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If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
'The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, which won the Governor General’s Award for English-language fiction, is also being removed from Edmonton Public School libraries.' theijf.org/edmonton-ban...
The best post I've seen this week applies: If your business requires theft to operate, you don't have a business, you have a criminal enterprise. (Evan May, @gianttourtiere.bsky.social)
This crime at Social Security might amount to the biggest data theft in human history. Committed by a government against its own citizens. I don’t think anyone has begun to grasp the sheer scale of corruption and institutional destruction that has occurred in the last few months. Era-defining.
People forget the largest minority group is the disabled community and they are the only minority group that you can unexpectedly become apart of.
🪬🧿 There is no amount of money, oil, or gold in the world that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.
AMOC collapse will make refugees of us all. And it could happen in our lifetimes. We use this precious, fleeting moment to fight for a sustainable, resilient, compassionate world. Or we end up with no world at all.
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.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act. www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
Nothing to see here, just a totally normally shaped electoral district.
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
There will be nothing surprising, or shocking, to be learned when all those books come out on the convicted felon when he is gone. All those 'insiders', who didn't have the guts to reveal damaging information in real time, won't get one cent from me.
A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”
Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who chose to break into an unauthorized area during an insurrection against the repeated warnings of law enforcement. She ignored those warnings and got killed through no one's fault but her own. She was a traitor. She doesn't deserve full military honors.
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
"there didn't used to be all this autism around" no, what there USED to be were literal printed volumes on social etiquette because everyone was expected to know when it was rude not to offer a handkerchief or weird to reply to a thank you note. For no reason. Those books just, happened to exist!
RFK Jr & the FDA have made it much harder for Americans to access Covid vaccine It’s no longer recommended for children, healthy adults or pregnant people You can technically still receive it if your doctor prescribes it, but this will mean insurance may not cover it & pharmacies may not stock it
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.
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🤣🤣🤣 Wowwwww I would think they were being funny, but…. Nope!
Chris Kluwe: always a great listen / read. 🏆
Shuler: This is the choice working Americans have been given: chaos, or the same broken status quo. We wanted cheaper groceries—and we got tanks in our streets. We wanted affordable health care—and instead, 16 million Americans are about to be kicked off their coverage
Likely a patch? Maybe the one on the left sleeve of the guy on far left in pic.
The perfect alt text 👏 👏 👏
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
Hmmm … maybe we call it “a white(-passing) hole”?
So let me get this straight. ChatGPT coached a kid through suicide attempts while validating his ideation. The response from OpenAI is, "yeah, turns out if you talk to an LLM long enough the safety features stop working." Guess the usage patterns of people who most need safety features!?!
Two children were killed and seventeen people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. A Cracker Barrel logo change received far more scrutiny and attention than any fight against the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Our priorities remain idiotic.
Your periodic reminder that people who blame “mental illness” for every mass shooting want to make it easier for people to get guns and harder for people to get mental healthcare.
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
EIA: Solar and wind leave coal in the dust with record 2025 output flip.it/dmIr3Y WHICH IS WHY BIG OIL WANTS THEIR TODDLER POTUS TO SHUT ALL GREEN ENERGY PROJECTS.
Offfff course he is; almost like we knew it would happen. Again. 😑
I learned nothing about #MECFS in med school. Had 1 lecture on #EDS that emphasized how rare it is. Had 1 lecture mentioning #dysautonomia, nothing on #POTS Zero on #MCAS Repeated reminders that patients omit, fib, may not be reliable historians etc. Granted this was 2 decades ago but 🤷🏻♀️
I don’t need a self driving car. I need a vehicle that runs between major areas and can transport large numbers of people at once to reduce environmental impact…wait it’s a train. I’m describing trains. Build more goddamned TRAINS, America.
After DEA GOONS begin to harass and question a man sitting in Starburst Plaza in NE Washington DC, local neighbors remind him of his rights and stand with him until the GOONS give up on their harassment.
Let’s stop calling them ‘medical miracles’, let’s instead call them, SCIENCE. Keep your miracles for your books of fantasy and fairy tales.
Gus Speth: "I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that 30 years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...”
Luminous!!
Wind turbines don't kill whales or birds, they kill Oil company profits
That’s… not how HIV works. Reagan et al didn’t take HIV/AIDS seriously until het folks were contracting & dying, but it was not “a gay disease.”
We took an oath to the Constitution, not some wrinkled up, dried out orange clown. All of this! 👇
I read your post as not understanding the pronouns used by @stankyyankee.bsky.social in their post — I share OP’s hope that all will be unharmed & safe.
ICYMI — @GovPritzker tells Trump to stay out of CHICAGO, and urges the press to stop both-sidesing us into authoritarianism 🔥 🎯 🇺🇸
Would really love some of that good old fashioned immediate wide scale structural change for the better where everybody's needs are met and everyone can meaningfully thrive without fear of bigotry or threats to our lives. Sure would hit the fucking spot.
“Members of the National Guard and military, we call on you to refuse to comply with these unconstitutional orders. 5/9
“Members of Congress, we call on you to begin articles of impeachment, and to clearly label these orders as the acts of a domestic enemy. 7/9
QUIT CALLING THE POLICE ON BLACK QUEER PEOPLE IN CRISIS.
Immigrants aren’t stealing your jobs. But employers are stealing $50 billion in wages from workers each year.
Aww! Cute couple 🥰🥰🥰
Hozier’s ‘gay rights’ and ‘free Palestine’ Reading and Leeds sets won’t be seen on BBC https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/26/hoziers-gay-rights-and-free-palestine-reading-and-leeds-sets-wont-be-seen-on-bbc/?utm_content=1756210800&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
That’s how I’m understanding it atm — would also create a criminal record, I’m guessing?
“They” = the administration, not the people; as in “…the administration taking it out on the people”
Not an uncommon pack size on US public transportation. Could be unhoused? Or sports / workout gear, or trekking / hosteling across country, etc. 🤔 Perhaps snacks for the cats?? 🐈⬛ 🐈 🐱
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
I could use the sleep 😴
If a business cannot survive if employees are paid a living wage, the business should fail.
Retailers warned that raising wages would "force" them to raise prices and to use automated checkout. Fed min wage remained flat, but they raised prices & used automated checkout anyway. Result: Workers got even poorer as customer service plummeted while prices & profits soared.
Love this photo of Monarch Butterflies in Ontario Canada probably Point Peel National that i went to yearly in Sept in my twenties as they gathered to cross Lake erie migrating south waited for the wind to change
Nodding — I’m in public & private sector spaces, hear these phrases (the full slide) in both.
Thank you! “If Books Could Kill” sounds pretty great :-) will check these out
Worth stating!! We are all bombarded & drenched in too many things to keep track of (by design), and reminders of basic truths help keep us grounded, IMHO. Thx!
Thank you for your replies! Agreed that the extractive mindset & behavior violates basics of “natural law” or “Nature” or some other innate fundament. Got me thinking! :-) Thx for link, will check that out.
LOL! I’ve been known to react to on-screen things too!
Appreciate your replies — will read report & yeaaaahhhhh that’s a lot of zeros 😳
Thx for link!
Nodding! I particularly like your suggestion that we ignore them :-) I can start that… right now!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Amazing! Thx for this lol
“Public sector” includes all of the workers in the departments, agencies, etc. Lobbyists, donors, operatives, and politicians are the ones to focus on.
I understand “they” to be “the administration,” not the protesters / veterans.
BREAKING: VETERAN'S BEGIN A SIT-IN IN WASHINGTON DC AND WON'T STOP UNTIL THE MILITARY LEAVES TOWN
Between Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the DOJ official who tried to extort a plea out of him with threats of trafficking him to Uganda, there is someone who committed a crime. But that someone isn't Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Russia will withdraw from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture. The decree has already been signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
Reminds me of the “Space for Cats!” pix of man-spreaders on public transport — delightful shaming method
The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.
Let’s be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no sense—it’s not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.
We have federal troops occupying the capital of our country, a mostly black city led by black people. It’s not a distraction @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social it’s actually happening.
Point of no return by @silentmiddlechild
If you hear stories about some irrational woman and you know her...please ask her for her perspective. My guess is her answer will be quite different than what you are being told. This is the playbook that slows the process of female leaders. Don't contribute to it.
as the skull-cracking terrorist military occupation of DC continues apace it's worth remembering that DC's lone nonvoting voice in Congress is an 88-year-old Democrat who legitimately doesn't know where she is anymore
BREAKING: Victims of Jeffrey Epstein who have never spoken in public before just scheduled a press conference on September 3, 2025, on Capitol Hill. They have something to say to Trump.
It’s so telling that every time a tech oligarch speaks about opportunity for young people it is just “founding a company” and “making a billion.” No family, no friends, no higher purpose. Just soulless greed. They used to claim to strive for something deeper. www.instagram.com/reel/DNiC25n...
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Military occupation of areas loyal to the political opposition is what you see in a civil war, kids.
Note how blue no matter who is near exclusively used to support bigoted right leaning candidates while that energy disappears when a more socialist leaning candidate like Mamdani does well.
The lead prosecutor in the Ghislaine Maxwell case, Maurene Comey, was fired 8 days before her interview with Deputy AG Todd Blanche on July 24-25, 2025. There was no official announcement or explanation. It's funny how careers end right before the questions begin.
He looks and acts like a man dying. It will happen, hopefully soon but remember his power was always theater. Even if his health fails, the architects of Project 2025 remain. Celebrate, but know the hand inside the puppet still moves and their plans haven’t changed. #Resist
The defining feature of U.S. democracy has been the unwillingness to hold white conservatives to the rule of law. Time & again, when democratic systems seemed to threaten their power, white conservatives sabotaged existing systems. That dynamic makes democracy impossible.
Woohoooooo!!! 🎉🎉🎉
CRISPR gene editing technologies were fundamental to this advance. Even scientific breakthroughs not directly funded by NIH (this is a European team) would actually not have been possible without NIH.
