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Student of #polycrisis, with detours into history, nature, oddments. Degrees in philosophy, history of science. Former teacher, writer, editor, public communicator, journalist, contract researcher. Occasional fictioneer. No AI. ;-)
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Education is so broken on so many levels. This is beyond cheating, it's making yourself stupider on purpose instead of taking advantage of the opportunity to grow that YOU PAID FOR. Would be like going to the gym and having a robot do your workout for you.

So, ladies, be sure and TURN YOURSELVES IN TO THE POLICE following a distressing, intimate medical event which would otherwise be a COMPLETELY private matter under HIPAA? OR ELSE? I think NOT. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NOW the GOP starts to notice both these characters are srsly OFF.

I don't want much -- just to live long enough to see Bondi disbarred, broke, and living in a cardboard box under a bridge.

Basic GOP "mind trick" #1 (of 3): inpress folk that SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE, IS GETTING SOMETHING FOR FREE, at YOUR EXPENSE." Humans are hard-wired to detest "free riders," so if GOP gets in there first with that framing, "yes, but" is always going to be a tough sell.

"[A]gents are working 12-hour shifts to guard a handful of detainees who were set to be deported to war-torn South Sudan before a judge stepped in to block their removal.... "But the judge didn’t force Donald Trump’s administration to offload those immigrants in Djibouti."

Fuck yeah!!!

Good news on one front anyway!

Chicago fighting back against ICE. You love to see it 💪

People are asking.

Donnie 2 Dolls is an idiot.

Putting trops in a double bind. Obey this order OR respect your oath. Next double bind: which counts more, oath or signature? Human nature, per habit, most follow orders of immediate superior. Worry that June 14 is meant to be J6 Part 2. I've overworried before, pray this is one of those times.

Trumf is a Russian asset.

✨🌈Non Binary Pride dragon!

Might as well face it, we're resistant to ICE...🎵🎶

Could spring back and bite the instigator HARD where it hurts. Hope so.

Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."

Thank goodness for small bits of the system functioning, but NO ONE should have to go through this.

The NYPD and ICE mistakenly arrested a Chilean woman who is a permanent resident in New York City and left her poor frightened 12 year old daughter on the street alone. She was released approximately six hours later. This is the fearful state of America.

Here’s a rare member of the U.S. Senate who seems to understand how close we are to a dictatorship.

This administration thinks it can cancel Pride… Oh honeybuns. We never needed your permission in the first place. Pride started as a riot. If you keep encroaching on our rights, we’ll just go back to our roots. Hint: it involves bricks.

Those eyes? They’ve seen galaxies. Straight from a fantasy tale, this owl's stare pierces right through your soul. Photo by: 📸 luke_brady_johnson #Nature #Owl

Didn't exactly this happen in his first admin?

me n kalu watching link click !

Next up: more passive resistance from the Eternal Toddler. (No reflection on actual 1-3 year olds, who are still getting used to life on this earth and will--mostly--grow out of it) ;-)

Jonathan Joss was murdered in broad daylight, while grieving his murdered dog, by a homophobe spurred on by political rhetoric He was not "killed in a dispute with a neighbor" The media needs to stop prettying hatred up to make it sound less hateful and more palatable They have become complicit

More from Minneapolis. This is rounding out into QUITE a story.

I don’t mean to be an elitist but I think you should be more than 5 years out from your after-school gig “weed-whacking the weeds”—to be in charge of combating violent extremism for the United States of America. I swear, Elmo finds these people on 4chan.

Would explain a lot, indeed. Republicans VOTED for this, WUT? In Congress (when?), or their private supersecret HQ?

No words.

Trans people are incredibly resilient, despite all the barriers, road blocks, bullying, and torment. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/this...

No kidding.

Holy sh*t. "Private citizen army?"

And another one. Ah, a name on that vest. "OLESON."

Small legal win today for our neighbor, O-J-M: www.opb.org/article/2025... #portland #oregon #ice #dhs #immigration

www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/04/t... Trump’s Palantir-Powered Surveillance Is Turning America Into a Digital Prison  - CounterPunch.org

Worth mentioning a statistic from a recent lecture on Renaissance Italy: one in four women died in childbirth. apnews.com/article/abor...