Kristina Selset

“The Govt sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to the check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where ppl are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as landscaping, construction, agriculture, or car washes…” -Justice Kavanaugh

“Out of the three mass shootings TODAY” is one of the most tragic uniquely-American sentences out there.

Most developed countries average zero per year. We have single days where you have to ask “which” when someone talks about a mass shooting.

Trump’s DOJ Plans to Indict Jim Comey For the Crime of Making Trump Upset In the president’s mind, the primary purpose of government is punishing his enemies.

Today a member of the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government said Comey "should be charged with treason" and I'm now realizing the subcommittee name doesn't actually say if they're for or against the weaponization

ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/comey-indictment-making-trump-upset/

I meant this deeply: My work now is all dissent work. I write for a future I likely will not see.

Very basic fabric is made just by laying one thin thread over another in an alternating pattern. Like very tiny pliable bricks that snuggle babies, shroud elders, and comfort everyone in between.

Pursuing A More Perfect Union Hagmaier, Colt Mon 9/15/2025 1:06 PM Friends, This nation was once no more than idea. Courageous whispers of dangerous thinking; a wild experiment to organize and preserve government not by despotism or dynasty, but through the continued consent of the governed. Like a hardy willow, our Republic endures upon a trunk of federalism that is both fixed and flexible. Unity, not unanimity, is our strength - we are not stymied by our differences, we are made resilient by channeling those differences into public good. Our words matter. We ought to choose them carefully, stand behind them, and offer them with empathy and kindness. My faith in our nation, like our liberties, is secured by strong, prudent, and principled democratic institutions. Institutions administered by public servants sworn to place that public good above their own. We persevere not because our Union is perfect, rather because we never stop pursuing a more perfect one - together. That is what I see here at FEMA every day. Each of you sustaining the integrity and function of our federal government. You bring hope to the hopeless and relief to the suffering. Your work is never easy, rarely appreciated, and often misunderstood or mischaracterized, but it is essential. Not only to those benefiting from it, but to the fabric of who we are as a people and a reflection of the humanity that unites us. Your effort is purposeful, noble, and compassionate. It has been my life's honor to serve alongside you in this virtuous mission of helping our communities and neighbors in their times of need. Now, it is time for me to start a new path away from federal service. This has been an incredibly difficult decision over which I have reflected, prayed, and temporized. I care immensely about FEMA's mission and for you who deliver it every day. I am blessed to have worked alongside so many passionate, hardworking, and talented people throughout my FEMA career.

Breaking — FEMA Acting Chief Counsel Colt Hagmaier just resigned in an email to staff. He's worked at the agency for more than a decade.

Hagmaier's resignation comes immediately after two FEMA employees were placed on leave for comments about Charlie Kirk.

Text of his email shared with me:

One of the defining features of authoritarian society is the ruthless but selective use of the machinery of repression—and associated propaganda about criminality and “order”—to immunize predatory behavior of the powerful while crushing everyone else into profitable obedience.

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

I don't know exactly how and when we'll get there, but there will come a time when the Roberts Court era and especially from ~2024 onward becomes treated as an irredeemably tainted anti-canon, when citing them as a favorable precedent joins the ranks of invoking Dred Scott, Plessey, or Korematsu.

the supreme court says you can never use race to help people but you can always use race to hurt people

Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.

“maybe it will happen today” - early 21st century american proverb

Skyline cleanse.. his name is Emmanuel Savary…🔥🔥🔥

A sign on a metal bookshelf that says "Apocalyptic Fiction has been moved to Current Affairs"

little library gallows humor for ya :'D

Lawmakers in Liberal States Want ICE Agents to Show Their Faces

Not “liberal states,” New York Times. Pro-democracy states.

Work in progress painting of sunlit rose

Anxiety day, but painting this flower is helping. Gearing up for a show later this summer

Wip of rose painting on easel with paint pallet next to it

Sunlit rose wip

Lovely. Thank you for sharing its stages.

The point isn't we should put unhoused people in similar conditions but rather we could build and convert decent housing for the unhoused if we really wanted to. It might take a year or two instead of 8 days but it's a political will issue not a resource issue

I ask so little of you but please please watch until the very end.

It’s easier to build concentration camps than hospitals because you don’t have to worry about the safety of the occupants.

Republicans are racing to pass perhaps the most expensive bill in history, adding TRILLIONS to the debt, by trashing Senate rules.
 
Don’t EVER tell me we can’t afford to invest child care after we set trillions on fire to give tax breaks to billionaires who don’t need them.

Mamdani pushes back on Trump's latest jab Trump called Mamdani a Communist and threatened to withhold federal funding from the city in case of a conflict.

if you're a politician based in new york city, trump saying he'll withhold federal funding from the city if mamdani is elected is far more important than any other bad faith question you are asked about mamdani and it's the only thing you should be addressing.

Murray to Vought: This should be a yes or no. What I hear is all kind of word salad to make sure you are letting us know that you intend to do things that are outside the intent of the law.

Title card for Koyaanisqatsi, with the name of the movie superimposed on a long exposure of a complex highway intersection at night, except it's Zohraanisqatsi.

Someone on Twitter posted that they had run into Philip Glass at their lower Manhattan polling place, saying nice things about Mamdani.

The campaign put this up as a quote-tweet within the hour.

If you love your library, listen up…

The Fed Government just cut off a $26 million contract with the Trevor Project and today they're being inundated with calls from desperate and hopeless trans kids.

*holding your head underwater* sad to see that you would end our friendship over a simple disagreement over whether or not I should be allowed to drown you

I was with a conservative loved one last week, explaining how grants to help recruit more women into STEM were being cut, and they were confused. They had no idea that efforts (which they support) to recruit women and vets and urban kids into computing efforts were “DEI” and therefore evil.