G'mar chatimah tovah and easy fast. #kolnidre #yomkippur

HERMAN: This is my country! BESS: Not anymore, it is [the President's], it is the Jew-haters', it is the America First-ers'. It is the people who chase children down the street and then deport their families... it is their country. - "The Plot Against America" Phillip Roth 2004

I'm officially as triggered by hearing the phrase "The SCOTUS's 6-3 decision..." as I am by hearing, "Well, BOTH sides..."

@trotfox.bsky.social !!!

This is because Hegseth does not understand that there is a real world out there beyond his obsessions with American enemies within. His only idea is to use our armed forces against us. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

24 years ago today, I married my best friend. @trotfox.bsky.social - I love you forever and a day.

We have to stop dehumanizing ICE agents while they are doing their important job of dehumanizing us

I use the same exchange in Finnish at checkouts. "Hi/hi/anything else?/no/that's €X/bonus card?/yes/receipt?/no thanks/thank you/bye." Today tho, he skipped asking if I want a receipt and just said have a nice day, and I auto-answered, "No, thank you." 🫣 So, I can never go to that store again.

Now we know what to do with our groggers on Oct. 18!!!

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” -Declaration of Independence

So Democrats shouldn’t call Republicans fascist or gestapo or anything because that could provoke violence, but it is appropriate to call Democrats domestic terrorists or a domestic extremist organization. Do I have that right?

I've been listening to arguments for and against Democrats refusing to cave and letting the GOP shut down the govt, and I think they should let it shut down. Trump threatened to accelerate his destruction if the govt shuts down, which is giving some Dems pause, but I think it'll work, because 1/2

The last two minutes of this episode was PURE CATHARSIS 😘🤌

#SouthPark was AMAZING this week!

An important read about the background and possible motivation of the ICE shooter. His friends describe him as an extremely online edge lord, with no strong political leanings. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

Trans folks are being treated like the thin edge of the wedge by the far right, and a lot of LGB folks are perfectly happy to think it would stop there. We protect all of us, or we protect none of us. We already know this.

I have no idea who shot at the ICE facility or why, & hard to trust this FBI director. Murder is always inexcusable. Now, the idea that people are mad at ICE because of ‘Democrats’ rhetoric’ & not because of daily videos of masked ICE agents assaulting people, including citizens, is for the birds.

This is the fishiest shit I've ever seen. We're supposed to believe the shooter wrote "Anti-ICE" in pen on a bullet and then shot detainees but not ICE officers?

Autumn has arrived in southern Finland!

If you’d like to voice your opinion, you can call Sinclair Broadcasting Group at 410-568-1500. Since Sinclair’s revenue comes from TV ads, the strongest way to hit their bottom line

Paracetamol and Acetaminophen are names for the same drug.

L'shanah tovah! We made apple donuts 😋

September 21, 2025

This isn’t about Jimmy Kimmel you silly goose. It’s about the assault on truth and the freedom to speak that truth. Without the truth we are lost. Let me tell you, it’s much easier to lose a right than it is to get it back

Democrats must impeach FCC chair Brendan Carr over Jimmy Kimmel. Yes, we know Dems don't have the votes to actually impeach Carr. But they can use the threat of impeachment to fuel the narrative of how the GOP is coming for our freedoms. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/heres-why-...

This is amazing.

I was pretty sure we all just agreed that it is morally reprehensible to summarily assassinate someone because you've seen that what they're doing can indirectly or directly harm or even kill Americans, and then share video of the murder online.

Representative Jason Crow (D-CO) on this moment. Not just the transcript but the video of a floor speech yesterday. A rallying cry:

YAS

One thing I'm sure of: there is not one thing going wrong in this country that was caused my trans people. 0 things.

Agreed! In today’s Supreme Court, Jimmy Kimmel would have an extremely strong First Amendment claim against Trump’s FCC for pressuring Disney and ABC to censor fully protected commentary by firing Kimmel. Either 8-1 or 9-0. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

By rights, all of them should be subjected to exactly the same treatment they would inflict on others. I mean, how well do you think Stephen Miller would fare at a torture prison in El Salvador? My guess? Not well. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/lock-em-up

Oh hey it my meme🥰 bsky.app/profile/beno...

In a remarkable act of defiance and solidarity, "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" played the clip from the monologue that led to the suspension of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" by ABC. It aired on CBS stations and affiliates across the country. [Video: CBS]

The idea that 'if a person is criminal, they deserve mistreatment' is the oil that greases the fascist machine. If you hesitate to help someone because they've broken the laws of fascists, you're part of that machine. Break the fascist machine with radical empathy and radical kindness instead.

DEMOCRATS: THIS IS WHAT WE WANT FROM YOU.

As many have pointed out, Antifa isn't an organization. It's an adjective, like anti-racist is. Trump knows that. It means he can label anyone he chooses "Antifa" and any political donation they've ever made as "funding terror." $25 to ActBLUE and went to a BLM march? ANTIFA. It's his excuse.

This is Hollywood's McCarthy Moment. This is the litmus test. Learn from history. Who will step up and fight? Who will bend the knee and be complicit? History will remember.

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: He cannot designate an idea as a terrorist group. There is no org called ANTIFA. There is no leadership or funding path or no membership. Also there is no terrorism law in America. Ask Luigi. He wants to call anyone a terrorist. That’s Fascism. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

this idea that billionaire funded authoritarian propagandists looking to trick dim college boys into supporting sexism and racism were having "real debate" or useful conversations with anyone is just so foundationally insulting

"What does it mean to “fund Antifa,” given that “Antifa” is not an actual organization? As ever, it’s whatever Donald Trump’s Justice Department wants it to mean—which feels like the whole point." www.thebulwark.com/p/yeah-its-f...

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

"People of good will should endeavor to get facts right. When they make errors, they should correct them. But what happens where one side is required to operate at all times and in all places in perfect good faith and the other side faces no such constraints?" www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

That's like saying he plans to designate 'The Force' (be with you) a major terrorist organisation. Anti-fascism or "antifa" is a concept, an ideology, a state of mind, a worldview, an attitude of resistance that runs counter to fascism. It's NOT a structured organisation. 🙄

Currently learning about not celebrating violence from the people who turned Kyle Rittenhouse into a celebrity.