Naomi Shapiro

This is the legacy moment for Disney CEO Robert Iger, a man who once toyed with a Presidential run as a Democrat. You stand up for unpopular free speech or you stand against all free speech. There's no middle.

Duckworth: Pete Hegseth Needs to Resign in Disgrace | U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois

Not a historian, but to my knowledge, this is the first time a sitting US Senator — or member of Congress, generally — or perhaps any senior US gov’t official — has included an f-bomb in an official press release.

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The Trump administration announced that 10,000 employees of the Department of Health and Human Services would be fired.

Whatever happened to the "5 things " DoGe emails ? Talked to someone really smart who just left gov, who said all the emails bounced back as inbox full.

Already forgotten

Typical

Ready Fire Aim

Vanity, duh. But to be honest, I'm more of an Azrael.

The First Amendment protects everyone's right to criticize the government without fear of retribution.

We’re in court today challenging an executive order by the Trump administration that denies accurate passports to transgender, non-binary, and intersex people.

Everyone deserves the ability to travel safely and freely.

Me in the national security group chat.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

More stuff you couldn't make up if you tried.

Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to landmark press freedom case It stemmed from a request filed by casino mogul and Trump donor Steve Wynn.

The Supreme Court declined to hear a case seeking to challenge the 1964 precedent that protects news outlets from litigation for publishing critical information about public figures.

Bernie standing next to AOC holding a rally attendee’s baby with people taking pictures, laughing and smiling.

Timeline cleanse 🌞

This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites.

Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.

Finale Day.

film still #66
Adam with balloons.
#severance

UK Subs detained

@joellenovey.bsky.social wrote this:

The whole entire world

is a very narrow bridge

and the main thing to recall

I can’t remember right now

because the people who taught me that song

and the ones I sang it with

may make the same excuses

when they come for me, and you

Industrial Revolution Provides Millions Of Out-Of-Work Children With Jobs

Industrial Revolution Provides Millions Of Out-Of-Work Children With Jobs
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Imagine if you helped save a country that you had every reason to hate and this was the thanks you got

How to Reduce Gun Deaths? One Group Teaches Young People How to Use Them. An organization in Chicago is trying to apply a strategy used for fighting drug addiction to reduce gun violence.

A group in Chicago is trying a different tactic to address gun violence: Keep your guns if you must, but learn how to handle them safely. They teach small groups of teenagers and young adults skills like first aid for gunshot wounds and how to avoid accidental discharges.

I don’t get why the smarter people in the party aren’t organizing loudly, just around these dingos.

Just act like Schumer doesn’t exist and go build a movement.

Call it whatever.

Everyone’s being so damn careful now.

As though their reelection matters if we never have elections again.

Antisemitism in the Oval Office A confrontation seen with a historian's eye

“About one thing I am certain. Our eyes have to be open to what we do not wish to see.” - @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Bonus points for getting The Inquisition stuck in my head on a Monday morning.

This would be funny, if only it wasn't real life. Sigh.

Esther: The Patron, uh, Saint of Crypto-Jewry honoring the legacies of those living double life

The tale of Esther-- of a heroine who had to hide her Jewishness to survive in a foreign court--was v important to Crypto-Jews, who appeared to convert to survive the Inquisition but secretly practiced their religion at home.

Their story, & why it matters for us as Christian Nationalism rises:

DEI is fascistcode for “the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”

That’s what’s under attack.

Don’t let them lull you into thinking that it’s “only” policies aimed at addressing the white patriarchal ableist mediocrity that has been our nation’s default and giving others an equitable shot.

(“Only,” ha.)

Reporter:
"Your Foreign Affairs Minister yesterday called all of this a psychodrama. How do you characterize it?"

The PM:
"Thursday."

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American media are not covering Europe sufficiently. A 🧵
Here is @mathieuvonrohr.bsky.social in Der Spiegel declaring that "America is now our adversary." Tragic and true. 1/

What could possibly go wrong? 🫢