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This is one of the cars my mom saw yesterday when protesting in Texas:

As a 52-year-old, I grew up with domestic right wing terrorist organizations threatening violence daily, and blowing up buildings and killing people periodically, throughout my whole political life: it was the anti-abortion movement.

Sitting US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly wrestled to the ground and arrested by the FBI for attempting to ask a question of DHS secretary Kristin Noem.

Coyote pups at Graceland Cemetery!

"You look like your wife gives unenthusiastic handjobs!"

BREAKING: Judge says Mahmoud Khalil cannot be detained or deported based on Rubio’s determination. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

Eye-opening analysis of WNBA players’ pay relative to the NBA, adjusting for the leagues’ relative sizes and season lengths, by Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/o...

This is such a huge bummer, particularly the part that notes the big 4 were the last printers of tissue patterns, which will kneecap the indie pattern industry (which seems to be the area with more growth these days). Please don't make me use PDF patterns from now on, I'm begging you

The enemy of my enemy still did two Nazi salutes.

This is one of the people who ICE seized in Chicago today, when she responded to an order to check in. Please sign, and pass this on.

The way people are talking about the current demolition of research funding and HE legitimacy reminds me of the early days of COVID when I (and others) said it would be at least six years before any normalcy. Rage, despondency, rejection…eventually voting for a dictator just to feel alive.

Doing it again could have meant not sexually assaulting and traumatizing women, but look at old Andrew, letting you know what he puts first.

Don’t rank Governor Bad Touch

Chicagoans (including all in the suburbs): if you are aware of the looming catastrophe our transit is about to face (40% shutdown; some L lines closing), you are going to have to start telling all your friends about it. And get ready to yell at state legislators. And also, Gov. Pritzker.

Ms Rachel got hands

American Science & Surplus is fundraising for the business's continued existence after facing severe rising costs, necessitating a warehouse move that they can't afford on their own:

“I thought about how the world can be anything and how sad it is that it’s this.” -- Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars