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Formerly lots of things including teacher, graphic artist, linguist, and software architect. Currently a luthier. Inveterate AI skeptic. DO. NOT. COMPLY!
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BREAKING: ICE is preparing to deploy tactical units to five cities run by Democratic leaders, according to two sources familiar with the planning of future ICE operations.

why’s this bitch wearing a hat

Hi! I specialize in medication toxicity. All available, real-world data has proven mifepristone is actually even safer than many over the counter medicines. Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K)

This may well be the most remarkable and historically significant speech ever given by a sitting governor.

the southern baptist convention just had to sell their headquarters in downtown nashville to pay for all the sex abuse legal fees.

AOC: If Senator Fetterman or anybody else is concerned with law and order, we should be looking at one of the most law breaking agencies and administrations that we've seen in the United States.

Imagine being active on Twitter, the site that is a festering cesspool of racism, far-right ideology, misogyny, etc. & where opinions running counter to the owner are deboosted, and arguing that Bluesky is super toxic because some leftists get feisty. Really demonstrates how Twitter cooks your brain

In which Josh Barro admits he doesn't even use Bluesky and seems to guess what it's about based on a single screenshot. If Bluesky actually didn't matter, these guys wouldn't keep talking about it. But it does. And what terrifies them is they can't control it.

So ABC’s official position is that Stephen Miller does not have hate in his heart?

Maddow: I also feel like there’s not very much about that that I don’t understand. Like, it’s the same everywhere. This is blond Berlusconi, you know what I mean? This is inarticulate Viktor Orbán, right? These guys are all the same. The authoritarian playbook is the same everywhere

Instead of using this money to fund, say, the National Weather Service right before hurricane season, they're using it to send Marines to Los Angeles. THIS is waste and abuse.

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

What Terry Moran said shouldn’t be controversial. It's precisely the context missing from so much network news and corporate media reporting: The motive. And that motive is hatred. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/bre...

Just a reminder that during Freddie Gray uprising in Baltimore its was revealed afterward that some of the “looting” was done by the cops on the gun trace task force

My campaign office in Rogers Park is a safe place that welcomes everyone, EXCEPT ICE. We are here to help. If you're in the area and need clothes, food, or any other resources, come in and take them, no questions asked. And if you hear about ICE in the neighborhood, let me know. We'll be there.

You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight.

i just watched a clip of stephen miller talking to hannity from a few days ago and my god is that guy a stone cold freak. like, everything about him is profoundly off-putting, like a bug in an eggar suit

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

A total outrage. A judge needs to dismiss this at the first opportunity. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

i think southern baptists should probably consider a ban on being led by child predators

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

As Trump plans mass deployments of ICE in Chicago, a car just sped through a group of protesters. I was at the Federal Plaza protest. It was PEACEFUL. This violence and chaos are what Trump, his masked thugs, and the people who support mass deportations stand for.

Turns out, the “Don’t Tread On Me” states’ rights gang is rather partial to heavy treading.

Ohman nails it again!

Deep insights from our paper of record today.

RFK Jr. wants to Make America Healthy Again. But he's ignoring the country's leading cause of preventable deaths: smoking.

The thing about human rights is that they belong to every single human being unconditionally

Asked about the legal prohibitions on deploying American troops domestically, Secretary of Defense Pete Hesgeth dropped to the Senate hearing room floor and did twenty pushups.

You fight for a zygote, but cheer when a child is ripped from a mother‘s arms by ICE. Tells me everything I need to know about you.

EVERYONE, The Onion is extremely on sale for the next five days. $75 gets you a year's worth of the last good newspaper delivered to your real life mailbox. Father's Day is in five days. America's dads love being duped by wrong information. Buy one for each of your 7 dads. membership.theonion.com

Bluesky shows all users by default all the posts from the accounts they choose to follow in chronological order. Vichy Twitter chooses which posts to show using an algorithm designed by Elon Musk. It's a brainwashing engine.

With everything weird that is currently going on, I thought you might need an image of a June meadow at twilight. Captured in the heart of mid-Devon, England.

oh my God a New York Times editor had to resign 5 years ago over publishing an op ed by Tom Cotton calling for the military to shut down George Floyd protests now Wall Street Journal is letting him do the same shit separately, "Tom Cotton" sounds like the final boss in a video game about slavery

Guys, Trump's gonna un-preserve federal land so he can drill more, and probably build condos there or whatever. And since it's a DOJ memo that says this, that makes it binding federal policy until the end of time, as we learned in the "presidents can't be charged with a crime" fiasco. [gift link]

NOW — I’m at the ICE OUT OF NEW YORK protest in Foley Square.

President Donald Trump said his team will move forward with winding down much of the Federal Emergency Management Agency — but not until after a hurricane season that some projections show could be particularly deadly.

It’s official. Studio Execs are now using Chat GPT to evaluate screenplays. Here’s proof from a friend’s pass letter: Not only is it vague and unhelpful, it references one specific — an antique camera. The problem? THERE’S NO ANTIQUE CAMERA IN THE FUCKING SCRIPT.

CDC purge continues, as worm-brain conspiracist RFK Jr. plows ahead with his campaign to get rid of vaccination experts. He lied to Congress about his anti-vax agenda, and now he's setting back U.S. healthcare for generations. Illness & death to ensue. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

you'd think the end of all federal consumer protection, public safety enforcement, and corporate oversight would be bigger news outside of a handful of outlets like propublica, the media couldn't care less

I know it's super inconvenient for everyone trying to go to work and get the kids into summer camps and all that, but the White House is literally trying to start a civil war

1. I'm going to thread out the very odd sequence of events that led Fox News anchor John Robert, theoretically a "straight news" guy, to pretend the early hours of June 7 actually happened a day ago in order to avoid pointing out that Donald Trump was wrong about something.

There's a real attentional trap that all protest movements face and have faced for a long time. If you pull off protests that are polite and civil, even if large, they will struggle to get coverage. Reporters will dismiss them as not newsworthy.

ICE appears to confirm that California National Guard are being used to provide security to ICE officers during immigration arrest operations.

BREAKING: The enforcement chief at America’s consumer watchdog is quitting, ProPublica has learned. Cara Petersen writes in her sign-off letter that it’s “clear that the Bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way.” 🧵 1/