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she/her Newbie photographer and dilettante birder in Los Angeles Refugees welcome. Transphobic garbage blocked. Profile photo (my cat Marmalade) and banner photo by me.
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Then Toad began to bang his head against the wall

We all need to dedicate the rest of our lives to destroying the republican party

A lot of people want to separate the art from the artist, but I would settle for separating the artist from her money.

President Trump just fired almost the entire staff of the CFPB, who protect you from getting scammed by Wall Street. This is another assault on consumers and our democracy by Trump's lawless Administration. We will fight back with everything we've got.

We are the ones who are coming to save us.

You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

Her remarks on her colleagues’ capitulation are of particular importance in this moment. When Congress returns after its Easter recess, lawmakers will reportedly have to grapple with whether to make Trump’s lawless DOGE disaster permanent.

Shelly-Ann racing in her kid's Parents Day race at the school is the funniest thing I've seen all week LMAO

We're told the FDA is now making plans to end most of its routine food safety inspections That oversight work would be effectively outsourced to state and local authorities, under this plan www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

NEWS: Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, assails the Trump admin’s behavior in the Abrego Garcia case in a unanimous opinion rejecting DOJ’s request for the Fourth Circuit to block Judge Xinis’s order that the government “facilitate” his return. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚨 SCOOP: Trump Treasury Department official in March asked the IRS to review a decision to audit My Pillow guy Mike Lindell -- "a high profile friend of the president" -- per sources and emails I've obtained. Follows admin threat to strip Harvard of tax-exempt status. Story tk.

A victory for scammers. The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has been gutted by @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...

This letter is just freakishly incoherent and inappropriate. It’s what you would get if you put, like, Tim Pool or Ben Shapiro into a US Attorney’s chair, made them drink a quart of bourbon, and told them to get angry at something

found a new feature in word, and i'm not sure I'm doing this right

This is indeed incredible. “Conservative judge” doesn’t quite cut it as a description of Wilkinson. He is one of the most deferential-to-government-power judges in the country. When he writes like Justice Sotomayor it’s signs-and-wonders level.

I'm a political scientist and old school reporter who's spent her entire adult life paying close attention to the politics of two different countries and I've never seen anything like this, ever.

The 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War is this weekend, a moment when a leader’s arbitrary exercise of power sparked a rebellion.

Look, I love these sites & I get how politics works & why they're doing it, but every single one makes exactly the same error universities have been making for years: Research DOES NOT JUST MEAN STEM. Look around. If you think we also don't need social science & humanities research, look harder.

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some of the responses to trump on immigration are well intentioned but off to me. pointing out that he is the product of immigration is immaterial hypocrisy. he's wrong on immigration cause he's fucking wrong and dumb and a racist. that's it.

It shouldn't matter if Trump’s victims have criminal records. If we only defend the “innocent,” the fascists will argue that their victim “was no angel.” An anti-fascist rhetoric that carves out exceptions for imperfect victims is a gift to our opponents. New from me for @us.theguardian.com:

I didn't include my favorite contempt fact here, which is that English judges back in the day would sometimes order contemnors' hands to be amputated and displayed outside the courthouse digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/cgi/viewcont...

This. For autistic kids For our trans friends For immigrants For people of color For women For cis white dudes like me Everyone deserves to live, even if they can’t work, pay taxes, or get laid.

Michael Roth, Wesleyan University's first Jewish president, says the Trump administration is using antisemitism as a "cloak" to get universities to be loyal to the president.

a) this is racist and authoritarian b) we cannot oppose a federal police state while building a local one c) Chicago hates children and it makes me furious

the thing with conservatism is it is such a shit philosophy that all you have to do is recite the founding principles and ideas of the united states to counteract it. the most core ideas to america - not the execution but the core ideas - are liberal things. we just have to embrace it

People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A view for a breather 💙

Elon Musk's SpaceX is the frontrunner to build Trump's "Golden Dome" missile shield. SpaceX is proposing a subscription service where the government would pay to access the technology, rather than own it. Experts think the project could cost hundreds of billions. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall. 1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.

We must expect and demand that the executive branch follow the law. We must expect and demand that the executive branch comply with court orders. To expect and demand anything less is a form of obeying in advance. Defeatism is a form of surrender.

TODAY! 170+ campus communities across the nation are building a powerful movement in defense of higher education and our democracy. See you out there!

I'm sorry, this is too cute. You two need to stop. #birds 🐣

Central to my research has been that the pervasive ableism behind vaccination refusal and hesitance has roots as far back as the eighteenth century. The deep fear of disability (especially cognitive or intellectual) as a fate somehow worse than contagious disease is absolutely not new.