The Purled Bird (aka vickievet)

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.

Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.

Beautiful and devastating all at once.

In yarn news, I received a call from Melissa at @lovelyarns.bsky.social asking for red yarn. I dyed them up yesterday and will drive to Baltimore tomorrow to deliver them. They are hosting a Melt The Ice hat MAL if you’re looking for a place to hang out and feel community. 🧶🧶🧶

Cherry on Brioche DK — Kim Dyes Yarn Cherry is a true red tonal. Cherry has been dyed on Brioche Dk. Brioche DK is a very soft, superfine, 100% merino superwash yarn. Each skein is 103g/3.6oz and 280 yards. Brioche DK is a very soft, s...

I just restocked skeins of Cherry on Brioche Dk if you need a skein for your #MeltTheIce hat. www.kimdyesyarn.com/dk-weight-ya...

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Oh Kim ❤️ holding you in my thoughts 🫂

Bari Weiss, CBS News, and the Triumph of Faux Balance The record of the Free Press shows her journey from independent to MAGA fellow traveler.

Weiss herself is now enjoying the fruits of one such assault, assuming a leadership role at a television network bullied and extorted into adjusting its political orientation to the president’s liking because of a frivolous lawsuit.

I’m super excited for this one! I grabbed the gorgeous Chesapeake sunset at MDSW and as soon as I saw your brown/purple/wine online I knew exactly their destiny 😍 so great to hear from you, Kim ❤️

Thank you so much, Kim 🫶💕

YouTube video by Vickie Bird Long floats and Ladderback Jacquard: a tip for continuous ladder shifting

Hi #knitting friends, It’s been a minute! I’ve been working on a YouTube Channel to share my knitting tips and journeys - like Ladderback jacquard feat. @knitterkim.bsky.social beautiful colors 😍 youtube.com/shorts/YvASk...

Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop.

A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. www.wired.com/story/scient...

A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?" "Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy: The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History By Gillian Brockell When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.

Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

The Supreme Court has granted an adminsitrative stay of Judge Xinis's order requiring the government to return Abrego Garcia to the United States from an El Salvador prison.

Find the Supreme Court's docket and lower court proceedings on Lawfare's litigation tracker.

Yep

Why not bring the kids along??? This administration is a National Security disaster waiting to happen.

Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...

NEW BOMBSHELL REPORTING FROM DER SPIEGEL

Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/

Stop Making Excuses for Not Fighting Trump The capitulations and acquiescence we’ve seen so far will only make opposition more difficult down the road.

"'Skadden,' Musk posted, 'this needs to stop now.' This could be an idle threat from Musk. It could also become official U.S. policy in the blink of an eye." How Dinesh D’Souza illustrates the inversion of law under Trump 2.0:

Marco Rubio removes LGBTQ+ people & women from annual human rights report - LGBTQ Nation He also removed sections on women, people with disabilities, and government corruption.

Marco Rubio, who used the Pulse mass shooting as an excuse to flip-flop on his promise to not run for reelection in 2016, is slashing LGBTQ+ people from annual human rights report: www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/marc...

Musk Donates to G.O.P. Members of Congress Who Support Impeaching Judges Amid a controversy over whether President Trump will abide by court rulings, Elon Musk gave the maximum to the campaigns of Republicans who back ousting judges who impede the administration.

The fact that the world’s richest man works at the behest of the executive and can buy out the legislature is massively outside the scope of what the framers could have imagined

there’s is simply no constitutional measure that can guard against something like this

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.

They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.

congratulations to john roberts who is as responsible for the current state of affairs as any single person in the country

oh this is a big mystery

@dmvaugha.bsky.social

Cariño, did you see this?

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.

Do not let anyone play games with you.

The Republican Party is more or less built on reactionary opposition to the Democrats policies rather than their own actual policy ideas, and unfortunately the Democrats’ most recent policy was “having a strong economy”

You're going to be tempted to engage in discourse focused on what Mahmoud Khalil said--was it actually antisemitic? Did he endorse Hamas?--and I cannot encourage you enough not to do that. It just doesn't matter what he said because you should not be detained and deported over what you say, period.

It's not that the kid is wrong, it's that he's wrong with utter and serene confidence. When people ask me why I wrote The Death of Expertise, it wasn't ignorance that compelled me to write, it was this kind of unbreakable, completely self-assured ignorance that did it.

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

Good morning! I am starting to host "Harry Hours" thru substack (probably will switch to zoom) This was a clip from the first one. Not only do we talk about everything thats going on and what we can do to fight back, but we try to have fun!! Join if you can!!! Lol ofcourse I love dad jokes.