Sheila Allen

People have a right to their feelings, so have a right to feel anger that they can’t have an illiberally uncompromising POTUS who meets their all their personal criterial for perfection of ideals.

But democratic systems require incremental consensus-building, to “form a more perfect union”.

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.

Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏

"Biological people" was always where this eugenicist rhetoric was headed - ie "biological women", "biological pronouns" - because they genuinely don't believe trans people are even human. This dehumanizing language is essential for them to paint trans people as genetically incompatible with society.

i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.

It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.

This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.

This is almost everything the government is doing.

Leaving aside the pure evil for a second, he’s a total dumbass. His whole argument is that if you make sinking random civilian boats legal, you need Palantir to make sure they’re bad, because obviously the laws will be super tight, right?

Nvm that they’re doing it now, sans law, sans Palantir.

I want to read this soon…maybe this weekend.

The House of Shattered Wings Audiobook on Libro.fm Multi-award-winning author Aliette de Bodard brings her story of the War in Heaven to Paris, igniting the City of Light in a fantasy of divine power and deep conspiracy.In the late twentieth century, ...

Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll give it a
try in audiobook form, available from my favorite audiobook site:

libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Buy the three pound bags of pealed garlic cloves from Costco and roast them in the crockpot. Let cool and use a cookie scoop to make consistently sized flavor bombs for relatively little effort.

I learned this garlic trick from @beebirdmoth.bsky.social who described the process for making frozen roast garlic bombs

- buy fresh garlic in bulk
- mince and roast the entire batch
- roll into balls
- freeze
- drop a garlic bomb into whatever you’re cooking

I never seem to understand references to the supposed Discourse of the day. Is it a list or something?

I follow a variety of journalists, commentators from multiple communities of interest, favorite authors, read newspapers, etc…but only have 10-15 min available daily to look at these.

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there.

Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

JUST IN: Democrats have flipped the mayor's office in Roswell, Georgia, in tonight's runoff.

GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him.

(This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)

Great for those who have a CostCo nearby and can brave the crowds. I would like to see Costco in more locations, and improve their app to the same quality as Target’s app. Also curbside pickup would help reduce crowding in Costco stores. There’s a new COVID variant going around…

I don’t like the changes at Target, but Amazon and Walmart represent worse anti-competitive menaces to society.

Not shopping at Target means: more time and effort shopping at separate stores for office supplies, kitchenware, groceries, hardware, personal care, cleaning supplies, clothing, etc.

Liberals are not a monolithic group, it doesn’t help to blame the entirety of liberalism by hand-waving about the failures of a few incompetent liberals.

Such hand-waving just feeds the fascist atmosphere. It’s counterproductive.

Close up of Mark Zuckerberg's face, no expression, emotionless.

While women and women's groups are targeted & banned on Meta products almost immediately for disrespecting men and posting pictures of breast feeding, rape advertising & trafficking gets at least 17 strikes before Meta takes any action. #opdeatheaters

www.theverge.com/news/827658/...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Affordability and Accountability

Cut the Corruption

Out Damn Fascists

Both things can be true. I think both Reich and Sanders would probably agree about the systemic aspects being the major driver of corporate greed.

But it’s also worth painting that picture of those addled by love of money and power, to show why systemic limits and incentives require governance.

There are many things I love about Finland but somehow the fact it's the sort of country to make another country go "Who shall we send as ambassador...? I know! THIS guy!!!" kinda captures the essence of ALL of it.

It's only going to get worse for trans people as the FBI under Bailey will make prosecuting trans people and parents of trans youth a higher priority. They'll start by trying to effectively ban access to HRT throughout the US.

NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...

Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Nobody knows the difference between blackrock and blackstone, it’s near constant mistake of people to get mad at BlackROCK for buying homes when it’s BlackSTONE doing it.

Blackrock is primarily a massive ETF public equities holder with quite small private equity holdings in comparison.

Every one of these posts makes me giggle at the very serious pundits who say BlueSky is in a bubble

Weirdly most high trust societies imprison considerably fewer people than America does. In fact no country on the planet imprisons as many people as America does.

Cottonwood trees with yellow leaves

The Rio Grande Bosque is showing off right now. #bosque #newmexico #riogrande #albuquerque #fallcolors

Excerpt: “This is particularly galling because Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly, explicitly declared that these mergers were undertaken to reduce competition, which is the only circumstance in which pro-monopoly economists and lawyers say that mergers should be blocked.”

NEWS: ICE List Launches Wiki to Expose Enforcement Network The Europe-based volunteer-built database links raids, agents, vehicles, and legal structures, aiming to break the cycle of official secrecy.

NEWS: European advocates launch "Wikipedia of ICE agents" to expose enforcement network migrantinsider.substack.com/p/news-ice-l...

Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Democrats to be executed: "Attorneys have to parse the language and determine all that."