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Preparing to be thoroughly & typically disappointed today @ 2:01 pm EST Rule of thumb of narcissistic announcement building: the more it feels or seems like you'll get what you want, the greater the odds it's the exact opposite Yet I still want to believe that THIS time Lucy won't yank the ball
Another foot-stomping, head-nodding, belly-laugh-holding, clenched-fist-raising protest ballad from the 💯 performing artist and songwriter we need: youtu.be/PL0oB1gbZE4
Oh gosh! I read this at first as "on the qt" and was curious what past sin was hidden in the shortening of "quiet" ... if indeed that is the true origin of the phrase! The rascal. And a solid-agree over here for the gap in the social discourse fabric that "subtweet" gracefully fills so well.
It's like Giuliani was at the DV scene on one side of the road and then involved in an accident on the other side of the road?
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
This dehumanizing hits my same internal ripples as when @jamellebouie.net said enslaved people were treated as financial instruments the way houses and mortgages are — our society relies upon undocumented workers in ways that also benefit & incentivize those not directly exploiting people
Leonard Leo ally Tim Busch has called SCOTUS the “Leo Court,” explaining that Trump “radically changed” the direction of SCOTUS by appointing (anti-abortion) justices “shepherded” by Leo, who he says is “one of the big supporters of the Napa Institute” (founded by Busch). 1/
This is the education I needed, including having to pause several times to ride the emotional impact waves. Thank you (I fscking<3 @jamellebouie.net's writing and punditry, looking forward to more Takes™)
The Voting Rights Act is our New Testament Let us caucus together, friends, for the Church of Latter Day Democracy¹ All Rise! The Vox Populi is at the pulpit... #Leguminati @muellershewrote.com ¹ To differentiate from e.g. Athenian democracy BS
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The Voting Rights Act is our New Testament Let us caucus together, friends, for the Church of Latter Day Democracy¹ All Rise! The Vox Populi is at the pulpit... #Leguminati @muellershewrote.com ¹ To differentiate from e.g. Athenian democracy BS
We worship at the ballot box. The polling booth is our confessional. Live by the black marking pen, die by the black marking pen. We get little "I Voted" stickers on our forehead as part of the service on Voting Tuesday. We also celebrate Mardi Gras because it's our Fat Tuesday, too.
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
August 29, 2025
serious l i t e r a l Nazi shit
NEW — My chat with @chriswarcraft.bsky.social about his run for California State Assembly:
In today's @dailybeanspod.com intrepid hostbean @muellershewrote.com reported on Flock Safety halting broad DHS access to their license plate cam tech. Guess who dropped a video TWO DAYS AGO nailing Flock as data brokers? @bennjordan.bsky.social natch! #DeptOfNoCoincidences youtu.be/Pp9MwZkHiMQ
The injustice continues. A terrorist is now being honored by our military... My latest God I'm pissed!!! substack.com/@harrydunn/n...
"With tears in his eyes, this big, strong man @govwesmoore.bsky.social said, Sir, he said, 'Sir, you are without doubt the greatest president of my lifetime and any lifetime. Sir, it is an honor to serve you,' and then he hugged me genuflected, and I said, while you're down there ... kiss my ring."
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.
Yo @muellershewrote.com here's a great one for the #FlipItBlue segment — let's get the #Leguminati aware of @chriswarcraft.bsky.social running in District 72 to flip this OC seat!
Using Tor doesn’t require a lot of technical know-how, you just need to download a browser and familiarize yourself with some basics. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
The deep flex is @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social just announced this yesterday & turned out a PHAT CROWD w/in 24 hours! To have fun! Fear, anger, determination, & other hard feelings will get people to turn out on a Sunday in New York w/24 hours notice But just for the joy of it? That's a #Zmovement!
Samsies this week, my feed is already cleaner and more in touch with humanity
“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.” Howard Zinn was born August 24, 1922 in Brooklyn
❤️ CALFIRE‼️ /signed A Fren in CZU
Banger after banger and all heart, @snowthaproduct.bsky.social with the ear candy, again and again: youtu.be/V5DMhV6mG5M
The answer to every plot for every sitcom - tell the truth at the beginning It's like getting the same Chaucer morality play plot over and over and over and over and over...
IS THIS THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP?!?!
Not only is this a great line, it appears in a very good piece.
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
BREAKING: We're filing a petition for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, a journalist who is being detained by ICE because of his reporting on law enforcement activity. The First Amendment is clear: Journalists cannot be detained for doing their jobs.
OMGosh you are so right: - the inclusion of "Overton window" in a list that is literally moving the Overton window - the recursive "you may no longer discuss censorship"-censorship vibe - and more!
Independent media FTW.
Maybe we can all learn to deliver a flawless Mid-Atlantic accent so we sound like 80-100 year old movies freely available as training data...
When it's not AI on the front end fucking up, you can bet it's AI on the back end fucking up — probabilistic models "tuning" and operating deterministic business logic perhaps?
NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT NEEDED FROM WEED, CALIFORNIA! GCN COMING LIVE FROM GRASS VALLEY! ☘️☘️☘️ THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THESE LUCKY CHARMS! ☘️☘️☘️
'Struth
When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.
Here, fixed it.
My biggest middle-aged-guy lesson: The path of least resistance in any context is found by centering the needs and agenda of the most underrepresented and marginalized people in the context. So finding the right & best & expedient thing-to-do becomes a straightforward exercise of following 1 rule
Cruel, racist, and stupid. I was born in the US, but I didn't speak English until I was about 5. I learned English thanks to ESL in school. I graduated with a degree in English and became a writer. These MAGA racists hate America and our kids. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
HFS
What this means in practice is that 14K trans people will have to quit their federal employee jobs and find jobs that cover gender affirming care. In other words, this is a purge of trans people from the civil service. Lavender scare. Everyone who participates is responsible
Call it what it is: RIGDISTRICTING It's not redistricting, that's got a fixed constitutional aspect and isn't this BS It's not gerrymandering, because that's some shady shit you do in a legal redistricting #Rigdistricting is attempting to steal the people's choice and voice
We used to have the same questions about Papaya Dog in the West Village NYC - a hot dog and drink combo was iirc $0.99, and I reckoned the way they pushed the drinks it was clearly the profit side. The markup on beer is not as much as sugar+fruit drinks but feels like hot dogs are the loss leader?
Who knew that all those years we were creating Safe Corridors to Schools so kids wouldn't get hit by cars or preyed upon by sex offenders, the bigger risk would turn out to be our kids getting snatched by government agents 🙄 Good thing the system is in place for volunteers to increase coverage...
Parents, be vigilant against PragerU instructional materials in your kids classrooms! It’s an extremist outfit masquerading as an educational nonprofit. It’s a far right wing response to PBS kid’s programming, it is propaganda designed to appeal to children and careless or bigoted educators. Beware!
If you don’t think Trump is compromised, ask yourself how Ghislaine Maxwell got a meeting with Todd Blanche and how Putin got a summit on American soil.
We’ve now published the details of the security issues which we addressed in Monday’s coordinated security release of Matrix: read all about Project Hydra at matrix.org/blog/2025/08... and please upgrade your servers and rooms where applicable.
Damn bro, I woulda said you're an exemplar, but now you've been practically canonized! Elevate, elevate, elevate
Catch up on Day 1 here: bsky.app/profile/anna...
HAPPENING NOW: It's Day 2 of the bench trial in Newsom v. Trump, the suit brought by California over Trump's use of the national guard and marines for immigration enforcement. I'm covering for @lawfaremedia.org. Today we expect testimony from the government's witnesses. 🧵
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Senator Whitehouse asked the BOP for Ghislaine Maxwells sex offender waiver, custody level, transfer code, and security point score. I have them. She's also been granted the ability to leave the facility for work assignments. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
I grew up in Washington DC and it has never felt safer or cleaner. Trump's "emergency" is fake, straight out of the authoritarian playbook
🤔 It's almost like the presence of the military made things worse!?
Available for pre-order wherever books are sold! Kensington/Penguin: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781356... Thank you for pre-orders & signal-boosts, it's a difficult time to promote right now but your support is *dearly* appreciated!
Pure Americana.
If you work in/adjacent to Democratic politics, or even if you are an occasional Democratic donor, this new @adambonica.bsky.social piece is the most important thing you can read today. The Democratic Party cannot build power if it allows scam pacs to thrive open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
They can keep trying to taunt and depress me into drinking again, but it ain't happening ... ... because someone else is buying up all the liquor to celebrate 🥂 and there ain't none left!
The Breakdown with Allison Gill - Trump Is Firing All the Truth Tellers and Replacing Them with Reeks and Extremists! with David Corn A recording from Allison Gill and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
Maxwell was arrested by the Trump Justice Department. This guy is a boob pushing disinformation.
Urban hiking — so many hidden staircases! It's what happens when you drop a grid onto a pointy surface
#onemillionrising fellow #harvard Alums, let's put on more pressure for nocooperation.
Harvard. Resist. Do not comply with the Republican administration. We support you. #onemillionrising
Pillars of NonCooperation: Higher Education No ... tell me Harvard is NOT really going to capitulate! Increase pressure on them not to ... alum? Are you out there? Send letters. All Ivy League and recipients of significant research funding: write your university. #OneMillionRising
@harvard.edu STAY NON-COMPLIANT against this f@sc!St administration. @ashdashlee.bsky.social #OneMillionRising #MDIndivisible
Well, you already knew about the many buildings with pyramids on top POINTING TOWARD HEAVEN! Forget what you thought you knew about compass alignment... And don't forget this curiously shaped building too is POINTING RIGHT UP HEAVEN'S BUTT CHEEKS!
If you move to Patreon please post about it so I can go subscribe. Writers and artists deserve independent funding and safe platforms.
The other key part being, if there's extra hustle from those players and their families, maybe an athletic scholarship is their best or only chance to afford college for their daughter? But imagine how Chad sees the situation—now both he and his daughter are being "replaced" 🙄 2/2
I wonder if there's also an association with the "great replacement theory"-bullshit? When my daughter played NorCal mid-tier comp soccer, I wasn't confused by the large number of Latinas in the league. It's not "biology", it's probability - a large soccer-playing population means more players 1/2
Oh that was good and clear! After 30 years of futzing with levels and curves for the histogram to get "looks better", now I'll actually know what I'm trying to do (Writer-with-aphantasia too-often doing his own layout and graphics work)
Ah, it's #OpenSource, of course
It's all in the name
What's a 0.1% rise in inflation? If your household spends $100,000 on goods and services that went up by 0.1%, that is $100 out of your pocket What's stupid is they'll cheer how inflation is 0.3% lower than last year ($300 less) and then jeer at roughly the same rise as "no big deal"
This man can atticus my finch anytime This has been a Gregory Peck Thirst Skeet™️
They already gave Maxwell partial immunity before she testified. This coverup is one of the most grotesque things I’ve ever seen in my life. Everyone in every party should be horrified by what this administration is doing to protect pedophiles.
How many households spend significant inter-social time in the kitchen vs other spaces? This is why folks call kitchens the heart of the home, yeah? I bet this hasn't changed with food delivery and meal prep services...
What's funny-NOT-funny is @gwensnyder.bsky.social's answer is one of the three ways to make change throughout history The other two are "hire some thugs/raise an army" & "use money & the power+influence it buys you" For 99.999% of us the only choice is organize & commence with the yelling
🅱️ℹ️🆖🅾️‼️ 🙏🏼 thx to the brilliant and rizzy @sifill.bsky.social for dead-center accuracy—my experience attests to its veracity Ten minutes ago I was having this exact thought, unsure how to express it ... partially because it's my demographic and the wish to explain is also a symptom ...
Emmett Till would have been 84 years old today. I celebrate your life, sir 🕯️
🔔🔔🔔 WE HAVE A WINNER 🔔🔔🔔
NEW: Criminal prosecutors mistakenly contacted Wisconsin Sec. of State Sarah Godlewski (D) for sensitive election data to help implement Trump’s sweeping anti-voting order — the problem? She doesn’t oversee the state’s elections. From: @mattdcohen.bsky.social
Zia, an Afghan interpreter who risked his life to help U.S. troops, is being detained by ICE in Massachusetts. He's been living in the U.S. LEGALLY for fear of retribution if he returns to Afghanistan. Targeting Zia and other Afghan allies is dangerous and wrong.
I'm about ready to see someone-and-their-Secret-Service-crew show up and get chesty with the cowardly MF'r
*long.pause* *stare* *slow.lick.lower.lip* *stare.more* 🤔
Cherie is a fantastic writer, with a new (haunted house) book out. This essay about writing and being in the business long term without a breakout success is very honest, very real, and very relatable for a lot of us, I suspect. Recommend both her essay (below) and her novel(s).
New: About 100 victims of the Microsoft SharePoint hack so far, according to Eye Security and the Shadowserver Foundation: www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Here's a bit of daily calm for @deviantollam.bsky.social and anyone else who likes to see proper fire safety and liminal spaces, where the only things stored are shadows and light:
Word!
Atlanta journalist fights deportation from Ice jail despite dropped charges: ‘I’m seeing what absolute power can do’ #gopfascism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Josh Johnson is the new comedy superstar, and his incredible skill is somehow crafting perfect longform, topical routines in a matter of days
ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻
Ooh, quoting Rihanna and making the WNBA into Mads Mikkelsen
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😂 Good point. Bondi ordered 1,000 FBI agents to review roughly 100K pages of Epstein files (the ones that don't exist but now exist again but Obama wrote) - and Senator Dick Durbin said the FBI agents were told to "flag" any mentions of Trump. This is a must read from Marcy:
John Lewis walked, bled, and lived for justice. Five years since his passing, we honor him the only way we know how: By refusing to stay silent and getting in more Good Trouble.
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
