's a way to hold them accountable one day.