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Prairie Fire Historian—Dr of ills I can't cure Patriarchy is the root of evil “Thinking is my fighting”—V Woolf Antifascist Gaia Grey-crowned Night Heron Littoral skulker Ecological Grief Birder Bibliophile ❤‍🔥🐰
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Acting FEMA Chief Told Staff He Didn’t Know About U.S. Hurricane Season www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...

The Trump administration is working with private companies like Palantir to create detailed reports on every American, which could help them weaponize our personal information in their quest to deport immigrants and punish critics. This is a huge threat to our constitutional rights.

A Palantir database on all Americans is a frightening step towards fascism. Musk gets a lot of attention—rightfully so—but Peter Thiel is the techno-fascist billionaire hiding behind the scenes pulling the strings to end democracy. Thiel and his techno-fascist followers are threats to the world.

Imagine a world where Trump had been held accountable in 2021.

Congress must immediately create and pass a bipartisan, stand-alone, veto-proof bill appropriating emergency funding for a bird flu vaccine. To do otherwise will, with high likelihood (it's a 'when', not an 'if'), lead to the death to millions.

Trump-RFKjr literally want a bird flu epidemic. They are trying to cull human beings. This is not hyperbole. Let the scales fall from your eyes.

What other country destroys their own people's health care?

Excellent new essay by Masha Gessen. 🎁 article from The New York Times. We should pay attention—Gessen lived in Russia through Putin's rise, same playbook as here except 🇺🇸 is on ⏩. We're strategically being overwhelmed, lulled into numbness, good people checking out. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...

Global temps could break heat record in next 5 years— Data also shows small but 'shocking’ likelihood of year 2C hotter than preindustrial era before 2030. We should be preparing for impact. Millions will die—heat, famine, drought, diseases. We have no plan. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I've been saying for a decade that Trumpism is inherently focused on reversing The Enlightenment. My academic colleagues have called me "alarmist" and regarded me as a "doomer." I'm not the one bringing the darkness. We are in grave, growing, existential danger.

Anyone else feel like you're losing your mind when the legacy media obsesses over the former president's decline, while they aggressively sanewash - nay, ignore- the current president's increasingly unhinged behavior and outright destruction of our country in real time?

I cook better than this at home on weeknights for partner and myself, and there's no noxious aftertaste of fascism (or animal suffering).

While we rightly focus on the decimation of Medicaid and SNAP, we also need to pay attention to how the House bill increases ICE’s budget by ➡️ 500%⬅️ - enough to detain at least 100,000 people at a time. Clearly they are intending to round up more than just "illegal aliens."

Everything She Predicted Is Happening—Trump’s Authoritarian Engine and Control Grid—Sarah Kendzior youtube.com/shorts/j0Kr9...

I think this is substantially correct, which is bizarre because much of what we celebrate as American “liberalism” is due in part to the achievements of Democratic presidents with far more socialist leanings than most Democrats have now.

This is not AI. It’s actually Kristi Noem cosplaying at a naval base in Bahrain. www.thehour.com/news/article...

U.S. intel agencies are building a centralized portal to buy Americans’ personal data—no warrant needed. Location, browsing, even politics. Congress failed to stop it. Privacy is being sold off in bulk, and civil liberties are on the line. #PrivacyRights theintercept.com/2025/05/22/i...

Respect

If your business is dependent on stealing you’re not a business you’re a criminal. Ai is theft at a planetary and historic scale in addition to being an instrument of state capture and knowledge destruction.

Reminder: “Risks and projected adverse impacts and related losses and damages from climate change will escalate with every increment of global warming (very high confidence).” Current heating ~1.5°C #ClimateCrisis

Just in case you forgot, Musk spent at least $250 million to get Trump elected.

House chamber burst into laughter when Marjorie Taylor Greene called for "decorum."

Trump unleashes bizarre commencement speech at West Point www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"In the world of MAGA, stupidity is a badge of honor for both sexes, but the heads of women need to be thoroughly empty. Book learning, in MAGA-land, is for lesbians and cat ladies. Intelligence gets in the way of the true duties of MAGA womanhood." Stepford faeh-bots. www.salon.com/2025/05/23/k...

As always, excellent summary of where we're at; short and incisive. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

I’m dying from the cuteness *and* the kindness 🥹💖 7-year-old Kiatsumi from Peru saw a Mexican family struggling at a U.S. airport—and stepped in to help with her bilingual superpowers. “Mom, I can do it,” she said. And she did. Humanity restored. ✨ #OnYourSide

OMFG This is who is now in charge of Social Security Frank Bisignano He had to "Google" Social Security "I'm one of the great Googlers on the eastcoast" If you are new to SSI I am so sorry, it is so hard to get through to someone If you're on SSI please don't change your direct deposit

Austerity Britain continues. Foodbank use is up 5,000% - yet where are Labour? 200,000 children used foodbanks for the first time last year - yet now Labour will plunge 670,000 people into deeper poverty? www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Nefarious. Felonious. Corrupt AF. Classic Musk.

Democrats in Congress: Investigate and expose why ICE is allowed to operate in masks and conceal their identities. There is no acceptable scenario where this should be permitted. @HouseDemocrats @SenateDems

The president of the United States held a raffle for a meme coin he's personally profiting from & had a $1M a seat dinner last night for the top 200 buyers of his scam coin. But the child bride WH spokesperson said it has nothing to do with the presidency. “Trump did it on his personal time”

All your reps (senate and congress) should be heading home right now. Raise hell! Join protests or make one! Make IRL appointments or just show up! Bring it to their bloody doors! And then meet us at Mayday! We need you. No justice, no peace people! @drharmony.net has great action guides.

I had a suicide last night because of this bill and I know of several disabled folks who have the same plans if it passes the senate because they will lose everything. I cannot even send them to the hospital because they will just be released in 72 hours with a 50k bill they cannot pay

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

A new analysis finds that projected growth from the GOP budget's tax cuts would only cover 2.7% of their $3.8T cost. That's nowhere close to the cuts "paying for themselves."  Notice how nobody ever asks, "but how will we pay for it" when it comes to trickle-down economics?

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new anti-media policy at the Pentagon will be _incredibly_ useful during the Martial Law era of American history that is right around the corner and is the sole reason he was given the job he has

This is from my public library. It is one of the most chilling signs I've seen of the creeping fascism encircling us. Knowledgeable people understand that a record of one's reading history is dangerous in a dictatorship. Goddess help us all.

"Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It's like living with a violent abuser. Every day, you're just waiting for it. What's going to set him off? Who's he going to lash out at? What abuse is he going to scream at us today? What's he going to break, because every day he breaks something else. I don't even have to say his name.

Fascist police state, anyone?

Making money off of suffering farmers.

NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it. By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com

ODNI releases the "sense of the community" memo on the intelligence assessments around TdA's ties to the Maduro government. @charliesavage.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...