Naa Marteki Reed 💃🏾 💖

🚨THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Chicago journalists are suing the Trump administration for using excessive force against reporters & protestors in violation of the 1A.
The press here is doing astounding work documenting how ICE is out of control. The violence they face in doing so is obscene.

*Link was another early connection.

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

Maybe it’ll be untangled soon. I have faith in Rudy. He was one of my first connections here after leaving Twitter as it was important to me to stay connected to Black folks online. Link was another early collection.

Subsistence as I figure out a strategy for leaving the Bluesky-moderated environment while still being able to post & repost folks. Blacksky was my plan, but the moderation seems all entangled.

A small glass bowl filled with dark yellow, orange, and red mini sweet peppers that have been well seasoned and lightly blistered in a frying pan. They look delicious and are delicious for snacking on their own or a side dish for a meal.

Mini sweet peppers recipe:

Wash, slice into fourths, & remove all seeds.

Heat frying pan on med-high. Coat pan well in olive oil. Shake lots of garlic powder & onion powder. Add peppers. Shake lots of salt, black pepper, & mustard powder.

Fry for 10 mins, flipping often, until lightly blistered.

You’ll now be able to get an updated coronavirus shot in every state without a prescription, according to the American Pharmacists Association.

CVS and Walgreens have stated you won’t need to attest to any underlying conditions and the questions will be removed from their online booking system.

This one's really great, for anyone who's not already sick of hearing about Jay Graber & waffles & why what she & the rest of the Bluesky team are doing is so ridiculously incompetent & awful

what if Bsky is only here to teach everyone how atproto is working behind the scenes via insane and infuriating moderation decisions

like i am seeing people who never pressed f12 on a page talking about PDS and Appviews and decentralized moderation lol

So bans by Bluesky still effectively ban people on Blacksky.

This is such a bad system like what the hell

yeah this is the thing that was apparent with the app-level moderation, the premise of decentralization and giving you the tools to whatever is clearly not really how it's designed. it's just enough to tell the users to do it themselves unless .team is really sick of you in which case

FREE LINK

"decentralized"

Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school.

Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST ASKED IF I WAS EVER IN A GIFTED PROGRAM 🙌🏾

And then we ran out of time repeatedly for tasks because I was talking and talking and sharing too much negative info about my childhood and adult past in too much detail, lol, oops, my bad, we’ll see what the assessment says

Related, likely: about to head out the door to go to a full neuropsychological evaluation for several hours. Looking to confirm some of my diagnoses, and see if another suspected one is clinically present.

Gifted and Talented program through public school (elementary through 7th grade), plus they skipped me two whole grades in elementary. So I ended up graduating from my private college prep high school at the age of 16.

Heavy sigh.

Yet again… it’s happening yet again.

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties. Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go. “I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Photo of Marteki wearing a black N95 mask and sitting in a bright red chair used as part of a makeshift waiting room for vaccinations at her local CVS drugstore. She has two latex-free CVS-branded bandages on her right arm, signifying that she just received her autumn flu and COVID vaccines. She’s also looking directly at the camera in a way that maybe reveals some of her weariness. Her two teen and tween kids are just off-screen and are not visible.

Important status update: went to get flu and COVID vaccines with the 14-year-old and 12-year-old, walked away with six CVS incentive coupons to spend even more money there than I already do

The point of government is to have nerds doing everything important, and in return you never have to think about whether something works or is going to collapse because you know that nerds are taking care of it.

Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

friends with large accounts, I'm not going to pester you personally but just generally speaking, I would sure appreciate a signal boost on this thing. We seem to have leveled out, and since this is a one-shot (won't be in bookstores) I'd like to get it out there as much as possible.

“A country cannot bluff its way to stable equilibria. And it cannot compel cooperation while actively dismantling the mechanisms that make cooperation rational.

In 2025, the world is not guessing what America might do. It’s remembering what it already did, and playing accordingly.”

I’ve been having a hard time finding the words to write to recognize today. It’s been a rough day.

10 years, 8 months, 20 days. The sum of my federal employee days across 2 agencies, but yet only one statute. 2, 4, 6, 8, Dodd-Frank is pretty great.

Time to flex and change. Onwards and upwards.

This is one of the things people mean when they say equality doesn't mean equity.

Just a reminder that the shaving thing is because Black men are more likely to have curly facial hair that gets trapped under the skin causing pseudofolliculitis barbae. So they get a shaving waver so their faces don't burn. He got rid of the waiver

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators” New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

FYA. Be aware & be awake.

“It’s hard to overstate how much different NSPM-7 is from the over 200 executive orders Trump has frantically signed since coming back into office. …
In other words, they’re targeting pre-crime, to reference “Minority Report”.”

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Toad leans forward in his chair, sipping tea, transfixed by Frog's ghost story. From "Shivers" In *Days with Frog and Toad*

Toad sipped his tea. “Frog,” he asked, “are you making this up?”

“Maybe yes and maybe no,” said Frog.

I know a lot of people won’t click through to read about “med beds” so here’s the crucial quote to explain how fucking crazy this is.

Trump just posted an AI video of himself promising every American access to this.