Rochelle Not a Nice Lady Phillips

"The brilliance of the people in Chicago and the people in Minneapolis: they run towards the whistles, which is a scary thing to do. After two people have been shot, they run towards them and they start recording, and they've made it impossible for the administration to lie about what's happening."

This is it. This is what I'm talking about. This is everything. bsky.app/profile/sean...

Madame Defarge is an entire vibe. The needles clicking as she records the names going faster to match her fury.
It’s been years since I read it but that scene made an impression on my psyche.

As a mother and grandmother this breaks my heart and enrages me. What the fuck is wrong with us?

Is anyone else mad at the fact that they have to pay federal taxes for bullshit they don't want? Like new ballrooms, the Gestapo, child torture, and human trafficking.

I wanna pay for education, social services, UBI, and universal health care! I'm so gotdamn mad right now, I need to lie down.

This is horrifying for so many reasons. The one I'm thinking of right now is the billion dollars spent to torture and terrorize and imprison people could easily buy all of us healthcare, child care, parental leave, affordable housing ... all the things the Epstein Class swears we can't afford.

New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart

1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks

2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

What would be even cooler is that he could end hunger and homelessness within a year.

This whistle fights fascists I print whistles now. You can too.

Fantastic article about the amazing work being done by the authors behind @romancingthevote.com. Sharing this with family and friends who are dealing with ICE in Washington state and might need whistles.

A multicolored quilt made of of scraps with the words WE KNOW WHAT WE SAW staggered down it with a large beautiful eye centered between the words. The eye has a rainbow camera aperture as the iris. It is quilted densely.

Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.

I’ll add something I think is really important—people who have caregiving duties, jobs, and mental and physical conditions that make their job just getting through each day, I see you. I honor that. Taking care of you & what you need to do to get thru it is important. Survive 💚

Melt the Ice Mini Bag Charm pattern by Chiara Bertolani This is a pattern for a 3D bag charm in the shape of the Melt the Ice hat. The finished product measures about 7x7cm (2.5x2.5in) circa, weights about 9g total (less than 1/2oz) and has a loop on top t...

Yes. It’s a free Ravelry download.

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K-Pop Superbowl Halftime next year. Let's keep the assholes angry.

JD Vance admits he is willing to ‘create stories’ to get media attention Republican vice-presidential candidate defends spreading false, racist claims demonizing Haitian immigrants

Apparently in addition to Springfield (as basically in the entire city) having to shut down today, 30 columbus public schools received bomb threats today as did the Ohio Statehouse. JD Vance manufactured this moment.

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Hey, my name is in the Epstein files! I've told the story before, but should probably re-up.

TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no.

It's not that hard to just say no.

I think people purchase them and save them for such occasions especially in areas where the sale of fireworks is limited to 10 days twice a year. Some states sell them year round.

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

There’s maybe a week or two a year that it’s cold enough to wear a hat where I am. I still purchased the pattern. I may make a couple and send them up north for someone who needs it.
I also found a cute mini version I can crochet as a bag charm or pin to wear.

Please don't accuse people in knitted hats of only wearing their supposed politics if all you're doing is posting, which is basically just another way of wearing your politics. It's a silly thing to attack people over in any case. Using fashion to signal support for ongoing acts of rebellion is good

I know nothing about rocket science (neither does Elon, apparently), but this feels a lot like Hollywood realizing that broadcast television is a better business model than streaming ninety years after the invention of broadcast television

It’s truly amazing how well caffeine can help other medications work better or simply has a positive effect on conditions depending on how your body metabolizes it.

it will really be something if the Epstein Files unseat a British Prime Minster who isn't in them, and not the American President who was Epstein's best friend.

Yeah, this isn’t going to end well for them.

Yup. Stares while recovering from a second bout of Covid that I got despite masking.

I didn't have TikTok on my phone when it was Chinese spyware, I'm not going to have it on my phone when it is US spyware

This is annoying but I understand. The post I quoted was about the Irish permanent resident who has been detained by ICE for 5 months. Most of the responses seemed shocked because he’s a white man. It shouldn’t take a white immigrant man in detention for you to be outraged.

Said on the daily.

Louder. For those in the back

(Because this has been the hobby horse I've ridden ever since library school, not because it has anything to do with the funny you shared) the constitution is also in French and Spanish so that /all/ the colonialists could read it, not just the English ones

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."