🚨This U.S. combat vet was arrested for conspiracy to impede or injure officers after joining a demonstration against ICE — The demonstration was A MONTH AGO!!! 1/2
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🚨This U.S. combat vet was arrested for conspiracy to impede or injure officers after joining a demonstration against ICE — The demonstration was A MONTH AGO!!! 1/2
Whew, just found out it is only Wednesday -- I just gained a day and the trash is already out!
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
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If we want to reduce crime, we should be investing in our communities, not investing in military occupations of major U.S. cities.
YOU CAN'T GET ROCKETS UP IN THE AIR WITH MAIL-IN BALLOTS! HOW CAN YOU GET ROCKETS UP IN THE AIR WITH MAIL-IN BALLOTS? YES! I DON'T WANT IT!
PHL airport limped through the Labor Day weekend with only 3 air traffic controllers available to cover the shifts. Our skies ... no.
Spaceforce? Gimme a break ...
Los Angeles, CA Music Festival 9/1/25
lmao YOU LITERALLY TARIFFED LUMBER
Probably going to war with Venezuela, for ... personal reasons ... and ... oil fields ... ieg, vandaag is misschien wel de shitshow waar ik naar op zoek ben
Say the words we long to hear ...
I remember it being unpleasant & a lot less fudge-y.
Anyone? Anyone?
Dear Ann Patchett Thank you for the story! I am also reading the books you recommended to David Brooks. Thank you for that.
Love these elderly hippies! Home-made signs, honking cars, and a brass band.
Carrying my rain jacket.
Oh no you don't ...
How Trump gutted America’s disaster relief agency on.ft.com/42aC9n5
Walking out to return my library book and go to the labor demonstration.
Block up the wasp's nests.
The trial, which tracked more than 8,500 patients across Spain and Italy, found that beta blockers, long prescribed after heart attacks, offer no clear benefit for patients whose heart function is normal.
Narcissists are drawn to a particular kind of news story, psychologists find www.psypost.org/narcissists-...
Over the past 20 years, CA cities held outreach sessions where stakeholders were engaged with and community input was collected for project scoping and impact study in order to foster an inclusive agenda and present revisions for relevant follow up and broader envisioning of strategic goals...
Convinced?
Aww
Everything's just perfect! Carry on!
My dream is for it to happen like it does to vampires. When the leader kicks the bucket, the rest of them burst into flames.
Science is real
Sunny is genetically half-dust bunny and his favorite hobby is Attack Feet.
I think of the "Mr. Creosote" scene in the Monty Python movie.
Aren't those ICE guys wearing A/C units on their chests? Try the army surplus. But get it in white, maybe.
TV news is just mob molls mollin'
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I stand with Chicago. I stand with Mayor Johnson. 🚨 NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order to resist Trump’s federal invasion and occupation of the city. Details in 🧵
One more #FedWorkerFriday post. Dr Daniel Jernigan addressing a crowd near CDC on Aug 28, 2025. He resigned 8/8/2025 as CDC's director of National Center for Emerging & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. CDC staff will miss his expertise. We are excited to work with him to #savepublichealth & #saveCDC.
Another #FedWorkerFriday post. Here's video of Dr Deb Houry addressing a crowd across from CDC main campus on Aug 28, 2025. She resigned as CDC's Chief Medical Officer effective Aug 28, 2025. CDC staff will miss her leadership. We know she will be fighting with us to #savepublichealth & #saveCDC.
#FedWorkerFriday meet @drdemetre.bsky.social as he addresses a crowd across from CDC, Aug 28. He resigned 8/28/25 as Director of National Center for Immunization & Respiratory Diseases at CDC. He will be missed. We are excited to have him fighting along side us to #savepublichealth & #saveCDC.
This reminds me of the best example I've ever seen of not assuming someone knows the basics. My grandpa was surprisingly tech savvy for a retired construction foreman. He had a website and ran a gardening forum in the 90s. One time while visiting He mentioned he wished there was an easy way to
You'd think they'd put some Stateys there.
T-mobile just gave me a year of Netflix for free.
Good kitty.
... Maybe tomorrow ...
Hmm
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Is that what all this is about? Oh, thoughts and prayers!
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
US appeals court finds Trump's global tariffs illegal
The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today. The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert. www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
Maybe the NG can help in TX, with flood clean-up
I'll take it.
Without a doubt, more sandwiches must be thrown!
... The State police, the VFW, the Chamber of Commerce, take a page from Paul Revere as we read about him in the Tipping Point ...
Why does Russia get to have an economy and we don't, Dad?
Shadowboxing.
Order the local cops to block them in at the bases! Get the PTA to help! Say "NO THANK YOU" to federal "HELP"!
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It's a Turkish Van!
Go ALL THE WAY!
just bleak to consider all these fucking money and resources going into dubious-at-best, nightmarish-at-worst AI bullshit, while Trump is slashing renewable energy. at least the rest of the world is going ahead full speed bsky.app/profile/ryan...
fucking christ man
Meanwhile, across the Pacific, China installed more photovoltaic energy last year than the US (where photovoltaics were invented in the 1950s at Bell Labs) has in its entire history! So, America Second!, I guess... www.pv-magazine.com/2025/01/21/c.... seia.org/research-res...
Woman protestor taken by ICE to “teach her a lesson” died in their custody.
Today I started reading _Careless People_, by Sarah Wynn-Williams (2025), a memoir about being a Facebook policy influencer. So far, amazing and hilarious.
adjuvants.
I had some sad orchids; watched a video about how to reset them, feeding them black banana in ginger tea. I repotted the orchids and fed them black banana. Next morning, I found a varmint had climbed up on the deck table and dug up the orchids to get the banana. The orchids still look better.
I read _James_, by Percival Everett, It is Huck Finn from the POV of Jim. Excellent, true to Mark Twain, and/but with some interesting twists.
Mosquito, Elephant gun.
"Moose ain't real."
Trying again: Get the Murderbot series and donate to WCK!
Get the Murderbot series and donate to WCK!
People make fun of AI “hallucinations,” but this is 100% accurate.
Marie the Protector.
Chimera Tortie Tuesday!
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Yeah, my mother used to yell at me when my rock-hard face caused her to break a blood vessel on her beautiful lady knuckles. Boo-hoo for YOO
Must be nice to have no oligarchs on your supreme court.
Not the most important reversals, but.
Bastards.
The US trade war ended up helping Canada more than hurting. It pushed Canada to diversify, making us one of the most globally connected economies in the West. That boosted exports and left us more resilient, while the US boxed itself into regional, bilateral trade. "House of El" explains. #cdnpoli
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They believe they can seize control of our city. Washington, D.C., is currently experiencing a beautiful vibe and energy tonight. Free DC ✊
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Okay, the presser says these votes will always go with the majority.
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Bernie's Correct! ! RepubliKKKans Don't care about Ordinary People !
NO THANK YOU
Right? Last weekend was squandered, the idiocy is beyond usefulness, Putin is painted into a corner but thinks he's not.
Here is the presser: www.intc.com/news-events/...
The Trump chip's AI is massively hallucinatory.
Imagine; Intel's Trump chip ...
1. You can't win any shareholder votes with 10%; 2. How does this dilute shares of INTC?
Watching a Waymo stuck in the middle of a block party, creating a surreal traffic jam because it can’t figure out how to briefly cross the yellow line to get past the crowd. Now the cops are here. They don’t understand the problem and are yelling at everyone but the car. The future is so stupid