Niki LaGrone

Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

If Linda McMahon and the Department of Education believe in "efficiency and accountability" (after laying off half of the department), then I'm sure they'll gladly publish a list of every position that has been eliminated and why that position is no longer needed.

Here are the top 5 dog reunions of all time!

The sheer evil and depravity of US immigration officials is beyond belief. Everyone involved should be named and shamed for this.

One thing I'm fucken sick of hearing is that people on the poverty line "don't want handouts."

Well, the rich take hand outs. Maybe they're rich bc they were offered handouts. Maybe they're rich bc they take them.

This "shame in receiving free money" for the poor but not the rich makes me SO MAD

Four or so small, purple mushrooms. They have small, round, bright purple caps, and tall, slender, bright purple stems. They are growing dispersed from green mossy ground

✨💜✨

#WhimsyWednesday

Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads (Gift Article) Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the United States so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

EXCLUSIVE: Hackers leak cop manuals for departments nationwide after breaching major provider Critics accuse the company of wielding outsized private influence on public policing.

NEW: A group known as the 'puppygirl hacker polycule' has leaked thousands of police training & policy manuals from departments across the country www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipo...

Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.

The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

It’s all theatrics and performative.

Trump creates the problem or challenge.

Trump then offers a fake fix or solution to the fake problem or challenge.

Trump sycophants then cheer him as a genius and a political leader and problem-solver for the ages.

Rinse and repeat.

Theatrics. That’s it.

if you’re 25 years old with control of the entire treasury system and you don’t delete every student debt file, you are the biggest loser the world has ever seen

Afternoon everyone - a few more additions to the #TrustBlackWomen Starter Pack

Please give a big welcome to:
@reginadavismoss.bsky.social
@storyandsoul.bsky.social
@purplevh80.bsky.social
@laceesatcher.bsky.social

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Elon Musk’s team has gotten access to the Treasury Department’s payments system.

This is so catastrophically bad.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

I know that all these institutions know how to push back because when Obama directed them to enforce pre-existing Title IX law, universities said no.

They flat out refused until there was a working group and specific guidelines. And even then, they *still* refused.

If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it.

Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice.

But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word.

They aren’t firing for a reason.

as the rollercoaster crests the top of the initial incline, the ratcheting noise slows and stops, and you can, right before the plunge, observe the entire amusement park

Ruminating on the fact that I'll likely hit no marker of traditional adulthood. I won't own a home, have a child, get married. Can't retire from a career I never had, no milestone birthdays with the family I don't have, etc. Tbh, even my funeral won't be a robust affair. Choices have consequences.

A stick is held upright at an angle to show its underside is covered in Splitgill mushrooms, one stacked above the next, each of them radiating gills from their center, above a leaf covered forest floor Photo by me #mushroomsky #fungifriends

Here are some nice mushrooms

Low angle view of a rosy bonnet mushroom with an upturned wavy cap highlighting its glowing soft pink gills and a tall pale pink stem growing through a carpet of leaf litter on a forest floor.

🌸 rosy bonnet 🌸

A cluster of mushrooms growing vertically pokes out of a gap between bark and wood on a decaying stump.

📷🍄 Peeking out

#fungifriends #mushrooms #mycology #photography #macrophptography #pennsylvania #naturalist

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments. Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.

Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

Watercolor illustration of two shorthaired cats, one black and one black and white, both standing inside a large window. Both cats are mesmerized by the sight of a cute little brown squirrel snacking just outside the window in front of them.

Gosh dang squirrels!! From ‘The Cat and the Kitten’ by Berta and Elmer Hader, 1940.

I posted my favorite mushroom photo I’ve ever taken (and I’ve taken thousands!) when I first joined, but I didn’t know about #fungifriends yet, so I’m reposting it. Waxcap. #naturephotography #forestfloor

Blue and tan Eastern Bluebird perched on a thin branch.

Eastern Bluebird

Don't stop noticing the beauty around you...

I keep thinking about those congresspeople kneeling in the rotunda wearing kente cloth scarves, very performative. There has been no loud, visible, unified support for Sarah McBride from the democrats. It’s a real disgrace. That is your colleague! They are bullying her in your faces. And silence!

It's 'Blame Trans People' Season Once Again DC insiders are rushing to scapegoat trans people rather than take responsibility for their own failures.

Wrote for @discourseblog.com about how it's always marginalized communities like trans people who get blamed for Democratic failures, rather than the highly-paid DC insiders who actually control the party discourseblog.com/p/its-blame-...