Jill Sampson

Restore Customs and the Secret Service to the Treasury.

Restore TSA and the Coast Guard to the Dept. of Transportation.

Restore FEMA to its original independent status - hell, make it a whole Department, we're going to need it.

Restore all the small random agencies to Justice.

Be done with it.

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Bannon, Epshteyn hit with investor class action over ‘Patriot Pay’ cryptocurrency An investor on Friday sued Steve Bannon, Boris Epshteyn and others in a proposed class action accusing them of selling unregistered cryptocurrency to thousands of people while concealing facts about t...

Here's Scarcella's story.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

5 bullets from the table of contents of a lawsuit, describing how Bannon pitched a cryptocoin while hiding his role in it, but didn't disclose there was a back door via which they could steal from the wallets.

Via @mikescarcella.bsky.social, here's the investor lawsuit against Steve Bannon and Boris Epshteyn for their fraudulent cryptocurrency.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Members of the Swarovski family were early, active and enthusiastic champions of Nazism, and at least six of its members maintained membership in the illegal party prior to Austria's annexation to Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.!23] Three weeks earlier, 500 marchers in the Tyrolean town of Wattens held a torchlight procession that ended with chants of "Sieg Heil" and "Heil Hitler". The majority of the participants, police determined, were Swarovski plant employees, among them Swarovski family heirs Alfred, Wilhelm and Friedrich. 124]

In its report to the state police on 14 February 1947, the Innsbruck district administrator called company head Alfred Swarovski "an enthusiastic member of the NSDAP." [25] Alfred Swarovski praised Hitler at business gatherings and took actions as a regional business leader to ensure that "Tyrolean industry could be integrated as smoothly as possible into the enormous gears of the economy of Greater Germany and into the National Socialist economic order." He sent "grateful loyalty greetings" to Adolf Hitler on his 49th birthday and arranged a donation of 100,000 shillings for Hitler to establish a holiday home in Tyrol.!26]

In 1994, historian Horst Schreiber wrote about Swarovski's past but was not granted access to company archives. (27] The contemporary Swarovski company commissioned historian Dieter Stiefel as "a step towards dealing with our history in a serious and very pro-active manner," board spokesman Markus Langes-Swarovski said in 2018; however, the study was not published because, Langes-Swarovski said, "Swarovski is a company that generally tries to keep the owners' personal stories largely out of the public eye because it does nothing for the business." (28]

Everyone’s talking about Swarovski right now so let’s take a second and dive into the fact that they were NAZI Nazis. Like full-on Seig Heil, prosecuted after the war level Nazis and the modern company has done everything they can to hide all their archives and prevent anyone accessing them.

Kenneth Zucker, one of the researchers on this study previously published a research paper where he asked adults to rate the physical attractiveness of children.

Just to give you an idea of the types of people behind this m

Call me a filthy commie but I think if we're going to have a carceral legal system it's probably more important to prosecute the child sexual predators and murderous fascist goons than kids who shoplifted, and if we're doing the opposite maybe we're doing everything wrong

Just a thought

21-year-old activist injured by ICE:

I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.

a screencap showing the drug costs $27,723, and her share is $3,856.23. This will wipe out her deductible for the year but the first step is a doozy.

5 of our new cupcake fidget clickies balancing on my hand. they all have different color gradient frosting and little white heart sprinkles!

One of our new organizers that has a sparkly base with a place for post-it notes and pens, and a beautiful pink/purple/blue gradient pen cup.

a cute volcano meditation garden full of sand, and four little 3d printed dinosaurs going with it.

Happy Deductible Reset January to those who (don't) celebrate it!

Poor @totallydonna.kitrocha.com has one (1) biologic that costs $3,800. We are trying to scrounge up money to pay for it!

That means 20% off sale in the shop! (even on new things!)

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Trump Already Gave Us the Blueprint for Abolishing ICE The public is coming around to the notion that the agency has to be eliminated. Fortunately, this administration and its Supreme Court allies have made that incredibly easy.

Events in Minneapolis have shown, there is no real reason for taxpayers to keep paying an armed, pseudo-militarized agency that gleefully terrorizes Trump’s political opponents. trib.al/GaVmtHW

Seven Legal Questions That Will Shape Democracy in 2026 Courts are set to decide a host of cases that will determine the fate of the VRA, confront the latest restrictions on direct democracy, and affect ballot access and redistricting.

Courts will have to adjudicate redistricting disputes in many states in coming months, including Missouri, Virginia, and likely Florida. Our new explainer walks you through what you need to know.

Grok Is Generating About 'One Nonconsensual Sexualized Image Per Minute' Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok keeps churning out nonconsenual images of women and minors in bikinis and lingerie, outraging users and regulators

Just how bad is Grok's nonconsensual porn problem? Musk's AI chatbot is generating another sexualized image of someone without their permission every single minute:

I'm already seeing people on here use AI face tools to try to identify the masked ICE agent in Minneapolis. It's a truly terrible idea and here's why

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Every time I see Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellan do something X-Men (or Star Trek / LotR) related I get mad at how the death of mid-budget cinema means there will never be a cozy old man romance movie starring two cozy old men who share an actual long-standing platonic love for one another.

It's important to remember that Donald Trump lies constantly, but this is Donald Trump declaring that he has used the United States military to extort Venezuela into giving him $1.7-2.7 billion for his personal use.

When I opened my book club on it I described it to my friends as “a series of diversions occasionally interrupted by a plot” and that seemed to put everyone in the right mindset for it.

I do also want to direct everyone to Alexis Hall's series of queer romances (I want to say there's one m/f bi4bi, one m/m and one f/f but I could be wrong) that are set at a thinly veiled "Great British Baking Show", I've only read "Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake" but it was a FUCKING JOY

I’m super excited for Cat Sebastian’s two new books!!!
And I’m looking forward to when the show How Dare You!? is released on iQIYI.
And as for art I just ordered a print of Laving in Lotus by @bellemerebymal.bsky.social and I can’t wait!! So happy she decided to make prints of that one!!!

Gonna repost this every time I get chole bhature for dinner

Controversial S.F. Safeway housing project one step closer to approval as key labor unions sign on The deal with the unions is a crucial step in advancing its plan for a 25-story building with close to 800 new homes amid fierce neighborhood and City Hall pushback.

Putting a ton of housing—including many affordable units—on top of a grocery store in a transit rich corridor is exactly what we should be doing and if NIMBYs hadn’t been so recalcitrant over the years they would have more bargaining power now but oh well www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

At 8.04am on 22 December 2020 we launched #StrikeMap.

Below is our first ever post 👇

5 years, putting struggle on the map
5 years, supporting striking workers
5 years, building solidarity

Grab a copy of our 'story so far' photobook here: bit.ly/SM5yearhardback

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

So you’re telling me that when your country welcomes talented people from around the globe, and brings them together in world-class universities, they make discoveries that save lives? Interesting.

UM researchers make breakthrough to treat form of leukemia

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Probably not even real. Dems always want to think R’s regret their votes. Pro tip: they don’t and will do that voting again, Charlie Brown.

Americans should be requires to show ID and proof of citizenship at all times, unless they are at a gun show.

Read Like a Criminal Big Gay Read 2025 Keynote Speech

I got to deliver a talk on the history and legacy of the Hays Code and the Comics Code, contemporary censorship efforts, and the necessity of identifying with criminality. You can watch and read the whole thing here:

clicked this for the BSG news, teared up when I realized I'm in it, too. 💓

I can not say how much my mental health has been held together this year by knowing so many people doing so much good work, people who are just trying to help each other.

We are Mr. Rogers' neighborhood. 😭

this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

In the sixth month
of a disastrous reign in the house of money

in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of money, we (forgive us)

lived happily during the war