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Educator, partner, parent, traveler, trivia buff, data enthusiast, SF Giants fan, host of the inoperable brain tumor known as Donald Lump. She/her. On Nisenan land. #maskup 💜
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‘Theftosterone’. A new word for an old phenomenon, when a woman shares an idea then a man says exactly the same thing and receives the praise as if the idea was his own. Misogyny? Certainly. Sign of some men being over-promoted and trying to justify their position? Often. 1/

If I were a Senate Democrat and Trump had just started an immoral and unconstitutional war, I would not vote to advance his Asst Sec of Defense. But these 10 just did: Fetterman Gallego Hassan Kaine Kelly King Reed Rosen Slotkin Warnock

SpaceX detritus porn

It’s the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

I worry that escalating war with Iran will be used to whip up more fear and hate for non-white immigrants, particularly those of Arab descent, and be used for unjust deportations.

This is fucking horrific.

Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago. Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away” timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...

MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, 6/18 around 9:30am — Unidentified masked terrorists kidnapped an elderly homeless man off the street and bundled him into a private car with no license plate.

Compton, CA: A masked, heavily-armed man wearing body armor jumped out of a SUV today to kidnap a local resident. He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.

Clearly they just need more pizza parties!!

There’s a little satisfaction knowing he takes his teeth out every night and his face sinks in. He has to hate it. I bet he can’t stand to look in the mirror.

Giants fan, but yes!

Juneteenth went uncelebrated by the White House. That alone says everything you need to know about this regime.

I feel like Dodgers hats are about to get really popular at protests

"Rapid unscheduled disassembly"

You okay up there Canada?? Seems you have some maga adjacent people too.

A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that Community Notes on X flags Republican posts as misleading 2.3 times more often than Democratic ones. It’s really sad to see that so many more conservatives are engaged in spreading misinformation.

Infuriating read. www.cbsnews.com/texas/monste...

MAJOR CRINGE WARNING

Important thread about bodily autonomy and how people with uteruses' wishes are continually ignored because a hypothetical man's wishes are more important.

Publishing a deep dive into the Salt Lake City 'No Kings' shooting in the morning that I co-produced with @schotthappens.com of Utah Political Watch. Subscribe to The Handbasket to get it in your inbox: www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe

I've had a secret theory for a while that I guess I'll just throw out there: The right is inevitably going to turn on AI, not because LLMs hallucinate or get things wrong, but because they mostly *get things right*, and reality, as a great man once said, has a liberal bias.

this report from media matters is fucking wild. fox news has aired 424 segments about trans athletes since feb 5. the week democrats vetoed the GOP trans sports ban bill, they aired 59 segments. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

Zohran, Stringer, Adrienne Adams, & Blake (all NYC mayoral candidates) came out to support Lander. I genuinely wonder if this would happen under a non-ranked choice voting system. The idea that coalitions can be formed *while* campaigning for the same job really lends support to rcv, imo.

L.A. Taco has confirmed with the family of 20yr old Adrian Andrew Martinez, who was taken by ICE while working at Walmart in Pico Rivera, is a US citizen who was speaking up for his coworker that was detained. ~ @eltragon.bsky.social

Sen. Tammy Duckworth just said on Colbert, "We should all live long enough to develop a disability," & the audience laughed uncomfortably. I can tell you what they were thinking. It was "Not me. That would never happen to me." & the underlying, unacknowlged premise was "b/c I'm better than that."

BREAKING: What you just witnessed was a state-sanctioned kidnapping. These people aren’t identifying themselves. Citizens can no longer distinguish between state authority & rogue violence. This is not a warning about what might come. We are not watching the start of something. We are living it.

When I needed a hysterectomy due to severe endometriosis & adenomyosis, I was repeatedly denied Told I “might want kids.” Told I “might meet a man who wants kids” I was left disabled & bed ridden, yet the system continued to try & save my diseased uterus against my will 🧵

WHAT THE FUCK

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

In 2016 MN Police killed a Black man named Philando Castile despite him disclosing he had a legal firearm. Yesterday MN Police released a white woman named Jenny Boelter despite her car full of cash, firearms, & passports hours after her husband mass murdered people & was on the run from police.

😡🤬 This is straight-up political blackmail. Sean Duffy is holding cities hostage because people dared to protest ICE brutality. Trump calls the shots, and Duffy obeys—cutting off funding like a mob enforcer. This isn’t policy, it’s punishment. This is how democracy dies.