It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual child’s life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite
It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual child’s life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite
How petty and evil you have to be to keep enforcing arrests against people wanting to commemorate a tragedy?
Obsessed with the absolute shade of referring to Giuliani as “Former Masked Singer contestant”
Such an almost good idea for a platform ruined by implementation choices and weird vibes.
Bluesky's not even that much extra work, especially compared to Mastodon (in my experience).
One reason for Democrats to ditch their reflex to say "You have a point" to the other side is the right wing hasn't had a good point about anything in most of our lifetimes
Honestly this is a huge part of why I don't go to church anymore. It was just suddenly *super* obvious that it wasn't actually about being a good Christian, but more about collecting money and hanging out with people the same as you.
No, I think you're right, it's insane that anyone (not to mention the government) should be getting involved in your reproductive decisions. We should all probably work on preventing that. (Also, penguins are cool, man. Do you not like penguins?)
Oh man, it sounds like you're upset that someone else might be telling you what to do with your body.
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
Glad to see a judge assigning the work at least.
It is worth noting that the Trump mob knows that what they’re doing is wrong and illegal which is why they keep trying to do it faster than a judge can tell them to stop
Everything they do seems motivated either by greed or spite. No profit to be had here, so it's just spite.
Live your life in such a way that, upon realizing that you are probably p seriously ill, millions of people are not torn between hoping you die as soon as a body can possibly shuffle off its mortal coil and hoping that you survive long enough to go to prison and die there.
The only concern anyone has about his health is that it might improve.
Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy. Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."
Sparkle Sooknanan has the best name of any Article III judge imo
Another judge I'm now a huge fan of. Can I just subscribe to certain judges somehow so I can follow their cases? 😄
An element of fascism is a kind of upside down where the meanest, most rapacious, and least virtuous of society are loosed to bully and abuse people who genuinely uphold civic ideals of service and sacrifice. Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.
Deaths averted by vaccination since the 1970’s
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
More than 180 current and former FEMA employees signed the letter sent to the FEMA Review Council and Congress warning that FEMA's capacity to respond to a major disaster was dangerously diminished.
Ah, thanks! Was going to have to try that to satisfy my curiosity. I guess it definitely doesn't error though, so your initial surprise was correct 😂
When it's not actively making life worse for everyone I care about, it's sorta fun living through a really weird dystopian novel.
Huh, today I learned that JavaScript encodes all strings as UTF-16. There would still be some bytes that wouldn't decode to a valid character, but hopefully that would be a different error message.
Enh, it's dependent on encoding, so something like サ would be invalid in some encodings. But even in Unicode there are codes that don't match a valid character. (Calling it an "invalid character" is maybe not the best wording I guess)
I'll be honest, I was expecting to be grumpier about everyone speculating, but it's actually been more of a jolly, telling stories about Santa Claus sort of speculation.
you misspelled "I will be holding public hearings immediately on RFK Jr.'s mismanagement of HHS, and even though we do not have the power of the majority, these hearings will be televised live and Republicans are welcome to join if they care about Americans' health even a tiny bit"
Yeah what? Does he think he's already retired?
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Am I being detained?"
Almost accidentally did a "crime" this morning but got playing with something else. Probably going to intentionally do a "crime" now 😜.
It’s time folks for some #SidewalkChalk civil disobedience. Grab some chalk, go outside with your kids, and draw, write, sketch, vent, play hopscotch. This shit has gone too far. #ChalkCrime
Wait until you find out this platin is cis!
Looking forward to increasingly recursive "defacing defacing prohibited signs prohibited" signs.
The US Administration has decided to destroy a top network for clinical trials to test new treatments for children with brain cancer. This is another atrocity that will harm Conservative and Liberal Americans, long after the politicians responsible are gone.
2025 Democratic politics is that scene in every 70s movie where somebody gets their car stolen and runs down the street shaking their fist in the air yelling, "Hey, that's my car!!!"
I know there are no silver bullets here, but I think constantly about how our culture of insanely aggressive and thoughtless policing would be upended if federal and state officials were subject to individual liability for their torts instead of being protected by a vast web of immunity doctrines.
I love that the road itself is beginning to turn into a rainbow with each washing of the crosswalk.
HFMD isn't required to be reported, so it's hard to tell if this is reflected in clinics. Does anyone know of groups that have been typing HFMD infections this year? I'd like to compare notes. 4/4
Look, it's important to run drills so we can be well prepared for the real thing.
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
I miss the old brand #CDC
NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.
Look at this question. These motherfuckers. FUCK YOU YES IF YOU WANT MY MONEY THEN YOU BETTER GODDAMN BE WILLING TO FOOT THE COST OF COLLECTING IT. Assholes just set a quarter of a billion on fire to make a concentration camp they only used for 60 days YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT YOU SHOULD PAY FOR TAXES
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.
At this point, I'm not sure how important "scouring the law" is. Probably just collectively come up with some new ones, that'll be fine.
When?
He literally has no experience in public health
In an ideal world the taskforce would, like, build homes, or provide services. But somehow I don't think that's what they're going to do.
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
Honestly don't know why no one's tried this. I have very strong beliefs about taking care of all my neighbors, and I'm pretty sure there're other "religions" that claim that same thing.
@doh.wa.gov , are we going to have updated COVID vaccines this season, or does @governorferguson.bsky.social need to get working on this too? (I'd love to get vaccinated in WA state instead of having to travel to another country for healthcare)
Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
oh come on www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Oh so he's not being charged with flag burning and won't be going away for a year? How embarrassing for Donald!
RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim O’Neill, to be the new CDC director. Both men appear to wear skinny ties from Otaa. Otaa's ties are made in China from microfiber, a kind of plastic that, under the right conditions, can migrate to your balls.
🤮
Oh here we go with the "not reviewable by the courts" thing again. 🙄
The good news is…. Just kidding
8/28/25😳 second time this month, Justice Department dropped charges against a client represented by Pam’s brother abcnews.go.com/US/doj-drops...
Did I mention ICE arresting firefighters who were LITERALLY fighting a massive fire at the time of their arrest? 🔥 #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
That's where I'm at too. I'm not going to tell him to *stop* what he's up to, but I'm also not going to vote for him in any primaries.
Also not helping prosecutors: All those Jan. 6 pardons. Judge Faruqui: "To charge people for what seems to be lesser conduct and then say they’re so dangerous they have to be locked up. It puts prosecutors in an impossible position.” www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Honestly I wish there was MORE competition among elected Democrats for the prize of: who can tell Trump and company to fuck off in the strongest and (key) most substantive ways. Claim the crown, you ambitious bastards!
One of the firefighters arrested is an Oregonian. My office has been in touch with his lawyer who says he can't locate his client. My office is working to get more information on his whereabouts ASAP.
Did my morning rounds of reading online news and now my creative spirit has crawled back up inside me like a prey animal terrified of being eaten. Excited to try to write now!
@seattletimes reports federal officers from US Customs & Border Patrol showed up to ask for IDs, order the firefighters not to record the incident, arrest two members of the fire fighting crew. THIS IS NOT MAKING AMERICA SAFER.
Another example. Republican efforts to curb Veterans benefits by creating a disability rating system that costs more to operate than simply giving all veterans direct government healthcare. Same goes for healthcare for all Americans. Doing the right thing is always cheaper than the cost to block it.
WTF❗️ ICE arrested two firefighters who were fighting an active fire in WA’s Olympic Peninsula
Ah, well there ya go.
I think last I heard the president *hasn't* fired her (but that was like 2hr ago, so who knows now).
☝🏻 She's like 95% yelling on social media, 5% action. Hopefully this is going to be one of the 5% things. 🤷🏼♂️
Don't threaten us with a good time
Meteorologists now face a Trump ‘loyalty test’ when applying to National Weather Service jobs. The essay questions — which have nothing to do with meteorology — are part of federal guidelines launched as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to recruit “patriotic Americans” to its workforce.
NEW: Today, the Republican Party is pushing a judge to jail Fulton County commissioners. Why? They refuse to vote to appoint two far-right election denial activists to the Fulton County Election Board who have a history of undermining elections. Here's what they had to say – video thread. ⬇️
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
Phrenology is back, wearing a fake handlebar mustache as a disguise
One way to worsen the horror of mass shootings is to follow it with mental health misinformation, stigma, and to blame it on everything except guns.
These prosciucuttors must be furious
📚 Yes please :)
cruel and psychotic
If it's so great, maybe we should be providing it to all the kids at no cost.
Probably not zero, but if they were just going to deport him anyway they could have already. Seems weird to half-commit (but then nothing they're doing makes much sense, so who knows).
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
To be fair, this is at least marginally helpful to the community; in contrast to menacing people with weapons as they try to go to work.
[chases New Dems with broom] Scram! Shoo!!
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
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.
Turns out some of the “we want small government” people kiiiinda wanted the government to be just one guy.
Also, I'm not an expert, but I also suspect we're pretty close to the asymptote of crime controlled via more police. We'll probably get better bang for our buck via other programs.
Constituent: You need to take your head out of Trump’s ass.
"It is without a doubt the most illegal search I've ever seen in my life," U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said from the bench. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what has happened. A high school student would know this was an illegal search." unreal quote 😭
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
sitting on the bottom for sixteen hours while coast guard depth charges go off fathoms above my homemade submarine as i smuggle idiosyncratic stationery and fansubs into the united states
And EOs aren't law.
It’s Official: Too Many Things Happening
Jonathan Howard 