These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.  Looking forward to No Kings Day.

I want to see a real investigation into the idea that what role you play in a library is largely a function of the social class you grew up in. Working class? Circulation. Middle class? Programming librarian, small library director. Upper middle class or rich? CEO of a system.

"Is that ICE or is that a vanload of crazy dudes in paramilitary gear?" "What do you mean? Of course it's ICE." "Can you prove it?"

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

As we look toward another round of No Kings protests, the right would have you believe that tyranny is truly American, and opposition to tyranny is unAmerican.

Like films, I think novels should be open to remakes / rewrites by later authors. Rewrites I'd definitely read: 1984 rewritten by Haruki Murakami The War of the Worlds by Margaret Atwood Tom's Midnight Garden by Susanna Clarke Matilda rewritten by Irvine Welsh 👌

DEI just means giving everyone a chance. Anti-DEI just means we continue giving all opportunities to mediocre white men and their pathetic failsons.

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

We should have ended it all when he started openly monetizing the presidency at his DC hotel & sending his kids to represent the 🇺🇸 government at official international events. But he is One Special Boy and we appear to no longer be a serious country interested in the rule of law or the Constitution.

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

And we're already seeing some cave to the idea that being part of ICE makes you a "protected class." So... yeah... www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/a...

The people who think they are more American than you also think the First Amendment only helps them. Book bans, designating protesters as terrorists, wanting the govt to police who/what private companies can moderate - it's culture war, all the way down, and arrogance is the brick it is built with.

One of Trump’s few consistent positions is pro-corruption.

Rather than it being a “hate-America” rally, Saturday’s No Kings rally is an opportunity for all of us who love America to express our determination that our nation’s ideals not be crushed by the Trump regime. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/theyre-calling-it-a-hate-america

"So why am I surprisingly cheerful this morning? It’s because of the kids, the Pope, and the protesters." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-guil...

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

Columbus Day has been a federal holiday for no longer than I have been alive. 1971.

My kids went to Berkeley Public Schools, this was the song they learned.

Scifi story where a dying earth sends their last survivors on a generational ship. The ship sends probes searching for a good place to land. 300 years later, a probe finds a good home. It's old earth, recovered from all the people going away.

During the last "No Kings" protest, MAGA didn't have much to say. But they're so worried about this coming Saturday's events that they've labeled peaceful protesters as paid terrorists. Show up because you love this country. And, no, George Soros won't cut you a check, despite what MAGA liars say.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

To Make America Great Again, I suggest we move back to the tax system we had exactly 50 years ago.

Voucher Schools are *not* about educating children. They are about funneling secular tax dollars to Christian businesses. It's a scam.

United States Congressman calls for the deportation of all Muslims from the US. All Jewish groups should join together to denounce this.

True bravery!

I think it would be interesting to look at whether men who have big financial success in their twenties, or who are raised in wealth, are more problematic, behaviorally. Perhaps they cemented their ideas at their most arrogant age and then went largely unchallenged in their personal life.

Kiddo makes google maps debut

Roberts is presiding over, and driving, a stunning collapse in faith in the U.S. Supreme Court, not just among the public, but among federal judges. What a failure. The Titanic captain of chief justices.

Imagine that

Again, unless you’re hanging out on specific corners of Bluesky or Twitter, you’re likely not exposed to these videos of ICE being out of control. Mainstream media and other important validating institutions are ignoring it because they’re convinced that’s the savvy play.

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

I just wrote this up this morning. You can read it here. No paywalls: www.muellershewrote.com/p/jim-comey-...

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Presidents Clinton and Obama, on the cusp of major breakthroughs in permanent mideast peace, "cautiously optimistic, but still much more work to do". Trump, on shading one step back from total war, into a temporary cease fire, conditions far worse than a few yrs ago, "WHERE IS MY PEACE PRIZE!?!"

“we are telling you right now that we do not intend to honor anything we agree to” is certainly a negotiating position one can take

I’m sorry I clearly must not be understand this… Qatar gave trump a jet and now they get a military facility ON AMERICAN SOIL???? someone explain this to me.

“America First,” right Republicans?

Where are the Republican Warhawks? Y'all just chill as fuck with all this then?

Three key points: 1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February 2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty 3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

You have malice to cause malus.

This 40 min video by Aric Floyd is a fascinating reminder of the hidden social and political risks of AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_9w...

"The message is clear: Texas A&M does not permit teaching LGBT topics. Politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in Texas classrooms. Anyone who crosses this line may be fired on flimsy pretext" www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

For the fourth time in eight days, Pope Leo has taken direct aim at Donald Trump's abuse of migrants in the United States. In a new letter sent to Catholic Charities USA, he calls immigrants to the United States “witnesses of hope” and encourages Catholics to do all we can to welcome them.

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

And the reason they’re doing it all through shadow docket is so they can flip it right back 180 as soon as a Democrat holds the WH.