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Sarah’s living room is just a pile of boxes. Like a hundred boxes. There’s also a cat and a hoagie.

Periodically my dad will show up to my house unannounced and do “is my daughter still insane” inspections. Usually I fail. Like the time there was a horseshoe crab* living in my kitchen? Yeah. I failed that time. That’s on me.

If he comes by any time soon I am definitely going to fail inspection.

Pritzker demands a $1,700 refund per family for the people of Illinois after Trump's tariffs were ruled unconstitutional.

Dems, pay attention. This is your midterms message.

ICE cause yet another car crash—try to arrest U.S. citizen driver that they hit.

"They're putting hands on him!" witness says. "Grabbing him!"

Agent try to handcuff man—but is too incompetent and must wait for backup.

"You just hit a disabled person!" man yells.

South Gate, California.

This:

"The intention here is not subtle. What is happening is not open to debate. The richest right wingers in America are buying up the entirety of mass modern media with an eye on building a permanent autocratic oligarchy coddled by wall-to-wall corporatist, right wing bullshit and propaganda."

friday reminder that we never log off but we do log out when necessary.

They're having trouble getting jurors in one of the cases against Elon Musk because "so many people hate him so much"

www.law360.com/articles/244...

CDC vaccine panel meeting postponed amid RFK Jr bid to reshape policy Postponement of ACIP meeting this month comes as US pediatricians challenge committee’s legitimacy in court

This month’s meeting of RFK Jr.’s ACIP has been postponed “amid legal challenges the panel is facing over its validity”.

I am thrilled that with the leadership of @doritreiss.bsky.social and @weparmet.bsky.social, we at @defendpublichealth.bsky.social have been supporting these legal challenges.

“It’s about time to have Christians standing up for what Jesus said,” including welcoming immigrants,” he said.

“People being pushed into unmarked vans by masked men isn’t it,” added his wife...

www.chicagocatholic.com/web/chicago-...

Trump’s economy is one piece of his tyrannical agenda.

Democrats can focus on both his authoritarianism and his poor economy in the midterms.

Under Pam Whitten’s tenure, IU ranks LAST in the country for free speech protections.

We want her gone. Please add your name to the pledge and share with your IU network!

My biggest takeaway from today’s SCOTUS ruling is that Donald Trump was mentioned over one million times in the Epstein files, yet somehow no one is holding him accountable.

His reaction may drive a wedge between him and the court and make them more independent. Hie temper tantrums (like December-January 2020 in Georgia) tend to compound his problems.

"Trump is stealing your money"

South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark. Physicians across South Carolina, home to the largest measles outbreak in decades, are advising patients without the benefit of real-time data on hospitalizations due to measles-related pneumonia, bra...

NEW: South Carolina, which doesn’t require hospitals to disclose measles-related admissions, has reported only 20 such hospitalizations since Oct. 2.

That leaves doctors with an incomplete picture of how the outbreak is affecting the community.

By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social

‘Andor’ Creator Tony Gilroy Gives the Interview He Couldn’t During Its Release While promoting his cautionary tale about fascism, Disney asked Gilroy to refrain from using the word. Nine months after it aired its finale, the 'Star Wars' series feels scarily prescient.

“So I’m not sure if we’ll ever see something like Andor again—made live, not by AI. Will someone ever spend that kind of money to make something live again [on streaming]? I don’t know if that will ever happen again, but what a great thing it is to be able to have done it. We got away with it ....”

How extremists reconquered Idaho in the age of Trump—and how some locals are fighting back “Who the fuck are these men?”

In March 2024, the University of Utah women’s basketball team, which was staying in Coeur d’Alene during the NCAA tournament, said they’d been subjected to racial harassment so frightening that they fled town.

AI executive: we all agree AI sucks shit right?

In like 2019 I was working on a story about how people like Jean-Luc Brunel (rot in piss) mainstreamed the "waif look" in order to provide cover for his human trafficking of teenagers, with the help of Epstein. No one would pick up the story and now I am the Joker

Iridescent quetzal bird with deep red chest feathers perched on mossy cloud forest branch.

Today's amazing bird, seen in the Monteverde Cloud Forest, is the quetzal. It was associated in pre-Columbian civilisations with Quetzalcoatl, the bird-snake god of life, knowledge and the winds. Killing one was forbidden so they were trapped and then released for their tail feathers. #Birds

Holy shit, the men really are facing consequences

No kidding…

The Palantir Gambit How Peter Thiel Became Big Brother — and How to Fight the Eye That Sees All

This is a guide for resisting Palantir. It's not a simple boycott because they don't sell direct to consumers, but we sure as hell can fight them with everything we have. psychopete1.substack.com/p/the-palant...

In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC. trib.al/n6hAZOC

In the heart of the anti-worker South, UAW Volkswagen workers ratified a landmark contract with major pay raises and stronger job security protections.

Meanwhile, union density increased in 2025, despite Trump’s war on workers.

Labor isn’t cowing to Trump’s attacks. Solidarity.

They have been working on rehabilitation of the kelp beds along the California coast, and his definitely improved our aquaculture.

Sounds like an unhinged threat.

Congress will vote to lower the age to prosecute minors as adults from 16 down to 14 in DC.

Let me get this straight:

Congress wants to prosecute 14 yr. olds as adults, but they don’t want to prosecute adults who sexually abuse 14 year olds?

Release the Epstein files.

This is a win for veterans everywhere. The fact that this was proposed in the first place was an insult to every person who has ever put on the uniform.

We will continue to hold this administration accountable to make sure our promises to those who served are kept, period.