Following an immigration raid at an active wildfire in Washington state, wildland fire professionals are raising alarms that the leadership team in charge of the fire response may have sent their crews into an ambush. stateline.org/2025/08/31/f...
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Following an immigration raid at an active wildfire in Washington state, wildland fire professionals are raising alarms that the leadership team in charge of the fire response may have sent their crews into an ambush. stateline.org/2025/08/31/f...
Trump’s deployment of troops to Los Angeles wasn’t just extreme — it was illegal. A federal judge confirmed it today.
Jeanine Pirro: "This nonsense about 'National Guard on the street' -- next thing they're gonna say police shouldn't be on the street."
I just wanted to quickly note that this piece was an all-women effort, start to finish. From the reporters to the witnesses and even the lawyer who reviewed it, seven women working in different capacities were able to bring this story of gross malfeasance to life. Proud The Handbasket can do this.
Welcome back from authoritarian August, Democrats in Congress. Do you know that you've been made irrelevant? Are you going to use the power you have to do something about it? From me... prospect.org/politics/202...
I have never seen a single news article about whether or not Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer or Kristen Gillibrand need to assure Muslim New Yorkers that they're against Islamophobia and anti-Arab / anti-Asian bigotry
LAPD pushing people back down Alameda, causing a traffic jam, honestly a bit of a clusterfuck
The ambulance has left the MDC with a DHS van in tow—the arrestee who was tackled last has been released, interview forthcoming
Looking at this collection of words and wondering how this company still exists.
An ambulance and fire truck has arrived to the MDC, likely for one of those arrested tonight. This has become routine these last months—DHS violently arrests a protester, and ambulances arrive soon after
look at this: a candidate using alt text!! thank you, Omar's social team!
Los Angeles— Another gnarly arrest around the corner from the MDC. Quite a few chemical munitions deployed
Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.
Just want to remind folks during these messy times that you can buy a copy of Read This When Things Fall Apart for an activist in need. This book is a care package that my friends and I made for people on the front lines & in the thick of crisis. Let's pass it around: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...
Google's search engine was the greatest information retrieval tool I'd ever experienced in my life. So many mysteries unraveled under the scrutiny of a few keystrokes. They lobotomized it *for this*.
“Mr. Kennedy has fired thousands of fed health workers & severely weakened programs designed to protect Americans from cancer, heart attacks, strokes, lead poisoning, injury, violence and more.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
I almost got a super cool shot! A damselfly on a praying mantis.
Happened upon a plant hopper rendezvous today. Very serious business going down in the bushes. Sorry to disturb, gentlemen. Carry on.
Everyone expects it's him going into hospice but I bet it's a new war and maybe also that there will live executions on the White House lawn
First complete assembly! Everything looks good to me. So very satisfying—that’s fifteen pieces of cast metal, plus fasteners, in a very tiny space! Now more polishing on the wings, then patination and final polish 😅🛠️ but look: here’s our proud planthopper gent!
How we put the geese to bed at night (we just ask them)
I am amused that Mamdani is seen as a raving communist for suggesting mid-tier FDR type reforms and there's an actual Eugene Debs dude running for Senate in Maine and he's not freaking out anybodyyyy oh yes. Shit. He's white. Sorry, I just got it. Go about your business.
Kurosawa and Mifune had that shit on
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I’m here at BWI Airport to say, “Hey hey, ho ho! Avelo and ICE have got to go!” #AveloOutofBWI
Pope Leo XIV confirmed his intent to include LGBTQ parishioners within the Catholic Church continuing Pope Francis' policy of inclusion for all www.upi.com/Top_News/Wor...
it wasn't until today that i realized he wears those fucking hats all the time because he no longer has the energy or desire to fire up the machine that he uses to accomodate his fucked up refusal to accept baldness and turn his cotton candy strands into a C- illusion every single day
They gave Peter Herbstreit a headset 😂
These taken together constitute the toughest measures adopted by any European state yet and come after the Belgian Deputy PM, who is also Foreign Minister, threatened to block all other government business unless Belgium adopted these measures.
My WIP is about a magical bookshop (where you'll always find the book you need, even if it's not the one you're looking for) and I got @greenleejw.bsky.social to draw me up a floorplan to help with vibe. #amwriting #booksky #fantasyromance
Very good Rep. Nadler (77), please endorse a powerful, smart, vibrant, young candidate from your district. Next? Norton-Holmes (87) Waters(86) Pelosi(85) DeLauro(82) Watson Coleman (80), Matsui(80) Garamendi(80) Doggett (78) Kaptur (78) Green (77) Thompson (77) Lofgren(77)
"But don't look back in anger," I heard him chirp #birds
Nobody is talking about this, but Casey Means was nominated as surgeon general on and referred to the Senate HELP Committee on June 2. As of July 31, the committee has not advanced her nomination due to missing paperwork. The Surgeon General has to have a medical license, which she does not have.
The last passenger pigeon died 111 years ago today and not a day goes by that I don't think about how their flocks numbered in the *billions*, that their roosts covered 100+ square miles, that they collapsed trees with their nests. America is incomplete without them
This is extremely funny to me
Holy smokes This is the crowd at the Bernie Sanders/Graham Platner Fighting Oligarchy event in Portland, ME tonight Platner is the oyster farmer challenging Susan Collins; Senate seat👇 Overwhelming turnout! I feel like maybe Susan's number is finally up ..
Public defenders from across the country share their challenges, triumphs, heartbreaks, & moments of profound humanity in this new book from the @americanbar.org Proud to say New Mexico LOPD contributed 5 of the 45 stories It's available now on the ABA website www.americanbar.org/products/inv...
I forgot to share this earlier today!
Also a pretty fair guess that someone who talks about "the West" and any threats to it is a big racist.
Your Labor Day reminder that if the minimum wage increased at the rate of inflation & productivity since 1960 it'd be $28 today—not $7.25. Meaning—billionaires & corps have stolen at least $21/hour from working Americans for 60 years. We don't suffer a lack of resources—but from an excess of greed.
“Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.” Lucy Parsons, statement in the Chicago Tribune, 1885
A beautiful orange rock posy lichen (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca), from my time in Yellowknife, NT, Canada. #lichen #fungifriends
I had so much fun at the Minnesota State Fair today! It was wonderful to talk with so many people and have a day of fun with friends and supporters. Here’s a few photos of our fair fun taken by @taylordahlin.com.
in benny's defense he's finally publishing original work
Which, again, is why people who believe it's essential for Dems to come together in a big, broad tent in the coming years—and I am one of those people—need to be getting behind Mamdani and urging others to do so. There's no Democratic big tent without him in it. For a hundred reasons.
What Mamdani is saying here is that the people for whom Nadler was a hero and the people who are glad he's stepping aside don't need to be enemies—that both camps can honor his service and his decision. It's not just deft, it's coalition-building. It's healing.
Mamdani on Nadler: Just read that last sentence. Perfect.
Epstein victims to speak in Congress tomorrow
This is why Isaac Chotiner gets treated like Socrates for asking basic follow-up questions
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
I will probably never have an experience like this again in my lifetime, so I will always treasure my summer with this family of burrowing owls. 💕🪶
More pepperballs fired into the crowd, some folks falling back to be attended to by medics (not pictured)
Fireworks going off outside the fence, music, loud chants and banging on the fence Im working multiple cameras today so updates may be sparse
I’m outside the MDC here in Los Angeles, where a protest march has just converged outside the gate. Once again a lively atmosphere here
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
The weather suddenly shifted and it started getting dark after a dust storm warning, so I went outside, 😆 (rain comes after the dust; I saw rainclouds). I had a feeling there was a rainbow out there. Stepped out of my garage and there it was, like some joyful Batman-signal. 🌈
Happy Labor Day sex work is work
Some insiders have theorized that the White House installed Fugate to oversee a pivot away from traditional counterterrorism and to steer resources toward MAGA-friendly sheriffs and border security projects before eventually shuttering operations. (Published June)
Absolutely spot on. Have asked this for many years. Anti-Muslim racism and Islamophobia are stupendously rife given state-sponsored discourse and policies, yet no one assures these communities.
I opened my own Little Free Library today ♥️ Pittsburgh friends...message me for the address!
Well just look who decided to cut me some slack #birds
The special grace & class that comes with being 20 points ahead (infinitely laudatory)
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Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Thank you on this labor day!!
Heartening seeing Italian videos of the Dock Worker trade unions in Genoa, the second busiest port in Italy, saying if their comrades on the flotilla to Gaza don't make it there safely or if the goods don't get through, that they'll shut Europe down.
It frankly boggles my mind that we have invented a computer that cannot do math.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Interestingly enough Pelosi actually called for a suspension of offensive military assistance to Israel back in the spring of 2024 and it didn't matter whatsoever. Biden, Schumer, Lew, McGurk and Blinken all ignored her.
Workers over Billionaires protest today in Albuquerque.
Borzoi brothers frisking in the morning sun. I have to get them out to the pasture early this time of year if I want them to run; they are cold weather hunters that won't (and shouldn't) run if it's too warm. A little summer sprint is lovely.
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
Jerry Nadler, the longtime Democratic congressman who represents the Upper West Side, says he will not seek re-election. He says "Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party." Expect other Democrats to say it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Mutual aid is important but we need sustained repair LIKE SAY A RECONSTRUCTION
This photo was taken of miners at the end of their shift during the Gilded Age before they were unionized. This Labor Day remember the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights we enjoy today. #UnionStrong #HappyLaborDay #NoGodsNoMasters
Illinois is now the number one state in the Midwest to work in. This ranking reflects our work in making Illinois the best state in the nation to do business, raise a family, and thrive.
wow
For Kate! 💕💸 bsky.app/profile/tyle...
Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities
Looks like Trump and Netanyahu are gearing up for another war on Iran, this time with the support of the Europeans. I talk to Trita Parsi about this danger. www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...
Time to do my weekly passing of the campaign hat. If you can donate something, regardless of how much, it’ll really help. If you’ve already donated something, you’re awesome! If you can’t donate, you can still sign up to get email updates for what the campaign will be doing. Have a great Labor Day!
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
Bless these folks for doing what they do bsky.app/profile/econ...
Ehrenreich founded @economichardship.bsky.social to address the fact that poor and working class journalists struggle to tell the stories that matter to our people for lack of support and resources. EHRP has been such a huge help to me and so many others; I wish we had a million more of them!
Thinking about how the great Barbara Ehrenreich nailed one of the primary problems with modern journalism a full decade ago. “The real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals…“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The irony/idiocy of this banner screaming "American Workers First" is that Trump has forced more than 199,000 federal workers out of their jobs since Jan. Nearly 1 in 10 federal workers gone. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
I wonder if those windows open, because if so there is no reason for his face not to have been defaced yet.
The computer program is just adding more information in an effort to make the image sharper, which can often distort what’s really there.
“A new poll found that half of U.S. voters — including 77% of Democrats — believe that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide, in a finding that adds to mounting signals of deep public disapproval of Israel’s operations there”
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
I don't know, y'all. I think there may have been more than one dad for this litter
