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🧵 important from Jen!! Info to help Mexican nationals and migrants in the US. Thanks JenniWren!!

If you felt the earthquake in Boston/NH/MA/ME, do some citizen science and fill out the "I felt it" box at the bottom of the link below. It helps scientists out!

I'll be paying more to subsidize Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Altman, Trump, et. al.? 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

Meoworning.

@kyleian.bsky.social how can you hate potatoes 😧

@gabitried.bsky.social I have a collection of kitties too lol

Working on getting those prices down I see.

Incidentally just going to remind people this was explicitly part of my state house campaign, in anticipation of a possible Trump victory. Here’s the language from my campaign site. Would be pretty good to have some Dems talking this way now, no??

“How do we share…information…without…becoming part of spectacle” is an important question for journalists, but I’d adjust it to “without becoming a propaganda service for Trump and heightening racism.”

Trump creates these spectacles because his supporters get off on and are emboldened by them.

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an ogre gave me a horn to summon him to kill my enemies up to 3 times the first 2 times I needed him he didnt show up and the third time he did show up and was like "lol sucker you believed me huh I eat you now" and this is why BG3 is the greatest game I've played in like a decade

Thanks Joe!

And finally, the New Mexico Department of Justice has issued advice for houses of worship. Thanks to @notkaspeck.bsky.social for passing this along... and if you have a Democratic AG, you can call them and urge them to follow New Mexico's lead in making sure folks know what to do

Cops have been doing this for ages and it's only gotten more violent and more legally punitive in the years since.

I thought the Occupy arrests were bad but they were a cakewalk compared to Philly cops trapping thousands of us on a highway, flooding it with tear gas, & shooting rubber bullets.

Reminder: Kristin Beck, a retired transgender U.S. Navy SEAL, served for 20 years as part of SEAL Team Six, one of the most elite units in the military. During her service, Beck earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, among other honors, for her courage and dedication in combat operations.

Loyalty tests and MAGA checks: Inside the Trump White House's intense screening of job-seekers Job-seekers hoping to join the new Trump administration are facing a series of intense loyalty tests.

Applicants for the federal government are now being asked to prove when they had their moment of “MAGA revelation.”

Career civil servants are being interrogated about who they voted for.

It was the darkest of times, it was the dumbest of times.

to be clear about terms, birth tourism is when you come to the US intending on a very short stay for the purpose of giving birth on US soil.

if you’re here for work for a couple years and you have a baby that is not birth tourism

How are you doing today

The only part that actually does suck is if I need to ask them something / bounce an idea off

Securing the borders...yeah, right.

Securing the borders...yeah, right.

I kinda have "fomo" that a portion of my coworkers have meetings at the same time, then I go back to working on whatever I was doing and am glad I don't have to force myself to pay attention in a meeting

We need help food