WTF, @bsky.app?!? If you’re serious about building a platform and want people to stick around, maybe don’t suspend the accounts that keep us here. Shit move.

I got the gofundme update in my email yesterday and my heart broke all over again for her. Thanks for posting this, and for helping her.

He’s also been talking about getting into heaven. There was a photo that looked like he had a catheter bag on his calf. My mind jumped to diuretics for congestive heart failure. There have also been rumors of strokes during both terms (would make sense w/hand bruises due to anticoagulants).

[people screaming] 55:32 S03E16 The Return, Part 16: No Knock, No Doorbell (August 27 2017)

"Democratic capitulators whose seats would be filled by Democratic governors in the event of vacancy (Durbin, Fetterman, Kaine, King) should be under immense pressure to resign mid-session. Now, even. Or in Kaine’s case, after Abigail Spanberger is sworn in. If your senator fits that bill, get loud"

NYT: We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Truth they're hiding: A leaked internal memo from The New York Times revealed that editors instructed journalists covering Gaza to avoid or strictly limit certain words and phrases. Words like "slaughter," "massacre," and "carnage" were among those flagged. The document also advised journalists to avoid terms such as "genocide," "ethnic cleansing," "occupied territory," and "Palestine," except in narrow legal or historical contexts. It discouraged describing Gaza's "refugee camps" as such, suggesting they be referred to as neighborhoods instead.

"We seek truth and help people better understand the world."

Every federal worker who has been clocking in without pay, every protestor who showed up for No Kings, every voter who turned out for Dems Tuesday, every community member confronting SS ICE in our streets - all of us braver & better than these "leaders."

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit

this should not be controversial 🫠

I’ve been saying this to my husband for weeeeeks! There should be a recall mechanism for every elected official, at every level of govt.

it is pretty darkly funny seeing posts like URGENT!!!! it is SUNDAY EVENING you must PUT DOWN YOUR DINNER and call your senator IMMEDIATELY to politely request they not press the big button marked "fuck you". this will not actually stop them from pressing the fuck you button. functioning democracy

never occurred to any dem at all including dems from illnois to attempt to condition reopening the government on ending the military occupation of chicago btw don't think we didn't notice that

Chuck, portrayed by Paul Scheer, a member of the Good Place Committee: "He's got a point. The fair thing for us to do is just keep giving up more and more stuff we want, unilaterally, until this demon is finally happy."

Democrats, coming off a historic national protest against fascism and a country-wide electoral sweep:

You’re not the only one. I cry sometimes, too.

Is this part of today’s agreement?

But also, Pritzker has made rousing speeches and then let his state police brutalize protesters at the ICE facility over and over again. He’s not backing up his words with actions.

I’m not attacking anyone. The information is there if you’d bothered to look for it instead of being skeptical about how the snap funds were disbursed. I don’t think that Kotek has been particularly good at leading the state through this.

Dems suck at comms, but the info is out there if you’re willing to take the time to look for it. We can’t expect to be spoon-fed every detail of every political mess. It’s our responsibility to stay informed. From the article in the link:

In a remarkable twist, even our cops testified against the fed govt. The MAGA cops who commute from exurbs in WA state said, “No, thanks.” How bad do you have to be at lying to get even the local cops (famously good at lying and eager to do violence!) to refuse to co-sign your garbage?

Funny, he appointed Karen Immergut, the judge in Portland preventing his deployment of the NG. Her ruling last week was a scathing rejection of DHS/DOJ’s claims, and their willingness to enter obvious lies into record. But he’ll never say that his own appointees are ruling against him.

I waited ~4 months for the audiobook! It looks like my library has many more copies now than it did while I was waiting.

I wasn’t implying that it was. I was supplying additional details.

Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.”

Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”

One of the people in the segment, @angierasmussen.bsky.social, has been posting updates.

The initial account that I read said that an agent hit the baby in the head with a soccer or volleyball that they found in the car.

Sounds like they’re laying the groundwork to disenfranchise women.

Evanston resident Jennifer Moriarty, one of three residents detained by border patrol agents last Friday, describes being driven around by agents in Evanston and Chicago before being released:

"We were never arrested. We were never charged ... it was surreal."

The most heartening thing about right now is the propensity of my neighbors to run towards trouble

That was my first thought. The money’s gone.

Imagine if the indie journalists & collectives all over the country could all publish on a centralized website, in addition to their own, and readers could have access to all of that work in one place for a flat fee. Like a national digital newspaper, if you will. If I had the cash….