As a small business owner, I pay 55% in federal, state, county, local taxes.

“It’s not okay when billionaires and presidents do it, but it’s also not okay when your uncle Greg does it, or when the guy at the gas station does it, and no, it’s not okay when women do it… There are no unimportant assaults, and no unimportant victims, and that’s the point.” @judedoyle.bsky.social

This is really cool

To say “I don’t do politics” is to say “I don’t do power.” Politics is another word for power. To say “I don’t do power” is to say “dominate me.” Meaning, to say “I don’t do politics” is to consent to being dominated. Precisely what these authoritarian regimes want.

From abroken mother's heart I appeal toyour compassionate hearts Mybaby Ghazal living in harsh conditions,hunger,cold,lacking most basic necessities lifeYour support could save her,give her warmth,safety,secure life like other children Sendyour warmth,dont letus down🙏🥹🥶 tinyurl.com/save-my-baby...

GA friends, please call!! email!!

lots of people (on Both Sides™) had fun with Trump's “transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison” debate line without stopping to think, even for one second, about the humanity of the actual people involved

This might be the greatest headline in the history of the internet...

There should be no American history book that makes it pass the censors either.

did not realize the people who resigned in protest over this were retconned as firings so Bondi could steal their banked vacation time. what a spiteful little knife twist

Yes! I keep saying this, but at the exact moment in history all nations should be working together to stave off the worst of the climate crisis, this admin is doing all it can to accelerate it.

pretty tired of all the nazis

It’s weird to me how we have all these Spanish names for places and culturally don’t dwell on what they mean. I just learned the word “Nevada” means snowfall. I’m 52.

Please share and donate anything you can to help save Heba and her children!

Ok friends, I need your help! I got tons of messages asking for the link so here it is! I finally get to run a race with matching funds too! In district donors get a 12-1 match for the first $5-$50 and there is matching dollars for up to the first $250! secure.actblue.com/donate/yuh-l...

$400 more to their goal.

Can't say it enough, if you are going to build ANYTHING, you are going to be criticized much more than you will be praised. Do not be deterred. Build what you want to exist. Find your people and seek their counsel. Keep it moving.

There's been a bit of a local scandal in CT because a public school system planned to have Linda McMahon speak to the kids, but then the school canceled after parental uproar. It's been extremely notable that little-to-none of the coverage has even mentioned this lawsuit or the ringboy situation.

The man who told reporters it’s time to move on from the Epstein files won’t shut up about the 2020 election.

Devastating thread, showing just how in character Trump's behavior has been. I don't know how anyone can bear him, much less think he's a great leader or a good man.

we're close, y'all, just $304 left to go - if 15 people have $20 she can pay it today before they start threatening eviction #UrgentNeed #MutualAidRequest thank you all so much for showing up for her

If there's one benefit from all the Republican criminality and corruption it's that you never have to treat them like good faith interlocutors again. Every currently living Trump accomplice should be treated at most to a reflexive "Eat Shit" for life, and that's better than they deserve

ICE officials said he ran into a wall, which doctors immediately rejected as inconsistent with the wounds. The immigrant's account - that he was beaten in the head by steel batons, contrary to DHS guidelines - is more plausible. But no accountability exists for him, or us. apnews.com/article/immi...

I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them

When you see those children kidnapped by ICE/CBP, bear in mind that thanks to Biden their DNA is being scanned and permanently added to a database of criminals. They are all marked in the system for life, the system that is *already* trying to revictimize Liam because he embarrassed it.

Today is the 52nd anniversary of the release of "Blazing Saddles," the plot of which involves business and political interests leveraging ordinary people's bigotry in an effort to obtain power and financial gain. People like to say that that movie couldn't be made today. Shit, we're living it.

Every time the White House backtracks or deletes something because of pushback, it just proves to me that those losers are still terrified of backlash. This is a good thing. We can use that.

please use alt text please turn on the feature to require it so you don’t forget please flex your writing skills and describe the picture. you don’t need to be Tolkien but you can do better than “my cat.” i believe in you

i do not know how y’all wear socks nonstop that shit is claustrophobic af

I published a short and quick primer on how local law enforcement, mostly sheriffs, can collaborate with ICE. I hope it's useful -- I also would love to know what people are seeing in their community. sheriffs.substack.com/p/how-local-...

One of the things that keeps me going in the ongoing fight against COVID and for Long COVID treatments is how far we’ve gotten with HIV. If you organize with us we can do this too

A $12.5 million infusion from PennDot and city government could keep the Chinatown Stitch project afloat while backers seek to replace construction money the Trump administration rescinded.

Kitten needs teeth!!!! Help!!!

A JBS plant’s largely immigrant workforce is refusing to back down after they accuse their employer of poor working conditions. From our colleagues at the @thefern.org:

“When my doctors told me that I had Hodgkin lymphoma, they shared the various molecular markers the biopsy revealed…‘It’s EBV positive,’ they told me. My cancerous cells bore the genetic fingerprints of Epstein-Barr virus.”

this one's from a year ago today, all of it still true

🔴Bluesky: -69

The fact that you can get jumpscared by someone with (REAGAN) next to their names when they're a federal judge who can make sweeping nationwide verdicts is one of the worst parts of our government right now

I will say that I’m relieved that other social media sites are leaning negative. Who would have thought podcasts would lean -14?

This week at Group Threat, I spoke with @grundrza.bsky.social about Florida's censorship regime, teaching under authoritarianism, and how folks are coping (or not).

Racism has a material impact on people's lives. I don't know what else to say. It leads to premature death on a daily basis.

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

7 year old Diana Crespo-Gonzalez was sick and in need of urgent medical care. ICE grabbed her and her parents on their way to the hospital. They threw her in Dilley, the same facility that held Liam Ramos. Tonight she’s free. Now we keep fighting until every child is free.

I love that for millennia people have been making stuff look like cute animals just because they can. It’s a beautiful thing.

there's a baby flower in there

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

ICE's concentration camp is even too toxic in a place like Mississppi for far right Republican wingnut Senators like Roger Wicker. Where is the pushback from Pennsylvania's Republican Senators (and so called centrist house members) including @fetterman.senate.gov?

Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.