In summary: The hateful Charlie Kirk was shot by the acolyte of a more hateful version of Charlie Kirk. It wasn’t any of the imaginary bogeymen they were hoping for. Just a case of them slowly drowning in their own hate.

Trump is piloting a program to let AI review seniors’ medical information and decide what Medicare covers for them — while giving AI companies a profit-incentive to deny coverage. We must call on every Member of Congress to block this. 👇

Starting today, 2.4M Americans, including kids, lose SNAP food benefits. Stores like Freshly’s Market in Mississippi that serve low-income communities expect a 35–45% drop in sales. Children will go hungry & employees at Freshly's lose jobs. Welcome to trickle-down starvation.

If you work to earn your money, you are a worker. Labor Day is your day to celebrate the 40-hour work week, weekends off, and more. If your income comes from dividends or profits, you are a capitalist. Labor Day should remind you of the workers who make that possible.

The way I figure it, if they only wanted me to eat one ice cream bar, they wouldn't have put four in the box.

🧵 MtE (Munchkin the Elder, my nephew & my late kid's brother, long story) is planning to move here from Mexico in Oct. His dad passed in Mar. & was his sole source of support. James & I have been doing our best to help him out, short of letting him move in, which I don't feel able/willing to do.

Important 🧵

Stayed off FB: 4 days Drank enough water: 3 days Parked uphill at work: 3 days No takeout: 1 day #streaks #postedwithoutcomment

if you work beyond your EXTREMELY SMALL limits with longCovid, you deteriorate. your condition worsens & you become even more disabled. a tightrope i am falling off, slowly losing function daily. he’s killing us.

Today's popcorn: butter, furikake, nutritional yeast. There's salt in furikake so no extra salt. Nom.

We finally have a bookstore in town that sells new books in addition to used, and will order stuff. The Heartstopper movie is more than a year away, it seems, so I splurged.

My pal @charliejane.bsky.social has written another book! When I tell you how fast I pre-ordered it. Along with Nnedi Okorafor and John Scalzi, Charlie Jane is one of the authors whose work is always good, so I buy every new thing, period. Preorder: greenapplebooks.com/book/9781250...

Newsflash, Wannabe Dictator: I don’t care how many times you shake the Etch A Sketch trying to redraw these lines. I’m not disappearing. I’ll be back, still on your behind every step of the way. (1/2)

They just moved Maxwell to a comfortable “camp” and Trump refuses to rule out a pardon. A convicted child sex trafficker is getting love from Trump and MAGA’s like Russell Fry. GET ANGRY AND GET IN THE FIGHT

Texas Democrats aren’t running away from anything. They’re fighting, with every tool they have, to save our democracy. Kudos to each and every one of them for taking this stand. We should be inspired by their courage and reminded that tyranny is only possible if we submit to it.

Today's popcorn: garlic confit and Parmesan cheese. SO good.

"She accompanied her mother, Rev. Kim, who is widely recognized as the first woman to be ordained as an Anglican priest in the Seoul Diocese of the Anglican Church of Korea..." www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffai...

I don’t think there is a day that goes by that I am not reminded of an old teacher’s admonition: “If the only history that interests you is the history that makes you feel good about yourself, you are not interested in history; you’re interested in propaganda.”

Popcorn and thunderstorm. Perfect combo

Tasty popcorn can't cure grief or fascism, but it's tasty.

Concentration camp. It's a concentration camp.

Every change they’ve made to this bill has kicked more people off healthcare.

Millions will lose health care. Hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost. Electricity costs will skyrocket. Needy families will lose access to food. The GOP’s budget bill does all that so Donald Trump can give hundreds of billions in tax breaks to his rich friends.

Medicaid isn't just a safety net, it's a lifeline for millions of Americans. But Republicans want to cut it off at the knees, leaving families to fend for themselves. We can't let them get away with this cruel and heartless plan. #MedicaidSavesOurLives

ICE terrorizes people. My client is (or was) an asylum seeker from Mauritania. We were in the middle of his trial, which had been reset twice as we didn't get to finish it in January. Then he gets arrested on charges of operating a sweepstakes machine. Took 2 mos but all charges were dropped.

Rural hospitals will not “get over it.” They will shut down. Permanently.

People keep saying “Trump doesn’t understand” when it’s really “Trump doesn’t care.” He cares about money, power, and immunity from prosecution. That’s it. He’s not confused; he doesn’t care about the day to day of POTUS duties. Plutocrats and mobsters are VERY interested in doing that job for him.

BREAKING: The U.S. attacked three Iranian nuclear sites, Trump says, joining Israeli air campaign as Tehran promises to retaliate.

#FascismIsHere You think you’re exempt? Think again. The #abductions will continue until the only one’s left are the white, privileged, and male. You think that Handmaids Tale was far fetched? I don’t.

Orange Donny embarrassed himself in front of the world so now we have to go to war with Iran.

Just say no to the Gestapo.

What other proof do Republicans need to believe Trump wants to be a dictator? The hot mic gets him every time. @briantylercohen.bsky.social

#ProudBlue I am immunocompromised & suffer from crushing fatigue. It would be almost impossible for me to attend a protest. This video means a lot to me. I really want to be hitting the pavement & often feel guilty that I can’t do it. #mecfswarrior #Dysautonomia #chronicillness #Mecfs

ICE agents better start reading up on the Nuremberg trials. Because when we get to the other side of this, and we will, "I was just following orders" ain't gonna cut it.

Greta Thunberg has spent the last 20 months condemning the Gaza genocide & is now on a flotilla headed to Gaza. Ms. Rachel has leveraged her entire platform to condemn the Gaza genocide & to humanize Palestinian children. These 2 women have more courage than all public official globally Combined.❤️

The "Detrumpify Yourself" app, also known as "Detrumpez Vous!", is a free, open-source application primarily used in France to identify products with hidden US ownership. Europeans are boycotting American products and it’s working.

Across the U.S., state security officials and violence prevention advocates have reached the same conclusion: The federal government has retreated from the fight against extremist violence, which for years had been a top priority for the FBI. By @hannahallam.bsky.social‬

Yes, this is a real video, not AI of Sen. Joni Ernst “apologizing” after telling a constituent who warned Medicaid cuts would cost lives, “Well, we’re all going to die.” Unbelievable.

Tomorrow's neighbor dinner will be very simple: roasted chicken thighs, potato salad, green beans, watermelon, store-bought pie, lemonade, iced tea. Because it's been a fucking week, and lo, I have few fucks to give.

NOW— Mass ICE arrests happened/are happening at the Manhattan immigration court at 290 Broadway on the 20th floor. I was just outside the building and an observer came out crying, confirmed they witnessed people getting detained outside courtrooms while families watched and wept.

not only can i deny that - what's your damn source? - but i also deny that there's a better way to spend money than caring for each other in need, what the hell

I've been meaning to read this book since one of my college professors raved about it in the '80s, but I think now was just the right time in my life for me to have read it. (Still reading my ebooks alphabetically, still in the B's. Next are a couple of bean cookbooks.)

We are in week 6 of The cyberattack that is making everyone's job so so much harder. It is wearying, but I'm still really glad to be able to help students to the extent that I can. May this be over soon, though, because it is so exhausting.

If you want to understand how we got to the point where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the top public health official and how bad information about autism harms #ActuallyAutistic people, I wrote a whole book about this four years ago. www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...

Tomorrow's neighbor dinner will be a baked-potato-slash-nacho bar. There is some overlap in the toppings. We'll see how it goes.

#ProudBlue GOP Rep Biggs (R-AZ) has introduced a bill to abolish OSHA. He claims that OSHA is infringing on state authority & its standards are "burdensome". OSHA has significantly reduced the incidence of on-the-job injury for many years. Tell your Rep that you think it's vital for worker safety.

The fascist spectacle is the point.

put the DEI back, turns out it was load bearing

As Kristi "Puppy Killer" Noem is questioned by Congress, she clearly shows that she has no respect for the truth and not 1 ounce of compassion. If you care about truth, freedom & due process, don't wait another minute. Call Congress at 202-224-3121. Demand that they ask Kristi Noem to step down.