Lisa Abbott

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

I came here to say Epstein was hired by Bill Barr’s dad to teach Physics and math at elite private high school all-girls’ school when he himself was a 20 year old college dropout.

Random question:

What the actual F was Merrick Garland (and his DOJ and FBI) doing with the Epstein files we are all now demanding be released by Pam Bondi?

I’m so so so over them all.

Person on a work zoom call:

“Who would have guessed that Trump’s downfall would be Jeffery Epstein?”

Me:

“Meeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Also @jkbjournalist.bsky.social”

Also: “ENIGMAS never age” appears to be code for “GAMINES,” a word I did not know but Wikipedia defines as “a mischievous, playful, elfish, or pert girl or young woman. Also used to refer to female street children.”

Gov. Ayotte vetoes book removal bill, bathroom ban bill, more Republican legislation Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed seven New Hampshire bills, many intended to strengthen parental rights, bucking conservative wing of her party.

Incredible news out of New Hampshire tonight: we pushed the Republican governor (who faces re-election every 2 years) to veto a book ban AND an anti-trans bathroom ban 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

I needed this good news today.

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

It's happening here.

My “Dogs” and in some cases my “cats” need to stop eyeing the Steak Dinner left unattended on the counter. Thank You for your Attention!!!!

Trump threatening to impose 50% tariffs on anyone talking about Jeffrey Epstein

What we're basically seeing here is the far right reverting to its John Birch Society norm: continuing to embrace paranoid, militant racism, but becoming belatedly wary of the pull toward centralized authority that they had signed on to in order to get it.

God bless all the bar tenders who look out for women and GNC people.

You fucking wear capes and are super heroes.

I’m cool with the maga movement eating its own, esp if the fight centers on monsters Epstein & Trump. But tonight’s 5 minute @msnbc.com clip with @chrislhayes.bsky.social served up 2 white commenters using no less than 3 slurs against Native Americans.

Do better. For f’s sake.

ICE is out of control. This is not law enforcement. It is state violence.

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

Plus schools. And federal, state and local govts. And renewable energy generation. All under attack.

Then factor in the role of rural “transfer payments” in the form of social security, food stamps, veterans benefits, disability benefits, and more.

All under attack.

#OrganizeEverywhere

Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani

Margaret Sullivan from the top rope

My baseline level of rage is a source of renewable energy that could power a small town.

Read news, op-eds, and analysis, not AI summaries. Create your own art (even if it's messy) or hire an artist to do it. Do your own homework. Talk to people, not chatbots. Keep your thinking and skills sharp and cherish our messy humanity. That's the new punk rock.

It is controversial because of the golden rule: Those that have the gold make the rules.

Also: slavery, oppression, and discrimination are / were rules. Those rules still shape every institution that was built to preserve and extend the power of the rule-makers.

The money just given to ICE could fund the NEH for 850 years

This American Airlines plane is cold enough to chill beer.

My translator tells me "thoughts & prayers" is an American political expression that means "we'd rather have a secret police force than a weather service".

3:30 am Lyft to the airport in Missoula, MT. Driver was caffeinated and delightful. Topic swung to KY, where I’m from. “Your governor needs to be our next President.”

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Everyone I know who works in a public or rural hospital is saying the same thing.

These people are a death cult

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is