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The worst thing you can do right now is hide or go quiet. Stand up and talk back.

submitted 3 days ago • 291 comments

If I know anything about myself, it's that I feel really uncomfortable around strangers unless they work at an independent bookstore.

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@youdontpod.bsky.social I am stressed, so I downloaded every episode that came up when I searched "mothman." It helped a bit.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This

submitted 9 days ago • 904 comments

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

submitted 11 days ago • 657 comments

Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.

submitted 16 days ago • 1322 comments

If we want culture to thrive, not just survive, it’s on all of us now.

submitted 18 days ago • 418 comments

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

submitted 19 days ago • 482 comments

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

submitted 21 days ago • 788 comments

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

submitted 25 days ago • 721 comments

Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”. He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”. The job was helping people with disabilities.

submitted 25 days ago • 1445 comments

Please @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @govwesmoore.bsky.social, please apply pressure to release this man. www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/p...

submitted 27 days ago • 21 comments

Christians, eventually you will be asked, what did you do for the stranger, for the prisoner, for the sick? How will you respond? You claim to believe your answer will determine the fate of your eternal soul.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

So there’s a definitely innocent American being held in an overseas prison And the U.S. President does not intend to lift a finger to bring him back

submitted 28 days ago • 133 comments

I'm sobbing in my kitchen right now. @booker.senate.gov

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

@booker.senate.gov is making history right now.

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This is what happens in dictatorships. Lawyers, judges, and the rest of us have to stand up. We know universities won't. zeteo.com/p/ice-manual...

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Senators are blatantly saying we need to ignore due process and claiming it's for national safety. This is not how our legal system is supposed to work.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he will continue to revoke visas for “people that are supportive of movements that run counter to the foreign policy of the United States.” This is new. And it doesn’t feel like freedom

submitted 31 days ago • 769 comments

Chris and I just agreed that if one of us gets senile and racist, the other person will hit them with our car.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

submitted 31 days ago • 670 comments

It's going to be up to us to keep diverse history alive.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I cried happy tears for the first time at work in a while.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder: the First Amendment protects everyone who resides in our country. It doesn't matter if you have a green card or a visa or if you're undocumented. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that any person residing in the United States, regardless of status, is entitled to 1A protections.

submitted 33 days ago • 437 comments

“President Trump’s goal is clear. He wants lawyers and law firms to capitulate and cower until there is no one left to oppose his administration in court,” Mr. Elias said. “There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring on their behalf.”

submitted 38 days ago • 204 comments

I have this problem where I hate the experience of doing a jury trial, but I like the experience of having done jury trials.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

submitted 39 days ago • 336 comments

Please please PLEASE fight for museums and libraries, they are such good things, we cannot possibly have a society without them

submitted 44 days ago • 34 comments

So who decides now if someone is a gang member or if someone has a valid asylum claim under the law? Tom Homan? A random ICE agent? A local Sheriff’s deputy? A neighbor? An informant? So they just say a person is in a gang and they get disappeared to a prison in El Salvador?

submitted 44 days ago • 984 comments

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

submitted 43 days ago • 562 comments

We have each other. We are the Resistance now. All of us.

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submitted 49 days ago • 609 comments

We told you mass deportation would include legal residents. It's not about getting rid of people who are bad, dangerous to society, or even who came here "illegally."

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Trump wants to control all federal firing & hiring. He wants to be able to reduce & refill the ranks of career fed'l employees. It's soft coup (non-military) happening before our eyes, but too many people aren't paying attention. Read about it here: joycevance.substack.com/p/humphreys-...

submitted 51 days ago • 199 comments

They do seem like inconsistent positions, but the attacks on teachers was really about dismantling public schools to get taxpayer dollars for home schoolers and private charter schools run by charlatans.

submitted 51 days ago • 550 comments

just taking tonight to really appreciate all these years of journalistic tut-tut-tutting about how over-the-top it was for anyone to focus on trump's affinity for russia and putin.

submitted 51 days ago • 975 comments

Trump reportedly told Justin Trudeau he does not believe the border between the US and Canada is “valid” and he wants to “revise” it. Trump has also said he wants to bring Canada to its knees by driving them into economic ruin.

submitted 52 days ago • 946 comments

It's #InternationalWomensDay! The forensic scientist Frances Glessner Lee created real crime scene dioramas to train homicide investigators in the 1940s/50s. She was troubled that patrolmen and detectives rarely knew how to secure a scene, or identify key evidence in a forensic investigation.

submitted 52 days ago • 10 comments

@aoc.bsky.social: "You have a right to see your elected member of Congress... Our job is to hear from people. And if you aren't doing town halls because your own residents and members of your community are upset with what you're doing, the answer is you’ve got to own your decisions."

submitted 53 days ago • 264 comments

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced that the Black Lives Matter mural, painted in the summer of 2020 on a street near the White House, will be removed as part of planned changes to Black Lives Matter Plaza.

submitted 55 days ago • 536 comments

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

submitted 56 days ago • 1188 comments

Sometimes, I see @robsandia.bsky.social and think, "That's the most competent 13 year old I've ever seen." Full disclaimer: I'm also middle aged able still getting carded.