Sarah MacTavish

This week has been rough, but today I dragged myself out of the house to go renew my library card, so I'm feeling pretty good right now.

Forced myself to watch a few clips of the Christian Nationalist rally from Sunday... that was some of the most Satanic shit I've ever seen.

The reaction to Kirk’s murder on the right is a reminder that Republicans are the most bad faith people on the face of the planet.

Matthew Dowd — strategist of the ugly 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign that railed against gay rights and swift-boated Kerry — thought Charlie Kirk practiced a hateful politics. The “liberal” cable network fired him for saying that.

We shouldn’t celebrate a death but we also shouldn’t whitewash a life.

"Good times create weak men" is a particularly bad statement. Good, strong people can come from times of peace. Strength doesn't *only* come from adversity. And worse is this idea that peace will make men "weak." There's definitely some toxic masculinity in that.

Yeah not a fan. Like other people are saying this is overly simplistic and ahistorical, but it's also got some layers of misogyny, white-knight attitudes, and implies that the only thing that makes strong, "good" men is... war? This is definitely a right-wing meme, even if that wasn't your intent.

ACTION OPPORTUNITY: Public Comment Period for urging CDC to restore old guidelines that everyone get COVID vaccine access, opposing new restriction to high-risk only (which will reduce number of places stocking it & make it easier for insurance to deny coverage). Commenting takes literally 1 minute!

I asked ChatGPT What You Did Last Summer It Told Me to Kill Myself and Also a Village Has No Water Now

Do you mind sharing what tool you're using to track this? The link clicks specifically?

What a shit headline! She was LOCKED in and being held against her will!

Oh HELL no 🤬

New reporting from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social, who got hold of internal standards for chatbot behavior at Meta.

Texas Democrats responding to Abbott’s stupid threats with “Come and take it” might be the only time I’ve ever heard that phrase and been proud to be a Texan.

Gerrymandering: when data science meets moral bankruptcy.

Gerrymandering: the art of mathematically disproving majority rule.

Boycott the city of Keller

This .. make AI to expensive and liable to be used with impropriety and then fund and manage suing them when its fails

They should WANT this because it would prove that they had responsibility

Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding Senator on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods, a disaster worsened by forecasting cuts, critics say Ted Cruz has had quite a week. On Tuesday, the Texas senator ensured the Republican spending bill slashed funding for weather forecasting, only to then go on vacation to Greece while his state was hit by deadly flooding, a disaster critics say was worsened by cuts to forecasting. Cruz, who infamously fled Texas for Cancun when a crippling winter storm ravaged his state in 2021, was seen visiting the Parthenon in Athens with his wife, Heidi, on Saturday, a day after a flash flood along the Guadalupe River in central Texas killed more than 100 people, including dozens of children and counselors at a camp. Continue reading...

Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding

@nytimes.com Your Strands today is really fucking insensitive, shame on you.

Whatever you believe, say a prayer for the camp I went to growing up. Massive flooding in Kerr County, Texas. Several cabins at Mystic apparently were swept away. Last count was 23 missing. The youngest cabins - 8 and 9 year old girls. I've been sick to my stomach all day.

Absolutely devastating. Please pray for these girls.

Hood County Texas constable literally calling for violence on Facebook on 6/27/25:

Tarrant County Republican Bo French shared a poll asking: who is a bigger threat to America - Jews or Muslims?

Lt Gov Dan Patrick is calling for the immediate resignation of Bo French.

Fort Worth mayor Mattie Parker says Bo French must resign due to his hateful tweets.

How hateful do you have to be to ignite the ire of other MAGAs? Tarrant County TX GOP chair Bo French just found out. #fortworth #dallas #dfw #texas

Migrant family sues over US detention in what may be first challenge to courthouse arrests involving kids | CNN A mother and her two young kids are fighting for their release from a Texas immigration detention center in what is believed to be the first lawsuit involving children challenging the Trump administra...

A mother and her two young kids are fighting for their release from a Texas immigration detention center in what is believed to be the first lawsuit involving children challenging the Trump administration’s policy on immigrant arrests at courthouses.

I confess: I’m in the pocket of Big Do Your Own G.D. Writing or Don’t Call Yourself a Writer.

right-wingers will often say that America deserves credit for ending slavery rather than blame for having slavery. but then we made a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery and they still got mad, which should tell you what their real objection is.

“Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won; you earn it and win it in every generation.”
- Coretta Scott King

For those who say “Illegal is illegal.”

On this Juneteenth, remember: slavery was once legal. Harboring a fugitive enslaved person? Illegal. Black freedom? Illegal. “Illegal is illegal” has always been used to defend injustice.

Legality ≠ morality. Justice calls us higher.

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.