Tired of the bs. Feminist, still. Do not obey in advance. Despite many statements by right politicians, Joe Biden was not the President in 2020. The game of life is hard, and a lot of us are playing hurt. - Anne Lamott
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Also spoiled for me - Kennedy Center Honors, the Smithsonian museums, the Olympics, US’s 250th anniversary…
Did you know in 1890 manufacturing employees worked on average 100 hours a week? It would be decades before the eight-hour workday became real. It took labor activists and labor unions to turn the cry for change into policy and practice. www.americaamerica.news/p/a-labor-da...
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
Out for a stroll on another incredible Chicago day. This is ‘meet me on Milwaukee,’ a car free event in the Wicker Park neighborhood. Happy people & happy dogs everywhere. Remember this when Trump tries to paint an ugly picture of our beautiful city. #chicago
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Joe Biden is out buying ice cream while everyone is asking whether Trump is dead.
There are still children who haven’t been reunited with their parents after they were intentionally separated from them at the border during the first term.
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
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The voiceover is like a bedtime story 🛏️ 🤣 Zingerman's Bakehouse Ann Arbor, Michigan
Selfish dessicated husk of a human. Why leave? Cushy life with a lot of amenities and no accountability.
Small government, amirite?
“Federal law enforcement asked the crews to line up to check their IDs, according to the firefighters. One of the firefighters said members of the crew were told not to take video of the incident.” DHS did this as flames actively raged. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding. A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social’s @mizzwelch.bsky.social
More than 60,000 students in North East ISD in San Antonio will walk into classrooms on Tuesday with NO BOOKS or with “library closed” signs blocking access to classroom libraries as a result of Senate Bill 13.
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
Intentionally: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” OMB Director Russell Vought had said. “When they wake up in the morning. We want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.” “We want to put them in trauma,” Vought added.
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The damage this man has done is incalculable.
This is telling: People I spoke to are talking about CDC in the past tense. www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
Elon Musk’s cars kill more people than all Trans shooters combined.
“Violates” priorities??
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
And who will be able to afford organs? Not only are poor people are expendable, they can be used for spare parts.
Memphis is the only American city that makes the list of the 10 most dangerous cities in the world. Chicago's not even in the top 25
They're now saying it out loud: The Administration's goal is to undo the political independence that Congress granted the Fed, so that the President can directly set rates.
Absolutely no coverage of this on mainstream news. @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com Can you explain why??
📌 Scientists are not in the business of advancing missions antithetical to public health. ✊🏼
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Think New Mexico isn’t fighting for patients, they’re fighting for private equity. There’s a doctor shortage because Wall Street buys up community hospitals, guts staff, and turns ERs into cash cows. Patients wait 16 hours for care while profits soar. Private equity is strip-mining hospitals.
Along with national intelligence, national security, personal data security, soft power, the justice system, the rule of law, our economy,…
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,
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
Four more top #CDC officials have submitted their resignation in the past few hours - Debra Houry (chief medical officer), Demere Daskalakis (director of NCIRD), Daniel Jernigan (director of NCEZID) + Jen Layden (director of OPHDST) www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... It is horrifying
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
(mf doom voice) he threw a sandwich cheese and salami, feds couldn't indict folded like origami, afraid of subway both the chain and the train, mayo salt and pepper shake your thang, grand jury shut em down twice, coca cola on the side no ice
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
I don’t want to spoil the name Twitter with that monstrous cesspool. Twitter will remain a happy place in my memory, and X is a cesspool.
First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
Deaf dog has their own assistance dog: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/HumansBein...
Sounds familiar… oh yeah. The Good Place was a forking good show!
lol how did you know? Ok going to sleep .
Texas voters, Texas removed 100k voters from the voter rolls. Please spread the word and check your registration and re-register if necessary. thehill.com/homenews/484...
We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸
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The Supreme Corpse
Ever wonder how Swans land in water? I didn’t know either. Here ya go…
All about control.
On the left, my warning from September 2024 about what Trump 2.0 would look like. On the right, recent headlines. I wish I'd been wrong. But because Trump is following a classic authoritarian playbook, it’s up to state and local governments to push back on this tyranny while it’s still possible.
The last time troops policed America was in the 1770s. We fought a revolution against that king, and wrote into the Constitution the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to prevent it from ever happening again. Pass it along…
Californians‼️🚨 Did you receive this flyer yet? What you need to know— That curious and curiouser little flyer came out 2 days after Newsom signed the bill to fight back against the Republican power grab in Texas— This is a coordinated effort by Republicans. Make no mistake they won’t stop at TX.
“A Manhattan Institute Manifesto Would Give this President Sweeping Power to Force University Compliance with Right-Wing Demands *** The statement is selling a naked ideological agenda as a defense of campus free speech.” 7/22/25 … 1/ manhattan.institute/article/the-...
CBS acquired, now the other two network stations.
Alice Correia Barbosa was in a car that was suddenly surrounded by unmarked vehicles and was "disappeared" by “agents” did not cite a reason. Nothing creepy and mysogynistic about this at all.
World War II ended with Russian troops using tanks and rifles to negotiate their way into Berlin, a bullet negotiating its way into Hitler's skull, and an atomic bomb negotiating its way onto Hiroshima. But it did not end with Churchill and FDR negotiating to give Hitler big chunks of Poland.
They don’t know what song the DJ will play. Sometimes the dancer gets something they really know and it’s amazing — like this one where The D Soraki, a Japanese dancer who at the time was 19, got Diana Ross “I’m Coming Out” & hit every syncopated drum break. All freestyle, not choreography.
I think the intent is option 1. He wanted to shoot protesters in the legs at Lafayette Park.
Sad.
God I love Mexico!!! When Trump ordered the border wall painted black to absorb the sun's heat and make climbing harder, Mexico responded by painting beautiful murals on their side
I remember being on a train in Eastern Europe and being terrorized in the middle of the night by officious men in epaulets demanding to see everyone's papers. I said to my friend, "Glad we don't live in a 'show me your papers' country." That seems rather quaint now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
White Nights
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
Lawsuits and violations of the Posse Comitatus Act aren’t covered under his “limited immunity”. Nor does he have the legal right/power to order any military to do what he’s dreaming of. In fact it violates numerous federal and military laws. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Agree! Can’t stand the dude, but this is clearly a political stunt.
Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance 1/2
Potentially catastrophic behind-the-scenes news about the Network of the National Library of Medicine (www.nnlm.gov) shared with me today. While some NNLM host institutions were able to float the offices while funding was paused or delayed in 2025... it is unlikely that happens again. #medlibs 📚
ICE grabs a new father off the streets of D.C, as he begs them to remember their humanity. "Brother, please! My wife, she can't walk!" Their response? "We'll figure it out." But they won't! ICE "agents" have been as hostile to immigrant families as they are to detainees. 🎥 @hereswhykevin
Using data they stole from the agencies.
John Roberts’ Supreme Court will gleefully do their part.
… using all the government data they stole from the federal agencies.
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This is how it’s done.
Waste, fraud, and abuse.
Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃
Words to live by.
The commission to study the Supreme Court… wtf ever happened with that?
The slow reveal.
Buy democracy
Ogles gonna Ogles 🤡
He could be the definition of bummed.
Life comes at you fast
This is what Ken Starr did to Clinton. When Whitewater found nothing, Republicans made sure the inquiry continued until they found Monica Lewinsky This is why the Independent Counsel statute was changed But Ed Martin isn’t a Special Counsel. And the DOJ isn’t supposed to tear people’s lives apart
All the agencies are being devolved into one police force. I think you are probably right.
And they’re the ones throwing them at WNBA games.
So, they’re all just police.
Great. More online crime, terrorism, and intelligence operations aimed at the US.
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Boardroom chatter has changed. It used to be: “How do we beat our competitors?” → Competitive capitalism and the genius of the invisible hand. Today it's: “How do we please Trump?” → Crony capitalism and the corruption of the golden handshake.