Basic Witch

This got little attention at the time, but has become more relevant by the day …

Criminalising the documentation of events is a direct attack on press freedom, and it puts journalists - including nyt journalists - at grave risk

Is the @nytimes.com backing this prosecution?

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

Is Trump Giving Illegal Orders? Dems Just Blew That Question Wide Open From the boat bombings to deportations to prosecutions, the evidence mounts. And the speaker of the House could get to the bottom of it if he wanted to. Yeah, right.

The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders.

The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...

I love that I just landed on linguistics sky because I am exactly that nerd. Instant follow!

Nothing to see here. Just the White House needing to reassure the public that Piggy doesn't want to murder members of Congress. 😩

Daniel Lozano-Camargo was shipped to Venezuela despite federal court deal protecting him from deportation.

Now, he's missing.

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

@kylecheney05.bsky.social

A turkey is fenced in behind a sign on a post reading “LLAMA.”

Hal hadn’t survived three Thanksgivings by being stupid.

I'm seeing folks say "arth" is welsh for bear, so that must be why I heard the name Arthur meant that.

I feel like I heard somewhere that the name Arthur had do do with bears. Sometime in my King Arthur fixation phase. I could be making that up though.

Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.

Every story on Page One in Charlotte is about ICE/immigration:

@charlotteobserver.com

Walked through those men like they weren’t even there.

Just city after city where they roll in expecting to be greeted as liberators. On the day of Dick Cheney's funeral let's just remember that that never works.

A young black man in a topknot squatting next to a St Louis Cardinals poster he drew. There's a cardinal, the arch and skyline in shades of red, yellow and orange

Black Man in a beanie holding a three dimensional work of art he made of hulk smashing though a wall

Three white guys holding a collage project and smiling

Three white men surrounding a raccoon sculpture they made

I got a huge package of photos in the mail today of the art that my incarcerated friend Jeremiah and his friends have been able to make with your donated supplies. I will keep adding photos in this thread till we make it through all of them. Thank you for changing lives. 🩷

BREAKING: Epstein survivors say they don’t care whether their names are redacted, they want the full Epstein files released as-is, with every perpetrator exposed, per CNN.

Peak Highlandtown tbh. Love it.

I’m howling.

Ultra-processed food is global health threat, experts warn It is increasing our risk of a range of chronic diseases, including obesity and depression, a major review says.

It’s also a curse on the poor.

one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

NEW:

In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.

She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.

Then she died.

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Sign on a library book drop sign requesting people to yell "NOT A SQUIRREL" to confirm they are human and not a squirrel trying to steal Keith's lunch.

squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

‘Humbly, I’m sorry’: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s turning a new leaf after years of divisive comments | CNN Politics Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Sunday she will stop using “toxic” rhetoric, marking what would be a dramatic shift in a political brand hallmarked by derogatory comments.

The only thing that Marjorie Taylor Greene apologized for is taking part in "toxic politics." And all that means is that she's going to use a softer voice when trying to disenfranchise black people and strip us of our civil rights. www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/p...

Banning AI content is a great way to create a space where there's fresh, unadulterated content from humans which they can steal and sell off for new AI to be trained on.

Everything I know about Jack Dorsey suggests this AI-free Vine reboot is just a venture capitalist abattoir for human creativity.

Some of you point out that the big players have used various tricks to keep their own $ safe. True.

That's why we need to think about how to prosecute them for fraud.

Those bubble-inflating claims - AI will cure all disease! end climate change! double lifespans! - are essentially Theranos X 1000.

Don't do any of this.

When you're disappointed in leadership, demand better. Primaries are a healthy part of the democratic process. This is especially true when we're up against a fascist regime and the primary is about whether or not your Dem is going to fight back.

The AI bubble may be about to bust.

Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.

We all need to say this very clearly:

NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!

Expropriate their asses instead.

They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.

They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

It's the season where I'm most "I don't want to do a capitalism, I want to nest and rest"

Senator Menendez is sitting in his cell at Allenwood right now because he took a 1kg gold bar from the Egyptians, among other forms of “lobbying.”

Photo collage of 8 democratic senators who voted to reopen government

Democrats Recommend Americans Just Offset Health Insurance Costs With Insider Trading