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tallnoe.bsky.social
Scuba diver, erstwhile cyclist, better half to a German, childfree cat mom to 2 kitties, traveler, cocktail nerd(ish). Pro-abortion, pro-abolition lapsed Presbyterian. She/Her. Mastadon: @[email protected] FKA @tallnoe on Twitter.
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🚨Jasmine Crockett & Eric Swalwell begged House Judiciary Republicans to vote NO. They offered deals, sweeteners, the whole package. And those damn soulless traitors STILL voted to let Trump exile American citizens. This isn’t just betrayal—it’s the birth of authoritarian rule. Sound the alarm.🚨

Ron Johnson heard all that and has now twice voted to keep these tariffs in place anyways.

The architect of #NIH cuts is Russell Vought whose own daughter is alive today because of advances in treating cystic fibrosis, brought to us, to the Vought family, by NIH. 1/ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I’m still looking for good lightweight articles for concepts like “Here’s the risks of uploading your vacation photos to make them ghibli style” or “When you list medical symptoms to an AI, It’s not confidential and the result’s aren’t a diagnostic.”

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

The one fortress that has resisted the right-wing onslaught is popular culture ... and that's about to go.

“Even among Silicon Valley critics, there was this idea that at the very least, you could trust that the statements they made about science and technology were true because they were experts in science and technology. That's not the case." So much 🔥🔥🔥 in this!

CNN would air a live feed of the empty podium for 3 hours before Vance's rallies, with the chyron "VANCE TO ADDRESS MASSIVE ANTI-OLIGARCH MOVEMENT"

DOGE will absolutely (on lost tax revenues alone) cost more money than any claimed savings

A couple years ago the people banning books were like "we're not banning books we're just removing them from schools, you can still get them elsewhere" and now here we are

One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

It's totally eugenics

🔥 @petebuttigieg.bsky.social shares his vision for 🇺🇸 with Andrew Schulz and the “Flagrant 2” podcast

The cruelty is the point. Fucking hell.

Pledging to defend the Constitution right before the country you were about to become a citizen of unconstitutionally detains you

In today's coverage of the Democracy Movement, we're spotlighting 505051 Protests (50 protests. 50 states. 1 movement) happening around the country. For more information on protests in your area, visit: www.fiftyfifty.one

How it would go if members of Congress went to El Salvador to meet Abrego Garcia and then just tried walking him out of the jail under the authority of Judge Xinis' order. Would the Salvadoran police arrest them too? If so, what if other representatives followed them and did the same?

Keep an eye on this. New York has a bill pending that would allow it to withhold payments to the federal government if the federal government withholds payments to NYS first. NY and CA alone send about $90 billion more a year to the feds than we get back. Nice work, @micahlasher.bsky.social.

Hey you know how people made the Tesla brand radioactively toxic and crashed its entire corporate structure? You can do that with authoritarian brutality and with neoliberal oppression and exploitation. You chase these motherfuckers from society until all that’s left is something real and better.

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Having listened to @iwriteok.bsky.social break down the insular cultish weirdos in Silicon Valley and why they're obsessed with a new, benevolent AI god for 2 hours, I can no longer read these PR headlines with the same amused detachment as before. "Could" is a long way from "will," in any event.

When it comes to people with autism, particularly children, RFK Jr wants to make it easier for parents and quack doctors to "experiment" and force dangerous and unproven treatments on them. And he wants to make it harder or outright illegal to counter disinformation that harms this industry.

ew, dining outside is so much better than all the fuckin' cars.

As the administration tries to make a problematic and likely bogus case that Garcia is an MS-13 member, I would like to remind people: There is no crime you can commit in the U.S. where you can be sentenced to life in an El Salvadoran prison. Garcia has not been convicted of any crime whatsoever.

Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.

I don't think Abrego Garcia ever bragged about shooting his dog, either.

Men are what is wrong with society because why the fuck was his first order of business to sexually harass the machine

Andrew Cuomo is the only one who answered the Trump question here by promising to be an accomodationist to Trump. New Yorkers, keep him off your ballot. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Pete Hegseth in 2016: "Fire anyone leaking defense info—it’s a national security risk!" Pete Hegseth in 2025: Leaks classified strike plans to his wife, brother, and lawyer. The hypocrisy is staggering. Oops Pete: By your own standards, you should fire yourself. 🔥🪖

🚨 INBOX: it seems @RepChrisTodd and a few more extreme anti-choice House Republicans (including Hill, Reneau, Barrett, Cepicky) are asking @GovBillLee to VETO the bill from Iris Rudder (R) that protects IVF & contraceptives in Tennessee 🤔

Teen Vogue is just tremendous on ACTUAL NEWS, whereas MSM is shit.

Some notes: 1. Some estimates put it at 1 million not 100k 2. The protest was in support of Palestine. 3. In 1972 after Bangladeshi independence Israel was one of the first states to recognize Bangladesh. Bangladesh said no thanks. It won't recognize Israel without a Palestinian state

I looked this guy up on linkedin and he's been at the SSA for 26 years. worked his way up from IT grunt to associate commissioner

One of my Bluesky friends was working on bringing solar to Gaza :(

Exiling people beyond the protection of US law without due process is not only unconstitutional, it's a rejection of the entire American revolutionary project. Sending people "beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences" is one of the grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.

Harrell literally presided over the repeal of the first head tax. The second one was passed after he was out of office, and when he came back as mayor he used it to fill budget holes and give the SPD $171M in raises. He siphoned away a quarter billion in affordable housing money

just cannot emphasize enough here that the whole "actually inhaled steroids cure measles" illustrates how none of the antivax stuff is actually about big pharma, it's about virtue signaling to other narcissists about how much cleverer than doctors they are

I think we have a rat or a mongoose in our attic. Damnit. The little noises from up there are crazy-making. Related, just messaged our pest control people.

But really... Wtf with signalgate just being forgotten. Ugh.

Today’s whale fact: a blue whale could eat the weight of four Honda Fits in krill a day.

GIGANTIC YELLOW WARNING: we don't serve transsexuals. HAPPY REGULAR WEBSITE: care. no matter what. can't make this shit up man

Hell yeah

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...