Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

This is what I've been saying! Ever since I read about the clown protest that showed up at a nazi rally in one town. "Wife Power?? Oh, WHITE FLOUR!" and they threw flour into the air. The nazis gave up and left.

Some fungi we met on our hike today:

A wonderful timeline cleanse ♥️

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.

Good morning! Happy Caturday, cat friends!

Our neighbors have a huge pecan tree in their yard and the squirrels are literally going nuts.

It’s Friday, I’m a pup!

Happy Friday! #sheltiesky #dogsofbluesky

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Families dragged out naked at 1AM 😡 Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated’

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

My sister was inspired by Dr. Goodall. She became a biologist and studied the Western Spotted skunk in grad school, doing field work out in West Texas. She credits Dr. Goodall with showing her that field work was possible for young women interested in the natural world. Rest in power, Dr. Goodall.

(Nods in historian)

Though Kavanaugh says it is a minor inconvenience to be targeted over-and-over because of your appearance and ethnicity, it is actually quite unconstitutional

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

The dead giveaway is the obsession with physical strength, which makes zero sense in an era of high tech war. It’s the kind of thing that only matters if the real war you’re interested in is a cultural one and you want to use the military as photo-op ubermenschen.

Relieved to read the editorial board of my local paper here in Fort Worth (largest republican majority city in Texas) come down on the side of free speech and academic freedom. www.star-telegram.com/opinion/edit...

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Apparently attendance numbers for the State Fair of Texas are way down this year.

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

8-year old Dasha Ramirez was playing with her brother at Millennium Park when Border Patrol took them. They’re now awaiting deportation to Guatemala. “We never imagined our Sunday would end this way, mother Noemi Chavez said. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated. Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.” This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

This is wonderful news for those of us without an institutional affiliation. Might be time to edit that manuscript and add that sixth chapter.

Racked. You love to see it.

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

marching in front of the Newberry Library, shamelessly hospitable to people who really love genealogical research and Renaissance partbooks & like there's a park across the street that people just hang out in and the El is super scary b/c like everyone takes it www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/i...

Wow. Just heard Eric Adams is dropping out of the NYC mayor's race.

if wrestling is fake explain this 🤼

The GoFundMe for Miguel Ángel García, who is hospitalized and fighting for his life after being shot multiple times during the shooting at the Dallas ICE field office on Wednesday.

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

The university president's letter is bananas, and anyone who sends such a letter should not be running an academic institution. A thread. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Atlas Hugged by Kind Rand haha we're just having fun here

"The leadership of the FBI, DOJ, and DHS have proven their agencies are not capable of conducting investigations based on anything other than Trump’s political objectives. Simply put: the federal govt can no longer be trusted, & the Trump admin only has itself to blame." — @justinglawe.bsky.social

A lot of free speech absolutist are being awfully quiet about this sort of thing.

Higher ed admins are truly trash in this state. A literal joke. Kowtowing to the billionaire evangelicals who own the government here. 🙄

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

I’m grateful that action is being taken to address yesterday’s violence at 26 Federal Plaza. When we insistently bear witness, there are limits to the cruelty people will support. Even Trump’s ICE can’t escape that indefinitely.

This is your regular reminder that Covid is airborne. It’s not over. It’s still killing and disabling people. It’s a novel virus and we still don’t know the full long term effects, but what we do know is not encouraging. Wear a mask. Clean the air. Stay home when sick. Protect one another.

Trump gets humiliated at the UN, Kimmel returns, he drops further in the polls and just goes fucking crazy at the White House today. Insane new tariffs, Comey, war against his domestic opponents, shutting down the government. He is losing it, and it’s getting dangerous out there.

So much abuse going on! ICE needs to be abolished!

Great examples for classroom discussion of food adulteration and the introduction of the Wiley Act in 1906.