Caroline Sharkey

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Yeah, we were kind of just hoping people could still have Medicaid…

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I’m in a red state at a teaching social action institute and I have to say, the faculty around me are having some very familiar conversations that I had when living in GA. I can’t express enough how grateful I am that these are not the same realities I have to face to the same extent anymore.

Solidarity to Portland, where the autocrat’s full flex is an attempt to stifle democracy

Reading the new this week has really made me want to get bone-crushingly wrecked on Tylenol. Cuz I read on Reddit that it crushes bones so it must be true, it’s like, research.

Today in autocracy…

Minneapolis police say more than a dozen hurt in homeless encampment shootings Police chief says ‘here we are again in the aftermath of a mass shooting’ after incidents in two separate locations

There were 2 mass shootings at unhoused encampments in Minnesota on homelessness activist Hamoudi Sabri’s property. This happened not long after Fox News host Brian Kilmeade recently encouraged of “involuntary lethal injection” for homeless individuals around the country, stating: “Just kill ‘em.”

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says Broadcasters Risk Losing Licenses When Hosts Criticize Him

Autocratic Playbook lesson 2.1: control the media by eliminating free speech - Ppretend the Constitution is about protecting your power and not the people’s.

President Says Broadcasters Risk Losing Licenses When Hosts Criticize Him.

While a lot of people are having long discourses about condemning violence despite whether they agree with a person, I just want to remind us to condemn genocide. Perhaps we can all agree on that.

As a researcher who centers gun violence in their work, I’m never surprised when the public conversation about violence involves humanizing its impact seems to only happen when a conservative figure is the victim. When it’s kids, Black, immigrant, or trans* folx the narrative is somewhat different.

So grateful I live in Massachusetts, where vaccine availability is guaranteed and will remain covered by insurance

My eyes, my eyes!! Did I just read something agreeable from Rand Paul’s social media?!?!

And for anyone eager for the Autocrat to keel over, just remember this is the stain we risk having next

Congratulations for getting him where it pinched. He's a smear of a man and a twisted leader.

Autocrats use propagandized pop culture to sell their monstrous acts of abuse. But it doesn't help if you missed the point of the movie used as a power pump & point to the fact that this is about the horrors of American imperialism & the unraveling of morality. The Autocrat is a moron and a monster.

Trump's mental health plan: Defund, incarcerate, disappear His speeches on homelessness drip with fear and disgust. His policies are worse.

Trump's speeches on homelessness drip with fear and disgust. His policies are worse.

Thousands of federal staffers working on mental health-related issues have been purged by Trump’s government.

Gaza City and Surrounding Areas Are Officially Under Famine, Monitors Say

Gaza is officially under famine and Israel denies it. Autocracy involves blatant lies to normalize oppressive political maneuvers. It’s in the Autocratic Guidebook 101. History is clocking this genocide and the monstrous forces that perpetuated it.

The Founders of This New Development Say You Must Be White to Live There

What in the white nationalism is this shit?!?!

The Founders of This New Development Say You Must Be White to Live There www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care after far-right campaign Program providing key aid halted after complaints from Laura Loomer, the far-right influencer close to Trump

The genocide of Palestinians is fully embraced by US autocracy. This administration is full of monsters.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Gestapo tactics. Utterly horrific people are going through this

More terrorizing of people by federal officials, willing to lie to cover their asses despite video evidence showing the opposite of what they claim. Gestapo tactics are the new norm.

More people in Ohio need protection from violent crime than there are people in D.C. Governors of three states — Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia — are sending members of their state National Guards to D.C. to … well, theoretically to combat crime but, if the past week is any in...

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

The facist grip gets a little more traction.

Bondi Tightens Trump Administration’s Grip on D.C. Police www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

Man Charged With Assaulting Federal Agent With Sandwich in D.C.

So this guy gets a felony charge and may see timenin prison but J6 insurrectionists walk free. SMDH.

And for the love all things proper, it’s a Subway sandwich…not a hoagie.

Man Charged With Assaulting Federal Agent With Sandwich in D.C. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

In case you questioned the active facial in our government, here’s one of many reminders today

As Trump Administration Plans to Burn Contraceptives, Europeans Are Alarmed

What dystopian nightmare are we living????

As Trump Administration Plans to Burn Contraceptives, Europeans Are Alarmed www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...

Trans people in Georgia prisons are being forced to detransition. Now they’re suing. - The Current A group of incarcerated transgender women and men have sued Georgia corrections officials, challenging a new law that prevents them from receiving gender-affirming medical care, arguing that it violat...

thecurrentga.org/2025/08/09/t...

Dershowitz again denied pierogi as Martha’s Vineyard residents chant ‘time to go’ ‘I am very surprised that you’re here because of the things that you’ve been saying about us and the business online,’ the pierogi vendor told Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday.

Dershowitz is a prick and a bully. Assuming thst a vendor is targeting his identity as justificatiom for their refusal to serve him rather than what they have stated, clearly, is a discomfort serving the attorney of a convicted rapist and sex trafficker and an felon oligarch. GTFOH!!