Graphic designer, writer hoping to kindly, gently contribute to the education of people who vote against their own good. Joyful feminist. If you use antiquated sexist/racist words I will point that out. Language is powerful.
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WaPo: purchased and gutted to pump propaganda by an oligarch. LA Times: purchased and gutted to pump propaganda by an oligarch. CNN: gutted and pushing propaganda MSNBC: being actively gutted and spun off CBS News: being purchased by an oligarch's failson and set up to push propaganda.
All those things you want your shiny new technologies to fix won't shift even a little bit unless the humans involved fix their fucking hearts, first.
ICE committed murder.
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
For the first time in almost 20 years, travelers may no longer have to take off their shoes during security screenings at certain U.S. airports.
A “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have required businesses to make it easy for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions and memberships, has been blocked by a court days before it was set to go into effect.
Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
“Summer of ICE” by @laloalcaraz.bsky.social 2025. 9x12 acrylic on canvas.
It’s not just Elio mind you. It’s happening to Daniel Chong’s upcoming film.
Sick and tired of Republican Senators coming to me privately saying, “Mark, keep speaking up, you’re our conscience.” I don’t want to be their damn conscience. I want them to vote their conscience.
Q: "A 75 year old Cuban national died in ICE custody. He had lived in the U.S. for 60 years...Is there anything you can tell us about that?" Border Czar Tom Homan: "People die in ICE custody. People die in county jails. People die in state prisons."
I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.
u can completely free up your future vacation schedule sir
Clever
In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.
BREAKING: Trump admin is releasing three-time felon Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes and sparing him from deportation in exchange for "testifying" against Kilmar Abrego García. 🤔 Trump is trying to keep this plan quiet. You know what to do.
Have you ever wondered what it would have looked like if Hitler's SS had social media?
Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
google maps broke and created some kind of unholy chicago singularity
“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.
Word salad?
"Everything felt like it was meant to break you. Nothing was explained to us. I wasn’t given a phone call. We were locked in a room, no daylight, with no idea when we would get out." #StopICE
Wow!
Is that the guy in charge of the cubes?
Looks like a great opportunity for sabotage. Alligator Army!
With each passing day, the violence wielded by ICE grows more intense and widespread.
What to document during an ICE abduction. (print / share). ICE does not only rely on people staying silent but failing to document their activities. Help keep your community safe by gathering the following information. #3E #StopICE
Do y’all not see that these attempts to make Mamdani a Jew vs Muslim issue is CLASSIC white supremacy pitting minority groups against each other in order to divide us because we are very dangerous to them when we’re in community?? Are y’all for real gonna fall for that shit!?
Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base. This man has no citizenship now.
I don't know what happened to my Pinterest ads but I'm really enjoying them
People get grumpy that "the media" doesn't report on the "policies" of politicians, and focus on personalities. So here's a list of stories laying out policies I've done lately. My latest on the divide between Republicans about rural hospitals. 1/ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
The lesson for Democrats is clear: Fight fascist oligarchy or get replaced.
A pregnant woman lost her baby after ICE refused to give her prenatal care. She begged for help and was denied. She was fed food full of cockroaches. She was forced to sleep on the floor. This is absolutely disgusting and we should all be outraged. nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i...
AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
In Bell, CA an entire community stood up against ICE, including the local police and the fire dept. The fire truck appears to not allow ICE vehicles to move forward nor remain and pushes forward to escort them out. A police car also helped with escorting. /
"These armed bounty hunters stormed a family's home in Huntington Beach no warrant, no ID, weapons drawn on kids. Do you recognize them? Help us identify them.
AOC files articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
🍉🍉🍉 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The chapter of RFK’s most recent book - that he wrote to defend his belief that COVID was actually a weapon designed to target white people and spare certain groups like Jewish people - in which he talks about how he does not believe germs actually cause disease is called “The White Man’s Burden.”
new crusades just dropped
In the basement of LAX:
I feel like we've been saying this forever but it's worth saying again. Book bans do not exist in a vacuum. They're not one off events. Book bans are the canary in the coal mine. They usher in an era of censorship, fascism, violent scapegoating. Authors, join the fight: @authorsabb.bsky.social!!
Here is a photo of a trans non-binary biologist (me) holding a bird (Eastern Towhee) that is likely a bilateral gynandromorph-- a fusion of cells with female-type chromosomes and cells with male-type chromosomes in one bird! Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️⚧️
Here’s how your pet can be included in a mural at One Tail At A Time’s new building: blockclubchi.co/4l9Dguj
Victor Avila, a 66-year-old legal assistant — and a green card holder for 58 years — was detained after visiting his son, who is a member of the U.S. Air Force.
The artists responsible for last year's poop statue appear to have struck again. This time with a work called “Dictator Approved,” an 8-foot-tall sculpture showing a gold-painted hand with a thumbs-up quashing the sea foam green crown of the Statute of Liberty on the National Mall.
BREAKING: @ajc.com obtained body camera footage from the June 14 arrest of Spanish-speaking journalist Mario Guevara by the Doraville Police Department while he was livestreaming "No Kings Day" protests in suburban Atlanta Guevara is now in ICE custody and may be deported to El Salvador.
AI quite literally follows the path of colonization, in that it is a primarily US-based endeavor that depends heavily on the exploitation of transnational workers. www.noemamag.com/the-exploite...
AOC played ball and did everything Pelosi told her and was rewarded by being passed over for a 75-year-old who died four months later. There have now been four House votes this year where Dems lost by the margin of members who died in office. No one has more right to say this than her
ICE denied U.S. Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) entry into it’s facility in Chicago.
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MSNBC dug up the clip of former Trump Sec Def Mark Esper saying that Trump asked him in 2020 to shoot protesters -- an order Pete Hegseth wouldn't rule out following if Trump asked him to do it today
L.A. Taco has confirmed with the family of 20yr old Adrian Andrew Martinez, who was taken by ICE while working at Walmart in Pico Rivera, is a US citizen who was speaking up for his coworker that was detained. ~ @eltragon.bsky.social
Can someone help Thumper and @phillypaws.bsky.social? We adopted our Talulah from there a dozen years ago. They’re a wonderful shelter.
Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.
Cat owner kidnapped by ICE. Cats need a place to land. Can anyone step up? Cats are in the Baltimore area.
BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.
Embarrassing for every reporter who has daily access to republicans and asks "what do you think about ____" instead of the most basic factual fucking shit
Is being female an insult?
The common trend in the arrests of Sen Padilla, or Comptroller Lander, or Marcos Leao, or any other US citizen, is that they are immediately released. The admin knows they have no legal standing. They know a legal challenge would create a bright line bar. It’s about the chilling effect. Full stop.
Under his eye
manager: you make that allergy warning sign for the counter? employee: sure did boss, real fuckin ominous just like you asked manager: what
When and why are they turning on their propaganda department?
the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics
BREAKING: What you just witnessed was a state-sanctioned kidnapping. These people aren’t identifying themselves. Citizens can no longer distinguish between state authority & rogue violence. This is not a warning about what might come. We are not watching the start of something. We are living it.
Sam has distinct clear framed glasses. Saw some on a masked agent at court last week. Can't say for sure it was him, but thanks to the NY Post for this crystal clear photo of him regardless. 👍
"Republicans say the One Big Beautiful Bill wouldn’t touch Medicare. That is not true. One of the more important health care cuts in the legislation would affect some of the most vulnerable seniors and people with disabilities who are on Medicare." www.thebulwark.com/p/yes-they-a...
🤖 A massive data center at xAI’s controversial site in Memphis, Tennessee is emitting huge plumes of pollution, according to footage recorded by environmental group Oil Field Witness. Read more via @desmog.com
The accused assassin allegedly used data brokers to track down the Democratic lawmakers he murdered. Congress doesn't need any more proof that selling data to anyone with a credit card is deadly. Every American's safety is at risk until Congress cracks down on data brokers.
Brain worm?
If you’re in LA in a public space this month and someone tries to get you to sign a petition about wages and voting DO NOT SIGN IT. this is businesses trying to repeal an ordinance that increases wages for workers in hospitality spaces ahead of the Super Bowl, World Cup, & Olympics. Do not sign!
The more I think about it, the more convinced I am this is the case. And again, I was in marching band. I know this statement to be true. The bad marching at that big, shitty birthday party was malicious compliance.
For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings: How some have been depos’d, some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping kill’d,
I just got back home to finally sit down and watch the parade footage and it’s 100x more embarrassing than I expected. I totally forgot the weak nations that do these spend decades perfecting them. It looked like if Fyre festival did North Korea.
The galaxy far, far away has been a constant presence in @matthewspalmer.bsky.social’s life—but it was the Disney+ series Andor that really made it come to life. He shares what we, as writers and world-builders, can learn from its approach. britishfantasysociety.org/stone-and-sk...
Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣
Fortunate Son is a song about a draft dodger. How appropriate. Top trolling from the US Army. #Trump
I promise y’all: marching in step is quite easy. Nothing difficult about it. That bad marching was intentional. I guarantee it.
The DC military parade looked sad The video described by Rolling Stone sums it up: "Though rock music blared on TV, the parade itself was eerily quiet. One video…shows tanks squeaking past nearly silent crowds, sounding like a grocery cart in need of grease."
Sign up at the end of the month. They will want to hit their goals and you’ll be in a better position to negotiate. Same goes for fees.
Look what I found when I searched "ICE uniform" in Google Shopping. None of us have any way of knowing if the "ICE agent" pushing you into a car, isn't just some unbalanced vigilante into cosplay. These are very dangerous times.
foreshadowing
When you hear the whining about "police injured on duty" in LA today: the people actually listening to the scanners said LASD fired rubber bullets at LAPD so LAPD tear-gassed LASD. The protestors are gonna get blamed for it, but it was entirely self-inflicted.
There are a couple of kids in my nephews's class who weren't born in the US, and the class has decided (w/o teacher input) that if ICE shows up in they're all going to pretend not to speak English. 10yos reinventing "I am Spartacus" because they don't want their friends to get disappeared.
Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.
Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...
I’m at a protest with a whole bunch of octogenarians leading chants about how transphobia has go to go and I wish the paid consultant class who are always trying to triangulate the party into meaninglessness would talk to a few of them.
Forcing people to work for no pay is very on brand for the president. The thousands of National Guardsmen President Trump sent to Los Angeles in an authoritarian power play are working for free. https://trib.al/MZ7JPyY
Can you all help me spread this picture around 🙏 I can't stop thinking about this young man at #NoKings His sadness was palpable. I wish I had asked him questions. I should have known I wouldn't be able to find his roommate's story online, he was disappeared. #FreeChao #Chicago #Indivisible
Trump’s Military Parade Was a Gross (Expensive) Failure www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Does he believe that wombs wander?
Many of the LA Sheriffs didn't have their gas masks on yet so the Sheriffs got gassed by LAPD LAPD was on the radio crying about getting shot by rubber bullets by the sheriffs, so I'd say fair trade Typical level of professional policing for Los Angeles. Waiting for CHP to join the fun.
Editor: You finish that writeup of Trump birthday parade? Journalist: sure did boss, real fuckin bootlicking just like you asked