@walkingghost.bsky.social
A blue dot in a red Ohio
I think it's worth pointing out that the right has, for the last, what, 30 years?, embraced the idea that if masked men approach your car you should shoot them. All of them. And have legislated that way with "stand your ground"and "castle" laws.
17.08.2025 17:23 β π 1450 π 383 π¬ 49 π 24I need people to understand:
1. Every US state already evicts more people annually than all of the EU combined
2. In most states, having a disability, health emergency, or a financial hardship is not a defense to an eviction suit
3. In most states, there is no right to counsel in eviction cases
May his spirit haunt every ICE agent for time eternal.
18.08.2025 09:35 β π 3454 π 716 π¬ 166 π 33Nepal has eliminated rubella as a public health problem.
Congratulations! #Nepal has eliminated #rubella as a public health problem.
This success reflects the commitment & efforts of leaders, health workers, volunteers & community members to ensure a healthy start for babies & a future free of rubella. π bit.ly/3JEMlOc
USA Today scooped 5 sample questions from Oklahoma's new "America First" teacher certification test. I honestly thought ChatGPT would have at least formatted the questions better.
Real "ga ga goo goo" baby stuff here:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Sarah Shaw, the New Zealand woman detained at the Canadian border over a visa mixup and sent to a Texas facility with her 6 year old son, has finally won release after more than three weeks.
17.08.2025 20:56 β π 400 π 182 π¬ 20 π 13I propose we cap productivity until wages catch up with the gains enjoyed by industry.
17.08.2025 10:08 β π 391 π 60 π¬ 15 π 3Agents amass in DC, unclear why or which agency. Some masked.
Residents: βYouβre in a church parking lotβget out!β
βWe donβt want you kidnapping our neighbors!β
Agents start recording too.
Soon decide to leave, some mockingly wave their phones. They zoom down the 25mph road, skimming by our feet.
National Guard prepares to bear arms in DC. They would do well to recall this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9...
Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning.
The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
Folks keep talking about the parallels between real life and The Handmaidβs Tale.
Hereβs another one: they seized Washington, DC, and the seat of American power collapsed overnight into authoritarian rule.
Life comes at you fast
17.08.2025 22:09 β π 23958 π 9500 π¬ 1184 π 689She has every right to demand them. This administration will send them to the prison in El Salvador or the South Sudan.
#USDemocracy
The former head of Israel's military intelligence just praised the deaths of innocents as "necessary...as a message for future generations."Β If we do nothing, we will have to tell our children that we stood idly by as millions of people were sent to their graves.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
If youβre under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, theyβre not hiding it:
17.08.2025 02:09 β π 23754 π 6513 π¬ 1998 π 602Breaking: RFK Jr. rules out 2028 presidential bid, satisfied with the number of people he can kill in his current role.
17.08.2025 12:36 β π 95 π 16 π¬ 2 π 1This is bullshit Mike Dewine. Bet a better governor.
17.08.2025 01:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A guy wore a Nazi shirt to a baseball game in DC.
17.08.2025 00:13 β π 1812 π 677 π¬ 181 π 251Friendly Mt. Pleasant neighbor greets members of the Big Balls Goon Show loitering this evening, wondering if they knew anything about the ICE sex pests who left their sex toy in the park across the street.
#freedc
She runs a large anti-ICE TikTok accountβnow agents caught on livestream targeting her in violent arrest.
Agents drag her out of Tesla & throw her on ground where she lay unresponsiveβthen rushed by ambulance to hospital.
She is well-known to ICE as community activist who films raids Los Angeles.
I have incredibly fond memories of reading the books and seeing the movies. But those days are in the past. Rowling used her money to advance recent anti-trans legislation in the UK. Money she got from people like meβa former fan who loves his trans friends more than memories. Not one more cent.
16.08.2025 22:45 β π 65 π 12 π¬ 4 π 3The DOJ sandwich thrower as it turns out is a much decorated active duty staff Sergeant in the Marines. He identified himself immediately and offered to self surrender to the felony charge, but they sent 20 officers to arrest him. What a debacle it would be if the grand jury declines to indict.
16.08.2025 16:20 β π 11508 π 3366 π¬ 526 π 167almost 6000 people now today in Wisconsin protesting against TRUMP ,π‘
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