I will stop what I’m doing in a grocery store if I hear them play Talking Heads.
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NEWS: A House of Representatives Subcommittee just voted to continue library funding in next year's federal budget. This is thanks to YOUR hard work as library advocates. The fight to #FundLibraries isn't over yet. Stay tuned for more ways to take action for libraries. #ForOurLibraries
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
Honestly I think that would just calm everyone down and make things better. The synth kids would love it.
This rhetoric only ever goes one way. (Take the time to read the comments)
I love this book so much
Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness, 1930s, painting by Graham Twyford, Lake District artist. #NorthernArt
once again tapping the sign
Veterans begin 24-7 “sit-in” in Washington DC at Union Station over deployment of National Guard Soldiers to fight “crime emergency.” They call on all Veterans to join them and vow to remain for the duration despite several arrests on questionable offenses. dcmediagroup.us/2025/09/02/v...
Well, that was disappointing.
Last weekend, I retraced the steps of two of the most important moments in American (and Chicago) labor history, starting with the Haymarket Massacre. But the Haymarket Massacre wasn’t just a tragedy. It still provides a compass for us to fight against fascism today:
Once you’ve eaten wasabi-flavored almonds for a snack, there’s no going back. By which I mean, don’t eat wasabi-flavored almonds.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement today at 2?
“We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of “critical mass. It’s always about critical connections.” - Grace Lee Boggs
Read this from the bottom to the top.
What a handsome and tall being!
Bluesky also sometimes secretly buys a coffee for the person behind them.
Somewhere in Iceland.
Black women lost 319,000 jobs in the public and private sectors between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period ↘️ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
“Conservation is a fight against the less scrupulous side of ourselves.” ― Elliot Connor
I think, more kindly, people are really scared, and doomerism is one (counterintuitive, but nonetheless) way to manage anxiety. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/game-over-...
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
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“He’s behind me, isn’t he?”
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Happy Caturday: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/holdmycatn...
Stephen Manning, this guy’s lawyer, is one of the best in the country. It’s very good news that he’s taken this case.
Local birds often quiet down about now, set up for winter, molt, etc. they don’t have need of a lot of chatter
Current mood
I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town
Paired with the desolation that can come with speculative buyers grabbing and holding vulnerable property for decades…
Excellent question.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Yesterday, ICE agents detained firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire. As a firefighter and paramedic, I know firsthand that in an emergency, every second counts, and politics should never come before saving lives.
Daskalakis: I very specifically use the term pregnant people, and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy of trying to erase people
Possibly because no one looks like Donald O’Connor at his peak.
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
And also I know how to give money, do the less brave things that must be done to support our toppling democracy’s people, and fricking how to at least pay attention and stay focused.
I get very tired of people who are pretty clearly not fighting telling other people how best to fight. I wouldn’t say I’m such a great resister most days but I sure as shit know how to stay out of the way when someone is doing their damnedest.
There’s plenty of disinformation trying to blame the nascent offshore wind industry for whale deaths without evidence. Not only is that misleading, it also takes the focus away from solutions that might actually address the leading causes of death — vessel strikes and entanglement with fishing gear.
Make it. Harder. For just anyone. To get. A gun.
Google is your friend. www.pbs.org/newshour/eco...
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
THIS IS WHAT THE INTERNET IS FOR. Rachel Larris, I salute you. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Wac...
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
My impression of the National Guard members I have seen in pairs and threes in the Metro each day is that they have nothing whatsoever to do and they know it. They’re just putting in the time they have been ordered to put in. What a waste of time and talent.
Bluesky now the platform of choice for scientists and other non-fascists.
Oh but everyone’s flooding the restaurants that are seeing unprecedented decreases right now, right? What’s that? Kitchen workers are afraid to come to work? Well at least we can wear wristwatches again—hold on, I’m getting a message.
They are sending soldiers into cities to prepare to intimidate people at the polls next year. They gerrymander because they can’t win on policy. They intimidate because even gerrymandering won’t work at this point.
And you can thank Elizabeth Warren & CFPB for the fact that you can do this for free. I’ve had it in place for years and it is super easy to “thaw” temporarily when u want Equifax www.equifax.com/personal/cre... Transunion www.transunion.com/credit-freeze Experian www.experian.com/help/credit-...
Fancy an all-you-can-eat salmon buffet? Then head on over to Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. It's the salmon run season right now, and the waterfall is absolutely swarming with bears. They've all gotten so chubby from feasting. 🐻🧸 Yummy.. #nationalpark #bears #salmon #wildlife
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National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
Get rid of the trains and we can realize what @theonion.com predicted five years ago.
Fact: Commercial fishing kills more than 300,000 whales and dolphins every year.
Daaaaad!
A federal judge threw out the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Maryland’s entire federal bench over an immigration order
Blurry, but this is Farragut North this morning in #DC near the White House. We counted four National Guard total (two here), all with sidearms.
Translation: Kristi feels like she can go back to her apartment now.
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
Florida banned The Diary of Anne Frank. Whoever signed off on that should have to eat every page of that book — one by one — and choke on the lesson they’re trying to erase. 📚🔥 #BannedBooks #AnneFrank
Texas book banners are in a tizzy about Killeen ISD, a district that looks likely to exercise their legal option *not* to create a committee policing their school libraries. Here’s one trustee explaining his reasoning in a way any American can understand:
No. At this point he is a political prisoner and he knows it. From the moment he chose to uphold his innocence and turn down the plea deal and the self-deportation money he knew he had to obey every law to show them for the firehosers of peaceful protesters that they are
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Let’s be clear about what is happening: This man is being punished — and disappeared — because he embarrassed our pretender king. They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
The sheer amount of time, money, and resources this government has spent to torture one random guy is astounding.
KILMAR IN BALTIMORE: “Never lose hope. Promise me you’ll continue fight for freedom — not just for me, for everybody.” He was just taken into ICE custody.
Reloads, in my house
Fuck the Texas GOP.
Just walking around the hellscape that is my Chicago neighborhood this morning
I won’t tell you which one I am, but I wash my food and like to hang around trash cans
Found it
World War 2 ended with unconditional surrender after our enemies were battered into submission and given no other option.
Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited. sherwood.news/power/shop-t...
Cal Poly Pomona, a Hispanic-Serving Institution with 52.9% Hispanic students, is hosting a job fair with representatives from ICE, CBP, and the FBI, which may raise concerns about its commitment to the Hispanic community.
Happy #caturday
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
I am literally begging anyone who does any kind of journalism to spend an hour in an eviction courtroom every week for a month. Please. The eviction crisis in this country is downplayed at best and ignored at worst. It's racialized state violence that hearkens back to the worst of Jim Crow,
The white cat is blind and has a best friend, a black cat, who is always by its side to guide it.
“Such beautiful music—the children of the night”
Check out Jesse Welles www.instagram.com/reel/DND34FS...
I love the new Cracker Barrel logo! 🧡 #EpsteinFiles
NEWS: Federal judge finds that Alina Habba is NOT lawfully performing functions and duties of U.S. Attorney in New Jersey. Judge Matthew Brann disqualifies Habba from prosecution of two criminal defendants who challenged her appointment
Ketanji Brown Jackson deserves a resonant and successful freshman run as a Justice and instead she has to do what Black woman leaders always have to do.
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
Just a reminder that while it may feel good to cheer James Dobson’s death, he had a family who loved him and they are grieving, and that’s also a good reason to cheer.
“Yes, Sean Duffy alone has called and texted repeatedly! But in his case it’s to complain he can’t find an Olive Garden in DC”
I’m just so struck by that math and the fact that this man’s incompetence is what drove us out of restaurants during COVID and well after
