Reluctant Midwesterner. Family. Puppy. Poetry. Get your Church out of my State.
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Trump says Chicago is an undesirable ‘hellhole,’ but tourists and transplants keep coming - @thetriibe.com
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
Jones: I would say to my colleagues who serve in government—keep your thoughts and prayers, keep your tweets. If you want to address gun violence, you don't need to tweet. What you need is a mirror. You have the power to change things.
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
CHICAGO…
In my experience, organizing is about knowing Someone who is heavily involved in Something that can connect you to the other Someones you need an in with. And you go to Someone’s thing, then they show up with folks for your thing. You have to work at it slowly and be known as worth knowing.
Oh wild!! I have a friend realtor and I’ve been confused why he’s not given me all these Guys. I think realtors know a Guy but don’t tell?
Activism is a Guy Economy itself
Can you imagine? If I realized I could pass as his double, the very next day I would sign up for daily bootcamps, a makeover, and surgery if necessary.
i don’t like the idea of the president missing. he could be anywhere. i am suddenly aware how little i appreciated opening my shower curtain knowing the president would not be standing there
Covid. Let it be Covid or Measles if this is a just world.
So what does his face tell ypu about his mitochondria?
Hey, mainstream media... Maybe more attention to stuff like this and less to Travis and Taylor's engagement?
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
This is every exhausted parent of a toddler ever.
For a new mom, the Flamingo Struggle is so real
Brief 🧵, as someone who has studied mass shootings for 13 years: -gender does not cause them -SSRIs, no -mental illness, no -internet/gaming, no Above can be compounding factors—but motive is complex, often very. The most fundamental combo: suicidality + rage + isolation + easy access to guns
Fucking hell. Luna Lovegood-sounding, goblin-looking, batshit guy is in charge of our health.
The President of the United States sat in the Oval Office and said "a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" and that is not even a top story.
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.
DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH The media who do this are heartless bastards
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
President Donald Trump's federal takeover of D.C. has the local courts stretched to breaking point, CNN reported on Wednesday.
🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight. In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well. Here are from two of the resignations:
Where I’m from, Christians always say this.
Oh. We’re having national religious martyrs now.
This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.
Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?
For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
every state governor should immediately say exactly the same thing—Trump is not needed or wanted in our state—and also that they support what Pritzker said
Tim 2028
Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."
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.
I love leaner dogs!! Mine is not one so I get that fix at dog parks.
President Trump said he was removing Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve's board of governors, an extraordinary step that could undermine the central bank's independence and seeks to oust the first Black woman to serve on the board. Legally, a president may only dismiss a governor “for cause.”
Kamala Harris nailed it. We warned everyone the stakes were too high to hand the guy built for Project 2025 another shot — but noooo. Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
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It’s gonna take a lot of this, I think. Thank you, Sir
BREAKING: Trump is preparing to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago. The fact that anyone could support such a move, tells me that much of Maga supports fascism
😆 🔥 some beautiful, creative resistance
Virginia Giuffre’s family denounces “DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview” of Ghislaine Maxwell in a statement. www.allrisenews.com/p/maxwell-tr...
“Papers, please”
He didn’t do this. I was raised in the pre-Trumpland South. It’s always been this almost indescribable fear of everything unfamiliar, even in homes where the familiar is actually frightening.
The clearest picture of corporate greed in this country is CEO-to-worker pay ratios. At the 100 lowest-paying major US companies, CEO pay averaged $17.2M in 2024. Median worker pay at these companies was just $35,570. That’s a ratio of 632 to 1. How can anyone defend this?
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence
A girl can dream
Yeah but can that one catch blueberries in their mouth AND figure out that chasing the chipmunk is 100 times more critical than walking nicely on a leash? That’s what I thought.
You know what. I can’t even tell if y’all are talking about Jesus or sex in this thread anymore.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Our government is also petty right now and so it doesn’t matter what he can say, only that they wanted to be right.
Useless, she’ll be dead within a year of her pardon anyway.
ICE detained Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry, a Pakistan-born US Army veteran and husband of former congressional candidate Melissa Chaudhry, during his citizenship interview in Tukwila. He’s now being held at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. The story is developing at The Stranger.
Important piece from @melissagiragrant.com yesterday: DHS "is openly making appeals to far-right and white nationalist groups in its recent ICE recruitment drive, and some have, in fact, volunteered.... For the far right, it’s as if the street fights they started in Trump’s first term never ended."
“Following news that National Guard troops in DC would soon carry weapons, journalist Marisa Kabas of The Handbasket reported that members of the Guard on duty in DC were being sent to firing ranges to make sure they know their way around M-17 pistols.”
If your looking for your nightly laugh check out this video "Coward, traitor, liar, foe grab a tyrant by the toe..." 😂
The mom from New Zealand, a state resident since 2021, talks about a three-week ordeal that saw her and her son sent from Washington to an ICE facility in Texas.
NEW: DHS has created a ICE/CBP "volunteer force" open to DOD civilian employees. In other words, it's asking DOD employees to come work for ICE for six months. I'm told the Pentagon is supporting the recruitment program. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ice-c...
Doesn’t he have a vacation to go to? Maybe adjust the temp in a desert somewhere so his family can hike?
And Vance has the hots for Putin. Fucking hell his grandmother was so very wrong.
What if we kick him out?
His boss is an elderly man who needs a nap.
Rep. Vince Perez: Under this map, a Hispanic Texan's vote counts about one-third, and a Black Texan's just one-fifth, compared to a white Texan's.
Justice for soldiers takes a back seat to babysitting Pete’s personal life. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Great. Now we have to rename all bodies of water because he can’t remember their names.
The United States could have great things like this. But we like to spend our money on kidnapping people and trafficking them to concentration camps instead. #Priorities
Nothing Trump says about mail in voting is true. Read this FactCheck. www.factcheck.org/2025/08/fact...
A Standing Army policing our citizens.
Arizonans have voted by mail for decades because it’s a safe, reliable way to make their voice heard. Taking that away won’t make elections more secure, but it will make it harder for all Arizonans to vote, especially seniors, tribal communities, and people with disabilities.
Proud to stand by Mayor Wu at City Hall this morning. Boston will never back down. Join us live now:
“There is a molecular diagnostic test that screens for Zika, dengue&chikungunya at the same time, but more countries need to adopt it. Disease surveillance globally has been weakened by the abrupt cuts in funding from the US government, which was supporting much of this work in low-income countries”
I can’t believe this exchange is real.
pretty goddamn sickening how many politicians and journalists are fine with all the nazis
The community’s two architects—a classically trained French horn player who has livestreamed his own sex videos, and a former jazz pianist arrested but not charged for attempted murder in Ecuador—say they must personally confirm that applicants are white before they can be welcomed in. “Welcomed”
Say Austin, are y'all free tonight?
The city of Jerusalem earlier this month froze the bank accounts of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the church body that represents around half of all Palestinian Christians and is a major landholder in Israel. religionnews.com/2025/08/18/j...
Isn’t this kidnapping?
tfw you order the Versailles foam sticky starter pack for your college dorm room
A man who worked for the U.S. military in Afghanistan and his family could be eligible for asylum in Canada — but ICE won’t release them.
The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
He had the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, Ukraine, the EU and NATO in the White House and he made them wait while he went to get instructions from Putin ... For forty minutes?!
In a small park in northwest DC, a group of what appeared to be federal agents tore down an anti-ICE banner. In its place, they seemed to have left a dildo. With this heinous act, they crisply conveyed what Donald Trump’s occupation of DC is really about.
There are a lot of negative images of DC right now but I'm in a park where a band of teenagers is playing music (they're pretty good!), others are dancing. They are collecting donations for a charity that supports victims of sexual assault. This is real life in Washington, a great city.
Federal Agent in D.C.: “Proud Boys? They’re great guys. They love the United States.” This is who Trump is sending into our cities to terrorize Black & Brown communities. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DNZldGb...
Members of the Proud Boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy, the closest crime we have to treason itself
So what do you all think? When you gather all of the mountains of evidence It only makes sense to me that Trump is a pedophile. I believe the women! They had a decades long close friendship. There are videos and pictures of them plastered everywhere. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #USDemocracy #Pinks
The reason we cannot seem to take Trump seriously is because so many of our leaders, bizarrely, want to attack his authoritarianism as some kind of flimsy performance, which then prevents them from saying the authoritarianism IS AUTHORITARIANISM
We're working on it, aren't we?
I always think of Hitler’s speech that I watched, where he said to the Germans (paraphrase), They don’t understand you like I do. You want a strong Father and a strong Fatherland. You want to be told what you should do.
So do we have accurate forecasts right now?
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
We found the waste, fraud, and abuse… Trump’s ICE spent $560,000 on tricked-out trucks for a hype recruitment video. The vehicles were purchased and styled to look like Trump’s private jet. This is where your tax dollars are going.