Mascot rave actually seems like an incredibly effective tactic. There's absolutely no way to spin that the dancing unicorn was threatening.
08.10.2025 06:27 — 👍 775 🔁 179 💬 17 📌 3@eileengunn.bsky.social
"You can dream the American Dream, but you sleep with the lights on and wake up with a scream...." –– Warren Zevon Science fiction writer, radarangel, apophenista. www.eileengunn.com
Mascot rave actually seems like an incredibly effective tactic. There's absolutely no way to spin that the dancing unicorn was threatening.
08.10.2025 06:27 — 👍 775 🔁 179 💬 17 📌 3THE FLESH KING by me!
THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R. LANSDALE
SHADOW TICKET by Thomas Pynchon
My new book, THE FLESH KING is out today and available everywhere your get your books. But I’d feel like an ass if I didn’t mention new books by two of my favorite writers: THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R. LANSDALE and SHADOW TICKET by Thomas Pynchon. Why not go nuts and get all three?
07.10.2025 16:52 — 👍 107 🔁 33 💬 7 📌 1Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:
“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“
Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.
06.10.2025 03:18 — 👍 7520 🔁 1959 💬 73 📌 55Important update! Judge Karin Immergut just issued a broader temporary restraining order that precludes any National Guard troops from being in Oregon for 14 days.
06.10.2025 04:29 — 👍 1495 🔁 433 💬 46 📌 21The court granted our request for a Temporary Restraining Order — HALTING ANY FEDERALIZATION, RELOCATION, OR DEPLOYMENT of ANY GUARD MEMBERS TO OREGON FROM ANY STATE.
Trump’s abuse of power won’t stand.
ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies.
This is dangerous and could cause serious injury.
The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke.
They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”.
Stay strong Portland.
There are many ethical reasons to abandon Amazon and everything tethered to it, from Audible to Ring, Kindle, Whole Foods, Goodreads, and anything with "Amazon" in it.
The moral imperative to not support this small-business gutting, personal-data hoovering, and privacy-killing beast is clear.
Someone should write a spy novel about the fact--not even an exaggeration--that all you need to take out key NatSec officials in the US is to bribe one of 3 different rabid Xitter trolls to lie about them on Xitter.
04.10.2025 16:22 — 👍 1056 🔁 269 💬 20 📌 2Two.
Two.
They mounted a helicopter assault and destroyed an entire apartment building and zip tied all of its residents to arrest two guys for maybe being in a gang.
Tricia McLaughlin • @TriciaOhio X.com This morning, during routine patrolling in Broadview, in the same area of Chicago that law enforcement were assaulted yesterday, our brave law enforcement officers were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars. Agents were unable to move their vehicles and exited the car. One of the drivers who rammed the law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon. Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed US citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds. The armed woman was named in a @CBP intelligence bulletin last week for doxing agents and posting online 'Hey to all my gang let's fuck those mother fuckers up, don't let them take anyone.'
Thankfully, no law enforcement officers were seriously injured in this attack. Pritzker's Chicago Police Department is leaving the shooting scene and refuses to assist us in securing the area. There is a growing crowd and we are deploying special operations to control the scene. This is an evolving situation and we will give more information as soon as it becomes available. 1:19 PM • 10/4/25 • 52K Views
WHOA: DHS says that their officers were “rammed and blocked in” in Chicago and got out of their cars and shot an U.S. citizen who reportedly also had a gun and who had been tracking ICE raids. They are blaming the shooting on her, and say they were already tracking her socials. More details to come.
04.10.2025 17:43 — 👍 1140 🔁 475 💬 148 📌 139A DHS leader confers with a state of IL cop at a protest.
Snapped this pic of DHS conferring with the IL state police just before ICE attacked the crowd, while state and county police assisted them. ICE said, "This is your first and only warning" and then instantly attacked. We were not in the road at that time. They just wanted to assault us and film it.
03.10.2025 20:45 — 👍 877 🔁 391 💬 20 📌 25“He takes food and health care from the neediest and tries to, in his words, traumatize people—then he calls himself a Christian,” (Russell Vought's) neighbor said. "Pretty despicable."
03.10.2025 20:12 — 👍 756 🔁 224 💬 38 📌 5Truly this is the credo of Rupert Murdoch and all those who follow him. And it's the fundamental festering cancer on America's body politick.
03.10.2025 21:11 — 👍 23 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0Robert Reich is a national treasure. Read his new book, Coming Up Short.
01.10.2025 12:47 — 👍 553 🔁 100 💬 10 📌 4I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around the “they gave our highly private data to Big Balls” piece of all of this. It’s literally just a factual statement not a euphemism or hyperbole
03.10.2025 22:16 — 👍 87 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 0We're not at war with Venezuela, these boats are many hundreds of lines from our waters, much less our shores, there is no threat, this is just murder.
I really do think everyone from the SecDef to the guy who pushed the button should be tried for murder on this.
This is *exactly* right. The purpose of the shadow docket would be basically the opposite of this—e.g. to step in if a circuit court were going to allow summary deportations that placed individuals in danger. The conservative justices’ actions here are perverse.
03.10.2025 22:10 — 👍 654 🔁 165 💬 9 📌 0I saw a post the other day that said something to the effect of ICE is a job guarantee program for racists and domestic abusers and they weren't wrong
03.10.2025 22:42 — 👍 786 🔁 211 💬 27 📌 5Putting aside Kilmar Ábrego García’s fate in immigration court, which is not a real court:
He has been winning at every step of the federal judiciary, in a maze of criminal and civil cases, and that’s why the Trump administration is throwing everything at him.
This streak continues in Tennessee:
What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
03.10.2025 21:40 — 👍 26058 🔁 6631 💬 480 📌 155Was there some intermediate layer of discourse I missed out on or is the administration just straight-up saying that featuring a Puerto Rican performer is an insult to everything they stand for?
03.10.2025 22:57 — 👍 197 🔁 23 💬 19 📌 1Presidents? SCOTUS gives them immunity.
Corporations? SCOTUS makes it easier for them to pollute.
Billionaires? SCOTUS says they can buy elections.
But if you look Latino, speak Spanish, or work at a low wage job, SCOTUS says you can be abducted by masked agents.
The legacy of the Roberts court.
I've already informed my publishers that as the sole owner of the copyrights of my works, I expect any sums received by them to be forwarded to me. We'll see how that goes.
03.10.2025 16:39 — 👍 373 🔁 34 💬 8 📌 1People are asking: Why is Trump screwing American farmers so badly when they’re his most loyal voting bloc?
Maybe because it’s a cheap land grab. Run farmers out of business, then he and his billionaire buddies buy up millions of acres for pennies on the dollar.
Are the farmers catching on yet?
'Business was brisk at Powell’s Books, the downtown icon which inspired the new protest slogan: “Portland isn’t a war zone; it’s a bookstore with a city around it.”' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
03.10.2025 23:24 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0With the passing of Jane Goodall today, we lost one of the most consequential voices in environmental science and animal behavior. In 2002, she said, “We have found that…there isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom.”
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