Everyone right now:

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ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

It’s just under two weeks since I posted this, and now this post sounds so quaint. These last couple of weeks have felt like a goddamn YEAR!!

That is what was relayed

I have no words. Things like this are trickling out after the fact, but it shows how desperate they are to inflict terror on this poor city. You know who does things like this? Regimes intent on committing ethnic cleansing.

Dr. @timothysnyder.bsky.social has written many powerful works, but this one stopped me dead in my tracks when I first read it. Please take the time, and share widely.

A little too on the nose for the current circumstances we find ourselves in.

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

Morning.

It is deeply counter to the whole very basic concept of this nation that its citizens can be taxed and then have funding withheld punitively because the person exercising the power of the presidency decides on a whim to do so.

The killing of an American citizen by masked immigration enforcement agents is almost enough to make you forget Epstein or Venezuela or the fact that we just passed the anniversary of January 6. But you know, it's possible to remember all of it at once

Friends — Spread these everywhere. Share them. Use your feed to get the message out.

Barely into 2026 and now we’re starting a goddamn actual military conflict with another country. Without Congress having been able to have a say. The illegality is INSANE.

As with everything he says, this is wildly uninformed. Formula keeps getting better and saves lives. And modern research indicates that outcomes are roughly the same. There are reasons to breastfeed but your child isn’t suffering if you don’t

So. Damn. Pointless.

This is some grade A Ferengi level energy. “Females” 🙄

A real president does this. Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸

This is literally insane to see. A lot of kids and adults are going to suffer from this. But, you know, Republicans.

"My mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.' To this day, especially in times of disaster, I remember my mother's words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers — so many caring people in this world." Fred Rogers

Ah, yes. The President of Peace is at it again. Stoking conflict left and right.

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement. At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes….Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” —Anne Frank, 1943

A gentle warning from Carl Sagan

Trump’s and Hegseth’s words “should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that the civilian leadership intends to use the threat and actuality of violence to infringe on Americans’ constitutional rights.” @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/01/t...

The constant gaslighting this administration attempts is truly something to behold. Pretty sure we got put on the human rights watchlist in no small part due to how immigrants have been treated the last year.

I’m so heartbroken to hear this. Dr. Goodall was one of my earliest inspirations. I became a scientist in no small part due to her, and others like her, making it possible for women to more broadly break into academic spaces. The world has lost someone very special today.

No, I’m pretty sure they REALLY don’t.

The rules of engagement and proper gentlemanly behavior by officers and enlisted soldiers aren’t supposed to be empty concepts. If we don’t hold ourselves to account, we’re no better than animals.

The government is in the verge of shutting down due to the failure of the party in control of the WH & both houses of Congress, but Trump is headed to the patriarchy-fest “War Sec’y” Hegseth is holding today for a photo op instead of working for Americans.

Hegseth’s “warrior ethos” speech is genuinely unhinged. The man’s overcompensation and projection efforts are the stuff of legend at this point. 😬

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Trump claims his UN speech received excellent reviews for some inexplicable reason. In reality it was a complete embarrassment for the US. The Mirror perfectly summed it up:

Really can’t stomach this considering the day and the last 24 hours (and last couple weeks). God, when is this going to stop?

Sanity prevails! Yet again so relieved to live in California.

In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.

Headlines like this make me all the more anxious about my son’s immunization future. We have his first (two month) course of shots due in October. I’m going to be a nervous wreck until he’s fully vaccinated. Feels like we’ve fallen through the looking glass. www.thebulwark.com/p/hhs-kenned...

Me since January 20th

Putin wiped the floor with him,THEN ate him for lunch. I curse this country’s persistent racism and misogyny, I really do. The country would’ve been in a much better place with her as President….

Rolling out the red carpet for a dictator who bombed a maternity hospital.

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Me, everytime SCOTUS issues a new shadow docket opinion:

John Lewis didn’t wait for permission to demand change as an activist, or congressman — and neither will we. He taught us that nonviolent direct action is a moral force, and that we must confront injustice wherever it lives. Join us July 17 because #GoodTroubleLivesOn

If only there was research out there to showcase the toxicity of fracking water…Oh, wait. THERE IS.

Someone, please explain term limits to her (and not the kind her boss would like to become the norm).

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost