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A post by Rebecca Johnson: “I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.” A tumblr respond from mightymur: “The final, brilliant word on passive voice. "She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive "Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours.

There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds.

Also, release the damn Epstein files already.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

This descriptive quote from @acitrano.bsky.social says it all.

"It's almost impossible to believe he exists. It's as if we took everything that was bad about America, scraped it up off the floor, wrapped it all up in an old hot dog skin, and then taught it to make noises with its face."

Realistically, if a bunch of SUVs rolled up on ICE, with mask wearing goons, even ICE would be confused who was or wasn't in their posse.

More hand to hand combat with Portland Antifa!

Pt2🧵: Greta Thunberg deported to Athens says, "Global Samud Flotilla are not heroes. Our mistreatment by Israel is not the story. We need more than humanitarian aid to Gaza, we need to stop the decades-long siege. The violence of 'business as usual.' Genocides fueled by our own governments."

'People Are Being Robbed': Maine's Platner Credited for Showing Democrats How to Win Back Trump Voters Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner urges compassion for working-class Americans disillusioned by Trump's false promises, offering a path to win back voters.

'People Are Being Robbed': Maine's Platner Credited for Showing Democrats How to Win Back Trump Voters

Immigrating legally shouldn't be hard. Harassing immigrants shouldn't be easy. | Alabama Reflector You can't immigrate to the United States "the right way" when the system makes it effectively impossible to come to the country legally.

Commentry by Brian Lyman

Here’s an Orwellian word for you: “self-deport.”

And it’s nonsense, as the hell that descended on two Alabama immigrants shows.

alabamareflector.com/2025/10/06/i...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

very heartening to see even many of the people driving by stopping to yell at them

these guys are gassing themselves up online with stupid memes but in person they are the villains and everyone knows it

Turns out, 6 months was optimistic

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

We fought a revolution so that we would not be subject to the rule of a king who could make law by decree.

An executive order does not overturn the Constitution.

Chicago Cop Who Falsely Blamed an Ex-Girlfriend for Dozens of Traffic Tickets Pleads Guilty but Avoids Prison Retired officer Jeffrey Kriv acknowledged repeatedly lying under oath to avoid paying dozens of speeding and other traffic tickets. Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key w...

Retired officer Jeffrey Kriv acknowledged repeatedly lying under oath to avoid paying dozens of speeding and other traffic tickets.

Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key witness because of credibility issues.

By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social

Supreme Court lets Noem end legal status for many Venezuelans in the U.S. The majority gave virtually no reasoning. The Democratic appointees objected, but only Justice Jackson wrote: "[Y]et another grave misuse of our emergency docket."

Friday’s SCOTUS decision was issued in a brief, unsigned order that contained virtually no reasoning. It was accompanied by no signed opinions from any of the justices in the majority and over opposition from the three Democratic appointees. Only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote.

+ andytheg 13h My ID says my name is Andrew. Nobody calls me Andrew, everyone calls me Andy because I introduce myself as Andy and ask people to call me Andy. Nobody says, "ok but your name is Andrew, I'm not calling you Andy" This is a post about supporting trans people

This is what “common sense” looks like! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Podcast: The Deportation of Mario Guevara: Where Attacks on Immigrants and Journalists Collide Salvadoran-born journalist Mario Guevara was deported today, Friday, after his arrest in June, while covering protests in Georgia against the immigration raids of Trump’s first months. He was the…

The deportation of Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara isn’t only a story of attacks on immigrants in Georgia; it highlights another trend: By August, assaults on journalists in the U.S. had already reached a four-year high. beta.elfaro.net/en/a-region-...

Thread.

I need to know who put the money up for all this media placement of a non story this week

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

The analogy she gives in this is really, really powerful. Please give it a full watch all the way through.

A very few people like this really do exist

Infographic that says in 2023, 70% of police killings began with officers responding to a suspected non-violent situation or a case where no crime had been reported.

Police contact of any kind is not innocuous: most police killings start with officers responding to a suspected non-violent situation or a case where no crime has been reported.

www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/12...

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10.

Windows 7 use is surging 5x now.

AI is product poison.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

The iconic mating call between the computer and the internet is no more: