Officers who shatter car windows aren’t being disciplined — they’re being promoted. One officer who smashed a window in front of a local TV reporter now has a senior ICE position overseeing operations on the East Coast.
Spreadsheets are my love language and I think white supremacy is stupid. West coast girl living in New England. Recovering teacher. My dog is the best dog. I’ll end up in a Trump camp at some point. 🤷🏼♀️ Opinions are mine.
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Officers who shatter car windows aren’t being disciplined — they’re being promoted. One officer who smashed a window in front of a local TV reporter now has a senior ICE position overseeing operations on the East Coast.
I don't want to see more of the snuff video, but not surprising that someone who rapes underage girls gets his jollies from videos of killing people
Isn’t it just murder?
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
If you’re considering getting back out on the dating scene during the fall of our nation…don’t. The heart was NOT designed for so many emotional roller coasters at once.
Yeah I’d say you’re slightly busy!!
I want to see location-based feeds. I want the option to see the public posts of w one who is posting within 50 miles of me. Would make festivals and stuff SO fun!
I don't know anything about liability re: the knockon effects of this, but the next true feature for this website would be something like Craigslist or an Events listing. They shouldn't be trying to reinvent Twitter, they should be trying to revive classifieds.
I bet that was stressful!
Down-ballot Democrats barely exist in MSNBC coverage. Meanwhile Fox elevates every random GOP backbencher into a national figure. That’s a huge imbalance.
the decimation of trust in public health is -- like almost everything else -- squarely at the feet of a diseased information ecosystem, no matter how hard people want to argue about material effects
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Practice democracy every day now. Write. Call Congress. March. Volunteer. Postcard voters. Take a breather to stay sane and healthy but it’s no longer write once in a while or vote every two years. Practice democracy every day. Teach it to your children.
Yes, literally in the middle of the night. The judge was called at 2:45am.
Just learned “labubu” is *not* a nickname for those fancy designer shoes with the red on the bottom. Feeling pretty rocked by it tbh. Mondays are rough.
This is 100% how we have to handle the really manipulative kids in juvie.
Some of us added music videos.
When she's done reading select quotes from the plaintiff's declarations, Judge Sooknanan sums it up as follows: "And so this doesn't quite line up with what I'm hearing from the government.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
On August 31, 2025, in the dead of night and with just hours’ notice, the Trump administration attempted to illegally deport over 180 Guatemalan children—ripping them from shelters and foster homes, loading them into vans, and rushing them to airports. #ImmigrationJustice #ProtectChildren
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
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😂 I love it!
lol, not gonna lie, this is hilarious to me.
Or, if you’re labeled “unproductive,” report to the Yarvin/Srinivasan Institute for Human Energy to be turned into biodiesel! First 100 people to show up every day get one extra goodbye hug from a family member AND an “I ❤️ JD Vance” sticker!
I’m a little worried at how slowly the UK is picking up on how quickly shit is deteriorating here in the U.S., and how obvious it is that they are next. 😬
Musk has shadowbanned the 10 Downing Street account on X, and is stepping up his destabilisation antics as he pushes forward his efforts to control the entirety of Britain's electric power. We have to push back against this foreign chaos-merchant dividing this country with his hate.
I’ve been thinking votes should be done in public for a while now.
it's the wave of the future, because we will tell you you're old fashioned if you don't use it, but minimize your contributions if you do. either way, we win and you lose. meritocracy!
Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.
What this moment should teach us is that while the Trumpist Republican Party is currently a unique threat, the truth is many – maybe most – Democrats share Trump’s core belief that not all human beings are worthy of basic dignity. It is this belief that must be eradicated from our politics.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
The thing about trump campaigning for a Nobel peace prize for “ending wars” is even if it were technically true, that’s not a rare or special accomplishment. It’s the bare minimum expected of the United States. Part of being a superpower is acting for global stability.
Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.
NARRATOR: As it turns out, they could not keep it.
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I know there’s a lot going on but in June ICE took custody of a U.S.-born citizen in Chicago, Illinois and handed him over to a private contractor, which confined him in a hotel without a phone or other form of communication for five days. The city and state aren’t ready for what’s coming next.
I honestly think all four of them look alike. Replicants.
Meanwhile, I signed an executive order that says cookies are okay for breakfast on Sundays and you’ve been SILENT. It’s almost like executive orders are bullshit!
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The US brought in nearly $30 Billion in tariffs in July, triple the amount collected in previous years That's not good news Tariffs are taxes on Americans That $30B was collected from you and me when we bought food, clothes, electronics...
Another counterpoint: the regime needs the media more than the media needs access to them.
WELKER: Should Trump dispatch the National Guard to Oklahoma where the crime rate is higher than New York and California? LANKFORD: The people of Oklahoma would welcome any help we can get to deal with crime issues
Himmler was in charge of an organization dedicated to finding Atlantis! Seems in keeping with fascism to put weird little freaks in charge of programs related to their insane pet theories, and let them run wild.
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
Pro-democracy politicians will *fail* if they don't have space to form alliances with people who don't share our beliefs and room to blunt successful wedge issues. That sucks.
Cracker Barrel removed DEI and Pride from their website. I don't care about logos cause I don't look at them anyway, but I do care about erasing people.
This is why everything has to be resisted, even when the outcome is predictable. For one, it slows things down. But also: resistance is contagious.
“Texas Democrats lost. But they drew attention to Republicans’ efforts to put their thumb on the scale, and demonstrated a valuable tactic for galvanizing their beleaguered party. They lost, but they lost loudly. Losing loudly has been a crucial feature of successful political movements.” Gift:
It's absurd seeing people lecturing trans people and telling them they HAVE to support someone who opposes trans rights for president three years from now—or else fascism wins!—when there are other leaders who are still standing up for trans rights, from Illinois to Kentucky.
The media has to stop anthropomorphizing AI. If I write a calculator program that generates incorrect results, it's not dishonest, it's just wrong.
This is completely unsurprising. AI hasn’t been trained to be truthful, only to recognize and produce patterns.
ICYMI — JUDGE: “This case represents the consequences of a decades long drumbeat of anti-immigrant sentiment and misinformation being broadcast & broadcast & broadcast…” 2 immigrants shot in Washington, gunman sentenced in June. Barely even a story. 🤷🏻♂️ www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/g...
During this tough time-- We are going to have to unlearn-- A LOT. Including how we learn, how we teach, how we gather in community, etc etc. Yes, the old institutions are showing their weak points. Sure we want to burn them down. But what do we do with how they've conditioned us internally?
In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen
"Sanctuary cities" got recast as altruism to immigrants, when the main reason is that city police dealing with murder, rape, and other serious crimes don't have time to deal with federal violations or misdemeanors, and their job gets a lot harder when would-be informants go silent out of fear.
The point of this is to normalize the topic and build pressure. Even if it doesn’t ultimately succeed the more pressure there is on Kennedy the more likely it is he makes concessions here and there.
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Good to see more on this; LLMs are inherently inefficient, and new generation improvements mostly come from making that even worse. Pair this with NVIDIA's earnings call. They see the future of AI so processing-heavy the limiting factor will be the cost and difficulty of powering the data center.
This isn’t real.
"In a hotel-turned-campus on a reclaimed island in Malaysia, crypto and tech entrepreneurs are building software, chomping down Australian prime ribeye, hitting the gym — and getting schooled in a radical blueprint for creating new sovereign states from scratch." 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"Oscar" works on CAs Central Coast as an irrigator in the lettuce. He shares: Carrying and connecting irrigation pipes is hard work. It's easy to slip, fall or twist an ankle while carrying these long pipes on loose dirt. It takes a lot of skill. #WeFeedYou
going to be interesting to see how Mexico’s increasing prosperity will contrast against the rapid decline of US hegemony on the global stage. we’re entering a new world.
RFKJ is treating human beings like we’re sea turtles or salmon or something. Have LOTS of babies, do nothing to help them, and then whoever doesn’t die…wins? I guess?
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The Republican Congress is going to try to rewrite the history of RFK Jr.’s confirmation as HHS Secretary. “We didn’t know” “Nobody told us” “He promised he wouldn’t…” This thread will be about the warnings from thousands of scientists and HCW who loudly and publicly opposed his confirmation.
RFKJ: “Let’s see if these kids survive bird flu and COVID before we spend money on their brain cancer.”
I’ve heard FDOT never fills potholes or fixes roads. FLORIDIANS!!! You know what to do! Paint rainbows around EVERYTHING you want FDOT to update or fix!!! “Florida cities have until next Thursday to meet FDOT’s deadline to strip away decorated crosswalks” or lose state transportation funding.
This Day in Labor History: August 30, 1800. A man named Gabriel Prosser, a Virginia slave, intended to lead a slave rebellion into Richmond. Inspired by the Haitian Revolution, which Prosser moved about, Gabriel's Rebellion failed, but is an important moment in resisting slave labor!
Don't let anyone who voted for Trump's tax cuts tell you they support workers. Trump's tax code taxes foreign corporate profits at a lower tax rate than domestic profits. That literally encourages corporations to offshore jobs.
this should be a scandal. jonathan is one of vinay prasad’s most incisive & vocal critics. prasad is actively censoring his non-government scientific critics. and his position of power means youtube will do whatever he says
the Berlin Wall fell because a bunch of people misunderstood a press conference, flooded the gates, and reached a critical mass. we think about it a lot. the thing about the people in control is, they're out numbered and always will be. all it can take is one little misunderstanding to remind us.
The federal government’s bid to gather voter records from across the country is yet another attempt to undermine U.S. elections. bit.ly/4mK6qSe
@littlebritches.bsky.social
Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing
It's useful to think of Trump's political style as a form of "fan service," which is distinct from the "constituent service" we used to associate with the role of elected officials. I took this picture in March of *2022* at a Republican event in Salem, Oregon. That flag seemed bonkers at the time.
Right? Hard not to respect how good they are at what they do—and what they’ve done.
😂 I love it!
Somewhere Chris Rufo or the Heritage Foundation has a culture war outrage on hold in case, say, there’s a major new COVID outbreak, or a secret service protection-less Kamala Harris is assaulted, or pictures of Trump on Epstein Island surface. They’re ready, I promise you.
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yo this guy is cooking
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
I love it when a specific moment has such a clear soundtrack. This post…today in general…has a very “Sons & Daughters” by The Decemberists feel. I for one am leaning into it!
lol!!!
i just want ai to clean my bathroom while i practice cello
Yeah exactly! That’s what it was supposed to be! Why is AI picking the next song I listen to while I have to search the internet to find the right size screw to fix my kitchen faucet??
Yeah good point! I remember watching OJ Simpson’s chase live as a kid in Minneapolis (I was like 7) and someone saying “this happens in California all the time.” 😂
OMG Thank you for sharing this! Sorry for the delayed reaction…took a 48 hour social media hiatus. 😊
It's even better than I thought, he points out that most murder victims on the show were upper-class white & in real life were black or brown. Not a writer on L&O but on other shows in the genre www.reddit.com/r/television...
I don’t want your “AI” or your weird glasses. Call me when you’re selling transparent phones and tablets like in the movies.
LA, NYC, and Chicago aren’t JUST blue cities in blue states. They’re also the settings of *most* Law & Order-type shows. Don’t forget that most of these people, at their core, are extremely dumb. They believe TV. That’s how we got here.
We can’t forget that a lot of these people’s lives—including Trump’s—are based around what they see on TV.
I can’t find that exact quote/interview yet but I believe it. Also, I know people are like “Trump is targeting blue cities in blue states, not the places crime is actually more rampant,” and that’s true, but also LA, NY, and Chicago *also* happen to be where all of these TV shows are set.
I’ve never heard that before but I totally believe it! I’m gonna go look that up actually!
SANDWICH MAN DID NOTHING WRONG RELEASE SANDWICH MAN SANDWICH MAN FIGHTS FOR FREEDOM www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Exactly!!!