Jody Mask

It really is that simple.

@kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social I also use Early Riser for my alarm! It’s a perfect intro to a new day. #sistersinlaw

Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit.

ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.

I banished lilies in the sanctuary this year!

My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth I was surprised on Friday when I started getting messages that my book, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, which won a 2021 American Book Award, appeared as #46 on...

the latest from RD: @robertpjones.bsky.social on how DefSec Hesgeth's recent book bans are trying to erase America's legacy of white christian supremacy

(the list also includes RD fave @antheabutler.bsky.social's *White Evangelical Racism*, bc of course)

religiondispatches.org/my-book-on-t...

“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS i...

I'm carving out a new beat here @propublica.org - CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER TRUMP. It's a big and important beat and one I'm thrilled ProPublica has committed to. Here's my first of many stories to come. Advocates, lawyers, teachers and fed workers. Send me your tips! david.mcswane@propublica.org

He heard the culprits were emperors

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My grandparents were natural born German citizens. Until they weren't. I have copies of their documents, stamped "cancelled" by the government.

Of course she’s a faith adviser to the huckster in chief. Birds of a grifting feather.

Yep

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on the Courts The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had…

In the hours before IRS leadership fired some 7,000 employees for allegedly poor performance, a top IRS lawyer flagged officials that “no one” at the agency had done such an assessment.

The termination notice went out unchanged anyway.

By @andykroll.bsky.social

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

More than 600 Iron Range steelworkers out of work as auto industry cuts orders because of tariffs Cleveland-Cliffs, the largest iron ore operator in Minnesota, is idling operations in Hibbing and Virginia.

"More than 600 Iron Range steelworkers out of work as auto industry cuts orders because of tariffs"

this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news

Schoolchildren are routinely slaughtered by AR-15s. Hundreds die.

[*crickets* "Thoughts and prayers" *crickets*]

A couple unoccupied cars are set on fire. No one is hurt.

["THIS HORROR WILL NOT STAND!!! We MUST act to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN!!!!" We will pass new LAWS BANNING IT!!!]

People need to get over thinking the legacy news media are ever going to be anything but collaborators in installing autocracy in the US. Individual reporters may come through at times, but the larger corporate news outlets will never risk their status no matter how much Trump abuses them.

But you’re the pride of the American side—oh, right.

💥 BREAKING: Walt Disney Company shareholders voted today 99-1 percent to reject an anti-LGBTQ+ proposal, requesting that the company sever its relationship with the Human Rights Campaign and HRC's Corporate Equality Index. Disney Board recommended shareholders vote against the proposal.

Anna is the best! Subversive and creative. I-4 as the Kessel Run is *chef’s kiss*

May the Force be with you!

In a fascist regime, the rule of law and due process are radical leftist ideas. Guess the Founders were radical leftists too…

a man is standing in a kitchen with his eyes closed and a quote about life . Alt: Ferris Beuller saying “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Ferris the Wise said it best!

Opinion | The View Inside Trump’s Assault on Universities The Trump administration’s attacks on universities will lead to the permanent diminishment of vital American institutions.

“The economic impacts will be enormous. But so, too, will be the cultural ones. What is really happening here is an attack on the American faith in knowledge as a value and a public good that has served us well.”
@meghanor.bsky.social

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

One of our cats is named Jellybean because of these cute toe beans.

If breakfast meatloaf, then biscuit gravy

Can we please subtitle it “Electric Boogaloo?”

At least you’re not in the D-League?