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Pragmatic idealist, mystic, former churchwarden, at sea. Hybrid vigour in all things, not least faith. She/her
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ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.

Fake emergencies to justify crackdowns-not very original

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

On Coco Gauff and her parents, a feel-good story in a sport full of cautionary tales, who were the big winners today at #RolandGarros. www.benrothenberg.com/p/coco-gauff...

What happened yesterday should radicalize you The LA ICE raid was full-on fascism The Abrego Garcia case is an abomination. We have a government that concocts charges against anyone it doesn't like, and pardons any criminal that supports Trump. And they are just getting started Free Kilmar!

THREAD: An ex-DOGE engineer with no government or medical experience used AI to identify which Veterans Affairs contracts to kill, labeling them as “MUNCHABLE.” @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social and I got the code. Here’s what it tells us 1/

Trump and Musk just are having a messy breakup—and now some Dems want to welcome Elon with open arms? Hell no. I wrote about why that’s a dangerous mistake. endlessurgency.substack.com/p/should-dem...

I’ve been wearing a rainbow bracelet the last couple days for Pride Month and yesterday two people commented on it in a way that made me feel like I was secretly in this video, it’s really lovely youtu.be/UVepoXddTW4?... 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Memo to Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer: You can't separate the issue of combating ICE terrorism from "kitchen table issues."

Laptop and phone plugged in ✅ Show on telly I can half watch (House in the Sun) ✅ Leftovers I can microwave for dinner ✅ I'm ready.

This is also the lesson Keir Starmer needs to learn. Farage's party will eat himself. Cruel people won't vote for you. Keep your base and pick up the undecided. (Though HOW they're undecided, heaven only knows)

Elon and Trump are this year’s Kendrick and Drake, but both are Drakes.

Eid ul Adha mubarak, not least to my newly Hajji cousins! #EidUlAdha #Hajj

I'm inclined to say decades at a minimum, if ever.

Every word of this from @tajali1.bsky.social. Stop aligning with white supremacy: you'll be the first under the bus every time. Be like Zohran Mamdani, not Zia Yusuf.

Oh, sweet Lord, do you NEVER learn, @democrats.org. And you only do this because you have no backbone of your own.

Yes, but you, YOU, Democrats, don't be stupid enough to 'eye a villain to ally' arc for EM. He's a raging narcissist and will destroy everything around him. I'm sick and tired of you rehabilitating villains - to quote the story, you knew what they were when you picked them up. Grow up.

On episode 5, so I have no clue yet, but from episode 1, I've thought the shooter was a woman. #DeptQ

Elon should explain to us exactly how he won the election for Trump.

Here it is: Musk thinks he is owed a say in Trump’s policy because of how much he spent on the campaign.

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Hint: it's too few experienced air traffic controllers and dismantling the FAA.

My eyes just rolled across the Atlantic.

Where Matt Goodwin doesn't realise that minority does not = under 50%, but the fact that your group is smaller than another group. If you win an election by 47% to 43% to 10%, you have the majority of the votes. In addition, by defining white British as 'does not have an immigrant parent', 1/

Big fan of this definition of "white British" that excludes the King

Pachinko is a fantastic book and this clap black is delicious.

Let's not lie - the pettiness, nastiness, cruelty, and unkindness that both of them have in spades and that inform their politics undid their marriage. It's not 'politics' that destroys marriages, it's the underlying values and ensuing personality characteristics that underpin them.

Sage words from @colmpm.bsky.social on how social democrats should respond to the post-liberal and post-neoliberal moment.

I hate that this administration & I converge in this once in an eon moment: both holding Columbia University in absolute contempt for being so weak they folded to fascists in the first instance. The difference being I wouldn't punish Columbia; I'd just turn my back on them and walk away.

I didn't need the English translation - and I cannot tell you how bloody proud I am to see a fellow desi step up & serve. *Hamara* time aagayeh. Bring it, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social This advert may be about India in 2007, but it's time is now for NYC & the USA. Chalo. youtu.be/pFs5vWxW-vc

I wasn't able be in the statement on Gaza today due to my committee, but here is what I would have said: With roads to aid declared 'combat zones' by the IDF, and 100% of the population at risk of starvation, the govt must go further. This must include recognition of Palestine as soon as possible.

Just be honest and admit you're at McDonald's picking up a McMuffin, Andrew. Good grief.

Well, you're at McDonald's, not a bodega, aren't you? Just drive away from the pick up window.

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership